Lindsay Anne Black
@linanneblack2.bsky.social
Some manner of artist, busy creating an urban wildlife habitat
I'm also Tippi Hedren Collider linanneblack.bsky.social
I'm also Champagnehand on YouTube
My store: www.blandshaming.ca
If you're able to help: https://ko-fi.com/linanneblack
🇨🇦 she/elle/henne
I'm also Tippi Hedren Collider linanneblack.bsky.social
I'm also Champagnehand on YouTube
My store: www.blandshaming.ca
If you're able to help: https://ko-fi.com/linanneblack
🇨🇦 she/elle/henne
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Oops, I read the news and I'm full of disappointment and anger! Whoopsies! Here's something more hopeful from my garden. I gave them some pointers on crossing the southern borders on their journey. Burner phone, &c.
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For students, AI teaching appears to be less transformative than it is demoralising. They say they feel “robbed of knowledge and enjoyment”.
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
For students, AI teaching appears to be less transformative than it is demoralising. They say they feel “robbed of knowledge and enjoyment”.
This was a good conversation, and covered a lot of the points I shout at my phone while I scroll.
For the late/west coast crowd, my latest YouTube episode, where @supriya.bsky.social and I talk about the current political moment and some of the choices being made #cdnpoli
Fighters or Folders
YouTube video by Dale Smith
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This was a good conversation, and covered a lot of the points I shout at my phone while I scroll.
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If you spell your name Corrie or if you spell it Corey, I want you to know that I say them differently. You won’t be able to hear it with your ear, but I am saying them differently. 
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
If you spell your name Corrie or if you spell it Corey, I want you to know that I say them differently. You won’t be able to hear it with your ear, but I am saying them differently. 
Three Dark-eyed Juncos have been visiting my garden each day. Two are usual-sized, but the third one has a little junco in the trunko.
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Three Dark-eyed Juncos have been visiting my garden each day. Two are usual-sized, but the third one has a little junco in the trunko.
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I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”
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This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
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“Pierre Poilievre benefits immensely from establishment media’s inability to challenge conservative bullies. The man is an empty suit, devoid of meaningful ideas for the future of this country.”
Observations from Montreal
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.
cultmtl.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“Pierre Poilievre benefits immensely from establishment media’s inability to challenge conservative bullies. The man is an empty suit, devoid of meaningful ideas for the future of this country.”
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People have accused my macro photos of being AI which is such a bummer. Like yeah man bugs and crabs are weird but they really do act like that. That’s why nature is cool. AI has ruined weird little guy photography.
The amount of people I see harassing real artists and even wildlife photographers with accusations of AI is genuinely disheartening, and sadly this is just the beginning
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
People have accused my macro photos of being AI which is such a bummer. Like yeah man bugs and crabs are weird but they really do act like that. That’s why nature is cool. AI has ruined weird little guy photography.
I just mad-ate an entire free pizza. Even though you could really taste the free.
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I just mad-ate an entire free pizza. Even though you could really taste the free.
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And the NDP, who agreed to have enough MPs abstain to allow this disaster of a budget to pass, have the nerve to claim they aren’t propping up the Liberals. I’m screaming & swearing SO MUCH at the TV right now. (For non-Canadians, note that the Liberals are a centre-right party, not left-wing.)
By 2 votes, we get austerity, pipelines, AI, attacks on labour, a dismantled (or entirely destroyed) Can Post, corporate handouts galore, a *massively* expanded military industrial complex, an emboldened RCMP, and a firm embrace of a capitalist system that is currently in its death throes.
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PM Mark Carney government wins crucial confidence vote on budget #Canada #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
And the NDP, who agreed to have enough MPs abstain to allow this disaster of a budget to pass, have the nerve to claim they aren’t propping up the Liberals. I’m screaming & swearing SO MUCH at the TV right now. (For non-Canadians, note that the Liberals are a centre-right party, not left-wing.)
But will he learn anything from this close call? No. Probably not. Everyone please let him know that not wanting another election isn't the same thing as true support of backward-facing economic policy.
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
But will he learn anything from this close call? No. Probably not. Everyone please let him know that not wanting another election isn't the same thing as true support of backward-facing economic policy.
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you have to be a pretty terrible fruit not to have a song named after you at this point
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
you have to be a pretty terrible fruit not to have a song named after you at this point
Une collection parfaite.
Je déclare ouverte ma liste personnelle de one-panel-comics préférés.
Pour marquer sa subjectivité elle commencera par la Joconde des one-panel, à savoir "Cow Tools", par Gary Larson.
Pour marquer sa subjectivité elle commencera par la Joconde des one-panel, à savoir "Cow Tools", par Gary Larson.
November 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Une collection parfaite.
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Fellow writers constantly closing pop-up windows while we work, Emma Thompson feels our pain! ♥️
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Fellow writers constantly closing pop-up windows while we work, Emma Thompson feels our pain! ♥️
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I would like to skip the ringside seat at this debauched circus and go straight to the empty field where the tent once stood.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I would like to skip the ringside seat at this debauched circus and go straight to the empty field where the tent once stood.
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No one wants to work.
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
No one wants to work.
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Timeline cleanse 🍄
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Timeline cleanse 🍄
I've only just learned about this now, and while it explains so much about what I negotiate each day, I'm feeling deeply sad and somewhat shaken. Apparently we had this misguided curriculum in parts of Canada, too.
Perhaps I evaded it due to French immersion and an educator mum. (Article in 🧵)
Perhaps I evaded it due to French immersion and an educator mum. (Article in 🧵)
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I've only just learned about this now, and while it explains so much about what I negotiate each day, I'm feeling deeply sad and somewhat shaken. Apparently we had this misguided curriculum in parts of Canada, too.
Perhaps I evaded it due to French immersion and an educator mum. (Article in 🧵)
Perhaps I evaded it due to French immersion and an educator mum. (Article in 🧵)
I have reinstated my bedside programmable coffeemaker as my alarm clock for the winter months. Sadly, Cuisinarthur perished last year, but I've welcomed his successor, Bodum (full name: Beau Dumatin.)
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I have reinstated my bedside programmable coffeemaker as my alarm clock for the winter months. Sadly, Cuisinarthur perished last year, but I've welcomed his successor, Bodum (full name: Beau Dumatin.)
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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Wait… do the writers think that we think that the Daniel Craig bond and the Sean Connery bond are… the exact same person?
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Wait… do the writers think that we think that the Daniel Craig bond and the Sean Connery bond are… the exact same person?