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Content designer. Certified Copy Editor. Mildly scatterbrained cat lady. I like thinking about UX, gardening, cats, books, music, tea, perfume, whatever. She/her. Fun stuff: booksandtea.ca Career stuff: christinavasilevski.com
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Every app I’ve ever liked (Sunrise calendar, Tweetdeck, Nuzzel, Dark Sky, to name a few) just gets acquired and shut down. Sad. www.theverge.com/news/672924/...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 guys I think we might have an actual fix for the fucking Gemini pop-ups the setting to control it is buried in your Gmail, not your Google Drive THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE’S HERO

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

I mentioned yesterday that I started reading Night Watch, but what you may not realize is that this is the culmination of a project over a year in the making. So I get into that a little bit here in my latest post. #discworld

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Attention fellow #Discworld readers: I am finally Doing The Thing and reading Night Watch in time for the glorious 25th of May!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Good evening. I am here to remind you that "Prey" is an absolute banger of a movie, and it's still on Disney+. Predator prequel with a badass heroine who succeeds because of her wits, just over 90 minutes long, AND THE DOG DOES NOT DIE. Go watch it.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

submitted 9 days ago • 958 comments

I spent some time futzing around with my site and using a new WordPress theme, and I'm finally happy with it. To celebrate, here's a new post recapping part of the trip I took to Iceland last year.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I found out a few months ago that Mrs Dalloway was published 100 years ago this month. I started reading it this morning to celebrate the centenary. Still having trouble adjusting to the swooping discursiveness of it all -- but that's kind of the point, isn't it?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I saw @amalelmohtar.com today during the last stop of her book tour for The River Has Roots, and it was lovely! Here's a write-up of the whole event for those who missed it: booksandtea.ca/2025/05/book...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

“Convincing a majority of college students to use ChatGPT to do all their assignments so they develop zero actual marketable skills” does seem like a pretty handy way to set up the kids of the elite, who will presumably be eventually steered away from doing this, for further lifetime advantages

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

I did some major adulting just now and called both a handyman AND an insurance broker. Please give me some praise and a cookie. (Nothing bad happened to our home; these were just things on my mental to-do list for the day.)

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

It's amazing what a difference 6 days can make.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I've been remiss in making my #ThreeGoodThings posts over the past few days, so I'm going to clump a lot of random good things into this thread. So please follow along!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Adding to this thread: PBS Kids is incredibly valuable. I grew up with Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow. My kids had Daniel Tiger, Wild Kratts, Dinosaur Train, Molly of Denali. These shows teach so much in such a wonderful and loving way. Having them free for ALL kids is to important.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I'm currently reading "Careless People", the memoir from that former Facebook exec, and my god, it is infuriating. The author is like a dumb character in a haunted house movie: You just want to grab her by the shoulders and shake her and yell at her to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

I'm getting fidgety, and that's what happens when I get tired. So let's talk about my #ThreeGoodThings for the day and then I can get ready for bed. 1. I went to the garden again this morning and did more weeding. I think that's just what I need to focus on for the next week or so.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

"do you have food safety tips" yes as a matter of fact I do I think the people should elect representatives who appoint experts to keep food safe theres a tip for you

submitted 23 days ago • 24 comments

Hey, it's Wednesday and now I'm going to tell you #ThreeGoodThings that happened to me today. 1. On my walk to the office this morning, I saw a magnolia tree in bloom. Magnolia blossoms are fleeting, so I took a detour to admire them. I silently said "thank you" to the tree for existing.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

It's 9 pm. Time to reinforce this stupid wholesome habit for my stupid mental health and tell you about #ThreeGoodThings that happened to me today. 1. I had a physiotherapy appointment for my shoulder this morning before work. It hurts like fuck, but I need to unlearn years of bad ergonomic habits.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I know this is going to be lost in the avalanche of Canadian election news, but let me tell you about my #ThreeGoodThings for today: 1. My hold on "Careless People" came in from the library.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

With all sincerity, Elections Canada is a national treasure. - Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes - We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles - We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly

submitted 26 days ago • 124 comments

People have talked about how Bruce Fanjoy and his team of volunteers have made this real race here in Carleton by walking and knocking on doors, but I think that is even more impressive when you realize that Carleton is an ENORMOUS mostly rural riding that wraps around much of urban/surburban Ottawa

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments