Worried Owl
@larksandkatydids.bsky.social
She/they. Canadian and Australian, writer/editor/ish, I don't even have a substack.
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Former studio and home of ceramicists Otto and Gertrud Netzler for sale for the first time in 80 years. Absolute dream home.
7837 Woodrow Wilson Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90046
7837 Woodrow Wilson Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90046
December 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Former studio and home of ceramicists Otto and Gertrud Netzler for sale for the first time in 80 years. Absolute dream home.
7837 Woodrow Wilson Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90046
7837 Woodrow Wilson Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90046
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I kind of love this. And potatoes 🥔
December 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I kind of love this. And potatoes 🥔
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Happy (almost) first week of winter! Stay warm out there folks 💙🧡💛 #thething #80shorror
December 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Happy (almost) first week of winter! Stay warm out there folks 💙🧡💛 #thething #80shorror
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This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
December 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
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LOL this is all the data I think, and as nicely visualised as I can. Now I just need to annotate... 🤣
(Willing to accept that this is evidence that I am, in fact, quite mad.)
(Willing to accept that this is evidence that I am, in fact, quite mad.)
December 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
LOL this is all the data I think, and as nicely visualised as I can. Now I just need to annotate... 🤣
(Willing to accept that this is evidence that I am, in fact, quite mad.)
(Willing to accept that this is evidence that I am, in fact, quite mad.)
Because I'm Like That, I looked the commercial up, and it's like. Did not a single human look at this and say "wow maybe we shouldn't associate our brand with the image of a woman being dragged to death by a streetcar"
The premise of this commercial, which you should not see, is that Christmas season sucks but at least you have McDonalds to hang out at alone.
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Because I'm Like That, I looked the commercial up, and it's like. Did not a single human look at this and say "wow maybe we shouldn't associate our brand with the image of a woman being dragged to death by a streetcar"
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Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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December 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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My husband got shingles a week before our youngest child was born. This meant he wasn't allowed in the delivery room with me so I gave birth alone, and he was only allowed in my room on the labour ward when I was in isolation in case I'd caught chicken pox from him and my baby had it 1/2
people gotta talk about their shingles experiences. no one is going to enjoy this
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My husband got shingles a week before our youngest child was born. This meant he wasn't allowed in the delivery room with me so I gave birth alone, and he was only allowed in my room on the labour ward when I was in isolation in case I'd caught chicken pox from him and my baby had it 1/2
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"The Road Not Taken"... a poplar grove (cultivated) near Andrew, AB. i captured this in the fall when most of the leaves had fallen but there were still leaves on the trees in the background and the soft late afternoon light was filtering through them
#ArtAdventCalendar www.stevericketts.ca
#ArtAdventCalendar www.stevericketts.ca
December 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"The Road Not Taken"... a poplar grove (cultivated) near Andrew, AB. i captured this in the fall when most of the leaves had fallen but there were still leaves on the trees in the background and the soft late afternoon light was filtering through them
#ArtAdventCalendar www.stevericketts.ca
#ArtAdventCalendar www.stevericketts.ca
As someone who has lost around 50 percent of my income to AI, I apologise deeply for disliking it in public
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
As someone who has lost around 50 percent of my income to AI, I apologise deeply for disliking it in public
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
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Just because it's being passed around a lot: NO, data centers in space do NOT benefit from space being cold. Space is cold in the formal sense we use to define temperature. But it is very bad at cooling. What would you rather have to cool hot metal: a lukewarm water tub or a giant cold atmosphere?
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Just because it's being passed around a lot: NO, data centers in space do NOT benefit from space being cold. Space is cold in the formal sense we use to define temperature. But it is very bad at cooling. What would you rather have to cool hot metal: a lukewarm water tub or a giant cold atmosphere?
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I do think that some people who didn’t experience being Bad at Math in the 2000s and 2010s are probably really underrating how demeaning that experience was at the time
speaking on the basis of being a humanities type who struggled with math (until I learned to program later on) who felt that society was giving me a constant message in the 2000s that I was a worthless parasite who would die in a ditch on that basis alone
December 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I do think that some people who didn’t experience being Bad at Math in the 2000s and 2010s are probably really underrating how demeaning that experience was at the time
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Gotta needlepoint this
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Gotta needlepoint this
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I understand it even less now! Millennia of grieving parents would have given anything for these vaccines. I feel so grateful to have them.
Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I understand it even less now! Millennia of grieving parents would have given anything for these vaccines. I feel so grateful to have them.
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man, Jacob Tierney seems like a sweet and lovely person. he's generous and lovely about the romance genre, he makes good sex scenes, and he's protective of his actors.
gay hockey show was always going to be fun but this is like pasture-raised grass-fed free-range organic gay hockey show.
gay hockey show was always going to be fun but this is like pasture-raised grass-fed free-range organic gay hockey show.
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
man, Jacob Tierney seems like a sweet and lovely person. he's generous and lovely about the romance genre, he makes good sex scenes, and he's protective of his actors.
gay hockey show was always going to be fun but this is like pasture-raised grass-fed free-range organic gay hockey show.
gay hockey show was always going to be fun but this is like pasture-raised grass-fed free-range organic gay hockey show.
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
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I knew that this day was coming. The UCP had been warning for months that they were going to take away the rights of transgender people (not just children but adults too). I thought I was prepared. But I am still very angry that it has happened.
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I knew that this day was coming. The UCP had been warning for months that they were going to take away the rights of transgender people (not just children but adults too). I thought I was prepared. But I am still very angry that it has happened.
They hate Canada and they don't really like Alberta, they want to be Montana
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
They hate Canada and they don't really like Alberta, they want to be Montana
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The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org