Elizabeth McConnell
@elizmcc.bsky.social
Canadian. Reader. Aspiring curator.
“Not what anyone would call laid back”
“Not what anyone would call laid back”
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Take time to read this. The extraordinary, disturbing story of a woman who died alone & anonymous in an institution where she never belonged, & a journalist who identified her after being assigned what he thought was a bullshit obit - thartribune.com/the-haunting... @elongreen.bsky.social
The haunting story of Mary Doefour and one man's quest to give her back her real name - Thar Tribune
March 2, 1978. An elderly woman lay awake in bed, unable to drift off. Something felt wrong inside her chest, a dull pressure, and each shallow breath made
thartribune.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Take time to read this. The extraordinary, disturbing story of a woman who died alone & anonymous in an institution where she never belonged, & a journalist who identified her after being assigned what he thought was a bullshit obit - thartribune.com/the-haunting... @elongreen.bsky.social
When I was a child my grandmother would make “silver dollar” pancakes.
I haven’t thought about that in 20 years. I think they were just small-ish pancakes. I was a lucky child.
I haven’t thought about that in 20 years. I think they were just small-ish pancakes. I was a lucky child.
I will pay you all $0, and this photo of a turtle in a top hat, if you start skeeting about pancakes right now.*
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* Replies to, and quotes posts of, this skeet discussing pancakes do not count. All pancakes must be independently posted.
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* Replies to, and quotes posts of, this skeet discussing pancakes do not count. All pancakes must be independently posted.
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
When I was a child my grandmother would make “silver dollar” pancakes.
I haven’t thought about that in 20 years. I think they were just small-ish pancakes. I was a lucky child.
I haven’t thought about that in 20 years. I think they were just small-ish pancakes. I was a lucky child.
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✨️ Bonjour !!
Belle journée à vous 🌞🌞
Belle journée à vous 🌞🌞
September 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
✨️ Bonjour !!
Belle journée à vous 🌞🌞
Belle journée à vous 🌞🌞
I don’t know about favourite, but the ones I feel most deeply in my soul are Full House and Dawson’s Creek
favorite opening credits sequence, go
mine is the one-two punch of the Edward Gorey “Masterpiece Mystery” illustrated animation followed by the 80s Art Deco stylings of “Poirot”
mine is the one-two punch of the Edward Gorey “Masterpiece Mystery” illustrated animation followed by the 80s Art Deco stylings of “Poirot”
We used to have proper opening credits in this country
September 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I don’t know about favourite, but the ones I feel most deeply in my soul are Full House and Dawson’s Creek
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
September 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
#15MoviesToGetToKnowMe
Good Will Hunting
Charade (1963)
The Sound of Music
A Few Good Men
Pitch Perfect
Sense and Sensibility
Anne of Green Gables
Clerks
The Secret Garden (Hallmark)
Go
The Bourne Identity
Wendy and Lucy
Dirty Dancing
Ever After
Dead Poets Society
Good Will Hunting
Charade (1963)
The Sound of Music
A Few Good Men
Pitch Perfect
Sense and Sensibility
Anne of Green Gables
Clerks
The Secret Garden (Hallmark)
Go
The Bourne Identity
Wendy and Lucy
Dirty Dancing
Ever After
Dead Poets Society
#15MoviesToGetToKnowMe
Empire Records
Carol
The Favourite
Withnail and I
Selena
Zoolander
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Poltergeist
Lilo & Stitch (animated)
North by Northwest
Stop Making Sense
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Addams Family
Return to Oz
Empire Records
Carol
The Favourite
Withnail and I
Selena
Zoolander
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Poltergeist
Lilo & Stitch (animated)
North by Northwest
Stop Making Sense
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Addams Family
Return to Oz
#15MoviesToGetToKnowMe
Seven Samurai
Sunset Boulevard
Some Like It Hot
Hollywood Shuffle
I Am Not Your Negro
Yojimbo
Princess Mononoke
Casablanca
High Noon
Little Forest
Perfect Days
Inside Job
Blood of Heroes
A Great Wall
Aliens
Seven Samurai
Sunset Boulevard
Some Like It Hot
Hollywood Shuffle
I Am Not Your Negro
Yojimbo
Princess Mononoke
Casablanca
High Noon
Little Forest
Perfect Days
Inside Job
Blood of Heroes
A Great Wall
Aliens
August 19, 2025 at 6:34 AM
#15MoviesToGetToKnowMe
Good Will Hunting
Charade (1963)
The Sound of Music
A Few Good Men
Pitch Perfect
Sense and Sensibility
Anne of Green Gables
Clerks
The Secret Garden (Hallmark)
Go
The Bourne Identity
Wendy and Lucy
Dirty Dancing
Ever After
Dead Poets Society
Good Will Hunting
Charade (1963)
The Sound of Music
A Few Good Men
Pitch Perfect
Sense and Sensibility
Anne of Green Gables
Clerks
The Secret Garden (Hallmark)
Go
The Bourne Identity
Wendy and Lucy
Dirty Dancing
Ever After
Dead Poets Society
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
I’m into this. She literally looks like how I would imagine my therapist.
I’m into this. She literally looks like how I would imagine my therapist.
August 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
I’m into this. She literally looks like how I would imagine my therapist.
I’m into this. She literally looks like how I would imagine my therapist.
I didn’t expect the sense memory of this movie to come rushing back the way it did, and now I so want to watch it again.
"Watching it again, I was amazed by how tightly plotted and fast-paced it was. The voice-over, which has a touch of The Catcher in the Rye, gives Clueless the freedom to insert brief, quasi-anthropological observations that are illustrated with delightful images." www.rogerebert.com/features/eve...
Everywhere You Go Has Valet: "Clueless" at 30 (Or Whatever) | Features | Roger Ebert
On the classic teen comedy, that's still leaving us totally buggin' three decades on.
www.rogerebert.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I didn’t expect the sense memory of this movie to come rushing back the way it did, and now I so want to watch it again.
I hadn’t read this before and now I’m so glad I have. It is excellent.
happy 6 year anniversary to the essay that won me a book deal, rescued me from a terrible job, and got me nominated for a james beard. it’s the most popular thing i’ve ever written to this day. if i get an obit in any major newspaper this essay will be the reason
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Love, Peace, and Taco Grease: How I Left My Abusive Husband and Found Guy Fieri
magazine.catapult.co
July 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I hadn’t read this before and now I’m so glad I have. It is excellent.
Marica Villeneuve 💚🦎
June 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Marica Villeneuve 💚🦎
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What N. Ireland is experiencing right now is a form of state media censorhip to cover up the overwhelming level of paramilitary involvement in the far-right, white supremacist riots that have swept the North. While cameras and narratives focus on the 'youths' - the men in the shadows .. [1/n]
June 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
What N. Ireland is experiencing right now is a form of state media censorhip to cover up the overwhelming level of paramilitary involvement in the far-right, white supremacist riots that have swept the North. While cameras and narratives focus on the 'youths' - the men in the shadows .. [1/n]
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Become ungovernable.
June 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Become ungovernable.
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Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few seconds and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno
May 31, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few seconds and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno
Repost with the five shows you would be happy to rewatch for the rest of your life as your sole TV diet.
Murdoch Mysteries
Law and Order (original)
West Wing
Greys Anatomy
Fraiser
Murdoch Mysteries
Law and Order (original)
West Wing
Greys Anatomy
Fraiser
Repost with the five TV shows you would be happy to rewatch for the rest of your life as your sole TV diet
Grey's Anatomy
Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23
Batman the Animated Series
M*A*S*H
Cheers
Grey's Anatomy
Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23
Batman the Animated Series
M*A*S*H
Cheers
Repost w/ the five shows you would be happy to rewatch over and over again for the rest of your life, as your sole TV diet.
Elementary
What We Do In The Shadows
Buffy/Angel
The Singing Detective
Twin Peaks
Elementary
What We Do In The Shadows
Buffy/Angel
The Singing Detective
Twin Peaks
May 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Repost with the five shows you would be happy to rewatch for the rest of your life as your sole TV diet.
Murdoch Mysteries
Law and Order (original)
West Wing
Greys Anatomy
Fraiser
Murdoch Mysteries
Law and Order (original)
West Wing
Greys Anatomy
Fraiser
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✨️ Beau Dimanche à toutes et tous !!
🖤 🤍
🖤 🤍
May 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
✨️ Beau Dimanche à toutes et tous !!
🖤 🤍
🖤 🤍
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VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off?
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off.
They do not log off.
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off.
They do not log off.
May 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off?
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off.
They do not log off.
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off.
They do not log off.
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A lot of Americans don't know this, but the winner of the Canadian election will be required live in a small cottage located in the backyard of the palace where the viceroy to the King of England lives.
The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.
The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.
April 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A lot of Americans don't know this, but the winner of the Canadian election will be required live in a small cottage located in the backyard of the palace where the viceroy to the King of England lives.
The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.
The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.
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Research is learning is thinking!
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Research is learning is thinking!
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Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
Art I love (1)
Euka Holmes, Flowers
Euka Holmes, Flowers
December 15, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Art I love (1)
Euka Holmes, Flowers
Euka Holmes, Flowers
This is a phenomenal story, subject, and example of scholarship.
A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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December 3, 2024 at 12:32 PM
This is a phenomenal story, subject, and example of scholarship.
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 21, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
Not all heroes.. etc.
Are we doing those old-school, meandering, ludicrous threads here? They were the best thing about ol’ Twitter.
And, hoo boy, have I got one for you.
Buckle up. We need to talk about Gromit.
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And, hoo boy, have I got one for you.
Buckle up. We need to talk about Gromit.
🪡 🧵 🪡
November 18, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Not all heroes.. etc.