Emergency Alert issued by the NS Dept of Emergency Management (Tuesday, Aug. 12 at 4:40 p.m.)

Sometimes I’m so tired I want to cry. Not adult-cry. Toddler-cry. With the vocalized whining and the gasping sobs. Sometimes I want to cry like I’m calling for someone else to fix it.

Since it’s still Disability Month, or whatever we call it… Hi! I have slept for three hours, and now my brain won’t stop talking to me and my body feels like a week-old surgery scar. Good thing I’m also worried about how to support myself and my husband, eh?

I'm watching Great Pottery Throwdown and I can't watch without thinking of this scene with Glenn and Hillary and how this is where everything really starts for them and how much I love them.

After two minutes of watching the Calgary stampede on a diner’s telly, I can confirm that rodeo is one of the stupidest, most vile “sports” out there. Leave that poor creature alone, you dicks, what the fuck?

Bit late, but hi! I’m gay! #PrideMonth

In our world, all particles fall into one of two types. Fermions must keep to themselves, while bosons can behave the same way in the same place. www.quantamagazine.org/matter-vs-fo...

New Gaelic Project Building on previous projects, LEACAN 2 will provide more guidance on grammatical and spelling issues in Gaelic where there is uncertainty. We are seeking views on points of Gaelic grammar (or spelling) where there is a need for (more) guidance or explanation. (1/5)

Man, I’d forgotten how fantastic the writing of Disco Elysium is.

The difficult thing with the current state of discussions around trans rights is you can say 'I think trans people are worthy of dignity and respect' and someone will reply 'So you're saying it's ok for John Cena to punch my grandma?!'

Israel is a nuclear armed genocidal rogue state. It is allowed to commit every war crime under the sun - armed and facilitated by the West. Yet you hear so few people saying these truths on TV. Here's what I said this morning.

There are few things in the writing world that grind my gears more than people referring to literature as “content”.

Happy Pride Month, Bluesky! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ How do you describe attraction? I’d love to see examples if you’d like to share. Here’s a brief one from The Old Love and the New. #amwriting #pridemonth #queerlit #writingcommunity

Saying to be against gen ai “is ableist” is actual ableism! You’re not only dismissing thousands of years of art and work done by disabled people, who have always been creating, but by supporting ai you also cutting off a big source of income for many disabled artists on top of stealing their work

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Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire ‘24-‘25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day.

I left Goodreads last January, but sometimes I'm tempted to look at reviews. &it makes me realize how restrictive Goodreads is! GR trained maybe millions of readers to reduce all of world literature to 5-star ratings and the often uninteresting and irrelevant question of "how fun was this to read."

As a horror goblin and a trans woman, for Pride Month, I also must spotlight my own work a tiny bit! I create the show Echoes in a Jar, an audio horror anthology of dark tales, disgusting monsters, some jokes, and a slight dab of trauma. I'd love if you could check it out, completely for free!

A few people took me up on this offer last year. I'd love to help even more this time around. Queer author? Shoot me an email, and I'll edit your first pages, a scene of your choice, or even your outline. Free of charge! I look forward to reading you! 🌈 📚 #pridemonth #amediting #amwriting

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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 246: No one but you are responsible for what you write. Not your editor, not your readers, not your publicist. Your choices - including the decision to take advice - are yours, and yours alone. This is both a freedom, and a responsibility.

sorry, i’ve got to cancel our plans this evening. i’m encumbered again. no i will not drop any of my items

Found this screenshot of a conversation we had a few years back. Never a dull moment in this household!

Remarkable. Missed the mark in every single way possible. Not a voice actor, don’t speak a word of Mandarin or Cantonese, and if given the chance, would 100% sabotage your large language model and laugh about it with my friends.

Because I’m a complete nerd. (Yes, I already had the online version. I like books, ok?) #chicagomanualofstyle #editor #freelanceeditor #copyeditor #writersofinstagram

Sometimes I half-convince myself I’m a perfectly normal, capable adult. And then I have to make a phone call to book a couple of medical appointments and all of a sudden I’m shaking like mad and I’m repeating the sentence I’m going to say over and over in my head while staring out the window. 1/2

I like my potatoes undercooked.

I just saw someone refer to a real gay couple as “yaoi” and I’m pretty sure this is why we can’t have nice things.

Explaining to my husband why I feel more comfortable when there’s more people at the gym than when it’s just me and someone else. Me: “It’s okay at yoga because nobody expects you to talk at yoga.” Him: “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.”

Singin’ in the Rain (1952) / The Artist (2011)

So basically I’m an awkward nerd. Gotcha.

Couple things. How the author chooses to describe (or not) the setting informs the reader of tone, backstory, even character development. It's not just there to make the word count. 1/

Yo, #Halifax. Why is there construction work happening outside at 3:30 in the morning? Some people are trying to sleep over here.

Time to UNLEASH HELL because our Malys Kickstarter is OFFICIALLY LIVE! 🔥 Follow the link to join the hunt and and help our hellish roguelite deckbuilder reach its full infernal potential! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/summerfallstudios/malys-exorcise-demons-on-your-hunt-for-an-ancient-evil

I had to dig pretty deep in old, dusty, somewhat repressed memories, but I found it. This is the story of a boy named Louis—a puppeteer—who comes to a village to show off his beautiful blue bird. He wants to make the bird fly, but a puppet can’t fly. A puppet doesn’t have life. 1/3

Listen, Word. If I was done typing in this comment box, I would have clicked somewhere else. Did I click somewhere else? No? Then let me keep typing in the comment box!

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Word nerds assemble! It's the new CMOS Q&A!

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For fuck's sake, Walmart. You can't substitute a zero sugar soda for its regular version. That is not equivalent. This isn't "oooh, I'm watching my weight so I'll get the diet version today". This is "diabetic person receives a drink they're going to have to pour down the sink if they want to live".

Loving this blast from the past! ❤️ Hit me right in the childhood.

Having watched a YouTuber play the beginning of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, I can say it’s not landing for me emotionally. I liked the premise, but found the execution lacking. The characters (so far) feel generic, and the big tragic emotional moments of the intro just don’t feel quite…earned?

Why would I say Mrs. Doubtfire when Hook is right there.

Why is Split Fiction’s writing so bad? It’s a game about writers. Can’t you, like, hire a couple?

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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Thank you for explaining. Now I can confidently say “fuck that”. Fuck that.

I’m not going to stop being furious at Trudeau for not upholding his campaign promise for electoral reform. First Past The Post channels us into a 2-party system when we’d all benefit from the leverage of smaller special-focus parties.