6/ Prime Minister Carney’s approach is to seed the fund with public money to subsidize big private projects. In other words, Norway uses industry profits to support the public good. Prime Minister Carney’s fund uses public money to support private profits.

CJ Cherryh has announced retirement, everyone, raise your cups to a legend of the game. Thank you for your service www.facebook.com/groups/Balti...

I posted my last-three-months novel-reading log over on Dreamwidth. indeed-distract.dreamwidth.org/2632.html

Suddenly and inexplicably recovered the will to do comedy articles again, so here’s my first in a while! “No, son. Trogai’ele’uvalill isn’t the magic word. That’s a simple invocation of flame, and as you can see, I dispel it easily by calling the North wind.” www.pointsincase.com/articles/no-...

The Parallel Life of Alter Mitty

Reporters have identified Canadian companies that are supplying Trump’s ICE paramilitaries with armoured vehicles and surveillance technology services. Leaders like Doug Ford have welcomed these contracts. (3/5)

I've been forgetting to link my novel-reading reports here, but I have continued posting them on Dreamwidth every three months, including just now my final of the year. indeed-distract.dreamwidth.org/2530.html

Canadians (especially cis Canadians), PLEASE take a moment to sign this petition and take action in defence of trans people. It takes less than a minute to sign and verify your signature. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Happy Solstice, whichever side of the planet you happen to be on. 🎨1. 'Treasure Ship and Rising Sun' - unknown artist, ca. 1920s. 2. 'Miyajima in the Snow' - Tsuchiya Koitsu, 1937. #JapaneseArt #solstice

Learning for the first time today, in my 40s, that "there was a foreboding and terrible barn" is not the intended resolution of "the horse raced past the barn fell."

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

I would kill for her. I would kill her. Either way what bliss

Here's a poem my friend wrote about masculinizing hormones.

not to always be the "there's always a perfect John k Samson Fellows song for how I'm feeling right now" person, but also youtu.be/E-z9djgthqE?...

Something I think about kind of a lot is the time on an old poker TV show when the best hand lost to a bad river card and Doyle Brunson sagely intoned, "That's why they call it poker, boys."

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This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

There are only two kinds of serious writers/readers of SFF today: those who ferociously love the work of Kai Ashante Wilson and want to see a great deal more of it in the world, and those who have not yet read him. Good news, everyone! www.patreon.com/posts/introd...

The torment nexus meme is misleading in that it suggests that our technoligarchs are capable of actually building anything. All that happens is that they use old sfnal concepts as a shared language—that old sensawunda, now bottled—for marketing their quite ordinary torment products

*become ungovernable voice* Become inconsolable.

"Until other, more complete tablets are found that record the same myth, scholars may never know whether the fox successfully completed its mission." This feels unnecessarily credulous about narrative tension. It probably did! What's missing is the details of how.

I’m not attending Worldcon this year & everything seems to be a mess but this is so mind-bendingly bad on so many levels that I think it’s worth unpacking while I’m in the no-space of airports

Canada must re-examine Safe Third Country Agreement w/U.S. How can we call U.S “safe” for asylum seekers? We should reassess Canada-U.S. refugee policy, Protect affected families, Defend human rights. The travel ban took effect June 9, 2025. Canada must not remain silent. 3/ #HumanRights

they did it yay!

Good luck, Canadians (and anyone else whose wellbeing may be impacted by this election).

Every once in a while I quietly hallucinate the taste of a combo B from the Vietnamese food court place in Lonsdale Quay circa 2000 or so. A comfort meal I have never found even an approximate replacement for.

I want to talk about nonbinary gender in North Continent Ribbon! (1/n)

As long as people are wishing for things, I think a good step for the Canadian government to take would be to introduce some kind of policy of specially allowed entry and/or asylum for transgender U.S. citizens who are being denied passports and are therefore effectively trapped in the country

Momentum Canada has a petition calling on the GoC to recognize that the US is no longer a "safe third country", to update travel guidance to the US and create a clear and accessible pathway for trans refugees. Please join me in signing. #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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I made this in response to a joke that it turned out I had misunderstood, but I'm sure it will be relevant to something eventually.

This is a fantastic thread and I’d like to note something about it, going back to my earlier thread— Courtney is vividly describing a type of care system. One I’d define more specifically as a CARE HIERARCHY. Part of caring is tolerating discomfort so others can feel better. 🧵

I've put up my last-of-2024 novel-reading log on dreamwidth. indeed-distract.dreamwidth.org/1255.html

Bluesky is looking down the same thing with Singal and Kiwifarms. By gifting Kiwifarms a respectable, centralized organization point that won't get banned as long as it follows easily gameable rules, Bluesky is making Kiwifarms its new effective moderation staff.

Solidarity with all trans brothers and sisters today. That your future is yours is cold comfort when the state has you targeted but for whatever it’s worth we stand with you

This is something I think about a lot because it's instructive about the nature of different kinds of conflict. A conflict of ideas can theoretically be won with argumentation. A conflict of power and will cannot. Progressives often mistake the second for the first.

Here are the opening paragraphs of my just-announced novel, WHAT WE ARE SEEKING. "On the Free Ship _Edgar’s Folly_, traveling away from Essius at ninety-nine one hundredths of the speed of light, it was the last day of summer...."

For the next few weeks, you can pick up a pretty incredible ebook bundle of Ursula's work—up to 30 books!—and support Portland's Literary Arts in the process

End the Safe Third Country Agreement.

(jack skellington voice) I see you've played Halloweeny-Spoony before.

Canada, meanwhile, has no high-speed rail at all, despite fully half the population already obligingly arranging itself IN A STRAIGHT LINE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_...

This is an old favorite that I still think about, especially in these autumnal vibe shift days. It took me years and multiple redrafts to get it right, and it's weird and kinda horny and confused everyone in my writing workshop. liminalstoriesmag.com/issue4/presq...

No Kickstarter updates today. Only #freepalestine. See our statement below. We invite fellow mags to join us, and acknowledge we referenced the work of @strangehorizons.bsky.social, Room Magazine, & @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social when writing our earlier statements.

I've posted the report of my last three months' novel reading on Dreamwidth (RIP cohost):

Regarding disability in history: honestly, are we even doing this? "All Life is Struggle" is Nazi bullshit. In reality, throughout history, people live in communities and *other people in your community* are largely a) your assistive tech and b) your hedge against disaster.

It took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out when I was 21, but once I had there was an obvious answer, both in terms of what I was thinking about and listening to the most at the time and in terms of what has held up.

The rain is like a memory and like a new emotion in that all three fall on my head.

The insistence that all good stories are realistic (or even, honestly, plausible) and that "realistic" in itself will follow ironclad rules is IMO a product of a very blinkered view of the world, in which you personally know and understand All, which, I mean, come on.