Mandy Len Catron
@mandylen.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, pizza eater. Author of How to Fall in Love with Anyone (S&S). Creative Writing faculty at The University of British Columbia. Appalachian. she/her
https://www.mandylencatron.substack.com
https://www.mandylencatron.substack.com
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[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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oh no, not something that would have upset the famously cheerful Brontës
The Guardian will publish scary headlines about ice sheet and AMOC collapse on a Friday, then stuff like this on a Monday: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How are people supposed to navigate this? Is climate change an urgent problem, or not?
How are people supposed to navigate this? Is climate change an urgent problem, or not?
Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins
Of course the climate crisis must be confronted, but history, tranquility and beauty must also count for something, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
oh no, not something that would have upset the famously cheerful Brontës
Vancouverites! There are a few spots left for the Climate Wayfinding program I'm facilitating at Trout Lake Community Centre. Please join us!
www.creativepublics.ca/climate-wayf...
www.creativepublics.ca/climate-wayf...
Climate Wayfinding — Creative Publics
www.creativepublics.ca
April 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Vancouverites! There are a few spots left for the Climate Wayfinding program I'm facilitating at Trout Lake Community Centre. Please join us!
www.creativepublics.ca/climate-wayf...
www.creativepublics.ca/climate-wayf...
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just added another 25 crowd-sourced locations to this passion project of mine, mapping change tables in Vancouver! if you have friends with babies or toddlers, please pass it on: vancouverchangetables.com
Vancouver Change Tables Map
vancouverchangetables.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
just added another 25 crowd-sourced locations to this passion project of mine, mapping change tables in Vancouver! if you have friends with babies or toddlers, please pass it on: vancouverchangetables.com
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Apparently we're going to surveillance our way to learning. Anyone who doubts that AI is inextricably bound up with intensive monitoring of student behaviors need only look at how those who genuinely believe this technology is a help are positioning it.
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Our dashboard's grouping feature helps you identify knowledge gaps and deliver targeted support before misunderstandings become entrenched.
Get the printable → drive.google.com/file/d/1_CLH...
#EduSkyAI #EdTech
April 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Apparently we're going to surveillance our way to learning. Anyone who doubts that AI is inextricably bound up with intensive monitoring of student behaviors need only look at how those who genuinely believe this technology is a help are positioning it.
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Hey! If you like what Cory Booker is doing right now, call your senators and ask them to do the same (now and in the future). Find their info at ☎️ reps.fyi!
This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again
April 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hey! If you like what Cory Booker is doing right now, call your senators and ask them to do the same (now and in the future). Find their info at ☎️ reps.fyi!
I learned so much from this & especially loved the interview with @biblioracle.bsky.social. The university would like us to police AI usage. But this reiterates what a waste of time and energy that is.
A teenager explains why he shouldn’t have to write homework essays anymore. Is there some way for adults to force teens to still do homework? Or to convince them they should want to?
open.spotify.com/episode/492n...
open.spotify.com/episode/492n...
Playboi Farti and his AI Homework Machine
Search Engine · Episode
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March 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I learned so much from this & especially loved the interview with @biblioracle.bsky.social. The university would like us to police AI usage. But this reiterates what a waste of time and energy that is.
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We were very grateful to be included in Mandy's @thenarwhal.ca article alongside our colleagues at Building Resilient Neighbourhoods, where she wrote about the importance of knowing our neighbours, particularly so we can help each other out in times of disaster.
thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...
thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...
Stronger social connections could help Vancouver weather climate disasters | The Narwhal
Social infrastructure is far more critical — and arguably more durable — than physical infrastructure in an era of heat domes, wildfires and flooding
thenarwhal.ca
March 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
We were very grateful to be included in Mandy's @thenarwhal.ca article alongside our colleagues at Building Resilient Neighbourhoods, where she wrote about the importance of knowing our neighbours, particularly so we can help each other out in times of disaster.
thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...
thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...
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We love this article from @mandylen.bsky.social so much - as well as her resource spreadsheet! Small, joyful things to hold onto, for those moments when we may be feeling "occasionally bereft or despairing about The State of Things." (Which we recognize may be *more* than occasionally right now.) 💙
March 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We love this article from @mandylen.bsky.social so much - as well as her resource spreadsheet! Small, joyful things to hold onto, for those moments when we may be feeling "occasionally bereft or despairing about The State of Things." (Which we recognize may be *more* than occasionally right now.) 💙
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This is the official journal of the Converse low-res MFA program. I'm the editor and our team of enthusiastic and smart readers would love to consider your fiction/poetry/CNF/flash. Deadline: 3/10/25
Submissions are now open for our Spring Summer issue! The theme for this issue is Borders, Boundaries, and Lines. One piece will receive a 100$ Editor's Choice Award.
We can't wait to read your work!
Submit now at south85journal.com/submissions/
We can't wait to read your work!
Submit now at south85journal.com/submissions/
February 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is the official journal of the Converse low-res MFA program. I'm the editor and our team of enthusiastic and smart readers would love to consider your fiction/poetry/CNF/flash. Deadline: 3/10/25
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Hey writers who can envision June 2025 🫤 I’m teaching a one week nonfiction writing workshop. Idyllwild, if you don’t know it, is high altitude (+5k ft), beautiful, and Idyllwild Arts is like FUN adult summer camp idyllwildarts.org/program/type...
Writer's Week Programs - Idyllwild Arts
Explore Writer's Week programs.
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February 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Hey writers who can envision June 2025 🫤 I’m teaching a one week nonfiction writing workshop. Idyllwild, if you don’t know it, is high altitude (+5k ft), beautiful, and Idyllwild Arts is like FUN adult summer camp idyllwildarts.org/program/type...
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Need some good news today? Authors Against Book Bans fought one conservative school district in FL and won!
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How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida.
If you’ve been following the right wing’s obsessive book-banning over the last few years, you’ve probably heard of Authors Against Book Bans, a coalition of writers, illustrators, and other book pe…
lithub.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Need some good news today? Authors Against Book Bans fought one conservative school district in FL and won!
lithub.com/authors-agai...
lithub.com/authors-agai...
Spending this Family Day weekend working on my new project: How to give your three-year-old eye drops in 112 easy steps.
February 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Spending this Family Day weekend working on my new project: How to give your three-year-old eye drops in 112 easy steps.
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Dear Elon, we’re out.
The Tyee will no longer be posting to X (formerly Twitter) and we’ve removed the X sharing buttons from our stories. Here’s why.
The Tyee will no longer be posting to X (formerly Twitter) and we’ve removed the X sharing buttons from our stories. Here’s why.
No Thanks, Musk. We’ll Direct Our Readers Elsewhere | The Tyee
The Tyee is no longer posting on X. Here’s why.
thetyee.ca
February 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Dear Elon, we’re out.
The Tyee will no longer be posting to X (formerly Twitter) and we’ve removed the X sharing buttons from our stories. Here’s why.
The Tyee will no longer be posting to X (formerly Twitter) and we’ve removed the X sharing buttons from our stories. Here’s why.
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My mom called me from a thrift shop once and told me that a book I'd signed to a co-worker was there. I asked her to buy it, and then I snuck it back into his house at the company Christmas party and never mentioned it again.
February 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
My mom called me from a thrift shop once and told me that a book I'd signed to a co-worker was there. I asked her to buy it, and then I snuck it back into his house at the company Christmas party and never mentioned it again.
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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
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waaaaay too many people in the middle imo
January 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
waaaaay too many people in the middle imo
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In lonely cities, stronger neighbourhood connections are essential for preparing for climate change disasters, writes
@mandylen.bsky.social
thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...
@mandylen.bsky.social
thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...
Stronger social connections could help Vancouver weather climate disasters | The Narwhal
Social infrastructure is far more critical — and arguably more durable — than physical infrastructure in an era of heat domes, wildfires and flooding
thenarwhal.ca
December 2, 2024 at 7:32 PM
In lonely cities, stronger neighbourhood connections are essential for preparing for climate change disasters, writes
@mandylen.bsky.social
thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...
@mandylen.bsky.social
thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...
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I loved hanging out with @mandylen.bsky.social recently for one of the interviews that fueled her beautiful, thoughtful piece. Thanks for being interested in @heyneighbourcollective.ca's work Mandy and for your beautiful writing about #socialresilience, #socialconnection etc.
Make friends, prepare for climate change: ‘your neighbours are your first responders’
Programs seek to build social infrastructure, which is far more critical than physical infrastructure in an era of heat domes, fires and floods
#PolyCrisis
thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...
Programs seek to build social infrastructure, which is far more critical than physical infrastructure in an era of heat domes, fires and floods
#PolyCrisis
thenarwhal.ca/vancouver-so...
Stronger social connections could help Vancouver weather climate disasters | The Narwhal
Social infrastructure is far more critical — and arguably more durable — than physical infrastructure in an era of heat domes, wildfires and flooding
thenarwhal.ca
December 4, 2024 at 8:25 PM
I loved hanging out with @mandylen.bsky.social recently for one of the interviews that fueled her beautiful, thoughtful piece. Thanks for being interested in @heyneighbourcollective.ca's work Mandy and for your beautiful writing about #socialresilience, #socialconnection etc.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian asked me to write about new studies showing high interest in non-monogamy. What does it all mean?
One answer is that the nuclear family is just not enough.
The Guardian asked me to write about new studies showing high interest in non-monogamy. What does it all mean?
One answer is that the nuclear family is just not enough.
Non-monogamous relationships seem to be on the rise. Is that surprising? | Mandy Len Catron
We want our partners to help clean, cook, parent, and remind us to go to the gym. It’s a lot to ask of one person – what if there were more than one?
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2024 at 6:18 PM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian asked me to write about new studies showing high interest in non-monogamy. What does it all mean?
One answer is that the nuclear family is just not enough.
The Guardian asked me to write about new studies showing high interest in non-monogamy. What does it all mean?
One answer is that the nuclear family is just not enough.
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At MacDowell, there are no residency fees, and to defray expenses that accrue during an artist’s stay, we provide need-based stipends to cover rent, utilities, childcare, and lost income from taking time off from employment, as well as grants to travel to and from the residency.
MacDowell's Fellowship application period is now open!
🍂Apply for a Fall/Winter 2024/2025 residency.❄️
The deadline to apply is February 10!
www.macdowell.org/apply/apply-...
🍂Apply for a Fall/Winter 2024/2025 residency.❄️
The deadline to apply is February 10!
www.macdowell.org/apply/apply-...
Apply for a MacDowell Fellowship
MacDowell awards Fellowships in seven disciplines to about 300 artists each year. There are no residency fees, and need-based stipends and travel grants are available to individuals awarded a Fellowsh...
www.macdowell.org
January 2, 2024 at 4:20 PM
At MacDowell, there are no residency fees, and to defray expenses that accrue during an artist’s stay, we provide need-based stipends to cover rent, utilities, childcare, and lost income from taking time off from employment, as well as grants to travel to and from the residency.
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We absolutely LOVE:
⚡️ voice-driven writing
📺 all things pop culture
🧠 the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys
😉 following our guidelines
💰paying our contributors
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January 2, 2024 at 5:48 PM
FREE SUBMISSIONS are open again!
We absolutely LOVE:
⚡️ voice-driven writing
📺 all things pop culture
🧠 the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys
😉 following our guidelines
💰paying our contributors
Check out the deets here: buff.ly/32k496o
We absolutely LOVE:
⚡️ voice-driven writing
📺 all things pop culture
🧠 the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys
😉 following our guidelines
💰paying our contributors
Check out the deets here: buff.ly/32k496o