Edmonton friends! Does anybody want a strawberry plant to grow indoors over the winter? Mine is putting out serious runners. I could cut a few off and bring them to the Old Strathcona farmers market this weekend!

🌈 Introducing our Book 1 feature for November! 🎉 We are so excited to feature this satirical space opera that is equal parts wacky and imaginative. Welcome to Judgement Dave by Si Clarke @clacksee.bsky.social 🧵

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]: 1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]? 2. Who's already doing work around this injustice? 3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them? 4. How can I be constructive?

Some good news for a change. www.genderjustice.us/minnesota-su...

🌈 Introducing our Book 1 feature for November! 🎉 We are so excited to feature this space opera packed with preposterous scenarios, quirky characters, and oodles of humour. Welcome to The Left Hand of Dog by Si Clarke @clacksee.bsky.social 🧵

Rewriting It's part of my "write the book you want to read" master plan You have a favorite book? Write one just like that without plagiarizing You have a book you find boring? Rewrite it with DRAGONS The book you read is not gay enough? Make it gayer You hate a sad ending? You know what to do.

I don’t have kids, I don’t want kids, I don’t particularly enjoy being around kids. But let me be very clear and as unambiguous as possible: I STILL WANT MY TAXES AND SPARE GOING TO FEED KIDS, YES, 100%, YES.

🚨This is an emergency🚨 This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life. Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban @transsolidarity.bsky.social #ScrapTheBathroomBan

Somewhere in the United States someone who invested their life savings into an inflatable frog costume business to the dismay of everyone that knew them is having the best week of their life and handing I Told You Sos to those who doubted them.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our next artist reveal for the November Queer & Quirky crate! Next up is Lauren @beanieworks.bsky.social who illustrated the dust jacket for the Starship Teapot Omnibus by Si Clarke @clacksee.bsky.social !🧵

Watching Celebrity #Traitors on BBC has convinced me of one thing unequivocally. It’s never going to happen, but if the Vigilauntie Justice books ever got turned into television, Celia Imrie would play Peggie.

The ability to remove your post when a hostile account quote-tweets you is a great feature of Bluesky. To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.” It shows up as “removed by author.”

Just a brief reminder that the traditional list of banned books are important to read but so are books being published today by authors who are alive and have things like rent to pay, kids to feed, a fascist country to escape because they are trans/not white. 1/2

B&N has dropped their Best Books of 2025 list with 2.5 months left in the year so here's your reminder that "best" is arbitrary, time is a construct, and there are still a ton of good books coming out that shouldn't be ignored just because the credits are rolling early

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end. In the meantime: • Figure out a small way to help someone • Figure out a small way to fight back • Figure out a small place to find joy • Figure out a small way to grow and thrive And do it often.

I dust my house. My AI Robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Just fuck off.

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is. Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our next artist reveal for the November Queer & Quirky crate! First up is Enise @enisestudio.bsky.social who illustrated the hardcase for the Starship Teapot Omnibus by Si Clarke @clacksee.bsky.social 🧵

"Sophie Cole, 46, from Cambridge, was awarded £12,500 in damages following an employment tribunal that found Royal Mail failed to act on her complaints of bullying, verbal abuse, and even physical assault." www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-postal...

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

Hello #booksky. I have a question. I asked my local #library to acquire a few audiobooks. The books on my list are well-known titles published by the likes of Orion, Hodder & Stoughton, and Hachette. They responded that none of the titles are available on either Libby (Overdrive) or Borrowbox.

@transactualuk.bsky.social have released a tool you can use to ask your MP to tell government to scrap the bathroom ban and demand any new Code of Practice ensures providers can lawfully include trans people in their services. It's time to turn the pressure up. actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

It's OK to have a plot that's been done before so long as your characters are genuinely engaging and you carry the reader along and have fun. (This also goes for film.)

also: if you aren't enjoying a book after 50 pages, just quit! i could play this game all day

We could go without any books written by straight white dudes for a bit and it would be fine.

Yes. I am fascinated by cars: I miss the Lemon-Aid books by Phil Edmonston, who would write so wonderfully about cars and I’d read them cover to cover whether I was in the market (in 2003, 2009, and 2017, respectively) but I also believe in reducing emissions, transit, and walkable cities

Israel is finally freeing the Newfoundlanders from the flotilla. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's amazing to think that there was a time before social media when, if you were a gobshite, everybody ignored you. There was no way to make money saying stupid, provocative things because nobody wanted anything to do with you.

This is my antifa membership card.

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

I've been thinking about deja vu again...

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our first artist reveal for the November Queer & Quirky crate! First up is Nisnow @nisnow.art who illustrated the endpapers for the Starship Teapot Omnibus by Si Clarke @clacksee.bsky.social 🧵

With alt text. US, UK, Canada, everywhere.

Okay so I have a confession to make... I've owned a copy of Magica Riot by @magicariot.com for months but I'm only just now getting around to it (actually the audiobook version). And it's SO MUCH FUN. Like, I'm only a quarter of the way in but wow, this book was written for me

#booksky I need your help. Someone a while ago told me about a novel coming out inspired by the heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - the weirdest, honestly funniest, and still unsolved art heist ever. I can't recall the title/author. I NEED this book! Help?

Frozen shoulder sounds made up. Like, it sounds like the sort of disease a child would invent as a reason for not doing homework. Can confirm it’s real. And painful.

if you think the Basic Income for Artists in Ireland being made permanent is a good thing, wait until you learn about the income tax breaks for artists earning up to €50k p/a 💃💫

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

ALL THE QUEER BOOKS? Mission Accepted~ These are all queer fantasy adventures with focus on the aro & ace rep/worlds/relationships Except for the COMMON BONDS antho, edited by me, which are aro SFF about platonic relationships (KS is done and dusted though!) claudiearseneault.com/my-books/

If trans kids don’t exist, then cis kids don’t either, and in that case a cis boy calling himself a boy is equally ”wrong” as a trans boy calling himself a boy. And if gay kids don’t exist, then straight kids don’t either, and all the crushes straight kids had at school weren’t actually real either.

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

Sensitivity question for Americans I live in London, in an area where there are a lot of crows. You know, the bird. Family corvidae. I’m writing a short story about a vegan werewolf and a crow.

Part of me wants to write a scene at the end of my book where the characters hang out and have a laugh just to show the book was fiction and they're just acting. No one got hurt, really! They're all pals in real life. Everyone consented and signed a contract.

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.

1/8 🇨🇦 AS #EDMONTON VOTES, DO YOU KNOW WHICH GOVERNMENT DOES WHAT? 🇨🇦 With the municipal election on Oct. 20, it's a crucial question. Who is responsible for clearing snow on your street versus funding the hospital in your city? Mrinali Anchan, CBC News #YegVote #AbPoli #Civics

If you or a loved one is taken by ICE, you can call the National Lawyers Guild federal repression hotline at 212-679-2811, for a free, privileged consultation about your rights, risks, & responsibilities, & to be connected with appropriate legal resources in your jurisdiction. PLEASE SHARE THIS

That deeply shocking #bbcpanorama investigation into the Met is what you expect the public broadcaster to do. Very good work despite the weird break in the programme.