Happy New Year from Nova Scotia! No matter how you celebrate it!

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

I know it's Christmas Eve, but an Ontario animal sanctuary (pet pigs, horses, etc) just had their water tank system fail. It's going to cost over $3000 to fix it, and it's an emergency situation (the animals have to have water). Please donate/share if you can: www.ralphysretreat.ca

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Question for folks knowledgeable about Toronto and environs. Going to be there in February staying near Pearson (lower edge of it). My better half would like to eat at a « real deli » - one with a wide selection. Any out that way? Or alternatively reasonably accessible by transit?

Very seriously, are my standards too high? I expect people to understand they're on a global social media so are talking to people living in other countries, with different customs, accents/words, and food. I expect people to infer some basic meaning and understand if a topic is for them or not.

Hey folks - can you help out with a share and a small donation (if you can)? This is a super tough time of the year to run into emergency vet bills.

Remember my tale of the roofer who scammed us? Well, court had finally ended. We won. Shane Collins of Getter Done Roofing not only scammed us with shoddy work he had no business or knowledge doing, but he also did not show for court. Please beware if you ever come across Shane.

It's time for everyone's favorite chronologically unanchored holiday, The Story of the Lizard in the Leg.

People who are afraid of what their situation will be in a year, aren't going to find appeals to longer time horizons very convincing.

I really wish some news outlets would stop regurgitating Houston’s tweets verbatim. He’s now using veterans once again to distract the public. The poppy issue was Saskatchewan not Nova Scotia. Keep your eyes on Mabou. #nspoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“The Nova Scotia Judiciary is refuting that any new orders or directives have been issued when it comes to wearing poppies in the courts, despite a recent post from the premier [Tim Houston].” halifax.citynews.ca/2025/11/07/t...

It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Compare the size of Denmark and Canada then get back to me. The article talks about how the significant extent of Denmark’s digitization makes this possible, but doesn’t discuss the vulnerabilities losing the backup creates, not to mention the further privatization of public functions.

The people demanded change, so we changed their ability to demand.

I went to bed in Nova Scotia and woke up in Alberta.

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

beta.novascotia.ca/register-sen... If you are a Nova Scotian diabetic or knows one you should be aware of this program. Or make someone else aware. These sensors are an incredible tool and we're all fuckin' poor and bleeding from our fingers here.

The Professors are in trouble! @thephilfoglio.bsky.social and @kajafoglio.bsky.social are some of the kindest people in our industry, talented, hard-working, and currently getting screwed by situations. www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-f...

Canada Day seems a good time to re-up this

Never change, Penzeys

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

i keep seeing people say that LLMs are good at search. NO. WRONG. You have just forgotten how good search used to be. Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.

Finished object! Crocheted lap blanket 🧶 #crochet OGo Colourama First Blush using the Lucky 7 rectangular pattern from The Crochet Crowd

The plantation burning reminds me of when the residential school burnt down in Shubenacadie. I was very young. Not understanding why we were all there watching a scary looking building burning. Cars lined up all over both sides of the road. It seemed like the entire rez population (1)

I think there’s a business case for someone to take on researching finding specific products that are not US made for a small fee. Im a darned good researcher and I still can’t find a queso that’s either made in Canada or at least not US. (yes queso as that orange glop is probably a US invention)

Family, it has been a really bad few months of sales for trans authors. I know there are a lot of reasons for this (the economy is in the toilet, everything costs more, Amazon boycotts, etc), but trans stories still deserve to be read, and trans authors still deserve to be supported.

One of the beautiful parts of living in the Annapolis Valley is the spring Fire Dept fundraiser season - pretty much every week there’s a local fire department doing a BBQ fundraiser - all local ingredients cooked on an open outdoor charcoal pit. Today is Waterville..

we're still $168 overdrawn and completely out of cat food please #UrgentNeed

The look your cousins give you at Thanksgiving dinner when you're all laughing at the family dipshit.

Happy "Waverly Jones Book 4 preorders drop into your ereader" day to all who celebrate. (Yes this is the hardcover link. The cover's neat.) www.amazon.com/Silent-These...

hey QP, thanks for the post, $410 still needed for my health insurance which is due tomorrow bsky.app/profile/pope...

I wish people would understand the difference between analytical "AI" and generative algorithms using LLMs. The former is used for pattern recognition at high rates and precision humans can't replicate and highly useful in medicine and science. The latter is autocomplete with delusions of grandeur.

*whispers* the federal conservatives haven’t been the “PCs” in TWENTY TWO YEARS …okay I might be yelling now. They merged with the Canadian Alliance (Refoorrrrm Party) in 2003.

In honour of the Canadian election (and a f*u to the terf who shall not be named, here’s gift cards for Diane Duane’s excellent So You Want To Be A Wizard series. Redeem as coupons at ebooks.direct (may not be available in the UK) #kindlebookgiveways

The notion that our current reality is being dictated by a handful of male, middle-aged tech billionaires griping to each other on a single groupchat oddly makes a lot of things make sense.

Just a reminder that the sale prices end soon...

Writers: gen ai is theft Artists: gen ai is theft Narrators: gen ai is theft Environmentalists: gen ai is killing the planet Scientists: gen ai is killing the planet Tech bros: BUT MAKE BRAIN WORK MUCH HARD NEED MACHINE FOR BIG THOUGHT

nothing received today and I have about $10 to my name.

Canadians 🇨🇦 Be in the know This vote is too important to leave it up to your neighbour

still need something on this, would love to have it covered and focus on the May bills 💸 💕

Interesting article in the Guardian this morning : www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Captures a different viewpoint on these times - America as a series of bubbles bursting

Finished object Friday a day late… Granny Goes Random lap blanket - made with Forest O’Go yarn. #crochet

I’m working election Monday so don’t leave your vote to the last minute! Go to the advanced polls if you can and VOTE! No matter where you stand don’t rely on the polls as to the results! Make your voice heard! #Federalelection2025

So, I just got an interesting email from a yarn store who's email list I'm on. When I was working at a yarn store (& was the store manager), I signed up for DOZENS of newsletter emails from yarn stores across the world to...spy? Lol. The owner wanted ideas for new suppliers, yarns, trending patterns

Because people seem to be looking for these at the moment: the first nine #YoungWizards novels in ebook format, revised and updated for the 2000s—and till the end of April, on sale. *Wizardry without toxic additives:* ebooks.direct/products/you... (Not available in the UK due to Brexit: so sorry.)

#UrgentNeed #MutualAidRequest she must pay her rent by 4/16 or be evicted please #HelpSky #HelpFolksLive2025 💸 💕

Nobody is safe. He was a legal. permanent. resident.

My Massachusetts-born law/platonic life partner received this email today in which DHS "encourages" her to leave the United States "immediately on your own" rather than face criminal prosecution, which is of course fine and normal