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submitted 4 hours ago • 277 comments

I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Now more popular than Rogan! This is an insightful and satisfying ongoing takedown of Trump and Musk and Republicans. Sign up to listen, and make it even more successful. meidasnews.com/tag/meidasto...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Remember when team USA beat the Soviets in the 80s? Canada just had that moment and the US were the Soviets this time. Congratulations Canada 🍁

submitted 2 days ago • 228 comments

🇨🇦 Mark Carney pledges to make Canada a clean energy superpower! www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/20/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Countries that don't want X interfering in elections should block it, the way Brazil did when X violated court orders. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockin...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I'm doing my first ever Vancouver reading. Please come! The Writer’s Studio Reading Series Monday, February 24 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Container Brewing 1216 Franklin Street, Vancouver Stefan Trifu Carol Tulpar Diary Marif Brian Panhuyzen J.G. Chayko Barbara Kmiec

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

PUBLISHERS: when you open an Ingram sales sheet, you're not the only one who gets this alert; EVERYONE does. 100% Ingram's fault. File is tab-delimited, but the .xls extension looks like a trick to fake the file-type as old Excel. I've asked Ingram repeatedly to fix this, and so should you.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

submitted 11 days ago • 637 comments

Controversial story idea: a serial killer who preys exclusively on the worst of the pardoned Jan 6 rioters.

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submitted 13 days ago • 3064 comments

The reality behind the whole 51st state thing.

submitted 12 days ago • 421 comments

EVERY SINGLE CITY, IN EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY, NEEDS TO DO THIS WHEN WE TAKE AWAY THEIR WEALTH WE ALSO TAKE AWAY THEIR POWER #PeoplePower #StrengthInNumbers #BoycottBezos #BoycottMusk #BoycottZuckerberg

submitted 15 days ago • 284 comments

DJ Leo is in da house

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

URGENT: Stop Trump's invasion of Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Tell Arab leaders to RESIST: action.eko.org/a/arab-leade...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"Europeans who witnessed democracy crumble before their eyes have some words of advice for Americans now entering the second Trump era.... stay united, safeguard your civic institutions and never, never give up." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

Is there a go to image for 'Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a good political move'? Because fuck Doug Ford forever, and yet

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

Current mood

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

Elon Musk is orchestrating a coup of the US government. In the past 48 hours he’s gained access to a vast range of sensitive information of millions of citizens, businesses, and foreign development projects. This is as serious as it gets, and it puts the entire world in danger. FireElon.org

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

Signing petitions isn't much, but it is something. act.sumofus.org/go/716945?ak...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

You think you have problems? Imagine it's the end of January and your store is stuck with 80 cartons of oat milk egg nog with a best before of June 2025.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

In future time travel stories, characters will go back in time to eliminate Trump and Musk

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

And to answer the question, “how could I love Costco even more?”:

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

New excerpt up on site: THE DEAD HAMLETS by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social… civilianreader.com/2025/01/24/e... Out now, published by Poplar Press @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Whatever else you are feeling today, at least there are these words, at long last, to celebrate: "Mr. Biden also commuted the life sentence for Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who was convicted of killing two F.B.I. agents in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota."

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: The head of Facebook Messenger has a non-binary child and last week assured employees that Meta would work to preserve queer voices. Hours days later the company deleted its trans and non-binary pride themes in Messenger www.platformer.news/meta-trump-p...

submitted 41 days ago • 76 comments

h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social

submitted 40 days ago • 455 comments

Vancouver delivers all manner of sky magic.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

I've just listened to Elvis Costello's 1989 album "Spike" in its entirety for the first time in a long time, and I'm convinced it's one of the best albums ever. What songs! What a voice! And Chrissy Hinde's backup vocal on still Satellite haunts me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_(...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Here me out: make the shells of stuffed dog toys from Kevlar.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Yeeeeeaaah, the doomerism thing is real bullshit. As a nation we were collectively stupid enough to let him get back into a seat of power, but it's now our responsibility to collectively put as many goddamn tacks onto that seat as we possibly can. Make Power Fucking Painful is the mantra for 2025.

submitted 77 days ago • 57 comments

Vigilantism as a symptom of a system where crimes either don't get prosecuted, or, in the case of corporate behaviour, actual crimes aren't even defined as such, e.g., bankrupting sick people. What are other examples?

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Publishers! PubGizmo.com is software I wrote for chbooks.com (pub: THE SLEEPING CAR PORTER, Giller Prize winner, endorsed by Michelle Obama), available for cheap subscription, because I believe in, and am published by, small presses, and doing royalties any other way sucks. Now 10% off first year.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Ah, Goosey, we hardly knew ye

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Step closer: Leo wants a sniff.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I expect nothing less than confetti canons and party horns once I complete today's meditation.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.

submitted 94 days ago • 1108 comments

Vancouver outer harbour, fog and sunshine, 11am, December 2nd, 2024.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

To pardon someone, the president should have to write a 1000 word essay justifying their reasoning, and it should be graded, and the pardon authorized, by their grade 9 English teacher. No pass, no pardon.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Get on over to whatever.scalzi.com, where @scalzi.com is generously hosting the Whatever Shopping Guide 2024, featuring creative gifts posted by the creators themselves. Today is the stuffy-sounding-but-not "traditionally-published books" issue. More to come throughout the week. Thanks, John!

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

For those too young to remember the conviction of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, and the case for his release, here’s a primer from @amnestyuk.bsky.social. www.huffpost.com/entry/amnest...

submitted 84 days ago • 65 comments

very nice! an american variation on our own canadian small press map, / festivalofauthors.ca/small-press-...

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

If you need a permission slip to leave Twitter, this is it. I also give you permission to replace shoes that don't fit, a mattress or chair that hurts your back, and glasses that are the wrong prescription. Life is hard enough. There is no valor in unnecessary suffering.

submitted 84 days ago • 60 comments

Agree 100%.

submitted 84 days ago • 12 comments

In a publishing contract, always try to get a percentage of <list>, not <net> sales. List pays more, since it’s based on your book’s list price. Net is based on what your publisher receives for the sale from the retailer, which is always less than list.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Authors and small publishers: ask me about royalties. As both an author and developer of PubGizmo.com, my understanding of net vs. list, escalation, advances, rights, reserve on returns, etc. goes deep. I can help you understand contract clauses, and their financial implications. #publishing

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season

submitted 126 days ago • 86 comments

That said, today I worked not in a café, but Vancouver's seaplane terminal on Coal Harbour. Good wifi, comfy seating, and the view. THE VIEW.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments