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The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Learn about Leona Theis' hermit-crab essay, as well as her writing process, below 🦀: tnq.ca/finding-the-... Author: @leonajoan.bsky.social #TheNewQuarterly #CanLit #CanadianWriters #HermitCrabs

Excerpt of blog post "Finding the Form with Leona Theis," published on The New Quarterly website.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity. Do listen. I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 25/11/2025

Yup

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

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Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The great migration of Sandhill Cranes are standing tall and flying high through our part of the world. #birds #AB

A flock of Sandhill Cranes standing in a harvested cropland.

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Eastin DeVerna @eastindeverna.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Of the Empire by Mary Oliver

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Karen Bass 🇨🇦 @karenbasswriter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Good info & easy to remember.

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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Since A Simple Carpenter by Dave Margoshes appeared on scene a little over a year ago, I’ve been telling anyone who will listen about how extraordinary it is—and I’m thrilled to get to share it with listeners at The New Books Network. newbooksnetwork.com/a-carpenter @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.

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Heather J. Witchy🧙 Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is Saturday, April 26 and there's a contest to win gift certificates for independent bookshops. You need to buy a book from a Canadian indie bookstore on the 26th in order to enter. #CIBD2025 #CIBD www.indiebookstores.ca/cibd-contest/

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Contest For Book Lovers - IndieBookstores

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Imagine you were dealing with a person who would report that there was two and there was also this other two but didn't want to add them up to get to four, because getting all the way to four felt like making a statement and they didn't want to alarm anybody or be accused of making an accusation.

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Stupid Coup Month Three: Two Plus Two Is Still Four

Imagine you were on a ship, and reports kept coming to you that the new captain and his crew had done a series of strange things--jettisoned the anchor, blew some holes in the hull, shredded the sails...

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lpgcanada.bsky.social @lpgcanada.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

What does it mean for a book to be fully Canadian-made? LPG publishers are committed to keeping Canadian stories, talent, and production close to home, checking all the boxes.

A graphic with text reading "Shopping for Canadian-Made Books? Check out this list of Canadian-owned presses" at the top with a list of 66 members of the Literary Press Group. There is a checkbox near the top outlining what makes a book entirely Canadian-made: Canadian publisher, Canadian author, designed and printed in Canada, and warehoused and distributed in Canada.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

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20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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