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Canadian Publishers Condemn Alberta’s Proposed Restrictions on Public Library Materials - Association of Canadian Publishers

Canadian publishers strongly condemn the proposed book restrictions in @albertagov.bsky.social's Bill 28, which undermine the core principles of public libraries: open access to information, intellectual freedom, & trust in professional expertise. publishers.ca/statement-al... @lpgcanada.bsky.social

Cedar is a big brindle mutt. He's lying on his dog bed surrounded by stuffies, a Kong, and a rope toy. His cheek is resting on a stuffed gorilla that is smooshed on top of a stuffed tiger.

Cedar really knows about keeping his friends close.

As foretold 🪶🇨🇦

Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them. Last week, I wrote about catching a supply chain attack on a WordPress plugin called Widget Logic. A trusted name, acquired by a new owner, turned into

Someone bought 30 #WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them. Check the list to see if your site is running any of these (couple of sliders, timelines and accordions, featured post widgets). One of the many reasons I run only a very small number of plugins on my clients' sites.

A propos of whatever, yesterday I paid $70 to put 33.5 litres of gas in the car and I was half horrified by far more than the cost and half wondering if our old car being totalled 18 months ago was supernatural intervention leading us to now have a hybrid vehicle

Screenshot Lucavi @lucavi_ftw good news everyone SPACE com Potatoes are better than human blood for making space concrete bricks, scientists say.

Were

Were those the only two options

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

was once New Amsterdam.

Obladi Oblada—I sing along to drown out the original

Evanescence, "Bring Me to Life" Grr.

What's a song you hate that you can't help but sing along to when it comes on?

"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant." Brendar and Eddie, man. I hate it and I cannot stop myself.

It's a very good case study in the unpredictability of book publishing, in all the best of ways. Including that I thought a different book we released last fall would be the big seller 😂

Your wife's very good book has had more copies printed than all of Nine Ten's other books combined.

Math for Knitters: About the 3rd Printing Bit more book-nerdy content here, all about the third printing of MATH FOR KNITTERS, by Kate Atherley. (How can you tell if your copy is from the third print...

Bit more book-nerdy content here, all about the third printing of MATH FOR KNITTERS, by @kateatherley.bsky.social. (How can you tell if your copy is from the third printing? Funny you should ask! Here's a wee video all about it!)

Look. I don't always use the Oxford comma and I don't think it's always needed. UNLESS IT IS.

It's a synagogue-hosted group, so there's also that.

We read Jewish romance novels.

Some books spark really deep and meaningful conversations about representation, inclusion, acceptance. We talk about loves, divorces, living different places. Mostly, we build on the relationships we've been forming over years.

Anyway, @roxanegay.bsky.social's essay about book clubs made me smile.

I joke, but I'm mostly serious, that one of the best choices I've made was to join a Jewish romance bookclub. Our group spans 40 years in age, and has the. best. time. Often, we all hate the book. Sometimes we love it. This week I argued with my bestie about Twilight to the delight of the others.

This is very much one of those “see how it sounds if you apply it to any other group” things.

I’m British, but no one asks me to repudiate the Empire or condemn Britain’s actions in Ireland before my voice can be heard on anything else.

So many thoughtful details on this mission. Chokes me up every time!

When you think about it, Artemis II is really the ultimate "just circling back!"

It's lovely!

Wake up, kids
We got the dreamers disease.

‘Radical’ comes from a Latin word meaning "root."

Because roots are the deepest part of a plant, ‘radical’ came to describe things understood as fundamental or essential.

‘Radical change’ was a change at the root of a system.

Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume 4 Award winners. Award nominees. Hidden gems. All Canadian. All in one anthology.

It's live! IT'S LIVE! The Kickstarter for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF: Volume Four is now LIVE! Award-winning series, best of 2025, and (with your help) the biggest volume yet. Can you back early enough to land The Canucklehead tier and get to choose the dedication for the book??

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Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks, sitting in a diner in an overcoat, raising a cup of coffee and smiling, saying “Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee.”

Guys, I love so many of you. Today of all days, I suggest you take Agent Dale Cooper’s advice - advice that sounds suspiciously like it came from the lips of David Lynch himself. Give yourself a present today. After all, tomorrow could be even less normal than today. Love y’all.

Apple News alert that reads: “Why more Gen Z men are turning to Catholicism, a favorite design trend that makes homes harder to sell, and more popular reads.”

I do feel like a semicolon might’ve been helpful

Comic. [Teacher with shoulder-length light hair talking to two students seated at desks.] TEACHER: *Grammar* is one of the most popular ways to structure a language, ahead of rival methods such as *WORDS ORDER WORDS RANDOM WORDS WORDS RANDOM GOOD* and *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*.

Grammar

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