Monique AC
@moniqueac.bsky.social
Queer SF writer. Space, cats, writing, running, & politics. SFWA. Codex. First Reader (Diabolical Plots & Small Wonders). Con stuff, Rainbow Space Magic & Can*Con. Settler. On unceded Anishinabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa, Canada).
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It's October 21... HAPPY RELEASE DAY!
Ghost to Ghost to Ghost - an anthology of 19 Haunting Tales from Canada.
Happy publication day to the authors of these wonderful short stories and flash fiction.
The paperback has been available for a while and today the eBook is here.
books2read.com/u/3GkdOL
Ghost to Ghost to Ghost - an anthology of 19 Haunting Tales from Canada.
Happy publication day to the authors of these wonderful short stories and flash fiction.
The paperback has been available for a while and today the eBook is here.
books2read.com/u/3GkdOL
Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: an anthology of haunting tales from Canada is out today 🎉
You can read my northern Ontario climate horror story, "The Fish of Cart Lake" (along with other great stories). 🐟 👻
You can read my northern Ontario climate horror story, "The Fish of Cart Lake" (along with other great stories). 🐟 👻
Glad Atlético Ottawa won in the end, because that was some game 🥶
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Glad Atlético Ottawa won in the end, because that was some game 🥶
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
My #BirdOfTheDay contribution, a ring-billed gull #StandingOnThings, Rideau Canal, Ottawa (taken today, November 9 2025)
#birds
#birds
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My #BirdOfTheDay contribution, a ring-billed gull #StandingOnThings, Rideau Canal, Ottawa (taken today, November 9 2025)
#birds
#birds
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Quasar is coming! 🎉 Have you registered? 👀 From Nov 15-16 we're running events to support the whole writer. Check out our paired science panels, including this beauty featuring SFF writers! Nebula attendees just need to sign up! All new guests are only $50. events.sfwa.org Can't wait to see you out!
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Quasar is coming! 🎉 Have you registered? 👀 From Nov 15-16 we're running events to support the whole writer. Check out our paired science panels, including this beauty featuring SFF writers! Nebula attendees just need to sign up! All new guests are only $50. events.sfwa.org Can't wait to see you out!
"revitalized" is an interesting way to say "far fewer"
Council Update: The finalized plan to redevelop Lansdowne was approved by Council today.
Lansdowne 2.0 will bring modern sports and entertainment facilities, retail, housing, and revitalized public spaces to one of #OttCity’s most iconic destinations.
https://bit.ly/47PWTCJ
Lansdowne 2.0 will bring modern sports and entertainment facilities, retail, housing, and revitalized public spaces to one of #OttCity’s most iconic destinations.
https://bit.ly/47PWTCJ
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"revitalized" is an interesting way to say "far fewer"
I've been *so* looking forward to this & it's just as good I'd hoped ❤️
did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb
The Mountain Goats - Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan
Choose your preferred music service
30tgrs.ffm.to
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I've been *so* looking forward to this & it's just as good I'd hoped ❤️
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
<sigh>
Staring at Canada's own gender-based analysis of its budget. Give you one guess at the main beneficiary of all the major spending investments....
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
<sigh>
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Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives:
journal.cofutures.org
journal.cofutures.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives:
journal.cofutures.org
journal.cofutures.org
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Our last chance to stop Lansdowne 2.0. Show up this Friday.
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Our last chance to stop Lansdowne 2.0. Show up this Friday.
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Dick Cheney was proud to have normalized state-sponsored torture. That, and the dead of Iraq in an unjust war, constitute his entire legacy. “That’s not funny” is a meme-y cliche but I don’t care about the friend he shot or our jokes about it. Cheney is Kissinger level. He made the world worse.
November 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Dick Cheney was proud to have normalized state-sponsored torture. That, and the dead of Iraq in an unjust war, constitute his entire legacy. “That’s not funny” is a meme-y cliche but I don’t care about the friend he shot or our jokes about it. Cheney is Kissinger level. He made the world worse.
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The Better Ottawa Lansdowne 2.0 Forum begins in 10 minutes. Live from Barrhaven. Tune in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QggO...
Lansdowne 2.0 Public Forum | Rogers tv
YouTube video by Rogers tv
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The Better Ottawa Lansdowne 2.0 Forum begins in 10 minutes. Live from Barrhaven. Tune in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QggO...
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The Auditor General recently released her second sprint audit for Lansdowne 2.0. The risks are very concerning and if realized will lead to tens of millions more in costs for the city of #Ottawa.
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Auditor General recently released her second sprint audit for Lansdowne 2.0. The risks are very concerning and if realized will lead to tens of millions more in costs for the city of #Ottawa.
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Proud to join renters and activists as we fight back against Ford's attack on tenant rights.
Bill 60 would:
🚨 Make it easier for tenants to be evicted
🚨 Make it harder to fight back against bad landlords
🚨 Limit appeals against evictions
Bill 60 would:
🚨 Make it easier for tenants to be evicted
🚨 Make it harder to fight back against bad landlords
🚨 Limit appeals against evictions
November 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Proud to join renters and activists as we fight back against Ford's attack on tenant rights.
Bill 60 would:
🚨 Make it easier for tenants to be evicted
🚨 Make it harder to fight back against bad landlords
🚨 Limit appeals against evictions
Bill 60 would:
🚨 Make it easier for tenants to be evicted
🚨 Make it harder to fight back against bad landlords
🚨 Limit appeals against evictions
There’s a lot about this to be angry about, but the idea that any art has a ‘service life’ is so offensive
The contempt the city has shown for this expensive and genuinely impressive piece of art it bought and proudly installed is just perfectly symbolic of how it treats both the public realm and its own investments.
ottawacitizen.com/news/artist-...
ottawacitizen.com/news/artist-...
Artist fears Lansdowne installation may become '$2 million of scrap metal'
The final Lansdowne 2.0 report recommends decommissioning the art installation Moving Surfaces because there's no budget to restore it.
ottawacitizen.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
There’s a lot about this to be angry about, but the idea that any art has a ‘service life’ is so offensive
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Workers replacing lights along the Rideau Canal paths have finished up by putting in new soil and sod where they’ve dug up trenches.
Here, they’ve done it on a slope next to a deep depression where the path itself is failing. It fills, wall to wall, with maybe two inches of water every rain.
Here, they’ve done it on a slope next to a deep depression where the path itself is failing. It fills, wall to wall, with maybe two inches of water every rain.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Workers replacing lights along the Rideau Canal paths have finished up by putting in new soil and sod where they’ve dug up trenches.
Here, they’ve done it on a slope next to a deep depression where the path itself is failing. It fills, wall to wall, with maybe two inches of water every rain.
Here, they’ve done it on a slope next to a deep depression where the path itself is failing. It fills, wall to wall, with maybe two inches of water every rain.
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Just stress-bought $150 worth of whistles. If anyone wants to kick in a few bucks: givedan.money
November 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Just stress-bought $150 worth of whistles. If anyone wants to kick in a few bucks: givedan.money
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Wondering what StoryADay November is all about? I hopped onto YouTube earlier to talk about it. (All the essentials in under 3 mins, then me--enthusing--for another 8!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE9J...
Writers: StoryADay November starts soon
YouTube video by StoryADay
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Wondering what StoryADay November is all about? I hopped onto YouTube earlier to talk about it. (All the essentials in under 3 mins, then me--enthusing--for another 8!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE9J...
Janeway and crow-friend are ready for Halloween 🎃🐈⬛🐦⬛
October 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Janeway and crow-friend are ready for Halloween 🎃🐈⬛🐦⬛
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It's new story day! My latest, "Within Dead Dreams," is a horror story set in an extinct majority-Black settlement in Colorado. Generational trauma, racial trauma, and body horror. I'm glad this one found a home. Buy the issue from midnight & indigo here: midnight-indigo.com/products/mid...
midnight & indigo: Sixteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers
From underwater cities to outlawed magic, lunar missions to haunted houses, sixteen emerging and established Black women writers conjure strange wonders, eerie encounters, and futures beyond our reach...
midnight-indigo.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It's new story day! My latest, "Within Dead Dreams," is a horror story set in an extinct majority-Black settlement in Colorado. Generational trauma, racial trauma, and body horror. I'm glad this one found a home. Buy the issue from midnight & indigo here: midnight-indigo.com/products/mid...
Makes a note to go to Pizzeria Badiali next time in Toronto
in Toronto we aren’t allowed to have nice shops in residential areas and according to these ladies, an example of why that’s important is because there’s a place in our city that makes pizza that is *so freaking good* that it attracts people from all over the world
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Makes a note to go to Pizzeria Badiali next time in Toronto
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Just because the committee approved it today, doesn't mean Lansdowne 2.0 is a done deal.
We encourage everyone to write to their councillor and tell them to vote NO on November 7th.
Here's a tool for you to easily send a pre-written email: www.horizonottawa.ca/stop_lansdowne
We encourage everyone to write to their councillor and tell them to vote NO on November 7th.
Here's a tool for you to easily send a pre-written email: www.horizonottawa.ca/stop_lansdowne
Stop Gambling on Lansdowne!
www.horizonottawa.ca
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Just because the committee approved it today, doesn't mean Lansdowne 2.0 is a done deal.
We encourage everyone to write to their councillor and tell them to vote NO on November 7th.
Here's a tool for you to easily send a pre-written email: www.horizonottawa.ca/stop_lansdowne
We encourage everyone to write to their councillor and tell them to vote NO on November 7th.
Here's a tool for you to easily send a pre-written email: www.horizonottawa.ca/stop_lansdowne
People (mostly children) are going to die because of this.
Because Doug Ford has friends who are annoyed they get speeding tickets.
Because the people in this province keep voting for him. (And I don't care how pathetic the other parties are, this is so much worse.)
Because Doug Ford has friends who are annoyed they get speeding tickets.
Because the people in this province keep voting for him. (And I don't care how pathetic the other parties are, this is so much worse.)
NEW: The Ford government's speed camera ban will receive Royal Assent on Monday, just 2 weeks after it was introduced.
Temporary signs will be introduced, but physical changes like roundabouts won't be in place when the cameras are banned. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1150266...
Temporary signs will be introduced, but physical changes like roundabouts won't be in place when the cameras are banned. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1150266...
Ontario sets date to remove speed cameras, temporary signs to be installed | Globalnews.ca
Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said an omnibus red tape bill, which includes the speed camera ban, will receive royal assent next Monday.
globalnews.ca
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
People (mostly children) are going to die because of this.
Because Doug Ford has friends who are annoyed they get speeding tickets.
Because the people in this province keep voting for him. (And I don't care how pathetic the other parties are, this is so much worse.)
Because Doug Ford has friends who are annoyed they get speeding tickets.
Because the people in this province keep voting for him. (And I don't care how pathetic the other parties are, this is so much worse.)