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Leah Bobet

leahbobet@mstdn.ca

<p>Award-winning author of AN INHERITANCE OF ASHES and ABOVE, editor, book reviewer, &amp; food security/mutual aid organizer. Socially responsible dirtbag with her headphones on.</p><p>Also: <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TOpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TOpoli</span></a>, indie music, urban ag, circular economies, climate, <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BlueJays" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlueJays</span></a>, occasional celiac cooking, increasing levels of permaculture. For years I&#39;ve ended these with &quot;against entropy,&quot; a la John M. Ford, but recently realized: it&#39;s actually futility I have a problem with. Against futility.</p>

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    @sinituulia@eldritch.cafe I laugh because I too have this system. One physical spot for &quot;you already did that!&quot; One physical spot for &quot;take your vitamins!&quot; Foolproof. 😁

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    I am starting to be able to use the Doppler radar of AI debates to identify who, in my own life, is terrifyingly lonely and unable to ask for human help.

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    I am not just dunking on the slightly parasitical Marxist kids (I know I&#39;m unfair to them, but it&#39;s really uncool to piggyback other people&#39;s work while always refusing to do any of your own, and it&#39;s a longstanding situation; I&#39;m not by far the only skeptic there). Batting this around with said acquaintance -- who does do things, is involved with unions etc. -- has me thinking about, I don&#39;t know. Context starvation? Where the line is in terms of how much context about...

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    The nice thing about the journal that takes 10 months to reply but also takes 6-10 poems per submission (they also pay well, they legitimately earn that long response time) is that every year you get a tiny snapshot of your working themes and recent-ish output. Didn&#39;t *feel* like I had an interesting year in drafting poetry? But: not bad, not bad. #poetry

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    Looks like I might have to migrate servers here. Anyone super happy with theirs?

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    Supervisor is quite happy with the draft I turned in, got a manageable quote to fix the bathroom grout, granadillas and mangoes and cheap figs are back in action at the Chinese grocery, and there&amp;#39;s finally new Taskmaster (oh thank god). Never has a girl both needed and earned this much #Friday

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    It&amp;#39;s a little too easy for anything to oversignify these days, but my dentist&amp;#39;s office wanting to take a passport-style photo of me and keep it on file &amp;quot;so we can recognize people and greet them by name&amp;quot;? That&amp;#39;s *weird*. Dentist&amp;#39;s offices are not exactly a bastion of good interpersonal boundaries, but: weirdos. (Fair and balanced coverage: Both my health card renewal and the mammogram office acted like perfectly pleasant, normal people yesterda...

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    In less bemused news: Contributor&amp;#39;s copies in the mail this week for ON OCCASION, Coach House Books&amp;#39;s anthology of occasional verse. I&amp;#39;m flipping through the TOC and it&amp;#39;s both wide and deep in here. Official release date is May 12th, available both from Coach House and booksellers who love ya. https://chbooks.com/Books/O/On-Occasion #poetry

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    @chu I&#39;m not trying to pick a fight with you about geopolitics on a Sunday. C&#39;mon, you know me, I&#39;m not Internet Troll Bot. Do you legit want me to unpack it? Because I&#39;ll open that interaction up linguist-style if we&#39;re like, having the neighbour-to-neighbour conversation and you&#39;re legitimately interested, and it isn&#39;t just some challenge to pick holes in, but I don&#39;t want to do Culture War today.

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    @Firlefanz @scalzi I read the fake praise, feel good about myself, say &quot;Thank you!&quot; to the air, and then block the sender before I get to the sales pitch. It&#39;s turning into a really nice off-label use.