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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 1h

I've had a glorious run of excellent books to read, and what a fucking joy, to miss my subway stop because someone I'll never meet has invited me into their stupendous imagination.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 1h

YES. These days, if I can't find a version of whatever it is I'm buying with actual buttons, I don't buy it.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 1h

It'll never be perfect, but I do love living here so much. I have a very silly reaction to people reading books, I immediately am like YAY WE ARE FRIENDS, I mean, basically they could be doing an evil villain laugh while actively spreading bad chaos and I would be like YES, BUT READING

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 1h

Hee! So true. Need = finish novel, want = lounge around reading while petting cat.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 1h

RIGHT? I bought a paper dictionary recently and it's been such a joy, remembering how many words I come across on my WAY to the word I'm looking up.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 1h

Ways to explore and indulge your curiosity, no plane tickets required:

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I IMMEDIATELY need to use this word without actually having a reason to use it

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"A cup of flour," said my friend, and I measured it. She said, "My granny taught me how to make pie crust." I thought, and her granny taught her, and her granny, and hers, and hers, until pies didn't exist yet, and in that moment the kitchen was a palimpsest of women, all of us measuring flour.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you haven't come across El's posts yet, these are the lists that inspired me to stop using my phone entirely. Highly recommend.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes! When we moved here over 20 years ago everyone read all the time, and then it was phones for years but things are CHANGING in the most exciting way. Now I see people reading paper books ALL THE TIME (and I'm sure digital books, which is awesome, but harder to know for sure) and the library

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A friend of mine is finding this to be so true in the working world -- they're good natured, kind, a hard worker, and in EVERY single job they've had someone at work is like, "Hey, you'd be ideal for a job my friend has available". Their hard work is zooming them towards their dream job.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maybe I'm being a ridiculous optimist, but this feels like a sea change. Physical media, non-streaming, knobs and buttons, people reading on the subway -- these are all the changes I've been wishing for, for 20 years.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've been improvising on stage for many years, and I've seen the way improv borrows from writing. But guess what? It works the other way too. Use improv techniques to strengthen your scenes, dialogue, and tension in this #WritingWorkshop: writingworkshops.com/en-ca/produc... #WritingCommunity

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Improv for Fiction Writers: Stronger Scenes | Nov 2026

Use stage improv techniques to write stronger scenes, dialogue, and tension. Join Sage Tyrtle's one-day online fiction seminar. Nov 1, 2026. Enroll now!

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Riding my bike early Monday morning, the scudding clouds outlining the sky, squirrels bopping around on the grass and doggles sniff-sniff-sniffing? Yeah. It was good. It was really good.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the shirt we all wear while flock cameras and data centres mysteriously go away, for mysterious unsolved mystery reasons

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely not. You should put up missing posters.

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Greg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Collected a couple rejections of my original graphic novel, but an editor liked it well enough to offer me a work-for-hire job on a different graphic novel. Every piece of writing you put out there has the potential to bring you something good. Hang in there.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Totally. Usually we're mad at each other, but in this one instance...

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My publisher: "We've already sold out of paperbacks! You can still order and wait for the new shipment to come in. But if you want your book faster, you can order a paperback copy from the book sellers below." Me: wait, WHAT, ALREADY?? it's only been six days! I am so unbelievably grateful 😭

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We, The Drowning (paperback) | Climate Fiction | Android Press

You can also pre-order this title in EPUB format. We've already sold out of paperbacks! You can still order and wait for the new shipment to come in. But if you want your book faster, you can order a...

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A year ago I was the only one reading paper books on the subway. These days it's weird if I DON'T see at least 10 other people reading. (I know people are also reading digitally which is awesome but it's harder to say definitively how many.)

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ohai! Come to my Family Night launch party! Oct 24 @1pmEDT, w/ guests @kplumhoff.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social! Readings, Q&A and book giveaway! aniking.net/launchparty/

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

writingworkshops.com

Improv for Fiction Writers: Stronger Scenes | Nov 2026

Use stage improv techniques to write stronger scenes, dialogue, and tension. Join Sage Tyrtle's one-day online fiction seminar. Nov 1, 2026. Enroll now!

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026

Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My sense of direction has always been terrible, but it was especially hilarious yesterday when I could not find a 10 story building a block away. I had to go underground to the subway and navigate from the subway, which has handy signs everywhere. I would have been sunk in pre-cartography times.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"I have warmed up your page, and look, bonus cat hair AND smeared ink. You are WELCOME."

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hee! For about 5 years I've been opening all my files by using a program that searches by name (it's keyboard only and is exactly how my brain works) so I've gotten really good at predicting what future-Sage will be looking for...

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

collect 100 rejections in a row (acceptances reset the number) I get to go to Toronto's best sushi restaurant. Sound like fun? Why not start your own project? And remember, when you're sending out your writing, that someone, somewhere, is going to love what you have to say.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"STOP TRYING TO MITIGATE DISAPPOINTMENT IT'S BAD FOR YOU." (That half has the same face as Squishy the cat in the photo above). Rejection 40 was another personal rejection from a LitMag with a very low acceptance rate, which does make it all easier to deal with. What's this all about? If I can

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sushi Rejection Project Update: I'm at 40 / 100! It's easier being on the other side of my highest number. Half of me is like, "Maybe I'll have the insane ice-globe holding 1 piece of sashimi" and the other half of me says #LitMags #WritersSupportingWriters #WritingCommunity

Tabby cat with green eyes staring sternly at the camera on a sunny day.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

RIGHT? I'm like "I should put this here so I can find it for sure" and I've learned that this is the surest way to never see it again, so I make a text file saying where the thing is and then I save it on my computer with a file name like "this_is_where_the_fountain_pen_ink_is.txt"

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Me, my partner, and our grown kid are all only children. For fun I was imagining out loud what a second child would have been like, and my sweet gentle son immediately explained that another child would have been a criminal jerk. So, even imaginary siblings... Hee hee.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've limited myself to 2, because I know it's 2 or 200, the BOTTLES are works of ART. (I'm not a display things on shelves person, but if we didn't have a cat I would SO display them both on the shelf.)

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Who You Gonna CAll? (-ison Wyss) @allisonwyss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After deleting the map apps from my phone I realize how weird it is that I was using them to get around my own city. Turns out I know these streets! And the few I don’t, well, I can only learn them by getting lost. Turns out I missed getting lost.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It really was -- I rarely leave Toronto (am a really dedicated homebody) so visiting a small town felt kind of like visiting another planet.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Those are some delightful colour combinations!

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ooo, I definitely will be looking for this story in November.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm convinced the fate of the bear was written by someone who genuinely hates children.

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First family review of Family Night is in. That’s right, cry bb, CRY! 😌 Grab a copy of Family Night and consider a box of Kleenex for a good pairing? masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

Screenshot of part of a text message conversation with two texts that read as follows:

I’ve only made it to rabbit rabbit kiai. But I like it!!!

I cried already lol

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We once looked for something for A! WEEK! that was on a chair pushed in at the table. Now no one's allowed to put anything there. *laughing*

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