Great review of The Drowning Place by @crimefictionlover.bsky.social plus me reading the moment DI Laurie Bower meets DS Joseph Ashe for the first time. The Drowning Place – Review and Reading 📖 youtu.be/vYsMTI9pvjo?... via @YouTube

amnesty.ca/red-dress-day/ Red Dress Day | Amnesty International Canada

#TulipTuesday Seen on my walk🌱🌷

Good morning. Independent Bookshops are the heartbeat of our high streets and communities. Please, if you are able do support them. They pay their taxes & business rates whilst some in the book world. Want to fly to Mars in a Met Gala bib & tucker. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Garden timeline cleanse

University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.

#fivestarflashback ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #BookReview: In the Absence of Miracles by Michael J. Malone #InTheAbsenceofMiracles #damppebbles ➡️ buff.ly/3Ht5iiH #whattoread #bookish #BookSky #skybrarians #bookrecs #bookrecommendation

Rat Race by Callum McSorley @CallumMcSorley @PushkinPress @BiscuitsBooks Source: Review copyPublication: 7 May 2026 from Pushkin VertigoPP: 352ISBN-13: 978-1805336396 My thanks to Nikki Mander and Pushkin Vertigo for an advance copy for review DCI Alison McCoist is up to the oxters in Glasgow's…

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Europe is not just about geography, it's also about the values and principles we share. That’s why we are glad to welcome Canada at the European Political Community meeting today to discuss common issues. We will be talking about connectivity, but also resilience to the threats we are all facing.

May the Firth be with you

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

If you've got one of these signs stored away it's time to put it out on the front lawn again. There's a lot going on these days which is EXACTLY why this government is trying to sneak it through NOW. Albertans need to see it /4 #StopCoal #SaveOurSlopes #ProtectOurWater #SaveOurMountains #abpoli #yyc

Another casualty of the #UCP incompetence in governance. I guess you'd want to get rid of a water council if you want to ram #datacentre's down everyone's throats. 🤬🤬🤬🤬 #abpoli #ableg #alberta #canada #canpoli #albertapolitics #UCP #ABndp #ndp #forevercanadian www.linkedin.com/posts/jayswh...

Well, ffs. "A provincial water council is preparing to shut down after more than two decades of providing advice around water issues after receiving word from the Alberta [UCP] government that its funding will be cut." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you are an Alberta resident, please see if you can find a location to sign this petition against renewed coal mining in the Rockies www.waternotcoal.ca/sign-the-pet...

Before I was deregistered, organizers sent this list of rules to attendees. What is going on in there that they don’t want the public to see?

It has been 10 years since those in Fort Mac endured the terrifying experience of evacuating in a raging fire. You would hope that we learned from this horrible situation but Smith has been approving large data centers in AB without environmental impact studies. Drought + water draining DCs = 🔥

May the Fourth be with you - here's a little reminder of that time I was detained by the Empire at an event in 2015

It feels very fitting that the theme for the 2027 Bouchercon anthology is Power Corrupts. It is located in Washington DC. @eaaymar.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social

This is unconscionable. I’ll put my phone in airplane mode to beat this Saw it at No Frills- price on a digital display changed before my eyes. Thought I was hallucinating. Apparently not! I’ll be avoiding stores w digital pricing. Looking at you #Loblaws theconversation.com/your-browsin...

"I find your lack of treats disturbing" #StarWarsDay

This story was broken by The Cornell Sun, which @nytimes.com nowhere cites. As a former editor-in-chief of The Sun — and in the name of brave, amazing college newspapers everywhere — do not treat student journalists as truffle pigs, taking what they've sniffed out without credit or compensation.

How can anyone read Tr*mps social media posts and think that he is in a fit state to discharge his duties as president? Isn't it time for the 25th Amendment?

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

If you’re a writer, especially a crime writer, you know publishing is topsy-turvy. I talked to @msemilyedwards.bsky.social @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.social and @beaujohnson44.bsky.social for @crimereads.bsky.social. Lots of insights: crimereads.com/how-some-cri...

One thing people don’t realize is that even if you don’t use Medicaid—even if you never would use Medicaid—your ability to access care, and your ability to access healthcare providers like me, will be affected in some way or another by every cut or barrier to Medicaid. Nobody will be unaffected.

I wanted to start AANHPI Heritage Month by sharing the works of some fellow AAPI adoptee authors. Our literature, like our identities as adoptees, is complex, vibrant, and rich with possibility. Consider reading an AAPI adoptee author today. 💖🥚

If America is so racist, then how come a wealthy white man has been lavishing me with gifts ever since his company started having cases before the Supreme Court, on which I sit? by Clarence Thomas

OK, here's where the fun begins (and I get very competitive)! Let's gooooooooooooooooooo!

Great resource! 👇 The Hallmarks of Pseudoscience www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social 🙏 🚩 Example red flags: - Scienceploitation - Science washing of ancient beliefs - Overreliance on testimonials - Vague claims - Logical fallacies - Politicizing spin!! #GoScience! 💪

The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.

Has anyone else noticed that Duracell batteries don't seem to last as long as they used to last?

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The integrity of those signatures collected is now highly suspicious! #Alberta @lisab0923.bsky.social @trueeager.bsky.social @billkellypodcast.bsky.social

Time for an experiment! You know those cute little roadside stands with honors-system eggs or produce? Look, I know I live in "big scary Philadelphia oooh 👻" but I'm gonna try it. What's the worst that can happen? Thieves create habitat for native bees? Jokes on them! I wanted them to do that!

Bad decisions have consequences. Jason Kenney eliminated the office of the Elections Commissioner, a body that investigated election fraud and monitored use of lists of electors, to stop an investigation of UCP. Now we see wha happens without a watchdog. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

WOW!!!!! With concerns growing that the separatists could have used the electors lists to potentially falsify thousands or hundreds of thousand of signatures... Even if people request it, the UCP's changes to the law prevent EA from investigating... Or removing those names.

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

Hey, hey, it's MAY DAY. You know what to do... No School! No Work! No Shopping! #TaxTheOligarchs

Our founders created an executive with limited powers, like it or not. They had just overthrown a king. They didn't want another one. Read the frickin' Constitution.

"We simply have to operate under the assumption that basically anyone in the province, no matter how unhinged, may now have nearly universal access to the personal information of everybody who lives here, and that there’s not a damn thing any of us can do about it."

ICYMI, it’s THURSDAY! @cullenbunn.bsky.social @canadahardcover.bsky.social @wgaeast.bsky.social @igreggreene.bsky.social @marysangiovanni.bsky.social @jordanharper.bsky.social @saintkate.bsky.social @laurelhightower.bsky.social @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social @nawhiteauthor.bsky.social

Wonderful to see that Robert Crais' book, The Big Empty has won the 2026 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. Attached is my review of the book for Crime Fiction Lover.

"At night, when images of faceless separatists rattle me awake, I picture all the Forever Canadian patriots—and my dad, whom we buried in his Naval Reserve blazer—knowing I’m not alone in this fight." https://macleans.ca/politics/why-im-forever-canadian/

A starter pack of novelists on BlueSky featuring @drewgum.bsky.social @susannacrossman.bsky.social & many more. Please follow & repost #writingcommunity #starterpack

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The Narwhal has learned Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner is among the ranchers who receive taxpayer dollars for oil and gas operations on public grazing lands. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-nath...

#Wednesday w Dietrich Kalteis >> 7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-... @thecwa.bsky.social @crimewriterscanada.bsky.social @sinc-cw.bsky.social @sincworldwide.bsky.social @canadahardcover.bsky.social