A dear friend and colleague is also defending today, and I call that auspicious! All the best!

I'd like to hear from Nova Scotian provincial and Canadian federal employees who have been directed to use AI in their workplace. I want to know specifics, and how that's working out. DM me.

a wall of Indigenous books

we’ve been growing our Indigenous book collection enough to now have an entire bay in the shop dedicated to Indigenous reads! we’ll be continually adding to it in the hopes of having the best selection in the region. pop into the store to shop or browse our categories online at kingsbookstore.ca

Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Here's why we should have a basic income for artists program - Halifax Examiner We should do anything we can to revalue what it is to be human, and that starts with the arts.

Here’s why we should have a basic income for artists program

Morning File by me

Definitely not just a you thing. The videos are especially eerie to me. No real sense of the physics of small movements - resistance or acceleration.

Paging Nova Scotia’s premier.

There's still 2 days to submit a proposal to "American Carnage," this year's theme for the CAAS Conference here in Kjipuktuk/Halifax.

accute.ca/2026/01/29/c...

Last day for free downloads!

Help ARB become a paying venue for ruthless criticism of all that doesn’t exist

Writers of murdery-type shows: When a body is found with a finger or hand cut off, it’s time to stop saving the biometric lock thing as a mid-episode twist. We know about biometrics.

Tim Houston's radical transformation of Nova Scotia exemplifies the global attack on decency - Halifax Examiner We'll either find ourselves living in a dystopic nightmare or, somehow, find justice and completely rebuild a pluralistic society.

Tim Houston’s radical transformation of Nova Scotia exemplifies the global attack on decency

Morning File by me

Wayne Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction holds up pretty well; James Phelan is a student of Booth’s whose piece on Lolita is a brilliant look at unreliability; Boym’s The Future of Nostalgia and Bhabha’s Nation and Narration are ones I keep coming back to

New career opportunity: Ecumenical Integrity Officer

“I’m sorry, Member Gladu, we can’t admit you to our party without hard evidence that you were visited by the ghosts of science past, present, and future.”

3/5 Meanwhile, HRM approved its 2026–27 budget,
increasing its contribution to Windsor Street project
from $55.75 million to $85.75 million. With that amount alone, the city could have added several ferries, improved frequency, and built real resilience into the system. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

who could have guessed everything would get this bad except for anyone who was paying any attention whatsoever

Getting rid of the Nova Scotia passenger train network back in the 90s was a truly unforgivable act of inter-generational vandalism and sabotage.

This province literally had better public transportation two centuries ago than we have today, because some jerks decided to go all-in on cars, instead.

Thinking of adding this to my teaching dossier

The lack of transit options in NS is staggering.
Now is a great time for politicians to raise awareness on why car travel for all is unaffordable and unsustainable, and what can be done about it.

“Harnessing the best of AI” is akin to picking the bits of undigested corn out of a pile of poop.

N.S. launching 5-person team to incorporate AI into government operations | CBC News The province invested $4.4 million to establish artificial intelligence capabilities this year.

NS Tories: we can’t afford to publish books but we can spend $4.4M dollars to steal from them. #nspoli

Romancing the Gothic 2026 Online Conference CFP More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 22nd/23rd August 2026 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of An…

Do you work on Ann Radcliffe?
Do you work on women writers and producers of the Gothic and horror?
Do you work on topics related to people of marginalised genders in the Gothic?

Join us! Submit an abstract for our upcoming online conference!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

Jim Croce - Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels) [Official Music Video] YouTube video by Jim Croce

I have so many, mostly taken from the host of songs/artists my siblings introduced me to. Of those, maybe the least obvious is this one:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=khYx...

Ok, you definitely just wrote that you don’t love short novels, and I’m not trying to convert you, but I think you would enjoy reading Shirley Jackson, and her shortest novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, is my favourite.

Congratulations @heleninwords.bsky.social!

Stand in solidarity with your colleagues at the University of King's College Teachers' Union. They are in a legal strike position mid-next week. Rally this Tuesday at 10 am, King's Quad.

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT

there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

a pile of books by trans authors, and a trans flag coloured knitted rainbow on top

much love kindness and respect to our trans friends today on Transgender Day of Visibility. the world is and has always been better by you being in it

Photo of the edited collection Urban Legends and the Cultural Geography of Horror, whose cover features a darkened alleyway with lots of stairs.

First page of the table of contents, showing my chapter “‘The Family Business’: Mobility and Patriarchy in the CW’s Supernatural” in the #5 slot. They even spelled my name right!

My wee bio: “Helen Pinsent is a PhD candidate at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her research areas include American literature, popular culture, Gothic fiction, and mobility studies. Her dissertation focuses on connections between automobility and the American dream in American Gothic fiction after the Second World War.”

Arrived home to find this beauty waiting for me! Thanks to the editors and to @uniwalespress.bsky.social for making my first scholarly publication experience so rewarding.
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