Marika
@marikapea.bsky.social
Book nerd, library yeller, kitchen witch, puzzle dork, embroidery novice, prairie settler, leftie queer, lapsed poet, kinda Blind
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Marika
@marikapea.bsky.social
· Mar 21
Is there any more perfect food than a little wedge of potato, browned and salted outside, tender and creamy inside?
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Lolololol at every academic who has paid zero attention to their library or constantly-decreasing library funding suddenly being like LIBRARIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING THEMSELVES AND OUTSOURCING NOTHING like we all have teams of programmers and software engineers.
December 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Lolololol at every academic who has paid zero attention to their library or constantly-decreasing library funding suddenly being like LIBRARIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING THEMSELVES AND OUTSOURCING NOTHING like we all have teams of programmers and software engineers.
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what worries me the most is seeing artists who should know better flocking back to failed copyright maximalism as the response to generative AI, especially when it could lead to legal precedents that undermine fair use standards that are essential for journalism, activism, free expression etc
December 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
what worries me the most is seeing artists who should know better flocking back to failed copyright maximalism as the response to generative AI, especially when it could lead to legal precedents that undermine fair use standards that are essential for journalism, activism, free expression etc
This perfect plan got deferred to tonight. The Columbo murderer looked like Steve Buscemi playing Stephen Colbert, and I had popcorn and a martini for dinner.
It's too snowy to go anywhere and I think I'm going to make a cocktail and embroider and maybe watch Columbo
December 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
This perfect plan got deferred to tonight. The Columbo murderer looked like Steve Buscemi playing Stephen Colbert, and I had popcorn and a martini for dinner.
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#artadventcalendar 2025 day 20 (it's getting Christmassy now 😉)
Frozen Bones, Magpie Mine
More information on this work, including detail, inspiration, location, and a work in progress animation, can be found here
https://cognissart.co.uk/frozen-bones/ […]
[Original post on mastoart.social]
Frozen Bones, Magpie Mine
More information on this work, including detail, inspiration, location, and a work in progress animation, can be found here
https://cognissart.co.uk/frozen-bones/ […]
[Original post on mastoart.social]
December 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
#artadventcalendar 2025 day 20 (it's getting Christmassy now 😉)
Frozen Bones, Magpie Mine
More information on this work, including detail, inspiration, location, and a work in progress animation, can be found here
https://cognissart.co.uk/frozen-bones/ […]
[Original post on mastoart.social]
Frozen Bones, Magpie Mine
More information on this work, including detail, inspiration, location, and a work in progress animation, can be found here
https://cognissart.co.uk/frozen-bones/ […]
[Original post on mastoart.social]
I am on vacation! and truly I'm not sure I've ever needed it more
December 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I am on vacation! and truly I'm not sure I've ever needed it more
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There are 6 days left to enter the raffle for this large aerial embroidery, 'Autumn in technicolour'. All proceeds are going towards my surgery recovery this new year :) Full details and entries available here: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/work/raffle-... and all shares very appreciated 🍂
December 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
There are 6 days left to enter the raffle for this large aerial embroidery, 'Autumn in technicolour'. All proceeds are going towards my surgery recovery this new year :) Full details and entries available here: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/work/raffle-... and all shares very appreciated 🍂
I resisted the frying grilled cheese in mayo advice for years because it seemed SO gross, but I regret to inform you that it absolutely does create a superior grilled cheese.
December 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I resisted the frying grilled cheese in mayo advice for years because it seemed SO gross, but I regret to inform you that it absolutely does create a superior grilled cheese.
Hello it is I, your bean correspondent, reporting with this delicious thread of recipes.
newly in the market for best big batch meal prep options for dried beans. please my family is hungry
Beans, beans, the more you eat, the more your … meals are healthier and cheaper
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hello it is I, your bean correspondent, reporting with this delicious thread of recipes.
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The takeaways: 1) It's useful for everyone to know that Poetry Foundation is now a nonoperating foundation, a shift in its IRS-regulated designation that means it focuses on external grantmaking rather than programming. 2) This change makes PF a national philanthropic org with a magazine attached.
This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here:
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
Poetry Foundation Staff Protest Program Cuts, Job Loss
Employees at the foundation say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition to...
www.publishersweekly.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The takeaways: 1) It's useful for everyone to know that Poetry Foundation is now a nonoperating foundation, a shift in its IRS-regulated designation that means it focuses on external grantmaking rather than programming. 2) This change makes PF a national philanthropic org with a magazine attached.
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The thing I find most frustrating as a disability reporter is that it is considered acceptable to only talk to professionals and parents — That disabled people, particularly those with cognitive disabilities, aren’t worth talking to.
It has made me notice who gets asked for comment on other beats.
It has made me notice who gets asked for comment on other beats.
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The thing I find most frustrating as a disability reporter is that it is considered acceptable to only talk to professionals and parents — That disabled people, particularly those with cognitive disabilities, aren’t worth talking to.
It has made me notice who gets asked for comment on other beats.
It has made me notice who gets asked for comment on other beats.
Calling to request a refill for a prescription on a Saturday should not mean I'm still playing phone tag with doctors and pharmacies on a Tuesday afternoon but we live in austerity hell
December 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Calling to request a refill for a prescription on a Saturday should not mean I'm still playing phone tag with doctors and pharmacies on a Tuesday afternoon but we live in austerity hell
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With the milder temperature today, it would be a perfect day for the City of Winnipeg to clear downtown sidewalks to the paved surface, as per their own policy (that they never follow). I bet the sidewalk snow plows would make quick work of this soft snow.
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
With the milder temperature today, it would be a perfect day for the City of Winnipeg to clear downtown sidewalks to the paved surface, as per their own policy (that they never follow). I bet the sidewalk snow plows would make quick work of this soft snow.
Everyone is sad about the end of mass market paperbacks and I get it (we live in a time when many once-reliable comforts are being destroyed) but the font is too small and they never actually fit in short-girl pockets. Give me a slimmer trade paperback any day, or an ebook I can read in low lighting
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Everyone is sad about the end of mass market paperbacks and I get it (we live in a time when many once-reliable comforts are being destroyed) but the font is too small and they never actually fit in short-girl pockets. Give me a slimmer trade paperback any day, or an ebook I can read in low lighting
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I get why folks wonder why ICE kidnappings aren’t met with more violent opposition, and I’ve wondered that too, but I do think basic humanity and taking care of each other is the fundamentally more radical opposition to fascism; sometimes a blanket is propaganda of the deed, too.
Damn this video of a observer/protester climbing a ladder to hand blanket to the construction worker who was surrounded by ICE.
December 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I get why folks wonder why ICE kidnappings aren’t met with more violent opposition, and I’ve wondered that too, but I do think basic humanity and taking care of each other is the fundamentally more radical opposition to fascism; sometimes a blanket is propaganda of the deed, too.
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“Point and Laugh: Residential school denialism is not funny, but denialists sure are”
A new blog post by me on residential school denialism and what we should do about it.
skkb79-imrxk.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...
A new blog post by me on residential school denialism and what we should do about it.
skkb79-imrxk.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...
Point and Laugh: Residential school denialism is not funny, but denialists sure are
By Adam J. Barker Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Three residential school denialists walk into a bar… Yes, it sounds like a joke, and in reality, it sort of is. Several well-known bad actors hav…
skkb79-imrxk.wordpress.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“Point and Laugh: Residential school denialism is not funny, but denialists sure are”
A new blog post by me on residential school denialism and what we should do about it.
skkb79-imrxk.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...
A new blog post by me on residential school denialism and what we should do about it.
skkb79-imrxk.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...
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do I have a right to walk? that's the question I'd like to ask. do I have a right to walk without some inattentive idiot nearly ending my life because I was crossing a street, on a daily basis? because it feels like no
More than half of Toronto drivers in a Universtiy of Toronto study didn't look for people walking or on bikes before turning right. Study used eye-tracking tech.
Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
December 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
do I have a right to walk? that's the question I'd like to ask. do I have a right to walk without some inattentive idiot nearly ending my life because I was crossing a street, on a daily basis? because it feels like no
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It’s not writing off a portion of the population to say that workers should not be racist to customers! The entire conservative movement has coalesced around the idea that it is somehow discriminatory to judge people by their actions.
"Leftists should not write off any segment of the population" nah dog. Nazis exist. I dont care if they work for wages and pay rent, a fascist is a fascist.
December 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It’s not writing off a portion of the population to say that workers should not be racist to customers! The entire conservative movement has coalesced around the idea that it is somehow discriminatory to judge people by their actions.
I guess I'M the fool for assuming the Corydon bus would follow the same route as the Osborne bus on the north side of Portage but that is not in fact the case and how I came to be running down the middle of a deserted side street in the dark so I wouldn't miss a second bus
December 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I guess I'M the fool for assuming the Corydon bus would follow the same route as the Osborne bus on the north side of Portage but that is not in fact the case and how I came to be running down the middle of a deserted side street in the dark so I wouldn't miss a second bus
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Dunno how this hasn't been picked up by the media yet but #BillC15 would remove the provision allowing libraries to send books to and fro by Canada Post at a cheaper rate. In Newfoundland about a quarter of the physical items signed out of libraries use this service! librarianship.ca/news/bill-c1...
Bill C-15 threatens Library Book Rate and free mailing of materials for people who are blind - news
librarianship.ca
December 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Dunno how this hasn't been picked up by the media yet but #BillC15 would remove the provision allowing libraries to send books to and fro by Canada Post at a cheaper rate. In Newfoundland about a quarter of the physical items signed out of libraries use this service! librarianship.ca/news/bill-c1...
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But we are spoiled with our current level of snow clearing according to our current Chair of Public Works, so I guess this is as good as it gets.
December 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
But we are spoiled with our current level of snow clearing according to our current Chair of Public Works, so I guess this is as good as it gets.
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I have lived downtown for most of my adult life and I have never seen the City actually follow their own policy of clearing the downtown sidewalks to the paved surface.
December 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I have lived downtown for most of my adult life and I have never seen the City actually follow their own policy of clearing the downtown sidewalks to the paved surface.
Interview with Alberta trans activist Marni Panas about Alberta's most recent use of the notwithstanding clause to go after trans kids' rights. We are going to run these fuckers out of office. 💜💜💜
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Interview with Alberta trans activist Marni Panas about Alberta's most recent use of the notwithstanding clause to go after trans kids' rights. We are going to run these fuckers out of office. 💜💜💜
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
I see accessible typeface/font discourse has hit the mainstream, and I, your disabled public-service-working pal would like to remind you that accessible is contextual, dynamic, and the research on legible fonts is ALL over the place. The woke-est font is one geared for your audience and purpose.
December 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I see accessible typeface/font discourse has hit the mainstream, and I, your disabled public-service-working pal would like to remind you that accessible is contextual, dynamic, and the research on legible fonts is ALL over the place. The woke-est font is one geared for your audience and purpose.
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So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.