Marika
@marikapea.bsky.social
Book nerd, library yeller, kitchen witch, puzzle dork, embroidery novice, prairie settler, leftie queer, lapsed poet, kinda Blind
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Marika
@marikapea.bsky.social
· Mar 21
Is there any more perfect food than a little wedge of potato, browned and salted outside, tender and creamy inside?
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Here’s a Canadian story that is an example of cutting off your nose to spite your face:
The Conservatives decided to blame immigrants for the housing crisis. The news media parroted it without any inspection whatsoever and so ppl believed it. Demand and supply right?
WRONG.
The Conservatives decided to blame immigrants for the housing crisis. The news media parroted it without any inspection whatsoever and so ppl believed it. Demand and supply right?
WRONG.
January 29, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Here’s a Canadian story that is an example of cutting off your nose to spite your face:
The Conservatives decided to blame immigrants for the housing crisis. The news media parroted it without any inspection whatsoever and so ppl believed it. Demand and supply right?
WRONG.
The Conservatives decided to blame immigrants for the housing crisis. The news media parroted it without any inspection whatsoever and so ppl believed it. Demand and supply right?
WRONG.
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Nobody in graduate school warned you that “the long 19th century” just meant we’d still be doing race science and miasma theory well into the 21st century.
July 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Nobody in graduate school warned you that “the long 19th century” just meant we’d still be doing race science and miasma theory well into the 21st century.
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I’ll be giving this online talk at SFU next week 👇
Truth Before Reconciliation: How to Identify and Confront Residential School Denialism. An online presentation by @seancarleton.bsky.social , Thurs, Jan 29 11:30 am PST. To register: sfu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Sponsored by the SFU Depts of Archaeology, English, History, and Indigenous Studies
Sponsored by the SFU Depts of Archaeology, English, History, and Indigenous Studies
January 23, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I’ll be giving this online talk at SFU next week 👇
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Eavesdropping on a lady in the pub who grew up in Ireland telling her friends that North American pops are fucked up because purple flavour should be blackberry and red should be raspberry, and you know what, she's right. Put the Irish lady in charge of the pop flavours
January 27, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Eavesdropping on a lady in the pub who grew up in Ireland telling her friends that North American pops are fucked up because purple flavour should be blackberry and red should be raspberry, and you know what, she's right. Put the Irish lady in charge of the pop flavours
I don't really understand the criticism that anti-AI stances are refusing to engage with reality as it is. We are currently seeing political reality being remade on a massive scale. Reality is mutable and popular perception can change!
January 27, 2026 at 6:25 PM
I don't really understand the criticism that anti-AI stances are refusing to engage with reality as it is. We are currently seeing political reality being remade on a massive scale. Reality is mutable and popular perception can change!
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Daddy Killingham makes a waffling comment that this should enhance our trust: “the vast, vast majority, almost all of our police officers, I believe, are good men and women”
Pursaga ends with this: “Bostock was on the force for more than 20 years before he was charged and eventually fired.”
Pursaga ends with this: “Bostock was on the force for more than 20 years before he was charged and eventually fired.”
January 26, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Daddy Killingham makes a waffling comment that this should enhance our trust: “the vast, vast majority, almost all of our police officers, I believe, are good men and women”
Pursaga ends with this: “Bostock was on the force for more than 20 years before he was charged and eventually fired.”
Pursaga ends with this: “Bostock was on the force for more than 20 years before he was charged and eventually fired.”
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This hit so fucking hard today.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This hit so fucking hard today.
I made this Irene Kuo stir-fried celery with pork for dinner tonight and it's SO good and comforting. I put it over rice and then it's a full meal and it's good as leftovers too
thewednesdaychef.com/2007/11/27/i...
thewednesdaychef.com/2007/11/27/i...
Irene Kuo’s Stir-Fried Celery in Meat Sauce
I never met a vegetable I didn't like. Zucchini, with its sweet, creamy flesh; swiss chard, thick and papery to start, then soulfully silky to finish; kohlrabi, with its refreshing, vegetal sn…
thewednesdaychef.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I made this Irene Kuo stir-fried celery with pork for dinner tonight and it's SO good and comforting. I put it over rice and then it's a full meal and it's good as leftovers too
thewednesdaychef.com/2007/11/27/i...
thewednesdaychef.com/2007/11/27/i...
Finished a work task I have been procrastinating for ages, hooray.
January 26, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Finished a work task I have been procrastinating for ages, hooray.
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just disgusting.
if giving a shit about your neighbour and trying to help them up when they’ve been shoved down and pepper sprayed — for no reason — is “foolish,” then glory to the fools, all day and every day.
if giving a shit about your neighbour and trying to help them up when they’ve been shoved down and pepper sprayed — for no reason — is “foolish,” then glory to the fools, all day and every day.
Meanwhile the WSJ editorial page says that Pretti — a nurse — “foolishly” tried to assist a woman who was being gassed, and that his actions “warranted arrest”
www.wsj.com/opinion/time...
www.wsj.com/opinion/time...
January 26, 2026 at 2:02 AM
just disgusting.
if giving a shit about your neighbour and trying to help them up when they’ve been shoved down and pepper sprayed — for no reason — is “foolish,” then glory to the fools, all day and every day.
if giving a shit about your neighbour and trying to help them up when they’ve been shoved down and pepper sprayed — for no reason — is “foolish,” then glory to the fools, all day and every day.
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Libraries are so much more than books!!!
Got some pottery tools 3D printed at Millennium Library. Ready for pickup within a few days and cost a whopping $4 for the three tools! Found the files for free on Printables and Thingiverse. Library staff did the rest!
wpl.winnipeg.ca/library/idea...
wpl.winnipeg.ca/library/idea...
3D Printing - ideaMILL - Winnipeg Public Library
Information about the equipment and software for use at the ideaMILL at the Winnipeg Public Library
wpl.winnipeg.ca
January 25, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Libraries are so much more than books!!!
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Following up on my previous post about Winnipeg Transit, some thoughts on how we need to change our attitude & recognize public transit as the essential service it is. #winnipeg #wpgpoli #transit (thanks @brenttoderian.bsky.social for the succinct quote & image).
open.substack.com/pub/brianpin...
open.substack.com/pub/brianpin...
Transit: What Does it Mean to be an Essential Service
Aspiring for better.
open.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Following up on my previous post about Winnipeg Transit, some thoughts on how we need to change our attitude & recognize public transit as the essential service it is. #winnipeg #wpgpoli #transit (thanks @brenttoderian.bsky.social for the succinct quote & image).
open.substack.com/pub/brianpin...
open.substack.com/pub/brianpin...
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Imagine looking at all this and thinking it’s the immigrants who are dangerous.
January 24, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Imagine looking at all this and thinking it’s the immigrants who are dangerous.
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Friday’s Ice Art and Poetry: Our collaboration today is about drawing. There's no better instructor than life. In Mark's medium of ice, the subtle shades and life-lines tangle—it could be a scribble and some daubing, but the more you look the more you see. The poem asks us to find art in ugliness.
January 23, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Friday’s Ice Art and Poetry: Our collaboration today is about drawing. There's no better instructor than life. In Mark's medium of ice, the subtle shades and life-lines tangle—it could be a scribble and some daubing, but the more you look the more you see. The poem asks us to find art in ugliness.
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if you’re feeling inspired by the photos from minneapolis,drop a note of appreciation at www.standwithminnesota.com/send-a-love-... !
I want to format these all into beautiful things to be shared across the internet, but until I have the time for it, if you are from Minnesota and need to know that people love you and have your back, that you are inspiring people all over the world, here are some notes.
Love Notes
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January 23, 2026 at 9:47 PM
if you’re feeling inspired by the photos from minneapolis,drop a note of appreciation at www.standwithminnesota.com/send-a-love-... !
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The irony of everyone fawning over how Mark Carney is 'standing up' for Canada is that he is simultaneously eroding the few institutions that actually distinguish the Canadian state from the US, and those which theoretically could be used to shield Canadians from the disaster area to the south.
Alarming news for Canadians: www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Health Canada the latest federal department to issue layoff notices
More than 2,000 employees at Health Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada have been notified their jobs may be affected as federal departments continue to issue notices about possible layoffs in...
www.ctvnews.ca
January 23, 2026 at 6:25 PM
The irony of everyone fawning over how Mark Carney is 'standing up' for Canada is that he is simultaneously eroding the few institutions that actually distinguish the Canadian state from the US, and those which theoretically could be used to shield Canadians from the disaster area to the south.
I poured rice into a measuring cup and a... twig fell out???
January 22, 2026 at 12:24 AM
I poured rice into a measuring cup and a... twig fell out???
I just wanna have a talk with whoever planned the section reorganization at the Sargent Freshco
January 21, 2026 at 11:19 PM
I just wanna have a talk with whoever planned the section reorganization at the Sargent Freshco
"Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place"
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place"
One must have a mind of winter… www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45235/...
The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the...
www.poetryfoundation.org
January 21, 2026 at 9:10 PM
"Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place"
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place"
I don't know if this is Peak Winnipeg necessarily but related: I just got an email from the local symphony that they're partnering with the local professional wrestling outfit for a night of wrestling set to Beethoven and Shostakovich ("classical music's fiestiest works") next month
My local community centre is hosting a Wreslemania viewing party with beer and chips and there are things about Quebec that you just can't get anywhere else.
January 20, 2026 at 11:30 PM
I don't know if this is Peak Winnipeg necessarily but related: I just got an email from the local symphony that they're partnering with the local professional wrestling outfit for a night of wrestling set to Beethoven and Shostakovich ("classical music's fiestiest works") next month
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one of the worst things about so many canadians being glued to cnn and msnow is that they import that approach to politics, such that you can’t ever criticize the libs or carney because they’re your team even when they absolutely need to be pushed to do better.
January 20, 2026 at 7:17 PM
one of the worst things about so many canadians being glued to cnn and msnow is that they import that approach to politics, such that you can’t ever criticize the libs or carney because they’re your team even when they absolutely need to be pushed to do better.
Oh, OH! Beautiful 💜💜💜
January 17, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Oh, OH! Beautiful 💜💜💜
Fascinating!
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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January 17, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Fascinating!
Would you believe this is the second time I've put on a Rachmaninoff record on a weekday evening and picked up a book I'm reading for the first time only to encounter a character finishing work and putting on Rachmaninoff??
January 17, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Would you believe this is the second time I've put on a Rachmaninoff record on a weekday evening and picked up a book I'm reading for the first time only to encounter a character finishing work and putting on Rachmaninoff??