Mandy Rachael
@booksyarnlogic.bsky.social
EdDev - digital/access/writing pedagogies. Queer, cis settler | NL, ON, AB. she/her. #LandBack
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Writing is my deepest passion. It's my absolute favorite thing to do. Aside from, apparently, every single chore in my house and every mindless little app on my phone and also laying on the couch staring up at the ceiling
September 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Writing is my deepest passion. It's my absolute favorite thing to do. Aside from, apparently, every single chore in my house and every mindless little app on my phone and also laying on the couch staring up at the ceiling
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AGREED
Putting pronouns in my bio helps me get a lot less "Dear Mr. Mohamed" or just "Mohamed" because Anglo speakers can't necessarily parse 'Premee' as a gendered name
Putting pronouns in my bio helps me get a lot less "Dear Mr. Mohamed" or just "Mohamed" because Anglo speakers can't necessarily parse 'Premee' as a gendered name
One overlooked benefit of declaring preferred pronouns as a social norm is that it's not just for LGBTQ but also for people w non-Anglo names. I'm a cishet woman with a very feminine name but nobody's gonna know that if they don't know Chinese.
But the anti-LGBTQ crowd are also anti-immigrant so..
But the anti-LGBTQ crowd are also anti-immigrant so..
August 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
AGREED
Putting pronouns in my bio helps me get a lot less "Dear Mr. Mohamed" or just "Mohamed" because Anglo speakers can't necessarily parse 'Premee' as a gendered name
Putting pronouns in my bio helps me get a lot less "Dear Mr. Mohamed" or just "Mohamed" because Anglo speakers can't necessarily parse 'Premee' as a gendered name
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the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together”
show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
August 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together”
show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
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There are still good, kind, decent people in the world
You just need to know where to look
www.newsweek.com/florida-loca...
You just need to know where to look
www.newsweek.com/florida-loca...
Florida locals defy Ron DeSantis by restoring Pulse rainbow crosswalk
People took matters into their own hands after the commemorative crosswalk was removed, and drew it back onto the ground.
www.newsweek.com
August 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
There are still good, kind, decent people in the world
You just need to know where to look
www.newsweek.com/florida-loca...
You just need to know where to look
www.newsweek.com/florida-loca...
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Trump proposes to rescind AIDS funds. Congress rejects the proposal. So Trump and his henchman Russ Vought just refuse to spend the money and try to hide that decision from Congress and the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...
Trump Budget Office Is Withholding H.I.V. Funds That Congress Appropriated
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Trump proposes to rescind AIDS funds. Congress rejects the proposal. So Trump and his henchman Russ Vought just refuse to spend the money and try to hide that decision from Congress and the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...
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Six recommendations from NYRB's Horror & the Supernatural sale.
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August 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Six recommendations from NYRB's Horror & the Supernatural sale.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/n...
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/n...
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29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'
August 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'
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He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...
August 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...
Actual text from me to my bestie, 11:45 pm: "I am trying to decide whether to read a tragic French novel about a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship or a Sapphic romance novella about a Victorian chicken breeder."
So much to read, so little time!
So much to read, so little time!
a chicken with a red comb and yellow beak
Alt: a chicken cartoon with a red comb and yellow beak
media.tenor.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Actual text from me to my bestie, 11:45 pm: "I am trying to decide whether to read a tragic French novel about a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship or a Sapphic romance novella about a Victorian chicken breeder."
So much to read, so little time!
So much to read, so little time!
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Health Canada has authorized the LP.8.1 variant adapted Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for individuals aged 6 months and older.
The updated COMIRNATY® vaccine targets the Omicron LP.8.1 variant, one of the most recently circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages. It will be made available this Fall across Canada.
The updated COMIRNATY® vaccine targets the Omicron LP.8.1 variant, one of the most recently circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages. It will be made available this Fall across Canada.
August 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Health Canada has authorized the LP.8.1 variant adapted Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for individuals aged 6 months and older.
The updated COMIRNATY® vaccine targets the Omicron LP.8.1 variant, one of the most recently circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages. It will be made available this Fall across Canada.
The updated COMIRNATY® vaccine targets the Omicron LP.8.1 variant, one of the most recently circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages. It will be made available this Fall across Canada.
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This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris
August 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris
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Reminder: striking workers ordered back to work by the government are STILL ON STRIKE. They are working under duress. I encourage Work to Rule tactics to resist their exploitation. TL;DR: This is bullshit.
“The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want — hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation”
August 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Reminder: striking workers ordered back to work by the government are STILL ON STRIKE. They are working under duress. I encourage Work to Rule tactics to resist their exploitation. TL;DR: This is bullshit.
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A few study highlights:
Increasing number of vaccinations further decreases Long COVID 23–36 %
Remdesivir reduced Long COVID by 69 %.
Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) reduced Long COVID by 95 % -
effect was independent of up to three vaccination doses.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Increasing number of vaccinations further decreases Long COVID 23–36 %
Remdesivir reduced Long COVID by 69 %.
Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) reduced Long COVID by 95 % -
effect was independent of up to three vaccination doses.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Association of COVID vaccinations and treatments with long COVID beyond 6 months: a case-control study on the adult population in a large integrated healthcare system in the United States from 2020 to...
Long coronavirus disease (Long COVID) is a chronic condition causing significant long-term disability and economic burden. This study aims to measure …
www.sciencedirect.com
August 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A few study highlights:
Increasing number of vaccinations further decreases Long COVID 23–36 %
Remdesivir reduced Long COVID by 69 %.
Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) reduced Long COVID by 95 % -
effect was independent of up to three vaccination doses.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Increasing number of vaccinations further decreases Long COVID 23–36 %
Remdesivir reduced Long COVID by 69 %.
Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) reduced Long COVID by 95 % -
effect was independent of up to three vaccination doses.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Conservative Carney wasting no time busting this strike.
Never let anyone tell you they give a shit about the little guy or wealth equality if they systematically attack and dismantle one of the only means of supporting both!
Never let anyone tell you they give a shit about the little guy or wealth equality if they systematically attack and dismantle one of the only means of supporting both!
Air Canada was waiting for this and it was given to them in a matter of hours. Canadians of all political stripes are behind the flight attendants. Disappointing. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
Jobs minister orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work
Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu has ordered binding arbitration in the Air Canada flight attendant strike.
www.ctvnews.ca
August 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Conservative Carney wasting no time busting this strike.
Never let anyone tell you they give a shit about the little guy or wealth equality if they systematically attack and dismantle one of the only means of supporting both!
Never let anyone tell you they give a shit about the little guy or wealth equality if they systematically attack and dismantle one of the only means of supporting both!
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Brown University is caving to Trump.
They are banning trans women from female bathrooms, dorms, locker rooms, and sports across campus. They're also cracking down on trans care for minors, though that is unlikely to be broadly impactful since it's a university.
president.brown.edu/president/br...
They are banning trans women from female bathrooms, dorms, locker rooms, and sports across campus. They're also cracking down on trans care for minors, though that is unlikely to be broadly impactful since it's a university.
president.brown.edu/president/br...
July 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Brown University is caving to Trump.
They are banning trans women from female bathrooms, dorms, locker rooms, and sports across campus. They're also cracking down on trans care for minors, though that is unlikely to be broadly impactful since it's a university.
president.brown.edu/president/br...
They are banning trans women from female bathrooms, dorms, locker rooms, and sports across campus. They're also cracking down on trans care for minors, though that is unlikely to be broadly impactful since it's a university.
president.brown.edu/president/br...
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No.
GAI might have some place in some fields and use cases but i fail to understand this rush/push to force it nonconsensually into every field in existence, while people who do not study or work in our fields condescendingly tell us how AI will be good for us
GAI might have some place in some fields and use cases but i fail to understand this rush/push to force it nonconsensually into every field in existence, while people who do not study or work in our fields condescendingly tell us how AI will be good for us
My optimistic view is that we end up with better AIs that are able to assist Historians, based on authoritative datasets from institutions that is able to offer contextual nuance. We could provide a more immersive experience of history in the future with the assistance of different AIs.
This incredibly worrying study suggests Historians are the 2nd most likely occupation to be supplanted by AI.
That’s despite the fact that current AI history output is wildly unreliable, unsourced, hallucinates fale events, sources, and previous historians!!
Yay 😬😩🤪
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935
That’s despite the fact that current AI history output is wildly unreliable, unsourced, hallucinates fale events, sources, and previous historians!!
Yay 😬😩🤪
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935
July 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
No.
GAI might have some place in some fields and use cases but i fail to understand this rush/push to force it nonconsensually into every field in existence, while people who do not study or work in our fields condescendingly tell us how AI will be good for us
GAI might have some place in some fields and use cases but i fail to understand this rush/push to force it nonconsensually into every field in existence, while people who do not study or work in our fields condescendingly tell us how AI will be good for us
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Sashing the CBC, one of Canada’s few remaining shared cultural unifiers, at a time of existential national crisis, will only weaken the country. These moves, like Carney’s overall agenda, are the product of an out-of-date conservative economic ideology that is utterly unsuited to today’s world.
So much for ‘Canada strong’: Mark Carney’s cuts to the public service are a brutal trade-off
The Liberals are pondering cuts so deep, they’ll outdo the Harper government and rival Paul Martin.
www.thestar.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Sashing the CBC, one of Canada’s few remaining shared cultural unifiers, at a time of existential national crisis, will only weaken the country. These moves, like Carney’s overall agenda, are the product of an out-of-date conservative economic ideology that is utterly unsuited to today’s world.
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As I wrote yesterday, It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed. Here's some more destruction.
July 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
As I wrote yesterday, It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed. Here's some more destruction.
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You’d think someone might ask why distributing aid in Gaza has proceeded like the opening twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, every day, for weeks. Is it normal to fire machine guns at starving civilians trying to collect flour? Because we are currently at one, two or three massacres *per day*.
June 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
You’d think someone might ask why distributing aid in Gaza has proceeded like the opening twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, every day, for weeks. Is it normal to fire machine guns at starving civilians trying to collect flour? Because we are currently at one, two or three massacres *per day*.
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the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics
WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.”
Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
June 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics
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Yes, he's trampling on the Charter, steamrolling Indigenous rights, bending the knee to Trump, planning to cut public services, going backwards on climate, and signaling that we'd be dragged into war with Iran, but presumably it's still too soon to criticize Carney.
June 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Yes, he's trampling on the Charter, steamrolling Indigenous rights, bending the knee to Trump, planning to cut public services, going backwards on climate, and signaling that we'd be dragged into war with Iran, but presumably it's still too soon to criticize Carney.
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If covid vaccine was wasted, it was because the government arbitrarily withheld access and deliberately undermined the promotion of its necessity from Albertans.
So Smith and the UCP government screw up and waste taxpayers dollars because of the way they ordered and distributed the COVID-19 vaccine, and Albertans get penalized for their careless mistakes and bad judgement. Sounds about right. 🤔
‘$135M worth of wasted products’: Alberta premier defends decision to charge for COVID vaccines
Danielle Smith defended her government’s decision to charge many Albertans for COVID vaccinations, which the province announced late Friday afternoon in a media release.
www.ctvnews.ca
June 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
If covid vaccine was wasted, it was because the government arbitrarily withheld access and deliberately undermined the promotion of its necessity from Albertans.
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Like I'm here in LA in the middle of the shit and things are Very Bad
June 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Like I'm here in LA in the middle of the shit and things are Very Bad
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The guy who claimed Indigenous bands “asked for” residential schools has a seat in Parliament. Ugh
One result I'm not seeing get a lot of attention: Aaron Gunn won. The guy who front-the most extreme parts of Poilievre's social and public safety agenda (he directed the "doc" Vancouver is Dying) will be heading to Ottawa.
April 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The guy who claimed Indigenous bands “asked for” residential schools has a seat in Parliament. Ugh