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Candas Jane Dorsey @cjdwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It was fun to launch the book tonight to a cool crowd who asked great questions!

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ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Edmonton) In 2030 @edmontonin2030.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@cjdwriter.bsky.social is a huge supporter of our bid, and we're a huge supporter of her excellent work.

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Candas Jane Dorsey @cjdwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You are cool tho! We are all cool! It was great fun.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 30/08/2026

I'M SO COOL (I am not cool) (but the @edmontonin2030.bsky.social bid party at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social was VERY COOL and I got to hang out with fronds Judy and Candas!)

me (a brown woman with black hair, glasses, and a colourful worldcon bid t-shirt) looking extremely cool, next to renowned author candas jane dorsey, in a light blue jean jacket over a black and white shirt, and next to judy lin, also renowned author, in a black and white sleeveless dress. the big edmonton in 2030 worldcon banner is behind us and behind that is some bookshelves, as we are at audreys books.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 27/08/2026

⚡️US intel links explosive drone found at German airport to Russia's military intelligence. The drone's structure and explosives were "typical" of those used by Russia's GRU, U.S. intelligence officials told ABC News.

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US intel links explosive drone found at German airport to Russia's military intelligence

The drone's structure and explosives were "typical" of those used by Russia's GRU, U.S. intelligence officials told ABC News.

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Craig 🌎 🛩️ 💙🇨🇦 @bigdaddykreativ.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Canada's largest ice cream company used to source its fruits and nuts from U.S. suppliers — some for over 30 YEARS. Then, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products. So, what did Chapman's do? They called Italy. They called Spain. They signed multi-year contracts with European suppliers.

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Candas Jane Dorsey @cjdwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's here it's here! After much wandering in the wilderness, my new book AT THE FREAK SHOW from UofC Press's Brave and Brilliant Series. (press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...). Official launch September 22 at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social Edmonton!

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Candas Jane Dorsey @cjdwriter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Given that anthropologists are totally happy to generalize about species based on only male samples (or on Lucy, ONE skull) I don't see why this would be an issue. (I mean ffs, if it bothers anyone, sexist much?)

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Icelandic authorities just rerouted a planned hot water pipeline so as not to disturb an elf hill.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

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Candas Jane Dorsey @cjdwriter.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Just rereading @pameladean.bsky.social (all, ending with Tam Lin) & remembering what a brilliant writer Pamela is! Tam Lin also makes me realise what a poor education I had. Would have loved a small Midwestern liberal arts college...alas, my local uni was Not That. Pamela, thanks, you're brilliant!

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

On International Women’s Day it’s great to remember that Grunya Sukhareva identified Autism before Kenner (100 years ago), identified that Autism presented regardless of sex, and that it is a spectrum. Examples from Wikipedia:

A 12-year-old who had taught himself to read at age five. He was physically awkward and preferred talking to adults instead of children. He was very interested in philosophy.
• A gifted violinist who struggled socially.
• A child with exceptional memory of numbers but with face
blindness.
• A child who had imaginary friends that lived in a fireplace.

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Candas Jane Dorsey @cjdwriter.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

True and very hard to hear. And I live in a part of Canada where the provincial government is trying to emulate it: we call it mapleMAGA. Invasion by the US is also possible there daysn a scary prospect. Same questions have occurred to me. How would we conduct the Resistance if we had to?

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Anyhow. This year's Hugo Awards is the last chance to nominate On Spec for Best Semiprozine. Here's what @derekkunsken.bsky.social had to say: "Before On Spec sent me my very first acceptance, I felt like an aspiring writer. After that acceptance, I felt like I'd become something new." 3/X

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

On Spec has done great work over the past 35 years. Featured great authors like @julieczerneda.bsky.social, Cory Doctorow, Peter Watts, @karlschroeder.bsky.social, @cjdwriter.bsky.social, @robertjsawyer.com, @derekkunsken.bsky.social, Dave Duncan, Fiona Moore, Michèle Laframboise, & WP Kinsella 2/

On Spec 133 - features Diane Walton and Elis Montgomery. Cover shows ragged robots who are vandalizing a brick wall.

On Spec Fall 1990. Features an alien underwater on the cover.

On Spec, Spring 1997. Shuttle flying over a puzzleboard earth.

Stories include David Nickle, and Peter Watts.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026

that the Trump administration is trying to shut down a leading AI company because it’s unwilling to develop autonomous murder systems is terrifying, and should be of grave concern to everyone in the world

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 08/03/2026

10/10 take. no notes

teewatterss on Threads:
“losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 08/03/2026

Listen. This is true.

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 08/03/2026

Anyone supporting the U.S. and Israel in this war is supporting ecological destruction, along with bombing of schools and hospitals. You don’t get to pick and choose what parts of war you support.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

If 176 children were slaughtered in their classrooms in Dublin, Brussels, Berlin, Tel Aviv or Texas by a foreign adversary, the world would rightfully be at a standstill. - Shona Murray www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... @shonamurray.bsky.social

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Shona Murray: Powerful countries no longer bother with international norms

Europe appears to have accepted the law of the jungle supplanted by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, writes Shona Murray

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 08/03/2026

I am staying off Bluesky but I understand that it's because it's the world and these evil people and no fucking protagonists No protagonist is coming. Nobody is going to show up and save us. Superheroes aren't real. Chosen ones aren't real. We are it, baby,

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Candas Jane Dorsey @cjdwriter.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Message of the day (if not of the year)!

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Going to re-up our call to nominate On Spec for Best Semiprozine at the Hugos With Canadian identity under attack by USA-based alt-right political forces, it's an important moment to celebrate things that are weirdly Canadian This is also their last year of eligibility. Throw them a vote, please.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We urge all our friends in the Worldcon community to consider nominating On Spec for the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award, and to consider nominating Diane Walton for Best Editor - Short Form. They've done great work for 35 years. New blog post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

On Spec 129 features a cyborg whale. Works by Julie Czerneda, Marie Bennan, Cat Isidore, Alex Langer, Fiona Moore and more.

On Spec 134 features a druid on the cover. Works by Fiona Heath, Stephen Kotowych, Marie Labrousse, Ian Li and more.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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anakhari.bsky.social @anakhari.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Here comes Trump's vindictiveness and interventionism. Canadians everywhere and Albertans in particular should have no illusions about the Alberta separation movement. It is funded and supported from abroad in order to destroy Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Trump cabinet member weighs in on Alberta separatism | CBC News

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent commented Thursday on the separatist movement in Alberta — making him the highest-ranking member of the Trump administration to weigh in on the province's politic...

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C. J. Lavigne @cjlavigne.com · 16/01/2026

Now is the time to register or renew for your CSFFA membership -- it's only ten bucks. :)

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 16/01/2026

This book club (covering every Aurora Best Novel winner) is ambitious and cool!

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Candas Jane Dorsey @cjdwriter.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This is going to be just so great. Phyllis was a goddess...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

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COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France

This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...

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Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association @csffa.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Please find an announcement from us on the tragic passing of our friend and fellow board member, Jean-Louis Trudel. mailchi.mp/csffa/in-mem...

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Jean-Louis Trudel, 1967-2025

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Candas Jane Dorsey @cjdwriter.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Gonna be fun to talk about Phyllis and her work at the inaugural Aurora Book Club January 22 2026!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Anne Boyer's "What Resembles The Grave But Isn't" is tattooed across my soul. "This is not your grave, get out of this hole." billmoyers.com/story/poetry...

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Poetry Month: WHAT RESEMBLES THE GRAVE BUT ISN’T - BillMoyers

Always falling into a hole, then saying “ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of the hole which is not the grave...

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This only happens to you once

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It does not escape me that those of us who have been saying it was a genocide, since early days, are also the ones who correctly called what is happening here fascism, since early days. Things are pretty obvious if you are willing to look.

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guysindisguise.bsky.social @guysindisguise.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

BEST TITLE AT #yegfringe: Tonight I saw Celia Taylor’s play “Cult of the Clitoris” - great fun, great cast, and I learned some #Lgbtq History!

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Canada Hardcover 🇨🇦 @canadahardcover.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

👇🇨🇦👇🇨🇦👇

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Candas Jane Dorsey @cjdwriter.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Good question...kinda obvious tho...

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 31/07/2025

By the way I hope I will see my fellow Edmontonian horror fans at the signing for THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT -- please note our illustrious city of CANADA 😂 I will be in conversation with @cjdwriter.bsky.social at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social 7 pm Aug 19!

One Book. One Day. Thirteen Cities. Thirty-Six Authors.

Come and celebrate the global launch of THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT: NEW TALES OF STEPHEN KING’S THE STAND at one of our many events across the US, Canada, and UK. Authors will discuss their stories and contributions and sign copies of the book.

Get your tickets to one of the events today!

ALL EVENTS HAPPENING ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2025 in the following cities:

Houston, TX
Joe R. Lansdale and Bev Vincent
6:30 PM CT @ MURDER BY THE BOOK 
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Brooklyn, NY
Alex Segura, Nat Cassidy, Wayne Brady, & Maurice Broaddus 
7:00 PM ET @ BOOKS ARE MAGIC 
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Columbia, PA
Brian Keene, Alma Katsu, Somer Canon, Chuck Wendig, Richard Chizmar, Ronald Malfi, & Bryan Smith 
5:00 PM ET @ VORTEX BOOKS & COMICS  
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Los Angeles, CA
Caroline Kepnes, Catriona Ward, Sarah Langan, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, & David J. Schow 
7:00 PM PT @ SKYLIGHT BOOKS 
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Austin, TX
Gabino Iglesias, Wrath James White, Meg Gardiner, & C. Robert Cargill 
7:00 PM CT @ BOOKPEOPLE 
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Beverly, MA
Christopher Golden, Paul Tremblay, & Rio Youers 
7:00 PM ET @ COPPER DOG BOOKS 

Frederick, MD
Hailey Piper in conversation with Jessica McHugh 
6:00 PM ET @ CURIOUS IGUANA  
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Detroit, MI
Josh Malerman & Jonathan Janz 
TIME TBA @ LOCATION TBA via THE BOOK BEAT 

Bismarck, ND
Usman T. Malik
6:30 PM CT @ BARNES & NOBLE
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Bangor, ME
Michael Koryta & Catherynne M. Valente
6:00 PM ET @ THE BRIAR PATCH 
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Chicago, IL 
Cynthia Pelayo
7:00 PM CT @ BUCKET O'BLOOD BOOKS AND RECORDS 
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Edmonton, Canada
Premee Mohamed in conversation with Candas Jane Dorsey
7:00 MT @ AUDREYS BOOKS 
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London, UK
Tim Lebbon & V. Castro
5:30 BST @ FORBIDDEN PLANET

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/04/2025

It is INDEED PROPHESIZED and actually our event (in conversation with the illustrious @cjdwriter.bsky.social ) is already up on the @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social site! 😍 audreys.ca/events/25540...

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Book Launch with Premee Mohammed

Edmonton's Oldest Independent Bookstore selling new books for adults and children

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Everett @everetthorner.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

If you are part of the #Edmonton community please take and share this survey from #BoyleStreet: di.legeropinion.com/survey/selfs...

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Survey

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Candas Jane Dorsey @cjdwriter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This conversation with the one-and-only @premeemohamed.com is gonna be great!!

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