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Lore Austin
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they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ • chronically ill • plotter of things, builder of worlds • maple leaf cryptid • rep'd by @jjbker.bsky.social 📍 edmonton 🇨🇦 🌲 loreaustin.com
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✨️ Evergreen reminder that municipal elections are important! Go vote in them!! ✨️
Read it again. Next year. You have to preorder the vaccine over a full year in advance or you just don't get one.

So, Alberta folks, go do that. And then get really vocal about how weird, unhinged, and harmful this is as a decision.
if you're in Alberta and you want your flu and covid shot in 2026 - yes you read that correctly - you have to preorder them right now. So here's the link. go do that. Just in case none of those people get removed from power by then.

please repost this, as the province seems bent on killing us.
bookvaccine.alberta.ca
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Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.
I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.
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A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Umm, Canada, are you taking notes???
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck.

Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.

"She probably doesn't mean me"

I do.
I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this;

most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!

well, we do. so fuck off.
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Has anyone else noticed that many non-writers don't seem to have a sense that there is anything between "full time writer who writes for a living" and "total amateur who writes for funzies and never shares it with anyone" even though the middle makes up like...almost all writers?
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I've taught many people new to gamedev from kids to adult, from a practical educator lens I believe the main difference people credit to kids learning faster or easier than adults is they aren't yet consciously trying to avoid temporarily looking like a beginner at something

adding alt text to help
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Important info on scams for authors here.
My new Genre Grapevine dives into the book club scams targeting authors. These scams now include creating fake Discord communities filled with AI slop and chatbots. Artificial intelligence circles every level of this scam like water down the toilet.
www.patreon.com/posts/139940...
Genre Grapevine: Book Club Scams Are a Warning of Emerging AI Super-Scams | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
Get more from Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine on Patreon
www.patreon.com
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I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.

This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.
Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News
With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...
www.cbc.ca
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It's genuinely insane that this isn't a bigger news story.

Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they
Hundreds of people who were once detained at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, have disappeared from government records.

We speak to a reporter and an advocate about what we know.
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You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.
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Hey, Rapture's today. This could be your last chance to tell me I'm pretty
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This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)
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All genAI should be banned, and no magazine or book publisher of any kind should use it for anything whatsoever. Utter trash fucking up everything.
“It’s really, really frustrating, and it’s really setting us back as far as the community’s info literacy.”

www.404media.co/librarians-a...
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I recently learned that my local Canadian library is connected to Hoopla! I had thought Hoopla was an American thing. The number of ebooks I can borrow without ever having to leave my house has just multiplied tenfold. It's great. (And audiobooks, comics, movies, shows...For free! In a legal way!)
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
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another way to say this: fascism isn't about rules people follow, it's about categories people are in

if you're in the right category nothing you do is bad
if you you're in the wrong category nothing you do is good

it's not about what you do, it's about who you are
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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"but art should be accessible" it is, you can learn to draw, paint, collage, sculpt, make pixels. right now, starting today. art has never been more accessible monetarily nor physically than it is now in this age. access to artist labor and machine production is not an accessibility issue.
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in ~17 years, the writers and narrative designers have consistently been the kindest, smartest folks I've worked with in game dev.

they take some of the stupidest interference from leadership while delivering, time after time.

diminishing their contributions is a short road to worse games.