I keep thinking about buyers and how—over the space of a decade or two—I watched how the chain bookstore I worked at went from "let us tell find the right book for you" to "these books go here on these displays, exactly like this, no exceptions." It… sucked. (1/?)

Late night weekend promo, you say? Best time for marketing! I am gonna be participating in the WFNS's Writing Rumble this Oct 23! We're raising funds for the Alistair MacLeod Mentorship program by writing team stories over the course of an afternoon! Sponsor me at: writers.ns.ca/workshops-ev...

As a used bookseller, this is maddening because every damn day I see appetite for strange books, old books, indie books, forgotten books. Readers are there. They love to explore the store & buy things they've never heard of. Publishing's biggest problem is that they've forgotten how to sell books.

Icymi, these are our three incredible guests of honour at @tricon-hfx.bsky.social! 👇

TWO great opportunities from the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia! The Charles R. Saunders Prize for an "emerging or early-career writer with a speculative fiction work-in-progress" and the Hal-Con 2025 zines are both OPEN for applications, and closing next month! Apply at writers.ns.ca

I am SO EXCITED to finally announce TriCon, Atlantic Canada's newest conference for writers of specfic! Hosted by @tridenthalifax.bsky.social and enabled by an incredible slate of people, we're looking to be @canconsffh.bsky.social East, building new bridges in Canadian SFFH!

Are they gone yet?

I always thought Left behind should be a Utopian rom-com.

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

Who the hell is Brian Cox and why is everyone sharing him today

He was genuinely a great. An actor, a creator, a decent human being. The Sting is one of my (two) favourite movies of all time, so I will always feel he's part of my personal pantheon. RIP.

Contemplating a world in which Canadian politicians don't give standing ovations to racist dickbag podcasters

Romance and Fantasy bookstore Realms and Roses is opening at 2071 Hammonds Plains Rd

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

Kier Starmer awaits in stricken silence, abandoned by even his staunchest aides, as the Bang Bus glides implacably closer

The sheer eeriness…it should be a bang barge, and it should slither down the canals of England, arriving with a fog as obscure as stone and bone-chilling cold. A single hooded gondolier pushing it along with a stick should summon young men within with a curling, skeletal finger in deathly silence.

I love (and miss) Toronto 🥹

Pathological Demand Avoidance -.-

Harro Siegel's marionette of Grendel from his post-war production of Beowulf. museo-marionetas-barcelona.org/en/master-bu...

once again it is not fucking normal to lower flags in oregon for random member of the opposing political party who was born in illinois, lived in arizona, and died in utah. this is not a normal thing they're extending to a white supremacist, it's a special thing they're doing for a white supremacist

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Never let the door close behind you on a dark room. Push/wedge the door open long enough to get to the lightswitch. Run if you have to.

This is "funny" to me because "crackdown on political violence" sounds like they were kind of letting it slide before, but it is TIME TO GET SRIOUS which is actually exactly what is happening

Idk if anyone remembers this, but Israel assassinated the Prime Minister of Yemen???

Anti-Vaxxer Finally Gets Shot thehardtimes.net/culture/anti...

How has Potikki's closed and nobody told me??!? 😱 I am devastated. I am going to starve to death. There is no other good fast food in the whole world. I cannot believe they have done this to me. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #halifax

Duck risotto w/ olives and mushrooms and peas 👌

For the record, I am celebrating. We're already at war, the more of these footsoldiers get deplatformed, the better

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

Someone said ‘twas the night before 9/11 and I’m SOBBING

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ok. let's all have a 36-72 hour debate about the efficacy of political violence.

Could Dems put forth better candidates? Sure. But white women are voting for Republican men promising them hell. I don't think it is the candidates that are the problem. It's the white supremacy. And internalized misogyny. They want to punish everyone else more than save themselves.

"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see

Was this not the old dream man? 🤨

I suppose every business has to find their niche

Reactionary centrists always believe criticism of conservatives from lefties is just kneejerk, because they don’t believe lefties are capable of knowing anything they don't know, because centrists are the smartest people in the room. They reject expertise as much as MAGA

Come hang out with me and Ben and Jenny tomorrow night at @tridenthalifax.bsky.social !

Why...why do the cruise ships toot music now 🫩 #halifax

Just wanted you all to know that the Halifax Tides' mascot is a lady shark named Jawslyn

Look I am as happy to see Silksong as the next person but whoever decided to release it on the first day of school is a complete chaos lord. >.<

Drop an old person you're going to turn into.

Country Feedback Superman Nightswimming? Tbh all of Automatic for the People is so fucking baked into my bones that I can't pull it apart. Can we not just do whole albums? 1) Automatic for the People 2) Out of Time 3) Document 4) Life's Rich Pageant 5) Green 6) Fables of the Reconstruction etc

RIP Graham Greene (1952-2025) a towering figure in Canadian cinema. Honoured to have had a part in bringing this masterpiece back to home video, theatres and streaming for a whole new audience.

I have a friend who is not Extremely Online (and has no social media) and every time I read a book he is astonished. "How did you find it? Who recommended it? How do you know it will be good??" He picks all his books by Googling stuff like "100 Books To Read Before You Die."

I feel like Trident (and Nova Scotia in general) largely operates on the Guy economy, so all is not lost. The Guy economy is going to see us into the forthcoming Scarcity Era.