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Robin Marwick
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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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The TED Talk version, a little flesh-coloured blob on a wire, is dire and makes the wearer look like they have an unfortunately placed wart. I’d like them better if they were neon green or something.
A smirking Palmer Luckey in a Hawaiian shirt and goatee, with a skinny flesh-coloured mic by his right cheek
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I discovered Jane Austen and AEW Mason via mentions in pony books. Please tell me about your fun literary-connection discoveries!
A page from Pony Jobs for Jill by Ruby Ferguson What we needed was room for people. One of us had to sit on the bed all the time, while the other one did a steeplechase over the rest of the furniture. We were now more or less hysterical with laughing as well as hungry, so we wandered back to the living-room where there was nobody to be seen; however, there was a lot of clattering going on in the distance, which proved to be two huts away where Mrs Sound was gaily cooking lunch and reading Pride and Prejudice at the same time, which was propped up against the gas cooker. She looked exactly like the duchess in Alice in Wonderland making the soup, especially as she kept on grabbing two little tins without looking at them and shaking them over whatever she was cooking. At last she looked round and said, 'I say, would you two girls mind frightfully laying the table? I've got to go on stirring this ragout, and I've just got to the bit where Mr Collins proposes to Elizabeth so I can't leave it.' We said we'd lay the table with pleasure if she'd tell us where the things were, and she said vaguely, 'Well, I never quite know myself, but everything's in the drawers in the living-room, if you just keep looking until you find it.' So after going through practically every drawer in the place we eventually got the table laid, though we couldn't imagine why Mrs Sound didn't make Screenshot from One Day Event by Josephine Pullein-Thompson "This reminds me of building the wall around the House of Stone," said Henry, shovelling earth. "Do you remember in Four Feathers? I feel that we're sealing our own doom too." "Yes, it was gruesome. Mason's terribly good at being gruesome. Last summer, while I was staying with you I read the one in which they put people in nets and drown them under motor boats. Still I don't think our fate is quite so bad," said Noel. "No, our end should be a quick one," said Henry, assuming gloomy tones.
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I just met a pair of perfect angels
Two chonky golden retrievers, one light caramel and one cinnamon, both a bit grizzled, tied to a bike rack outside a coffee shop. They are wagging their tails.
November 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Awesome
On Wednesday, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson told 404 Media in a statement that ICE will prioritize the results of the app over birth certificates. "ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a 'definitive' determination of a person's status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship— including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien," he said. "ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans' rights and freedoms."
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Let me put my question another way: are you using sense 1 or sense 2?
Merriam-Webster screenshot predate 1 of 2 verb (1) pre date predated; predating; predates Synonyms of predate › transitive verb : ANTEDATE predate 2 of 2 verb (2) pre-date predated; predating; predates transitive + intransitive : to prey on (something or someone)
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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What the heck do I do with THIS (presented to my great-great? great? grandfather, presumably when he retired, in 1899)

Contact the Montreal Museum? I genuinely have no idea. Feels wrong to auction it.
A possibly hand-illuminated manuscript with a letter of thanks on it.
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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If only more journalists could manage this!
After 10 minutes of Cuomo claiming Mamdani was going to drive New York into a post-apocalyptic nightmare, it was hardly surprising that there was a round of lusty boos and loud jeers when the former governor finally mentioned his opponent by name. But Cuomo appeared shocked by the anger. He suddenly adopted an air of contrition that was very much absent from his campaign. "No, that is not right, and that is not us," he told his supporters. And yet. Cuomo recently chuckled along after a radio host said Mamdani would "cheer" another 9/11-style terrorist attack. In October, Cuomo was widely condemned after posting an Al-generated anti-Mamdani ad that featured a slew of racist stereotypes. Cuomo has labelled Mamdani an "extremist", and claimed New York "will not survive" him as mayor.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Good hair day today
Me, a blondish 52-year-old white woman in red glasses and a grey sweater with a notch collar, in my car (don’t worry, I was parked)
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Oh good call! Here’s Bunty’s contribution (I was, uh, not keeping her very well groomed that week)

That was also when her right ear decided to stay up permanently.

#TerrierTuesday #ChangingTimes
Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, looking extraordinarily scruffy and lying on a green and yellow snuffle mat surrounded by toys. One eye is almost completely obscured. Her tail is floofy. Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, later the same day after getting her first haircut. She’s lying on the same snuffle mat but she is kempt and elegant, with fluffy legs and beard and enormous eyes. The difference is striking!
November 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Cursed timeline evident in the Shoppers Drug Mart clearance section
A display box of Skibidi Toilet Mystery Mini Figurines, reduced from $8.99 to $3
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Update: I’m pretty pleased with this extremely half-assed costume! Happy Halloween to all!
Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, wearing a crumpled red cape made of a reusable grocery bag and standing over a Superman squeaky toy that is lying on its face with its cape over its head Bunty, a young Airedale terrier wearing a crumpled red cape, lying down and giving a Superman squeaky toy a good chomp
October 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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This is the most luxury we’ve ever managed
Five small pumpkins with faces drawn on them, sitting amid candles on a green rolling cart on a lawn with a slightly derelict porch and a Costco leaf bag in the background.
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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If time allows I will put her in a red cape this year because apart from the colour, I think she would make a pretty great Krypto. #TerrierTuesday #Howloween
Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, lying on a wooden dock. Her right ear sticks up and her left is floppy. She looks alert. Krypto, a white vaguely terrier-ish dog, wearing a red cape in a poster for Superman (2025). His left ear sticks up and his right is floppy.
October 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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A throwback #TerrierTuesday post from when I made puppy Bunty be Tigger. She was not impressed, but she was cute as hell. Happy #Howloween!
Bunty, an Airedale terrier puppy, in a somewhat lopsided tiger outfit Bunty, an Airedale terrier puppy, wearing a tiger outfit and looking reproachful
October 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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lololol dunno what I expected
A continuation of the Facebook comment thread. Me: [OP] look I'm sorry, but I feel like if you knew it was Al going in and you bought it anyway, it's on you to figure out how to make it work. Don't reward the slop factories with your money. OP: Robin Marwick wow, a completely unnecessary comment. I think perhaps you shouldn't be in this group if you're not willing to help others and encourage beginners.
October 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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(In case it gets fixed somehow)
Screenshot of the quoted post: Celeste Pewter Good morning to the person who spelled "reciprocal" wrong this morning at the WH: www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st… Link preview: The WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Agreement Between the United States of America and Malaysia on Recipricol [sic] Trade Preamble The Government of the United States of America ("United States") and the Governm...
October 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Girl. If you knew it was AI when you bought it WHAT WAS YOUR PLAN EXACTLY?
Screenshot from a Facebook group. “Hey guys, I have minimal instruction with this kit, so could anyone guide me as to what type of stitch would be used for the flowers, moon, and leaves? Would the flowers and moon be a satin stitch and if so with how many threads? Thanks” The photo shows a crescent moon overlaid with blue and lavender flowers on a starry black background. It’s pretty, but close examination strongly suggests it’s AI. Commenter: Another Al. Be Careful, People! It will never look like the pic. Author: I knew it was Al when I bought it, but it can still be done even though it won't look exactly like pic.
October 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Mute/block lists stay winning
A blocked Bluesky profile for felixhexfilm @felixhexfilm.bsky.social Muted by "Warriors for the Perfect" User Blocked by "Bad vibes"
October 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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I’m trying to figure out what happened here before I go looking
The first post in this thread: Nome @nome.bsky.social What item is this for you? Canned beets? Lentils? Dry beans? Canned mushrooms? Quoted post: Nome @nome.bsky.social Tempted to start a food blog that's just "I have this thing in my pantry, I've bought it aspirationally, I've never cooked with it before, what do?" The downthread reply that brought it into my feed: Butternut Sasquatch @bastorpentonit... → Replied to Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) Some real nuggets describing the kind of mindset required to do Fluorine chemistry (repeatedly), or cramming all the Nitrogen atoms humanely possible (and then some) into still-technically-organic molecules without finding oneself finely dispersed along a substantial portion of the Stratosphere.
October 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Anyway. Who else remembers the fun years when Patrick McKenna was simultaneously playing a dorky sidekick on Red Green and a ruthless amoral money guy on Traders? Good times.
Patrick McKenna in glasses, a plaid shirt, suspenders and an overbite as Harold on The Red Green Show. Patrick McKenna in a headset and collared shirt and tie, staring threateningly at the camera as Marty on Traders
October 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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It’s exactly where I thought it would be
Google Maps screenshot of Dufflaw Rd, running north from Lawrence just west of Dufferin
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Oh no! A similar thing happened to Tilde once (we are pretty sure Blue helped, though) #TerrierTuesday
Tilde, a miniature long-haired dachshund, with her head stuck in a large pouch marked WHEY
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Blue was more into garbage. Also food. I don’t have any pics of him hopping onto kitchen counters and helping himself from the upper cabinets, but he did! #TerrierTuesday #mischief
Blue, a sheepcoat Airedale terrier, with a grey domed garbage can lid around his neck, making him look like a very self-satisfied but slightly wonky knight.
October 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Happy #TerrierTuesday! Bunty’s preferred form of #mischief is socks. Also shoes, particularly insoles.
Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, sitting on a window seat next to a pile of laundry with a bright green sock in her mouth. Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, with a hiking shoe in her mouth, looking truculent.
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Peter O’Toole (wearing goofy glasses) and Audrey Hepburn in a crowded art gallery in How to Steal a Million
October 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM