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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas

@roseoftheswamp.bsky.social
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Slow attempts at writing spec fic 🥀 in love with golden hour, fountain pens, indie games and reverb. Human rights and climate IRL. In Canada, from elsewhere.

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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A second story of mine is long listed! I'm sorry downstairs neighbours for jumping up and down! Don't look so worried, cat, this is me happy!
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Feeling very grateful for Canadian health care today, as the sun streams into my private room and a volunteer just came into do reiki (!) on me (with my consent). I had to have a small surgery and two nights in the hospital. I'll go home having to pay absolutely nothing. All staff were so kind.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 25/09/2026
Carney: The rules-based international order is crumbling. International Criminal Court: As a participating member you are required by the rules to arrest those with a warrant if they pass through your territory. Carney: Fuck you.
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am vaguely aware that me dancing like an absolute freak in my living room = a disproportionate response to what has actually happened (a first reader thought my story was good enough to move it forward for further consideration)
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Someone on zoom today: oh you live in Toronto?? You totally gave off cool Montreal vibes Me: (immediately throws Toronto under the bus) ok wow this is the biggest compliment
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The main distinction between the AI resignations and pronouncements is that while they say there is a >10% chance AI will wipe us out, there is a 100% chance that emissions from all the fossil fuel reserves that exist on these companies balance sheets will wipe us out.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Sad guy recovering in hospital tells a long story to happy girl recovering in hospital.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 25/08/2026
For the first time, a peer-reviewed study has "drawn a straight line from single corporate emitters like Exxon or Chevron ... to specific heatwaves and areas of extreme rainfall." The new methodological framework could make it much easier to hold Big Oil accountable for its climate lies.
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It just got way easier to sue fossil fuel companies over climate change
For years, industry has argued you can't prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Never forget that the clowns who are currently saying “we can’t stop climate change, just accept it” are the same people who spent the last decade doing everything possible to prevent us from stopping climate change.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/08/2026
Why wait
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Tania 🦄🤡 @archistratego.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We are in the last few hours of the @uncannymagazine.bsky.social kickstarter, thank you for the support! it would be especially amazing if we could add flash fiction to each issue!! So fingers crossed for reaching that stretch goal in particular. LET'S GO! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
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Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!
Funding to support Year 13 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For creative writing: the most joy I feel is when I'm writing through a tough spot and something all of a sudden clicks. Things are coming together, sentences flow; I am in love with this process. I can feel pride because my pieces took time (literal years) and effort. Prompters do not love writing.
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
But, now that Google is broken and and AI stuffed down everyone's throat, how are younger folks supposed to build up their own expertise and critical thinking skills? Esp if they're told there won't be any jobs anyway
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I genuinely do not understand the AI appeal. At work, a few colleagues gush over Claude. I tried it once for research and it cost me SO much time to correct and fact check, because unlike AI, I know my shit. If you don't know your shit what you will be regurgitating via AI is, well, actual shit.
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Just spent a delightful hour with the Travelling at Night demo, by indie studio Weather Factory. It's on Steam, to get it! I am now craving pastis, patting French cafe cats and the smell of old books.
Two computer screens show the opening screen of Travelling at Night, which features a mysterious woman with white hair, a baret and, strangely, one darkened eye (it appears missing...)
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's Bastet worship Monday (currently manifesting as my kitty Tilda) youtube.com/watch?v=CaIG...
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Hymn to Bastet Sung in Middle Egyptian
YouTube video by Siamun
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I just backed Uncanny on Kickstarter. Let's get all the way to 100%!
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Beer tasting notes: pairs well with barbecue, nachos, WFH
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's 4pm on a Friday and I've just spilled beer on my work laptop What does this say about Me Work Fridays?
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/07/2026
Have you ever noticed that most of the major AI company logos look like buttholes? For my Sick Burns Friday post, I judged and ranked each of them based on how much they resemble hole: www.burnsnotice.com/ai-company-l...
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AI Company Logos That Look Like Buttholes, Ranked
For this week's Sick Burns Friday post, we're asking the important questions like "why do all of these logos look like that?"
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It hit me that the piece has to be named For the Birds, after their 2001 album. It fits, there's a lot of birds in this story, but also now it can serve as my own little tribute. Raising a glass to you Glen Hansard, you were a real one and touched so many of us deeply.
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I finished the first short story I've ever felt proud of last night, eastern standard time. In it, I reference two songs by the Frames (Star, Star and Lay Me Down). Apparently, around the same time, frontman Glen Hansard got into a motorcycle accident and passed away. I am overwhelmed with feeling
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 23/07/2026
Socialists and anti imperialists in Canada get organized and change this shit!
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Davis Allen @davisallen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Chances are you've heard that methane leaks make natural gas worse for the climate than we've been led to believe. And yet many of us still think of gas as the "clean" fossil fuel. That didn't happen by accident.
Cover of a July 2026 report from the Center for Climate Integrity entitled "The Fraud of 'Clean' Natural Gas: How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution"
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 20/07/2026
MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Absolutely devastating. And I am so angry at our government. Carney defending the pipeline saying "oh but it will have CCUS and so low emissions" as if we have no responsibility for what happens when the fuels are burned. We should be raging in the streets but we cannot go outside due to the smoke.
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Sent out a short story for the first time in years. It's...imperfect to say the least 😅 always stellar seeing the typos just after you hit submit. But! It's getting me excited again, writing, improving the writing, learning from mistakes. Kitty pic for no reason (he cares nothing for typos)
A light orange Cornish Rex loafing on a lap
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I just backed khōréō: Year 6 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
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khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
when AI companies go bankrupt
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Red Guy with “AI” on his chest is falling backwards off a cliff. A Purple Guy is running to “save him”

Panels 2-4: Close up of Purple Guy’s hands gradually going from outstretched fingers to a closed fist

Panel 5: Red Guy falls backwards off the cliff while Purple Guy does nothing but show him his middle finger.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/06/2026
a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Growth is a doomed strategy - there is a better way. This roadmap fills my tiny post-growth, climate and inequality anxious heart with some hope. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
When SpaceX goes public and is added to a major index, funds that track that index would be required to buy the stock. That means millions of people with 401(k)s, IRAs, and index funds could automatically become SpaceX investors whether they intended to or not.
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Spinster @spinster777.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Canadians, a useful guide for us:
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🌈😈 @satansjacuzzi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Pagan woo woo girlies, union rah rah girlies, today is our day!!!
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 28/02/2026
The violence being done to language & truth by this craven, mealy-mouthed shitstain is second only to the actual vicious & unjustifiable violence to which he’s signing his name.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I think about this tweet a lot
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Reached room 46 MOTHAFCKAAAAS Day 27, what a great run #blueprince
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Give @thejuicemedia.com a follow!
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Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas @roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
There's more investigative journalism in this piece of satire than I've seen of any coverage of this project. Share widely with other Canadians youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6H...
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Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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