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🚨Breaking guinea pig news! 🚨For all their hard work on the Fascination anthology kickstarter campaign, the guinea pigs get first look at the book! * 🎉Fascination successfully funded (yay!) 🎉 & we are all excited to start work in earnest on book production. *they are skipping the scarier parts

A thread of cross stitch patterns being released at #NashvilleNeedleworkMarket that I covet. Just a slight avian theme running through most of them. This is so pretty and reminds me of my meadow. topknotstitcher.com/products/con...

I'm in this anthology and it's gonna be fantastic. There are still a lot of excellent rewards unclaimed including short story and poetry critique, copies of previous anthologies (all excellent), something for everyone.

45 minutes left and she's just $55 shy of all backers getting another short story included!

Just 102 minutes left!

Not long left!

For reasons I will not get into, I had a personal goal for this I wanted to see it reach, and $29 CAD would do it--tell your friends about this great antho and the guinea pig photos I cyberbullied Margaret into providing! Just over an hour left!

Just three hours left with less than $200 to go to unlock a new short story for backers. There's a lot of digital tiers for those in high shipping cost countries, as well as they are using a US printer so that US addresses won't pay tariffs & duties, etc.

He takes Pancake Day very seriously.

Snow Event Update February 16, 2026 It is currently snowing in Calgary and the surrounding area. Up to 20 cms of snow is expected to fall across the region by Tuesday morning.

Calgary Transit Snow Detours Beginning with the first trips of the day on Tuesday, February 17, all snow detours will be in effect on routes across the city for the morning commute. Activating these detours city-wide will reduce risks of stuck buses and slowdowns for customers and commuters.

But two books perfect for any kid who has passionate feelings about anything from art to politics: - Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet (not yet available) - and this. Guys, no groaning. Get your head in this space. You might be surprised how relatable she is: www.peterpauper.com/collections/...

⚫ Veteran US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84, his family said in a statement. "His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by," Jackson's family said

very good explanation of why not to feed images into an image generator, especially when memorializing children after a devastating tragedy. better not to use image generators at all.

Good evening! Another mini-milestone met & passed, so please enjoy pets in cosplay. 💥16 hours💥 left for the Fascination anthology campaign! Support our project--> www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

The Fascination campaign has passed $4500, so here are the guinea pigs, adventuring over the garden wall to check out the fantastical and creepy stories from Fascination. Help them on their adventure: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...

This dude is having dental surgery in TWO days and that shit's expensive, so if you've been thinking about buying a murder (or just leaving me a tip because you like the stuff I make), now is a REALLY GOOD TIME to do it

Re-upping this piece because some of you were quite sensibly offline this Valentine's Day:

Hey #writersky: I'm my Year's Best Canadian F&SF, I include a list of "you should read these, too!" short stories that aren't in the book. I've seen these called both "Honourable Mentions" and "Recommended Reading" in other best-of volumes. Which one do you prefer as nomenclature? I can't decide.

Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders. Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond. Now Herry is threatening me. 1/

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

don't look me im pinecone 🪶

Rhysling deadline is TODAY (2/15). Thank you to everyone who reads & considers my work!

THEY JUST HIT 105 BACKERS!!! TIME FOR PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICHES.

Anyway, @skyladawn.ca took my terrible seagull and turned it into a meme, and okay I kinda love my seagull now.

Buy this now, thank me later.

Evening crowd, I just want to ensure you see Shawn's birthday today. 👇

Hey I'm back! As some of you know, I experienced some scary harassment here last month when a user threatened me and the sanctuary I work for and I was shocked when they received only a 3-day suspension for that. I have now been assured that the offending account is permanently suspended, and

Thank you Krista 😭 It’s a long weekend, of course. Cat tax: Temperance von Eviltry the Duchess of Doom

Hey folks! @skyladawn.ca is at the emergency vet clinic with the fourth emergency in four months. This appointment is probably going to cost ~$500 so I'd like us to try to cover as much of it as possible. This is going to be a thread on how to help. 1/?

The 3-Day Weekend Stretch Goal Surge continues, we might have to send out for more tea to keep it fueled. $344 to reach the first Stretch Goal of adding an additional 4-6 authors to the anthology. www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... Continued thanks bearing with us for these signal boost posts.

Skated 8km to the market because I was out of maple syrup. Pretty sure that earns me S-tier Canadian citizenship.

Just 50 hours to go on this! If we hit 105 backers, my dogs will get peanut butter pancake sandwiches. Would you deny Luna and Jersey snacks? www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...

Oh. My. God.

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

Happy Valentine’s Day!! Enjoy Bernoulli’s date with Chesnyy the Service Rottie. The best is the meatball situation! @servicerotties.bsky.social Video contains a date between a Bernese Mountain Dog and Rottweiler.

The perfect no-romance Valentine's Day themed book! No Love Lost, by Jane Glatt. When magic is involved, nothing is easy. Not work, not neighbours, & definitely not family. More info & buy links: tychebooks.com/no-love-lost

ICYMI New stretch goal unlocked, plus pet pictures! Only a couple days left to back the Fascination anthology campaign. --> www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...

ICYMI, this thread and the quoted post document my descent into madness re: anthropomorphic cow mascots.

Inevitably, their affair ended: Howard worried excessively about what the pack would think, and Agnes simply ate the flowers.

The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:

Stretch Goal Surge 3-Day Weekend. Brew some tea or coffee and check out the campaign with our sincere appreciation. #tea #coffee #stars #gravity

The guinea pigs consented* to have their pictures taken to celebrate having 101 backers for the Fascination anthology campaign! *accepted a blatant bribe of lettuce You can be a backer! Check out the book, rewards, & stretch goals: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...

When will we get a proper Wuthering Heights adaptation Two hours of a woman knitting and absolutely ragging on everyone she knows, punctuated by a moron dropping in on his landlords without their consent, completely oblivious that they openly hate him (and each other, and themselves)

“You realize it’s an hour and a half until dinnertime and you don’t need to sit there the whole time and stare at me, right?” “I got nowhere to be”

This is BRILLIANT. Less 'Cathy!', more rent control please