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I feel really weird shouting "Buy my book!" when the world seems to be going up in flames, but if you need an escape into a dark world where there are glimmers of decency and hope... I'd be so happy if my characters could keep you company. ❤️‍🩹 💙🪐🎧🌶️📚 #BookSky #fantasywriting #indiefantasy #indiebooks

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My books are written by a neurodivergent author but I didn't know we had a Pride Day until today. Sadly the one with the ND character isn't out yet (see what I did there? 😁 ) #booksky #neurodivergent #diversity

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Now reading: #booksky #BlackBookSky #BlackSkyBooks

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Some queer book recommendations from me ( yes, I somehow managed to do this without including Gideon the Ninth). As always, you should read diversely all year round 🏳️‍🌈 #booksky #fantasybooksky #queerbooks

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A name from the past today to celebrate #pridemonth – #queer icon Radcylffe (John) Hall, best remembered for the groundbreaking long-banned book The Well of Loneliness. 👩‍❤️‍👩 renardpress.com/books/adams-... #queerbooks #transhistory #lgbtqauthors #booksky #beautifulbooks

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Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell The first essay collection by a Black lesbian writer, reissued with new poems, an intro by Briona Simone Jones, and a powerful interview with Audre Lorde. queerazon.com/shop/ols/pro... #QueerBooks #AnitaCornwell #QueerHistory

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It’s Independent Bookshop Week. Here’s a poem about one of the many reasons why indie bookshops are so brilliant. #indiebookshopweek

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The Last Session Vol. 1: Roll for Initiative A queer YA graphic novel about friendship, change, and D&D. When a newcomer joins their final campaign, tensions rise—and not just in the game. queerazon.com/shop/ols/pro... #QueerBooks #GraphicBooks #DungeonsAndDragons

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Morning ☀️ #blackbooksky #booksky

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Alberta companies ordered to repay almost $165K to temporary foreign workers Companies appealing after Ontario decision that they unlawfully charged workers for jobs at Canadian Tire www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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I get up in the evening And I ain't got nothing to say I come home in the morning I go to bed feeling the same way I ain't nothing but tired Man, I'm just tired and bored with myself Hey there, baby perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order

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⚠️Global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.27°C per decade – the highest rate since records began. This is one of the indicators updated every year by over 60 international scientists in the annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report – published today. doi.org/10.5194/essd... /1

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Halfway point, 7 days left in our patreon subscription drive. We've reached 90 patrons and $265 per month, which is a good jump from where we started. But we're still climbing toward the goals. Get a magazine subscription, bonus content, or both! linkinbio #solarpunk

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One of our co-editors-in-chief is also one of the writer/producers of this horror series. Check it out and give them your support!

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Hard to believe so much water has passed under the bridge since I started writing my debut psychological suspense novel, When The Flood Falls, based on a lowering sky and a rising Elbow River. laceymccrae.com/2019/06/toda... #CrimeFiction #CanadianAuthor

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When stalking escalates to murder, a traumatized ex-Mountie must expose an old secret to save her best friend. books2read.com/FloodFalls #CrimeFiction #friendship

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This seems like a promising model for Canada's push to fill our huge housing shortage and replace 50+ year old buildings from the earlier federal public housing push. www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

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By 2027, Kraft Heinz says all artificial food dyes will be replaced with natural colors. The move comes two months after federal officials called on food companies to stop using synthetic dyes.

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Trump says he backs the MAHA agenda which includes eliminating toxins linked to human health problems. But his administration continues to cuts funds, grants and regulations that support that goal.

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Maureen Corrigan recommends four great reads: El Dorado Drive, by Megan Abbott; The House on Buzzards Bay, by Dwyer Murphy; King of Ashes, by S.A. Cosby; and Murder Takes a Vacation, by Laura Lippman.

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Author Dan Rubinstein paddled from Ottawa to New York City and back to understand how being near water benefits people. His book is called "Water Borne."

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Nothing compares to Alberta open.substack.com/pub/womenofa...

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Not just Canada's sacrifice.

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1/2 COPENHAGEN, (AP) — Denmark’s Parliament on Wednesday approved a bill to allow U.S. military bases on Danish soil, a move that comes as President Donald Trump seeks to take control of the kingdom’s semi-autonomous territory of Greenland. Critics say the vote ceded Danish sovereignty to the U.S.

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globalnews.ca/news/1123747...

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Beware these fake Facebook posts. There are a lot of them!

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Adventure Writing: From Backyard to Big Mountains Sunday June 22 Register here bcwriters.ca/event-6225828 #WritingCommunity #FBCW

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I don’t want to light up this person’s mentions but this is bullshit. The legitimacy of protests doesn’t rest on whether they were planned in advance or not. People also have jobs, so the weekend is when they have time to demonstrate. Fuck off with this garbage.

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Remember those far-right dweebs, Diagolon? Well, turns out they’ve developed a “sudden interest in creating organizations that would act in parallel to more militant European and US far-right groups.” That’s according to a new report from the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. Here’s what else it says:

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“Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage.

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Newsom: This is a national order. We’re talking about you and your state, your own backyard, all depending on the whim of a president who’s unhinged. Depending on how he’s feeling on a particular day, or who’s offended him because he didn’t like what they said on a Fox News clip.

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She thought the racism came with a carve-out for bilingual bootlickers.

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Marine veterans are speaking out against the troop deployment in Los Angeles. Across the country, they’re taking down their American flags that have flown in front of their homes for years. Remember, we have friends everywhere.

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At a Hinge moment open.substack.com/pub/wesleywa...

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The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

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What share of new car sales are electric? Here are a selection of countries for 2024 👇 Explore more here: ourworldindata.org/grapher/elec...

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Oh there goes his ratings

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Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

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If you know anything about RFK Jr the fact that he falsified the MAHA report should not surprise you in the least.

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Rescued cougar cubs Sienna and Sullivan are settling in well behind the scenes in the comfort of their den. We’re giving them all the time they need to adjust before they make their debut in the forested cougar habitat, where guests will eventually be able to see them. 🐾

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The Lost Boys of the Online Right open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

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Nothing says ‘heartbreaking realization’ like finding out the guy who bankrupted four casinos might not be great at economic policy.

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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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Remember that loser who tried to convince us that Canada is broken? It turns out Canada is in the upper echelons of every good list on Earth and both he and his party lost and are broken.

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