Proud of PM Mark Carney, who says ‘the “bargain,” which the middle countries have observed with their protector all these decades, “no longer works. … We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality,” but now, the gaps have grown too large.’

Hahahaha! And I’m not mad about the earworm, either.

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

#SundaySentence “It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.” The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

They had all been carrying more than they needed of their father’s legacy, holding him up for so long that it made their father weightless, able to walk on water, to escape, to never be bound to anything if it did not interest him any longer. #SundaySentence from Run For the Hills by Kevin Wilson

Let’s talk about Barry Dempster - this month in my newsletter, two months after his death, I celebrate the work, the man, and our decades-long friendship. Subscribe at LeslieGreentree.ca and wake up to my bookish news + artistic adventures Sunday morning. #BarryDempster #writinglife #artisticlife

This X 1,000

Friday Night Poetry returns to Russell Books on January 16. Join poets Mahaila Smith (Seed Beetle) and Lorne Daniel (What Is Broken Binds Us) for an open mic and readings. 7pm sign-up, 7:30 start. See you there!

In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?

"In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy." - John C. Sawhill (1936-2000), quoted in The Future of Life (2002) by E. O. Wilson #SundaySentence

“One not-really-a-joke saying in my family is, ‘The trouble started when you hit me back.’” Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir Same, Mary. Same. #SundaySentence #booksky📚💙 #WritingLife

A good lunch read.

It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.

“In 2026, let’s shout in the dark together. Or, put differently: FREE YOUR SPIRIT YAMS” There is no one in the world I’d rather hear/read talking about writing than @chuckwendig.bsky.social

Why are these fir trees floating in a lake? These are Christmas trees pursuing their second career creating fish habitat. Fish and wildlife managers are improving fish management using trees. This is a great use of our trees after their retirement. Read about it at Our Trees, ourtrees.substack.com

I tried to cheat because I didn’t like it, and got it again on my second try. Giving up, will stay in bed.

Happy new year, everyone! I chose my library Pride socks with care today, because what better way to knock out the old year and welcome in 2026 than with the celebration of love, equality + literacy? If you make resolutions, I hope they’re joyful and expansive, filled with hope and optimism. 📚💚💙💜❤️📚

I did a bunch of interviews this fall & just got them listed & linked, if you're interested in poetry and the breaks and bonds in families. www.lornedaniel.ca/post/a-fall-... Huge thanks to all the radio and podcast hosts! #poetrycommunity @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social

Merriam-Webster named 2025 the year of "slop" — low-quality media churned out by AI. Our reporters fact-checked hundreds of these rumors. Here are 25 that really stood out. 👇 www.snopes.com/collections/...

This is kind of perfection

‘“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone."’ Epictetus #SundaySentence

So long as the right few people are safe, you can move on with your life, right? Properly enjoy the oyster reception held in your honor as you speak on behalf of your bereaved motherland. #SundaySentence cluster from Endling by Maria Reva #BookSky💙📚

Sharing this best of list of short story collections for my own constant reference as much as for y’all. I love short stories (reading and writing them) and wish they’d get the attention and audiences they deserve.

"The light was no more than a mean and taunting reminder of what light could be, a rumor of what light there once was." – a #SundaySentence from Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter, once again, because the book could supply Sunday Sentences to last several glorious years.

"Writing, at least until I find my groove, feels like training a ferret. Making art feels more like releasing the animal and seeing where it runs.” — Irina Dumitrescu #SundaySentence

I’m not exactly sure what ‘soul-searching’ involves in practice—in fact, I’m not exactly sure where I’m supposed to find this soul of mine—but I know it’s what I should do next. #SundaySentence from Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan, translated by Jesse Kirkwood. #BookSky💙📚

It’s National Maple Syrup Day, and we couldn’t resist shining the spotlight on our very own Maple! Since arriving at the DSC in March 2025, Maple has shown us just how sweet she is (fitting name, right?). Happy Maple Syrup Day from Maple — no tapping required

Ach, my heart. It breaks. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

"A glass eye in a duck's ass can see they don't know what they're doing." - Elmore Leonard, Killshot (1989) #SundaySentence

They felt safe telling each other something most people wouldn’t understand: they kind of wanted to join a cult again, Audrey said, “because we’re bored and lonely.” #SundaySentence from the riveting Empire of Orgasm by @ellenhuet.bsky.social #Booksky💙📚

Gah. @chuckwendig.bsky.social’s AI results would be hilarious if they weren’t also so terrifying. “AI can’t even do the basic math right. Meanwhile it hallucinates endless nonsense things! So many false things! It would generate new false things if I gave it the same question string twice.”

A lovely piece by @plynn.bsky.social about the Christmas parties we grew up wandering through. “When everything feels like it’s falling apart, the centre that holds everything together is made of cheese puffs, dip and gelatin salads.”

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

No matter how beautiful you are, how little damage you do, they will still call you a weed if you manage to thrive where they’ve decided you should not grow. - L.E Bowman #sundaysentence 📚💙

Girls – normal human girls – people could contend with; they were weak and small. And dogs too could be trained. But girls who became dogs, or who let the world believe they were dogs, were either powerful or mad: both monstrous possibilities. #SundaySentence cluster The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.

This selection of books is perfect for the person who starts planning their next Halloween costume on November 1, is waiting for S3 of Interview with a Vampire, and loves an unreliable narrator. Enter the code HAPPYHOLIDAYS2025 for 30% off this year’s releases! ecwpress.com/blogs/whats-...

NGL, this one resonates.

Words are the pretty, lying gloves over the clawed, dirty hands of our souls. Words are like a doily we place over our seething hearts, a strand of pearls we wear around our necks to prettify the veins. A fun #SundaySentence for all my writer friends from We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad.

Good morning! This week for @opinion.bloomberg.com, I wrote about the effective messaging of Emma Thompson and @realgdt.bsky.social telling AI to fuck off:

“We are entangled and every knot and loop of shared failure seems to tighten until something falls away as we walk away each in our own confused direction.” #SundaySentence #TodaysPoem From the poem “Chasm and Divide” from @lornedaniel.bsky.social’s beautiful collection, What is Broken Binds Us.

Sometimes you just need to stop and eat the flowers. #wildlife

Halloween is the best holiday because it's all about people giving neighbors and strangers treats for free and telling kids how awesome they are.

I love handing out candy to kids of all ages, and I truly love seeing teens out trick or treating - it’s so wholesome. And my red-eyed cawing crow is a big hit with my two-year-old neighbour (Mr. Lion to you). #halloween2025 #communitylove

"When I got the assignment from my editor, Trish, to write a piece on the famous gothic castle in the Carpathian Mountains, I knew I should have told her that’s where my brother went missing three years ago. And his fiancée. And my dad. And his fiancée." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/emi...

I'm pumped to share the perfectly unsettling cover (designed by @michelvrana.com) for my novel THE PEACE THIEVES, out June 16, 2026 from @thistledownpress.bsky.social! Details and preorder info here: www.brentvans.com/books/the-pe... #canlit #fiction #novel

Hip, hip, hooray for Weird Girl books! crimereads.com/weird-girl-l...

"This is a milestone which should have never been crossed, and today we fight so that it won't be crossed again.” A dispatch from me and @reportrix.bsky.social on Alberta’s student walkout in response to the government’s back to work order for teachers and the use of the notwithstanding clause.

An appalling, unjust, law drives teachers back to work. The most dangerous precedent Alberta has seen In many years. Column. calgaryherald.com/news/braid-a... #abed #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli