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MLIS. Multimodal sensemaking theorist/info designer ideocene.net. Information flows in complex systems. Game design. Editor CJILS + https://bylines.scot/author/leahbrown; @ fediscience.org. Writer. she/they/banshee 🇨🇦

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SOLVE for X written in Zohran for Mayor font
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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It's always pancake o'clock, babe 🥞
PANCAKES for Dinner in Zohran for Mayor font
November 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Champagne for my real friends in Zohran for Mayor font
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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PERSEPHONE for Underworld Queen in Zohran for Mayor font
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Another veggie day: a Tuscan bean stew with olives and a single chickpea and oat brownie. Pulses ftw!
A medly of chickpeas, black beans, and minced carrot, onion, pepper, and celery in a crushed tomato sauce with herbs. A single chickpea and oat brownie baked in a mug. I used the microwave and it works quite well. 3 minutes and it's done.
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Via Vivianne Castillo on LinkedIn:

Not another design conference: The Walkout, Jan 15-16, 2026

#UX #design #uxConference

www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
A table explaining how The Walkout design conference differs from typical UX conferences, by Vivianne Castillo on LinkedIn.
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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This one should definitely be Open Access but the guy is an independent researcher and that stuff is expensive to pay for. Here's the abstract.
ABSTRACT In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased. But When Prophecy Fails (1956), the now‐canonical account of the event, claimed the opposite: that the group doubled down on its beliefs and began recruiting—evidence, the authors argued, of a new psychological mechanism, cognitive dissonance. Drawing on newly unsealed archival material, this article demonstrates that the book's central claims are false, and that the authors knew they were false. The documents reveal that the group actively proselytized well before the prophecy failed and quickly abandoned their beliefs afterward. They also expose serious ethical violations by the researchers, including fabricated psychic messages, covert manipulation, and interference in a child welfare investigation. One coauthor, Henry Riecken, posed as a spiritual authority and later admitted he had“precipitated” the climactic events of the study. From Debunking "When Prophecy Fails" by Thomas Kelly, 2025
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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My "Lorem Derpsum" bot that generated derped-out Lorem Ipsum placeholder text. For fun I thought I'd run the outputs through Google Translate.
Lorem Derpsum output with translated text. Another output translated by Google. Another output translated by Google Another output translated again by Google.
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Throwback to my Twitter bot "Thee Joye of Kytchen Alchemy" that generated a fictional medieval recipe several times a day.
A recipe for "Gelyne Fysh". A recipe for "Sambocade" A recipe for "Poivre Civey" A recipe for "Joutes Tart"
November 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Love being an indie dev with zero rights or avenues to protect myself from grifters. Love having my work stolen over and over again and being able to do fuck all about it.
fuck this shit.
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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It's so dark so early now haha. I kinda love the chthonic life, tho.
Me, a lich, posing like a weirdo for a dimly lit selfie.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Someone said it translates roughly to "ocean hunter" but I'll have to ask my friend who lives there if that's accurate. I think it looks really nice to read but still gives it character. In fact, I increased the title size to emphasize the enormity of the monster in the game hehe
Same title card as before, this time with more Umigari (much bigger title font size).
November 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Sneak peek; will be up on YouTube this week.
A title card that reads: UMIGARI Demo Gameplay; with comments on worldbuilding for sensemaking in liminal horror from an information scientist and designer. Part One: Finding Yourself Nowhere. How Umigari uses subtle sensory feedback in the environment to guide the player through the unknown The title screen from Chilla's Art game "UMIGARI". It shows a small fishing boat floating on an empty sea that dissolves into grey fog. A screenshot of the first person view the player has. You are holding a harpoon, and gazing out at an endless sea with a sun setting on the horizon.
November 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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A contemporary riff on the "messed around with the Ouija board/found out" trope
Eclipse (2025) Graduate student Maddie Muirhead returns to campus after a medical absence to find her faculty has been infiltrated by a malicious actor that she is alienated for both resisting and ultimately embracing with horrifying glee.
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Oh I've got some Dark Academia coming for you 💻🤖😈
Eclipse - A Novella. Provisional cover art.
October 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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text that reads "In my next life I want to be a marshmallow"
October 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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There's a part of my brain that is like a satellite drifting in space that's gone far past the point where I can receive its signal. Like an existential kraken that stirs in the waters of my mind and it's the last thing I think of before sleep, and the first thing I think of when I wake up.
A text reads: I think what it is is I'm depressed/overwhelmed from the fear that maybe I let myself get really dumb and incompetent and CAN'T produce anything worthwhile anymore. Like my cognitive capacity is now permanently damaged to do good work. Gah.
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Making these for Christmas but this one's for me bc I made a mistake in one row.

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Finished side of my red white pink striped pillow cover. More angles of the same pillow cover.
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Today's scrounging around in the fridge struggle meal is like... if a taquito, a pub pie spiced like a samosa, and a fried spring roll walked into a bar.
I made a plate of itty-bitty spring roll burrito thingies with leftovers from my potsticker filling and then scored some ground beef and cabbage to add to it. I added more chilis, curry, and peri peri spice and then wrapped them up burrito-style in rice papers and fried them and served with pico de gallo and greek yogurt.
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I found some rice papers!!! Made some spicy vegan potstickers with my last carrot and other veggies.
A small blue and white bowl with seven little potstickers filled with diced vegetables, curry, and chili.
October 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Knitting some pillow covers with some leftover bits and bobs. 🧶
A red, white, pink, brown, and cranberry stripped knitted pillow cover in progress.
October 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Mohammed's family still desperately needs help to endure the crisis in Gaza. Please donate if you can; shares help too.

A graphic he sent me this week explaining his story. You already know his story, I will not type out the entirety in alt text. You can visit the links below.

@fairshare.help
Mohammed's story and pictures of his children.
October 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Please don't forget Hosam and Princess Noor's family.

Any amount helps; shares help, too.

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Princess Noor, who turned 8 last month, in a card I made for her dressed in a green princess gown.
October 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Puptopia. 🐶🥰
Mommy and Mommy’s Baby
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Red-dy for a meeting. ♥️💄🍒🥀👹
Just a selfie in red hair, red lipstick, red shirt because I'm never too depressed for red.
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM