Liberal, Tory same old story. Profits over people, always.

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.

Library teen, approaching the information desk: Do you like my tie? The tie was made of cardboard and attached to their neck with string. On it, the teen had written THIS IS A TIE in pen. Me: I genuinely love it.

For those who missed this yesterday!

We have some wonderful authors signing books in our booth at The Word On The Street Toronto this year! We hope to see you there! 📚 @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joellekidd.bsky.social @tonialaird.bsky.social @kjaiello.bsky.social

CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again? CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty? CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived CHOTINER: So you’ve said

"Let’s put a stop to the same old partisan sniping and divisiveness about healthcare, defense, and who’s striking whom with a bulging sock full of US currency."

I got a facial for the first time today and lemme tell you that shit was CRAZY. So many tiny scraping tools! Tingly stuff that allegedly removed a layer of skin! A WEIRD TINY VACUUM ON MY FACE! Absolutely buckwild.

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

TriCon: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction May 15-17, 2026 Kjipuktuk | Halifax, Nova Scotia Registration now open! More details: tricon-halifax.com. GOHs: @amalelmohtar.com @englelaird.bsky.social @kurestinarmada.bsky.social #amwriting #speculativefiction @tricon-hfx.bsky.social

“When he looked in the mirror all he could see was the vague whiteness of her body beside him, her pale skin glowing a little in the dark.” –@elliottgish.bsky.social, from "In Glass" ex-puritan.ca/in-glass

Inconsistent uniforms offer a fun new twist in the game of “Is that a cop or a mid-spree mass murderer?”

2/2 ...and Grey Dog by @elliottgish.bsky.social from @ecwpress.bsky.social & More Than a Footnote by Karin Wells from @secondstory.bsky.social. URLS = alt-text. #SmallPress #books #DSPBposts #BookSky

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

how is this so perfect , i’m screaming

Mr. Parks, waiting for the Rapture.

this movie was great but why did they have to slutshame the crow

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

Wrote a little newsletter about the time i told someone i was trans in an Arby’s drive-thru www.anxietyshark.ca/damn-it-john...

i love old movies because there is always some dizzy dame who, when you were a kid, you thought was so funny. and now you realize she was absolutely just smashed drunk 100% of the time on set. as was the style at the time.

this exists it is called thinking

The Elizabeth Bishop House has no WiFi. Over the last few days, without regular access to Everything Bad All The Time, I have felt my body gradually relax. My mind stopped buzzing, began to slow. I was able to focus on the work. Then this morning I used my data to open this app and BAM terror!!!!!!

“I think the collection works best if you go in knowing nothing and are prepared to come out without totally understanding what the hell just happened. If you’re comfortable with the idea that every single idea is not fully explained, […] this might be for you”

Pleased to announce that Current WIP seems to be my horniest novel yet.

Read a real bad book about the Brontës in which the author seemed very reluctant to say anything about the three family members who, you know, wrote books and did things, but jazzed as fuck to talk about Babygirl Branwell whose Big Feelings none of his Mean Sisters understood.

- Book a writing residence in Cool Space (for Inspiration) - Have a half-finished draft of a Novel that you intend to finish in Cool Space - Get to Cool Space and immediately have an idea for a New Novel set in Cool Space Never fails.

“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys

52 years ago today, froze to death along railroad tracks trying to walk home after escaping from the #residentialschool that stole him-hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children from their families. He was 12.

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library: • Get a library card ⭐️ • Use your library card 🌟 •Visit the library 💫 •Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

Excellent reporting and photos by @mmughees.bsky.social of Friday's protest of the Davis Cup in #Halifax www.halifaxexaminer.ca/world/drafth...

Goodreads reviews of my book are simply not my business.

The humour in multiple sclerosis causing memory issues while also necessitating medical appointments that I schedule and promptly forget is generally not wasted on me, but this morning I am finding it more difficult than usual to laugh at my moth-eaten brain.

"I did not scare myself. I *delighted* myself." 🔥 The iconic and delightful @jensookfonglee.bsky.social speaks to @harrisonmooney.bsky.social about her new book, The Hunger We Pass Down. I can't wait to read it. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

I am so tired of angry young white men. I do not want to listen to them. I do not want to hear about them. I do not want to be told that if they break the whole goddamn world, it is somehow everyone else's fault for not giving them every last bit of attention and power. Enough already. Grow up.

Having gone to MUN, this is zero percent surprising to me.

Halifax! You'll need more than an exorcism to get rid of me. On October 5, join me and @daviddemchuk.com in conversation with @elliottgish.bsky.social at the Central Library. We're going to be talking about dark stories in dark times. Here's the info: halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/68923...

Placebo has been my favourite band since I was fourteen. Placebo also released a song that includes the line "my computer thinks I'm gay."

ancient Transgender Markings

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

So @dc.com pulled Red Hood from digital storefronts but you can still buy all of Sandman. The lesson here is that DC doesn't care if you sexually assault women, but don't you dare make fun of a dead fascist.

anyway today is a great day to sign up for Gretchen’s Patreon, since this dogshit site’s dogshit leadership have it out for her: www.patreon.com/scumbelievab...

Another day, another @bsky.app decision that just so happens to disproportionately target well-known trans users.

idk man if I had just lost my kid to a school shooting and the news cycle was dominated by people loudly mourning the loss of a guy whose life’s work was radicalizing people, largely children, into thinking that’s a cool and normal thing to do while contributing nothing else, I’d probably go insane

Gretchen got banned on here again, which seems to be just a big glowing button they have in their office at this point. DC cancelled her book. The naked hypocrisy of all this free speech horseshit is pretty grim.

Happy 1 year to my novella, Countess. Thank you to everyone who has spent even a moment with my rebellious Virika. You all have given this book a life beyond what I expected. It is a book about this very moment we are living through, and if art is an act of resistance, it is the rock I have thrown🖤💜

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

None of these bitches need the money, and JKR's virulent transphobia has absolutely rotted any remaining nostalgia value this bloated and overrated property still has. I truly do not understand the logic in choosing to participate in any of this. (Also, thanks for breaking my heart, Matt Berry!)

Pls sign Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book Bans (CAIABB aka #CAIABB) petition asking Alberta govt to reverse their decision: change.org/AB-book-ban More info: linktr.ee/caiabb Follow @robinstevenson.bsky.social @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social for updates! #BookBans #KidLit #CanLit

During this sapphic September, how about adding a bit of toxic yuri to your diet? Enamoured: A Triptych is a historic, erotic, horror novella about love and makeup and capitalism. Come for the steamy scenes and… well… you know 😉