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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie)

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Canadian dark speculative author 🖤🇨🇦Words in: STRANGE HORIZONS, FANTASY, LIGHTSPEED, PULPHOUSE, FACTOR FOUR, NOSLEEP &more | @cwillbc.bsky.social president | CWC educator | #ecopunk #bodyhorror #monsters #gothic #dystopian #sff https://kaie.space/tree

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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 16d

All the 🖤 to @factorfourmagazine.com Ansible Press @blackcatbooks.bsky.social @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social PULPHOUSE(x2) @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for giving 🇨🇦weird SFF/H a home in 2025 (it's been a whirlwind few months~)

Read/links: kaie.space/standalones

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K.A. Wiggins
2025 Mid-Year Fiction Round-Up
Originals
"Geosapiology: a brief history of geogenesis, the Stones, and the Theory of Appeasement" (The Daily Tomorrow, JUL 2025), thinky eco-apocalypse sci-fi serial—3.8k words

"Crumbling of the Sandwich Generation" (Factor Four Magazine, SEP 2025), lit-spec flash nightmare—900 words

"Powerhouse" in The Kindread Coast (Black Cat Books, OCT 2025),YA brainrot ecopunk cryptid horror—6.1k words

"The Mistletoe Matchmaker Is Wilting" (Pulphouse, TBA 2025), seasonal tragicomic fairytale horror—5.5k words

Reprints:
"The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault)" (Strange Horizons, 2024; Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror Volume 3, Tenebrous Press, 2025)

"The Patron Saint of Flatliners" (Mysterion, 2024; Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 3, Ansible Press, 2025)

"The Pink Slime's Appointment With Destiny" (Pulphouse, 2024; Really Big, Pointy Teeth, WMG Books, 2025)

Links in bio or at kawiggins.com

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Six book or magazine covers/graphics are arranged across the background:
The Kindread Coast, edited by Caroline Lavoie and Monique Riel. Cover art of a blue-and-teal water monster with red accents and a black cat by Lydia Avsec.

Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Volume 3 edited by Stephen Kotowych. Cover illustration of space craft "Repair Station 73" by Pascal Blanché.

Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror, Volume Three edited by Alex Woodroe. Cover art of a green skeletal zombie with coral brains on a cereal box by Matt Blairstone.

Factor Four Magazine 50th Issue. (50 in orange tone text over blue clouds, designer unknown.)

Really Big, Pointy Teeth: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine edited by Dean Edward Smith. Yellow cover with googly-eyed fanged face in center, artist unknown.

The Daily Tomorrow, text over newsprint background, designer unknown.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 10h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 10h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 19h

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 18h

Health Canada has released new guidelines for air quality professionals that clearly state Covid can linger in the air & respirator masks should be considered IN ADDITION to improving ventilation

🔗 www.canada.ca/content/dam/...

Excerpt from Sept 2025 guidance for indoor air quality professionals PDF by Health Canada. I've highlighted the phrase In addition to (followed by advice to recommend respirator masks)

Ventilation can help reduce viral transmission in indoor spaces by preventing the accumulation of potentially infectious respiratory particles in the air. Good ventilation, combined with other personal protective measures, can further reduce the risk of infection.
In addition to improving indoor ventilation, the following should be considered (PHAC 2021a, 2022,
2023a, 2023b, 2023c):
• Encourage occupants to stay home and away from others if they are not feeling well.
• Limit the amount of people in areas where ventilation is poor.
• Have policies that require or strongly recommend people to wear a well-fitting N-95 or KN-95
respirator mask in indoor public settings.
• Provide supplies for people to clean their hands often (e.g., soap and water, or alcohol-based hand sanitizer containing at least 60% alcohol). Remind occupants to clean their hands after contact with shared surfaces and objects, and after coughing or sneezing.
• Regularly clean and disinfect high-touch surfaces and objects.
› Develop and put into effect routine cleaning and disinfecting protocols that focus on shared surfaces, objects, and equipment.
› Use disinfectant products with a valid drug identification number and follow manufacturer's instructions for cleaning and disinfection.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18h

And of course if you're arrested and facing criminal charges in Illinois for protesting this weekend, or whilst protesting ICE, I will take as many cases as I can pro bono.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 22h

Question: How many of my #KidLit friends are in Canada? I have the inklings of an idea but just looking to gauge numbers right now. Of the #CanKidLit authors, how many are in Ontario and how many are in Ottawa? #WritingCommunity

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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · 21h

IDK about ON kidlit folks but a lot of of @cwillbc.bsky.social is on here🇨🇦📚

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 21h

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 21h

During the civil rights movement, SNCC trained college students on how not to engage when people were spitting on them and throwing food in their faces: non-engagement was itself a speech tactic to demonstrate the unworthiness of someone’s else speech.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23h

it is my pleasure to report they are indeed mad as fuck on the other site over being blocked and ignored. keep up the excellent work everyone

Free the World @PatriotVerity
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I joined Bluesky 6 hours ago, have not said anything rude or abrasive, and I'm already blocked by over 58,000 people.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 21h

The idea that it's "cringe" to be a "resistlib" was always misogynist. It's a bunch of middle aged men trying to deny their own age by projecting their anxieties onto women. As if being a "wine mom" is somehow less cool than being beardy "whiskey dad."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Resistance Is Cringe

But it’s also effective.

www.theatlantic.com

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 21h

And as usual with sexism, male laziness gets valorized, which only works if women swoop in to do the work men won't do — and then women get shamed as busy bees and wine moms for picking up male slack.

Fuck that. Nothing is more cringe than male leftists thinking politics makes them cool.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 3d

TAKE ACTION: Proponents of the anti-voter SAVE Act are pressuring the Election Assistance Commission to require documents like a passport in order to register to vote. Tell the Commission: Don’t make it harder for Americans to cast a ballot: bit.ly/4ngSyyl

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 1d

While people have been telling me the same stories for years about how expensive everything is and that they are waiting for technology xyz. This thing is producing freedom energy for years now. Just do it.

PV roof with different angles with some facade panels for the low winter sun.

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AltUSCustoms @altuscustoms.altgov.info · 1d

🚨🚨To all gov’t employees🚨🚨

If you’re attending a #NoKings march today, don’t bring your fov’t ID. Don’t identify yourself as a gov’t worker no matter what level you are. Leave ALL your electronic devices at home. Every single one - they can’t search what you don’t have.

And BE SAFE.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 1d

Big spookytime sale! All four seasons of ROADTRIP Z are $1.99-$2.99 (USD & CAD) apiece in ebook until 10/31. Come get your zombie apocalypse!

books2read.com/cottoncrossing
books2read.com/intheruins
books2read.com/pocalypseroad
books2read.com/atlantabound

All four seasons of ROADTRIP Z are $1.99USD-$2.99USD (and CAD) apiece in ebook until 10/31

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

The trump regime is setting up official agency accounts here on BlueSky, and they’re dragging their MAGA trolls with them. Block liberally.

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The Dreaded Abighoul @popeguilty.bsky.social · 1d

you know liberals are about to protest when you start seeing the "if somebody does something you don't like, stop where you are and sit down!" nonsense again and I want to make sure everybody understands that you absolutely should not sit down in the middle of a protest- cops will brutally beat you

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1d

Not that Israel needs an excuse to continue bombing Gaza and restricting aid, but the fact that media (even outside the constant-Zionist-propaganda sphere) keeps repeating "Hamas won't return all the dead hostages" drives me up a wall. They CAN'T FIND THEIR REMAINS because Israel BLEW THEM UP.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 2d

The genocide is not over. Ceasefire is not liberation. Keep giving. chuffed.org/project/help...

“Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”

Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support. Donate today: https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 1d

We know the world is scary. For A LOT of people, horror doubles in helping them cope, and in providing some relief from the relentlessness of the casual cruelty of the real world.

You can pick a topic/issue, and within 20 miles, you can find too few people doing too much work on it.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like the LLM era is the perfect time for someone to relaunch the text-a-librarian reference service. It doesn't have to just be text, we can do email. But you can submit a question and a reference librarian working remotely will respond to it within an hour with verifiable resources.

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 2d

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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CWILL BC @cwillbc.bsky.social · 2d

Register for the #vancouverchildrensliteratureroundtable Fall Tea event, 1 pm, Nov. 15, the University Golf Club: www.eventbrite.ca/.../sheila-b.... Join in celebrating the 2025 Sheila Barry Best Canadian Picturebook of the Year Award & paying tribute to our late, beloved colleague #NormaCharles.

www.eventbrite.ca

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 2d

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow on Bubble Pop LIVE at 12pmET: Can Canada's NDP be brought back from the brink?

We've got Reclaim the NDP's Jiwon Jung and NDP Renewal's @mrpeterjulian.bsky.social on the show!

What happened to the NDP? Better yet, what could the NDP become?

Get notified: www.youtube.com/live/3U20b9i...

Can Canada's NDP be brought back from the brink? (feat. Peter Julian and Jiwon Jung)

YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore

www.youtube.com

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