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wowwwwwwwwww!!! congrats to @angelaliu.bsky.social well done to editor @nicasio.bsky.social and the whole deadlands team!!! you can read this poem right here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

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The Language of Fireflies - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

The streets are lined with glass treesWe weave through their false light for a taste of a real moon, fold […]

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 03/10/2026

More confirmation and details of the deep ties between Alberta separatists and Trump Republicans. They are part of the same far-right populist movement. And the Americans are deeply involved in promoting disunity in Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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The elephant in the room

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province

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Megan Tayles @taylesium.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I need to share this story with my dad, who still has way, WAY too much faith in Google reviews.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 02/10/2026

Three hours from now!

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah the biggest human trafficking bust in 21st century US history went down in 2021. Operation Blooming Onion. They took down a $200 million slavery ring in Georgia. 100% H2A visa workers who immigrated legally. This was HUGE NEWS for anyone who was paying attention to farm worker & labor issues.

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another reason to avoid US produce. exDriscoll’s employee says company tried to cover up millions of kg of fruit exceeding Cdn safety re pesticides and chemicals were shipped to Canada Berries are part of the dirty dozen, but unsurprised CFIA didn’t issue an alert. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News

A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...

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sarah l. hawthorn (A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING '26) @slhawthorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"AI is taking over, it's inevitable-" The only inevitability is the heat death of the universe. Your effort is insignificant, yet you still side with the endless hate machine. "You'll get left behind-" Leave me to the woods, forget my name, and fall into those cold arms alone and unremembered.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 24/09/2026

Also yes hello I am hosting a LitFest author here in Edmonton #yeg on October 15 at the Citadel! :D We are going to talk DNA and EXCITING NEW TECKNOLOGIES and TURNING PEOPLE INTO DINOSAURS litfestalberta.org/events/decon...

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Deconstructing Us: The Secrets of our DNA with Turi King - Litfest Alberta

Join host Premee Mohamed as she talks with featured author Turi King about her book, The Secrets of our DNA.

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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Canadians: the Writers of Union of Canada has launched a parliamentary petition demanding "radical transparency" around AI www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Sign this Petition - Petitions

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

General reminder, gang: @cartoonist.coop has multiple pages of tutorials on building your own site. Do not sign your productive output over to corporations who consider you acceptable collateral damage in their pursuit of profit. cartoonist.coop/resources/

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RESOURCES – CARTOONISTS UNITED

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Megan Tayles @taylesium.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think the confusing part was a preexisting issue, but definitely still hilarious. I'm just ECSTATIC we don't have to change the clocks anymore in BC.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Publishers and Editors! I'm taking subs for Vol. 3 of the award-nominated "Best Weird Fiction of the Year" til end of the year. Writers! You'll get a chance to submit your 2026 stories in January. bestspecfic(at)gmail.com

Esteemed Editors and Publishers,

I am now taking submissions of original 2026 short fiction projects — magazines, anthologies, single-author collections — for consideration in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 3. (Publishing Sept. 2027). Vol. 1 is a World fantasy Award Finalist.

I am seeking material first published this year, in 2026. To be clear, only weird fiction FIRST published in 2026 is eligible for inclusion in this volume. I will accept translated work as long as the first English-language publication was 2026.

Stories should be between 500 and 17,499 words. Audio only stories are also ineligible, unless they also appeared as text.

Publishers and editors are encouraged to send electronic or digital copies, via the email address below. (I am not accepting hard copy submissions.) ePubs are preferred, but I will also accept text files (Word), Mobi, or PDF. Please do not cherry-pick selections. Send the entire book, journal, or magazine to:

bestspecfic@gmail.com

Thank you for your time and kind consideration.

Warm Wishes,

Michael
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Michael Kelly / Publisher / Editor-in-Chief
undertowbooks@gmail.com

Undertow Publications
https://undertowpublications.com/

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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today is good day to start writing that novel. There are 101 days until December 31st. If you wrote 500 words every day starting today you would have 50,500 words drafted before the end of the year.

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spooky rachel @introspectre.online · 05/01/2026

i just realized this by the same lady who made this banger

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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 18/09/2026

Canadians! Sign the official parliament petition for regulating Data Centers in Canada www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-7550 - Petitions

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 17/09/2026

Here’s your chance to win tickets to see your favourite writers at the Vancouver Writers Fest, running from Oct. 18 to 25. #TyeePresents #Sponsored thetyee.ca/Presents/202...

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CONTEST: Win Tickets to Vancouver Writers Fest 2026 | The Tyee

Three lucky Tyee readers will receive a pair of tickets to their choice of standard festival events.

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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you work for a book publisher that has introduced AI at any point in the publishing process, I'm working on a story and would like you speak with you, on-record or off-. Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 14/09/2026

The time is NOW, friends. The 2027 Lambda Literary Awards season is officially open. ✨ lambdaliteraryawards.submittable.com/submit #lammys2027

A starry dark background with the Lambda Literary Awards seal and the text “The 2027 Lammy Awards now accepting submissions 9.14.26 - 11.22.26 in the following categories:
Bisexual Fiction
Bisexual Nonfiction
Bisexual Poetry
Gay Fiction
Gay Memoir/Biography
Gay Poetry
Gay Romance
Lesbian Fiction
Lesbian Memoir/Biography
Lesbian Poetry
Lesbian Romance
LGBTQ+ Anthology
LGBTQ+ Children’s Books
LGBTQ+ Comics
LGBTQ+ Drama
LGBTQ+ Middle Grade
LGBTQ+ Mystery
LGBTQ+ Nonfiction
LGBTQ+ Poetry
LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica
LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction
LGBTQ+ Studies
LGBTQ+ Young Adult
Transgender Fiction
Transgender Nonfiction
Transgender Poetry

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Straight talk time: Doomerism is BORING. It's the same fantasties rehashed over and over again, just louder each time. And with each iteration it seems that new audiences are being reached, and a new group of people needs to be talked down from unnecessary fear. >>

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's fall, time to draw a cat sitting in a tree

a small black cat sitting in a leafless tree back lit by the sunset

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Megan Tayles @taylesium.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Despite the stereotypes about people who live on islands, we're all perfectly fine here--

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 10/09/2026

Loiks like the ebook of my latest novel, Mercutio is on sale, at least in the US and Canada. A good chance to pick it up if you have been wanting to give it a try.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 09/09/2026

Quick clinical note: If you have client who suddenly feels brilliant, overconfident and seems hypomanic without history of significant mood instability OR a client who suddenly out of the blue seems to feel confused, incapable, insecure & everything they do is wrong - ASSESS THEIR AI USE.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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(Not the Horror Author) Shirley Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tule Fog Beast Totem 🐺🌬️✨ My piece for the upcoming Giant Robot Store Yokai exhibition celebrating folklore and fables! This was inspired by last year's historical Tule Fog. Art will be available online this Saturday, Sept 12th at 11am PT via the GR webstore here: www.giantrobot.com #art #pottery

A large ceramic white wolf with sgraffito details carved along it's body in a stalking pose with it's stomach hollowed out. There are 3D floral ceramic details that surround the cavity, and within said cavity lies a golden crescent moon and sun charm.

This photo shows the back and more of the sgraffito'ed fur details.

This picture shows a close-up of the interior cavity where the golden crescent moon and star charm hang within. It's naturally shadowed and there are small gold star specks throughout the inside as well.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 06/09/2026

Another great thread from @courtneymilan.com on the Anthropic settlement

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Sarah "Neila" Elkins @neilak20.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just downloaded Mapquest because they kept the proper names for things like Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. BUT I've gotta let y'all know the app lets you pick a cute little guy to use instead of just a blue dot for your location. THIS IS SO DANG CUTE!

Screenshot from the Mapquest app that shows a generic map with things like Home, Cafe Hagen, and Kroger marked on it. In the center is a cute unicorn with a rainbow mane and tail. At the top of the screenshot is text that reads "Choose your Questie This is how you'll show up on the map. You can change this later!" below that are four options for questies that include: A wizard in a purple robe with a ball of fire near their hand, a rainbow unicorn, a knight with a cape and sword, and a little goblin with a club.

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Megan Tayles @taylesium.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The winners are going to have golden apples thrown at them, and then we’re going to have 38 consecutive Trojan wars.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 05/09/2026

Possible reason you may see a claim by your agency.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

Indie Authors, If you'd like to know more about Itchio Bundles, including my criteria for choosing, creating or marketing one successfully; its in here. In this blog post I talk dates, duration, pricing, choosing a theme, marketing focus and what I think made successful bundles so successful.

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Itchio Bundles: Many Authors Make Less Work - Elise Carlson

For many indie authors, the biggest stumbling block is marketing the book, so people know it exists. Paid advertising can easily waste money. The platform that works for one author doesn’t work for an...

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hilarious that these incidents wherein AIs "break containment" and cause problems are being cited as evidence of consciousness. They made a dangerous product that causes damage it isn't supposed to cause, and people are spinning that as something awe-inspiring.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The only player here with agency is OpenAI. They're the ones who've gone rogue. "Reckless company releases more potential malware onto the internet" is how every one of these headlines should be phrased. Any other wording is, regardless of how good or thorough the articles are, AI propaganda.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 04/09/2026

Hey Anthropic settlement authors--is there anyone out there who discovered that their agent has made a claim on their settlement payout? Contact me: beware@sfwa.org

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from

A flow chart I have created with multiple questions and the answers determine where you're from.

Question 1 is do you call it a hydro bill (which then branches down to ON, QC, BC, MB) or an electric bill (which then branches down to SK, AB, NS, NB, PEI, NL)

Question 2 is do you call it a cabin (BC, MB, AB, SK) cottage (ON and atlantic) camp (northern Ontario) chalet (QC) or bungalow (Cape Breton)

To delineate BC from MB: do you call it dinner or supper

To delineate southern Ontario rural or big city: have you heard of a stag & doe

To delineate SK from AB: do you call a hoodie a bunnyhug

And finally to delineate NL from the other atlantic provinces: whaddayat? (Correct answer: dis is it b'y)

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/09/2026

Okay, this is a GREAT question! First of all: the only time you should have a non-English publisher, who has licensed the work from you not in English, making a claim on a work is if there is a US copyright on the exact non-English work that they have licensed.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Important information for authors outside the US faced with this latest hurdle from the Anthropic settlement.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/09/2026

Okay, yeah, self-published cowriters broke the system. If you know any self-published cowriters TELL THEM TO CHECK

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One more post, repost-friendly: I am a fantasy novelist shortlisted for Nebula, World Fantasy, Tiptree and Mythopoeic awards. I have at long last written a new novel (dark emotional character-driven new adult portal fantasy) and seek f**db*ck on latest dr*ft this month. Unpaid, but...free book.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 03/09/2026

I know I already posted about this...but to reiterate: Anthropic copyright settlement authors, PLEASE contact me (Writer Beware) if your publisher is making a claim on a book whose rights have reverted, or claiming anything other than a 50/50 split on an in-contract book. beware@sfwa.org

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Ruby (ft. Jimin) @lapsedbard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

CANADIANS, this petition to regulate data centers in Canada is open until September 24, please sign! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-7550 - Petitions

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/09/2026

Hi! Anthropic Q&A re:rights reversion and publisher claims. This is not legal advice; I can't give you legal advice. What I can do is tell you what I would do under certain circumstances.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/09/2026

Hey, so based on what other people have said, and what I have now myself experienced, it appears to me that publishers are, um, how do I say this... Not doing a good job (or possibly any job) of checking to see if rights have reverted on a work before claiming them in the settlement.

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Megan Tayles @taylesium.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

@premeemohamed.com, you haven’t misplaced a secret base, have you…?

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