20 books by Indigenous authors in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: www.cbc.ca/books/20-boo...

On the eve of Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, we recommend five books to read and reflect on from @arsenalpulp.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, @gooselane.bsky.social, @talonbooks.bsky.social, and @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social. Browse our full list here: alllitup.ca/book-list/re...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

He is out here living his best life, even in this economy.

I'm disappointed in the quality of the discourse around AI at the moment. Because there's so much fear, suspicion, and discomfort, the criticism is often kneejerk and lacks necessary nuance. I don't mean "give ChatGPT a chance," I mean "that's a bad and potential dangerous argument".

If you ban books for young people that address queerness and sexuality, who is served? Who is best served by keeping these topics taboo, and by keeping children ignorant about them?

I wish these book-banning folks were asked about how they landed on this issue, what problem they think they're solving, and how banning mostly queer books would solve it.

"Librarians aren't psychologists, they aren't qualified to decide what children can read!" "40% Albertan have a BA. No one can say parents don't have the education to determine what children can read!" Wait til this right-wing talking head finds out how many degrees librarians have.

I enjoy the idea that universities somehow aren't in the real world. It's what I always suspected: universities exist in a fantasy realm with enchanted forests and lithe elves bounding around with flowers in their hair. You have a question? Let's stop time and just ponder it for a while, shall we?

That thing where someone uses the term "neurodiverse" and you don't whether they don't believe in disability and think everyone would be a peak performer if it weren't for capitalism, etc., or if they just thought it was just a nice alternative to "neurodivergent".

We asked some Australians to try these classic Canadian snack foods and they died, they all died

Marks & Spencer ships to Canada.

DANCING WITH MAMMOTHS—Neanderthals, #queer found family 🌈, #neurodivergent perspectives 🦄, pygmy mammoths 🦣, and a sibling bond that could outlast an ice age 💗. Set in Vancouver. 🇨🇦 Give'r. #questpit #MG #S #Q

@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats, though

11-yr-old Saffron sees emotions as coloured steam and assumes—wrongly—that everyone does. When her de-extinction scientist parents are arrested and there's a rumour that a kid in her class is a Neanderthal, she fears it’s her. 🇨🇦 #playlistpitch #kidlit #MG open.spotify.com/track/1WFTbf...

"Women made up 82.5% of librarians as of 2023 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024a), but they are underrepresented in leadership positions (McGeeney, 2025)."

Anyway, this reminded me that the reason I quit Pokemon Go was that despite the MANY, MANY warnings to pay attention to my surroundings while playing, one time I almost fell into an open excavation near Capilano Mall

🏺🦣 Recorded a radio interview today (for upcoming series), and refreshing my reading on its theme led me to this gorgeous project by Oliver Beer: an exploration of sound & voice & space within one of my *absolute* favourite Palaeolithic painted caves, Font de Gaume. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hc5...

My main character's role model is her brother's boyfriend. When she feels like a monster, he reminds her that being different is hard, but also brave and kind of amazing. Receiving that compassion makes her want give it to others. #bluepit #AmQuerying #MG

Vancouver on Monday evening: a dude with Alberta plates blasting the Barenaked Ladies. Not one of the fun ones, either, Hairshirt. We've got these chains hanging around our necks People wanna strangle us with them before we take our first breath. It’s a mood.

The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians — because these people are dangerous...Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people. From a lecture to the Library of Congress. www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/10/d...

“This is the origin of present-day differences. Not the differences between groups dispersed around the world, which are tiny in comparison. The differences between the genomic halves within every one of us.” www.johnhawks.net/p/the-humani...

I am a librarian! I just finished a story about a girl who sees emotions as coloured smoke. Her mother resurrects extinct animals, including a dinosaur and a herd of pygmy mammoths. There's a rumour someone in her class in a Neanderthal, and she's afraid it's her. #QueerWriters #writesky

Back in the day it was easy to vicariously attend conferences by just following the social media posts, but alas. I hope everyone's having a great time at #WILU2025!

The crows are very shouty today. I know their babies are big, demanding teenagers now, and I'm sure these two facts aren't unrelated.

MG pitch I wish I could use: Inside Out and Onward meet The Wild Robot, but gay.

Yesterday I saw a crow repeatedly dive bomb a corgi while shouting at him non-stop. The corgi was completely unfazed by this and almost seemed happy about it. I am forced to assume that corgi is a destroyer of worlds.

I think people using AI to write fiction are seriously underestimating the creative decision-making involved. They must believe that the idea is the main thing, a solid outline = authorship, and word choice and sentence construction are just grinding, or something.

Tuesday evening reminder: Write the book. Make the zine. Pack the shelves. Fill the world with so many stories they'll never be able to silence us all.

The settler audacity to presume that you can take other people's land and leave with it! Those treaties weren't signed with Alberta. Without the crown via Canada, Alberta has no land. Secessionist movements are functionally #landback movements. Go ahead, give it back.

Full story here.. Danielle Smith is allegedly trying to 🇺🇸ise #Alberta 🇨🇦 even more.. edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/05/07/p... "Political scientist Jared Wesley has said the bill mirrors anti-democratic tactics used by 🇺🇸 President 🟠" #ElbowsUp to within 📢 #cdnpoli 🇨🇦

May 5 is Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Today is dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.

Gosh, the costumes in Andor are stunning.

The young coyotes in my neighbourhood are learning to howl. I'm pretty sure what they're saying is, "MOM, HE'S ON MY SIDE! MOM! MOOOOOOOOM!" I saw four of them running around in the rain last night arguing about who was It. Good show, highly recommend.

If you’re singing in a Canadian pub and you aren’t singing Barrett’s Privateers, are you completely letting the team down, or just partially?

I wildly misread a sign as “Hot Bingo” and there’s a concept no one needs.

There is a little part of me that wants to get a group of librarians together to do a podcast where we get together at intervals and just talk about the problem/interesting thing of the moment. Whatever that problem/interesting thing is for each of us at that time, and record it.

Archeologists recreated sites of cave paintings in VR to see adding light sources would reveal whether artists were responding to patterns they saw on the surface of the rock. They were. You can't see it without VR because can't light fires in these caves now. phys.org/news/2023-09...

Genuinely surprised to discover that leaf blowers are still a thing.

My mom worked at RBC for decades and taught me this: everyone assumes it's "safety deposit box", but it's actually "safe deposit box". CBC Early Edition just did a segment on safety deposit boxes. This bleat in honour of my mother and driven by a lifetime of corrections. @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social

Happy halloween. Someone stole my scooter. :(

Good morning! Is this where we talk about what we ate for breakfast?