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Kate Sparkes

@katesparkes.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 fantasy author (All the Queen’s Knaves, the Bound Trilogy), cat person, friend of birds, struggling human. She/her

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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Ow, right in the Canada 😭
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Fine, I’ll watch Heated Rivalry. 😅
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I don’t know if it will help yours, but my printer responded to a stern yet compassionate talking-to a few weeks ago when it stopped working.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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a man is sitting in front of a television with his hands on his face and a ten logo in the corner .
Alt: A man is sitting in front of a television with his chin resting on his hands, smiling
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Bob Ruiz @dennycrain.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Firearms belong to liberals now.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
One nice thing about these trying times is that we get to pull ‘quisling’ out of the ol’ vocabulary storage trunk and put it into regular rotation. The reason we can do that sucks, obviously. I just appreciate a word that’s fun to say and gives my q key more exercise.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I don’t know why one ticket sold is worse than none, but it is 😂
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Has anyone seen Remi’s neck? He lost it somewhere. 😩
An English setter stretched out in a chair. It looks like his head is resting directly on his shoulders.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My back yard has a perpetual yellow snow warning from December to April. Sigh.
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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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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 12/01/2026
Perhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
What a lovely girl. I’m so sorry for your loss.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Finally remembered my password after ? months. Did I miss anything?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We went early because I knew there might be paperwork with me needing to vouch for him, but it went really smoothly! So thankful for the volunteers.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I voted! Didn’t get a sticker, but I voted! (And got to take my older kid to vote for the first time 🥹)
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I accidentally started in season four and I’m SO glad it happened that way.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The horrors persist, but so do (Canadian indie) authors who offer us a wee vacation to refresh us before we face the horrors again. Backed. www.kickstarter.com/projects/kri...
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A Hunt Bound in Blood: Spicy Standalone Romantasy
The Mummy meets Romancing the Stone in this opposites-attract romantasy featuring a treasure hunt, deadly puzzles, and a ticking clock.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
1984 is even scarier than the last time I read it. Weird.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
“No thanks” as if anyone was offering 😅
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Mary J Lamey @maryjlamey.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Just the headline PP hoped to see in the NYT. Who me Trumpian?
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I’ve never met you but I’m tearing up. 🥹 I’ve had cats go missing and I know the pain of not knowing and the joy of a sudden return. It’s a shame they can’t tell us about their adventures. Wishing you and your kitty all the best!
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
And it’s available on Kobo?! 🥹
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I was going to say this 😅
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Trixie 🌸🇨🇦 @trixie57.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I wonder what Martha Stewart would say about all the insider trading going on at the White House.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
😭😭😭😭😭
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
So far episode one is good (I adore Rashida Jones, so that doesn’t hurt), but the concept is just the logical conclusion of an aspect of life today. So that’s horrifying…
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Excited to see a new season of Black Mirror is available but can’t imagine it’s any more surreal than the real world at this point.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Gone reading. Byeeee!
Ebook cover of “Value(s)” by Mark Carney on a Kobo e-reader
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I’ve never watched one, but I’ve seen analysis videos. 😅
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I’ve heard tales of “then Kevin dies but it’s happy actually because Jesus,” but I’m guessing that’s just a sub-genre thing
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Is there an app like Pinterest that doesn’t allow AI images? I like it for recipes, but pretty soon I won’t trust them, either. I’m 100% not interested in using fake images to inspire any part of my life (or in supporting further AI generation)
Image of a country style kitchen with sage green cupboards and pale wood countertopsClose up of previous image showing clear evidence of AI generation in a door that vanishes into a chair halfway downClose up of first image showing that the sink is just a smear of brown on the counter and the bottoms of the window make no sense (clear AI work, not a photo of a real place taken by an actual human)
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It’s one of those shows that gets better as it goes on. Have fun!
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It’s not a hairstyle, it’s just his hair trying to get as far away from him as possible.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Amazing. I have full conversations with Minnie. And if you call her brother George by his name he goes “yeah?” 😄
Fluffy brown cat lying on her back, asking for a belly rub
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
So glad you saw one! My parents had one in their neighbourhood that would come in through the dog door and eat the cat food. I know, wild animal etc etc, but the photos of the little bandit looking at them like “HELLO? I’M EATING HERE” were so cute 😄
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A few weeks ago I thought it was January for a minute. And I keep thinking it’s 2024.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
How does she know when I’m about to get up? Never fails. Now she’s purring and I’m stuck. 🥰
Brown and black tabby cat curled up on lap
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Fred does this when he wants love in the middle of the night 😩
Fluffy orange cat
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
These are the same people that were willing to let their grandparents die so they could eat at Arby's again without a mask
@TheQuartering
You do NOT need the new iPad
You do NOT need the new Cell Phone
You do NOT need the new video game console

You WANT them

There is a big difference and if you look at the people whining about the tariffs I challenge you to ask them how their lives have been affected in any way
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I used to be a huge supporter (including annual donations), but they lost me at “if you don’t support generative AI you’re ableist”. Not at all shocked.
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Yes Very Sad Anyway Loki Sad GIF
Alt: Yes Very Sad Anyway Loki Sad GIF
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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a woman wearing a safety vest and a headband .
Alt: Alexis Rose from Schitt’s Creek saying yes
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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a little girl in a red jacket is looking up at something in the sky
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
No one’s stopping us…
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Drake also stepped back from his beef with Kendrick after “Not Like Us” dropped. Did that stop Kendrick? No, he took his hating all the way to the Super Bowl. Don’t be fooled. Be like Kendrick.
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Kate Sparkes @katesparkes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
New genre unlocked? 😃
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