“You never stop learning how to do better at writing. Even if you’ve published a bunch of books and have “arrived” as an author, you’re still on a steep learning curve, for as long as you are stringing words together. This is excellent, because..." 2/3

Pretty impressive list for a guy who has only had the job since March! I continue to shudder with revulsion at the thought of what could have happened if the Canadian election had shook out differently.

My best-of-the-year list is up this morning at the NYTBR, books I found to be the “pinnacle of pleasure” in crime fiction reading:

Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys nautical history, economic history, American history, women's history, and true stories of danger and inspiration. jaynebarnard.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... #ThanksNetgalley #history #SeaCaptainsWife #sailing #StMartinsPress

Next year, the same amount of time will have passed between the BSG reboot and now, as between the reboot and the ending of the original series.

We are in the darkest timeline right now.

ON SALE NOW!!! Helped by a psychic’s tips & haunted by traumatic memories of Christmas Past, an ex-Mountie investigates murder at an exclusive ski resort. www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211... #WomensFiction #crimefiction #BuyCanadian @dundurnpress.bsky.social

Mobland from the moll's angle! The writing is crisp and the pace dances along like a conga line.... to a big, zany, gangland finish. inanna.ca/product/mad-... #gangland #VintageFashion #seadragon #BuyCanadian @lisadenikolits @Inannapub

Thank you @theatlanticpr.bsky.social for this exquisitely timed and much-needed reminder of what the American Revolution was about. ❤️ www.theatlantic.com/magazine/toc... #NoKings #BookSky #MomSky

I think there is a misunderstanding about peaceful people. The person who is choosong to solve their conflict with negotiations, discussions and reasoning is not lack of anger, temper and aggressive instinct. No. But the peaceful person is CHOOSING to not let those emotions and instincts lead.

Here's a link to my short film Temple Lament that was shown at the UNFIX NYC 2025 Film Festival and at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Enjoy: vimeo.com/1037315566

From the squalor of the first Kingston pen to the 21st century, this entertaining tome covers a whole section of Canadian history not generally taught in schools. #DundurnPress #OnTheLam #NewRelease jaynebarnard.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-l...

“Just a master. Like the van Gogh of painting. Just in control from the first stroke to the last.” Summer McIntosh tried to conquer the greatest female swimmer ever, and the result was the best distance race ever swam, a Katie Ledecky gold, and a hard, hard lesson. www.thestar.com/sports/amate...

Fascinating! Ice cleaving and a 200 ft tower rises from the water.

The Opabinia is an extinct marine creature, only around 7 cm long, who probably didn't have a silly expression like the one I drew for #AugArthroAwe

"I don't think it can cross Donald Trump's mind that there are neutral arbiters who are objective and not politicized. But this is the weakness of authoritarian or pseudo-authoritarian regimes. They create an atmosphere in which it's not possible to be honest with the executive." to.pbs.org/47hCLKW

How Curiosity Can Help Us Overcome Disconnection greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

At only 4' 8" tall, Simone Biles' jump clears more than 7 ft of air. Or, in library terms, she could jump over roughly 65 James Patterson books. 🤸‍♀️ 📚 😆 Image & text by the Gail Borden Library #Booksky

On this day in 1970, sailors in the Royal Navy got their last official shot of rum. A daily ration of alcohol – called a tot – had been provided to English sailors since the 1600s. #History #OTD #BoozeCruise

Recommended: this succinct piece on the history & current status of antivax attitudes by the author of ‘The Irrational Ape: Why We Fall for Disinformation, Conspiracy Theory and Propaganda.’ Free link. archive.ph/Ib9yC

=big sigh= Even *not* subsidized, wind & solar are by far the cheapest forms of energy.

"Fire in the Evening". Paul Klee. 1929. 

Each Story Seed is a prompt, a question, or an idea, to give you a starting point. Each seed is a trigger for your imagination. Here is Seed 212! medium.com/@nshooter11/... #366StorySeeds #storyidea #storyprompt #writingprompt #ideaoftheday

Today’s Podcast: EP. 1551: Filmmaker/Musician Justin Gray (IMMERSED – A Cinematic Immersive Album by Justin Gray) youtu.be/tPdT0-4HB1E?... The album features 38 artists from Toronto and around the globe, placing listeners at the center of a three-dimensional global orchestra. #wildsound #podcast

#audiobook #voiceover #multicast #SFX We'd love feedback on our promo video! It's fun and has plenty of sound effects. The concept reads as one Narrator for many characters, but we also do Multicast. Any tips to improve our ad for authors or for audiobook listeners?

Motherfucking wind farms…

Germany’s parliament banned the Pride flag. It backfired spectacularly. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/germ...

(R-OH) Rep. Jim Jordan, one of the Republican Party’s top inquisitors in Congress, was deposed today regarding allegations that he failed to protect the wrestlers he once coached at Ohio State University from a sexual predator. And not one media outlet covered it. www.yahoo.com/news/court-f...

This is so freaking adorable…. 🫠 Snuggles… 🥰 🐯 🐯

😔Epitomising the inept handling & misunderstanding of ME the gov press release commits the faux pax of leading with 'chronic fatigue syndrome' The ME Delivery Plan "provides the foundations for significant improvements" But not the actual improvements www.gov.uk/government/n...

He moved to Russia to escape LGBTQ+ “indoctrination.” Russia sent him to a war zone. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/he-m...

This works because of decades of messaging that the government is mostly waste and corruption

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

America is the only country in the world that could bring in fascism and end up with worse trains

Buyer's remorse is going to cost him even more than the Trump presidency did.

NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.

If ICE starts raiding the Vietnamese pedicure places its all over, all the rich white ladies will ride to war

He’s describing being a child again, basically. This is a fantasy of having mommy taking care of everything again. It’s .. weird?

In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?” 🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season. Brilliant timing.

It's not too late. Join the counter-protest by letting the Trump admin know what you think of national parks, staff, and their attempt at revisionist history. 😉 www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

Anyone with half a brain could have predicted this when Trump touted his mass deportation plans of immigrants before the election. www.newsweek.com/ice-immigrat...

It’s not just the cities. Extreme heat is a growing threat to rural America. The urban heat island sits in a rural heat ocean. grist.org/extreme-heat... #Rural #Heat #Climate #Environment #Health #Hot

Obviously (I hope to you as well) old writings, wherever they are published, are only as relevant as the science that underpins them. If new science has produced new facts, those old writings need to be considered in light of this new context. "Today's news is tomorrow's fish 'n chip wrapper"

Fallujah was exactly my thought too when I saw this photo earlier today. Dressed for war in order to round up gardeners and roofers. WTF has this country come to???

American gun enthusiast parents are creating gun enthusiast kids who grow up to murder firefighters, protestors or school children but nah, the gun laws are never the issue.