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Em MacKenzie

@emilymackenz

yeg-based queer AuDHD mom of 2, working in tech and making bad art with great enthusiasm. she/her

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Stressed, sore, sick, and exhausted beyond belief, so I’m like “I’ll just unwind by putting on a movie” and land on grave of the fireflies??? So now I’m also emotionally devastated.

09.03.2026 05:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I always found the morality of AIs in science fiction so cut and dry (possibly because in sci fi robots are written as autistic people and I find them relatable lol) but LLMs are so clearly NOT people with feelings we should be concerned about I’m starting to feel differently about fiction

08.03.2026 05:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I need to stop reading about haunted paintings and finish packing

06.03.2026 16:41 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This week just sucks, idk what else to say

04.03.2026 16:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good lord lol

03.03.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The ones you have in your instagram profile pic are super cute

01.03.2026 18:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sounds cuuute, I support all of this

01.03.2026 16:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I saw your FB post about it and if I could eat gluten I would be there in a second 🥲

28.02.2026 16:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Next weekend 🙃 no worries, I’ll find some!

27.02.2026 22:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good tip, thanks!

27.02.2026 21:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

New house secured 💪 goodbye forever scary neighbour. But also does anyone happen to have any moving boxes I could take off their hands 😅

27.02.2026 21:03 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

My daughter has one of these in her life too. Absolute force of chaos in my home, most ADHD child I have ever met. I would die for her and I’m so glad she has her lol.

27.02.2026 17:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

God, don’t we all

27.02.2026 02:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😅 it was a silly shoot I had volunteered for, but Devin’s presence was unplanned, and he just happened to look super hot because he was out doing sales all day, so I got a lil bonus couples shoot

27.02.2026 02:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Me in a red satin dress, big beige (fake) fur coat, sunglasses and a Russian-style fur hat, standing back to back with Devin, who is wearing sunglasses, a red scarf, and a grey coat. We are looking over our shoulders at each other. He looks cool and I look pretty goofy.

Me in a red satin dress, big beige (fake) fur coat, sunglasses and a Russian-style fur hat, standing back to back with Devin, who is wearing sunglasses, a red scarf, and a grey coat. We are looking over our shoulders at each other. He looks cool and I look pretty goofy.

A series of events too convoluted to get into led to Devin and I being dressed up in the woods together with a photographer present and now this photo exists and I am beyond thrilled

27.02.2026 01:26 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Property management company is thankfully looking for somewhere they can relocate us to, which at least takes away the stress of hunting for a new rental. But moving sucks. For the 4th time in just over 2 years. Fml.

26.02.2026 16:26 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So I just get to live in fear now I guess, keeping my family locked down inside, afraid to even open the door to let the dog out. I am fucking STRESSED.

26.02.2026 16:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So police came and some talked to me while the others talked to her, but no one ever told me what happened? It’s been quiet… I suspect she is being held again. But I have no information or way to know if/when she’ll be dropped at home again, ready to come at me again?

26.02.2026 16:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So, yesterday my neighbour tried to force her way into my house while screaming threats and abuse through the door. The only somewhat coherent thing she said was blaming me for her being held overnight (presumably a psychiatric hold). I called 911 because I was terrified.

26.02.2026 16:26 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

It really fucking sucks that just when I felt like my life was sorted out and stable after years of post-divorce chaos, more random chaos struck. It also sucks trying to get a mentally ill mother kicked out of her home! I really don’t know what I’m supposed to do here but something’s gotta give.

25.02.2026 19:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Alright I’m officially scared enough to break my lease, if anyone has a lead on three bedroom dog-friendly rentals in northeast Edmonton please hmu 😩

25.02.2026 19:15 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Some papers scattered on a bed. Two of them are pages split with a line down the middle with different watercolour illustrations on either side, one by her and one by me. There’s also a cute character illustration in ink by my daughter, an abstract in gouache by me, and one paper has an abstract watercolour background with paper pieced abstract flowers collaged over it that we made together.

Some papers scattered on a bed. Two of them are pages split with a line down the middle with different watercolour illustrations on either side, one by her and one by me. There’s also a cute character illustration in ink by my daughter, an abstract in gouache by me, and one paper has an abstract watercolour background with paper pieced abstract flowers collaged over it that we made together.

My daughter keeps asking to do art together lately and it makes me very happy ☺️ I’m a terrible illustrator and usually stick to realism from a reference so it’s fun to push myself to learn new things. She is extremely talented at illustration though.

24.02.2026 17:26 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It feels ridiculous but I don’t know what else to do really. It sucks being afraid to leave the house and not being able to let my kids play outside because there’s a woman sitting right outside my front door all the time waiting to start shit with me.

24.02.2026 00:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trying to figure out how to get a restraining order against my neighbour and wow it is just. Really designed to be a nightmare, eh.

24.02.2026 00:12 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tummy hurt

20.02.2026 20:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Damn that kicks ass

20.02.2026 17:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Golden retriever leaping through snow, mouth open, eyes wild

Golden retriever leaping through snow, mouth open, eyes wild

My dog has the snow madness

20.02.2026 03:00 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anyone got any quick hacks to defeat a deep-seated belief that you are unworthy of lasting love

19.02.2026 15:19 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Felt a flicker of guilt when I saw my neighbour shovelling our shared walk today… but then I remembered that bitch stole my shovel 😅

18.02.2026 04:41 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A card with a watercolour painting of Flubs the Fool, a little anthropomorphic frog standing on a cliff, a stick and bindle over his shoulder and a giant red flower in his other hand. He’s wearing a belted tunic with a lily pad print on it and is reminiscent of The Fool from tarot. The card says “I’m a fool for you” with a heart. Next to it is a Magic: the Gathering card with the same image.

A card with a watercolour painting of Flubs the Fool, a little anthropomorphic frog standing on a cliff, a stick and bindle over his shoulder and a giant red flower in his other hand. He’s wearing a belted tunic with a lily pad print on it and is reminiscent of The Fool from tarot. The card says “I’m a fool for you” with a heart. Next to it is a Magic: the Gathering card with the same image.

Valentine inspired by a whimsical frog man card that Dev always destroys me with on MTG Arena (also got him the actual card because we love a weird little guy)

14.02.2026 21:58 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0