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K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦

K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦

@krwbooks.bsky.social

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The wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of Canadian Literature. www.krwilson.ca No A.I.
Stan On Guard coming Mar 2026.

Richard Middlewood Wilson was an English philologist.

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K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · Jul 1

TEASER BOOK TRAILER
Stan On Guard. The sequel to Call Me Stan that you didn’t know you were waiting for. Coming in 2026 from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social.

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Stan On Guard book trailer

Teaser trailer for the 2026 novel Stan On Guard by K. R. Wilson.

K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · 4h

Had a little story about this very feast published in @syncopationlit.bsky.social a while back …

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 17h

Climate misinformation is becoming a national security threat. Canada isn’t ready for i theconversation.com/climate-misi...

"Canada is entering an era where climate misinformation is becoming a public-safety threat."

Climate misinformation is becoming a national security threat. Canada isn’t ready for it

Climate misinformation is undermining emergency response during crises. Canadian governments need to develop co-ordinated efforts to tackle it.

theconversation.com

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 18h

If there was a goddamn ACTUAL Canadian car I’d buy one. Project Arrow should be fast tracked.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18h

Navarro says it plainly like few others can.

Screenshot of a post on X by Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) quoting Ana Navarro calling it “ultimate hypocrisy,” contrasting January 6 insurrectionists being treated as patriots and pardoned with a woman who was unarmed and driving away being shot. Below the quote is a video still from The View showing Ana Navarro seated and speaking, wearing a light blue striped blouse, with a blurred outdoor scene behind her and a small timestamp “0:17” on the video thumbnail.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 1d

casual reminder that most of canada's print media is owned by an american company that is owned by an american hedge fund with ties to donald trump.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

I am sympathetic to her desire to make the news more engaging and approachable, but inasmuch as her suggestions to make it more engaging and approachable appear to make it biased and servile, either she doesn't know how to do the first, or the second was actually always the not-so-covert goal.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 1d

Canada has the opportunity to help create a global tech landscape that isn’t dominated by US oligarchs.

That won’t happen if our political leaders refuse to quit toxic platforms like Twitter. What are they waiting for? #cdnpoli

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/o...

Twitter is a litmus test for Canada

With Twitter, the medium really is the message — one that should be clearly unacceptable for our elected officials and political leaders.

www.nationalobserver.com

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

Sources: Bari Weiss has privately been deeply frustrated by the negative reaction to her CBS tenure and has blamed subordinates for not stanching the criticism (New York Times)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.

(vid via Ford Fischer on X)

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1d

“Deepfake child pornography is fine as long as only adults get to see it” is a curious place for the modern Conservative Party to find itself, but here we are

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d

A recall of cheese products has been upgraded to the most serious risk category after testing positive for Listeria monocytogenes, a potentially deadly bacteria.

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Unapologetic Lee 🇨🇦🫥 @canadiancurated.bsky.social · 2d

2025 saw a dramatic increase in renewables around the world. Investments in renewables outpaced oil 2 to 1.
The US is going to be caught with their pants down.

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 2d

Great idea - why not?

K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · 2d

On Her Majesty’s Secret Sofa.

Heather J. "No New Year's Resolutions" Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 2d

Make a Bond movie casual.

To live and let… lie

Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 2d

Make a Bond movie casual.

Dr. No … Well, Maybe.

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Heather J. "No New Year's Resolutions" Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 2d

Make a Bond movie casual.

To live and let… lie

Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 2d

Make a Bond movie casual.

Dr. No … Well, Maybe.

Jack Fennell @jfennellauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Make a Bond movie casual.

The World Is Actually Way Too Much; I Couldn't Possibly; No No No No, I'm Grand, Seriously, Thank You.

K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · 2d

… is a powerful story of trauma and resilience, illness and otherness, misaligned aspirations, and the complicated braid of the mother/daughter relationship.

K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Two generations, two timelines, two cultures, two continents. From the brutalities of the Cultural Revolution to the illusions of the American Dream to the awkward embrace of the Toronto theatre community, Su Chang’s The Immortal Woman (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) …

K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Two generations, two timelines, two cultures, two continents. From the brutalities of the Cultural Revolution to the illusions of the American Dream to the awkward embrace of the Toronto theatre community, Su Chang’s The Immortal Woman (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) …

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Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social · 2d

People will still debate what Star Trek "should" be but, if they do some research, they'll discover what the man who created it meant to convey:" I believe that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day it learns to value diversity in life and in ideas.” -- G Roddenberry

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

100% this!👇

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 3d

The way the elites around the world talk about X, as if it's a supply of Unobtainium that must be preserved and nurtured, rather than a billionaire's personal 4chan, shows how high they are on their own supply.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Ronald Reagan’s budget director.

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unixwhisperer @unixwhisperer.bsky.social · 3d

"In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy." - John C. Sawhill (1936-2000), quoted in The Future of Life (2002) by E. O. Wilson

#SundaySentence

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 3d

Third time in not much more than a week for the "falconry, ski-ing & horses" anonymous brief on SEND. What's worse: the Westminster insiders who put this toxic, nasty crap about or the journalists who blithely repeat it? PS ask an OT professional about autism, dyspraxia, core stability & horses

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The Far Shore 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @thefarshore.bsky.social · 3d

Demand the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada.
Please sign here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

Ban X/Twitter in Canada

I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ban-x-twitter-in-canada/?source=f...

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Margo McMahan @margomcm.bsky.social · 3d

American owned media to avoid, fellow Canadians, who are trying to control the narrative in Canada; not new, but so many Canadians are still unaware. Don't be a Quisling (Nazi collaborator) selling your soul for a greeting card like some Premiers. Choose media who support Canada.🍁🧐💞
#Canpoli
#ABpoli

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 3d

Medievalist job (term), Brandon U: universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Search Jobs - University Affairs

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K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Jethro Tulle.

Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 4d

The Beatless

Scary Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 4d

Slightly diminish a band

They Might Not Be Giants

K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · 3d

We see this from Doug Ford all the time.

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Sep 1

Just a reminder: propaganda works by pervasive repetition, not logical consistency

‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · Apr 9

I think I’ve mentioned it before but discovering Jacques Ellul’s writing on propaganda as the creation of a totalizing information space where a message is reflected in all mediums and all forms to imply unassailability, as opposed to just “biased messages” was really what clicked for me

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 4d

Researchers identify two psychological traits that predict conspiracy theory belief www.psypost.org/researchers-... via @psypost.bsky.social

"...perceive the world as fundamentally unjust" and

"...struggle with uncertain or ambiguous situations..."

Researchers identify two psychological traits that predict conspiracy theory belief

New research published in Applied Cognitive Psychology identifies a strong link between conspiracy theory endorsement and two specific traits.

www.psypost.org