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Stacey Waspe
@staceywaspe.ca
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writer, designer, marketer, project manager :: Waspe One Name Study :: genealogy, gardens, pollinators, zero waste :: settler :: she / her :: Toronto 🇨🇦 Born @ 329.56 PPM CO2
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · 2d
Ha ha - oddly appropriate given all the purple in the video 💜
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · 2d
Wolfsbane (also Monkshood and Aconitum) is finally blooming, just in time for werewolf season. (Note: extremely toxic!)
Wolfsbane: a cluster of purple flowers at the top of a very tall green stalk with pointy leaves. The flowers are not entirely open yet. Also called Monkshood, its latin name is Aconitum Napellus. Very toxic even to touch.
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · 2d
Repaired a hole in the arm of this thrifted Marks and Spencer extra fine lambswool sweater. Blanket stitched around the outside and then single crocheted in a circle until it was all joined up. Finally remembered to decrease so I didn’t make an oversized patch. 🤣 Not perfect, but wearable.
Multicoloured wool yarn as a crocheted patch in the arm of a red wool sweater.
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · 16d
“introducing over 1,100 purpose-built rental homes, replacing a significant portion of previously planned market condominiums” … This is what I’m waiting to hear in TorDan, given the huge number of “pending” condo projects.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18d
Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.

Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
People signing the Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air at the UN
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · 20d
Our oldest is prepping for a handwritten mid-term this semester. Two potential questions pre-released, cheat sheet allowed, also handwritten. Tough slog for anyone not used to writing by hand.
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · 20d
I’m an editorial designer, not an illustrator, but can recommend Julia Breckenreid: breckenreid.com
Julia Breckenreid
Julia Breckenreid Makes Thoughtful Illustrations
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · 22d
Played the first minute and my GenX husband pleads with me to stop: “I feel like that guy who crumbles into dust in that Indiana Jones movie.”
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · 23d
Had really hoped for clean indoor air in public spaces. I still believe we’ll get there someday because it has to be a huge cost-saving measure, no? Transformative at a societal level. But waiting is… frustrating. Do not wish our years of illness from 3 kids in 3 schools on anyone. 🫠
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · 24d
Thank-you for this! Going to sew a small thing to fix an annoying household problem.
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · 25d
Really wish there was a rescue inhaler that didn’t cause tachycardia.
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 25d
I helped the Centre for Civic Governance on an exciting new report about the jobs potential of renewable energy and energy conservation investments in Canada. The numbers are huge: 6.3 to 9.5 million job years of new construction work from now to 2050: ccg.eco/research/job.... /2
Jobs for Today: Canada's Building Trades and the Net-Zero Transition - Centre for Civic Governance
Commissioned by Green Jobs BC, a project of the Centre for Civic Governance, Jobs for Today: Canada’s Building Trades and the Net-Zero Transition explores the vital role Canada’s construction industry...
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · 27d
Parasitic 'vampire fish' looks about as bad as I imagined.
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · 27d
Surprising given the increasing requirements for accessibility in design. Seems like we’re going backwards?
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · Sep 10
Yup, would love to spend a long, long time just looking at moss and lichen. No reason.
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · Sep 10
Would love to see Wordtris make a come back.
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · Sep 10
The fast food restaurants that use this program when we have such high unemployment is surely one sign (there are others) that TFWP needs fixing. Just because we’re not all falling for Poilievre’s rhetoric doesn’t mean the disapproval of a majority of Canadians should be dismissed.
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · Sep 10
And there’s also this: lithub.com/libraries-ar...
Libraries are already contending with crappy, AI-generated books.
This week, 404 Media, which is publishing some really essential writing these days and is well worth your support, featured an excellent piece on the problem librarians are facing as their ebook co…
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · Sep 10
The audiobooks were the tip-off, as detailed in part here but the problem is bigger: smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2024/10/ai-a...
AI Audiobook Narrators in OverDrive and the Issue of Library AI Circulation Policy | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · Sep 9
I have enough problems sussing out the GenAI books on Libby / Overdrive because they are not disclosed. Now I have to do that with podcasts? Just gonna read paper books and listen to CBC radio. Slowing turning into my grandmother.
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · Sep 9
So tired (literally) of drivers believing they have the right to do whatever they want. I wake up nearly every night between 1 and 5 am, usually for a couple of hours. What do I hear? Idiots racing on Danforth, Broadview or the DVP. What did I want to hear? Fiery explosions.
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · Sep 9
Blogging? RSS feeds? Could we… have the old internet back? 🥺
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · Sep 9
Funny that’s the French pronunciation. Always thought that English census taker just copied down what he thought he heard. And that was back when my French-Canadian family was still actually French. You can see the slow slide towards English in the first names they use over time.
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · Sep 9
This is great! Husband still outraged. I shouldn’t be surprised. When I was searching for Hébert ancestors in the census, I could not find them where they were supposed to be. So I finally just went through page by page and finally found the “Abear” family I was looking for. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Stacey Waspe @staceywaspe.ca · Sep 9
My husband is always terribly outraged / baffled by our weird habit of bad French pronunciation of those street names. “But you’re 1/4 French Canadian!” I mean, if you tried to say them properly, no one would have any idea what you were talking about. I should that try next time lol.
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