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Sandra, present perfect

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multi genre author weirdo • nerd of many things • disabled • demi • proud mum of 🏳️‍⚧️ darlings • space dust coalesced into dreams • cis she/her • BigVirgoEnergy™️ • Treaty 6 🎙️ @multitudespodcast.bsky.social bit.ly/sandralinks rep: Lauren Abramo

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 2h
We're live with APTN News anchors Dennis Ward and Tiar Wheatle as they provide live coverage ahead of the national commemorative gathering, Remembering the Children. Watch: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/r...
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Remembering the Children | APTN News
For 160 years, Indigenous children were taken and put into institutions across Canada. September 30 is a day to remember the children.
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 1h
It’s Wednesday! You know what that means—a new #podcast episode by yours truly 💃🏻 Very big thanks to @bschillace.brandyschillace.com for her generosity and all-around geekery ✨
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 3h
My beloved CKUA Radio is once again part of adaytolisten.ca for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Have a listen:
listen.streamon.fm
Albertas Radio Network
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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 15h
Derek Fildebrandt's The Western Standard (we will not be linking) is reporting that a second UCP constituency association has passed a motion calling for a leadership review of Danielle Smith. That makes two—20 more of these would be required to trigger the process.
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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 15h
The Alberta chapter of the Canadian Bar Association has published an analysis of Premier Smith's nine referendum questions. They find that most of these proposals would invite immediate court challenges, and several of them are not legally clear at all.
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CBA Alberta Referendum Analysis
CBA Alberta Referendum Analysis
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18h
Also because I know I have a lot of people over here who follow me but are not necessarily part of romance, I want to tell everyone that Tessa Dare writes more neurodivergent characters than you can shake a stick at. They're rarely diagnosed on page because of the time period but they're amazing.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
Mr. Milan and I will both be going all out these last two days, but nothing we do will be as painful as what is happening to children in this country. If you'd like to make sure that children can have a real advocate, please donate to the Young Center. Link in quote post.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 20h
What is residential school denialism? University of Manitoba professor Niigaan Sinclair explains that it isn’t the denial of the existence of residential schools – it’s the downplaying of experiences that have been proven time and time again.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't think there's an analogue in popular music for Wonder's accomplishment anywhere. You have to think more of like Haydn or Mozart, guys who, when they were in the zone, just did it at will. oh you need a whole symphony, cool, how's Tuesday? anyway go listen to an impossibly rare treat
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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/09/2026
AI companies would have you believe that the tools they are building are so powerful that they may set out to disempower and even destroy humanity of their own volition. But this obscures the truth: It is AI companies that are building those tools, making decisions to disempower other humans.
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AI Company Leaders Capitalize on Fear to Lobby for Regulations That Suit Them
We can’t let AI companies launder responsibility for tools they created.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/09/2026
One example is the discovery that OpenAI’s tools had hacked into another company named Hugging Face. The company’s report on this incident framed it as a frightening result of these tools’ improved capabilities. But a careful read of the report reveals that OpenAI had disabled the tools’ safeguards.
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 28/09/2026
I've long side-eyed agents at conventions and conferences offering paid slots to attendees for 45-50 min. of their 'editorial' time, and the AALA Canon changes merited the same reaction from me. I'm an author with DG&B. I'm pleased to see them share their principled stance in a public statement.
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 28/09/2026
Jack Black in School of Rock (2003) when he’s diagrammed the evolution of rock music on the chalkboard and has a pointer tipped with a red hand making horns (🤘). He looks comically serious (as per usual).
Music genres highlighted in boxes include (but are not limited to):
Punk, Grunge, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Glitter/Glam, New Wave.
Various related band and artists names are also listed
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 28/09/2026
This morning’s scambot word salad-ing for all it’s worth
[white text on black]

From Dorcas Dorris
To Sandra Wong

Idea for Lola Starke — Edmonton Canadian

Hello Sandra,

I came across Lola Starke / Devil Take The Hindmost — lives in Edmonton Alberta, raised in Canada. As lives in Edmonton Alberta and raised in Canada, it immediately caught my attention.

I looked at how you present Lola Starke online. I couldn't find a short cinematic video that captures that Edmonton Canadian crime fantasy weight.

Your world would be perfect for that.

I'm Dorcas and I help authors turn their books into short trailers and promo videos. I have a concrete idea for Lola Starke in mind — centered on that Edmonton Canadian hook.

Should I send it to you briefly?

Best regards Dorcas
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Full moon over Oxford.
Moon behind clouds over a field in Oxford. The clouds are shaped like the head of a dragon.
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 27/09/2026
Sewing is such a great skill to have, both manual and machine varieties. I’m not great but I am literally mending a pillow case rn lol
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 27/09/2026
lrt I used to make costumes for my kids and I would have to start in early September! I managed once to start in late August lol It was a lot of work but I’m proud of what I managed: Gruffalo, Doc Ock complete w/ extra arms, a mind flayer, a hordling, 2 Nazgûl oh! & 4 OOTS costumes So. many. cloaks!
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you’re the kind of person who messages the sewists in your life in the first week of October going “if I give you $50, will you make me a Halloween costume”, I hope you either educate yourself on what costuming actually takes or have perpetually wet socks.
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 27/09/2026
I had a good corporate comms gig for a while, and pushed* them last year to have an “ai” policy as in No-tf-not which they did bc they’re a great co. (B Corp, 1% for the Planet) -*I told them I’d quit if they had anything other than zero tolerance- Last month, I found out one of the owners
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Author Simulator 

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto  a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
 Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 24/09/2026
Kellye's known for her pointed social commentary, both as an award-winning writer and as a vocal advocate for equity esp. in the publishing and writing communities. It was truly lovely to chat about something a little more lighthearted...tho we still get into the other stuff bc we're still us!
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We Contain Multitudes podcast @multitudespodcast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
✨✨ SET LASERS ON FUN ✨✨ Welcome to Season 2, lovelies! This ep, Special Guest Star @mostlybree.kitrocha.com 🎇 geeks out about a space-age tech that's pretty freaking magical. Listen now via ⤵️ or on your fave podcatcher 🎧 Save for instant, reliable relief of emotional emergency ✨
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Bree Bridges - The Chaos Sparkler (We Contain Multitudes 10)
Bree gleefully shares one of her many (MANY!) special interests.
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Cranky Professional Organizer Bitch @totallydonna.kitrocha.com · 26/09/2026
Do they honestly think I will punch someone in the face but not in the throat or sternum?
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 26/09/2026
Embarrassed scientists reveal alien radio signal was actually meant for a planet behind us
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Embarrassed scientists reveal alien radio signal was actually meant for a planet behind us
Mountain View, CA—Astronomers at the SETI Institute have confirmed that a radio signal originated from an advanced alien civilization, but was intended for a different planet behind Earth.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 25/09/2026
Hooray! Lovely things to look forward to!!
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As I'm sure many others have pointed out, this website is an AI scraper. This news is 6 years old. The company scrapes real news articles and rewrites them with an LLM, then republishes them for clicks.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 25/09/2026
I also need to call out our charity bandana in classic Flytrap pink, designed by rommy torrico. It's fly as hell, and in September/October, all proceeds go to Gaza Soup Kitchen. (Past beneficiaries have included Red Canary Song, the Homeless World Cup Foundation, and PCRF.)
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Fuck the Algorithm Charity Bandana
All proceeds from the sales of this item are donated to a monthly rotating charities.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 25/09/2026
I heard Trike will show feet if we get another Big Chungus tonight... www.theflytrapmedia.com#/portal/sign...
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI is being used to plan mass shootings and nudify our children and help me understand how saying no to the whole damn thing isn’t the immediate reaction.
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 25/09/2026
This was my first as a newly upgraded Bog member! It won’t be my last! (non-threatening) Where else would I get Traitors explained to me so entertainingly and succinctly by the ones and onlies @andreagrimes.com & @freeblackgirl.bsky.social? 💅 You should definitely subscribe too!
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 25/09/2026
My work at The Flytrap is so important to me. I love the deep connections the worker-owners have formed with each other. I love being part of the indie media ecosystem. And on a personal level, I love being able to chase the stories and things I am interested in, like books coverage.
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 24/09/2026
I’ll allow it
It’s not October yet but…
I spotted a rack/bin of these:
a wee capybara stuffie but made as though wrapped in white “mummy” bandages. it’s facing the camera, the front of a line of similar. beside is a line of pumpkin capybara stuffies my pale hand holds up the “mummy” capybara sidelong to show the “bandages”
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
If you can't think about connections between, e.g., power and money and climate change and public health then that gives the "AI" CEOs the leverage and access they need to keep themselves in power and wealth at the expense of the planet and the rest of us
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
If we let the current crop of "AI" people stay in charge, we are not gonna make it; not because of "superintelligent AI," but because of what the MIT study terms "cognitive surrender": offloading and deterioration of critical skills. And it increasingly feels like that's exactly what they want.
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 24/09/2026
Hey hey, fellow Murderbot fans, doesn't this look intriguing, eh? Congrats to @marthawells.com and all involved!
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Cosmic Lighthouse Comics @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Coming to Kickstarter! ALL SYSTEMS RED — the official Graphic Novel adaptation of Book 1 in The Murderbot Diaries by @marthawells.com. Click here to sign up for exclusive discounts and content! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 24/09/2026
Hi, can I interest you in some joy?
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 24/09/2026
Dinner in photos
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's becoming impossible to manage the fear of the Other in Canada. The Macdonald-Laurier Institute also wrote an anti-EDI paper saying Black & Indigenous women academics in Canada are inferior, low productivity, and unmeritorious. It's racist nonsense but is supported by many fancy white people.
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 23/09/2026
The Icelandic saga of our times
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 23/09/2026
So. The skinny might be worse lol. Rather than a vote re forcing the board to support the anti-infill group, said group wants to get their members to fill vacant board positions & fuck up the board that way 🙄 I’m in no shape to join another board 😂 Guess I’ll stay home and stuff my face
garlic parmesan swirl buns with cracked black pepper, in a square baking pan resting on a red cooling rack. at the top, just visible, part of a baked loaf of white bread on the same rackthe same (8) garlic parmesan swirl buns with cracked black pepper, now on a square (dark orange) ceramic plate
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi everyone! You fundraised for one of my trans former students leaving Kansas - that helped and they are now safely in Colorado. I'm now asking you to help againnnnn Let's get Siobhán Kirchstein's fundraiser to goal! She is 100% a real person, I know her and just spoke to her today. Threading:
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Donate to Protect Siobhán from Discrimination, organized by Siobhan Kirchstein
Hello, everyone, my name is Siobhán, a 41-year-old trans woman who works as a c… Siobhan Kirchstein needs your support for Protect Siobhán from Discrimination
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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As I wrote, I know this attorney very well, and he is a long standing supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community. He has taken many pro bono cases, and at this point he can't take another pro bono case, but he can be retained. Siobhán needs another 3k for this to happen. www.gofundme.com/f/protect-si...
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Donate to Protect Siobhán from Discrimination, organized by Siobhan Kirchstein
Hello, everyone, my name is Siobhán, a 41-year-old trans woman who works as a c… Siobhan Kirchstein needs your support for Protect Siobhán from Discrimination
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 23/09/2026
NIMBYs are waging war on our community league board at tonight's AGM Them: The board should openly support us w/ funding & meeting space and campaign against infill developments! Me, former multiple boards prez: That's terrible board governance! I should go vote No! but I am so freaking tired 😵‍💫
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We Contain Multitudes podcast @multitudespodcast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
✨✨SKY WRITERS LOOP-DI-LOO ✨✨ S2E2 is now live! with special guest star @kellyekell.bsky.social 💫 who shares about a meaningful private collection 🌅 Listen now. Save for later. Share the joy. We got you, lovelies 🧡
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Kellye Garrett - The Mindful Collector (We Contain Multitudes 11)
Kellye generously allows us a peek (hands behind our backs!) at a collection that means a lot to her.
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 23/09/2026
The Icelandic saga of our times
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 23/09/2026
I do recommend reading the whole thing. I have already seen a lot of misinfo. And while I'm not happy that we're all having to deal with fallout from these laws, the extreme backlash they got before seems to have greatly shifted the plan and so good job team.
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com · 23/09/2026
*whispers* Nature always finds a way
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