Today is the last day to nominate your favourite *Canadian* 🇨🇦SFF works for the Aurora Awards! Visit www.csffa.ca to get your ballot in order. And if you're racking your brain, trying to remember what was published last year, well, here's what we have eligible! 1/

Today is the last day to nominate your favourite *Canadian* 🇨🇦SFF works for the Aurora Awards! Visit www.csffa.ca to get your ballot in order. And if you're racking your brain, trying to remember what was published last year, well, here's what we have eligible! 1/

We need to see this perspective (and all perspectives) more.

Annual pic of my 🇬🇷 mom's 🇨🇭 traditional Easter eggs, dyed with onion peel and herbs. #SwissAbroad #HomeAwayFromHome #PILife

Few are brave enough to acknowledge the truth.

I should write a short about all the wildlife the cat killed before Waverly stole her from the dead old lady and kept her inside, she was TOTALLY a serial (wildlife) killer.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Courtney is in fact speaking for me in this instance. Several is the time I would write something significant in Chapter Seventeen(ish) and then go back and add a couple of sentences in Chapter Three(ish) to make it look like I had been thinking about this plot twist all along.

Every part of the lily plant is deadly to cats - even drinking water that lilies were sitting in can kill them. Other popular spring flowers like tulips and daffodils can also make them very sick, but there are plenty of beautiful and safe alternatives.

More to see in that image: * Aurora Australis (bright green, upper right) & Aurora Borealis (plane green, lower left) visible as faint streaks * The bright dot in the lower right is Venus * The white haze in the lower right is zodiacal light: dust in the plane of the Solar System lit by sunlight

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

The "tall tales" are four stories by Marie Croke, me, Rebecca Hardy, & Kara Race-Moore inspired by real-life tomboy hellion, Vernieda Smith, who stole horses, smoked cigars, & bedeviled law enforcement w/ prison breaks.

Alberta removes education from curriculum

Man I have never been so happy for a random pilot I have never met before

If you want to get your own Canada Space Agency #ArtemisII patch, you can order the official one here: boutique.ingenium.ca/en/crest-art... (I bought two.)

MASSIVE fan of this one:

Continuing on the teacher theme, there is so much great imagery in this poem by Iain Crichton Smith I am old enough to recall teachers in cloaks and to appreciate the Latin grammar joke Remember, as an adult, meeting my own teachers and worried why they remembered my name! #poetry #poemoftheday

Breaking news! The first Puffins have returned to Rathlin Island! 👀🐦 This is a sure sign that seabird season is getting underway at RSPB NI’s West Light Seabird Centre, as these iconic birds begin to make their way back to Rathlin’s cliffs.

Hi, I'm a Dad - TURNING LIGHTS OFF

I think about “normal to want and possible to achieve” all the time

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

Actually might be crucial pop culture and social media knowledge...

Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is the first Canadian to orbit the moon as apart of the four-person crew taking a 10-day voyage around the moon on the Artemis II. Along with Hansen is a patch by Anishinaabe artist Henry Guimond.

like no joke, grade 5 kids at my school watched Challenger in class.

Artemis II launches today so I've mapped out the detailed flight path for those interested

LAUNCH! ARTEMIS II LAUNCHES WITH A CREW OF 4 TOWARDS THE MOON

Artemis II lifts off

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

A whole Generation X cohort just breathed a sight of relief.

What a fucking shot holy shit

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

Chag Sameach! This is the story of the first presidential Seder, a moment so central to the Obama Administration’s time in the White House that the tradition is being honored with one of four custom miniature rooms at the Obama Presidential Center Museum.

Big news for nature! Prime Minister Carney just announced $3.8 billion in new funding and renewed programs to protect nature. Media Release: tinyurl.com/5n9a3kzh

CREATION Happy April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/3227/

In two hours a rocket is going to launch from the Space Coast in Florida. About 24 hours later, one of the iconic radio calls will be made: "Artemis II, Houston, you are go for TLI". And then humans set off for the moon for the first time since I was in the womb. www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

It's been exactly two years since James started The Seaboard Review of Books! Over 700 posts (mainly book reviews) later, we're going strong, championing #CanLit and independent publishers. Celebrate with us by saving 20% off an annual subscription. Only $24! www.theseaboardreview.ca/spring2026

The only good April Fools joke was when a library posted a headline saying “Study Shows Literacy Problems BC People Reply To Articles They Didn’t Read” When you clicked the link “lol April Fools there is no article. Tell no one” Then people who had not clicked the link argued about literacy all day.

The first of @janeglatt.bsky.social's Intelligencers series, Pirates & Privateers, (published by @tychebooks.bsky.social) is now complete and you can get started with Dagrun and Calder's adventures here:

The Dwarf Stars nomination period is NOW OPEN (no fooling!) ✨Anyone✨ may submit, both their own poems or those of others. Final decisions made by this year's editor Jean-Paul L. Garnier (@spacecowboybooks.bsky.social) Read more about how to nominate here: sfpoetry.org/wp/dwarf-sta...

Saw a few “Women in Horror Month is over” posts, so I made a short guide to help with the confusion:

Any anthologies or collections coming out in May? Horror Tree's Indie Shelf needs a bit help filling up that section of May! Goes up every Friday. horrortree.com/indie-booksh...

Absolutely read @catvalente.bsky.social's post "Blood Money: The Anthropic Settlement." I feel the same way. If an author received money from the settlement, good for them. But it doesn't change the harm done by Anthropic and other companies. 1/ catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...

If you're like wait what is going on today, I wrote a whole THING about it

I’m also well aware that all the short fiction & non-fiction I’ve published online since I started writing long-form pieces in 1998, were definitely scraped too, yet don’t count. Yours, too. Everyone’s. These companies should all be shuttered. Which is a nice way of saying launched into the sun.

Uh, 'interesting' way of presenting this... the only 'authors' I'm aware of using AI are the lazy, unethical, incompetent grifters who don't give a shit about their readers or real writers. People should stop using it, not resent that they have to 'lie about it.' Jesus.

We surpassed £1000! The first stretch goal is at £1500, and if we get there, all backers will get free e-copies of an exclusive short story that's never been available outside of my Patreon before. 😁 www.kickstarter.com/projects/emm...

It's Trans Day of Visibility. Lo, for this one day may I be properly perceived. And on this day of perception that I will be spending editing client work, I'm staring down needing $2k for April rent, keeping my internet on, and paying back prior aid. So here's a 🧵 of ways to help:

I am so excited for this movie.