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For folks going to the Montreal Comic Arts Festival this weekend, y'all can find me at table E43 on St. Denis (between Bienville and Gilford). I'll have copies of Barb, Monster's Paradise, and more! Come on out and explore the fest, why don't ya? #comics #MCAF #festival #Montreal

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My WWII novel The Tapestry of Time hits shelves in the US in two months, so today's a great day to pre-order! (It's out now in other countries & formats, but hardcopy in the US is July 22). If a novel about a clairvoyant lesbian version of Indiana Jones sounds like your thing, please give it a try.

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Same. Posting this from data.

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There’s also a fake news game with cats. @broomgrass.bsky.social www.catpark.game

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I played this educational game on how to spot fake news. It’s quick, simple, text-based, and you play as a disinformation spreader. It makes you realize we should be careful when the left makes fake news too. FN is designed to align with the target audience’s beliefs. www.getbadnews.com/en/intro

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Something I love about Montreal: When — at a neighbourhood music festival — a toddler in the crowd is being tossed much too high and much too vigorously into the air, the situation is likely safer than it looks because the father doing the tossing is a totally jacked circus artist.

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Here's some good news, for a nice change of pace from this Reality:

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Stayed with the folks for the weekend, celebrated my grandma’s ninetieth birthday.

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Looking forward to the rollout for Micrsoft Eldritch(TM)

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Two men who should never meet each other: Nic Cage's character in Army of One--a Joe Handyman with kidney problems who decides to capture bin Laden alive Joe Exotic from Tiger King ... Nvm, it would be wildly entertaining to see them on an enemies-to-partners team-up mission.

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If I was designing my own LLM, it would be as energy efficient and environmentally friendly as possible, be trained on public domain texts and texts authored by fairly recompensated copyright holders, and I would call it Jeeves. People would finally be able to Ask Jeeves.

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Great news arrived today! Five of my poems were published in Lothlorien Poetry Journal! I’ve been looking for a home for “Saint Francis of the Amazon” for a long time, ever since undergrad, so I’m glad it’s finally found a place. lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/05/five...

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Mom Just Wants To Watch Something Nice theonion.com/mom-jus...

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A guilty verdict on the Sycamore Gap case. I was there this October and found it so sad not to have seen it stand tall. But it does have sprouts. Life goes on.

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We have a Chicago pope, but I’m still waiting for an MLA one.

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General Tao Chicken VII

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I’ve resumed writing blog posts on all 110 stories in the VanderMeers’ big Weird Fiction anthology. I want to finish it this month. I can just maybe do it. No date set on the posts’ publication yet, but it might appear as a weekly series on my blog in June.

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Good thread on essay writing. The best experience writing essays was probable when I had to write two short ones per week on a poem—Ondaatje, Patrick Lane, Phyllis Webb, Leonard Cohen. I took a similar course with the same instructor again. It was just what you needed to do to reflect on them.

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If I get called up, this will be me on Monday.

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Two new submissions to magazines out this afternoon!

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A chance to have a day-after-the-election chill out

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Sad to see Francis go. He was aiming the church in the right direction. It's hard to make a thousand year old ship turn, but he was trying. Really hope there is a continuity pick. The politics of the church have a global effect, and we need compassion-focused leaders now more than ever.

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Pope Francis has died at the age of 88. Archbishop of Montreal, Christian LĂ©pine joined Andrew Carter to pay tribute to him:

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It’s Easter.

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From @skip-rhudy.bsky.social: I’ve got a post-graduate certificate in artificial intelligence (AI). I’m also an author, and I believe writers and publishers should not use AI in publishing. ... But the reasons I oppose using AI are not the usual ones you hear.

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Don’t always assume they’re the Easter bunny. They might be something … else.

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Writers, if you want a reason to keep at it right now, this bit from Victor Hugo just punched me in the gut.

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