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Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Join us on April 15 for the #GillerBookClub with authors @amandaleduc.bsky.social and Paola Ferrante. They will discuss Amanda's 2025 #GillerPrize longlisted novel, WILD LIFE. This virtual event is free to attend! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CravingCanLit #CanLit

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Remember that you are more likely to become disabled than not. You can be disabled by illness, injury, climate disasters, war, police brutality, unmitigated pandemics, lack of access to healthcare, etc. Disability justice is for us all, and it’s foundational to all other forms of justice.

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Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

#PLR DAY! I love PLR Day! Thank you thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts!!

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

On Mike Birbiglia's podcast, he talked about realizing he was wrong for 99% of roles, not because of what he did but because he wasn't what the director was seeking. You have to keep doing your thing the best you can until the right person sees it. I think that's close to the whole game in the arts.

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Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Really love having to make retroactive tense changes when I am 40,000 words into a project. Really, REALLY love it. 😒

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Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Just over here wondering how many other Canadian writers are now secretly, desperately, hopelessly fantasizing about Jacob Tierney sliding into their DMs with an adaptation request. 😭🤞😜

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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Heather J. Witchy🧙 Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

It's #BannedBooksWeek in the US. Canadian Freedom to Read Week is in February but we should all be vigilant about the threats to reading and access to information today and everyday.❤️📚

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Since 2020, disabled people have been pointing out the rising ease with ableist rhetoric/language, the comfort with which so many people used the r word, the number of people willing to abandon disabled people for some notion of the "normal." All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.

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Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Disabled friends! I am thrilled to be overseeing @fiddlehd.bsky.social's Summer 2026 issue--DISABILITY: THE REVOLUTION. Our theme is REVOLUTION and you can interpret that as widely as you like. If you identify as disabled and want to answer this call, please submit! thefiddlehead.ca/revolution

[Image description: White text against a purple background: The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada's Literary Journal. Disability: The Revolution. The Fiddlehead's Summer 2026 Special Issue. Call for Submissions from Disabled Writers: Deadline November 30, 2025.]

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

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The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

hey @mark-carney.bsky.social ; Canada Post should be deemed essential service; every strike affects businesses across the country who rely on it to run smoothly; some of us lose business every time a strike, a shut-down, a delay; im already losing due to US tariff nonsense, we dont need this worse,

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Acetaminophen doesn't cause autism AND pregnant people should have access to safe pain/fever relief AND autistic people should exist I can't believe we have to say things like this in 2025

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

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Cupid's Molotov @cupidsmolotov.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

This is unironically a lot worse than Jimmy Kimmel but you won't see 1/1000 of the outrage

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Present Tense
by Todd Dillard

My father’s telling me about his dog,
how it fell into a well
when they were walking down a wooded path.
His dog ran across some rotted planks,
the planks splintered, “And whoosh!”
my father says. “No more dog.”
I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M.
“I’m not finished,” he says.
He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket,
how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down,
and yelled for the dog to get in.
“But all I pulled up was more barking.”
“Dad,” I say. “This never happened.”
He says he can’t remember
how long he tried to get the dog
to shimmy into the bucket.
Just that at some point
when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“
as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“
he decided to give up.
“Dad,” I say. “It’s late.
I’m tired. And you’re dead.”
“Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!”
My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt
and pouring the dirt into the well.
And I know what he’s getting at, I know
he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket
he filled the well and
the dog jumped out. He’s going to say
something about how the dog
led him home through the dark.
I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.
“Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?”
I keep lowering the bucket
but all I ever pull up are leaves.
Red leaves. Lately, some gold.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools | CBC News

A list confirmed by CBC News shows titles like The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are among books to be pulled. The development comes after a policy from Alberta's education minister outlines new...

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

support the humanities

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Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Happy #NationalDogDay from yours truly and the Dog of Doom!

Husky with a white face and big black nose resting her head on her human’s lap.

Black and white husky stretching out on a wooden deck in the sunshine.

Black and white husky lies snuggled up on the couch, looking adoringly up at her human.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Plainly, the people mad about the work required to write well and make great art who are justifying various artificial intelligence tools as shortcuts to that creative process don't value the labor inherent to it.

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JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Again not a fan of sharing this website as a link, but if it means just one of you picking up this book (from your local indie bookseller) it’s worth it. Such an incredible book and a magical reading experience. @amandaleduc.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Alison Gadsby's review of Wild Life

5/5: Amanda Leduc’s WILD LIFE is a novel that will be experienced differently by every reader. We're traveling on this planet together, but we’re not walking the same path. we each have views about gr...

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Every day, I am reminded that I live in a society that will believe absolutely anything about a woman to ignore the obvious about men.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2025

my view is that everyone should be able to earn a living wage doing whatever it is they like. if you love working in a bookshop, you should be able to live a comfortable life doing so. if you loving being a barista, the same. and if you want to do more traditional blue collar work, that’s cool too!

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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

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Peggy Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Okay, here are some reality checks about Canadian book sales and what Canadian authors actually earn. The only way to keep them writing is to buy their books or urge your library to add them to their collection. 1

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Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The “delete” key on my computer just broke. This is either a catastrophe or the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. Not sure which yet.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/06/2025

I frequently take comfort in the fact that the Universe is vast and beautiful and entirely unaffected by petty human foolishness

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It’s not just that the President of the United States has announced on social media that the US has bombed Iran, it’s that the President of the United States bombed Iran so that he could announce it on social media.

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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

A flyby of Earth from the International Space Station. Credits: NASA

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Sen. Tammy Duckworth just said on Colbert, "We should all live long enough to develop a disability," & the audience laughed uncomfortably. I can tell you what they were thinking. It was "Not me. That would never happen to me." & the underlying, unacknowlged premise was "b/c I'm better than that."

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Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Five hundred more words today—woot woot! 🎉

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Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Five hundred words today, which feels like nothing and yet is five hundred more than I’ve managed in months. YAY. 🎉

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 10/06/2025

Doing our part for AI training.

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OCUL @ocul-libraries.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

There's still time to register for the free Accessibility Symposium 2.0, hosted by the OCUL Accessibility Community. Featuring a keynote from @amandaleduc.bsky.social, join this June 17-19 virtual event to explore topics shaping accessibility in academic libraries. Registration: oculsp.ca/bu8k2

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 06/06/2025

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 02/06/2025

Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

A sign in the background says New Hope church, God says homosexuality is in. In the foreground there are two men smiling holding the letter s that they've taken from the sign

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 02/06/2025

People still think that evil people know they're evil. They don't. Evil people think they are doing good things. They just define "good" differently. No one ever thinks they have malign intent.

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