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Lindsay Anne Black
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Some manner of artist, busy creating an urban wildlife habitat

I'm also Tippi Hedren Collider linanneblack.bsky.social
I'm also Champagnehand on YouTube
My store: www.blandshaming.ca
If you're able to help: https://ko-fi.com/linanneblack
🇨🇦 she/elle/henne
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I think I know who sent me this drink from across the garden.
A black-coated Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is standing at a tiny wooden bistro table that's covered in seeds. The tiny table is part of a tray feeder on a fence, and the squirrel has stopped eating to eyeball the camera. There are Echinacea purpurea behind them, and there are yellow flowers in very soft focus in the foreground, like a romantic dream sequence in a 1970s film.
October 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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It's a non-native plant, but a neighbour brought me a sunflower sprout back in July to thank me for allowing his kids to display a sign advertising their lemonade stand. This is what it has been doing, and it delights me every day.
At the centre of the image is a single plant with more than ten lemon-yellow blooms, which are facing in every direction. It is approximately six feet tall. It is framed by an archway covered with Virginia Creeper, which is turning red for autumn, and plants in the background such as Wild Black Currants, Jerusalem Artichokes, and New England Asters in the background. A 135-year-old cottage is in the background.
October 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Plus, he looks like Steve Jobs.
A tabby and white short-haired cat fills the frame, looking off to the left with big green eyes. He has a heart-shaped nose, and he is inside a cloth carrier that velcros around his neck. It resembles a black turtleneck sweater. He is on the lap of a woman in a car seat who is wearing a charcoal-filter mask. Her hand is draped over him.
October 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Oops, I read the news and I'm full of disappointment and anger! Whoopsies! Here's something more hopeful from my garden. I gave them some pointers on crossing the southern borders on their journey. Burner phone, &c.
A migratory Monarch butterfly nectaring on some Black-eyed Susans, behind some Little Blue Stem.
September 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Brown flavour
An original Jell-O cardboard box from the 50s, still flat and never assembled. It has a painting of Jell-O pudding being poured into a bowl on what would be the front, and a painting of a chocolate pie on the back. it is framed and hanging on a green wall.
September 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Yes, they should pick that guy up and ask him some hard questions.
Screen capture from CBC News. It is a photo of Kirk shaking hands with Donald Trump, followed by the headline: "FBI releases photo of person of interest in Charlie Kirk shooting death."
September 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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This caterpillar is gearing up to become pupasicle for the winter. To go into diapause, Black Swallowtail butterfly larvae produce their own form of antifreeze to prevent their cells from freezing, before snuggling into a leaf-shaped chrysalis. Which is totally metal.
A Black Swallowtail (Papilo polyxenes) caterpillar filling up on the last of the dill (Anethum graveolens) before going into a dormant period for winter. They are in the middle of the frame, on plants that are half green and half-dried. There are other plants in the background.
September 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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I met a bug today who looked like a 5mm brachiosaurus 🦕
August 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Describe your account in one Simpsons image.
Marge and Homer are sitting on their sofa, Marge is knitting, and Bart is lying upside down on the other side. Homer references the ad that just played on the television, saying, "See? Because of me, now they have a warning."
August 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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No paparazzi!
A red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum) sitting on a gladiolus bloom, and covering their closest eye with their closest leg.
August 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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[Exasperated sweeping gesture] but at least the nectar bar is open.
A Danaus plexippus (Monarch butterfly) on Echinacea purpurea. A Papilio polyxenes (Black Swallowtail) on Echinacea purpurea
July 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Screen grab from The Simpsons, from a Treehouse of Terror Episode where Homer accidentally turns their broken toaster into a time machine, and his hand gets stuck in it several times. Bart is pointing towards him, yelling "IT'S IN THERE AGAIN!" Marge and Lisa look on with concern.
July 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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A visiting Monarch, but this one didn't deliver the Speech from the Throne or anything. She just stopped by the nectar bar before checking on the progress of my milkweed.
A Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) nectaring on a purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) bloom, in the middle of a meadow garden. Visible behind her is more coneflower and some dill (Anethum graveolens), and in the foregroung, out of focus, is an expanse of coreopsis.
July 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Cut that out, D'Arcy, this is a fancy feeder. You can coo at me when we get home.
Two mourning doves are standing on either side of a wooden table that is part of a tray feeder on a fence. The table is covered in sunflower seeds. The male is cooing, and the female is staring him down.
June 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I have a whole playlist of them! It takes forever to get through it.
A screenshot of the beginning of a Tidal playlist called, "All-Time Favourites No Judging." The first twelve songs are: Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads, Learning to Fly by Pink Floyd, Life on Mars? by David Bowie, Never Will I Marry by Cannonball Adderley and Nancy Wilson, Rock Lobster by the B-52's, It's Always You by Chet Baker, Here Comes the River by Patrick Watson, Poinciana (Live At The Pershing) by Ahmad Jamal Trio, Compared to What by Roberta Flack, Waltz #2 (XO) by Elliott Smith, Your Ex-Lover is Dead by Stars, I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever) by Stevie Wonder, and you can sort of see that the next song will be Carey by Joni Mitchell.
May 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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I'm putting my confidence in Carney's ability to identify the "Fuck Around" aspects of the relationship, and am deeply hopeful he will deploy the "Find Out" as appropriate.

(I'm in uniform, for my part.)
A nice Canadian woman who is smirking and wearing a black ball cap with a logo that reads, "FAFO Agency 🍁" in white and red embroidery.
May 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Here, have some Spring
A robin stands on a wooden fence that's covered in dormant Virginia Creeper vines, and dried perennial sunflower seed pods. There is a stripe of green grass in the distance. Two mining bees having a zesty moment on some dried leaf litter under a tulip.
April 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Over a year ago, I started building an online shop. The idea was to spoof some trends that were entering their parody phase, but also put out some of my own art. The setbacks have been HUGE, and the focus has now shifted to, you know, anti-fascism🍁

However, I think I can finally say: "coming soon."
My logo. The name Bland Shaming appears in black letters, but the first 'A' is formed by the toothy snout of a snarling raccoon. The rest of the raccoon surrounds the words as a line drawing. It is all inside a black circle.
March 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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"Well you know, Carney's been using a lot of slogans."
I am dead from laughter, completely mdr.
Pierre Poilievre, who has no policy to speak of but speaks in the slogans, is a hypocrite. Here, he is standing in a food bank, doing a terrible presser. There are shelves of food behind him, the SLOGAN ON HIS PODIUM reads, "FIX THE BROKEN BUDGET." The CPAC logo is in the lower righthand corner.
February 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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"I've forgotten the secret signal, for when I see an enemy approaching. Oh wait, I remember. It's just screaming."
An Eastern grey squirrel sits on a small platform with a tiny yellow flag, all of which is covered with snow. They are gazing into the distance, and seem to be hugging themselves for comfort and warmth.
February 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Come on over.
My house is almost completely obscured by a 2.5m snow heap. The shot is taken from the sidewalk, the whole bottom half of the photo is snow, and a snow-covered roof with a chimney vent and the tops of mature trees are above it.
February 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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If I successfully pull this out of the snowbank, I get to be king of Canada. Sorry Charles, and tough luck Donald America.
An enormous icicle has fallen from the top of the cottage with enough force that it has stabbed itself into a 1m snowbank.
February 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Today is a difficult anniversary for me, and it has been a challenging day, so here's a rotund squirrel at the end table in the bistro.
A black-coated grey squirrel stands at a scale café table on a fence. There is a heap of cracked sunflower seeds on the table, and they are resting one clawed paw on the table. They are dusted with the falling snow, and making eye contact with the camera.
February 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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When you've tidied up because you're trying to sell an upmarket vintage fur coat out of your home, but you forgot about the stickers on the fridge.
The corner of a refrigerator door, with a prominent sticker that reads "FUCK DOUG FORD" in black all-caps on white. It is overlayed by a logo sticker from Hell On Earth, which is a YouTube channel,
February 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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EVERYONE: It was never actually about fentanyl.
POILLIEVRE:
Pierre Poillievre doing a ridiculous presser at the docks in Vancouver. He brought a giant podium to the docks. The podium is white and wide, with a blue and red sign with the slogan "STOP THE DRUGS ARRÈTONS LES DROGUES". Behind him is a large ship, and behind that are two large cranes. Around him there is a lot of empty space, as if the photog is the only person there.
February 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM