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Reader living with depression, cat lover, she/her. Canadian.
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Better Things Are Possible
about 4 hours ago
A mysterious old man granted Elon's wish to have unlimited money but this also caused him to become the most miserable man in the world. He can break the curse at any time by giving up the unlimited money but that happens to be the only thing he can't fathom doing. This man lives in double hell
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Dan of the Year
about 7 hours ago
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press
about 15 hours ago
The first snow of the year has begun. Give me all your snowstorm novella recs, please.
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Audrey
about 19 hours ago
Mark Carney was talking about attracting foreign investment to Canada and listed reasons Canada is a good place to invest. A reporter pointed out that the U.S. has those things, too. What sets Canada apart? Carney responded, "Well, we have rule of law."ļæ¼
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JacquiWine
about 15 hours ago
New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson. A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a countryās codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. šš
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Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
For a novel first published in 1934, Sally Carsonās Crooked Cross feels remarkably timely, charting, as it does, the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, the falling apart of a countryās fundamental ā¦
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/crooked-cross-by-sally-carson/
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Welcome to Derry Girls
1 day ago
As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.
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Kelly
2 days ago
People love to tell disabled folks to ātake responsibilityā. Take responsibility for what exactly? For being sick? For not getting better? For needing social supports? What they really mean is āwe donāt want OUR taxes helping YOU surviveā
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Do you think writing a letter to Mark Carney detailing how disabled people are being systemically left out of chances and opportunities to thrive in this country would be worthwhile? Because no one else seems to be doing anything or advocating for us.
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Clarkesworld
2 days ago
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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Andrew Gurza
2 days ago
SNAP is supposed to be restored today due to a judge's order. This is great news, but we should probably talk about the mental anguish people who rely on SNAP (disabled and so many others) have had to go through all because of greed and the overabundance of wealth. That's gross af.
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Kelly
2 days ago
Poverty and disability often go together Most people have no idea how fast their life can change One accident or illness is all it takes Losing your health can quickly wipe out your finances, your contingencies and your support network Itās why we need robust social supports.
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Deeny(they/them)
3 days ago
ICE vs sandwich guy is so funny I hate it. I cant even write a joke about it. Oh ICE agent hit by sandwich and left for bread? Dont be ridiculous this is stupid
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Starting Elizabeth Taylorās A View of the Harbour.
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John Scalzi
3 days ago
This just in: DEER
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So thrilled to find this locally. Iāve known about Persephone Books for years but didnāt know how to access their titles in Canada. Thanks to
@radzpandit.bsky.social
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John Scalzi
4 days ago
As promised, a better picture of tonight's moon.
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king's co-op bookstore
4 days ago
we're still shipping all over Canada for only $5 and we now have a tugboat to help us spread the word! how do we do it? that's really none of your business
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joannes
4 days ago
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
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Billy-Ray Belcourt: āHow do I live in the world if I donāt love it? Many days Iām hysterical.ā
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Went to the bookstore not knowing what I was going to get and found Cassidy McFadzeanās poetry collection, the latest from my fave Billy-Ray Belcourt, and something on sale called a book advent calendar that Iām going to open next month.
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Uncle Duke
4 days ago
I'm 66. I've been a lot of places and seen a lot of the world. I've got more questions than answers. But I know this to be a stone-cold fact: anyone with the means to feed hungry children and chooses not to has failed at being human. There's no justification. None.
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All of these collections have been transformative.
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Lyz
5 days ago
Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on Americaās politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, āWhat you all call the far left is just being normal.ā
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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press
5 days ago
Weasels in the Attic by Hiromi Oyamada translated by David Boyd I picked this up at a book swap on Sunday and read it the same day. Three scenes interconnecting infertility/pregnancy, fish breeding, and a weasel infestation. Trust me, somehow it works beautifully.
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Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada | New Directions
In three interconnected scenes, Hiroko Oyamada revisits the same set of characters at different junctures in their lives. In the back room of a pet store full of rare and exotic fish, old friends disc...
https://www.ndbooks.com/book/weasels-in-the-attic/
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arsenalpulp.bsky.social
5 days ago
š Our annual holiday book sale starts now! Take 30% OFF + free shipping on all orders of $30+ on
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Baby Boy Monaghan
6 days ago
Percy Bysshe Shelley: So pleased my wife's novel is remembered in so grand a manner as this, what is it called, photoplay? I wonder how I fare in this world of the morrow? (Opens BlueSky) What the f
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Justin Rohrlich
6 days ago
this little fool really makes my day
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6 days ago
This is my medical marijuana that i need for being a bitch.
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Shaenon K. Garrity
6 days ago
This represents an intersection of my interests and mine alone but how did Mexican surrealist Remedios Varo create the perfect cover image for the short stories of Edogawa Ranpo
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mr. cannoli
6 days ago
calling the crisis hotline should just connect you with another depressed person so you can bounce ideas off each other
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Ordered this in despair after I looked up Toronto Florence + the Machine tickets and one in the nosebleeds at Scotiabank Arena was over $300. NOPE.
6 days ago
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Using my SAD light tonight, staring down the tunnel of another long dark winter and wondering what else I can do to help myself through it.
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I need to figure out what is causing the frequent nausea and vomiting. This wait is agonizing. š©
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Someone on goodreads described this collection as āhorrors of mundane despairā and I agree. Themes of animality and escape. Suspenseful, psychologically acute, and uncanny, I loved these stories.
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"Is this my discoveryāa bare, formless thing with no purpose or connection to anyone? I am only myself. Nothing is more terrifying."
3 months ago
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Iām 35, approaching middle age, but still not that old, and recently the world has become absolutely incomprehensible to me. We are living in a surreal time.
3 months ago
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So I ordered this book and got an email from the seller a little while ago saying it got lost en route š
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april
7 days ago
reboot/remake 'sleepy hollow' but no johnny depp and make it aggressively lesbian instead. gonna speak this into existence if we're gonna still be trapped in the era of reboots/remakes
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Matt Jakubowski (he/him)
8 days ago
I re-read this fantastic book of flash fiction in October and realized itās been 10 years since it was published. I also recalled hosting Helen for a reading from it ages ago at Tattooed Mom in Philly. Which is all to say āHappy 10-year Book Birthday to
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Anna Mehler Paperny
7 days ago
Many Canadians have no idea how high tuberculosis rates are in the Inuit population - hundreds of times the non-Indigenous Canadian-born rate. Globally this remains an illness of poverty and marginalization and that's true in one of the richest countries on earth.
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april
7 days ago
easily my most listened to song of 2025, it just taps directly into the millennial 2000s pop girly part of my brain š also omg did you see her performance at the video music awards?? this dance break is *ridiculous* swear i would give my *soul* to be able to dance like her
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Kelly
8 days ago
I barely have enough money to survive, but if a few more of my tax dollars could ensure food, housing, education and healthcare for everyone? I would give it in a heartbeat. Those with the least often share the most. The rich hoard their wealth. Abolish the billionaire class.
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'sports car' by tate mcrae has been on repeat! love her.
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Clare Blackwood
8 days ago
I truly believe we were the best team in baseball this year. I really do. We just couldn't do it. I'm so sad. I love them so much. I'm so proud of them and I also want to barf, so I guess that's sports for ya.
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8 days ago
So I have just enough between the crumbs left from my paycheque and ODSP, to get food for meals for the next two weeks. I would however, like to acquire some snacks, and easy lunches for work too. This isnāt urgent, but would be appreciated. Goal: $30-$50
PayPal.me/tsiokwaris
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Go to paypal.me/tsiokwaris and type in the amount. Since itās PayPal, it's easy and secure. Donāt have a PayPal account? No worries.
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Valarie Smith
8 days ago
Reading this book, in which the protagonist details her strange experiences in the afterlife. At one point, she is walking through a store now underwater. āThe Sound of Silenceā still plays on the speaker; she says, āIt warbles in the murk.ā What a perfect, clean, precise sentence.
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Martha Wells
8 days ago
Post-Halloween:
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jon ben-menachem
8 days ago
One reason why Iāll always argue for liberal arts education is that without it, you may fail to perceive conversations that are happening all around youābetween buildings in cities, works in museums, albums you listen toā¦
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