Tamara

@procrastamara

Chaotic gardener. Seasonal knitter. Library enthusiast. Very, very distractible. #HamOnt (Canada). Xennial. ⚓️ #ProtectTransKids she/her

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Tamara@procrastamara· 18d

Probably just don't swim in the lake this weekend...

Screenshot: headlines from the Toronto Star on Apple News, all 15h ago:

Stay out of the water at two Toronto public beaches
Stay out of the water at four Niagara public beaches
Stay out of the water at two Halton public beaches
Stay out of the water at nine York Region public beaches
Stay out of the water at four Durham public beaches

Tamara@procrastamara· 19d

lol remember this billboard that the city put up during covid? No one ever remembers the paramedics. 🤪

Billboard, drawn by a child. It’s actually pretty sweet. It says: thank you first responders, and then there are drawings with the labels: doctor, nurse, fireman/woman, police.

Tamara@procrastamara· 19d

“Old English” 😳 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

members of society. Margaret Rennix, Harvard's assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support, told me shed spoken with a student who was struggling to read a book written in Old English. The culprit: Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange. (The student used ChatGPT to "translate" the book into easier language.) Not long ago, a Harvard sociology

Tamara@procrastamara· 22d

Highlights from a very long but very interesting FB post about the vast size of the Canadian boreal forest. I knew it was big but I didn’t appreciate how big. You can read the whole entire thing at: www.facebook.com/share/p/14fM...

From Hudson Valley Weather Facebook page…

Canada's boreal forest: ~1.3 billion acres (about 520 million hectares or 2 million square miles). It stretches from the Yukon to Newfoundland in an almost continuous belt.

Largest U.S. forest (Tongass National Forest, Alaska): 16.7 million acres.

Largest forest in the contiguous U.S. (Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest): about 6.3 million acres.

A AIl U.S. National Forests combined: about 193

From Hudson Valley Weather Facebook post…

Canada's boreal forest is roughly 78 times larger than the Tongass, the largest forest in the United States.

It's roughly 7 times larger than all 154 U.S.
National Forests combined.

It represents one of the largest intact forest ecosystems left on Earth, with vast areas that have no roads and are inaccessible except by aircraft or winter roads.

Less than 9% of Canada's population lives within this region, and less than 1% of the boreal forest itself is developed.

Most of the boreal is remote, roadless, and inaccessible, making large-scale forest management and wildfire suppression fundamentally different from managing forests near populated areas in the U.S.

In ecosystems like the boreal forest, wildfire is one of nature's primary management tools and has shaped these forests for thousands of years. While forest management absolutely has an important role near communities, roads, and other developed areas, applying that approach across more than a billion acres of largely roadless wilderness simply isn’t practical.

Tamara@procrastamara· 26d

lol

Screenshotting to get both posts...

Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social
We'll turn off the smoke when It Happens, America.

Sean MacK @stmack.bsky.social
It's like the opposite of elective a new Pope.

Tamara@procrastamara· 28d

Wait a minute…

Tamara@procrastamara· 28d

Happy inhaler day to everyone who celebrates.

From Accuweather: Hamilton, Ontario 25°c. Current air quality today 173 AQI Very Unhealthy

Tamara@procrastamara· 29d

My son would like you all to know that our cat caught a mouse.

Black cat stretched out on cardboard with her chin resting on a pink computer mouse.

Tamara@procrastamara· 29d

If it makes you feel any better, it's just a photoshop job. Or I guess AI, nowadays. This is the original. But yes, the shame of the Trump era is going to last a long time, regardless.

The original photo, originally released by the White House on Aug. 18, 2025. Gathered around Trump and a map of Ukraine, it featured U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

Tamara@procrastamara· Jul 9

Halloween in July. Total disregard for Christmas in July.

Throw pillow at ikea featuring a jack-o-lantern.

Tamara@procrastamara· Jun 23

Reminder: every cup of water you drink is a cup of water Al centers can't use to cool their computers. So if you're not doing it to take care of yourself, at least do it to be petty.

Tamara@procrastamara· Jun 17

lol at google

Google search for “widow’s bay”. Google asks: did you mean: the next Martha’s Vineyard and definitely not cursed?

Tamara@procrastamara· Jun 16

It frustrates me that different cities have different rules. Shouldn’t driving laws be standardized?

From toronto.ca website: BIKE BOX
Bike boxes are used at intersections to designate a space for cyclists to wait in front of cars at the red light. At red lights, the drivers must stop at the stop line, behind the bike box. A bike box means right hand turns on red lights are not permitted.

From hamilton.ca website: If turns are permitted "on red" at the intersection, you may advance into the bike box to make a turn if the bike box is not
occupied by a cyclist.

Tamara@procrastamara· Jun 10

Is my cat actively trying to kill me?

Wooden stairs with a small back mat by the door. There is a black cat on the mat but she is hard to see.

Tamara@procrastamara· Jun 5

Also this one.

Yellow Simpsons-style hand holding a pamphlet. On the cover is the text: so you’ve decided to become isolated and weird, and then there’s a photo of Bart looking out a window from underneath the blinds.

Tamara@procrastamara· Jun 5

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Brown Cheshire Cat perched in a tree looking down at Alice. The cat is saying “we’re all mad here” and Alice responds “at me?”

Tamara@procrastamara· May 22

I don’t know this denomination, someone tell me how to feel about it.

Tamara@procrastamara· May 21

The city can be so noisy sometimes. This is one minute in my backyard.

List from Merlin app. There’s a photo of the bird beside each name.

American robin
Mourning dove
Blue jay
Northern mockingbird
Northern cardinal
Chimney swift
House sparrow

Tamara@procrastamara· May 21

Well I'd hate for you to play alone...

Screenshot from game. Background is purple. In yellow, it says "SCORE 120669", then there's a button that says "PAUSE".

On the next line, it says: Time 374.2s - Pieces 89 - Lv 6

Then, on the third and most important line, its says "BEST 120669 - TAMARA". Which could be any Tamara, but then why would I be bragging?

Tamara@procrastamara· Apr 25

It's not really in the middle.

Road fatalities per billion vehicle-kilometres, 2021. Taken from the OECD Road Safety Annual Report 2023

Starts at Norway, just under 2, then it's: Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, Finland, Netherlands, Austria, Japan, France, Isreal, Slovenia, New Zealand, Korea, US, Poland, and then Czechia at just under 10.

Tamara@procrastamara· Apr 13

What’s this thing in the sky? Should we be concerned?

Where to start. OK Trump is in the middle. Wearing Jesus robes. He’s got a glowing orb in his hand and he’s healing a sick man in front of him. The sick man is in a hospital bed, and around him are a nurse, a military guy, some people praying. In the background is a flag, an eagle, Statue of Liberty, some army plane things, and then circled in yellow are figures in the sky that… I don’t know what they are. They’ve got horns or something. I don’t know. I think they’re supposed to be military people, but the AI didn’t get them quite right.

Tamara@procrastamara· Mar 28

Guess I don’t get to read my book tonight.

Close up of black cat lying on an orange couch. You can see the hint of a book under her chin. I’m

Tamara@procrastamara· Mar 15

Search your camera roll for hell

Screenshot of post from branmacmuffin.bsky.social. Black and white movie. Ebeneezer Scrooge leaning out window. Text is “you, boy. What fresh hell is this.”

Tamara@procrastamara· Mar 8

How does Merlin know it’s a mockingbird if it’s just imitating other birds?

Screenshot. Top says 7 Mar - Hamilton, ON. Then there’s a sound wave graph with grey lines. Then it lists five birds with photos of redbone/ Northern Mockingbird (with an orange circle half filled in, which apparently means “uncommon”), Merlin (with a red circle filled in, which means “rare” even though we hear Merlins all the time), Northern Cardinal, European Sterling, House Sparrow.

Tamara@procrastamara· Mar 1

Services Ontario? I hate lazy scammers.

Screenshot of scam text.

Services Ontario:
Following a review of the 2025 drivers license renewal fees, an overpayment has been identified.

And then partially cut off, For details, See: link that obviously you should not go to.

Tamara@procrastamara· Feb 17

The last time I put my windshield wipers up before a storm, the ice was so heavy that the wipers bent under the weight — they didn’t touch the glass and I couldn’t clear my windows at all. It took days before they thawed and flattened enough to be useable again. Consider this a PSA.

A snow-covered car with windshield wipers up in the air.

Tamara@procrastamara· Feb 16

I don’t know, maybe if you sat closer to the tv…

Black cat with her front paws over a sound bar, a couple centimetres from our tv. We have the Minecraft aquarium playing. She wants to eat those blocky, blocky fishes.

Tamara@procrastamara· Feb 11

These are pretty good seats. Kind of high though. I haven’t made myself look straight down yet.

Looking down from the first row of the balcony to a still-empty theatre. There’s a large “& Juliet” on the stage.

Tamara@procrastamara· Feb 8

I'm sorry, what?

Screenshot of weather for Hamilton, ON.

Weird lumpy circle that's probably supposed to represent a sun.

-21ºC in big, bold letters to really drive the misery home.

Precipitation: 0%
Humidity: 74%
Wind: 10 km/h

Screenshot of weather for Hamilton, ON.

Sad grey cloud.

-5ºC in big, bold letters.

Precipitation: 10%
Humidity: 86%
Wind: 14 km/h

Tamara@procrastamara· Jan 1

StoryGraph Wrap Up 2025! I think my favourite was North Woods by Daniel Mason. I also really enjoyed: The Fox Wife (Choo), Annihilation (Vandermeer), The Tainted Cup (Bennett), The Only Good Indians (Jones), Bunny (Awad), Mistborn (Sanderson), and Scythe (Shusterman).