Reposted by Jes BattisHeather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026More good early modern whales 1126
Reposted by Jes BattisOTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We are now OPEN to submissions of speculative fiction + poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors! Submissions are limited to trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors from October 1-7. If that's you, send us your work! This issue's theme is exploration. We'll be open to all 2SLGBTQIA+ authors from October 8-21!othersidespec.comSubmission Guidelines - OTHERSIDESubmission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit. 03840
Reposted by Jes BattisTanya Huff @tanyahuff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today's word is TREAT. Today's #BookQW is from Direct Descendant (DAW Books 2025) a contemporary fantasy taking place just west of Timmins, ON, where small town values are subject to variable definitions but all the dogs are still good dogs. Available in pb, audio, & digital. Shop indie if you can. 0196
Reposted by Jes BattisJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119114572846
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Does anyone know who the opener will be for the Erasure concerts in Germany? 010
Reposted by Jes BattisNalo Hopkinson - Jamaica Ginger & Other Concoctions @nalohop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Help save "Room" (Canada's oldest feminist lit magazine), especially if you'd like to see new fiction from me in their next issue. But mostly do it because they rock, and they're important: roommagazine.com/whats-new/an...roommagazine.comSave Room Magazine: A Fundraiser - ROOM MagazineSAVE ROOM MAGAZINE: A FUNDRAISER Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary magazine, running since 1975. For over 50 years, our small nonprofit has carved out a space in Canadian literary publishing w... 02719
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What are some good tips for sabotaging the massive AI data centre being built in Saskatchewan? Asking for a friend. 😉😉😉 051
Reposted by Jes BattisNight of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Your company has an LGBT group? You mean Transgender For Workplaces? 311222
Reposted by Jes BattisJess 💖 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit! 231630348
Reposted by Jes Battis404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 17497222
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Listening to KMFDM after reading about medieval musical is highly on brand for me 071
Reposted by Jes BattisCentre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Would you like to join the University of Edinburgh Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies mailing list? 📩 Just pop an email to Mike Carr and Kate Ash-Irisarri mike.carr@ed.ac.uk and k.ash-irisarri@ed.ac.uk 12311
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I want to develop a course on fantasy and the nonhuman. What are your favorite texts, novels, poems, about the nonhuman, from the medieval era to the present? Animals, things, forces, armor, stained glass, spirits, weather, monsters, the elements—all that good living stuff. 121911
Reposted by Jes BattisRyan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My new book Ace Theory arrived on my doorstep yesterday, just starting to make its way into the world. It’s a book-length essay in fragments about asexuality and compulsory sexuality. I hope you’ll give it a look. 23920
Reposted by Jes BattisThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yes this is bad for democracy But it’s really bad for Star Trek 30620117
Reposted by Jes BattisKrystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 21/09/2026Pre-order this brilliance from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app here: bookshop.org/p/books/deep...bookshop.orgDeep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech IdealistTimnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—delivering an inspiring vision for better, human-centered, eq... 033
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Me in college: can’t wait to become a professor and live the life of the mind Me now: hears the Outlook notification in my dreams and terrified of opening up my inbox because there are so many calendar invites 3241
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The AI academic jobs—pretty much the only jobs appearing right now in academia—just confirm that universities change with the economic winds. They will shift policies to snatch money wherever they can, because governments force them to compete in an impossible market, at the expense of students. 1437
Reposted by Jes BattisQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/09/2026*person finishing PhD perusing job postings*: Let's see, History of AI at Rice, Political Science and AI at BU, Governance and AI at Northeastern, Government and AI at Hopkins... 1825234
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026TWUC parliamentary petition for radical transparency on AI www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...ourcommons.caPetition e-7774 - Petitions 022
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’m enjoying Final Space but wondering if Gary ever becomes…less Gary? Every other character is fascinating. Is every episode from his POV? Because that will become a lot very quickly. 000
Reposted by Jes BattisRetro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026RealPlayer is buffering 1432965
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My bf pointed out that there’s a character genre called panicky straight guy and now I can’t stop seeing it 080
Reposted by Jes BattisGuy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Have been thinking a LOT about this outright theft. Context is news scraping but AI has stolen from so many authors, too. And in Anthropic suit writers are now jumping through hoops to get 50% (less legal %!) of what *might* be $3000 a title. For AI it is a pittance. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...arstechnica.comMicrosoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs. 24411
Reposted by Jes BattisDark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 20/09/2026Reminder: Usagi Yojimbo: Kaitō '84 releases in a paperback and limited edition hardcover on November 24th! Pre-order: bit.ly/3SweGeJ Osaka, 1984. The spirit of Miyamoto Usagi lives on—not in a ronin, but in a thief! By @comicnerd1988.bsky.social & @jaredcullum.bsky.social 0478
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026September in Saskatchewan and winter is getting closer, but we still have sunny days for Old English poetry. 080
Reposted by Jes BattisKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A second post-Bond cunty dandy role has hit Daniel Craig 220417
Reposted by Jes BattisSean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Look, folks, the publishers keep trying to drive this wedge, because they remain pissed we loan things out for free, because some corporate idiot thinks each loan is a lost sale, and it does not work that way at all. 2144
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Bleak reminder that we used to see hundreds of academic jobs in the humanities posted every year at this time. Now there are maybe 3 tenure-track English lit jobs in all of Canada. AI is only further devaluing the arts in ways that are decimating how we teach and secure future positions. 05711
Reposted by Jes BattisDr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026...Ley a lef, stalke, or rote þerof wher þu wilt, & do it awey, & þey schulle lykkyn þer it lay; & comenly cattys conseyue noʒt til þey haue it, or by wynd or by eyr”. Translation: Cats absolutely love [catnip], so much that they howl while in it, eating it off the ground if there is a lot of it... 2103
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Her work has been so important to me—especially her books on writing and her creative nonfiction. 050
Reposted by Jes BattisMatt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is crushing news. Dillard is so incredibly important to me, as both a person and a writer. I’m so insanely grateful to her for her body of work.nytimes.comAnnie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81 (Gift Article)Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil. 310619
Reposted by Jes Battis🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Trying to decide how much room to leave for handwritten responses is tricky but we are gonna preserve critical thinking if we have to bring back feather quills to do it idc 1523
Reposted by Jes BattisJohn Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A classic of pulp mags is being relaunched with a new but vintage style cover. And it has me in it, and I'm vintage too. Has reprints and new stuff, for first issue. @adambolivar.bsky.socialkickstarter.comComing soon: Strange TalesThe premier in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. 23923
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...tpl.bibliocommons.comDisability, eh? Books by Canadians with Disabilities — a staff-created list from Toronto Public LibraryDiscover recent books by Canadian creators with disabilities. National AccessAbility Week is celebrated every year starting on the last Sunday in May. 0124
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...reviewcanada.caBeyond the Goblin City | A review of “It’s Only Forever” by Jes Battis | Literary Review of CanadaKevin Jagernauth reviews “It’s Only Forever: Labyrinth,” a book celebrating 40 years of Jim Henson’s cult classic, by Jes Battis. 000
Reposted by Jes BattisJames A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My institution has a program that provides books to students, all of them. I've gone from trying desperately to teach without making students buy books to assigning them again. It's great! 16819
Reposted by Jes BattisNghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Whatcha up to in a few hours? I've been looking forward to this one for a bit! 15616
Reposted by Jes BattisIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026lol I am literally inimitable, you raggedy bitch. 250747
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Do folks know some sources on the history of queer and trans zines? 054
Reposted by Jes Battisscott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 13/09/2026I hope this is a joke. I know this is NOT a joke. I guess I can be thankful I’m still capable of being surprised by the horrors 😡 1101
Reposted by Jes BattisMax Wolpert @maxwolpertmusic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026new @premeemohamed.com dayyy 2377
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Every airline: We’re boarding! But not yet! Rich people first! Different rich people second! Now it’s family time! Disabled? We’ll be the judge of that! Now Random Zone 3! Wait your turn plebs! Ok—dregs of society can board through the special tail entrance. Careful of the propellers! 0141
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Adobe Pro has completely stopped working on my mac laptop. It acts like the desktop program is no longer installed, but when I uninstall/reinstall, nothing happens. I click on the app in the dock, and it *seems* like it's going to load, then doesn't. Can't access any files online? Advice? 100
Reposted by Jes BattisDr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Move over, pumpkin spice: September belongs to the BOG HARVEST. While many flock to apple orchards, the world’s peatlands are hitting their peak. Far from muddy swamps; bogs are the secret agricultural powerhouses you didn't know you needed. Join me in protecting these undervalued landscapes! 🧵 1/ 5305102