Anna Carey
@annacarey.ca
Urban naturalist in Durham Region, Ontario. Gardener (CA 5B), corporate information wrangler (MLIS) adjacent to climate tech. You might know me from prev work with VaxHunters Canada. She/her/they/Hedge Witch of the North
"Things are bad" =/= "all is lost"
"Things are bad" =/= "all is lost"
Pinned
I heard there was a secret verse
That would unleash the nuclear curse
But you don't really care for AI
Do ya?
That would unleash the nuclear curse
But you don't really care for AI
Do ya?
"...the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public."
📃✍️💥👀
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It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I heard there was a secret verse
That would unleash the nuclear curse
But you don't really care for AI
Do ya?
That would unleash the nuclear curse
But you don't really care for AI
Do ya?
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My dad is so woke he just called a stray cat “unhoused”
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My dad is so woke he just called a stray cat “unhoused”
My wildest naturalist hot take is that I don't believe in herbivores.
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My wildest naturalist hot take is that I don't believe in herbivores.
They also can't be hung on the existing signposts!!!! In theory the province is supposed to provide appropriate posts but like...when?
If you have to make the warning signs taller than a human in order for drivers to pay attention to them, it doesn't speak very highly about drivers' ability to spot pedestrians.
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
They also can't be hung on the existing signposts!!!! In theory the province is supposed to provide appropriate posts but like...when?
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URGENT: Cheese Recall - Listeria
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
Walmart and Sam’s Club Just Recalled Cheese in a Total of 31 States and Washington, D.C.
The recall effort seems to be growing rapidly amid Listeria bacteria concerns as other retailers also alert customers.
flip.it
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
URGENT: Cheese Recall - Listeria
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
Ah, yes, Thanksgiving, the day I count my greatest blessing as an émigrée: that I never have to host Thanksgiving ever again in my life.
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Ah, yes, Thanksgiving, the day I count my greatest blessing as an émigrée: that I never have to host Thanksgiving ever again in my life.
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“Thanks to immunization, a child born today is 40 per cent more likely to see their fifth birthday than a child born 50 years ago.”—@WHO
www.thewhig.com/opinion/vacc...
www.thewhig.com/opinion/vacc...
Vaccines save children’s lives
Vaccines save the lives of millions of children every year and also prevent needless suffering and permanent disability caused by some childhood diseases.
www.thewhig.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
“Thanks to immunization, a child born today is 40 per cent more likely to see their fifth birthday than a child born 50 years ago.”—@WHO
www.thewhig.com/opinion/vacc...
www.thewhig.com/opinion/vacc...
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*scoff* Amateur numbers! Well over 8 billion people don’t care about anything I post about!
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
*scoff* Amateur numbers! Well over 8 billion people don’t care about anything I post about!
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The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.
“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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Yep. "The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the [Democratic] wife to placate and soothe the [Republican] husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Yep. "The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the [Democratic] wife to placate and soothe the [Republican] husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."
Well now I ate too many gyoza for lunch and I have a little tummy ache. Thanks a lot, bluesky.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Well now I ate too many gyoza for lunch and I have a little tummy ache. Thanks a lot, bluesky.
Being an American immigrant to Canada these days feels like that moment in Encanto when Mirabel climbs up into Bruno's tower and manages to rope swing across a crevasse and the second she starts to feel successful the ground starts fracturing away from her feet.
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Being an American immigrant to Canada these days feels like that moment in Encanto when Mirabel climbs up into Bruno's tower and manages to rope swing across a crevasse and the second she starts to feel successful the ground starts fracturing away from her feet.
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"The current horrors are unevenly distributed. Not all of us are suffering the same effects of fascism. We have to do what we can to defend and protect the most vulnerable in our midst. We can do so while keeping grief close and tending to it." 🙏🏼
A lot of people need to read this.
We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
prisonculture.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"The current horrors are unevenly distributed. Not all of us are suffering the same effects of fascism. We have to do what we can to defend and protect the most vulnerable in our midst. We can do so while keeping grief close and tending to it." 🙏🏼
The extent to which I am queer & live with an intermittently acute disability cannot be overstated even though if you look at my life without context it looks extremely hetero suburban housewife. Consider this your regular reminder that you can't tell any of this stuff about people just by looking.
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The extent to which I am queer & live with an intermittently acute disability cannot be overstated even though if you look at my life without context it looks extremely hetero suburban housewife. Consider this your regular reminder that you can't tell any of this stuff about people just by looking.
"Your brain might glitch out of habit in a way that kills your kid, but I'm built different" as public policy.
Your car reminding you not to forget your baby in the back seat is woke
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"Your brain might glitch out of habit in a way that kills your kid, but I'm built different" as public policy.
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This won't happen but it would be incredibly funny if the Canadian part of NORAD refused to work on the yearly Santa tracker thing by citing intelligence sharing risks
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
This won't happen but it would be incredibly funny if the Canadian part of NORAD refused to work on the yearly Santa tracker thing by citing intelligence sharing risks
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Periodic reminder: the vaccine efficacy of the pertussis vaccine drops below 50% at 4.5 years. You should be getting a Tdap booster every 5 years, not every 10. It is especially vital if you have contact with pregnant people or infants too young to be vaccinated.
After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Periodic reminder: the vaccine efficacy of the pertussis vaccine drops below 50% at 4.5 years. You should be getting a Tdap booster every 5 years, not every 10. It is especially vital if you have contact with pregnant people or infants too young to be vaccinated.
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One of the greatest medical achievements. Frazer and Zhou are legends.
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
One of the greatest medical achievements. Frazer and Zhou are legends.
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STRONG AGREE
The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
STRONG AGREE
Historically, the right to overthrow a tyrannical government is one you take when you're ready to use it, not one you're given, and it cannot be taken away from you by a law. It can be taken away from you in other ways, but they're pretty significantly extralegal as well.
While drafting the post-fascist Italian Constitution, they asked the leader of the Italian Communist Party whether he wanted to include a right to overthrow a tyrannical government. Togliatti explained that overthrowing a government creates a different regime of legality, whatever the text says
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Historically, the right to overthrow a tyrannical government is one you take when you're ready to use it, not one you're given, and it cannot be taken away from you by a law. It can be taken away from you in other ways, but they're pretty significantly extralegal as well.
I am not high risk for complications from ILI but this year's flu very nearly had me in the ER two weeks ago so y'all be careful. Worst illness I've had since 2009 h1n1, covid included.
H3N2 preprint: there are concerns of a severe incoming influenza season due to the drifted H3N2 K clade. We at @psioxford.bsky.social analysed epi data and ran scenario models to see what we could discern about K clade transmission dynamics: zenodo.org/records/1770....
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Evaluation of the epidemiological outlook of the influenza A/H3N2 clade K in England during the 2025-26 season
Key findings England is currently experiencing a high growth rate of infections caused by the influenza A/H3N2 K clade. Antigenic change from the previously dominant clade, a rapid selective sweep evi...
zenodo.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I am not high risk for complications from ILI but this year's flu very nearly had me in the ER two weeks ago so y'all be careful. Worst illness I've had since 2009 h1n1, covid included.
Ok this is too far. It's not MY fault the school sends so much stuff on so many different platforms!
Niamh Callaghan, 38, whose sons Lucas and Finley are in Year 3 and Year 5 respectively, was concerned that she seemed to have accidentally become pen pals with an entire school of 500 children and 40 staff.
Autistic mum quits job to devote herself to correspondence from her children’s primary school
An autistic mother-of-two has reportedly resigned from a successful career as an educational psychologist so that she can give her full attention to the stream of e-mails and text messages from the…
thedailytism.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Ok this is too far. It's not MY fault the school sends so much stuff on so many different platforms!
Neighbour kid asked if we do elf on the shelf and my kid said "no, we don't invite mischief fairies into our house."
Correct, my little witch, correct.
Correct, my little witch, correct.
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Neighbour kid asked if we do elf on the shelf and my kid said "no, we don't invite mischief fairies into our house."
Correct, my little witch, correct.
Correct, my little witch, correct.
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Honestly crazy how no man has ever had any problem that oppressing women couldn’t solve.
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Honestly crazy how no man has ever had any problem that oppressing women couldn’t solve.