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“Mirrorwall: Ripple Effect”
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#architecture#blue#buildings#distortion#downtown#Financial District#First Canadian Place#glass#glazing#grid#mirrorball#mirrored#mirrors#ripples#skyscrapers#Toronto
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People declaring the Pope should excommunicate Joe Biden for genocide has me like??? Bro...what do you think the Catholic Church was built on...
#Pope Francis did call for a ceasefire and actually used the word ''cease'' even if he used waffly both-sides language#he's also been pretty progressive about recognizing and apologizing for the church's role#in the Canadian First Nation's and Rwandan genocides#but that's still bare minimum#and there was that whole deal with the Catholic Church helping save Jews in the Holocaust#but trying to help the people you helped victimize in the first place shouldn't be counted IMO#certainly doesn't erase centuries of Jewish persecution#xtianty#colonialism#Spanish colonialism#Portuguese colonialism#genocide#genocide Joe#free palestine#knee of huss
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It's a lot, sometimes. When you finish a story, a show or book or fic or whatever, that is one of those ones in your heart that's like. Real. Real, not in a "i'm out of touch with reality and can't separate it from fiction" sort of way but in a "it doesn't really matter that the material is fictional, I was subsumed enough in it that I felt deeply - and my emotions, my love for these characters, my experience and memory of these events in their story, are still real regardless" sort of way.
And like. The tragedy of it is that in the end, you are alone in it, in the grief of the story itself, or the ending of it, because they're not real. The people you shared the experience of the story with are not real, and so you have nobody to feel that with but your own mind.
Hell of a thing.
#Fandom is sometimes a salve when you can share those feelings but like#sometimes it's a little canadian show that's over a decade old#and the fandom is mostly gone or never was in the first place#and even then would anyone else really get it#would they really ever understand it the same way you did#being human and having an imagination strong enough to do this is such a wild thing sometimes
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#thinking of dinosaurs and troodontids were my favorite dinosaurs as a child#when younger i had a real full troodontid tooth fossil that meant a lot to me#for a time we lived within a few kilometers of hadrosaur sites and troodontid sites#while wider general area had many sites of recovery for the big celebrities like tyrannosaur and multiple dromaeosaurs#at that time troodontids were kinda infamous for i think the depiction in some childrens field guides and dino books#which depicted like a fantasy speculative humanoid troodontid based on 1980s model at Canadian Museum of Nature in ottawa#anyway would visit a small local paleo center a lot and woman in her 70s or 80s ran the counter of their center and rock shop#one day she asked me what my fave dino was and i said troodon so she pulled out the tooth and just gifted it to me#in little black case size of ring box with padding and transparent plastic viewing cover kinda like laminate for displaying a trading card#tooth got stolen from out my vehicle while giving some people a ride while at university before i got too poor for tuition#later during first year of pandemic owner of my storage unit died and new property owners threw away everything i ever owned#i was homeless anyway lost job due to early pandemic closures and had to allocate any money to insulin and other prescrip meds#but wouldve found a way to save my things if the new owners had contacted me#they threw out photoalbums y backpacking gear y books y musical instruments y clothes y artwork y camera y all family keepsakes#and all childhood treasures like souvenirs and gifts and school awards and writing portfolios and all the little memories#which i was always sentimental about as child#from earliest age my room looked like a natural history museum with plants and maps and library of field guides#and rocks and field trip keepsakes and all kinds of little animal figurines and mother had painted room in forest greens and browns#to feel like a forest and among the succulent plants and a globe sat the troodon tooth#parents passed when i was a child#never near any family and were always moving never got to settle into proper stable place then father passed after long sad illness#and mother put in so much effort but she passed few years later and i could not take care of myself or my remaining material possessions#and so im still quite hurt having nothing whatsoever remaining of my childhood or school friends or mother or life generally#and when trying to process grief my thoughts often come back to the troodontid tooth as a focal point a distillation of what was lost#even when young i knew it was advised not to become too connected to material physical possessions#but still there are some small little trinkets in our lives that seem to hold so much meaning and i tortured myself for losing that tooth#thinking about troodon reminds me of childhood
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im here to talk about my situationship (maybe? idk lmao) again. do guys drop lore about their own previous experiences to a girl that they have known for like a week. idk maybe its because he lives on residence and im a commuter but we have been texting a lot these past few days
#my rambles#im sososos sorry to anyone who's actually reading these it must sound nonsensical but as many other sheltered muslim girls I didn't have-#friendships with other guys a lot and im not the most used to talking with them so its been just a little surprising how easy it was to-#talk to this one#anyway hes nothing too special so far so he gets placed in friend first and then for the plot crush#that sounds mean but im in reality waiting for his replies with him in mind :/#but also hes a foot taller than me saurrrrrr chat im gonna be so honest im gonna need stilettos to talk to this guy face to face#did i mention hes white#that too#not just a canadian white but a european white#certainly on the other side of the spectrum from me in every regard 😭#about: 🍓
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I have to wonder how many people celebrating AI translation also complain about "broken English" and how obvious it is something was Google translated from another language without a fluent English speaker involved to properly clean up the translation/grammar.
Because I bet it's a lot.
I know why execs are all for it—AI is the new buzzword and it lets them cut jobs thus "save" money and not have to worry about pesky labour laws when one employs humans—but everyone else?
There was some outcry when Crunchyroll fired many of their translators in favour of AI translation (with some people to "clean up the AI's work") but I can't help but think that was in part because it was Japanese-to-English and personally affected them. Same when Duolingo fired many of their translators in favour of LLM translation. Meanwhile companies are firing staff when it's English to another language and there's this idea that that's fine or not as big a deal because English is "easy" to translate and/or because people don't think of how it will impact people in non-English countries.
Also it doesn't affect native English speakers so it doesn't get much headway in the news cycle or online anyway because so much of the dominant media is from English-speaking countries and English-speakers dominate social media.
But different languages have different grammar structures that LLMs don't do, and I grew up on "jokes" about people speaking in "broken English" and mocking people who use the wrong word when it was clearly a literal translation but the meaning was obvious long before LLMs were a thing, too. In fact, the specific way a character spoke broken English has been a way to denote their native tongue for decades, usually in a racist way.
Then Google translate came out and "Google-translated English" became an insult for people and criticism of companies because it was clearly wonky to native speakers. Even now, LLMs—which are heavily trained on English compared to other languages—don't have a natural output so native English speakers can clock LLM-generated text if it's longer than a sentence or two.
But, for whatever reason, it's not seen as a problem when it goes the other way because fuck non-English readers or people who want to read in their native tongue I guess.
#and it's not like no people were doing translations so wonky translations were better than nothing#it's actual translators being fired for a subpar replacement#and anyone who keeps their job suddenly being responsible for cleaning up llm output rather than what they trained in#(which can take just as much time or longer than doing the translation by hand from scratch)#(if you want it done right anyway)#hell to this day i hear people complain about written translations of indigenous words and how they 'aren't english enough'#even though they're using the ipa and use a system white english people came up with in the first place#and you can easily look up the proper pronunciation and hear it spoken#but there's such a double-standard where it's expected that other languages cater to english/english speakers#but that grace and accommodation doesn't go the other way#and it's the failing of non-english speakers when an english translation is broken#you see it whenever monolingual english speakers travel to other countries and utterly refuse to learn the language#but if someone doesn't speak in unaccented (to them) english fluently in their home country the person 'isn't trying hard enough'#this is just the new version of that where non-english speakers are supposed to do more work and put up with subpar translations#even as a native english speaker/writer i get a (much) lesser version of this because i write with canadian spelling#and some people get pissed if their internet experience is disrupted by 'ou' instead of 'o' or '-re' instead of '-er'#because dialects and regional phrasing/spelling is a thing#human translators can (or should) be able to account for it but llms are not smart enough to do so#and that's not even getting into slang and how llms don't account for it#or how llms can put slurs into translations because it doesn't do nuance or context and doesn't know the language#if you ever complained about buying something from another country that came with machine-translated instructions#you should be pissed at companies cutting english-to-[language] staff in favour of glorified google translate#because the companies are effectively saying they're fine with non-native speakers getting a wonky/broken version
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I want to buy a sticker from your shop, but shipping (to Canada) is down as $22 before tax. May I ask why it costs so much to ship a single sticker? Is it Etsy being weird, or does it really cost that much to send an envelope over the border?
I'm not trying to be snarky or passive aggressive or anything, I'm genuinely just kind of befuddled atm.
A fair question honestly! USPS sets the rates for international shipping, and shipping to canada really is about that expensive 😭 I considered sending stickers via envelopes, but 1. if I send them with a stamp (less than $2) they don't have tracking, and etsy Does Not Like That. I gotta send packages with shipping to qualify for star seller, plus it covers your ass in case USPS loses it. and 2. apparently it's illegal to send merchandise internationally in envelopes!! so sadly we're all stuck dealing with the super crazy international rates. I don't like it either because as someone who deals in trinkets, people generally do not want to pay $16 for a charm that costs $12, and they especially don't want to pay that for a sticker that costs $4... I would ABSOLUTELY have way more international sales if USPS wasn't fucking us with the prices but it's out of my control dssdjkfjksdf
I give this advice a lot, but if you don't want to pay international shipping (or just live in a country I don't ship to myself), you can borrow the address of a friend that lives in the states and they can forward it to you! I don't actually know if this is cheaper, but some people have said it is. it's def cheaper for stickers though if your friend uses a stamp!
TL;DR yeah etsy and USPS are Both Weird, sorry ; - ; i assure you i hate it even More than you do lmao
#etsy#not art#ask#anonymous#anon#i think i actually did have like three canadian sticker orders last week all in the same day#one of them ordered multiple stickers but two were just. One. and i'm like. you guys are either rich or crazy but either way i respect it#even US shipping is getting more and more expensive. five years ago i'd pay 2.80 to ship a 1 oz first class package#now its almost $4. even just over $4 if i ship to like California or something!#i'm gonna put a general PSA here to please not be too upset with small businesses' shipping rates even in the US#not to imply anon is or that anybody has said anything! but i do see like tiktoks and social media comments#on Other People's Pages saying like OMG $5 SHIPPING??? INSANE I'M NOT PAYING THAT#amazon has spoiled you guys sorry. shipping isn't free. not only do i have to pay for the shipping label#i have to pay for my bubble mailers. my envelopes. the thermal labels i print on. i recycle my bubble wrap at least but i have to pay#for materials as well. so this seems like a good place to mention it#frankly i shouldn't even have the stupid 'free shipping over $35' thing because again shipping is like $4 give or take 30c by location#but etsy makes me and it Does bring in sales so i'll pretend it balances out
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Please more Canadian movies/shows like Ginger Snaps and Lost Girl and Orphan Black and Surrealestate and Wild Cards and Life WIth Derek that are obviously Canadian and take place in Canada
#ginger snaps#lost girl#orphan black#surrealestate#continuum#wild cards#life with derek#life with luca#the grizzlies#sam saying 'sweet fuck all' and Ontario license plates in Ginger Snaps#they mentioned Tim Horton's in the first season of Surrealestate you guys#I wanna put Dead Before Dawn on here too it should take place in canada it's a Canadian movie#canada#text#strange days at blake holsey high should be on here it should be set in canada it's a canadian-american production
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eden fraser:
born in halifax, nova scotia to a professor of philosophy and a professor of english literature.
moved to san francisco to pursue a journalism degree, not wanting to be overshadowed by their parents' careers and relationships on-campus at home. attending berkeley's j-school.
came out as nonbinary in 12th grade, to support at home. underwent gender-affirming surgery in the summer between first and second year of university.
currently producing a multimedia investigative documentary into the disappearances of over a hundred queer men from the san francisco area in the early 1970s, as part of their senior project.
looks like this.
#ic ;; EDEN#about ;; EDEN#EVERYONE SAY HELLO TO MY?? FIRST CANADIAN????????#anyway. they're about to stick their nose into everyone's business as soon as 'interview' comes out#they're from halifax mostly because i miss the place. but also as a hat tip to hannah m#they Are iwtv based but like. they're a journalist. they can go anywhere really <3
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my uninformed american opinion is that i will be calling it derry not londonderry because im american and therefore will always support ireland if its ireland vs the british.
(i wasn't even going to post this but i wrote a whole essay in the tags so i don't want to waste that)
#i feel like i'm getting into very controversial waters here idk if i should say any of this#also. what do the actual people that live there call it bc i think that should be the end of it.#i saw on tiktok that the only foreign alliance that could make america turn against the uk would be ireland and i fully agree#(i live in new england. uhm. almost everyone here is irish) (irish american i suppose.)#i could talk about ireland and american relations. maybe i will.#here's my understanding of irish-american relations as someone who has never studied the topic in particular#but does have an interest in american history#first off. yes america is very good allies with the uk but culturally it's like. a bullying sort of thing. leftover resentment from the rev#i'm sure it's somewhat similar to everyone's resentment of america. maybe idk im not european#anyway america is built on underdog stories. thats like the foundation of our national culture. the american dream#and these stories started showing up innnnn .... the mid to late 1800s!!#do you know what also happened in the 1800s?#yup! irish people started fleeing their homeland to a better life (cough cough the americas)#so! in the time when stories about immigrants coming to america (the american dream- the most important part of us culture)#a ton of immigrants were irish! wow. do you see where i'm going with this#anyway about 9.5% of america is irish. which is A Lot (3rd most prominent ancestry)#and here in america bc being an immigrant and coming from immigrants and etc is kinda A Thing here#people typically hang on to their non-american identity#i mean i do. you can catch me talking about being french canadian a lot on tumblr.#another thing! even if you aren't irish american sometimes places r so irish that it kinda. blends into ur identification with a city#cough cough boston. cough cough massachusetts.#anyway . so. to recap#ireland and america share a common sorta not really enemy : the british. also they r the underdog which makes us sympathetic#And a lot of america has irish heritage and bc it's the us there's heritage actually matters (sorta)#and therefore the usa will always like ireland A Lot. or at least the people will.#rereading that i hope it makes sense#once again i am not a scholar and have not studied this topic these are just my inferences and observations#rain feathers talks#i will not be tagging this
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also when i was a kid basically the only tv i watched was the rick mercer report. so honestly it tracks that i would’ve become a tom scott fan
#neither of them are the first to do the ‘go to random places and film it’ genre but. yeah. yeah#i know tom definitelyyyy tries hard to avoid political content which rick. uh. did not. loll#but they did both have a comedy aspect to them aside from the ‘going places’ thing as tom had techdif#funny tho. i watched the mercer report end and now ive seen toms channel end.#tom scott#this is such a canadian ass post. sorry. real ones know rmr! best job in the country!#aww and now im thinking about stuart mclean… i witnessed the end of the vinyl cafe too…..#well. hes not that relevant here but rick mercer and stuart mclean TO ME have similar vibes#i remember someone on the radio saying ‘rick mercer has the best job in the country but i have the second best’ and it mightve been mclean?
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Who here has read The Invisible Library? 👀 I'm still in the beginning but it's CRAZY; there was just a steam-powered robot centipede attack in the middle of a city, but a heroic detective fought it off with an electro-sword (that was disguised as a cane up until that point), and when they were done (after some banter between the dastardly villain and the detective), everyone just sat back down to resume their dinner.
Plus, this was really funny:
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#plus when they first arrived in the world and the new guy said something out-of-place so the heroine was like 'Excuse him he's Canadian'#The Invisible Library#Invisible Library#books#diary post~
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been watching the great pottery throw down which is basically just gbbo but tbh I’m really loving it and it really makes me want to get back into ceramics again. Plus the guy judge, while my first impression of him was that he was an aggressive sleaze, is actually a passionate man about ceramics and cries when a piece moves him or when someone pushes through despite having a piece crack.
#its been very enjoyable#there’s one season of the canadian version which is how i found it in the first place#the judges are good their too! but also. seth rogan is there#personal monologues
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trying to navigate colonizer guilt to a privileged person of colour was not something I was trained for and I think there should be a crash course or something holy jesus
#“it's easier for you to donate to Palestine and stay informed because you're white” uhmmm#I know for a fact you could easily send over $30 and forget about it the very next day but erm#“its different for me because I am first generation canadian”#fun fact so were the first white people who came here. so are all the white europeans who still come here#my dad is first generation canadian#I know it's not that simple Obviously but to use it as a shield or justification for passivity and inaction in every. single. conversation.#barking barking barking#“I don't want to think about it because I want to set roots and I don't want to feel guilty for living in this country/on indigenous land”#cool!! so do I! so does everyone. navigating that and learning how to live in ways that reduce harm is The Whole Point of this conversation#in the first place#but yeah no I shouldn't encourage people to attend protests or stay informed because well.#y'know the whole reason I do it is because im white. and it's just so easy and simple and requires no research or energy#its not because I care. or anything
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EXCUSE ME BUT MY HOMETOWN ECHL TEAM IS MAKING A RUN AND I AM NOT NORMAL ABOUT IT AT ALL.
Canadian daddy loves us and wants to be happy. Carolina just said "meh fuck them kids."
STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM NOW WE HERE!
#unsolicited hockey posting#I just...have a lot of hockey feelings#Canadian daddy is the Winnipeg Jets#we were at the bottom of the league until this season when we switched NHL affiliates#or even had one in the first place
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After every (American) election, there's always a bunch of posts going around exposing psyops or pointing out how there were posts on this site designed to get people to not vote blue.
And in the lead up to every (American) election, there's a bunch of posts being reblogged that are clearly either psyops or manipulative posts that tell people it's perfectly okay for them not to vote at all.
Like, there's history going back years on this hellsite where the alt-right intentionally tried to undermine or indoctrinate people so they get/stay in power. History a lot of y'all know of or were even there for and saw go down in real time.
But sure, be uncritical of what you reblog, don't bother looking at the source website, or just put things out there without caveats or nuance.
#i know media literacy is trash these days#and that there's intentional misinformation/no information about elections#but i've seen people who have reblogged things about psyops in the past who both reblog and support current ones#but unlike other social media sites you can reblog a post but then stick nuance in the tags#you can be critical of something while also gritting your teeth and supporting it because the alternative is worse#you can (and should) also be critical of the systems that lead to that in the first place#throwing your hands up and saying there's no point and you aren't going to bother#and it's fine if others do the same#is just giving up and saying it's too hard for you and you don't care about the harm that comes to others#the canadian system is different (though first past the post tries to make it the same)#but you can bet i'd vote for trudeau even though fuck him and his racist ass#if the alternative was pp because while trudeau sucks for many reasons#pp is fucking terrifying to me as a disabled queer person#and i'm lucky in that i'm white and canadian and can pass as cishet so i'd be spared the worst of it#others would not be so lucky#especially when his fans are eager to hate crime people and only hold themselves back because they would face social consequences#also learn what is private criticism you keep to yourself or talk to friends about#and what is okay to talk about publicly#some things you don't fucking say when it will be taken as permission for antipathy or approval by fascists
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