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The leftwing independent candidate Catherine Connolly is on track to win by a landslide in Ireland’s presidential election, according to early vote tallies. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

open.substack.com/pub/elisabet... New post is up: Mostly Philosophers, written for you in mid-air.

This is just the Paris version of robbing an ATM with a backhoe in Witless Bay. Try to argue with me. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...

I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.

Or five years ago.

As I wrote this, our Kingston fire was finally declared “Under Control” — after weeks of constant threat, today it’s raining. elisabethdemariaffi.substack.com/p/no-body-no...

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

So rare to find a story this short that does so much.

I've noticed that most acceptances and rejections from journals seem to come in on Sundays. That tells me the people doing the hard work there have other jobs and these little magazines are labors of love. They're giving up their weekends to work on poetry for others. Something to appreciate.

What a treat to see this come up here! I used to be a poet, it’s true ❤️

The lessons that many across the Middle East will take from these strikes are that negotiations with the U.S. aren’t to be trusted, and the only thing that can stop further aggression from Israel is securing a nuclear bomb as soon as possible.

The major AI industry leaders stood next to Donald Trump at his inauguration. They talk about replacing artists and writers and creatives as a feature, not a bug. AI is deeply conservative and it astonishes me that people who are opposed to the conservative project would rely on it so carelessly

I look pretty young and vibrant until you watch me crank the screen brightness to 100 and then shove my laptop 3 feet away so I can work.

Every time someone writes a smug poorly-argued AI article like this, they’re simply demonstrating how swiftly AI has already transformed said writer’s critical thinking into a rotten log on the forest floor, studded with grubs and slime mold, gently disintegrating into humus even as we watch.

People who started from scratch, learning to write poetry in my courses and private online poets' forums, are starting to publish first books! Congratulations to @paulmoorehead.bsky.social on the launch of Green.

This is why screenwriters clamped down on AI so hard. Producers would’ve had AI “write” every script to justify hiring writers at barista rates to ‘polish’ (ie. actually write) them. This rush to devalue skilled work is why all creative industries need unions

"It’s dawn they say, a darkness defeated. But what if we see it upside down, backwards, inverted, inside out?" #TodaysPoem #poetry Red Flag by George Murray (@bookninja.bsky.social) (2025) tinyurl.com/p7ysfm32

Time to die

About the AI summer reading list: • There were a number of other AI-fabricated sentences in Heat Index • Some people and quotes were invented • I talked to someone who was quoted, but had not spoken with the writer • I also spoke with the writer, who owned up to it all new with @cwarzel.bsky.social

newsrooms of the world did u know that when Rümeysa Öztürk gets out you can pay her to write an editorial, and then publish it? did u know that if all of you did this it would be a whole thing and a good one

"but they say now time is a book with only one page in which the plot happens all at once, every twist on top of another #TodaysPoem #poetry Turn of the Page by George Murray (@bookninja.bsky.social) (2025 @badlilies.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/262fz4t7

Excited for this workshop with @bookninja.bsky.social. I write fiction mostly, so I'm looking forward to exercising one of the many underused parts of my writer brain. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

incredibly disappointed in every cardinal present for electing an american pope. that was not the assignment this year.

Hey, St. John's poets: let's hang out in person for a change. Sunday, June 1 and Sunday, June 8, at Bannerman Brewing upstairs. A quick and dirty poetry workshop. Come away with freshly edited poetry and a sense of community. Seats are limited, so sign up here: square.link/u/kDaZxo12

McGill Climate Data Refuge Academics at McGill University in Montreal set up a database hub that has saved thousands of climate change data sets from ideologically-driven government destruction in the United States. What a changing world, natural and political.

inspired by @bookninja.bsky.social

The judges of the annual prize for female and nonbinary writers praised Lubrin's debut short story collection, Code Noir, for breaking "new ground in short fiction."

The Trump administration, U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., ruled, does not "possess the lawful authority under the (Alien Enemies Act), and based on the Proclamation, to detain Venezuelan aliens, transfer them within the United States, or remove them from the country."

we will never let you edit posts. you must wear each typo as an albatross. you will bear the weight of your hubris

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation ain’t having the separatists rhetoric from Smith or her ilk… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Okay okay. Maybe June-November.

New poetry from George Murray. I really fucking love this one.

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

Porn changed the way Americans defined womanhood, sex, and power—and has inured some people to cruelty, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social tells Stephanie Bai:

The Conservatives have never stopped trying to re-criminalize abortion. Look at their bills, and look how they vote vajenda.substack.com/p/dear-canad...

Your now regular reminder that threatening the sovereignty of a NATO ally, while 🇷🇺 is illegally occupying 20% of 🇺🇦 & 🇨🇳 is eyeing 🇹🇼 & illegally seizing territory in the S. China Sea, is not only shameful & obscene, it is also a massive national security risk that should immediately end a presidency.

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obviously you do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to Goldman Sachs, so it is very interesting to wonder what kinds of frantic behind the scenes convos are happening all over the corporate sector about the vibes shifting

She agreed to hook up with one player & when she got there, it was a group of them. Law states that consent is an agreement & if that agreement is changed, consent needs to be re-negotiated or it's nullified. Lawyers are gonna try & slut shame her but I hope the jury sees through it.

glad to see the Jericho Lands development plan pass and also to see Vancouver city councillors unified in their statements against anti-Indigenous racism, which was invoked in some truly bizarre ways to argue against this First Nations-led development

How I arrived on Bluesky

Y’all, Amazon is bad for writers, bad for publishers, bad for customers, bad for workers. bad for democracy. Would be wonderful if we could break its stranglehold.

I literally came here to see who @anakanaschofield.bsky.social likes for New Pope and instead I saw that Kanye was trending—

I left the church a long time ago, but I am truly saddened to hear this news. He led with real compassion and we need that so badly.

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize