The promise of gravy later today is keeping me sane.

I ❤️ ketchup chips. And you.

What's the writerly term for reading something you wrote a long time ago and hated, then upon re-reading you think 'Huh. this isn't *total* garbage' ? Un-impostering?

My stupid mouth bones are so high maintenance and expensive. A real evolutionary failure that teeth aren't made of titanium.

Gonna make a playlist with all the songs that are stuck in your head at this moment. My brain radio is playing Reptilia by The Strokes, so that's track 1. What's next, friends? 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

Book event info for my Saskatoon and area friends! Details on the November 16 Edmonton launch coming soon! 🩷📚 www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18852/...

#AB pals, I think we should take all the disastrous and terrifying stuff going down in American cities as a reminder why municipal elections really do matter and why we should research candidates at every level...school board trustees and city councillors too, not just mayoral candidates.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

UPDATE...my baby got the job!!!

My 14-year-old keeps singing 'Danny Boy' loudly to annoy me. Why does she even know this song?

And the membership is united. The province can't push this aside as a greedy union. Recall how important teachers and education were to these governments during the pandemic. It is time to treat teachers and their work environments with the value they deserve.

Thinking this morning of how many teachers I know who are married to other teachers, and raising kids, and the financial stress that a prolonged strike could bring. But still, they are fighting for public education, for all of our kids, and ultimately a better world. #Solidarity #Respect #ABEd

Why learn big words when you can productatiously contrivicate your own?

If you’re apprehensive that what you say or do now could come to haunt you in a more authoritarian environment in the future then this is your absolute cue that you absolutely must say or do something now.

If you're in #YEG, please come out to celebrate Jen's amazing book!

😭😢 What a totally beautiful human being right to the end. An important gift left behind. Will need a box of Kleenex to watch this.

There is some alternate Earth where political decisions are not funded or influenced by oil companies and billionaire tech bros and...

Maybe your #caturday needs a pretty little Cate face. #CatsOfBluesky

Nice twilight show in the sky and on the trees, #ShPk ❤️

Gee, I wonder why people went from calling me a queer horror author to a cosmic horror author. The fun part is how few were on purpose (Worm trilogy + Game in Yellow) vs how much is cosmic by accident because I'm a weirdo (the rest of it 😅) Nonetheless, make horror gay AF 🌈 including cosmic horror

Israel KIDNAPS Flotilla: Piracy Denounced As “TERRORISM" youtu.be/nwOLE25HpMA?... via @YouTube

I had the pleasure of interviewing poet Natalie Lim about her debut poetry collection Elegy For Opportunity for the @oncreativewriting.bsky.social podcast! The book is stellar, and I think our conversation was pretty interesting too! :) Listen here: www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/ep...

No attempts at clever advertising today. I'm just really excited about this book launch, and I love this book. Please join us on Oct 5 at 2:00 PM!

The UCP is willing to spend millions of dollars A DAY to fight against better classroom conditions. How many EAs could they hire a year for one week of spending on this - because I bet it’s more than the 1500 EAs they offered. Which means this isn’t about budget -it’s about power and spite. #AbLeg

Big thanks to @calgaryguardian.bsky.social for doing this fun feature and q & a with me! calgaryguardian.com/calgary-arti...

I know there’s a lot going on with *gestures to everything* but as of today, October 1st: 🚩Alberta officially has the LOWEST minimum wage in Canada 🚩AISH recipients in social housing will pay hundreds more in rent Cruel UCP choices are making life more expensive. It doesn’t have to be this way.

On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, some note how few of the TRC’s 94 calls to action have been answered. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

#AlbertaTeachersStrike #Alberta CC: @albertateachers.bsky.social

This is something we disabled people call "inspiration porn". It's incredibly degrading. Because it shouldn't be about whether this disabled person can make it up this step. It should be why is it inaccessible in the first place, so they have to struggle? Don't cheer us – help make it accessible.

Since it's Monday in the hellscape, I think you all need the best thing I saw this weekend...and maybe ever: This dog on a motorcycle, being cool AF

Terrifying, apocalyptic. And yet many of us remain inert and elect officials to pour more citizens’ money into yet more pipelines and extraction, mine and burn coal, and watch the daily unreality show put on by one of the world’s worst.

People hate the disabled because we demonstrate the fact that people need people. All of you are interdependent on each other, and we make you face that. You're terrified of us for making clear that you cannot survive alone. You want us out of sight so you can keep pretending

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

I had so much fun talking to Natalie Lim about her stellar book, Elegy For Opportunity. Thanks for letting me get behind the mic, @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social and @oncreativewriting.bsky.social!

Guess I gotta watch Portlandia today in solidarity instead of working. But really, s&%t is so f*$!ed. Thinking of you, American friends. 😔🩷

If you're in #YEG, please come to celebrate the launch of Stock, buy the book, and buy Jessica's too!! These women are extraordinary writers (and people) ❤️

There are Canadians on board the flotilla – @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social – including two incredible Indigenous women. Israel has threatened escalated illegal attacks on this humanitarian mission. When will @mark-carney.bsky.social ACT to protect his citizens in International waters? #FreePalestine

Fun new gig for me alert! I'm excited to be working as Associate Poetry Editor for the next volume of spring, the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild, alongside Managing Editor and Prose Editor Ashleigh Mattern! If you're a Saskatchewan writer, please submit your work! ❤️

Oh ffs. Do NOT fuck this up @mark-carney.bsky.social or have not noticed the heat waves that continue into SEPTEMBER?! For the last 3 years in #Alberta alone its rained, RAINED in late November!!

Love social media and poetry? Volunteer with us! Application and info here: tr.ee/m8jIk3GCK7 #YEG #Poetry #Volunteer

Would give all the good people here flowers here if I could, but you'll have to settle for my little messy bouquet of painted ones. ❤️🌼🌸

Things I vow to do today that are not doomscrolling: - draw something - say 'you are the sweetest little perfectest baby' to both of my cats, many times - nap - admire my immense crop of garden tomatoes - annoy my kid by doing Macbeth lines in a horrid British accent (she's studying it for school)

I'm autistic! I love cheese! I have a book out about an autistic person who also loves cheese! CHEDDAR LUCK NEXT TIME is a cozy mystery with genuine autistic rep, cats, and a loooot of cheese. www.bethcato.com/cheese-myste...

My husband, telling me all about a 'cool drill press' he saw and how 'maybe we need some stackable totes' and I listened, and even asked follow up questions, because baby jeebus knows he's let me drone on about 'line enjambments' and 'neato titles for chapbooks' enough.

My kid just applied for a job with a truly stellar cover letter and resume she wrote and created without any trash AI help, and honestly, this is like taking first steps level pride I got going on. 🩷

It needs to rain so my migraine goes away and my still-going-strong garden is quenched and the sky shifts from this strange, beige dust colour to a more relatable grey.

The Irritating Gentleman, by Berthold Woltze (1874) #Art #painting #illustration

I am begging food influencers to stop referring to any dish as a 'dump recipe.'

Not to upset your doomscrolling, but I woke up with So Far Away by Carole King on my brain radio and it's so random and odd and I think it was actually playing in my dream like a soundtrack.

If children were our priority... AS THEY SHOULD BE ...there would be no war no crimes against humanity no poverty no hate. NO EXCUSES.