I'm looking for Black Canadian writers who write historical fiction! Historical = anything set in the 90s or before. Adult, MG, YA, NA. Etc. Give me a shout! #booksky #blackbooksky

and a fashionable outfit!

The left side shows cover of the May 2024 issue of lightspeed, with the silhouette of a human figure standing atop the pages of a giant open book, with a glowing starry background. The right side has the opening text of the story: "This is our story, simplified. Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration." The story then splits into columns such that the right column repeats the quote above. The left side has new verses: "The first time you get our message, you only find one thread. It mimics your language in its simplest form, a single strand of words laid end to end. You will have to work hard if you want to understand us properly. You must learn to hold more than one thread of language simultaneously in your mind. Don’t worry, we will help you develop the skills you need. We will keep one simple thread unchanged. At first you will glance back and forth between these words and those. Your attention is a strange, skittering thing, but we believe you can learn with repetition. For you, we are relearning how to teach. You can hear musical chords of multiple notes, even two strands of differing lyrics for short stretches of song. It helps to memorize the words. Your mind has a strange divide between learning and knowing. Read both columns, please. Every time. Can you commit our simplified story to memory? See just the shape of the words and know what is there? You have so little bandwidth, there might not be any other way. It is not ideal but we are desperate. We will repeat to help you understand."

Catching up on 2024 reading?

I wrote a story this year that I truly believe is something special. It is the most challenging thing I've ever attempted, and I'm proud of how it came out. I'd be honored if you consider it for your award ballots.

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it's true and you should say it

My Patreon is active and has exclusive photos of my travels, writing thoughts, and more. Today here are my thoughts on Athens: www.patreon.com/posts/116440...

Canadian Charities Aid Israeli Crimes, Report Warns “We have over the last two years submitted many complaints to the Canada Revenue Agency.”

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just read it, can confirm that i did, out loud, say 'holy shit'

such a beautiful vehicle

THREAD: The UN Special Committee investigating Israel’s practices published its report yesterday concluding that Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide. Most notably, it captures some of Israel’s digital warfare and the conduct of social media companies.

'An alarm bell': Child poverty rates in Nova Scotia increase again | SaltWire SYDNEY — The annual report card on child poverty has found more Canadian children are living in poverty than before the pandemic. In Nova Scotia, child ...

Highest child poverty rate in Eastern Canada. If there is one key measurement of political success or failure, it is this.
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noooo

sorry to hear it, Wendy <3

there's so much evidence that money functions on people like a neurotoxin

am i still getting Daylight Savings Time'd? Still?

For the first time since the beginning of the war, famine is decimating southern Gaza, life is getting cramped, and people have no bread crumb to shut the stomachs of their hungry children
don't hesitate to Donation Maybe it's your support.The reason we're still alive.💔🇵🇸🍉🥺😣
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So. Bluesky.

Why don't y'all mask up in public anymore?

no but hey listen i slept before midnight and i theoretically got hours and hours of sleep. why tired. why
why

History shows that pandemics lead to fascism Studies of the 1918 flu pandemic shows correlation with the rise of fascism in the following decades.

History shows pandemics lead to fascism - my latest for Rabble

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By day we almost die from the heat, by night we almost die from the cold.This is our life in the tent،I don't think my kids can handle this heat.🥺💔https://gofund.me/a527a4d8

Instead of “teaching” me how to engage constructively with people I disagree with (or flat out dislike) and pushing me to consume media I don’t enjoy, howabout a whole lot of people learn to take “no” for a fucking answer.

End of thread.

workout accomplished, now i must mossify

Detroit become human is really good. just kinda trying new to me games and idk, more interactive sf novels pls n ty

Please help or share, relatives. Many are not surviving this world right now, at risk of losing all. Help is you are able to. Love to the helpers, without you, many would not be making it.🪶💕

We should use the hashtag #Xit lol.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: School remembrance event request showed sensitivity | SaltWire Regarding the Sackville Heights Remembrance Day observations, the request that people not show up in military clothing was correct despite what the premier ...

"As a son of a veteran who suffered from PTSD and the nephew of an uncle who lost his life during a Second World War battle, I feel that the request on behalf of children whose fears may be triggered by such reminders as the uniforms was brave and mature"
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