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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 11h

I'm making this tasty red chowder for supper. Using green olives because I'm out of black, and tilapia for the fish. shanmonster.dreamwidth.org/957719.html

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 17h

happening now! books across genres and for all ages. FREE EVENT full of local authors! #KitchenerWaterloo #dtk #ExploreWR kwwritersalliance.com/booktoberfest/

Book Festival. Booktoberfest. Come down to Gaukel Block to check out local authors! October 3, 1-6pm. Gaukel Block, Downtown Kitchener.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 20h

When I was a kid, my dad & sister were driving home when ball lightning came from the sky and rolled along on the highway in front of them. I wish I'd seen it myself.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 21h

In the past week or so, I've been noticing more webpages that do the "if you reject our cookies, you need to pay" thing. Anyone else noticing this?

Screencap from Themirror.com's cookie page with the choices of "reject all and pay" and "accept all."

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You'd think it would be bigger news that a US owned national newspaper in Canada is publishing violent threats towards the only Jewish leader of a major political party in the country

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've been seeing an increased number of commercials for petroleum corporations. The most recent one I saw looked like a beer commercial filled with sexy young people looking happy in gorgeous locations. Also lots of gambling ads. Never saw this many before. They're positively ubiquitous.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is there any good reason why people getting colposcopies don't get any sort of anaesthesia, freezing, or laughing gas? Nothing like being told to hold still while someone takes a hacksaw to your cervix. Gynaecology is stuck in the Middle Ages.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can you help this family? They've had no donations.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Please help this poor child. He doesn't deserve this.

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K a s s i e D e e @kassiedee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Response to the many, many residential school deniers.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can you help this boy get his epilepsy meds?

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why are Driscoll's berries still being sold in Canadian grocery stores when the berries are covered in poison? Why haven't they been recalled? www.msn.com/en-ca/news/o...

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reminder that Latine/Hispanic Heritage Month in the U.S. is ongoing and now it’s also started in Canada. Looking to support Latine creatives? Not only am I one, but the cover artist for my collection is too. Read about her work, find links to my work, all in the below profile. 🇨🇱🇨🇱

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HawaiiWoOoOoOoOorms @hawaiiworms.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

HELLO! It's Bandcamp Friday. I've got about 10 cassettes left of my latest EP on Bandcamp, *and* you get the digital version for free with it. What's more, you get to own something I have lovingly made (music and artwork) plus a postcard from me hawaiiworms.bandcamp.com/album/input-...

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Input : Meaning : Joy, by HawaiiWorms

4 track album

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J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hi, I'm open for sensitivity reads rn. I can read for queer characters, disability (focuses in CPTSD, hypermobility, Long Covid, OCD, Anxiety), and progressive/reform Judaism. Please DM me for more information if you're interested in working together.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My afternoon was a write-off, but I came home to good news. I sold a poem and have made it to the next round of considerations for a literary grant. And @daybreakoak.bsky.social is getting pizza so I don't have to cook. Yay, because I'm exhausted.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can you help Hammam and his family?

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you are a medical office that tells someone to come in early to pick up pre-surgery meds, please tell the patient if the office where you've interacted with the patient is not where the meds are. And then, when you do follow up with the actual address, please say when your office closes.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My poem "Survival" has been nominated for Best of the Net by @thetemzreview.bsky.social . Thank you! www.thetemzreview.com/powell-poetr...

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New World Writing Quarterly @newworldwriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are open for submissions through October 14th! Also, just as an FYI, please note that we are looking for submissions that are NOT written, edited, "brainstormed," etc., with "AI." In other words, please, 100% NO "AI." We want to read strange and beautiful things created by YOUR OWN MIND.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Announcing a new, occasional journal - PALE GREY IDOL. I hope you'll come along with us on this new venture. Info: palegreyidol.ca

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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.

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Paul @rudemrlang.com · 01/10/2026

They’re doing free access at newspapers.com all this weekend if anyone has any rabbit holes they’d like to disappear down. www.newspapers.com/go/freeacces...

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Free Access! Through October 5th.

Limited time free access to view and search pages in our newspaper archive for obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, social pages, and much, much more.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Israel is still bombing babies & children as we speak. You can help them survive by sharing & donating. Donations at 0:

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Help save a Gazan Children

Aid us to survive from pain and stay alive in the war. South Gaza, the yellow zone under occupation.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember, folks: for every author you see on here describing how they’ve filled out forms to get *some* compensation from the Anthropic AI case there are dozens, hundreds, hell THOUSANDS of us who get 0 because our books weren’t registered with the US copyright office yet have UK copyright!

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Accepting submissions till Oct. 15! Authors & editors of works that have gone out of print may submit full-length or short books, including creative nonfiction, fiction, & poetry. Submit: doublebackbooks.com #bookx #authorx #writerx #smallpressx #openforsubmissions

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026

I consider it my duty to remind everyone that JCO is a broken clock if a broken clock had a gun and shot the right person twice a day and the wrong people all the other times

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#DVpit HOUSE WIFE: novella Caught in a dysfunctional marriage, a climate refugee forges an unusual relationship with her house. Think "The Yellow Wallpaper" X Cronenberg. An uncanny look at urban sprawl, ruined climate, & the destruction of Ontario's Green Belt. #H #WF #DIS #Native #ND #MH #LF

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#DVpit THE TEMPERANCE RIDGE RUNAWAYS. In the summer of '72, 2 girls get lost with their dog in the Appalachian backwoods of NB. They have a run-in with drunk poachers & must use their wits to survive. Think "Old Gods of Appalachia" X "Stand By Me." #YA #A #Novella #MR #HF #Thriller #Native #ND

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#DVpit THE EVERWHEN: cli-fi novel decentering humans Enki is the god of fresh water & semen, doomed to trigger the Great Flood. He must scramble to save lives as well as his good name, all while helping the snake from the Garden of Eden find Eve. #A #Native #ND #F #SFF #DIS #LGBT #MH #DIS

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reconciliation has boiled down to a Tim Hortons trauma doughnut, an orange shirt from Walmart, and an AI-generated land acknowledgement.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks for the great questions, James. Would be churlish not to show off this visual by our very own @marywyrd.bsky.social PHENGARIS, with the electro fan MC, available here: payhip.com/b/58paC Parch Marks, my newly released novel, here: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... #HorrorWritersChat

Anna Orridge
Eco horror - Phengaris
Cli Fi - Parch Marks.

Phengaris has a cover image of a, butterfly made of rusted parts

Parch Marks features markings of ferns on dried earth.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The federal gov't is behind the evils of the residential school system. How interesting that it pays itself to have Truth & Reconciliation Day off. How curious that Indigenous people do not get this day off. Instead, we get to watch this day become another way for Tim Hortons to sell doughnuts.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Currently listening to this. Happening live. An elder has been waiting for decades for apartheid to be recognized as happening within Canada. www.youtube.com/live/dLUjYvl...

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Reconciliation & The Right To Truth: Protecting Residential School Records

YouTube video by Yellowhead Institute

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I should be clear: I'll take whatever size gigs people have right now. Anything that helps me hit that total is welcome.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat One elephant came out to play. Then another. And another. AND ANOTHER! Sharon, Lois, & Bram must put a stop to it before the entire world is destroyed by a malevolent race of elephant gods.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat I want to see Sharon, Lois, & Bram take on a killer herd of malevolent elephants. For reasons.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat I've written entire stories about music, and musically-motivated characters. In one story (still unpublished), a teenage metalhead desperately searches for a phoenix feather in order to become a heavy metal diva.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWriteresChat I write eco-horror, fairytales, religious horror, & weird shit. In my previous incarnation, I was a goth/industrial DJ. My musical tastes are eclectic, ranging from Newfoundland jigs to industrial noise to electropop to opera to Algerian rai to oldschool country-western.

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