Madeline
@itsmemadeline.bsky.social
Professionally - writer, editor, nfp comms
Academically - philosophy and literature
Family - spouse + two (5 and 2)
Film, art, library enthusiast
📍Toronto / from the West Coast
Academically - philosophy and literature
Family - spouse + two (5 and 2)
Film, art, library enthusiast
📍Toronto / from the West Coast
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Congrats everyone, we are officially at “circle back in the new year” o clock, we have survived the year, good work team
December 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Congrats everyone, we are officially at “circle back in the new year” o clock, we have survived the year, good work team
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
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December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
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Probably Clue, but it is SO good
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Probably Clue, but it is SO good
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'Three Waratahs' (hand painted version) from the series of linocuts of Native Australian flowers by contemporary printmaker Rachel Newling #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
'Three Waratahs' (hand painted version) from the series of linocuts of Native Australian flowers by contemporary printmaker Rachel Newling #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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Art Nouveau house from 1902 with spectacular balconies in Tblisi, Georgia. Designed by Simon
Kldiashvili (1865-1920).
Photo: Marco Demerling
Kldiashvili (1865-1920).
Photo: Marco Demerling
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Art Nouveau house from 1902 with spectacular balconies in Tblisi, Georgia. Designed by Simon
Kldiashvili (1865-1920).
Photo: Marco Demerling
Kldiashvili (1865-1920).
Photo: Marco Demerling
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
I’ve been in physio off and on for a year now due to Various Ailments, and the thing that really strikes me is how most of my issues basically boil down to weak muscles. As a person who does not enjoy exercise, this is profoundly disappointing 😂
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I’ve been in physio off and on for a year now due to Various Ailments, and the thing that really strikes me is how most of my issues basically boil down to weak muscles. As a person who does not enjoy exercise, this is profoundly disappointing 😂
Didn’t manage to get tickets when it came to TIFF this year. Super excited to see it!
"Once in a while, you see a movie that doesn’t feel made, but extracted from a dreaming mind. It won’t go to you and hand over its meanings. You have to go to it." I reviewed The Secret Agent, my favorite film of 2025. Haunting, beautiful, profound. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
The Secret Agent movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
This is one of the year’s best films, and one of the most distinctive.
www.rogerebert.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Didn’t manage to get tickets when it came to TIFF this year. Super excited to see it!
Project got approved today and I’m slightly in disbelief! Two years of work—finally!
I’ve been trying to get a project off the ground for two years, and after a significant investment of time and resources, involving multiple companies/platforms, it looks like it’s not going to happen, and let me tell you how demoralizing that is.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
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November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Project got approved today and I’m slightly in disbelief! Two years of work—finally!
After the Blue Jays lost to LA in a similar late-tie extra-time kind of way just a few weeks ago, well, you love to see it 😂
🗻🚀VANCOUVER WHITECAPS SLAY THE DRAGON!
Somehow, someway, the Vancouver Whitecaps see out the final minutes of extra time and 9 v 11 and beat LAFC in the penalty shootout.
There's no CBs for the Conference Final, but absolute bedlam at BC Place.
What a match.
Somehow, someway, the Vancouver Whitecaps see out the final minutes of extra time and 9 v 11 and beat LAFC in the penalty shootout.
There's no CBs for the Conference Final, but absolute bedlam at BC Place.
What a match.
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
After the Blue Jays lost to LA in a similar late-tie extra-time kind of way just a few weeks ago, well, you love to see it 😂
I wrote my first short story when I was four. I now work for a large non-profit, but I’m still writing stories almost 40 years later.
November 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I wrote my first short story when I was four. I now work for a large non-profit, but I’m still writing stories almost 40 years later.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
I’ve been trying to get a project off the ground for two years, and after a significant investment of time and resources, involving multiple companies/platforms, it looks like it’s not going to happen, and let me tell you how demoralizing that is.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I’ve been trying to get a project off the ground for two years, and after a significant investment of time and resources, involving multiple companies/platforms, it looks like it’s not going to happen, and let me tell you how demoralizing that is.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Two albums I still love and listen to all the time
Two albums I still love and listen to all the time
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Two albums I still love and listen to all the time
Two albums I still love and listen to all the time
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One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”
December 6, 2024 at 6:38 PM
One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”
It’s so gloomy today, the street lights are on and it’s only 3 pm
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It’s so gloomy today, the street lights are on and it’s only 3 pm
Made this exact joke to my fellow AI-hating coworkers this morning 😂
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Made this exact joke to my fellow AI-hating coworkers this morning 😂
This is wild. Hard to believe kids are still being taught using this disproven method. My daughter is 5 and already a pretty good reader because she sounds out words. She constantly surprises me! Her spelling is atrocious tho 😂 which is interesting! She can read plenty of words she can’t spell.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is wild. Hard to believe kids are still being taught using this disproven method. My daughter is 5 and already a pretty good reader because she sounds out words. She constantly surprises me! Her spelling is atrocious tho 😂 which is interesting! She can read plenty of words she can’t spell.
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I need everyone who uses AI to generate art & text to notice what Vince Gilligan says here. You're surrendering your brain, your creativity, the divine spark within you to a machine. Someday you'll wake up and find you're no longer capable of writing or thinking. And for what?
![["When your selling point is: 'This thing is great, it'll write your high school essays for you, it'll create your artwork for you if you're an artist, so you don't have to actually learn how to draw and paint anymore ... You don't ever need to learn how to read a map or use a compass ... this this will wipe your butt for you.' What's left to live for? The creative spark in human beings - it's one of the most precious, wonderful things we have. What is more important than being creative?'"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreiazbvzipuugud3dfrlmwalqxgfkzqkm6hhhnc4deh22bwaxnmz5p4@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I need everyone who uses AI to generate art & text to notice what Vince Gilligan says here. You're surrendering your brain, your creativity, the divine spark within you to a machine. Someday you'll wake up and find you're no longer capable of writing or thinking. And for what?
Totally unprepared for it to be snowing already
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Totally unprepared for it to be snowing already
The elevator was out of service at Union Station today, and a random stranger helped me carry my stroller down a very large staircase and, as much as the world is full of so much darkness these days, there’s also so much kindness.
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The elevator was out of service at Union Station today, and a random stranger helped me carry my stroller down a very large staircase and, as much as the world is full of so much darkness these days, there’s also so much kindness.
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If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.
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