Looking forward to seeing people at Can*Con this weekend, celebrating the launch of Volume 3 of the Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction. I’ll be around to autograph my story.

Really sad to hear this. 51 is far too young. His album "Black Messiah" was incredible

It took me a few more years than Le Guin suggests here, but as my grandmother used to say, that's because it takes Ukrainian men longer to mature than others ;)

"There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities." - Ursula K. Le Guin

Ken Burns’s Civil War 2

“My dearest Martha, the days are shortening and the atmosphere is as tense as it is cold. Amazon delivered an inflatable frog costume with extended battery for the long stretches we spend taunting our brothers and mortal enemies athwart the barricades of their ICE facility.”

Anything by Ben McIntyre is a guaranteed winner

Post the good news where you can find them 👇

"Rebellions are built on hop."
- Jyn Erso (probably)

If you see this post a random picture from your device without explaining it

Be our Valentine! Not long until the cover reveal for Nebula finalist @cornellwriter.bsky.social’s SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL, out just in time for Valentine’s Day 2026! This retrofuturistic, sci-fi romance novelette will charm you to the moon and back.
#scifi #books #scifiromance #2026books

Watching the replays of last night's disappointing Jays loss to the Mariners. I noticed the shirt this guy behind home plate is wearing whenever Seattle's Cal Raleigh is at bat. They call him "the Big Dumper." His number is 29... 😳 #GoJaysGo #ALCS #ohmy

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

They should put "always an adventure" on Little's baseball card for this season

NaNo 2.0 is LIVE. We're so glad you're here, because #NaNoWriMo is only 30 days away. Hope you're ready to write! ✍️ nano2.org #WritingCommunity #NaNo2point0

You can email complaints about the premise and set-up of the questionnaire to ISED: [email protected].

You can even tell them they're not acting in accordance with the Directive on the Management of Communications and Federal Identity, as all the jargon makes it inaccessible to the public.

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

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we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there