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Lyndall
@lyndallc.bsky.social
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I talk a lot about MCAS and TTRPGs.
Canadian-Australian living in Alberta.
Probably won't follow you if you're American. I get enough of that on every other social platform.
Occasional Christian-posting. Occasional Ace-posting.
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Aw yis they gave me an empty box to talk about how to make highways better.
Survey question "What else would help improve your driving experience on provincial highways?" and my response, "A train. Passenger rail between Calgary and Edmonton would reduce the amount of traffic on Highway 2, thus making a more pleasant and safe driving experience for those who drive. Legislating against LED headlights, which are blinding and make it hard to see the road at night. Restricting the size of SUVs and pickup trucks to improve safety and reduce wear and tear on the road surface (thus requiring fewer traffic-slowing repairs). "
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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My other favourite hymn is Your Peace Will Make Us One, which is written by Audrey Assad to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Text of Your Peace Will Make Us One by Audrey Assad: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord You are speaking truth to power, you are laying down our swords Replanting every vineyard til a brand new wine is poured Your peace will make us one I've seen you in our home fires burning with a quiet light You are mothering and feeding in the wee hours of the night Your gentle love is patient, you will never fade or tire Your peace will make us one Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Your peace will make us one In the beauty of the lilies you were born across the sea With a glory in your bosom that is still transfiguring Dismantling our empires til each one of us is free Your peace will make us one Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Your peace will make us one
October 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Gonna be thinking about this YouTube comment forever: "American car dearlerships don't so much sell cars as they use cars to sell Loans"
@laurencefraser 2 days ago In the USA one of the big reason is regulation dodging. Exploiting badly writen exceptions to emissions laws and the like. Also, American car dearlerships don't so much sell cars as they use cars to sell Loans, so the bigger and more expensive the vehicle they can get the customer to buy, the bigger the loan, the more money they make off the interest on it.
August 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I mean look at this. Lightbulbs haven't been this fun since we invented them.
A lightbulb that's gem shaped, with exposed vertical filament in amber glass, making it look like gold tinsel inside.
July 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Update:

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Text that says "Corrections An earlier version of this story mistakenly said that under Alberta's new rules, students in Grade 9 and younger would not be allowed to access books in school libraries with information about puberty, menstruation, breastfeeding and other non-sexual topics, such as hugging, kissing and hand-holding. In fact, those books will be accessible under the new rules. Jul 10, 2025 2:51 PM MDT"
July 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I'm in hell.
The worlds "Air quality warning" in underlined all caps white text on a red banner.
June 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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I have unfortunately become an absolute fiend for these yogurts.

(Unfortunate for my zero-waste inclinations; none of the flavours come in larger tubs.)
A product photo showing a 12-pack of Activia lactose-free yogurt in the following flavours: lemon-lime, raspberry-lychee, mandarin-orange, pomegranate-berry. There's also a "prepared in Canada" logo above the pack of yogurt.
April 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Ok so I don't love the demisexual flag OR the grey ace flag but it turns out when you put them together they fix the problems of both flags?

Behold, the demigreyace flag.
The demigreyace flag, a pride flag with with five horizonal stripes. The centre stripe is white, with grey stripes on either side, and purple stripes on the outside. There is a black equilateral triangle on the left hand side of the flag, with the base covering the leftmost portion of the flag, and the point ending in the middle of the white stripe.
April 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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New reaction image just dropped
screenshot from CBC news that says in red, "ANALYSIS" and after it the headline, "(Almost) nobody wants this, except the guy who really does" in black font.
February 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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*sighs* I have a small sustainable fashion business and um unfortunately there is a third option.

Divest from the production economy entirely.

I'm coming face-to-face with the fact that I cannot in good conscience keep producing stuff that we don't need. I have to change my business model. 😕
BlueSky post Sensibly | Sophisticated Sustainable Fashion ‪@sensibly.bsky.social‬ A “no buy” 2025 isn’t the solution. We need to support the small brands who are doing it right & struggling. Fashion is finite and people will shop. Without the slow brands doing it right, the only options will be the giant corps and fast fashion. #sustainablefashion #ethicalfashion #nobuy2025 January 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM Everybody can reply
January 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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One of my friends mentioned the other day that it looked like my one eye was slightly higher than the other one. And omg this would explain A LOT about various little vision and body problems I have.

Did some messing around on Inkscape with a headshot and look! (The two lines are perpendicular.)
A professional headshot of Lyndall looking straight at the camera, with a blue vertical line bisecting her face. There's a pink line perpendicular to the blue line that runs right through the middle of her left pupil, but her right pupil is above the pink line.
December 26, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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CW: food

This is what Christmas dinner with MCAS looks like. 😂

(Don't be sad for me, I don't actually like ham that much, and I have chocolate cheesecake incoming for dessert and the fact that I can eat all of this means my MCAS is in a pretty stable place.)
A plate that's half full of roasted root vegetables, with two tiny pieces of ham that are about the same size as the baby potatoes. You can also half-see a mug of sparkling peach juice.
December 26, 2024 at 3:03 AM
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TTRPGs and a marriage podcast seems like a weird combo but I just like listening to Sheila tear bad theology apart ok. (Also for half the year I was working on a purity culture ttrpg.)

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Spotify wrapped showing Your top podcasts. 1 Worlds Beyond Number 2 Dice Exploder 3 My First Dungeon 4 Talk of the Table 5 Bare Marriage
December 4, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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(From the description on the educational portion of the museum's website, translated automatically from French to English by google.)
Text that reads, About Green Caterpillar Reminiscent of the popular stuffed animals in both its appearance and texture, Chenille verte is a soft sculpture ready to be handled. In its design, the artists sought to push museum conventions by allowing visitors to play with the work while it was on display. They then have the opportunity to create and give life and form to the work. This is no longer possible today since too much handling would damage this work, which the Museum wishes to preserve for as long as possible.
November 22, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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Chenille Vert, on display at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. The creator, COZIC, designed it as an interactive piece of art where the public manipulates the pieces to create something new and ever-changing.

There's a "Do Not Touch" sign next to it.
A long green tube of plush fabric is looped and woven into a yellow lattice work of yellow nylon rope, a web rigged in the corneer between two white walls.
November 22, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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Just MCAS things.
Spice girls If you wanna be my lover meme with the text, "If you wanna be my lover you gotta switch to unscented detergent."
October 4, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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Does this make me an early adopter?
BlueSky celebrating 10M users for my account, with the number 496,743, certified the first 10%. Joined August 6, 2023.
September 16, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Weslandia! Turns out my fascination for culture and anthropology and my dislike of single-family zoning started REAL young.
The book Weslandia by Paul Fleischman and illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. The cover shows a boy in a rough tunic and hat standing against the sky, with his feet on two big flower-like plants.
August 24, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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Absolutely baffled by this cover design choice that makes it look like a fun summer rom-com.
An infographic of the New York Times BestSellers Combined Print & E-book for August 25, 2025, Nonfiction. The book has a colour block shape of a woman that looks like stylised clip art, with orange hair in a ponytail, a mustard-colour shirt, and a big black clockwork key in the middle of her back. There are maybe five colours total used in the entire image. The woman is on a blue background, and then in large white serif font half on top of the figure there's the title A Well-Trained Wife. The author's name, Tia Levings, is in orange sans-serif font at the bottom of the cover. The subtitle My escape from Christian patriarchy floats over one shoulder and the words A Memoir floats over the other. The balance is off. In a yellow band it that also touches the book cover, it says Number 15, A Well-Trained Wife by Tia Levings, Levings describes events she encountered after being pulled into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife. There's also the logo for St. Martin's Press
August 16, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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I'm in hell.
A purple box that says "LIVE AQI INDEX" in small font, and "Very Unhealthy" in large font underneath it. (Purple is the highest this scale goes.)
August 15, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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So long, suckers!
Screenshot from Etsy that says "Your account is now scheduled to be permanently closed and deleted. See our Privacy Policy for more information. If you’ve changed your mind, cancel your account deletion request now. With a "go to Etsy.com" button below the text.
July 25, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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What a time to be alive.
Four lines of red, followed by a fifth yellow line, that read in order from top to bottom, 4 Weather Alerts, Tornado Warning, Heat Warning, Air Quality Advisory and Tornado Watch.
July 25, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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So apparently I use honey not-like-a-Canadian.
Screenshot of text from the Beemaid website with the heading "Canadian honey for international honey lovers" in bold text; the rest says "Canadian consumers typically take a liquid honey bottle, turn it upside-down and squeeze out the honey they want to use. After careful evaluation, we discovered that honey users abroad don’t use honey the same way we do. They prefer to spoon out teaspoon-size portions of honey directly from the jar. "
July 8, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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The last one, with the red and circles, is the negative from "The only spots you'll see on me" that I posted earlier (these were given after MMR vaccinations).
A page in an old day planner full of bug stickers on holographic backgrounds, and a few seethru the cow milk promo stickers. A spread of an old day planner, with a bunch of random stickers. Two butterflies. A bumper sticker tor TLE Your First Choice Industrial Supplier for your nearest branch contact 1800 807 755, two circular stickers of cartoon cows (one rollerblading, the other doing gymnastic vaulting, a cartoon firefighter "Inspector Cinders says smoke alarms save lives". A large square of text that's a national parks pass. A sticker negative sheet stuck in an old day planner from November 1989. It's bright red, and has a large circle cut out of the top portion, with fifteen smaller circles cut out of the lower portion. Each of the circles has been filled in with a silly face.
June 23, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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Oop I guess that was less than half, what I sent you earlier. (There's more coming after this.)
A bunch of stickers in an old day planner, They're mostly woodland creatures, except for three at the top, a Ripper Reader sicker, a round Library Award sticker featuring text in bright pink in front of a stack of books with a frog reading on top, and a holographic cherub that looks like a postage stamp. A bunch of stickers in an old day planner from 1989. They're mostly hearts. One is a 'dangerous goods must not be posted' sticker, another is promo from a hardware store that says "I want 30% off", and two large Tapstar waterwise stickers reminding you "washing clothes. . . do full loads!" and "Save water. . . shower shorter!" A spread in an old day planner absolutely CHOCK FULL of stickers, most are rectangular stickers of bugs on holographic backgrounds, surrounding a large Fly Navy bumper sticker that prominently displays the Australian naval flag. Another sticker is the negative of cushy adhesive dots. Two big bumper-size stickers stuck vertically in an old day planner, both are identical. They say "Support an orphan nurture a future!" in dark purple text, with a logo on left/lower side.
June 23, 2024 at 6:04 AM