A great blue heron preening in the still mostly empty #RideauCanal this morning (I love them so much, forgot to pause my watch, kind of ruined the pace of my run)

Oh look. I’m not alone.

There are 7 panels this Sunday at Virtual Can*Con & they all look so good! I really am looking forward to this one in particular! www.can-con.org/virtual-cancon

THIS SATURDAY! Can*Con: Disruption Virtual Conference, featuring @gaga.bsky.social, @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social, Suzan Palumbo, and @thesuiway.bsky.social discussing Revolution in SFF! Register at our website, Disrupt your weekend!!

Yes, and it's funny. But Soyuz are also a capsule type craft and they come down on land.

Look, I can't even begin to describe how much I loathe St Augustine, but this is utter bullshit.

Never thought I'd say this, but if you're looking for a timely read that features power struggles between kings and the Church during the Avignon Papacy, you might like my novel The Chatelaine.

Ottawa Police didn’t attend after a driver ran a red light and injured a cyclist. 🚲🚨 Here’s the problem: the City tracks only fatal & major injuries. Minor injuries and close calls go uncounted—yet they cause fear, deter active transport, and affect quality of life. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

There’s still a federal sales tax on bicycles.

Hey, we did that subscription drive! How did it go? Our goal was 100 new or upgraded subscriptions, and we fell well short of that goal. BUT we learned a lot of lessons and also did a lot of bug smashing on the website and considerably smoothed out the subscription process. 1/6

I wonder what the extremely neutral and impartial Red Cross is going to feel about that lol

I love this series so much & this specific book is so good

Friends don’t let friends share AI slop when you can find a multitude of incredible, real images (& so easily) www.flickr.com/photos/nasah...

People who have been sharing this need to know that this is not a photo it’s a DRAWING. The Artemis crew was NOT bunnies. Think before you repost.

It's like every Zoom meeting. "We hear you, do you hear us?" "You're muted."

they're down

Main chutes

so relieved to see those parachutes

Houston integrity loud and clear

Oh this is very exciting!

If I travelled through time to the year 2016 and told 2016 Me that this would be what the Liberal Government will look like in the year 2026, I would ask 2026 Me if I was high on shrooms

The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

extremely bad time for an astronaut to find out he's a werewolf

The #kickstarter for Thyme Travellers 2 An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction is now live! #projectwelove @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

NASA #Artemis II flyby coverage schedule; all times in Eastern. You can follow along live on NASA+ (plus.nasa.gov) or on the NASA YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@NASA). It should be amazing to watch!

I’ve said this before but I truly think that reading shit you’re not ready for is how you learn to sit with discomfort. By forbidding the next generation from pushing their boundaries, you’re doing them an immense disservice

Apollo 8, Apollo 17 and Voyager 1 all took iconic photos of Earth from outside: Earthrise, Blue Marble and Pale Blue Dot. But none of these images has led to political action which ensures the protection of Earth’s environment. Photographs aren’t going to do it. 🧪 #ArtemisII

All those bullshit articles about how writers are secretly using AI are just trying to scare us into putting our mouths to the vomit machine before it’s too late. But even if they were true, I will be the last motherfucker on earth writing with nothing but spite and my heart of flesh.

A thing of beauty—Voyager 1 is calling home right now and the Madrid station is also connected to Artemis 2. You can watch the deep space network live anytime you want. eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now...

Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is the first Canadian to orbit the moon as apart of the four-person crew taking a 10-day voyage around the moon on the Artemis II. Along with Hansen is a patch by Anishinaabe artist Henry Guimond.

Incredible! It’s so big.

also like listen, I get that maybe this is just me, but isn't part of the fun of being an author is that you get to wander off into endless research spirals on whatever thing you're currently obsessed with and buy books & write them off and call it work??? WHY ARE PEOPLE SKIPPING THE FUN PARTS???

Seriously it’s like there is a giant chunk of tech people who don’t understand that when you’ve learned how to write, you feel proud, you look forward to doing more of it, you cheerfully neglect your other work just so you can write more

The Kickstarter for Thyme Travellers 2 is launching soon. Follow to get notified when the page is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

OMG so much this (I mean, really the whole thread, but so much this)

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

No, people who want others to *think* they're authors are using AI. Actual authors write.

On this #tdov #transdayofvisibility, we'd like to share relevant panels from past Rainbow Space Magics (Rainbows Space Magic?) (Recordings of all panels are linked from www.rainbowspacemagic.org. Many touch on issues of trans experience & writing. These are just the more specific ones.)

it will never stop being funny that, despite getting dragged relentlessly by other social media and political narratives, nobody hates bluesky more than its most loyal users

We feel like sharing more wonky details today: here's out submissions flowchart! Our system can auto-reject if you didn't follow some guidelines. If that doesn't happen, 2 different first readers take a look, give opinions, and it's either rejected, sent to editors, or held. 1/6

Hey! So, remember that award winning anthology of Palestinian speculative fiction I edited? We’re doing another one! soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

People who write and sell their books are mainly those who have a robust support system and the time to write. This is why most successful authors are white and cisgender. With UBI there would be a broader range of books available for sale from a demographically broader range of authors.

The idea of electoral parties working to set the agenda has been taken out back and shot, apparently. Every "serious" analysis is like "This is where Canadians are at so if you aren't there you're out of touch!" As if people's minds can't be changed.

Feeling good about my writing, received my first author scam email

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

You can read Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (the anthology I edited with 16 stories by queer authors about queer characters experiencing ecstasy, heartache, and suffering) for FREE as part of Trans Rights Readathon!

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

So will Doug be vetting all mayoral candidates in the upcoming municipal elections? wtaf