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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've posted an account of my last three months of novel-reading over on dreamwidth. indeed-distract.dreamwidth.org/3312.html

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rivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sweet, strange uncitizens: ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment. archiveofourown.org/works/91618061

The painting "The Moment" by James Warden, with the text "Once I Was Made of Earth" on it by Rivers Solomon. The painting is in the romantic style, quite dramatic and dark in tone if not colour, with a horse rearing with fear in its eyes as a snake launches to bite it, against a back drop of pink and blue mountains.

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Oh yeah, I posted my last-three-months novel-reading report to dreamwidth again. indeed-distract.dreamwidth.org/2918.html

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/04/2026

6/ Prime Minister Carney’s approach is to seed the fund with public money to subsidize big private projects. In other words, Norway uses industry profits to support the public good. Prime Minister Carney’s fund uses public money to support private profits.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

CJ Cherryh has announced retirement, everyone, raise your cups to a legend of the game. Thank you for your service www.facebook.com/groups/Balti...

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I posted my last-three-months novel-reading log over on Dreamwidth. indeed-distract.dreamwidth.org/2632.html

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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Suddenly and inexplicably recovered the will to do comedy articles again, so here’s my first in a while! “No, son. Trogai’ele’uvalill isn’t the magic word. That’s a simple invocation of flame, and as you can see, I dispel it easily by calling the North wind.” www.pointsincase.com/articles/no-...

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No, Son, Rash’kar’lagratar Isn’t the Magic Word

No, son. That is magic as speaking it will hurl back any unclean shades which try to approach you.

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The Parallel Life of Alter Mitty

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Reporters have identified Canadian companies that are supplying Trump’s ICE paramilitaries with armoured vehicles and surveillance technology services. Leaders like Doug Ford have welcomed these contracts. (3/5)

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I've been forgetting to link my novel-reading reports here, but I have continued posting them on Dreamwidth every three months, including just now my final of the year. indeed-distract.dreamwidth.org/2530.html

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Swolesome is tired 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @swolesome.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Canadians (especially cis Canadians), PLEASE take a moment to sign this petition and take action in defence of trans people. It takes less than a minute to sign and verify your signature. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-7027 - Petitions

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Happy Solstice, whichever side of the planet you happen to be on. 🎨1. 'Treasure Ship and Rising Sun' - unknown artist, ca. 1920s. 2. 'Miyajima in the Snow' - Tsuchiya Koitsu, 1937. #JapaneseArt #solstice

A huge orange sun rising over the sea with a small sail boat on the horizon.

The floating torii at Miyajima is framed by snow laden branches and snow is falling.

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Learning for the first time today, in my 40s, that "there was a foreboding and terrible barn" is not the intended resolution of "the horse raced past the barn fell."

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

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Shrub Dryad @shrubdryad.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I would kill for her. I would kill her. Either way what bliss

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Shrub Dryad @shrubdryad.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Here's a poem my friend wrote about masculinizing hormones.

Andar Wärje
New Home

Testosterone has made me softer than
I was before. Those days of holding in--
stopped breath, stuck voice, choked bone-stick, brittle-thin,
my reach an ever-tightening wingspan,
ribs locked, a dim self-hating prison, and
a Bluebeard's cave of murdered selves within.
Those nights, my racing heart like rats would spin
inside my hollow chest walls--how it ran!
Yet quiet now, its frantic claws gone still
as shafts of sunlight beat into its cage.
My breast unfurls like crocus buds part chill
soil after finger; soft, thick fur like sage-
brush pelts down hills to wide wet lakes that fill
with snow-melt. Old ice flows to a new age.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 14/11/2025

not to always be the "there's always a perfect John k Samson Fellows song for how I'm feeling right now" person, but also youtu.be/E-z9djgthqE?...

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John K. Samson - "Fantasy Baseball At The End Of The World"

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Something I think about kind of a lot is the time on an old poker TV show when the best hand lost to a bad river card and Doyle Brunson sagely intoned, "That's why they call it poker, boys."

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allsee @allsees.online · 28/09/2025

everyone should checkout Messenger by Abeto. it's a free browser game where ur just a little delivery kid on a little planet! messenger.abeto.co

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 17/09/2025

There are only two kinds of serious writers/readers of SFF today: those who ferociously love the work of Kai Ashante Wilson and want to see a great deal more of it in the world, and those who have not yet read him. Good news, everyone! www.patreon.com/posts/introd...

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introductory post | Kai Ashante Wilson

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 19/08/2025

The torment nexus meme is misleading in that it suggests that our technoligarchs are capable of actually building anything. All that happens is that they use old sfnal concepts as a shared language—that old sensawunda, now bottled—for marketing their quite ordinary torment products

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

*become ungovernable voice* Become inconsolable.

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

"Until other, more complete tablets are found that record the same myth, scholars may never know whether the fox successfully completed its mission." This feels unnecessarily credulous about narrative tension. It probably did! What's missing is the details of how.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 10/07/2025

I’m not attending Worldcon this year & everything seems to be a mess but this is so mind-bendingly bad on so many levels that I think it’s worth unpacking while I’m in the no-space of airports

Screenshot of Worldcon 2025 panel description reads as follows:

Strong Woman Lead # LGBTQIA+
Culture/DEl
Room 420-422, 9-10 a.m.
Have you ever walked into a bookshop and asked for books with strong women leads?
Perhaps you've requested that love not be a major plot point? Has the staff excitedly passed you half a dozen books that, though good, have a bit of a repeating theme? Here we ask the question: Why do authors/bookshops assume the only way to have a strong woman lead is to make them gay with a woman love interest and prevent men characters from rising over the background? Isn't it possible to have a book with strong women and men characters in it and not have them fall in love?

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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Canada must re-examine Safe Third Country Agreement w/U.S. How can we call U.S “safe” for asylum seekers? We should reassess Canada-U.S. refugee policy, Protect affected families, Defend human rights. The travel ban took effect June 9, 2025. Canada must not remain silent. 3/ #HumanRights

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yeah @colatime.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

they did it yay!

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Good luck, Canadians (and anyone else whose wellbeing may be impacted by this election).

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Every once in a while I quietly hallucinate the taste of a combo B from the Vietnamese food court place in Lonsdale Quay circa 2000 or so. A comfort meal I have never found even an approximate replacement for.

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Dr. U. Whitcher (U. is for Bear) @yarntheory.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I want to talk about nonbinary gender in North Continent Ribbon! (1/n)

The cover of North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher (art by Danielle Taphanel) shows a woman with a long braid looking at a space elevator rising amid mountains. The background shows a blurred portion of the same image.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 02/02/2025

As long as people are wishing for things, I think a good step for the Canadian government to take would be to introduce some kind of policy of specially allowed entry and/or asylum for transgender U.S. citizens who are being denied passports and are therefore effectively trapped in the country

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I wish ill on ___ @monicarooney.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Momentum Canada has a petition calling on the GoC to recognize that the US is no longer a "safe third country", to update travel guidance to the US and create a clear and accessible pathway for trans refugees. Please join me in signing. #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Sign the petition: Canada must update travel guidance and create clear, accessible pathways for trans refugees

Sign the petition: Sign the petition: Canada must update travel guidance and create clear, accessible pathways for trans refugees

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I made this in response to a joke that it turned out I had misunderstood, but I'm sure it will be relevant to something eventually.

Garfield the cat looks at a sign with a crossed out image of historical US President James A. Garfield. "Huh. I wonder who that's for," says the cat.

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is a fantastic thread and I’d like to note something about it, going back to my earlier thread— Courtney is vividly describing a type of care system. One I’d define more specifically as a CARE HIERARCHY. Part of caring is tolerating discomfort so others can feel better. 🧵

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I've put up my last-of-2024 novel-reading log on dreamwidth. indeed-distract.dreamwidth.org/1255.html

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mcc @dryad.technology · 14/12/2024

Bluesky is looking down the same thing with Singal and Kiwifarms. By gifting Kiwifarms a respectable, centralized organization point that won't get banned as long as it follows easily gameable rules, Bluesky is making Kiwifarms its new effective moderation staff.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Solidarity with all trans brothers and sisters today. That your future is yours is cold comfort when the state has you targeted but for whatever it’s worth we stand with you

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This is something I think about a lot because it's instructive about the nature of different kinds of conflict. A conflict of ideas can theoretically be won with argumentation. A conflict of power and will cannot. Progressives often mistake the second for the first.

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Cameron Reed (she|they) @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Here are the opening paragraphs of my just-announced novel, WHAT WE ARE SEEKING. "On the Free Ship _Edgar’s Folly_, traveling away from Essius at ninety-nine one hundredths of the speed of light, it was the last day of summer...."

On the Free Ship Edgar’s Folly, traveling away from Essius at ninety-nine one hundredths of the speed of light, it was the last day of summer.

Tomorrow the ship’s engines would begin to sing, and everything that floated now would fall. The aft walls would become floors. Corridors would be converted back to elevator shafts, and where now the ship-folk glided freely back and forward through the air, they would be carried down and up in closed chambers. The informality of summer would give way to rank and hierarchy, bright clothes would be exchanged for uniforms; and on the old bridge, after the harvest feast, the summer captain would be laid to rest beneath the stars.

Winter was coming early, and it would be a hard one: brief days at the gravity of lost Earth, long nights at twice as much. A message had come in, that was what everyone said; the ship would slow down just enough to send rescue. It was, they said, unprecedented. But if the sudden change of seasons had unsettled them, they were too busy to let it show. In one day the life of the ship, that had expanded into three dimensions in the summer, had to be compressed back into two. The toolbox fastened by a thin strip of elastic to a wall, the winter cookware webbed into a forward corner, the fish tank held by magnets to what soon would be a ceiling, each had to find a place where winter’s gravity would let it rest. And, from all the hidden spaces of the ship where they were kept, the parts of beds were being brought out: beams of metal and planks of wood, and what the ship called mattresses—which did not mean cloth made fat with moss or windweed silk, but great deflated bladders to be filled with water as a cushion against gravity. The comfort of beds was an intense preoccupation with them, for those who stayed awake in summer felt the winter in their bones.

John Maraintha, who had been summoned to attend the captain and did not know why, kept to the edges and moved slowly. He had thought the ship’s ventral corridor, being widest, would be his easiest way to the old bridge, but now he realized his mistake: this was tomorrow’s cargo elevator, and everything unwieldy had to come through here. Up and down the shaft as far as he could see, ship-folk guiding or towing their burdens launched themselves on long diagonals, missing each other by instinct and the imperceptible communication of the space-born. They could all see each other’s next move in the set of a hand on a guide track, the tension in a leg or shoulder. John, not fluent in that language, could only try to make his path predictable. He clutched his bag tight, wondering if he should have left it behind. Nothing could make it practical in summer—it would not hang from his shoulder properly, and he had to bind it to him with a piece of borrowed netting, making a cumbersome mass above his hip. But he might need the medicines contained in it, and he liked to keep it with him, the only thing he had from home that mattered. The bag’s body was only waxed canvas, but the strap was a length of his great-uncle’s soul.

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

End the Safe Third Country Agreement.

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

(jack skellington voice) I see you've played Halloweeny-Spoony before.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/10/2024

Canada, meanwhile, has no high-speed rail at all, despite fully half the population already obligingly arranging itself IN A STRAIGHT LINE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_...

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Quebec City–Windsor Corridor - Wikipedia

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

This is an old favorite that I still think about, especially in these autumnal vibe shift days. It took me years and multiple redrafts to get it right, and it's weird and kinda horny and confused everyone in my writing workshop. liminalstoriesmag.com/issue4/presq...

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Presque Vu — Liminal Stories

Presque Vu is a short story by Nino Cipri, published in the fourth issue of Liminal Stories in October 2017.

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

No Kickstarter updates today. Only #freepalestine. See our statement below. We invite fellow mags to join us, and acknowledge we referenced the work of @strangehorizons.bsky.social, Room Magazine, & @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social when writing our earlier statements.

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Andy H. @indeeddistract.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

I've posted the report of my last three months' novel reading on Dreamwidth (RIP cohost):

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