Mara McTavish
@maramctavish.bsky.social
Reader, writer, crow admirer, knitter, and wholesome badass. Please tell your pet I said hello. She/They.
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The people who lost children and other loved ones in the Texas floods are owed honest answers from officials. They should be told why flash flood warnings issued hours earlier were not conveyed to people in the path of the water. They don’t need more prayers from politicians. They need answers.
July 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The people who lost children and other loved ones in the Texas floods are owed honest answers from officials. They should be told why flash flood warnings issued hours earlier were not conveyed to people in the path of the water. They don’t need more prayers from politicians. They need answers.
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study confirms what we know already from daily experience & incident data
www.newswire.ca/news-release...
www.newswire.ca/news-release...
Cyclists, pedestrians in daily danger at intersections, CAA study finds
/CNW/ - Pedestrians and cyclists face life-threatening near misses in Canadian intersections every day, according to a groundbreaking new CAA study that sheds...
www.newswire.ca
June 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
study confirms what we know already from daily experience & incident data
www.newswire.ca/news-release...
www.newswire.ca/news-release...
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Fascism is a big price to pay for making a few inadequate men feel better about themselves.
June 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Fascism is a big price to pay for making a few inadequate men feel better about themselves.
Made a couple of dishcloths to practice doing an alternating eyelet stitch - I’m pretty pleased with the result! Estelle Sudz yarn, 4mm needles
#KnittedDishcloth #Eyelets #EstelleSudzYarn #Handmade #Knitting
#KnittedDishcloth #Eyelets #EstelleSudzYarn #Handmade #Knitting
June 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Made a couple of dishcloths to practice doing an alternating eyelet stitch - I’m pretty pleased with the result! Estelle Sudz yarn, 4mm needles
#KnittedDishcloth #Eyelets #EstelleSudzYarn #Handmade #Knitting
#KnittedDishcloth #Eyelets #EstelleSudzYarn #Handmade #Knitting
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The Earth is going to need more than a token Day to survive. Nova Scotia and Canada is a lagger, not a leader, in climate action. Our declaration of a "climate emergency" is a joke.
April 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The Earth is going to need more than a token Day to survive. Nova Scotia and Canada is a lagger, not a leader, in climate action. Our declaration of a "climate emergency" is a joke.
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This is despicable. ICE is out of control.
ICE Agent Smashes Immigrant's Car Window While He Waits For Lawyer In Harrowing Video
ICE is completely out of control.
www.comicsands.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is despicable. ICE is out of control.
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Nailed it with this one.
April 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Nailed it with this one.
Finished repairing my friend’s work pants, and am now working on a Speedweve mend on his hoodie. He said he wanted visible, so bright pink and green it is! 🩷💚
#VisibleMending #Speedweve #RepairDontReplace #NoWaste
#VisibleMending #Speedweve #RepairDontReplace #NoWaste
April 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Finished repairing my friend’s work pants, and am now working on a Speedweve mend on his hoodie. He said he wanted visible, so bright pink and green it is! 🩷💚
#VisibleMending #Speedweve #RepairDontReplace #NoWaste
#VisibleMending #Speedweve #RepairDontReplace #NoWaste
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Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
April 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
Mended a friend’s pair of Dickie’s - a long vertical rip from mid-pocket down. I backed this with denim for a sturdy mend, and now these pants can get on with their second life.
#VisibleMending #RepairDontReplace #SlowStitching
#VisibleMending #RepairDontReplace #SlowStitching
April 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Mended a friend’s pair of Dickie’s - a long vertical rip from mid-pocket down. I backed this with denim for a sturdy mend, and now these pants can get on with their second life.
#VisibleMending #RepairDontReplace #SlowStitching
#VisibleMending #RepairDontReplace #SlowStitching
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Yup!
something I haven't seen yet: isn't a massive increase in the range of goods worth smuggling going to be a big boost to exactly the kind of cross-border organized crime the WH claims it wants to stop?
April 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Yup!
April 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."
I get the knee-jerk reaction against generative AI, especially with how much of it gets wrapped up in the whole Silicon Valley tech-bro culture.
But I fear we’re seriously missing the mark in writing it off entirely like this. There’s a ton of creativity happening with advanced prompt engineering.
But I fear we’re seriously missing the mark in writing it off entirely like this. There’s a ton of creativity happening with advanced prompt engineering.
I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.
March 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."
Pretty fucking gross, but not at all surprising.
Oh course they will.
March 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Pretty fucking gross, but not at all surprising.
Freya today on our morning walk around the yard. I love this little butt so much.
#FreyaTheCat #CatsOfBluesky
#FreyaTheCat #CatsOfBluesky
March 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Freya today on our morning walk around the yard. I love this little butt so much.
#FreyaTheCat #CatsOfBluesky
#FreyaTheCat #CatsOfBluesky
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Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
March 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
March 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT
March 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT
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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
March 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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"no representatives from HRM or the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities came to speak on legislation that will affect them directly"
This is embarrassing. The proposed legislation is disastrous.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...
This is embarrassing. The proposed legislation is disastrous.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...
Nova Scotia municipalities threatened by Premier Tim Houston's transportation bill - Halifax Examiner
The government’s Bill 24, section 7 proposes to give the provincial public works minister order-making power to compel municipalities “to build, change, reconfigure or remove transportation infrastruc...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
March 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"no representatives from HRM or the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities came to speak on legislation that will affect them directly"
This is embarrassing. The proposed legislation is disastrous.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...
This is embarrassing. The proposed legislation is disastrous.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
March 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
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From Jeffrey McDaniel's book, The Forgiveness Parade.
Get it here: bit.ly/forgivenessparade
#poem #books #writing
Get it here: bit.ly/forgivenessparade
#poem #books #writing
March 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
From Jeffrey McDaniel's book, The Forgiveness Parade.
Get it here: bit.ly/forgivenessparade
#poem #books #writing
Get it here: bit.ly/forgivenessparade
#poem #books #writing
March 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM