Writing about a dog on trial, feeling downright Aristophanic

Outstanding work, guys.

Oh DAMN, Eby! Call them OUT.

🔆📚The final submission deadline for the 2026 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is in 2 days on Jan 31, 2026! #SpecFic #CanLit #Horror #SFF #MagicRealism #Surrealism #Supernatural submissions.sunburstaward.org

Yesterday, I signed a pledge as a proud Albertan, to stand with Team Canada and reject separatism. Albertans deserve leadership focused on affordability, health care, jobs, and education. My question is simple: will every UCP MLA do the same? #ableg #abpoli

What is your favorite dragon in the history of Fantasy novels? If you can't pin it down, I'll take a top three!

Feeling frazzled and need a script to call your reps? This made it super, super easy. Do it. Call your reps. The DHS bill is now coupled with many other bills, and they are making it really difficult to defund ICE. Ask for a standalone DHS bill! Defund ICE and demand accountability!

“I, Sarah Hoffman, MLA for Edmonton-Glenora, affirm that I am a proud Albertan and a proud Canadian. I am opposed to separatism and I will make my position known and clear to my constituents.” I am hoping all my MLA colleagues will do the same.

As I overthink this some more... One of the challenges in class was that there was this toy poodle who was catching on to everything right away, as he has literally been bred to do. Evie, by comparison, looked less "smart" and more "smart for a whippet." But in fact, she IS smart!

One encouraging thing: at dog class on Saturday, we were trying to train "back up" and Evie was just not getting it in any way shape or form. Got home and realized she already DOES this when she wants me to throw the ball but she's too close, I gesture with the ball and she backs up.

Danielle Smith needs to unequivocally denounce separatism and stand united with Team Canada. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Webe...

Not sure what your MP can do. Contact Pattison directly: www.jpdevelopments.com

Not sure what your MP can do. Contact Pattison directly: www.jpdevelopments.com

New at Fake Folktales: An Aftisheshe story, The Tooth of Truth www.patreon.com/posts/tooth-...

We urge Alberta’s school boards to make public all lists of banned titles. #CAIABB #abbookban #albertabookban #abpoli #abgov #ableg #abed #bookbans #cankidlit #nobansincanada

It would happen no matter what. The US President is basically a Roomba. When he runs into opposition he turns and starts devouring in another direction. Sooner or later he always circles back, though.

A thing I love about us is that our relationship with the US has long involved some incredibly fine-tuned passive-aggressive language, and Carney giving That Speech instead of outright rejecting the invite is an extremely good example it.

Sir, you can’t break up with someone who already blocked your number

Uninvited from the Board of Peace! That's right, bitches-- Canada is off the leash!

“Smith, by coddling this extreme faction of her base, has lost control. The United Conservatives have become a separatist party, much to the surprise of many who voted for them and many of her own caucus members.” #AbLeg

Alberta’s Bill 26 bans life-saving, evidence-based gender affirming care for youth and directly contradicts the guidelines of the Canadian Paediatric Society. 500 signatures are needed to bring this petition to Parliament. Protect trans kids! ✊

If Canadians think this wouldn't happen here, there are plenty of people who would do it here, if they are given the opportunity. There are politicians who speak exactly like the kind of people who would give them the opportunity.

Just lie back and think of Greenland

FINALLY won a curling match and ended our horrible losing streak at 8. Wow, that was dispiriting. I often say curling is so fun that it doesn't matter if you lose, but this was a real test. I was tested. I managed to keep loving it, but I started to suspect that I was the worst skip of all time.

Whoa, Werner is literally my neighbour. And "rational voice" is exactly what I'd call him

I let my son start walking three blocks to school by himself at the age of eight, and you would not believe the raft of shit I got from other parents (including some who lived even closer). I also let him ride the bus around town by himself at age 12, but I realize we're lucky to have good buses

In case you're wondering what kinds of thoughts even our conservative newsrags are entertaining up here. It's behind a paywall, but the headline says plenty: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Becky Pepper-Jackson and every other trans youth in the nation deserve to play the sports they want to play and be their authentic selves. We'll defend that right every day of the year. 📍 SCOTUS

My understanding is that American whiskey sales are genuinely hurting due to the Canadian boycott

Finally feeling well enough for a story, although it's on the gruesome side... www.patreon.com/posts/turtle...

Contact the PM, contact your MPs! www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

Good (but depressing) article on the impact US book bans are having on publishing and marketing of LGBTQ stories, particularly in kidlit. Thanks to @adibkhorram.bsky.social @beccapodos.bsky.social @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com and others speaking up about this! thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

OMG

Random factoid: Reminder that the University of Victoria (@uvic.ca) host the world's largest Transgender Archives, and it's all digitized for your online use around the world. Trans rights are human rights.

my man is Armenian AND Egyptian he knows when it’s time

Canada: global trend-setter, for once.

CAIABB stands against all book bans. Books should never be secretly and silently removed from the shelves. #CAIABB #abbookban #albertabookban #abpoli #abgov #ableg #abed #bookbans #cankidlit #nobansincanada

I do product placement all the time, but the product is MY OWN BAD POETRY! *cackle*

When we moved to Canada, we decided we should read up on the history of our new home and native land, and we were SHOCKED how many times the US had proposed, in all seriousness, to invade. You don't learn this in the US, because it never came to pass, but Canada remembers every single time.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery

The flu! It's yucky! Stay safe out there. www.patreon.com/posts/off-to...

Well, I guess it’s time to start getting real about the uncertain world we live in, since I live by a military base that secures southern Vancouver Island. These things seem stupid to do — until there’s no other option.

Argh, I seem to have the same illness my mother (thousands of miles away) had recently: fever, a small amount of throat gunk, pretty bad pain in knees and glutes, as if I'd been doing hundreds of squats. Also, lower back pain. She tested negative for flu and 'vid. Anyone else have this?

Contact your MPs! And ffs, contact the PM! www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

Canada in 2026: shh don't antagonize him Canada in 2027: why isn't everyone condemning this US aggression against us

Someone died of rabies on Vancouver Island a few years back after a bat merely scratched his hand flying past. The bat was out during the day, which should have been a clue, but that's why I'm reposting this, because we don't know what we don't know sometimes.

When the world wearies, and ceases to satisfy, there's always Fake Folktales

...and here is his vast treasure! *opens chest of sea shells*

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.