Anna Carey

@annacarey.ca

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Urban naturalist in Durham Region, Ontario. Gardener (CA 5B), corporate information wrangler (MLIS) adjacent to climate tech. Known to work with VaxHunters Canada. She/her/they/Hedge Witch of the North "Things are bad" =/= "all is lost"

White trilliums growing under a wire cloche.
Grainy photo of a photo taken somewhere around 1999. A preteen girl in jean shorts and a t-shirt holds the rope of a brown pony's halter. A toddler girl is sitting on the pony's back with a huge grin.
A stack of books. The Rule Book / Stenros & Montola (game design); 52 Ways to Reconcile / Robertson (landback etc); A Natural History of Empty Lots / Brown AND Kew's Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants (naturalism/botany); Folklore / Davies & Holbrook (like it says on the tin). Topped by a box of cat-themed correspondence cards designed by Stasia Burrington.
Two sets of animal tracks in the snow. On the right, degraded, a set from a domestic cat. On the left, fresh, an unidentified canine with a calm gait pattern.
A cross-section of the trunk of a palm tree after cutting.
I'm struggling to alt text this so it makes sense, but doing my best! Screenshot of a bluesky feed. Top post from @dov.bsky.social quoting @pyramidmaster.bsky.social. Quoted post reads: "I've read a history book. this isn't new. if anything the only new part is we're threatening to do our normally racialized war crimes/crimes against humanity to white people now. who was letting America speak before" Dov's comment: "Greenlanders aren't white" Below, in a reply, @luxalptraum.com says: "Ah but everyone knows the real victims of the conquest of Greenland are the Danes"
A screenshot of an AI video. A black frame includes static text: ICE CHASES PROTESTOR (sic) IN MINNESOTA" and inside the frame a video is displayed in which many figures in what look like ICE uniforms are chasing someone, dressed in a fur cape and viking-style horned helmet, who is rolling down the street in what appears to be a bathtub mounted on giant rollerskate wheels. The video includes a ticker tape that says "LIVE, POVART, 4.06 PHM, POLICE CHASE: BATHTUB VIKING, 15 ICE AGENTS IN PURSUIT - PROTESTER AT LARGE." It is, to be clear, fake.
Screenshot of bluesky post by @dimcheff.wtf, bluesky elder, reposted by ae. Post reads: "happy boxing day to all who celebrate" Below text is a photo of a smallish grey tabby cat sitting in an Amazon shipping box. The cat gazes sweetly into a light source out of frame to the upper right.
A black cat lounges on a red and orange blanket spread over a person's outstretched legs.
Screenshot of a post linking an article in The Guardian. The photo is of Meghan Markle decorating a Christmas tree wearing a white button down shirt. The headline reads: "With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration review - take anti-nausea pills, she's back!"
A small black cat with a white patch under her chin and very big yellow eyes sits on a dark grey tile floor. A pink soft-sided carrier sits beside her, because she has only just arrived in her forever home.
A small black cat with a white chin patch is loafing on a dark grey tile floor. A carrier and scratching toy sit nearby.
A screenshot from The Murderbot Diaries in which Ratthi appears to be speaking. He has kind of a "hear me out" vibe. Overlaid are two screenshots of post text from username roboco-san. First post: my best feature is that I'm blindingly intelligent for about 30 seconds a day Second post: I do not get to choose which seconds. They are not consecutive.
A screenshot from The Murderbot Diaries in which Ratthi appears to be speaking. He has kind of a "hear me out" vibe. Overlaid are two screenshots of post text from username roboco-san. First post: my best feature is that I'm blindingly intelligent for about 30 seconds a day Second post: I do not get to choose which seconds. They are not consecutive.
Wilted New England asters and wild bergamot drape across a stump covered in cute little shelf fungi.
One big purple carrot in the grass. This guy is enormous. Still obviously a carrot but like, the size of an average adult foot and the length of an adult thumb across. It's a monster. Nearby, a multicolored pile of normal carrots and carrot tops.
A tumblr screenshot, credited to username zzoupz, the relevant part of which is an illustration of the Tower card in Tarot. The illustration is a fairly typical Tower design, with the addition of a human figure in the foreground, covered in blood, smiling a bit maniacally and giving a thumbs up. Text below the illustration on the card reads "Don't worry about it 👍🏻"
Gina Bellman in the style of her Leverage character, Sophie Devereaux, wearing a red beret and holding a wine goblet, pictured beneath a tweet that says "I absolutely- definitely - positively was not in Paris last night. #louvreheist"
Quote: “All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine! I have a duty!” ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
A mound of infill soil covered in weeds and wildflowers all covered in sunrise.
A small illustration in watercolour and ink of a yellow house with a red clay tile roof, a dark blue front door, and bougainvillea cascading down the facade. In front of the house is a stone path across a smooth lawn with a patch of lavender and a bird bath. To one side of the house is a small pond, and behind all of it is a forest including a huge weeping willow tree.
Navy background. In teal: "To a brighter tomorrow" and underneath, in gold script font, "that's my favourite one," an in-character exchange between Lou Wilson and Brennan Lee Mulligan in Worlds Beyond Number.
A small square painting in watercolour and ink, depicting an underwater scene (is it sunken ruins or an aquarium? Undetermined). A crumbling, ivy-covered domed white building reminiscent of Oxford's Bodleian library stands next to a similarly decrepit stone tower. They are surrounded by suggestions of underwater plants, coral, and aquatic life. A monument mostly hidden in foliage suggests a mounted soldier with rifle.
Mycetophilidae (fungus gnats) You love obscure facts, damp guests, and absolutely thriving in your little world of weird. About them: they are found in damp forests, closely associated with fungi.
Brown-belted bumble bee resting on a piece of wood.
A mallard and his mate steal seed from underneath a bird feeder.
Merlin sound ID report. List: Canada Goose, American robin, black-capped chickadee, dark-eyed junco.
A Merlin app sound ID report. List: house sparrow, northern cardinal, red-winged blackbird, American robin, eastern meadowlark, European starling, killdeer.
Three-panel comic from Kate Beaton. First panel: a mermaid on a rock playing a lyre Second panel: a pirate says "I don't like the thing you are doing can you do a different thing that I like" Third panel: close up on mermaid's face saying "I will fucking increase the fucking thing"