Alternative manosphere to do list: 1) A sex positive, affirming etiquette guide to courtship and relationships specifically for a straight male audience 2) A serious conversation about setting and maintaining healthy boundaries 3) Celebrations of niche hobbies/art/personal weirdness (cont.)

This is a great piece that raises a needed alarm but at the end throws down a gauntlet, with hope and a challenge.

Two descendants of Haile Selassie have attended the same suburban Toronto university as me (though not when I was there).

I wasn't expecting to get Raptured myself, what with the atheism. But all the best people I know are still here, so I really have to question God's parameters. This seems like a poorly-thought-out End Times, if I'm being honest. I want no part of it.

A friend recognized the entertainment potential of the big AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT graphic but replaced Kennedy’s face with a much better alternative:

For anyone concerned there may be something to the Tylenol-autism BS, I present:

I resent that the situation demands that I defend a big pharmaceutical company, but for those who might have been misled: there is NO meaningful evidence for a link between the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy and autism. 1/4

Gonna just say, if it's this easy to protest against the monolith that is Disney. Then there is no excuse for people to be clinging to Harry Potter. Like, if the needle can be moved against Disney, people can make it move against JK Rowling. Stop the flow of money into her accounts,

Public service announcement: ONTARIO SFF WRITERS PLEASE REMEMBER TO APPLY FOR THE OAC RECOMMENDER GRANT AUGUR IS A RECOMMENDER WE WANT TO RECOMMEND SFF WRITERS GET GRANTS /end

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

Wait, did the #Jays just CLINCH?

No particular reason

Nobody whips it anymore and that's sad.

For @comicsjournal.bsky.social, I wrote about the long career of comics writer Peter David, who died this past May, and tried to understand what legacy he'll leave behind. www.tcj.com/the-professi...

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

Hey Canada, ready to get serious about fighting fascism? Then let's go!! So proud of Avi. See you out there...

I'm a huge fan of Therapy Jeff's videos, and this one is I think really important.

ATTENTION ALL CANADIANS this is a petition to the house of commons to regulate payment processors and prevent them from deciding what you can and cannot buy this is not a change.org waste of time. sign it. make everyone you know sign it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Smash 2 movies together to make a new movie: Sling Blade Runner

It's still way too early to know what teams are going to the World Series, BUT! A New York vs. New York World Series is famously a Subway Series. California vs. California is a Freeway Series. What are names for other possible matchups? Jays vs. Brewers could be a Beer Series! #MLB #baseball

An open letter to DC comics: BoC condemns the censorship of writer Gretchen Felker-Martin Read our statement here: bitchesoncomics.com/open-letter-...

It's still way too early to know what teams are going to the World Series, BUT! A New York vs. New York World Series is famously a Subway Series. California vs. California is a Freeway Series. What are names for other possible matchups? Jays vs. Brewers could be a Beer Series! #MLB #baseball

Please get off of substack so I and many others can subscribe to your writing, boost your links, etc. I don’t get on mailing lists run by white supremacist platforms & I don’t post/repost/boost them either.

The latest Skiffy & Fanty newsletter just arrived in the inboxes of our esteemed subscribers! It rounds up everything Team Skiffy & Fanty was up to in August 2025. You can have a look at what you're missing here: mailchi.mp/2814247c1... And then why not subscribe so you never miss an update?

Good grief! Charli Brown is a lot happier after her egg cracked, and disaster lesbians Peppermint Patty and Marcie are of course very supportive! (And their former crush on the ol’ blockhead makes a lot more sense now!) 🪁

Today's Shadowdark adventure ended with a TPK in the final battle. It really does brilliantly capture that old-school D&D life-is-cheap, don't-get-too-attached-to-your-character dungeoncrawling vibe. I haven't had that much fun failing catastrophically in AGES! 😀

Thank you for being a friend!

I support trans people. They deserve safety, equality, and dignity, and I'm going to be loud about it.

I was pretty riled up earlier looking around like WHY HAS NO ONE WRITTEN AN OPEN LETTER TO DC??? and I guess that's bc it's gotta be me. Anyone with some cred want to help me draft it? I've got a line to Gretchen

Shameful cowardice on the part of DC. I doubt that Gretchen Felker-Martin would work with them again even if they reverse course; she seems to have principles. But she's owed a very public apology and a generous payout in compensation over DC firing her for speaking her mind instead of pandering.

All other things being equal, pancakes. Mediocre waffles are unfortunate, mediocre French toast is depressing, but even mediocre pancakes are still pancakes.

ATTN FELLOW CANADIANS: An actual MP has created a petition to stop financial discrimination against adult creators by payment processors. You have to confirm your email but thats because its something that can actually be shown to parliament.

BOOM! Studios is HIRING!!! We're looking for a talented, organized, and detail-oriented Assistant Editor with 1-2 years in editorial or a similar field! You will most likely be working directly with me on a variety of comic titles. Please visit the link to apply! bit.ly/42ooXLq #comicjobs

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

I'm starting OCAF, a comic arts festival totally focused on comics, with my friends at @okcomicarts.bsky.social. It's FREE. It's THIS SATURDAY. I am experiencing feelings about it.

I love this so much I FEEL IT IN MY BONES 😆

Jo Walton's latest book roundup includes a lovely short review of WHAT WE WERE SEEKING:

Please take note that I would line up to buy Star Trek comics by Faith Erin Hicks, @idwpublishing.com @heatherantos.bsky.social

If men are supposed to be so analytical, how come they don't like it when you present the data?

I was lucky enough to see these pages early and can confidently tell you that this is going to be GREAT.

A great piece by Michael Grasso and Rob Macdougall about Gamma World, Paranoia, and the inherent absurdity in thinking about life after a nuclear apocalypse.

"Closer" by NIN, but played to the Ghostbusters theme. It ah... works. And sounds both right and amazingly wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRKi...

If I were only going to recommend one author you MUST be reading it would be @premeemohamed.com she has a brilliant book or series in every major genre and they are all absolute fire. I feel like Premee just gets better with each novel she writes tbh. GO BUY ONE AND READ IT RIGHT NOW.

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Relevant to my interests and perhaps yours too!

He once tried to incite his followers to pile on me on Twitter by quote-tweeting something I said in support of trans people and explicitly (if nonsensically) equating it to *racism*.

Our intro thread has been going around again, but we've been busy since March... so, it's time for a new pinned thread! We are OTHERSIDE, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit magazine of speculative fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers! We open for submissions in January 2026. See thread for more! 🪐🗡️🌈 (1/5)

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

Signed! This is a formal House of Commons process, so it's a bit more meaningful than your average online petition.