Robin Marwick
@electricland.bsky.social
Freelance medical editor, alto, occasional traveller, trying to make things better. The pup is Bunty, an Airedale terrier (🎂2023-05-29), and I regret to inform you she has her own Instagram. 🇨🇦 She/her. Yay for alt text. https://linktr.ee/rmarwick
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![John Wick is a fairy
FanTheory
Pasting from this Twitter thread:
Only works for favours, tallied thru gold coins
Can be bound by blood promises against his will
Lives in a world unseen by passers-by
Values sacred ground & rituals
Has a special bond w/ animals
Does not tire or feel pain as a human would
Above all, the other fairies all speak in awed tones of him as the only one to "get out". Through sheer strength of will he crossed over into our world for the love of a human.
Further evidence: administration is run with 2000-era flip phones, 1980s computers, 1930s switchboards. Because it's all stolen technology.
Can only be harmed by weapons containing iron
Is hot in a frightening way
Don't steal his shit
Remarkable loyalty and adherence to the Rules of his World, even to his detriment.
Presents as asexual. (We know he loves a human woman, but there's been zero discussion of 'I wanted a family'. The dogs aren't even presented as surrogate children.)
[The third film] reveals that he is very careful with who knows his true name
the High Table is the Faerie Court, with all their internal games and betrayals and, above all, absolute maintenance of the power system that keeps them in charge
speaks all languages (gift of tongues)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4bxxo7x3xtkzflys3mnyplwf/bafkreibmj63ouu6k7ss7urgifxfx35mnu3npzj2kmdaccrh7bgrkc3mx74@jpeg)
Wholeheartedly agree with this. It took me WAY too long to figure this out and I still backslide occasionally.
I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be
One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age:
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Wholeheartedly agree with this. It took me WAY too long to figure this out and I still backslide occasionally.
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Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
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🧵"Walking Distance" paintings still available, regularly $800(Cdn), on sale for $600(Cdn) for residents of Canada, the UK, & EU. DM me if you're interested. 1/2 #art
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🧵"Walking Distance" paintings still available, regularly $800(Cdn), on sale for $600(Cdn) for residents of Canada, the UK, & EU. DM me if you're interested. 1/2 #art
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
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John Wick is a demigod, the High Table are the Olympian Gods, and the whole assassin Thing is so mad divine beings don't get bored.
In this 45 minute essay I will
In this 45 minute essay I will
THAT SAID, I really love “John Wick is a faery and the entire secret world is a faery court” theory, which I may or may not be able to locate again
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
John Wick is a demigod, the High Table are the Olympian Gods, and the whole assassin Thing is so mad divine beings don't get bored.
In this 45 minute essay I will
In this 45 minute essay I will
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Massachusetts Republicans are so cooked that they're trying to attack Michelle Wu for "wasting" taxpayer money by visiting Nova Scotia to pick up Boston’s annual Christmas tree.
Now who's waging a War on Christmas, huh?
Now who's waging a War on Christmas, huh?
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Massachusetts Republicans are so cooked that they're trying to attack Michelle Wu for "wasting" taxpayer money by visiting Nova Scotia to pick up Boston’s annual Christmas tree.
Now who's waging a War on Christmas, huh?
Now who's waging a War on Christmas, huh?
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Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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Ever thought about reading Moby-Dick? Now’s your chance to take a whack at this classic with a hilarious crew cheering you along. Jokes! Memes! WHALE FACTS. You need A MONTH OF DICK!
Well, wilt thou? Huh? Are you game?
A MONTH OF DICK is returning this January.
If you want to be part of our merry crew on this doomed voyage, message me and I'll add you to the list! (if you participated the first time, you're already signed up!)
More details as we get closer! 🐋 📖
A MONTH OF DICK is returning this January.
If you want to be part of our merry crew on this doomed voyage, message me and I'll add you to the list! (if you participated the first time, you're already signed up!)
More details as we get closer! 🐋 📖
wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game for Moby Dick?
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Ever thought about reading Moby-Dick? Now’s your chance to take a whack at this classic with a hilarious crew cheering you along. Jokes! Memes! WHALE FACTS. You need A MONTH OF DICK!
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald going down, here’s the crowd at a Northern Michigan hockey game singing along during intermission.
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald going down, here’s the crowd at a Northern Michigan hockey game singing along during intermission.
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tl;dr "trashy people eat this food, which makes this food trashy, and if I then eat that food, I will become trashy myself" is a social opinion (a shitty one), not a scientific opinion, but people will never stop trying to use nutritional terminology to legitimize their shitty social opinions
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
tl;dr "trashy people eat this food, which makes this food trashy, and if I then eat that food, I will become trashy myself" is a social opinion (a shitty one), not a scientific opinion, but people will never stop trying to use nutritional terminology to legitimize their shitty social opinions
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still fleshing out this theory (pun intended, I guess?) but there is so much magical and symbolic thinking going on when people talk about "nutrition"
people seem to food as a source of not just potential biological contagion, but social, and, even weirder, symbolic contagion via sympathetic magic
people seem to food as a source of not just potential biological contagion, but social, and, even weirder, symbolic contagion via sympathetic magic
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
still fleshing out this theory (pun intended, I guess?) but there is so much magical and symbolic thinking going on when people talk about "nutrition"
people seem to food as a source of not just potential biological contagion, but social, and, even weirder, symbolic contagion via sympathetic magic
people seem to food as a source of not just potential biological contagion, but social, and, even weirder, symbolic contagion via sympathetic magic
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I did this last week after another round of hate because I dared state something going viral was misinformation (and cited my sources, unlike the viral posts).
Since then, this site has gotten SO MUCH BETTER. I co-sign this boundary so hard.
Since then, this site has gotten SO MUCH BETTER. I co-sign this boundary so hard.
BSky is so much more usable now that I’ve set the boundary that for nearly all of my posts you have to follow me in order to be in my replies
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I did this last week after another round of hate because I dared state something going viral was misinformation (and cited my sources, unlike the viral posts).
Since then, this site has gotten SO MUCH BETTER. I co-sign this boundary so hard.
Since then, this site has gotten SO MUCH BETTER. I co-sign this boundary so hard.
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Yes, I am going to keep re-upping this off & on until the end of the year because it is, alas, topical to the current situation in the USA (meant to take place a few decades in our future).
Activism is also the small, ordinary, collective actions of people keeping their heads above water day to day.
Activism is also the small, ordinary, collective actions of people keeping their heads above water day to day.
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Yes, I am going to keep re-upping this off & on until the end of the year because it is, alas, topical to the current situation in the USA (meant to take place a few decades in our future).
Activism is also the small, ordinary, collective actions of people keeping their heads above water day to day.
Activism is also the small, ordinary, collective actions of people keeping their heads above water day to day.
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Ok I had no idea the Edmund Fitzgerald was a contemporary thing for the song, this is like his Toby Keith 9/11 song but about transporting taconite pellets
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Ok I had no idea the Edmund Fitzgerald was a contemporary thing for the song, this is like his Toby Keith 9/11 song but about transporting taconite pellets
Now I’m picturing the conversation in which Doug assigned Dorothy this story
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Now I’m picturing the conversation in which Doug assigned Dorothy this story
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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But are we getting paid as much as men to ruin things? NO! A woman has to ruin something 3 5 times harder than your average mediocre dude does to get paid only 75% as much! Keep fighting, my sisters.
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
But are we getting paid as much as men to ruin things? NO! A woman has to ruin something 3 5 times harder than your average mediocre dude does to get paid only 75% as much! Keep fighting, my sisters.
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Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
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Lottie, a 15yo in Pike County, KY, writes for @kentucky.com about the impact of SNAP delays in her community, which is still recovering from flooding. Cars line up hours before the church where she volunteers begins giving out food: "I see this line growing longer and longer month after month..."
As a Pike Co. student, I see the SNAP delays, and I see our people suffer | Opinion
OpEd: As a high school student, I see the struggles of our mountain communities, already hurt by floods, now suffering under SNAP delays.
www.kentucky.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Lottie, a 15yo in Pike County, KY, writes for @kentucky.com about the impact of SNAP delays in her community, which is still recovering from flooding. Cars line up hours before the church where she volunteers begins giving out food: "I see this line growing longer and longer month after month..."
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You and the text you need to trim in order to meet the word limit
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
You and the text you need to trim in order to meet the word limit
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I think it's cool that your cousin on facebook who doesn't understand why Geico doesn't give him his money back if he doesn't get in an accident can be elected to Congress, that's the American success story
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I think it's cool that your cousin on facebook who doesn't understand why Geico doesn't give him his money back if he doesn't get in an accident can be elected to Congress, that's the American success story