Missing all my Worldcon peeps but sorry, not spending tourist dollars in the U.S. this year.

Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

If you're a Canadian author looking to search the Books3 or LibGen DBs for the class action suit, here are gift links to the search tools on The Atlantic. You should have full access. Books3 search: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... LibGen search: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below. If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es). www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action... www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

Tsunami watch for much of the coast of BC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Author friends, I have to move away from Mailchimp because they are going to charge for email automation now and I don't have a big enough subscriber base/writer income to justify a paid plan. Top alternative contenders include MailerLite and Brevo. Opinions?

In good news my laptop is still working after the bag holding it fell onto the pavement from the back of the car during weekend travels.

Long but sobering read. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Seen in Longueuil

Well then … www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Greetings new followers! I am a weird little guy who lives in the woods. If you came for my political posts, brace yourself for mostly jokes and love of media. My second book, WEARING THE LION, drops in June!

As a bilingual person, my new favourite tech feature is dual language keyboards w/ autocorrect that can differentiate when I’m typing En/Fr, En/It, or En/Ko. (I’m only bilingual En/Fr, but my learning It/Ko clued me into the keyboard business)

The kicker is at the end. More detainees = more profits. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"This will make great television." Yeah, so do disaster movies. FFS

OMFG that Ukraine Oval Office mess is the most disgusting thing I've seen in a long time. Vance can fuck right off about Ukraine not saying thank you. How asinine can you get? My sympathies to the great people of Ukraine >:-(

NO @searchliaison.bsky.social, this is ABSOLUTELY NOT a *state* park. We have provincial parks in Canada, and we are still a sovereign nation, despite certain musings. Get your act together

Today I want to say thank you to the many people who have been supporting me on my job search odyssey in the 6 months since Archiact closed. 1/

It’s amazing to me how quickly we got to this kind of analysis. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Favourite K-drama line so far (slightly paraphrasing): You haven’t failed at marriage, you’ve succeeded at divorce

Well if this isn't disconcerting for Canadians, I don't know what is. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I just finished this and it was the book I needed right now. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. Recently I fell prey to either despair or burnout or both. 1/ bookshop.org/p/books/hope...

My university has a grant to provide scholarships, mentoring, research opportunities & career support to academically talented low-income students in STEM. It’s a really fantastic & successful program. Today Ted Cruz flagged it to be cut because it’s "advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda.”

From now on I’m referring to the USA as Southern Canada. You’ll never see a nicer hostile takeover.

So, we're going to destroy two economies with tariffs and spend $1B dollars shoring up our border to fentanyl for the US, when USCBP confiscated a grand total of 19.5kg of it last year on the northern border (for comparison, on the southern border that number was 9570kg). 1/

Ever feel like hitting something but don’t have a punching bag? Buy a pomegranate, cut it in half, and whack it with a wooden spoon. Cathartic, and full of antioxidants :-)

OMG. The person who engineered this OralB toothbrush is obviously single. Otherwise they’d know that silence is golden when your ensuite adjoins your bedroom and your partner is already asleep. This thing sounds like a swarm of killer bees. The cats are afraid of it. It echoes inside my skull. Wtf

It’s a new year and Wayward is almost ready to begin admissions for our next creative retreat! The 2025 session will run September 28 to October 5, and applications will open February 15. More updates soon, but in the meantime many questions can be answered on our website at Waywardretreats.com

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch. This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service. Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky

I’m tired. Are you tired? It’s OK to be tired. We do what we can with the energy we have. At least, that’s what I tell myself.

I’m intentionally throwing some beauty out into the void to counter all the ugliness this week. Tonight’s sunset

Via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

So I’m behind the times, but I’m just discovering Nurse Jackie, and this show is a master class in writing character vignettes

Gardening update: Hellebores looking hella good 1/

Fezzik is a tennis fan #ausopen

It's amazing to think that "dark chocolate" comprises 94% of all the chocolate in the universe, even though our standard chocolate sensors can't detect it at all.

I’ve been corrected on this information, see thread in original post.

If you are an iOS user and wary of AI, Apple has turned on by default Siri “learning” from all apps. Go to Settings->Siri, scroll all the way down to Apps, then for each app you care about (I know, annoying) turn off Learn from this App

Yesterday’s rainbow

In the category of “Canadian bands whom the rest of the world is missing out on,” I nominate Marianas Trench.

This is cool www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Last week’s windstorm was pretty freaky. I watched our big front window flex in the 50 kt gusts from the southeast and locked Fezzik away b/c he insisted on hanging out below it b/c I guess it was a new-to-him experience and he has no street smarts. 1/2

The other night’s moonlight through clouds

I’ve got three panels and a reading (schedule TBD) at the Here Be Dragons one-day minicon in Burnaby on the 23rd. Come join me if you’re in the Lower Mainland! wcsfa.org/events/2024-...

Welp, I'm leaving the accounts activated for a bit so I can recreate following lists at my convenience, but tonight I blew away all my Tw*tter content. Sad and noncathartic.