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ah-riel, she/her. usually on mastodon @arielkroon@wandering.shop. settler scholar on the haldimand tract. one half of @solarpunkpresents.bsky.social. www.arielkroon.ca #academia #spoony #solarpunk

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Still looking, sadly. I desire the unborn but, y'know, ethically.

#CSA #localfood #buylocal #eggs #Farmfresheggs

20.01.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

11.01.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 11203 πŸ” 3609 πŸ’¬ 149 πŸ“Œ 544

Severely underrated comment

22.11.2025 00:34 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My Calvinist ancestors are rolling in their graves because I am considering conversion to Rave Catholicism.

22.11.2025 00:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like if @greatdismal.bsky.social had hung around with the Beat Poets in his youth and it got woven into Neuromancer lol. Not sure what it's a rework of if at all, but it's great.

21.11.2025 17:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man with a beard is asking what can men do against such reckless hate . Alt: ThΓ©oden king asking what can men do against such reckless hate. Gendered, but hey. It's an older kind of English mimicking an even older style of speech reflecting an older understanding of gender and cultural mores. Just substitute "people" in there. We should all get mad and demand change.

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My first thought was of an Atwoodian "Torching the Dusties"-style situation.

21.11.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Graphic advertising Can*Con 2026 Author Guest of Honour Chuck Wendig.

Dates of the convention are 16 to 18 October, 2026.

Graphic advertising Can*Con 2026 Author Guest of Honour Chuck Wendig. Dates of the convention are 16 to 18 October, 2026.

Our final Guest of Honour for 2026 will be author @chuckwendig.bsky.social!

Chuck is a NYT bestselling author, writes games, comics, film and TV, and we are so excited that he will be joining us in the fall!

21.11.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
Graphic advertising Can*Con 2026 Agent Guest of Honour Hana El Niwairi.  

Dates of the con are October 16-18, 2026.

Graphic advertising Can*Con 2026 Agent Guest of Honour Hana El Niwairi. Dates of the con are October 16-18, 2026.

We are very excited to announced that our 2026 Agent Guest of Honour will be @hel-no-wai.bsky.social!

Hana is a Literary Agent and Rights Manager at Cooke McDermid and a co-founder of BIPOC Publishing in Canada.

We are super thrilled that Hana can join us next fall!

20.11.2025 17:55 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Graphic advertising the 2026 Can*Con Editor Guest of Honour, Jen Albert.  Dates of the convention are 16-18 October, 2026.

Graphic advertising the 2026 Can*Con Editor Guest of Honour, Jen Albert. Dates of the convention are 16-18 October, 2026.

We are HYPED to announce that our 2026 Editor Guest of Honour will be @jenralbert.bsky.social - Jen is an acquiring editor at ECW Press, won a British Fantasy Award for her editing work and has been nominated for the Hugo, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Awards.

So excited to have Jen with us next fall!

19.11.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
Poster graphic for 2026 Can*Con Author Guest of Honour tonia laird.

Dates for the convention are October 16-18, 2026.

Poster graphic for 2026 Can*Con Author Guest of Honour tonia laird. Dates for the convention are October 16-18, 2026.

We are EXCITE to be able to announce our Guests of Honour for 2026 this week!

First up is @tonialaird.bsky.social! tonia is a Michif writer from Treaty 6 who does video games, comics, an interactive novel, and her debut novel Seventhblade was released in June from ECW Press.

18.11.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tremendous news. Solidarity forever!

15.11.2025 02:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You know what would be nice? If Canadian identity wasn't defined by hypermsculine white guy from a beer commercial. Just a thought.

12.11.2025 12:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No you know what people who will say things like "I use ChatGPT to DO MY JOB" with their whole ass SHOULD be publicly embarrassed like this

11.11.2025 16:38 πŸ‘ 149 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Expected to see a lot more Guy Fawkes memes and references, perhaps I am showing my age and internet proclivities a little too openly...

#RememberRemember #GuyFawkes #VforVendetta #IYKYK

05.11.2025 14:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay, but now the Terminators will come for all these people first

03.11.2025 00:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And that's without taking into consideration the contemporry issue that most of these cons are held in fascist countries... not keen to travel these days...

03.11.2025 22:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"The solution is going to have to come from everyone else, using every tool at our disposal to push back against an ecocidal agenda driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and too often now, the press."

03.11.2025 22:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The horror :(

03.11.2025 21:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A+ usage of quisling, I am delighted to see this vocab in the wild. ...regardless of the context I suppose

03.11.2025 21:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hi friends. Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica *hard* last month; my neighbour just shared with me that her mother and sister, who were evacuated before landfall, haven't been heard from since :( Melissa devastated her home community of Wakefield, but the ForUsGirls organization is organizing relief […]

02.11.2025 23:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It's Hamilton Days this weekend in Hamilton, and lots of local businesses are participating. We're taking this opportunity to highlight some of our books by Hamilton authors. You can learn more about Hamilton Days here: hamiltonday.ca And these books here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...

31.10.2025 16:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky πŸ’™πŸ“šπŸͺ

21.10.2025 18:42 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 18

Chuffed to have a story in here! (And in Volume One too!)

21.10.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There was a moment. A tiny slice of time, when AI could have been brilliant. We are waaaay past that moment, and people need to realize that no amount of magical thinking will bring us back there...

22.10.2025 18:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thats honestly a horror story in itself. The whole creeping infiltration bit...

22.10.2025 17:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good point. Only exceptions i can think of are creepy child vamp Kirsten Dunst in the Interview movie and Spike (from BtVS)'s mom for like 5 seconds...

22.10.2025 17:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It was lovely to meet you, Arley. Glad to see your con experience was a good one :D

21.10.2025 03:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, and Can*Con is the Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Convention, which was just held in Ottawa. It was a ton of fun, and fully of excellent and kind folks :) their account is @canconsffh.bsky.social and they are pretty active, at least around this time of year.

21.10.2025 03:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

'fit is short for "outfit" :)

21.10.2025 03:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This bus is extremely nice but the seats are just a TINY bit off the ground and there is no footrest in front of me D:

20.10.2025 00:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0