to celebrate this fantastic nom, we’re putting the ebook on sale!!

get yours now for a phenomenal price 🖤🖤🖤

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I don't have a book, but I have a case study that might lead to more resources: Queen Mary was a passenger liner bigger than the Titanic that survived WW2 as a troop transport, and ended up a tourist attraction in California.

Martha Wells did a riff on it in her Fall of Il-Rien series.

Announcing the #AuroraAwars2026 finalists! Check out the full ballot at our Current Ballot page: www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

We're currently working on the voters’ package which includes digital copies of nominated works. We hope to release it in mid-May. Voting for the awards will begin in June.

The Dank Meme of the Ancient Mariner

The Slimy BC Invader That Came from the West | The Tyee The violet tunicate is a hermaphroditic reproducer that shellfish farmers have been blasting off oysters for nearly a century on the West Coast.

It didn’t arrive on a meteorite, crashing into a suburban town to feast on human flesh.

But an alien blob has been circulating in British Columbian waters, spreading its colonies in marinas and oyster farms. Grace Kennedy writes. 🪸👽

Send me something to read and publish!

"When my wife's beloved Kindle DX was bricked by obsolescence through no fault of her own, it gave me a frisson of excitement and anticipation to take on Darth Bezos and break open the Kindle so she could once again read her favorite books"

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It's that delightful time of the year, for which I have waited so eagerly: the COMMON BONDS 3 Table of Content Reveal 💙

This aromantic anthology will have a crowdfunding campaign during Pride, so please follow us on BackerKit!

But for now: a thread!

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Yeah, nope. Gross.

This is from the Wikipedia entry for the Kuyper Island Indian Residential School en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuper_I... Making "nice" fanfiction inspired by this reality (experienced by still-living people) is messed up.

a whole lot of very good looking ereaders going back to the dawn of Kobo ereading in 2010

Today’s burning question: how long does Kobo support its ereaders? And by support I mean how long they get updates, patches, security updates, and bug fixes to keep working.

Short answer: a freakishly long time. Long answer below. 🧵

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

YOU HEARD ME WRITE

A washpot never boils —
Go back to the drawing, bored.
Wrap your header round it:
It’s not rock; it’s science.

The Status Quo Does Not Need World Building - Reactor The imagination is not context-less. The words and conceptual markers a writer puts on the page arise from thoughts and perceptions and interpretations rooted in our experiences and knowledge and assu...

Now that the "I don't want politics in my science fiction & fantasy" statement/opinion/complaint has come up (yet again)
I'm reminded that in 2013 I wrote an essay (in defense of world building) titled "The Status Quo Does Not Need Worldbuilding"

reactormag.com/the-status-q...

WANT. 85 minutes of weird stop-motion, perfect.

COURT: Supreme Court of British Columbia, Vancouver Registry DATE FILED: May 23, 2025 A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in Vancouver against Anthropic PBC. The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC violated copyright held by Canadian authors when training its large language models. Specifically, the plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC downloaded “Books3” dataset. This dataset contains large amounts of copyrighted works, including books and articles by Canadian authors. The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC used and unlawfully copied and shared these copyrighted works, and did not license or otherwise obtain permission to do so from the copyright holders. If you have any questions about the case or information that you think may assist our investigation, please contact us by clicking on the contact button or calling the number below. Any communication is strictly confidential. Contact: Oliver Pulleyblank Phone: 604.697.2480 ext. 240

Canadian authors, if you aren't eligible for the US Anthropic lawsuit bc you didn't register US copyright, we have our own class action suit! It doesn't rely on registering copyright and you're included in the class by default 🇨🇦

Sign up for updates here: www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

(I am stealing this for selfish reasons but) This is a MAJOR plot point in my upcoming novel WICKHILLS -- it's understood that you cannot travel between cities in this world. There's trade, but minimal movement otherwise. "Six are the cities in all the known world," the rhyme goes.

Scam alert. I've gotten two very similar reports involving different media properties.

in this book ("the unholy progeny of Anne Rice and Karl Marx--and mother and father are fighting" -Natalie Adler) you get to decide for yourself what's worse: blood-drinkers stalking the streets of Paris, the city under siege, revolution, and massacre...or eternity with the same 14 theatre kids?

Olympic boxer Lin Yu-ting cleared to compete after sex eligibility review Olympic champion Lin Yu-ting has been cleared to return to international competition after World Boxing completed a review of her sex-eligibility status, ​opening the door for her to fight at the Asia...

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting was demonized and harassed because JK Rowling claimed she was male. Her boxing career was disrupted for over a year. Now, she's been cleared to compete as female after further "sex eligibility reviews." This is going to happen again.

www.reuters.com/sports/olymp...

The Molly Southbourne Trilogy In this “enormously vivid” collection of novellas (Locus) from an Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author, Molly Southbourne must fight to survive after her own blood sets off several clones intent on k...

Sale alert! If you like audiobooks, the Molly Southbourne trilogy by @tadethompson.bsky.social is on sale from Chirp for $2.99 USD apparently! (I read and liked the first one, still need to pick up the others.)

www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/t...

I really wish Goodreads would let us block/exclude the ratings of certain accounts. I see accounts that are obviously just review-bombing books by Black or LGBTQ+ authors, and I want to yeet them as the trash they are.

CANADIANS!!!

Please fill this out and share it widely because HOLY SHIT. I struggle to drive on the freeway at night now because of the headlights.

Great book, highly recommended for anyone interested in mythology and Samuel Taylor Coleridge references, or for fans of Diana Wynne Jones.

Four-panel comic from Zach at ExtraFabulous. Panel 1: Mario says, "It's a me" Panel 2: Toad says, "Why do you always say 'it's *a* me'?" Panel 3: Mario (in a room full of Marios floating in strange jars like they're in suspended animation) says "Because I am one of many" Panel 4: Mario (continued from panel 3) says "A single Mario in an endless Mariocean"; Toad's expression is somewhere between nonplussed and horrified

Mario Day, eh?

(comic by @extrafabulous.bsky.social)

ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time.

But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned.

But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives.

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This was always going to be the outcome of using these deeply dubious technologies for anything important.

Both the military people who relied on Claude and the AI company employees profiteering from false promises of miraculous AI abilities belong in jail.

Most Canadians live close to the US border, so the climate difference isn't that significant.

Also, this cold climate theory doesn't explain Australia. The idea that "heterogeneous" demographics are the reason USians don't get along with each other seems fundamentally flawed.

Canada is just as "heterogeneous," and we're on the opposite end of that graph.

Markets don't like chaos. Evil regimes can be worked around, but unpredictability is bad for investment.

I think it's stock market brain.

It’s very hard to pick a single passage to give you a sense of just how fucked up this is.