THIS.

Have just consulted with my military history buff kid about tactics for helping my characters win a battle that has to happen and have been told that the situation is unwinnable, I've made the villains too strong from a tactical perspective, and the good guys are all going to die. 🫠😂 #AmWriting

I am dying. 😂

Author. "I have this really great idea for a book! You could write it and we could split the profits!"

Thread.

That omnibus bill wherein Carney can exempt any individual or company from following Canadian laws, just in case any other Liberal apologists want to tell me it isn't real. It's under Division 5, amendments to the "Red Tape Reduction Act" (because of course).

Thank you for the artshare! I'm RJB / Mallacore. 3d modeler and digital artist. I love sci-fi and especially spaceships. I've been bring many ship designs to life in vivid and color space scenes.

I hope whoever ends up winning the 80 million Lotto Max does stuff like this, too.

Canadians: *Resoundingly reject tories* Carney Liberals: *Do Tory shit anyway*

Great. I guess we can expect the shove-AI-into-every-aspect-of-your-life-whether-you-want-it-or-not to ramp up radically in 2026. SIGH.

It's also seriously worth noting that on the Govt's AI Task Force is ex Shopify CEO Dan Debow, who was part of the group of Canadian Tech Bros calling for a DOGE for Canada during the Federal Election. He now leads Build Canada, the official site that came out of it. thewalrus.ca/are-a-handfu...

😂 This is pretty much what I say every time I do a workout. "I'm going to go do my stupid exercise for my stupid health."

This is not getting anywhere near the amount of coverage it should be getting. And, authors, this could very well kill any chance we had for our own AI class action lawsuits. He can exempt any individual or company from following any law (except criminal code) for 6 years at a time.

I just played a word game and words I did not get include "pompelmoose" and "pompelmooses" and how are those acceptable words? 🤨

The only thing that bothers me more than the unprofessional behaviour of infection control leaders is the complete lack of enforcement of any meaningful standards of professionalism by the medical associations. We need to revisit the privilege of self-regulation for medicine.

Yup.

Sure doesn’t - and these tools are great for home and workplace use, too! We don’t have to wait for school to back in session to protect each other! #TisTheSeason

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Well, he's gone and done it. PM Goldman Sachs has replaced the excellent Kirsten Hillman with an investment banker buddy with an ethics problem in the past that cost him a job. Wiseman was also among the first to donate to Carney's leadership bid. #CdnPoli

Incredible that they're trying to rebrand the machine that encourages people into mental health crises and tells them to kill themselves, as a mental health aide. It's a tough sell, considering how often the machine keeps driving people into mental health crises and suicide.

If you write, or even you just prefer to read SFF that wasn't made by energy-devouring Plagiarism Bot, definitely fill out this survey on GenAI. Depending on what you want to say, you can do it pretty quickly. Every bit of our voices helps this.

Thread. And omg.

Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.

Why am I getting Boxing Day emails already?

And people wonder why I still try to avoid buying American produce and other food products. I like to think we're increasing CFIA's budget to compensate but, no, we're gutting the public service here because reasons unless they carry guns.

For anyone who missed it, here's the full list of #SFINCS3 semi-finalists! Definitely check them out, along with the full roster of entrants. We had so many brilliant books allocated to our team this year, and there were some hard cuts to see!

They should demand to see 5 years of social media posts then chain him and deport him to Antarctica.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Also, I just noticed that OPL is now carrying book 4, if anyone in Ottawa is looking for stuff for kids to read over the holidays! Just the paperback so far, but I'm hoping they'll pick up the ebook, too. (You could help with that by requesting it! 😊)

Just putting this out there, but if any journalists want to do a list of well-reviewed Canadian kids' books that no one has ever heard of, I'm totally here and up for an interview. Just, you know, if you're looking for something to do and need to fill year-end quotas or anything. 😂

Cool! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Gee. Who does that remind me of? 🍊

Uh… Ottawa… if you haven't done it already, you should definitely make it a point of getting your flu shot. Especially if you have elders or little ones in your life or don't want to be sick for a month. 😳 Data from @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social's tracker: gilchrist.great-site.net/jeff/COVID-1...

We will be the only species to have destroyed itself because we felt that big profits for a handful of already wealthy men was more important than the collective survival of our entire species and every other living thing we share this planet with.

Canadians, please sign! #TransRightsAreHumanRights We need compassion and community, not ideological cheats. Link to sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... More details from the petition in image, if you need it. Please sign! 🇨🇦

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

Hi, I'm Eva! I'm still figuring out all the various intricacies of living with chronic illness, so I work freelance as a book cover artist. I also love writing and drawing about my OCs and interests, and make comics when time and spoons permit! 🥰

This is quite the article. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

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I have rage. This is why we never allowed blood, plasma, organs to be paid exchanges in the past. It *automatically* leads to the exploitation of people already struggling to make ends meet. Tax the fucking rich and implement a universal UBI. Instead, we just keep making things harder for people. 😡

Last load of laundry in, bread rising, housecleaning done. Now beginning my dumb Christmas movie marathon. (Don't hug the trash panda, Buddy. Just don't.)

THREAD.

Can we just entertain for a moment if a woman leader here lost their own seat in the election they were once leading by 15 points, and then lost three of their MPs with two crossing the floor, do you think they would still get to lead the party? #cdnpoli

I do so love burrowing owls. They are small. And cranky. And basically live in caves. And generally are either asleep or glaring at people.

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

Just…awww! 🥲

Cat is on a vet-mandated diet. She was scarfing it all down within half an hour of being fed & then being mad for the rest of the day, so vet suggested feeding half in morning & half later. Started that yesterday. She is now *screaming* at me & trying to claw her way through the cupboard door. 😑

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

The thing that most annoys me with articles on COVID is the constant framing of the infection with zero mention of ongoing post infection risks which are now well researched and documented. Talking in terms of one infection instead of cumulative impacts. So many I talk to are saying things like 🧵

We do not have to offer and I believe indeed should not offer any benefit of the doubt: Anything sold as "AI" should be presumed ineffective, exploitative, environmentally ruinous, bigotry-amplifying and otherwise until proven otherwise. /fin