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Kara Babcock
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Car-uh, she/her. Your favourite comfort podcaster: @prophecygirls.ca
Book reviewer: kara.reviews
Other nonsense: tachyondecay.net
Freelance copyeditor.
Teacher.
Knitter.
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Playing Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and then Dispatch later. Come hang!
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Gamer girl selfie. Headset, mic, green sweater, blue glasses
November 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Playing Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay
Gamer girl selfie. Headset and mic. I'm wearing a red sweatshirt with a Prophecy Girls logo and red lipstick
November 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Happy Halloween!
A jack o' lantern with a goofy scary face lit by a candle
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Tell me your social media intern doesn't watch sci-fi without telling me they don't watch sci-fi
Screenshot of an Instagram post from Master Replicas. The post is an ad for a replica communicator from Star Trek: The Original Series. There is an image of the replica and a link to shop now. The item is identified as a communicator in the caption. The rest of the caption reads, "Step through the Stargate and into adventure. Explore authentic Stargate replicas today!"
October 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Celebrating Thanksgiving by banishing more ghosts over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay
Gamer girl selfie with Prophecy Girls T-shirt
October 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Live at Twitch.tv/tachyondecay with more Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden!
Gamer girl selfie with mic, headset. I'm wearing blue glasses and a red lip. I'm making the peace sign with my hand
October 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Screenshot from Mean Girls (2004). A group of high school girls sits on bleachers, their hands raised. The caption reads, "Raise your hand if you have ever felt personally victimized by Regina George" but "Regina George" has been replaced by "Jay Graeber"
October 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Been a few weeks, but I'm back with Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden at twitch.tv/tachyondecay
Gamer girl selfie with headset and mic. I'm wearing a brown T-shirt and a red lip
October 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Life of a Showgirl marketing has officially jumped the shark
As It Happens headline: "This bright orange shark has shocked and delighted scientists" The subheading reads, "Researchers suspect rare genetic mutations caused the unusual colour, but they don’t know why." By Sheena Goodyear on September 3, 2025. There's a photo of a bright orange shark in the water and a man leaning out on a boat to look at it.
September 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Smith literally operating on a "I know it when I see it" definition of pornography. COME ON.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Smith was more blunt in a subsequent post on X, formerly Twitter.  "I'm going to be more explicit than usual so there is no misunderstanding this policy: 1. Get graphic pornographic images out of school libraries. 2. Leave the classics on the shelves," she wrote.  "3. We all know the difference between the items in 1 and 2. Let's not play any more games in implementing this policy for our kids."
September 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Preacher Robot from Futurama stands over a prostrate Bender. Caption reads, “Wretched sinner unit the path to robot heaven lies here in the good book 3.0.”
August 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Where is the button for “fuck (and I cannot stress this enough) all the way off”?
A popup on Google search results. The Google "G" logo inside a rainbow-bordered search box with the prompt “Ask anything..” Below, a heading: “New! Try AI Mode” with the caption reading “Search whatever’s on your mind and get AI-powered responses.” There are two buttons: “Not interested” and “Continue”
August 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Pendlebury’s localization convo is fun because us Canadians always get caught in the crossfire 😆 Usually an American localization is close enough to us, but every once and a while I read something sooooo Americanized it sounds like this: (@jemmviolet on Insta)
August 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Now @arstechnica.com simping for AI, shame on you

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For historians and digital humanities researchers, these kinds of experiments may be useful. Training AI language models on period texts may allow for the creation of interactive period linguistic models that offer a researcher a chance to converse with a simulated speaker of an extinct vernacular or language of the past. The results would not necessarily be factually rigorous due to confabulations, but they could be stylistically illuminating for someone studying antique syntax or vocabulary in use.
August 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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The Gardening™. Going to bum perennials off my neighbours over the next few weeks and scatter wildflower seeds in the spring.
A rectangular in-ground garden bed bordered by wood in front of a deck with a railing. The garden bed is overgrown with tall thistles, dandelions, grass, and other weeds An empty rectangular in-ground garden bed in front of a deck with a railing. The garden bed has fresh, smooth soil and brand-new scalloped concrete edging around three sides.
August 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Been way too long since I went to the library and did a good ol' fashioned #BookHaul

I 💜 my library!!
Eight library books arranged in two rows of four on a couch. First row, from left to right: Shards of Earth, by Adrian Tchaikovsky; Supernova, by Marissa Meyer; Waste Wars, by Alexander Clapp; Ancestral Night, by Elizabeth Bear. Second row, from left to right: Glass Houses, by Madeline Ashby; Semiosis, by Sue Burke; Network Effect, by Martha Wells; The Faithless, by C.L. Clark.
August 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Playing Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay
Gamer girl selfie with a red T-shirt, hair in a ponytail, headset and mic
August 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I'm starting a new game tonight over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden!
Gamer girl selfie with headset, mic, red lipstick.
July 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Playing the FPS that started it all for me as a kid: Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force! twitch.tv/tachyondecay
Gamer girl selfie with blue glasses, purple lipstick, headset and mic
July 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Saturday afternoon Mass Effect over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay
Gamer girl selfie with a blue dress with diamonds on it and purple lipstick
July 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Friday night Mass Effect over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay
Gamer girl selfie with polka dot dress and a red lip
July 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Live at twitch.tv/tachyondecay with more Mass Effect 3

I'm just a girl, trying to save the galaxy from the Reapers
Gamer girl selfie with headset, mic, blue dress with white polka dots
June 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Mass Effect 3 time! twitch.tv/tachyondecay
Gamer girl selfie in a gingham dress, with headset and mic and a red lip
June 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Playing Mass Effect 3 over at twitch.tv/tachyondecay
Gamer girl selfie with headset, mic. Red Prophecy Girls sweatshirt, hair in a braid over my right shoulder
June 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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"Change My Mind" meme with caption reading, "Naomi Wildman was one of the best parts of Voyager: change my mind."
May 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM