PSA: If you're at FanExpo Canada this weekend, take a moment to stop by the Bell Canada A I Photo Booth to tell them how upsetting it is that they're undercutting the artists of Artist Alley by offering free A I photos (that's trained on the stolen art of creators) to attendees.

New Review Monday negotiates YA territory as we look at 'Nathan Burgoine's "Dogs Don't Break Hearts," and it's only at Out in Print - all you need to read about all you need to read. outinprintblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/d...

NION have now launched a website: notinourname.org.uk 53,171 have signed. Let's get to 100,000

We started a vacation yesterday, and driving upset the dog’s stomach, so I’ve been up since before 2:00a sitting with the pupper on the covered and screened porch (he prefers being outside when he doesn’t feel well, but it’s raining; bless this porch). Best way to watch a new day start, regardless.

Emphasizing this excellent point: speaking only positively of any health condition isolates people who are really suffering. Even if it isn’t a policy, discouraging people from talking honestly about conditions, treatment, etc endangers people at the highest risk to protect people from discomfort.

Thank you, @madonaskaff.bsky.social for telling me to go for it and to @nathanburgoine.bsky.social for your flash fic challenges! #SFF books2read.com/spec-shorts

Two more hours to go, but first a stop to walk the husky, who has been awesome thus far.

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

Yeah, I’m not going to silence myself when the issue is being silenced—I’m going to take time every freaking day on my vacation to fill in another feedback report pointing out the flaws in the new terms and how it’ll be weaponized especially against queerfolk. I think in this case, noise is better.

Walking the dog these days is also an exercise in desperately trying to fill my colour metre before winter hits and everything turns grey and brown and grey and white and grey.

Where will I be at @canconsffh.bsky.social this year? I’m moderating two very cool panels alongside some incredibly talented writers, as well as waving a red flag (or two, or three), alongside some truly fantastic authors (but also me)!

My schedule for Can*Con! My first time being guest of honour anywhere, and I have absolutely no chill about it. If you come to my kaffeeklatsch (sign up required) or my signing (no sign up required), I'll have some chapbooks I'm printing up to give away, while they last. Please say hi if you see me.

YES!!!!!! I routinely post this article about Magnus Hirschfeld because there are still many folks out there who refuse to acknowledge that attacking queer communities is consistently a means for fascists to gain a foothold in a country.

Speaking of @canconsffh.bsky.social , last year's starter pack for panelists, vendors and volunteeers was popular, so I made a new one for this year. Please tell me if you're on programming or helping out with Can*Con this year and would like to be added, or if you'd like to be removed.

Re: Progress on some sort of Captain’s Log / #StarTrekAdventures lite "adventure" to run alongside Can*Con. I have a plan and an outline for something fairly basic to begin with—Mostly just sticking to Attributes/Disciplines and Tests, but that’s the core mechanic of STA/CL anyway.

“Defund the police is a bad, confusing statement” - country that has given the cops more money than any other country in the history of recorded time

It’s Saturday so I’m back with another #StarTrekAdventures post—rewatching the original series, mining it for scenario ideas for Trek games. This week? The Naked Time, which inspired some thoughts on bottle episodes, department away teams, and… oh, yeah, inventing time travel (no big).

Maybe we’re too direct, but when we decided we didn’t want it to be possible for multiple people to come stay with us, we converted a bedroom into a library.

It’s Saturday so I’m back with another #StarTrekAdventures post—rewatching the original series, mining it for scenario ideas for Trek games. This week? The Naked Time, which inspired some thoughts on bottle episodes, department away teams, and… oh, yeah, inventing time travel (no big).

If you fancy short stories from me, I collected some of my early writings into one fun collection. Includes... ⛸️ An ace sci-fi retelling of Quebec's Alexis le trotteur's folk legend 🧡 Buff sapphic fairy saving everyone 🌱 Solarpunk rooted in Quebec City buy.bookfunnel.com/hywhf3eb6s

If you haven’t seen this, I can fix that for you.

GUESS WHO'S GOT CONS COMING UP AND FIRED UP THE OL' CANVA

Context for non-Canadians: invoking the notwithstanding clause admits the law would otherwise be flagrantly unconstitutional. It has only previously been used by the province of Quebec (to justify single-language laws), it's like voluntarily declaring your law is an unconstitutional abomination.

Oh! My father made the poor (catastrophic) decision it could be "fun" to drive across Canada in an RV with his family when we were moving to BC. The movers packed all the tapes except for what was in the cars. All we had—whole trip—was the *complete* Beatles tapes, and a Harry Chapin live concert.

Okay, pretty sure I can beta-test some sort of Captain’s Log-lite game for Can Con folk to play while the event is going on—three days to tell a mission? Definitely not going to attempt to roll it out full-scale without a trial run, but… yeah. I think this could work really well.

Kicked out of Columbia University, now Washington Post. All for writing and speaking about race and injustice. The best way to support my work is to join @resistanceschool.bsky.social and take my class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

I’d be great to see a "fine, we’re going to mock the fascist!" that didn’t go for "Gay! GAY! Evil anti-queer fascist but HA HA, here’s them and a supporter doing GAY!" as one of the punchlines. T’would also be great if non-queerfolk would stop sharing that shit at me.

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If you’re dropping streaming services, but still like watching stuff, Tubi is free and has tons of movies and cartoons. They have Jem and GI JOE! Pluto Tv has a good live function that shows a lot of movies and old tv shows, also free. PBS Passport has tons of shows, docs and news.

Such a great interview -- Suzanne is awesome. Read her full piece here:

The Great Escape is one of the most famous movies from the 1960s. Based off a true story, the film greatly exaggerated American involvement. In reality, one of the main figures of the escape was Canadian, along with the 150 Canadians who assisted. This is the story. 🧵 1/12

The judge in the Bartz v. Anthropic case filed a list of questions and concerns to be addressed with the notification form in the class action. There's nothing in particular I want to pull out, but I think it shows that the judge is thinking carefully about fairness to the parties.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

I wrote something about disability. #RomBkBlog

... I have the strongest urge to do a game at Can*Con this year. Not hosting a game, but something like what I did at Romancing the Capital, where I put together a little portable game on a post-card people could play if they wanted to, and come up and ask me for events/challenges. Hrm.

As happens with every. Single. Pilot. Program. That ever looks at anything akin to UBI, it is cheaper to just straight up help people get to a modest financial baseline than to deal with the outcomes of not helping people in poverty. It’s not news until we deploy it at scale.

Not everyone can always cancel things during a boycott, but if you can, today is a perfect day to terrorize the shit out of Disney. Do it for a week. Or be like me (the person described in the follow up post) and cancel b/c you forgot you were subscribed. Then make sure to tell them why. I did.

Brilliant breakdown on the Jimmy Kimmel story 🔥🔥🔥 Thank you @underthedesknews.bsky.social

The only chapters you should lose are the ones you cut on purpose. Make a backup.

Goodnight, I’m hoping to wake up to a slew of posts from anti-woke “comedians” who have spent years complaining about cancel culture and the oppression of free speech, defending Kimmel and condemning the F.C.C. Unless it was only an issue when you wanted to make jokes about the trans community?

I mean, I'd be lying if I said I was ever real likely to read Business Insider to begin with, but 'zero' is an even easier number to estimate. Also if you're having autocomplete write your work, stop calling yourself a writer because that's not what you do.

"Village Treat" I’m doing something I’ve never done before: second chance; But Treat’s relationship is very much about not having to give up joys and playfulness—he’s a cosplayer, event planner, Hallowe’en loving type—how finding someone who doesn’t ask you to "be less" matters. #WritingPrompt

We’ve released FREE updated 2nd Edition crew stats for the TNG & Picard S1 packs for Star Trek Adventures! Grab them from the STA downloads page & enhance your game. 🖖 🔗 Read more buff.ly/bcNOdPq #StarTrekAdventures

You can still buy all their work. Being a rude, abrasive loudmouth while trans is the only unforgivable sin to these people.

were to be around him at any time for any reason due to his habitual sexual harassment and assaults. Frank Miller released one of the most savagely Islamophobic comics of all time, HOLY TERROR, and still works with DC. There are pedophiles, war criminals, confessed sexual predators on staff.

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

It’s a sports romance book starter pack, for all your autumn reading lists! We’ve got: baseball, football, soccer, tennis, hockey, F1, skating, and even a series set in a fictional Olympic games (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b... #Romancelandia #booksky

How fucking insane has the news been this week? NASA confirmed former life on Mars and it wasn’t even in the top ten news stories. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/s...

I've received many messages from concerned constituents over the past 24 hours, asking me about the standing ovation connected to Charlie Kirk in yesterday's session in the House of Commons. Please see my statement on the matter.

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.