Melonie
@quioui.bsky.social
With an /o/ - many interests... politics - communication - education - writer and reader - NZer in Canada - COVID-informed - she/her/they/them - @qui_oui
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And the great irony remains that just funding systems to house and support homeless people has a lower long term cost than the anti homeless architecture and move on policies that keep them homeless.
I absolutely fucking hate "move on orders" as a concept and anyone who agrees with them instead of FINDING HOMES FOR PEOPLE is an asshole
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
And the great irony remains that just funding systems to house and support homeless people has a lower long term cost than the anti homeless architecture and move on policies that keep them homeless.
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So I get a lot of this on social media b/c I’ve got a farm & besides the awful volkish aesthetics you can see how much of the “homesteading wellness western lifestyle” is built around…not homesteading? but buying accessories (don’t forget to use our discount code in bio!)
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
So I get a lot of this on social media b/c I’ve got a farm & besides the awful volkish aesthetics you can see how much of the “homesteading wellness western lifestyle” is built around…not homesteading? but buying accessories (don’t forget to use our discount code in bio!)
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Confession: When I was a poli sci TA at Cal I once gave a right-wing essay a middling grade instead of the bad grade it deserved because I saw the trap and didn't want the mess.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Confession: When I was a poli sci TA at Cal I once gave a right-wing essay a middling grade instead of the bad grade it deserved because I saw the trap and didn't want the mess.
Thankful that I remembered to get sourdough starter ready last night
November 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Thankful that I remembered to get sourdough starter ready last night
If you buy a sourdough starter from a different location, e.g. overseas, how much does it change over time as you refresh it and it interacts with what's in its new environment? Someone else had the same question (and no definite answers)... cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/57...
Will a Sourdough starter from one locale change to yeasts of current locale over time?
I currently have about 8 different sourdough starters purchased from other locales. They are all 5 plus years, I am wondering if they have all become the same. I have heard this debated, but no
cooking.stackexchange.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If you buy a sourdough starter from a different location, e.g. overseas, how much does it change over time as you refresh it and it interacts with what's in its new environment? Someone else had the same question (and no definite answers)... cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/57...
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“When researchers randomly displayed these flood risk estimates to 18M people browsing Redfin, those who saw the feature were more likely to search for homes w/ low flood risk, according to a working paper published in the Nat’l Bureau of Economic Research last Nov*.”🧪
* www.nber.org/papers/w33119
* www.nber.org/papers/w33119
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“When researchers randomly displayed these flood risk estimates to 18M people browsing Redfin, those who saw the feature were more likely to search for homes w/ low flood risk, according to a working paper published in the Nat’l Bureau of Economic Research last Nov*.”🧪
* www.nber.org/papers/w33119
* www.nber.org/papers/w33119
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
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🧵The National are reporting on the terrifying American interference in women’s rights and the huge amounts of American money funding this
“ADF International received more than £1 million in US funding in 2024, representing a nearly 300% increase in two years…
“ADF International received more than £1 million in US funding in 2024, representing a nearly 300% increase in two years…
SPECIAL REPORT: A recent review of Scotland's abortion laws led to widespread right-wing outrage last week. We look at the driving forces behind the outcry
November 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🧵The National are reporting on the terrifying American interference in women’s rights and the huge amounts of American money funding this
“ADF International received more than £1 million in US funding in 2024, representing a nearly 300% increase in two years…
“ADF International received more than £1 million in US funding in 2024, representing a nearly 300% increase in two years…
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It’s never occurred to me to wonder what Edward Gorey animating the Ministry of Silly Walks would look like & now I don’t have to
@jemsmith.bsky.social and I made a 2D physics-based game in 4 days with sounds and music by Jaybooty Sutherland!
This is Fallbearers.
Here's a little clip of the other jammers playtesting it:
#gamedev #gamejam #indiegames
This is Fallbearers.
Here's a little clip of the other jammers playtesting it:
#gamedev #gamejam #indiegames
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
It’s never occurred to me to wonder what Edward Gorey animating the Ministry of Silly Walks would look like & now I don’t have to
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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can bluesky please stop hiding replies just because they have bad words in them? i'm a grownup, i can read the word "fuck"
November 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
can bluesky please stop hiding replies just because they have bad words in them? i'm a grownup, i can read the word "fuck"
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On the one hand, this is the thing Tom Stoppard would absolutely least like to be remembered for. On the other hand, he spent his last years complaining about "cancel culture" and trans people, so I'll take it.
Playwright Tom Stoppard has died at 88. Did you know he ghost-wrote George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? kottke.org/20/11/tom-st...
Tom Stoppard and the Last Crusade
Hermione Lee has written an authorized biography of playwright, screenwriter, translator, and man of letters Tom Stoppard, calle
kottke.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
On the one hand, this is the thing Tom Stoppard would absolutely least like to be remembered for. On the other hand, he spent his last years complaining about "cancel culture" and trans people, so I'll take it.
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ok this joke might be a little too specific
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ok this joke might be a little too specific
Happy Saturday, folks www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f6g...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1990
YouTube video by Rolo Tomasi
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Happy Saturday, folks www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f6g...
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It seems like none of the pages I'm trying to archive using Wayback Machine are saving 😩
November 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
It seems like none of the pages I'm trying to archive using Wayback Machine are saving 😩
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This is how they get you.
I've been watching a marathon of Murder, She Wrote the last couple days, and now I'm ready to move to Maine.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This is how they get you.
I think about this a lot 😑
The ecosphere is *dying* because govs and corpos refuse to bring emissions down.
Almost all new wealth goes to the already ultra rich.
Homes are simply unaffordable now.
These young people see they have no future so why bother?
Almost all new wealth goes to the already ultra rich.
Homes are simply unaffordable now.
These young people see they have no future so why bother?
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I think about this a lot 😑
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Great to see some provinces understanding the importance of investing in 2SLGBTQI+ inclusive health care
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
N.L. commits to bettering transgender health-care effort, minister says | CBC News
Newfoundland and Labrador's new health minister used one of her first interviews to commit to improving inclusive and accessible health care for the province's transgender and LGBTQ+ population.
www.cbc.ca
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Great to see some provinces understanding the importance of investing in 2SLGBTQI+ inclusive health care
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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‘Their Conditions Worsened in Hospital’: Ontario Ombudsman Report Details Inhumane Conditions, Prolonged Hospital Stays for Severely Disabled People
"Her health has been irreversibly damaged… I worry there isn’t much hope for her or our situation."
pressprogress.ca/their-condit...
"Her health has been irreversibly damaged… I worry there isn’t much hope for her or our situation."
pressprogress.ca/their-condit...
‘Their Conditions Worsened in Hospital’: Ontario Ombudsman Report Details Inhumane Conditions, Prolonged Hospital Stays for Severely Disabled People
pressprogress.ca
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
‘Their Conditions Worsened in Hospital’: Ontario Ombudsman Report Details Inhumane Conditions, Prolonged Hospital Stays for Severely Disabled People
"Her health has been irreversibly damaged… I worry there isn’t much hope for her or our situation."
pressprogress.ca/their-condit...
"Her health has been irreversibly damaged… I worry there isn’t much hope for her or our situation."
pressprogress.ca/their-condit...
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Canada, abortion rights are under attack. The forced birthers are using the same strategies that worked in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
Abortion Rights in Canada are Under Attack
Forced-birth groups are testing their strategy
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Canada, abortion rights are under attack. The forced birthers are using the same strategies that worked in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
I'm just looking at a real letter (about a fairly routine issue) sent to a municipal government body that is entirely in Comic Sans.
a stuffed white cat is sitting on top of a box and asking why ?
Alt: a stuffed white cat is sitting on top of a box and asking "why ?"
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I'm just looking at a real letter (about a fairly routine issue) sent to a municipal government body that is entirely in Comic Sans.
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“Well, shoot! There’s my herd! ... Thank you anyway, ma’am.”
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“Well, shoot! There’s my herd! ... Thank you anyway, ma’am.”