Every Canadian province has readily-available public disclosures, a transparency resource commonly used by journalists and the public to monitor politicians’ potential conflicts of interest — except Newfoundland and Labrador. Read the full story👇 #nlpoli theindependent.ca/news/only-pr...

We have had more than enough explicit "hard" scandals that these kind of soft scandals should be put into the glare of easy access. Our members have shown us they can't monitor themselves.

I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol. Not because of vaccines. Not because of some headline. I’m autistic because that’s how my brain works. Stop treating us like a problem. Start listening to us.

The hard paradox of (nerd) parenting: I miss boardgames, but I don't have time/space to play them I don't miss videogames, but I could certainly find chances to play them This is really about friend/face time and not games, of course, but it's funny to see it shake out like this.

I wonder how many American comedians are currently offended that they're not on the hit list Orange Dumbass has posted. Maybe they're not offended because it's more about his inability to consume culture deeper than a cookie sheet, but still.

Just in case someone missed this from 2017 by the amazing @lastweektonight.com John Oliver. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtN...

Once they get it down to one, the US president will force them to grant the government a 50% ownership stake.

Trans people are people. What they do with their very own bodies ain't nobody's business but their own. Trans rights are human rights. Full stop.

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

I don't want to get too up in the US's biz, but hate speech laws are pretty common around the world and don't cause daily grief. The main issue y'all are going to have with it isn't really about free speech vs restricted speech, it's with the entire rest of the mess your government

Can't help but hope that Ezra Klein is seeing his subscriber numbers tank.

Just in case I haven't shouted gleefully about it enough lately, @sentencebender.bsky.social and I have a Saga Double coming out on October 21. You can preorder now from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Red-St...

For my NL mutuals: newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202... It pains me to say it, but the NDP continue to underwhelm with their preparedness and messaging. I wish I could have gone to their event this past weekend just to get some sense of what's being discussed internally.

It's hard not to get wrapped up in the political drama of the USA, but frankly one of the idiots in charge of my home province thinks spending 18 months on a compromised report outlining the future of education is fine, and the chief mealymouth of the country is setting fire to his promises, so...

If the Churchill River power MOU is THE election issue in NL, well Liberals are saying a deal is getting done (strong statements seemingly regardless of final offers/content - shouldn't also say will walk away if necessary?), without commitment to any further public review before contracts signed...

Fun fact for Canadian TTRPG creators: you don't need to pay $100 to get an ISBN like folks in the US. Library and Archives Canada allows you to get free ISBNs for your projects. Takes around 4-6 weeks for your account to be created but then you are good to go.

Lookin at you, Mark "Bait and Switch" Carney...

Nobody, and I emphasize, nobody should go to the US. If you're games industry, I promise you that there are better events everywhere else.

“Klein’s interest here isn’t honesty but flattery. It shows Klein isn’t writing about Kirk at all. He’s writing about himself and saying, ‘I’m doing politics the right way because I’m lauding someone who disagrees with me.’”

But if this guy OD'd tomorrow some fuckstick would be telling me it's my duty to mourn his passing.

Bernard Davis giving his best impression of a kid who grows up in the kind of society that puts AI generated material into policy documents.

incredible and depressing how fast the decade of progress under trudeau — as slow and flawed and not enough as it might have been — is being dismantled before our eyes

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

I've made four SFF novelettes available for "pay what you want" on ITCH, including my prehistorical vampire horror story, The Third People, which was a quarterfinalist in the Writers of the Future Contest. Four novelettes, four #SFF subgenres. Get at 'em, eh. lsb337.itch.io #books #sale 🧡🚀📚

It has finally occurred to me that in the kind of hellishly cold environment where skateable ice is forming on a significant incline, trying to skate uphill is probably one of the best ways to stay warm and alive.

Fun fact: The AI slop report on NL education mentions mental health 187 times, recommends expanding the role and scope of practice for guidance and related personnel - including putting them at the centre of other pillars - and does not even one time recommend allocating more guidance resources.

The people behind this should be ashamed of themselves! Co-chaires by MUN Professors! The entire thing needs to be thrown in the trash and a new group established. A major report on modernizing the education system in Newfoundland and Labrador is peppered with fake sources likely fabricated by AI.

What's DC's pitch to a prominent non-comics creator right now, especially from a marginalized background? "You'll get to write a superhero! For very little money! An insane fanbase will bay for your blood! And not only will we not defend you, we'll look for an oppurtunity to throw you overboard!"

"Did you know Ben Robbins has a second edition of Microscope Chronicle in open playtest?" Wait, I did know that! Check this out, tomorrow night…

Jesus fucking Christ. Fuck the Wall Street Journal for spreading the initial bullshit

Can't wait for everyone who's so vocally opposed to political violence to come out against this common form of it, as well as the people (both living and dead) who've delighted in carrying it out. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochas...

There’s likely an organized campaign going on to incite you to say stuff that’s gonna get you suspended or banned (or worse). The right has mentioned the Bluesky reaction to this incident repeatedly. They’re here to find targets. Don’t let them rile you up and goad you into something you’ll regret.

If Charlie Kirk was alive today, there would be a nonzero number of deaths directly attributable to whatever he was spending his day doing.

Yay Nalo! Also cool to see a Newf on the shortlist, congrats to Clayton Smith as well.

Difficult choice but this one gets me every time

Timeline cleanses for me today. This dance and this song hit me in a deep place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-tW...

FWIW i’ve switched to @bookshop.org for ebooks and Libro for audio books and with very few exceptions had the exact same experience as Amazon without the greasy aftertaste. Highly recommended.

It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre. In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."

As we get closer to market approval for our breakthrough retinal prosthesis, it's time for a Science patient registry. If you or a family member have late stage macular degeneration (AMD), retinitis pigmentosa, or Stargardt disease, please consider getting in touch! science.xyz/news/science...

Reminder that muting specific words on social media for a day, a week, a month, or even forever can be laudatory self-care.

In which I recognize a version of myself in someone else's story.

Just for fun, I'm going to give you some clips of the hate mail I got from being placed on Kirk's TPUSA Dangerous Professor list. Buckle up:

EVs aren't selling, major Canadian automakers say, as they continue to try to foist off $60,000 as the entry level price for said vehicles.

I have some bad news vis a vis 2025's wildfire season...

Days like this remind me that there's always gonna be some fucko who thinks Hitler's death was tragic. He didn't _personally_ murder those Jews and trans people and disabled folks and Roma and...

The new DEI is Dumbness, Exclusion, and Illiberalism, and it's far more destructive than its opposite number.