Christina Lara (she/her)
@notacatacct.bsky.social
Reader, writer, (ex)gravedigger
Queer, Neurodivergent
Living and working in treaty six territory
My webbed site: https://booksinthesilentforest.neocities.org/
Queer, Neurodivergent
Living and working in treaty six territory
My webbed site: https://booksinthesilentforest.neocities.org/
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this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Spell check existed long before genAI and in its most basic function is not genAI. Spell check is code. It's a function. It checks against a database of available words. Spell check in certain programs, however, may have been made worse by running it through genAI.
December 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Spell check existed long before genAI and in its most basic function is not genAI. Spell check is code. It's a function. It checks against a database of available words. Spell check in certain programs, however, may have been made worse by running it through genAI.
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I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
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-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
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Creative solidarity means:
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Creative solidarity means:
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
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However else you label the Bondi Beach shootings — hate crime, terror attack — they were the murder of innocent people for being Jews, in a place very far from Israel and Gaza.
Fear of copycat monsters will also inhibit Chanukah celebrations all over the world now.
Fear of copycat monsters will also inhibit Chanukah celebrations all over the world now.
December 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
However else you label the Bondi Beach shootings — hate crime, terror attack — they were the murder of innocent people for being Jews, in a place very far from Israel and Gaza.
Fear of copycat monsters will also inhibit Chanukah celebrations all over the world now.
Fear of copycat monsters will also inhibit Chanukah celebrations all over the world now.
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Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...
Horses Is Tame
Horses, the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form.
aftermath.site
December 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...
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The distressing thing about this is that anyone who's read deeper than school or TV documentary level knows that, in its multitudinous, multifaceted way, the Holocaust was so much worse than I think the majority of people understand
Among Republicans - " The Holocaust of Jews and Nazi Germany was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe"
Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%
Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%
Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The distressing thing about this is that anyone who's read deeper than school or TV documentary level knows that, in its multitudinous, multifaceted way, the Holocaust was so much worse than I think the majority of people understand
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Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
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I would totally watch this.
Give me money and I’ll make Corner Smokes - a Native spinoff of Corner Gas where Davis moves to rez to take over his late aunt’s smokeshop. I’m not saying I’ve written the first episode and show bible, but...
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I would totally watch this.
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This is a huge step backward for Canada. PM Carney’s lack of prioritization of women’s issues is deeply concerning. A feminist foreign policy is non-negotiable in building a safer world for women and girls.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is a huge step backward for Canada. PM Carney’s lack of prioritization of women’s issues is deeply concerning. A feminist foreign policy is non-negotiable in building a safer world for women and girls.
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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I know this makes me like a terminal bummer or whatever but there is still an Xbox boycott under BDS. The Gaza genocide might not be as in your face as it was a year or even six months ago but shit ain’t over. Israel/the US just put forward an ethnic cleansing proposal masquerading as a peace plan.
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I know this makes me like a terminal bummer or whatever but there is still an Xbox boycott under BDS. The Gaza genocide might not be as in your face as it was a year or even six months ago but shit ain’t over. Israel/the US just put forward an ethnic cleansing proposal masquerading as a peace plan.
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Today we honour the trans lives stolen by violence and discrimination.
In love and solidarity, we recommit to the fight for safety, dignity, and a world where trans people are valued, and free.
In love and solidarity, we recommit to the fight for safety, dignity, and a world where trans people are valued, and free.
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today we honour the trans lives stolen by violence and discrimination.
In love and solidarity, we recommit to the fight for safety, dignity, and a world where trans people are valued, and free.
In love and solidarity, we recommit to the fight for safety, dignity, and a world where trans people are valued, and free.
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Shameful and outrageous
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk interrogated for hours in Canada
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Shameful and outrageous
Porcupine for the timeline
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Porcupine for the timeline
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Did you know that from a one meter squared area of leaves left retains about 20 moths, 300 parasitic wasps, over 100 spiders, 400 beetles and ONE THOUSAND FLIES. 🪲🦋🐞
Leave the leaves. #nativeplants #gardening #alberta #edmonton #yeg
Leave the leaves. #nativeplants #gardening #alberta #edmonton #yeg
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Did you know that from a one meter squared area of leaves left retains about 20 moths, 300 parasitic wasps, over 100 spiders, 400 beetles and ONE THOUSAND FLIES. 🪲🦋🐞
Leave the leaves. #nativeplants #gardening #alberta #edmonton #yeg
Leave the leaves. #nativeplants #gardening #alberta #edmonton #yeg
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I had the privilege to talk with Diane Walton, long-time editor of On Spec, Canada's premier sci-fi and fantasy magazine, as she heads into retirement and the publication wraps an impressive 35-year run.
Check it all out on CBC Arts: www.cbc.ca/arts/on-spec...
#Canada
#CanadaWrites
#SFF
#SciFi
Check it all out on CBC Arts: www.cbc.ca/arts/on-spec...
#Canada
#CanadaWrites
#SFF
#SciFi
Canada’s premier speculative fiction magazine calls it a day after 35 years | CBC Arts
Edmonton-based On Spec, which showcased authors like Julie E. Czerneda, Tony Pi and a young Cory Doctorow, will publish its final issue in December
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I had the privilege to talk with Diane Walton, long-time editor of On Spec, Canada's premier sci-fi and fantasy magazine, as she heads into retirement and the publication wraps an impressive 35-year run.
Check it all out on CBC Arts: www.cbc.ca/arts/on-spec...
#Canada
#CanadaWrites
#SFF
#SciFi
Check it all out on CBC Arts: www.cbc.ca/arts/on-spec...
#Canada
#CanadaWrites
#SFF
#SciFi
The Illustrated Junior Classics edition of The Count of Monte Cristo in third grade, had me picking myself up after every beating I got at school (was bullied, a lot), muttering that "All of human wisdom is summarised in the words wait and hope" and my gateway to older books in general.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The Illustrated Junior Classics edition of The Count of Monte Cristo in third grade, had me picking myself up after every beating I got at school (was bullied, a lot), muttering that "All of human wisdom is summarised in the words wait and hope" and my gateway to older books in general.
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This image briought back memories. Thank you. I am quite sure they would be very clearly ‘not good’ if looked at again, compared to the books they scaled down but, yes, a gateway.
Not a book but a series. I used to devour these mini illustrated classics in elementary school. They turned me into a lifelong reader.
November 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This image briought back memories. Thank you. I am quite sure they would be very clearly ‘not good’ if looked at again, compared to the books they scaled down but, yes, a gateway.
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Untitled - Blue Jays
Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe
2025
Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe
2025
November 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Untitled - Blue Jays
Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe
2025
Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe
2025
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What a lot of people don't understand is that strikes are *expensive* and not all of the unions have adequate war chests to just drop everything today.
I think this is a solid plan, while working toward escalating labour actions.
I think this is a solid plan, while working toward escalating labour actions.
McGowan adds that they will work to recall UCP MLAs and to potentially launch a campaign calling for the defunding of private schools in Alberta
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What a lot of people don't understand is that strikes are *expensive* and not all of the unions have adequate war chests to just drop everything today.
I think this is a solid plan, while working toward escalating labour actions.
I think this is a solid plan, while working toward escalating labour actions.
If you see this qoute with a vampire that isnt Dracula
October 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If you see this qoute with a vampire that isnt Dracula
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