Kara Babcock
tachyondecay.net
Kara Babcock
@tachyondecay.net
Car-uh, she/her. Your favourite comfort podcaster: @prophecygirls.ca
Book reviewer: kara.reviews
Other nonsense: tachyondecay.net
Freelance copyeditor.
Teacher.
Knitter.
"We broke into a million pieces, and we can't go back" just HITS. It's such a naked acknowledgment that we can't undo harm, yet we can heal and build something new
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I know "Golden" is the breakout single, but "This Is What It Sounds Like" is my fave song. That scene makes me bawl.
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I'm such a Zoey it's not even funny
November 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
There's so much to love about this movie, but the tiger demon needing to put knocked over things back upright is the best gag
November 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Aww, thanks 🥰 Love hearing your takes on editing and also knitting 😍
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A beautiful and smart queen
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
They're cosplaying anticapitalism by conflating a blurry photocopy of an understanding of Marxist ideals with actual praxis in a 21st century world.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Indigenous cultures use Oral Tradition to pass on knowledge because they understand that knowledge is alive. It must be nurtured, transmuted, and respected.

A cold yottabyte torrent claiming to be the sum of human knowledge is none of that.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The argument that shadow libraries are beacon repositories of all human knowledge is inherently colonial. You're stealing people's work with no compensation. But you're also assuming knowledge lives in a book.

I say this as an avid reader: it does not.

*Knowledge is relational.*
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Shadow libraries like Anna's Archive aren't revolutionary. They're symptoms of THE SAME MINDSET that tech bros have: the idea that our needs/wants are better solved through impersonal technology instead of community connection.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM