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mjleclair.bsky.social
🇨🇦author, former working musician, and quiet eccentric. Lover of horror, romance, most music (loving metal and symthwave lately), and pets. Currently writing folk horror and ghost stories. Mjleclair.com
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Whatever you do today, I hope it is done with intention, inspiration, weirdness, eccentricity, and a soupçon of spite.

Extraordinary I have to write this. The Roma are human too. The Roma have rights too. The Roma have been persecuted for centuries. The Roma were the last enslaved people in Europe. The Roma are last whipping boy IN Europe - on BBC this lunchtime people being openly discriminatory. STOP

The world responded to the recent US-China trade agreement by being completely underwhelmed. It has caused many to wonder what the hell they were all doing in there for two days? worlddailybusinessmonthly.com/2025/06/11/t...

Judge Finds in Favor of Disney, Says 9-Fingered Mickey is Still Mickey

"Serial rapist's treatment of his victims is once again under scrutiny". See how silly that sounds, L.A. Times? There's video of them shooting journalists in the back without warning, deliberately. The objective truth is that police in L.A. are targeting and assaulting press.

I feel it's important to admit that even those of us who have written over twenty novels still sometimes look at the day's work and flail like a toddler, yelling I DON' WANNA. Discipline is good and necessary, but the inner sloth-beast is never fully vanquished.

Yeah so I may as well post something. I wrote a book all about black cats. Kinda. The Black Cat Bookshop is a Gothic horror with ... things in. And cats. I do formatting and editing at fixed prices that are friendly for indie budgets: I'm a workaholic so pretty much can always fit you in quick.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Is Windsor-Essex ready for a guaranteed basic income? This senator says it's time #Canada Bill S-206 is in its second reading in the Senate of Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I have 14 mutuals with this person (not Dex, the screen shot)...

We've been yelling at adult Harry Potter dipshits so long to read another fucking book, we finally broke them. "Another book? But, sir, there are no other books. All children lit is Harry Potter," they now say as their brains leak out their ears.

You simply cannot become a cooler old guy, folks

Authors, writers, readers, and academics have said this about artificial intelligence for months - it's overhyped. Now a paper from #Apple says #AI isn't so hot, #tech people finally listen - www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"An incompetent warning shot or the act of a coward, either way it needs to be properly investigated... how is it okay for your police force to be firing at unarmed Australian journalists?" Karl Stefanovic, an anchor for the Australian broadcast channel that @laurentomasi.bsky.social works for.

Not dunking on the Good Bureaucrat here, but the printing press represents a different kind of disruption than electronic and especially video culture does. The Printing Press launched drives for literacy and increasing the amount of reading. The "second orality" pushes people away from reading.

Drug smugglers arrested after using commercial trucks to transport cocaine across U.S. border into Canada: Peel police #Ontario Nearly 500 kilograms of cocaine was seized and nine people are in custody From the USA into CANADA….again www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/loca...

The world is a mess but this thread about discovering the love of storytelling is beautiful. #author #authors

now that canada is getting closer to europe and australia instead of focusing so exclusively on the US, can we copy them and guarantee workers 4-5 weeks of paid vacation?

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

Doechii speaks out against use of the military against protesters in LA during her acceptance speech at the #BETAwards

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

It would help immensely if the critiques of porn, did not confuse "sex" with "porn." The push to be "sexy" and sexism are not rooted in one form of media. But linking both evangelicals and anti-SW feminists is the idea that sexist evil can be traced to one tantalizing source.

ICE agents intentionally started the violence in LA.

Governments getting increasingly fond of using claims of "pornography" to censor large portions of the internet. Tanzania just blocked X. Tech companies could have stood up for internet freedom when it was applied to adult sites, but decided it didn't affect them so ...

If you get hit in the head with a projectile (bean-bag round, blunt baton round, tear gas projectile, etc.) you need to get out of the fight. Even if you feel ok. Even if you were wearing a helmet. You need to go to a hospital and get checked out.

Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation. And hope to gobble up some land near you. Read @kieraevebutler.bsky.social's latest.

Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

when it comes to less lethals you don't need ballistic armor, which is expensive bike helmet. Hockey helmets. goggles. football pads or just extra padding if it's not too hot there are always trade offs with armor but please if you go out at least protect your eyes and head.

folks I've been tear gassed something like 200 times and maced at least fifty or so times. once i was soaked in mace to my underwear. ignore any neat scientific tricks people give you for beating this stuff -Water for tear gas -sudecon wipes for mace -if no sudecon, wash mace with water

seconding this. if you get hit directly in the head with an impact munitions like this or a grenade go immediately to the ER. don't stay to protest with your friends. Don't try to be "tough". your night or day is done. seek medical care

Hang in there Los Angeles.

If you want to prepare for a spicy summer 3M mask with extra filters. Ideally a full face respirator. Soft body armor of some kind for impact munitions. Doesn't have to be ballistic. Helmet. Can be ballistic. Can be bump. Even a bicycle helmet can save your life from a grenade.

This spectacular over-reaction is designed to give Fox News the ammunition to paint California as a lawless hellhole.

Now The Residents of James Hotel is out, I get to add it to the banner. Looking to read a book with asexual representation this Pride Month? I now have a collection with Booklinker for that! Amazon links: mybook.to/acerep Other links in replies (running out of space)

This comes up all the time. "How do I get people to talk to me?" And the simple answer is... be the conversation that you want to see. Talk to people. Be interested. Here, engagement is something you *do* not something you get.