I’m still on the mailing list for a US record store I bought some vinyl from several years back, and they just sent me a “Veterans Day 10% off” email and I’m sorry but the United States is clearly not ok like srsly seek help.

Having now finished it, I am confident in saying that del Toro’s Frankenstein, rather than being an adaptation of Shelley’s novel, or a form of homage to Whale’s film, is instead the gritty reboot of Rocky Horror that no one wanted. In this paper I will…

I continue to be so impressed with Mattea Roach. Here she is interviewing Ian McEwan about his new novel. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...

George Munro Professor Dr Julia M Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social and co-authors in Dalhousie News: @dalhousie.bsky.social @dalfaculty.bsky.social

Love it when the newspaper publishes a photo of me with the caption, "Embarrassing and sad."

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

This Knight Rider reboot is terrible.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

When my cartoons become reality. #chicago

It is fucking insane to me that senate democrats bailed him out

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

New York: votes overwhelmingly for the democratic socialist. The majority of democrats and disillusioned working-class soft GOP voters: hell yeah! Senate Democrats: oh yeah, no, fuck that, lol.

I’m in this picture and how dare you.

Te reo Māori isn’t a political problem – it’s the public service’s greatest opportunity

I recently watched the “Coda” version of Godfather III and thought, “huh, yes some parts are terrible but not as horrific as I remember.” So, I thought, let’s give the Star Wars prequels yet another go. Now I’m just… how did they get even worse with time?

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people. Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

The article dismisses "scurrying to some dreary records room or scrolling through a spreadsheet." But doing that difficult work can lead to unexpected discoveries. 3/5

The problem, once again, is that "AI" is whatever the fuck the author wants it to be, and is essentially, "the computer does cool stuff!" The first example in this article is basically a supercharged database, which is not generative AI. So it confuses the reader right from the start/ 1/3

The Staten Island Ferry is free. Mamdani is just bringing the Staten Island Ferry experience to New York's buses. Who could object to that?

NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

Had a great panel and launch for the Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction at #Halcon2025! But we totally forgot to get pictures! :( Thanks to @heleninwords.bsky.social @kalahirtleclarke.bsky.social @juliamwright.bsky.social and Cher Hann! @halconscificon.bsky.social @broadviewpress.bsky.social

Something about that hyphen between 1776 and 2026 makes it read like birth and death dates. Unintentional but perhaps appropriate!

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

!!!! This is a DISGRACE and so deeply disturbing. Support Luke! Support Press Progress! Support journalism!!!

Sen. Ron Wyden is calling out the GOP for pushing to slip a nationwide backdoor abortion ban into the government funding bill. This is dangerous for women’s health care. We’ve already seen the consequences in states like TX, but I guess the GOP is intent on The Handmaid’s Tale.

If anyone is at #HALCON this weekend, stop by the @writersfedofns.bsky.social table and grab their zine. I have a fun little story in it. I believe it will also be made freely available on their website for a limited time.

That sounds amazing! 🎉 I love discovering local SFF talents and getting inspired by flash stories! Can't wait to stop by the WFNS booth! 📚✨ #HalCon #SFFCommunity

My kids are at Halcon and were very excited to see that Wallace Shawn was also masking.

The print version of my anthology is out in a few weeks, but the electronic version is now available and on sale at the link. In the free preview (linked) you’ll also be able to read all of the front matter—including the futurisms and thematic tables of contents—and the full intro.

Are boards run by lemmings? We saw this kind of thing at Dal, and the damage to the credibility of the senior admin and board is beyond the telling of it. Why any group a few weeks later would take a page from that playbook is 😱.

This is absolutely bonkers. Has anyone checked the pipes in Uni admin offices in Halifax for lead?

Did you know that while the Trump Administration is cancelling 10% of commercial flights at 40 airports starting today, they are still letting all private jet flights (12% of all US air traffic) fly as normal?

There are literal breadlines in the US caused, in part, by a person set to become the world’s first trillionaire. This feels like the point in history books when a new, very long chapter starts.

I just keep thinking “Elon Musk just got a trillion dollars”

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Any reading plans for reading week?? @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @dallibraries.bsky.social

I spoke to Donovan Hohn of @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social for their Moby Dick podcast. We talked about Chapter 4, my Queequeg and Ishmael fanfic (Quishmael for my fellow old Tumblr heads) and Melville’s unrequited love for Nathaniel Hawthorne. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

1. Rather than, 'Two of the worst winter flu seasons of the past decade have been seen in the last three years, something partly attributed to the *bounce-back of the virus after Covid restrictions were lifted combined with immunity being low*'... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Postcards—with discount codes!—I’ll have at my Saturday evening panel at #Halcon2025! halcon2025.sched.com/event/2AShp/...

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a wiener.

Reboot Ninja Turtles but they all use Subway Sandwiches as weapons.

The loss of potential grant money also means that other universities will get a bigger slice of the tri-council pie--and so have more resources to recruit graduate students, while Dalhousie has less and less. This is going to harm graduate programs for years.

And tricouncil application deadline were missed by some faculty because of the lockout…second round allocation is being reconfigured too, taking $ we used to pay for student stipend away from dept control to faculty level control.