Rachel Rogers
@rachelini.bsky.social
Lover of musicals, reading, cats, urban animals, sleep. Forever a cataloguer at heart. she/her
The brutal truth I learned sometime last year
You definitely want to learn to stop saying, "I am SO OLD!" long before the people to whom you're saying it just look at you in response with expressions that say, "I mean...yes."
February 7, 2026 at 9:47 PM
The brutal truth I learned sometime last year
Yesterday was warm! sunny! no coat! sunglasses! spring is here! and today is damp and very foggy to make up for it.
February 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Yesterday was warm! sunny! no coat! sunglasses! spring is here! and today is damp and very foggy to make up for it.
Well this is terrible.
Canada’s biggest grocery giants — including Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro — are using property law to control how other grocery stores, dollar stores, pharmacies and gas stations can compete with them, an investigation by CBC’s Marketplace has found. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
January 26, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Well this is terrible.
Enjoying dinner and a show (eating lunch at my desk while watching IT remote into my computer)
January 20, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Enjoying dinner and a show (eating lunch at my desk while watching IT remote into my computer)
I would like one more day off please. Can we just cancel Monday this week?
January 18, 2026 at 10:47 PM
I would like one more day off please. Can we just cancel Monday this week?
This is wild. I knew Spotify was bad for musicians, but I didn't realize how bad.
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 5:56 AM
This is wild. I knew Spotify was bad for musicians, but I didn't realize how bad.
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After 20 years of having the absolute worst rental vacancy rate in Canada, the return of a healthy rental market in Victoria is absolutely blowing peoples' minds right now
January 15, 2026 at 12:45 AM
After 20 years of having the absolute worst rental vacancy rate in Canada, the return of a healthy rental market in Victoria is absolutely blowing peoples' minds right now
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My cousin asked me to recommend some good cozy fantasy books but she couldn’t remember “cozy fantasy” so she called it “heavy on the bread and hard cheese, light on the stabbing.”
January 10, 2026 at 7:14 PM
My cousin asked me to recommend some good cozy fantasy books but she couldn’t remember “cozy fantasy” so she called it “heavy on the bread and hard cheese, light on the stabbing.”
This is all true. But also, I read it as "Readers have the right to dislike being at work" and that is also true. Let me read!
Multiple things can be true at the same time.
Readers have the right to dislike a work.
Being disliked is a sign of being read.
Reviewers have the right to dislike and critique a work.
It's often hard to avoid seeing such reviews, and authors can often feel very vulnerable.
We are human.
Readers have the right to dislike a work.
Being disliked is a sign of being read.
Reviewers have the right to dislike and critique a work.
It's often hard to avoid seeing such reviews, and authors can often feel very vulnerable.
We are human.
January 5, 2026 at 5:05 AM
This is all true. But also, I read it as "Readers have the right to dislike being at work" and that is also true. Let me read!
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Doing this challenge called “January” where I try to make it through the whole month of January
January 4, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Doing this challenge called “January” where I try to make it through the whole month of January
Watched the first episode of Heated Rivalry. I could watch another five of them just *looking* at each other across random rooms.
January 5, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Watched the first episode of Heated Rivalry. I could watch another five of them just *looking* at each other across random rooms.
I went to bed quite early last night so I expected to wake up early this morning, but instead I began 2026 as I mean to go on, uninterested in being awake.
January 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I went to bed quite early last night so I expected to wake up early this morning, but instead I began 2026 as I mean to go on, uninterested in being awake.
I don't do reading goals (the goal is just to read, particularly when I should be doing housework), but I do do reading plans, so that I don't end up staring at my tbr unable to pick a book. 1/
January 1, 2026 at 5:46 AM
I don't do reading goals (the goal is just to read, particularly when I should be doing housework), but I do do reading plans, so that I don't end up staring at my tbr unable to pick a book. 1/
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Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing
The tl;dr before you get into this post is this: the SFWA came out, said that some AI usage was okay enough in books for the authors of those books to not to be disqualified from winning a Nebula a…
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December 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
I bought this book for myself on a whim while doing my Christmas shopping. The artist/author moved here in 2020 just before the pandemic started. It's really neat to see what jumps out at someone new to an area. Also interesting to see how much has changed in 5 years!
December 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I bought this book for myself on a whim while doing my Christmas shopping. The artist/author moved here in 2020 just before the pandemic started. It's really neat to see what jumps out at someone new to an area. Also interesting to see how much has changed in 5 years!
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‘Why are you always tired?’ I’ve been alive every day since I was born. It adds up.
December 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
‘Why are you always tired?’ I’ve been alive every day since I was born. It adds up.
Back to work. I feel spoiled for having a weekend right after Christmas and Boxing Day - 4 days off in a row! Luxury.
December 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Back to work. I feel spoiled for having a weekend right after Christmas and Boxing Day - 4 days off in a row! Luxury.
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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For all the things that I complain about being built for men or tall people and not fitting me properly (like chairs) then there's one like my sit-stand desk where I have to put it as high as it goes and it's still not quite the right standing height for me. What do the tall people do??
December 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
For all the things that I complain about being built for men or tall people and not fitting me properly (like chairs) then there's one like my sit-stand desk where I have to put it as high as it goes and it's still not quite the right standing height for me. What do the tall people do??
All the Heated Rivalry discourse is making me want to watch it despite sports romance not being one of my genres. Strange things happen when romance hits the mainstream!
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
All the Heated Rivalry discourse is making me want to watch it despite sports romance not being one of my genres. Strange things happen when romance hits the mainstream!
A fantastic thread.
Shops at Aura tree. Snow dusted wonderland under (for now) Canada’s tallest residential bldn. Formal skirt transitions to snow fam exploding w uncontainable joy in witnessing drive-by action Santa. A perfect scene to visit & revisit, each time seeing more. 11/10
#EveryCorporateChristmasTreeInToronto
#EveryCorporateChristmasTreeInToronto
December 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A fantastic thread.
More fuel for my "brain in a jar" campaign
your body can just sprout new bones if it wants. your body can be like "I have decided to create a new piece of bone in the midst of this thigh muscle or whatever, YOLO." this is called heterotopic ossification and I think we should all be much more scared of it than we are.
December 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
More fuel for my "brain in a jar" campaign
I took a 20 minute nap and it got full dark during that time. I can't be convinced that I wasn't actually out for two hours.
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I took a 20 minute nap and it got full dark during that time. I can't be convinced that I wasn't actually out for two hours.