Christina Vasilevski
@cvasilevski.bsky.social
Content designer. Certified Copy Editor. Mildly scatterbrained cat lady. I like thinking about UX, gardening, cats, books, music, tea, perfume, whatever. She/her.
Fun stuff: booksandtea.ca
Career stuff: christinavasilevski.com
Fun stuff: booksandtea.ca
Career stuff: christinavasilevski.com
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Hi there, new followers! It looks like a lot of you are fellow UXers who followed me as part of a UX starter pack.
If you do, please have *at least* a profile photo and a brief description. Maybe even a few non-spammy posts under your belt. Otherwise, I will block you, even if you're legit.
If you do, please have *at least* a profile photo and a brief description. Maybe even a few non-spammy posts under your belt. Otherwise, I will block you, even if you're legit.
I'm still slowly, diligently making my way through Middlemarch and would like to announce that my opinions have changed and that while Fred is an idiot, he at least has a good heart.
It's *Rosamond* who is the real problem here. She's the wooooooorst.
It's *Rosamond* who is the real problem here. She's the wooooooorst.
I have just finished another chapter of Middlemarch - and yet again, it is abundantly clear that Fred Vincy is an idiot.
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I'm still slowly, diligently making my way through Middlemarch and would like to announce that my opinions have changed and that while Fred is an idiot, he at least has a good heart.
It's *Rosamond* who is the real problem here. She's the wooooooorst.
It's *Rosamond* who is the real problem here. She's the wooooooorst.
This is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but:
I FINALLY BEAT CHRONOS FUCK YEAH.
The funny thing is that I beat Typhon twice yesterday; it's possible to face-tank him if you have enough hp.
In contrast, Chronos' attack patterns are much more fiddly, especially in phase 2.
#Hades2
I FINALLY BEAT CHRONOS FUCK YEAH.
The funny thing is that I beat Typhon twice yesterday; it's possible to face-tank him if you have enough hp.
In contrast, Chronos' attack patterns are much more fiddly, especially in phase 2.
#Hades2
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but:
I FINALLY BEAT CHRONOS FUCK YEAH.
The funny thing is that I beat Typhon twice yesterday; it's possible to face-tank him if you have enough hp.
In contrast, Chronos' attack patterns are much more fiddly, especially in phase 2.
#Hades2
I FINALLY BEAT CHRONOS FUCK YEAH.
The funny thing is that I beat Typhon twice yesterday; it's possible to face-tank him if you have enough hp.
In contrast, Chronos' attack patterns are much more fiddly, especially in phase 2.
#Hades2
If you are a fan of #DeepSpaceNine and a certain Plain And Simple Tailor, I have some good news: "A Stitch in Time" is on sale for $1.99 on Kobo.
It's Garak's memoir, written by the actor himself, based on his own notes to flesh out his character's background. I just bought a copy.
#DS9
It's Garak's memoir, written by the actor himself, based on his own notes to flesh out his character's background. I just bought a copy.
#DS9
October 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If you are a fan of #DeepSpaceNine and a certain Plain And Simple Tailor, I have some good news: "A Stitch in Time" is on sale for $1.99 on Kobo.
It's Garak's memoir, written by the actor himself, based on his own notes to flesh out his character's background. I just bought a copy.
#DS9
It's Garak's memoir, written by the actor himself, based on his own notes to flesh out his character's background. I just bought a copy.
#DS9
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The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.
September 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.
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If you haven’t signed this please sign it. You need to verify your signature with an email address, but email aliases work just fine. Also every petition has an RSS feed.
Please repost to spread the word. The lying is out of control. We have to stop it.
Please repost to spread the word. The lying is out of control. We have to stop it.
Please sign: A House of Commons petition to hold MPs accountable for misinformation they circulate.
*It's a two step signature, you'll need to check your email to confirm you are who you say you are.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
*It's a two step signature, you'll need to check your email to confirm you are who you say you are.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6679 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
If you haven’t signed this please sign it. You need to verify your signature with an email address, but email aliases work just fine. Also every petition has an RSS feed.
Please repost to spread the word. The lying is out of control. We have to stop it.
Please repost to spread the word. The lying is out of control. We have to stop it.
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere
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Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the United States would "respond accordingly to this witch hunt" after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.
reut.rs
September 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere
My copy of Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings came in at the bookstore today, and holy shamoly, this book cover is even more stunning in person.
September 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
My copy of Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings came in at the bookstore today, and holy shamoly, this book cover is even more stunning in person.
Life hack:
1. Walk past a picket line on your way to work
2. Call out to them, say that your husband is *also* part of a union, and tell them to keep on going
3. Listen to a responding chorus of cheers
Holy fuck, what a HUGE endorphin rush!
1. Walk past a picket line on your way to work
2. Call out to them, say that your husband is *also* part of a union, and tell them to keep on going
3. Listen to a responding chorus of cheers
Holy fuck, what a HUGE endorphin rush!
September 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Life hack:
1. Walk past a picket line on your way to work
2. Call out to them, say that your husband is *also* part of a union, and tell them to keep on going
3. Listen to a responding chorus of cheers
Holy fuck, what a HUGE endorphin rush!
1. Walk past a picket line on your way to work
2. Call out to them, say that your husband is *also* part of a union, and tell them to keep on going
3. Listen to a responding chorus of cheers
Holy fuck, what a HUGE endorphin rush!
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The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't.
Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat."
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
www.seattletimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't.
Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
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what a terrible time to be sentient
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce that use of Tylenol in pregnant women is potentially linked to autism in a report that will also suggest a medicine derived from folate can be used to treat symptoms of the disorder in some people, per WSJ, citing people familiar with the matter.
September 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
what a terrible time to be sentient
My MS office 365 subscription is coming up for renewal, so here's a friendly reminder: you can switch from the new (more expensive) AI-laden version of Office!
Log in to your account, go to the Cancel section, and there you can switch to the "Classic" version of the product and pay the old price.
Log in to your account, go to the Cancel section, and there you can switch to the "Classic" version of the product and pay the old price.
September 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
My MS office 365 subscription is coming up for renewal, so here's a friendly reminder: you can switch from the new (more expensive) AI-laden version of Office!
Log in to your account, go to the Cancel section, and there you can switch to the "Classic" version of the product and pay the old price.
Log in to your account, go to the Cancel section, and there you can switch to the "Classic" version of the product and pay the old price.
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Maybe if every single shot in your movie is a VFX shot then you just have to accept it's going to be really expensive.
“I’d like to see the cost of VFX artists come down.” — ‘Avatar’ director and Stability AI board member James Cameron claims effects workers are too expensive, putting blockbusters and the VFX industry at risk.
www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/vfx-arti...
www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/vfx-arti...
James Cameron Says VFX Costs Threaten Future Of Blockbusters
In a recent interview, Stability AI board member James Cameron warned high budgets threaten theaters, urging cheaper VFX and new tech to cut costs.
www.cartoonbrew.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Maybe if every single shot in your movie is a VFX shot then you just have to accept it's going to be really expensive.
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We’re supposed to believe that our computer server deserves human rights, but our restaurant server does not. What a time to be (actually) alive.
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We’re supposed to believe that our computer server deserves human rights, but our restaurant server does not. What a time to be (actually) alive.
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Only a few days left to take this questionnaire and write in your own answers to let this Liberal government know that you don't actually want them to be a conservative government.
The government of Canada has a questionnaire about it's new budget. Most of the given options are conservative (because this is a conservative government) but there are some that aren't, and you can write in your own responses.
www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
Pre-Budget Consultations 2025 - Canada.ca
Pre-Budget Consultations 2025
www.canada.ca
August 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Only a few days left to take this questionnaire and write in your own answers to let this Liberal government know that you don't actually want them to be a conservative government.
Hey @premeemohamed.com, I saw your book pop up in the wild on Reddit!
August 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Hey @premeemohamed.com, I saw your book pop up in the wild on Reddit!
Yesterday I was feeling mopey about being a workaday drone and commuting and not being on vacation anymore, so I wrote about it. Please indulge me so I don't feel like I'm howling into the void.
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Things I Miss - Books and Tea
Coming back home after travelling is always an adjustment, and today it's hitting me hard.
booksandtea.ca
August 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Yesterday I was feeling mopey about being a workaday drone and commuting and not being on vacation anymore, so I wrote about it. Please indulge me so I don't feel like I'm howling into the void.
booksandtea.ca/2025/08/thin...
booksandtea.ca/2025/08/thin...
This is absolutely delightful! Lookit those little guys just hanging out in those cubby holes. Science at its best.
have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...
August 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is absolutely delightful! Lookit those little guys just hanging out in those cubby holes. Science at its best.
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If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
August 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
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Your regular reminder that University of Victoria, Canada, hosts the world’s largest Trans+ archives and they are all digital and online, and free for access worldwide.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.uvic.ca/transgendera...
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.uvic.ca/transgendera...
Transgender Archives - University of Victoria
The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries is committed to the preservation of the history of pioneering activists, community leaders, and researchers who have contributed to the...
www.uvic.ca
August 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Your regular reminder that University of Victoria, Canada, hosts the world’s largest Trans+ archives and they are all digital and online, and free for access worldwide.
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.uvic.ca/transgendera...
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.uvic.ca/transgendera...
I have just finished another chapter of Middlemarch - and yet again, it is abundantly clear that Fred Vincy is an idiot.
August 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I have just finished another chapter of Middlemarch - and yet again, it is abundantly clear that Fred Vincy is an idiot.
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it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
August 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
We had to take Sabrina to the vet this morning to get some teeth pulled. According to them, they were pretty far gone and almost popped out of her jaw. She's back home now and doped up on the Good Meds, but I can't help feeling weepy. My poor little baby with her horrible teeth!
August 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We had to take Sabrina to the vet this morning to get some teeth pulled. According to them, they were pretty far gone and almost popped out of her jaw. She's back home now and doped up on the Good Meds, but I can't help feeling weepy. My poor little baby with her horrible teeth!