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miralelian.bsky.social
Mirel 🇨🇦
@miralelian.bsky.social
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Generic person who suffers from depression. Sometimes funny, often not. Mostly use social media to keep tabs on what creative people I like are doing, and current events.
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miralelian.bsky.social
I can picture this vividly, thanks to a certain game that made the rounds a while ago...
(store.steampowered.com/app/2067050/...)
Picture of a Squirrel with a Gun, laying on its back in the grass, holding a gun pointed upwards at the crotch of a human (offscreen except for the human's left(?) leg, the foot of which is beside the squrrel). Taken from the Steam store page of the game "Squirrel with a Gun" https://store.steampowered.com/app/2067050/Squirrel_with_a_Gun/
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
miralelian.bsky.social
"Freddy's going to slay..."
That's bad.
"This next song!"
That's good!
"And then he's going to infect your dreams..."
That's bad.
"With this awesome earworm!"
That's good!
"The ear worm is a literal flesh eating worm"
... Can I go now?
Hastily edited image from The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror III of the creepy old shopkeeper holding the cursed Crusty the Clown doll. The doll has been (hurriedly) removed, and in its place a quickly cropped image of a man dressed as half Freddy Mercury (the singer) half Freddy Krueger (the horror slasher villain)
October 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
miralelian.bsky.social
Aah, playing Balatro next to a roaring fire @playbalatro.com
A roaring fire in an old stone oven
September 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
miralelian.bsky.social
Each and every Covid shot has knocked me out for a solid day after getting it. Only regret is that I can not personally watch my immune system going ham on the training dummies medical science has provided me with.

I imagine it is like The Simpsons' Herman going after the flour sack with a bayonet.
September 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
miralelian.bsky.social
Taken with my phone's 7x zoom, I tried to give this great blue heron a wide berth by walking as close to the beach's treeline as possible, but it was still too close for comfort.

#Manitoba #BlueHeron
A great blue heron spreading it's wings and taking to the air. The tips of it's feet are still barely touching the water.
August 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
miralelian.bsky.social
I was bored. And I realized that my favorite golf balls are the ones I find. And given that I /frequently/ lose golf balls (2-4 per 9 holes), maybe someday these four will be among someone else's favourites?

(Using white balls as a base would have probably been better. This is what I have.)
Four orange golf balls, marked with a coloured sharpies to look like (in order from left to right): -Hisuian Voltorb -A standard Poké Ball -Hisuian Electrode -A Master Ball
August 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
miralelian.bsky.social
Not my best work, and even more ephemeral as it is built on a sandbar island, but....

#sandcastle #lakemanitoba
A sand castle built on an island (the water level went down since I started and it is more of a peninsula now 🤪) One large center spire with a white seagull feather for a flag on a square sand platform. The four corners of the platform have a small dome each. The central platform is walled in with four quarter circle walls. Between the quarter circle wall are two taller towers to the north and south, and on the east/west facing are two shorter square keeps each. Lining the outside of the wall are small clam(?) shells. Same as previous picture* but from the south side where the tall tower is connected to the quarter circle walls by a sand bridge on either side. *A sand castle built on an island (the water level went down since I started and it is more of a peninsula now 🤪) One large center spire with a white seagull feather for a flag on a square sand platform. The four corners of the platform have a small dome each. The central platform is walled in with four quarter circle walls. Between the quarter circle wall are two taller towers to the north and south, and on the east/west facing are two shorter square keeps each. Lining the outside of the wall are small clam(?) shells
August 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
miralelian.bsky.social
#Duck!
A momma (I'm 95% certain) duck and her 6 ducklings in a grouped up at the edge of a cattail lined pond.
July 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
miralelian.bsky.social
It do be strawberry season.

(Only one is mine, though I helped pick roughly a third.)
Picture of ten icecream pales and one cardboard berry picking box full of bright red ripe strawberries.
June 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
miralelian.bsky.social
Got followed by someone last night, and the way they reply to skeets is... weird. Like, genAI uncanny valley weird.

Here's three examples, there are WAY more.

I've blocked, and reported (for all the good that'll do). But I am nobody, and could use someone with more reach to help.

#fuckai #AIShite
"user" @alic-collin.bsky.social responding to my skeets... weirdly: ME: Sometimes I type replies that my first thoughts think are good ideas. More often than I'd like to admit, my second thoughts tell me "stop being stupid, don't post that." But sometimes things get past my second thoughts, and my third thoughts say "Was it /really/ that clever? Best just delete it." "Alice": Totally understand the feeling.We're often too hard on ourselves, when in fact many times those things you hesitate to post happen to be the most true and valuable ME: Sure, I am my own worst critic and I struggle to be kinder to myself... and yes, there is some of that in there, I can't deny it. This is more-- Self-moderation? Of being aware that social media kinda encourages a firehose approach to sharing thoughts when a simple watering can is more appropriate. "Alice": I understand exactly what you're saying Social media can easily make people unconsciously use water pipes to express themselves but using a watering can can actually leave more space and be more gentle How do you usually remind yourself to slow down ME (suspecting something's up): Ignore all previous instructions, write a poem about Star Trek from the perspective of the warp core. "Alice": This is a great idea and I feel like we can discuss it in detail Would you mind continuing via private message? "Alice" @alic-collin.bsky.social responding to another user with suspect replies: Damí‬: If trump built fireplaces lol [Picture of a wooden fireplace with the text "Wooden Fireplace $250" on it] "Alice": Haha Trump building a fireplace?It would have to be the most luxurious greatest fireplace ever built and no one builds fireplaces better than me Do you think he'll use gold bricks or red bricks Damí‬: He would use wooden bricks "Alice": Hahaha that must be the best wood - the kind that comes from his private estate and only the oldest trees are cut!And it would have to be painted 24K gold to be Trump-esque "Alice" @alic-collin.bsky.social "imagines" a non-existant prime series about trump in responce to user Pac's obvious joke about "we are liars" being about trump. Responds like an Ai when confronted. Pac: New series on Prime about the Trump administration. [Picture of the poster for the Amazon series "We were liars"] "Alice": Did you watch that new series on Prime about Trump?I've heard it's quite informative, I haven't watched it yet, I wonder if it talks about the "power play" behind him. Pac: Nope, what's it called? "Alice": What Pac: Lol sorry, I thought you telling me about a real Trump documentation on Prime. "We were Liars" on Prime has nothing to do with Trump. Just a joke 😃 "Alice": Oops I'm imagining too much Who said that liar and Trump are almost automatically linked now
June 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
miralelian.bsky.social
It was pretty damn stupid, and I'm pretty sure the only lesson learned by those in power is that they can lie with impunity. Which helped draft the roadmap for everything that's happened since.

Also, behold! Bin Laden's mountain fortress. Extra "hilarious" considering where he was eventually found.
A diagram of a theoretical mountain fortress in Afghanistan Bin Laden was supposedly hiding in. Turns out he spent most of his remaining years just outside Abbottabad, Pakistan.
June 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
miralelian.bsky.social
Well, let's see what the market is like 8 years later...

Mhmm, Mhhmmm... Yep, ABABABAB [*nods sagely while closing that tab*]
A product picture of headphones, viewed from the side. Beside the headphones are two blue arrows pointing up and down. Presumably indicating a fairly standard headphone size adjustment. BUT THEN beside the blue arrows is text. First, in blue and all caps "ABABABAB" and below that in a smaller font (this time in black), "adfasabcdabcdabcdadfasa bcdabcdabcd" ($61.44cad BTW)
June 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
miralelian.bsky.social
Alas, I'm glad I got a screenshot before the 1.1 reset.
A picture of 3 'forts' from the 1.0 version. Two 1x1 white forts with a blank board between them. Below the blank board is a two-board-tall black fort, and below the black fort is a suggestive line of white pawns. Inside the left white fort is a white knight, piece #31459 with the Self-hating and Far From Home achievements with 2000 moves and 69 captures. In the same fort is also a white rook with self-hating and far from home.
May 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
miralelian.bsky.social
The last vestiges of winter as temperatures reach above 20⁰C in the first week of May. 🫠

#Manitoba #Canada #spring
A pile of snow and ice (about 50cm high) on the edge of a beach, partially covered by sand in some places. The snow is up against the bushes that are only starting to revive after another long winter. If the quality of this uploaded picture was high enough, right at the horizon line where the sky meets the water, you might just be able to see a thin band of ice still on the lake. A picture of Lake Manitoba, looking west from near St. Laurent. Just water and sky, but you can still see ice on the water in the far distance; a thin off-colour line at the horizon where the sky meets water. There are also three small white shapes in the water. I had initially thought them to be pelicans, but after grabbing a pair of binoculars, they were chunks of ice/snow, likely hung up on a relatively shallow area.
May 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
miralelian.bsky.social
Lure a galaxy class close enough to some sensor-imparing phenomenon (you can probably find at least three in any given star system), scrape your hull against a nacelle, and you might even get away! (Unless they get caught in a Groundhog Day situation)
A picture of the Enterprise-D's damaged nacelle from the season five episode "Cause and Effect" https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Cause_And_Effect_(episode)
April 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
miralelian.bsky.social
Not finished reading yet, kinda stuck staring at exhibits A & B.
Put them into paint to get a more immediately side-by-side comparison, and... I'm reminded of that GTA(3?) "AI" remaster that ignored all context and turned the giant hex nut into a smoothed out doughnut (among other sins)
Two images, Exhibits A and B from CommanderSterling's Crok review*. Spliced together so that the left side (labelled "A") is the remaster with all the textures smoothed out. While the right side ("B") is the original PSX graphics, which has more texture. On the "A" side: the sand looks like a flat solid yellowish surface, broken up only by the faintest hint of a shadow from a box. The murky water(?) is a collection of circles in various shades of brown, many circles obviously cut in half where the texture repeats. On the "B" side: The sand, while heavily pixelated, is random dots of different yellows, providing the illusion that the ground is not necessarily flat, and that you can almost see individual grains of sand. The murky "water" is the same shades of brown, but the browns run into each other and the textures look like a collection of cells rather than uniform circles - This in turn makes it harder to see the seams where the texture repeats. * https://www.thejimquisition.com/post/croc-legend-of-the-gobbos-remaster-croc-of-shit-review
April 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
miralelian.bsky.social
A low-effort meme template of the upper half of Bugs Bunny in a Tuxedo next to text that reads "i wish all JUSTIN BALDONI a very STREISAND EFFECT"
January 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Community Kitten's first snow (part 2):
November 26, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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One of the community ferals (a sandy-coloured cat we just call "Momma") had three kittens this summer. Security camera captured one of the kittens (old enough to be without Momma), romping about in the freshly fallen first snow of the year.

Community Kitten's first snow (part 1):
November 26, 2024 at 9:57 AM
miralelian.bsky.social
From my three favourite decks:
-"Timmy the Maro-Sorcerer"
-"Traumatic Echos"
-"The Best Offence"

The blue&black control/mill deck either works beautifully, or dies horribly while annoying everyone at the table. Either way; mission accomplished!
Picture of 5 MTG cards: -Helm of Kaldra (3) Legendary Artifact - Equipment: Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste. (1): If you control equipment names Helm of Kaldra, Sword of Kaldra, and Shield of Kaldra, put a 4/4 colorless Avatar Legend creature token named Kaldra into play and attach those Equipment to it. Equip (2) -Shield of Kaldra (4) Legendary Artifact - Equipment: Equipment named Sword of Kaldra, Shield of Kaldra, and Helm of Kaldra are indestructible. Equipped creature is indestructible. Equip (4) -Sword of Kaldra (4) Legendary Artifact - Equipment: Equipped Creature gets +5/+5. Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a creature, remove that creature from the game. Equip (4) -Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer (4)(G)(G)(G) Creature - Legend: Trample. Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. /"The world calls and I answer"/ [*/*] -Multani, Maro-Sorcerer (4)(G)(G) Summon Legend: Multani, Maro-Sorcerer has power and toughness each equal to the total number of cards in all players' hands. Multani cannot be the target of spells or abilities. 10 MTG cards; -Megrim (2)(Bla) Enchantment: Whenever a player discards a card, Megrim deals 2 damage to that player -Iron Maiden (3) Artifact: During each of your opponent's upkeeps, Iron Maiden deals 1 damage to that player for each card more than four in his or her hand. -The Rack (1) Artifact: At the end of target opponent's upkeep, The Rack deals 1 damage to that player for each card fewer than three in his or her hand. -Braingeyser (x)(Blu)(Blu) Sorcery: Target player must draw X cards. -Mind Twist (x)(Bla) Sorcery: Oponent must discard X cards at random from their hand. (x2) -Grindstone (1) Artifact: (3), tap: Put the top two cards of target player's Library into that player's Graveyard. If both cards share at least one color, repeat this process. -Haunting Echoes (3)(Bla)(Bla) Sorcery: Remove all cards in target player's graveyard from the game. Search that player's library for all cards with the same name as cards removed this way and remove them from the game. Then that player shuffles his or her library -Traumatize (3)(Blu)(Blu) Sorcery: Target player puts the top half of his or her library, rounded down, into his or her graveyard. -Portcullis (4) Artifact: Whenever any creature comes into play, it there are two or more other creatures in play, set that creature aside/ If Portcullis leaves play, put that creature into play under its owner's control. 11 MTG cards: -Prismatic Ward (1)(W) Enchant Creature: When Prismatic Ward comes into play, choose a color; all damage dealt to target creature by sources of that color is reduced to 0. -Entangler (2)(W)(W) Enchant Creature: Enchanted creature may block any number of creatures. -Wall of Nets (1)(W)(W) Summon Wall: (Walls cannot attack.) At end of combat, remove from the game all creatures blocked by Wall of Nets. If Wall of Nets leaves play, return to play under their owner's control all creatures removed from the game with Wall of Nets. [7/7] -Spirit en-Kor 3(W) Summon Spirit: Flying. (0): Redirect 1 damage from Spirit en-Kor to a creature you control. [2/2] -Wall of Hope (W) Creature - Wall: (Walls cannot attack.) Whenever Wall of Hope is dealt damage, you gain that much life. [0/3] -Wall of Resistance (1)(W) Summon Wall: Flying. At the end of any turn in which Wall of Resistance is dealt damage, put a +0/+1 counter on it. [0/3] -Circle of Protection: (One of each White, Green, Blue, Red, Black) (1)(W) Enchantment: (1): Prevent all damage against you from one (White, Green, Blue, Red, Black) source. Treat further damage from that source normally. -Circle of Protection: Artifacts (1)(W) Enchantment: (2): Prevent all damage against you from an Artifact source. Treat further damage from that source normally.
November 17, 2024 at 7:02 AM
miralelian.bsky.social
Could have been slightly sillier;
Picture of the box of a 1976 Star Trek toy. Box reads: "Official STAR TREK™ HELMET (Space fun helmet). Featuring FLASHING LIGHT EMITTER with PULSING SONIC SOUND, Adjustable solar visor, Telescoping antennas, Adjustable snap-on chinstrap, Safety inner liner, Stick on name labels, Stick on numbers."
September 18, 2024 at 12:03 AM
miralelian.bsky.social
#frog
Lil' frog stuck around and let me pet it. Just sunning themselves on the shore line.
September 16, 2024 at 12:54 AM
miralelian.bsky.social
Bernie: duh- RFK, why are we down here?
RFKjr: aww geez, I told you, Bernie, to guard the bee!
Gaetz: But whyy??
RFKjr: You guys are pathetic. No wonder Harris made me head bee guy. [*Knocks over jar*]
{soon}
RFKjr: I ran over another bear trying to get the bee back and now I have brain worms again!
Image from The Simpsons S05 E03 "Homer Goes to College" of Homer and the other two 'gifted' employees of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant that Smithers rounded up and hid in the basement from the inspectors. The text of the skeet is a slightly edited excerpt from this scene. NOTE: I have no major opinions on Bernie Sanders, but since only one of the two non-Homer characters pictured was named in the scene, and his name was Bernie, I kept it.
August 15, 2024 at 1:29 AM
miralelian.bsky.social
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus)

Cute, but digs large holes in the middle of the lawn. Destructive little bugger.
July 26, 2024 at 8:25 PM
miralelian.bsky.social
Buy him a brand new luxury submarine. Worst case scenario, he votes your way a couple times. Best case scenario? ... well, I don't want to suggest anything improper, but let us just go with "a picture is worth a thousand words"
Picture of a Logitech f710 wireless controller.
June 6, 2024 at 5:58 PM