K.A. Wiggins (Kaie)
@kaiewrites.bsky.social
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
https://kaie.space/tree
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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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firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show
The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada's main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil production increased, according to documents seen by Reuters.
reut.rs
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Exclusive: Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show reut.rs/4rCQsMz
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
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I’m still thinking about this and it really is one of those “everyone thinks Elon Musk is a genius until he gets involved in your field” moments. I’m gonna be a total bore and think about this seriously, please don’t read on if you don’t care what a landscape architect thinks about this shit… 1/?
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I’m still thinking about this and it really is one of those “everyone thinks Elon Musk is a genius until he gets involved in your field” moments. I’m gonna be a total bore and think about this seriously, please don’t read on if you don’t care what a landscape architect thinks about this shit… 1/?
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"You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?" 🤔💭
📻LIE MACHINE 📰 is officially taking submissions starting TODAY! Going from now until Feb 1st, 2026!
Follow this link down and read down to 'Production' to submit your pitch! ironcircus.com/lie-machine/
📻LIE MACHINE 📰 is officially taking submissions starting TODAY! Going from now until Feb 1st, 2026!
Follow this link down and read down to 'Production' to submit your pitch! ironcircus.com/lie-machine/
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?" 🤔💭
📻LIE MACHINE 📰 is officially taking submissions starting TODAY! Going from now until Feb 1st, 2026!
Follow this link down and read down to 'Production' to submit your pitch! ironcircus.com/lie-machine/
📻LIE MACHINE 📰 is officially taking submissions starting TODAY! Going from now until Feb 1st, 2026!
Follow this link down and read down to 'Production' to submit your pitch! ironcircus.com/lie-machine/
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Kindergarteners now were born in the first year of the pandemic. Within a couple of years we’ll have the first cohort born after “back-to-normal.” Who is willing to bet money that we’ll shockingly discover theyre faring much better? bsky.app/profile/jenk...
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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NEW: Another purge of immigration judges just happened, this time in New York City. This latest purge includes one of the smartest people I know, an immigration judge who dutifully served on the bench for 10 years. She was unceremoniously fired in violation of civil service laws.
Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
NEW: Another purge of immigration judges just happened, this time in New York City. This latest purge includes one of the smartest people I know, an immigration judge who dutifully served on the bench for 10 years. She was unceremoniously fired in violation of civil service laws.
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The book bundle questionnaire will remain open until the end of the month, at which point I'll share the results with all of you. One complaint that keeps coming up, however, is that bundles are gone too quickly.
So I'm looking to organize a longer-running bundle for the end of the month.
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So I'm looking to organize a longer-running bundle for the end of the month.
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Readers, help book bundle organizers improve!
Have you considered buying an itch.io book bundle, but decided NOT to? If so, please fill out this short form.
forms.gle/cW5AfhaCrCB5...
#booksky
Have you considered buying an itch.io book bundle, but decided NOT to? If so, please fill out this short form.
forms.gle/cW5AfhaCrCB5...
#booksky
Book Bundle Questionnaire
Help organizers improve indie book bundles!
If you've ever considered buying a book bundle on itch.io, but decided NOT to, let us know why!
forms.gle
December 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The book bundle questionnaire will remain open until the end of the month, at which point I'll share the results with all of you. One complaint that keeps coming up, however, is that bundles are gone too quickly.
So I'm looking to organize a longer-running bundle for the end of the month.
💙📚📦
So I'm looking to organize a longer-running bundle for the end of the month.
💙📚📦
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One notable fact: Voters typically blame the government for inflation, but take personal responsibility for what happens to their wages—good or bad. It turns out this is basically backwards. 14/
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
One notable fact: Voters typically blame the government for inflation, but take personal responsibility for what happens to their wages—good or bad. It turns out this is basically backwards. 14/
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Affordability is dominating the discourse. What I don't like about the conversation is that it focuses almost entirely on prices—as if the only way to make life affordable is to make things cheaper. But affordability is determined by prices *and pay.* 1/
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Affordability is dominating the discourse. What I don't like about the conversation is that it focuses almost entirely on prices—as if the only way to make life affordable is to make things cheaper. But affordability is determined by prices *and pay.* 1/
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another entry into the "what is fascism really" genre from toby--with an interesting list of the core concepts of fascism:
"the state, the nation (understood in terms of both race and culture), masculinity, violence, and (the restoration of) a mythic past"
"the state, the nation (understood in terms of both race and culture), masculinity, violence, and (the restoration of) a mythic past"
Brand new at @theunpopulist.net, @polphilpod.bsky.social's fascinating piece showing how Elon Musk's deployment of Tolkien is straightforwardly fascist.
Even by a Strict Definition, Elon Musk Is a Fascist
He is weaponizing Tolkien to promote violence by ‘hard men’ against Asian immigrants
www.theunpopulist.net
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
another entry into the "what is fascism really" genre from toby--with an interesting list of the core concepts of fascism:
"the state, the nation (understood in terms of both race and culture), masculinity, violence, and (the restoration of) a mythic past"
"the state, the nation (understood in terms of both race and culture), masculinity, violence, and (the restoration of) a mythic past"
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we keep squeezing half-solid shit through everyone's mail slots but so far very few people have praised the taste, gotta investigate this
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
December 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
we keep squeezing half-solid shit through everyone's mail slots but so far very few people have praised the taste, gotta investigate this
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Hey, do you want a whole turkey? They are $2.99 in my FlashFood app, and probably on sale at a grocery near you, along with things like fruit and veggie party trays. You don't need to have a party. You can just feed your family.
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hey, do you want a whole turkey? They are $2.99 in my FlashFood app, and probably on sale at a grocery near you, along with things like fruit and veggie party trays. You don't need to have a party. You can just feed your family.
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Canadian stupidity episode 725482
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
www.theenergymix.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Canadian stupidity episode 725482
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Honestly Canada: your country is burning down - quite literally - because of fossil fuel addiction.
And you’re continuing to expand fossil fuel extraction FOR AMERICA - and who makes the profit? AMERICAN CORPORATIONS.
Holy fuck please just wake the fuck up.
And you’re continuing to expand fossil fuel extraction FOR AMERICA - and who makes the profit? AMERICAN CORPORATIONS.
Holy fuck please just wake the fuck up.
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Honestly Canada: your country is burning down - quite literally - because of fossil fuel addiction.
And you’re continuing to expand fossil fuel extraction FOR AMERICA - and who makes the profit? AMERICAN CORPORATIONS.
Holy fuck please just wake the fuck up.
And you’re continuing to expand fossil fuel extraction FOR AMERICA - and who makes the profit? AMERICAN CORPORATIONS.
Holy fuck please just wake the fuck up.
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So glad more people are FINALLY doing pieces on the South African PayPal broligarchy, which includes Thiel, Musk and David Sacks.
All terrible human beings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
All terrible human beings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:27 AM
So glad more people are FINALLY doing pieces on the South African PayPal broligarchy, which includes Thiel, Musk and David Sacks.
All terrible human beings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
All terrible human beings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
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Some non-mainstream sources of news in Canada if your regular sources are CBC, Global, or CTV:
@aptnnews.bsky.social
@ca.theconversation.com
@pressprogress.ca
@readthemaple.bsky.social
@thenarwhal.ca
@thetyee.ca
@thewalrus.ca
#BCPoli #CDNpoli #Canada #Environment #FirstNations #Wildfires
@aptnnews.bsky.social
@ca.theconversation.com
@pressprogress.ca
@readthemaple.bsky.social
@thenarwhal.ca
@thetyee.ca
@thewalrus.ca
#BCPoli #CDNpoli #Canada #Environment #FirstNations #Wildfires
a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is flying in the wind
Alt: a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is flying in the wind
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Some non-mainstream sources of news in Canada if your regular sources are CBC, Global, or CTV:
@aptnnews.bsky.social
@ca.theconversation.com
@pressprogress.ca
@readthemaple.bsky.social
@thenarwhal.ca
@thetyee.ca
@thewalrus.ca
#BCPoli #CDNpoli #Canada #Environment #FirstNations #Wildfires
@aptnnews.bsky.social
@ca.theconversation.com
@pressprogress.ca
@readthemaple.bsky.social
@thenarwhal.ca
@thetyee.ca
@thewalrus.ca
#BCPoli #CDNpoli #Canada #Environment #FirstNations #Wildfires
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Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.
By Lisa Friedman & @stevenleemyers.bsky.social
1/5
Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.
By Lisa Friedman & @stevenleemyers.bsky.social
1/5
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.
By Lisa Friedman & @stevenleemyers.bsky.social
1/5
Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.
By Lisa Friedman & @stevenleemyers.bsky.social
1/5
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I'm shocked the govt is still trying to deport Georgetown scholar Dr. Suri. ICE abducted him and spirited him to multiple facilities, always in chains. He wasn't allowed to speak with a lawyer for one week! A judge finally ordered him let go after two months. Dr. Suri studies PEACE.
Please help.
Please help.
URGENT FUNDRAISER: please give to Dr. Badar Khan Suri's defense fund today, and share everywhere that folks might give.
gofund.me/f13e5c9b8
gofund.me/f13e5c9b8
Donate to Stand with Dr. Badar Khan Suri Against Unjust Deportation, organized by MAPHEZE SALEH
Dear friends, colleagues, and all who stand for justice,
T… MAPHEZE SALEH needs your support for Stand with Dr. Badar Khan Suri Against Unjust Deportation
gofund.me
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I'm shocked the govt is still trying to deport Georgetown scholar Dr. Suri. ICE abducted him and spirited him to multiple facilities, always in chains. He wasn't allowed to speak with a lawyer for one week! A judge finally ordered him let go after two months. Dr. Suri studies PEACE.
Please help.
Please help.
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Remember this is the time to change cell phone providers even if you like the one you have. Switching, not threatening to switch, is how you get the best win back deal.
Here are some of the offerings I found online. Not exhaustive and might be better ones.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Here are some of the offerings I found online. Not exhaustive and might be better ones.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Black Friday Plans - Nov 28 2025
docs.google.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Remember this is the time to change cell phone providers even if you like the one you have. Switching, not threatening to switch, is how you get the best win back deal.
Here are some of the offerings I found online. Not exhaustive and might be better ones.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Here are some of the offerings I found online. Not exhaustive and might be better ones.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Double podcast alert! Been very much enjoying/ enthralled with @volts.wtf this week. In addition to the balcony solar episode I recommended earlier this week, here are two more.
1st: clean air matters!
1/2
www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...
1st: clean air matters!
1/2
www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
www.volts.wtf
November 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Double podcast alert! Been very much enjoying/ enthralled with @volts.wtf this week. In addition to the balcony solar episode I recommended earlier this week, here are two more.
1st: clean air matters!
1/2
www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...
1st: clean air matters!
1/2
www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-...
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A lot of editors don't even know about media magnification. One of the shocking things - to me - when I left journalism school was how little editors knew about like the study of journalism as a discipline. It's a profession based in norms even if those norms are harmful.
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A lot of editors don't even know about media magnification. One of the shocking things - to me - when I left journalism school was how little editors knew about like the study of journalism as a discipline. It's a profession based in norms even if those norms are harmful.
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Another great summary & critique of last week's Fed-Alberta energy deal, courtesy of @thenarwhal.ca. I highly recommend the embedded video too:
A guide to Carney’s pipeline deal — and the climate policies it weakens: thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...
A guide to Carney’s pipeline deal — and the climate policies it weakens: thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...
A guide to Carney’s Alberta pipeline deal | The Narwhal
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ‘grand bargain’ isn’t just about an Alberta pipeline —it also proposes rolling back a host of climate policies
thenarwhal.ca
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Another great summary & critique of last week's Fed-Alberta energy deal, courtesy of @thenarwhal.ca. I highly recommend the embedded video too:
A guide to Carney’s pipeline deal — and the climate policies it weakens: thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...
A guide to Carney’s pipeline deal — and the climate policies it weakens: thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM