Just received an unsolicited email about receiving medically supported weight loss treatment from a telecommunications company that has taken control of a portion of healthcare. I am not a customer of this telecommunications company. Everything about this is so grim it's unbearable.

There's a special irk in my heart for this & its converse messaging, "this is how you age when you're unproblematic," often said about wealthy celebs. There are many creative, incisive, earned insults we can level against fascists & transphobes without leaning on a philosophy of Imperative Beauty.

... but my horoscope seemed so positive??

So grateful to have had the opportunity to chat about this poetry collection I loved so much!

Toronto! Get your poetry!

Oh no, my targeted ads think I'm a man on a self-improvement kick.

et tu, libby?! libby users, you can give them feedback on their new fuckery of an ai policy by pressing the bottom-center button in the app & scrolling down

Wanna get me a gift this year? Let me bring up boycotting N*stle :) N*stle owns many brands, so they can seem like a challenge to avoid at first, but I consider them one of late stage capitalism's Big Bads & eminently worthy of boycott. They own: wyomingllcattorney.com/Blog/Everyth...

I feel like I need a smoke which probably means the helpful thing would be to go to the gym.

Some people just can't see the icebox for the plums.

Just listened to this wonderful interview, bill bissett (national treasure), and am reminded that I met my husband John Pass at a reading organized by Warren Tallman to support bill after attacks in Parliament. Nearly 47 years ago. Yay bill. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

It's hard to live in a city that continually insists on making itself worse.

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

The paywalls I keep hitting on all news outlets are giving me a real crawling-up-the-walls, cabin fever energy.

I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…

Toronto! Are you ready for the launch of tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social tomorrow? So are we! Head to the the amazing @anotherstoryto.bsky.social and prepare to tour! Attendance is free, RSVP here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/tours-vari... #Booksky💙📚 #Poetry #BookLaunch

Is Wicked the most commercially successful work of fanfiction of all time?

We couldn't be happier to share that Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon and translated by Jessica Moore has won the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation! A huge congratulations to Joséphine, Jessica, and to all of this year's winners! ggbooks.ca#winners

Are we ready to cease squeezing the used-up juice from the dry rind of the word "feral"?

Led Zeppelin + baseball + house slippers + toothpicks am I someone's Dad spiritually at this point?

TOMORROW!! You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall or on the Talonbooks YouTube channel to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free! The venue is accessible, light fare will be provided.

The @prisminternational.bsky.social launch was fantastic.

I was unaware there were books that straighted the vampire. Can't wait to check out the books on this dope list.

Three-card monte is rigged against the person playing it. Whether it's fun or not is irrelevant. It's designed to make you lose. That's why you are stupid if you play.

Do grown men ever get told that they have an attitude?

ex-puritan.ca/unit-100 Thank you @sannawani.bsky.social and @ex-puritan.bsky.social for including “Unit 100” in the Animalia special issue. So honoured to among these other creaturely works.

Fuck there's not a single thing better than getting home from a show and finding out you still have cold pizza in the fridge.

Taylor Swift is Thom Yorke for pop girlies.

Thinking about the time when I worked in an office and my boss came by my minimally decorated cubicle, pointed to my photo of Mel Brooks, and asked "is this your grandfather?" and I said "yes."

Let's refuse to allow starvation. givebutter.com/FoodAidTzeda...

if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you

✨🍎 Shana Tova, friends! 🍎✨

✌️schleppy not preppy✌️

It's Zizi's 13th birthday :)

You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free! Get all the details here: talonbooks.com/events/talon...

By Ian Duhig

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Having a bad day? Have you tried Too Much Pasta™? Solve none of your problems and feel uncomfortably full with Too Much Pasta™!

The push across multiple industries for workers to use AI is distressing. Between the increased environmental toll and new processes often being more effortful than they were prior to the mandated introduction of AI, the insistence on this trajectory is baffling.

Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of three books, including the poetry books Trauma Head and Sometimes, Forest. She recommends Hajer Mirwali's poetry collection Revolutions. With: @eleekg.bsky.social @anvilpress.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social #Booksky More below 👇

Seeking introductory carpentry for valley girls class in Vancouver. Intel?

Being hard of hearing in group settings. So fun.

Ellie Sawatzky's poem "On Crete" describes a daughter-father trip that is overshadowed by grief and unease, but also small moments of connection. See why this is Char Harrison's Editor's Choice, and take a little trip to Greece with this selection from our Poem of the Year Contest: buff.ly/dXFIexO

I am at war with a fly. I am losing.

Would we bring up autumn in the height of July unless we had something really exciting to announce? Or in this case, seven somethings! We are so pleased to be able to introduce our autumn roster, available for pre-order on the Talonbooks website or from your local bookstore!

No offence to every neighbourhood in Vancouver, I guess I just don't think that more new restaurants with $40 mains is the answer to our problems.

someone needs to do something and you are someone what are you gonna do