Carleigh Baker

@carleighbaker
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Fiction writer, sometimes teacher, enthusiastic community builder, bunny mom, video game superfan, often irreverent and occasionally downright acerbic, May-TEA (nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân and mixed Euro), she/her. Bad Endings (stories) (Anvil Press, 2017) Forthcoming: Last Woman (stories) (McClelland & Stewart, 2024) and Mudlarkers (novel) (McClelland & Stewart)
Websitehttps://carleighbaker.com
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Carleigh BakerJan 8, 2023
I can't be the only one who saw that photo of Rep. Mike Rogers lunging at Rep. Matt Gaetz and thought of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC2EQvdzmY&ab_channel=MassAppeal
DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak feat. Run The Jewels (Official Video)

YouTube
Carleigh BakerJan 8, 2023
BC Info BotJan 8, 2023
CBC Indigenous: Yukon sisters create Southern Tutchone dictionary https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-southern-tutchone-dictionary-1.6706168?cmp=rss #FN #CBC #Indigenous #News/Canada/North
Yukon sisters create Southern Tutchone dictionary | CBC News

Two sisters, members of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations in the Yukon, created a pocket-size dictionary of Southern Tutchone words to help preserve the Indigenous language.

CBC
Carleigh BakerJan 7, 2023
Alex BlechmanJan 7, 2023
In the future AI technology will play video games for us. You'll say "Computer, play Doom" and a message will pop up saying "You have won Doom." This will free up valuable time for doing more work
Carleigh BakerJan 7, 2023
 Shlee fooled around &Jan 7, 2023
Our ancestors never imagined having this many tabs open at once.
Carleigh BakerJan 7, 2023
Hiromi GotoJan 7, 2023
A beloved house plant & symbol of lucky financial success I have watched in dismay as my own jade plants (often received as gifts) do poorly, dropping one crystallized leaf after another, until they're sorry stems. I have seen many many jade plants in many many homes. But I've never seen their flowers, not even in shops. But my friend has the happiest jade plant in the world. Stems as thick as my wrist. And abundant beautiful wee flowers... This is a wealth, immeasurable. #JadePlant #JadeFlower
Carleigh BakerJan 7, 2023
CabJan 6, 2023
Scientists left a hamster wheel in the woods, and wild mice, frogs even slugs had a wild time running in it. #Science #Mice #Rodents #Hamster https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2014.0210
Wheel running in the wild | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The importance of exercise for health and neurogenesis is becoming increasingly clear. Wheel running is often used in the laboratory for triggering enhanced activity levels, despite the common objection that this behaviour is an artefact of captivity and ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Carleigh BakerJan 6, 2023
Mariam Al-MasriJan 5, 2023

Been wanting to post about this book, but keep forgetting. Anyways, here's my rec that you all should read Ahmed Sadaawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad.

It takes place in the middle of Baghdad bombings where a junk dealer stitches together random body parts, but a soul without a body takes it becoming an Iraqi made entirely out of Iraqis.

I especially like how it delves into folklore around St. George.

https://a.co/d/hadvWDU

@bookstodon #bookrecs #ArabicLiterature #amreading #bookstodon #books

Carleigh BakerJan 5, 2023
Ann WheatleyJan 5, 2023

Responses so far to my request for works that aren't stuck in fear, gloom and doom narratives related to #sustainability #climate #environment
Please add

Movements
#TakeTheJump
#SolarPunk
#permaculture
#AIArt

Non-Fiction
#SusanneMoser
#GlennAlbrecht
#ElinKelsey
#DonellaMeadows
#AlastairMcIntosh
@annaleen
#SuzanneSimard
#RobinWallKimmerer
#MerlinSheldrake

Fiction and #clifi
@octaviacade
#KimStanleyRobinson
#ErnestCallenbach
#OctaviaButler
#RichardPowers
#CharlotteMcConaghy

Carleigh BakerJan 5, 2023
Well well well, look what arrived in the mail, my gorgeous salmon keychain from Adanchilla Pauls, (Tlingit/Tahltan member of Champaign&Ashiaik FN) you can find them on Instagram @adanchilla_designs! #Indigenous #IndigenousMastodon
Carleigh BakerJan 5, 2023
#Bookstodon @bookstodon #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity Any recommendations for books on accepting/coping with parents advancing age and (eventual) mortality? I am not doing a very good job of being the strong, grownup daughter they deserve. Fiction, memoir or other non-fiction titles all welcome!