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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 11h

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 13h

There are some comments in the Reddit thread that are worth reading if you set the filter to Best and scroll down a bit. There are a few experienced textile arts people discussing if she needed to add another source of yarn to make the hat work.

Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 13h

The link for those of you just now joining the "She shaved her HEAD and made a HAT from her HAIR!!!" discourse.

From the DiWHY community on Reddit: This is Such a Complex Use of Free Will

Explore this post and more from the DiWHY community

www.reddit.com

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 13h

I've seen the video and it's actually delightful. She's a young woman with crafting skills who did something unusual with her own hair (which will grow back). I don't know whether she carded the cut hair before spinning, but still, she did a good job overall.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

MMWR was the early alert system that told doctors to be on the lookout for Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (and just about every other pandemic/epidemic since the 70s

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 1d

Joshua Charow released a fantastic short video about Carmen Cicero the same day as this post.

Inside the Life of a 99-Year-Old NYC Artist

YouTube video by Joshua Charow

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit! Cicero was the source of this meme from a few days ago, too!

ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 4d

Duchamp Flies, by Carmen Cicero, 2009, 📸 by Frank Franklin II

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 1d

We spent yesterday complaining about our knees, then watched this video about Carmen Cicero, a 99-year-old painter who is still producing huge paintings while living in a walk-up loft in NYC. (Check out the staircase at 16:40.)

Inside the Life of a 99-Year-Old Painter

YouTube video by Joshua Charow

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 1d

I really gave this the business, and so can you!

A lot of the questions are VERY "hey, person who *loves* AI, how can we, a government who *loves* AI, make sure companies who *also love* AI come to Canada to do trickledown economics?"

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 3d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 2d

Changing SILS to a "School of AI" is obscene. Do I even dare to see what's happening with Canadian library and info science schools?

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 2d

I believe that you, and a lot of other Americans in these comments, never pronounced it this way. Like you say, it makes no sense whatsoever. But it's something that seems to have seeped into American reference sources and now has some usage. It certainly isn't British (or Canadian).

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, but "primmer" is a purely American abomination. The Oxford Dictionary and its offshoots get it right: "primer" is always pronounced "praɪmər".

primer noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com

Definition of primer noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com

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Nimblenewt @nimblenewt.bsky.social · 2d

"...they watched in astonishment a brown wormlike creature greedily munching through green clumps of algae as if more than 130 years hadn’t passed since its last meal. Equally oblivious, a host of life – water fleas, worms, plankton – danced and spun around it."
#invertebrates #hope

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

www.theguardian.com

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 3d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 3d

What sets us apart from Audible? Let us count the ways:

📚 Every purchase supports your indie bookshop
💗 Employee-owned, Certified B Corp, & Social Purpose Corporation
📖 DRM-free (you own your audiobooks)
🤖 Bookseller driven, not algo driven (& our customer support team = real people, not robots)

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 3d

I’m more of a carnivore than my husband, but I also adore vegan food. He favours meat as a condiment rather than steaks and whole chicken breasts. We’ve figured out that when I make dahl or mujadara, there should be a little ground beef on the side or mixed in so that it feels satisfying to him.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 3d

#nowplaying

An album release on compact disc: Another Green World (1975) by Brian Eno, juxtaposed with After Raphael (1972), a painting by Tom Phillips. A detail of the painting appears on the album cover.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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TTC Alerts @ttcalerts.bsky.social · 3d

512 St Clair: No service between Gunns Loop at St Clair Ave West and St Clair West Station while we fix a mechanical problem. Shuttle buses are on the way.

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, TTC people in Toronto. A 512 eastbound streetcar has broken down at St. Clair and Dufferin. Hopefully shuttle buses arrive soon.

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 3d

Given this situation, can the two W kids work together? Get a few objects from the list, stand up in front of the class, and have Kid 1 "loan" the object to Kid 2.

Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 3d

Nonetheless, while I haven't tried scary baby's trick for keeping a plant warm, it sounds worth a go. Good luck!

Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 3d

3: Temperatures and frost: Honestly, I find that it needs to get pretty bitter in Toronto to affect my tomatoes. I have harvested them as late as the last week of November. Note: this was before I learned about tip 1 or 2, so they weren't very tasty once they turned red indoors, but they survived.

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 3d

BTW, you don't need to fuss about indoor ripening. I just leave my breakers on the countertop. No windowsill, no nearby bananas, no brown paper bags. These late tomatoes have tasted as good as August tomatoes. This guy's post explains in detail how picking and ripening breakers works:

Myths About Ripening Tomatoes

Are vine ripened tomatoes better? Can you ripen them inside and still get good taste? What do you do with green tomatoes?

www.gardenmyths.com

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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 3d

2: Once a tomato has turned partially pink, pick it! These "breaker" tomatoes no longer need to be connected to the stem to ripen AND if you leave them on the plant and you get some heavy fall rain, you might get blander tomatoes as they pick up excess water, or they may even split.

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