This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

This isn't like the average online petition btw, this is one of those things where if it gets enough signatures, the HOC absolutely must bring it to the floor for discussion. Incredibly important to get on this if you're Canadian.

It's officially fall, which means you're now legally required to purchase THE WHOLE SHEBANG (every horror/Weird fiction ebook and digital zine we've published as of August 2025) for yourself and your morbid friend/family member. #booksky www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...

🌎 Join The Suzuki Sessions, a new online gathering series featuring David Suzuki & voices from the front lines of climate justice. On Sept 29, land defenders will share how they are resisting fossil fuel expansion on their territories & how you can help strengthen and support resistance. Join us!

After being fired by Trump, the former US archivist is leading a national push to strengthen democracy + expand voting access. 🗳️ @pbsnewsclassroom.bsky.social has a lesson to help students unpack what this means for civic engagement. 👉 sharemylesson.com/todays-news-... @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo will be in NYC for the Clean Cities Campaign talk, "The Paris Effect." Tickets still available apparently: cleancitiescampaign.org/climate-week...

1 car family, 3 kids. 2 electric cargo bikes, even in winter (Wisconsin). Even in summer (we used to live in Austin). It’s a ton of fun and the kids love it. AMA

That's a LOT of current/former Disney talent. @thr.com $DIS www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

All the other stuff the fash are doing is bad, but let's not forget they cut SNAP, cut grants to food banks and now they're nixing the food insecurity report. America, you need to hold these MFers to account. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

Excellent thread w/ practical advice on taking antihistamines as COVID prevention, to help with side effects post-COVID vax, & to take during an active COVID infection to prevent long COVID. With science to back it up. (Long, you may want to seek out the last post in thread to properly read it.)

Every single person who works full time should be able to afford housing, groceries, bills, with some left over on their paycheck, alone. That’s common sense and any system that isn’t designed to do so must be addressed.

Hey, here's some good news for a change! I wrote about a Seattle company turning diapers into climate-friendly biochar...

Canada Runs on Serf Labour - macleans.ca/society/cana...

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

New #WriterBeware blog post: Gen AI-driven Nigerian writing scams have arrived recently & spun up fast. Two new ones: book club impersonations (charge a "spot fee" for appearance) & fake private book review communities (reviewers are "tipped" w/ a minimum buy) writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r...

The other day I recommended two indie horror books and one from a big name author to someone looking for recs. The reader went with the big name author because that book was available at their local library. So please, request indies. We want our books to be available to a wide range of readers.

BREAKING: At least 18 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/myuyrb

never forget LLM are autofill that cannot read

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

Soundcheck. #FantasticFest #TheRestorationAtGraysonManor

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Public service announcement: ONTARIO SFF WRITERS PLEASE REMEMBER TO APPLY FOR THE OAC RECOMMENDER GRANT AUGUR IS A RECOMMENDER WE WANT TO RECOMMEND SFF WRITERS GET GRANTS /end

OMG

I’ve advised Helsinki, Finland a few times in the past, and among the many conversations I’ve had with the Finns, we’ve talked about what it’s like to live right next to an aggressive dictatorship like Russia. I’m not the first one to say it, but Canada needs to be vigorously learning from Finland.

Good news, the EPA reversed a decision to allow forever chemicals in drinking water. Why? Turns out that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin was a Congressman from Long Island, where PFAS pollution is widespread. Sad that good news is not the EPA protecting people, it’s just not doing something awful.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

The Pearl Fairy ✨ #art #digitalart #draw #drawing #illustration #украрт #ukrart

Excellent advice. It's easy to get overwhelmed when the world is on fire. Do what you can to help and try to make a difference day by day. Doing a bit each day can quickly grow into big change.

Proud of all the work that ordinary Canadians across Canada did in those early days. We shared good information put to together by a true interdisciplinary group of experts from science, medicine, law, engineering and occupational hygiene with anyone who would listen but especially decision makers.

Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it - Sounds confident even when factually wrong - Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf - Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases - Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…

Also remember that part of why many love that "AI" conforms to and reproduces their biases but does so in a format they can claim is "objective" is that it lets them offload responsibility and obfuscate their intent: bsky.app/profile/wolv...

these projects will only become more important as the legacy media capture by the right continues!

I've thoughts on the things we're not supposed to talk about along with the stories we tell. How we must push back on the justifications people use to ignore or embrace the wrongs around them. I also wonder why we let Alexanders and incendiaries hurt so many people. www.patreon.com/posts/139194...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

General submission open on Monday 22 September. We are looking for speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Our remit is very broadly fun, but don't self-reject - a truly superb story offers an enjoyment of it's own.

If payment processors can ban you from buying legal material, they can ban you from buying books and newspapers critical of the Republican Party. Censorship is censorship. It might be awkward to bring it up with normies you know, but present it as a wedge towards even broader censorship.

In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER. And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin. Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.

literally all Canadians busting in

@maryrajotte.bsky.social did an excellent job of summarizing the Stoker eligibility process and recommending rules: maryrajotte.com/blog/2021/09...

My darlings! Yes! We have rescheduled and I am thrilled! My special guest @tkingfisher.com joins me this Saturday, September 20th at 10AM Pacific (Seattle/ Tucson) for what will, no doubt, be a glorious conversation about books and art. madameaskew.com/2025/09/19/s...

We are in Austin this weekend at Fantastic Fest, come say hi Monday at the Ghoulish Book Fair!

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

“Greater Victoria is in tsunami-notification zone D, one of five along the B.C. coast. The zone covers the area along Juan de Fuca Strait from Jordan River to the Saanich Peninsula.” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b... - @timescolonist.bsky.social #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ

“Experts agree that delusions among patients are an issue that demands attention. It all comes down to how chatbots communicate. They exploit our tendency to attribute humanlike qualities to others…” call it whatever you want, but call it dangerous.

Do you want some Robin Hood... IN SPACE? The HOOD trilogy is $1.99USD (and CAD) apiece in ebook until 9/30. Book One: books2read.com/hoodseason1 Book Two: books2read.com/hoodseason2 Book Three: books2read.com/hoodseason3

If a publisher won't commit to human editing, art and translation, the deal is not worth having. They're signalling how little they care about the final product, which comes with your name attached. This is the right place to push back. Having an agent here helps.

This is very good. The story on Kimmel isn't Kirk - it's the bribery and corruption of our media by the FCC & Trump WH.

UPDATE: 22 members of Congress now say Israel is committing genocide. Jim McGovern (Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, named for the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress) says the US cannot "continue to arm and fund" Israel. 510 members are currently genocide deniers.