This was great and it's on sale today!

K.C. Clyburn, Author@kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 2d ago

My book is on sale for 1.99 right now, I think I need to make at least $20 for it pay out. bookshop.org/p/books/like...

"Every time we swim in a lake, a river or along a shoreline, we build a connection to that place. Those connections are often where stewardship begins. So go to the water this summer."

Loren King@lorenking.org · yesterday

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"Coming of age stories are a classic for a reason, and they hit very differently when your age and the character’s have both, so to speak, already been come of. Roads not taken are clearer when you’re making the drive another time."

Marissa Lingen@marissalingen.bsky.social · 2d ago

New essay out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/midd...

Absolutely stunning piece

Lia Pas@liapas.bsky.social · 2d ago

Unbound is now available to watch on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxK6... #MECFS #LongCovid #NEISvoid #dance #DisabledArt

Truly torn between Amplified Heart, Walking Wounded, and Temperamental by Everything But The Girl and Days To Come, Black Sands, and The North Shores by Bonobo

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

Ebook sale, a mere $2.99 (a steal!) for my grimsweet fantasy road trip (on foot) w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials on a back country route that includes a ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt. www.amazon.com/Witch-Roads-...

Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..

hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 4d ago

*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…

‘A Life Illuminated’: Of Bioluminescence, Mysterious Sea Creatures, And A Woman Scientist’s Groundbreaking Quest deadline.com/2026/08/a-li...

Bioluminescence Captured In Edie Widder Doc 'A Life Illuminated'

Ocean creature bioluminescence is captured in the documentary 'A Life Illuminated,' about the pioneering marine biologist Edie Widder.

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Hope Is Not Passive is up for preorder now! I’m one of the authors in this anthology of sci-fi/fantasy resistance! All profits go to benefit Kids In Need of Defense. buy.bookfunnel.com/fu975njpyr

Hope Is Not Passive

In worlds broken by war, silence, tyranny, exile, and loss, hope survives—not as a fragile wish, but as an act of defiance.A guardian angel bends the rules to save a life. A refugee carries the seed o...

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one reason Canadian politics is the way it is because people expect the Feds + local municipalities to do what provincial government does

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 5d ago

the vast majority of this is shaped by the province 😭

"Some said the world would end in fire, some said in ice. This summer, Paul W. S. Anderson brings both to a screen near you."

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

I'm back with my latest — bad technology that ignores human nature & creates nonproblems that don't need to be solved. notes-from-economy-class.beehiiv.com/p/babies-fam...

Babies: Famously private about their diaper status

Or, I tell you all about the time someone tried to sell me a product that would have locked me into doing all diaper changes forever.

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“Ultimately, Magic Mike XXL isn’t a hero’s journey, because it doesn’t believe in heroes... Instead of heroes, sexy dancing. Instead of telling the story of why the king is the king, sexy dancing” How have we had weeks of Odyssey discourse without citing this @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social banger?

Magic Mike XXL Is Basically "The Odyssey," But With Butts - Electric Literature

The quintessential stripper road trip film both follows and transcends Joseph Campbell’s traditional Hero’s Journey

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This. My first year tuition for full-time university coursework was 1800 Canadian dollars, which I paid from my lifeguarding summer job.

Janice Braden@janicebraden.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s not just your imagination. A university summer job paid me enough for half an apartment, tuition, and to run a beater car (with the help of a small student loan). Students now have nowhere near the ability to cover costs from wages.

If I were a billionaire I would fund all the websites I used to read in 2009 so I didn’t have to spend every day scrolling through social media. I would give Caitlyn Weaver an unlimited Diet Coke budget so she could try every chain restaurant in Times Square. TWoP would thrive.

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last wk.

Christopher Nolan is so wealthy, he doesn’t use email! That’s how you do it. The Dolly Parton method. My eyes shan’t land upon a screen! Print that shit off!

A lovely way to spend your evening would be to curl up with your knitting/physiotherapy exercises/cat (yes I am getting old) and get all the gossip on Hamilton's data centre moratorium campaign. These organizers got further than anyone else in Canada has yet + have a ton of great lessons to pass on.

Am informed that various US ebook retailers currently have *Written On The Dark* for $1.99. It *should* be hard to say no.

reposting this an additional time bc I feel so strongly about it, Women and Other Monsters is a spectacular book and the best thing that could possibly come out of this little cultural moment around Greek mythology would be for it to become the phenomenon it’s always deserved to be

Jess Zimmerman@jesszimmerman.com · 2w ago

I can’t believe it took me this long into the Odyssey discourse to think to post this but… if you loved the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis and you also love stuff Elon Musk would consider too woke, have I got a book for you

Canadian Blood Services says its blood supply has dropped by 20 per cent since June 1. They need about 18,000 donations across the country every week, but they've been short by 1,500 to 2,500 each week. www.blood.ca/en/about-us/...

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

National Survey on the Cultural Sector’s Readiness for Artificial Intelligence

Powered by SimpleSurvey.com | Build and manage your own online survey, voting, form and panel management applications.

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It's pub day for Lost in Curiosity -- please re-post widely! "Lively and revelatory" (Elizabeth Kolbert), "beautifully written" (Alan Lightman), "an utter delight" (Sabrina Imbler), "the kind of trip you won't want to miss" (Deborah Blum) www.robertakwok.com/book

The flakey sketchy anon survey monkey (!) the federal government put out on the Island Airport, their "consultation," ends Friday. If you haven't yet be sure to still fill it out. There are places you can add your own thoughts like "this survey is faulty and skews towards done deal" and etc.

Public consultation on the future of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport

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The entire *purpose* of (good) government is to provide goods and services that would not be supplied by the market in socially optimal quantities. “Running it like a business” is nonsense-speak from people who have no mental model of what government actually does.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2w ago

<taps mic> <all together now> <John Facenda voice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCHM... >

This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF

Wrote about two new studies that show mosquitoes are changing for the worse in American neighborhoods including mine -- they have done this for millennia -- in answer to human behaviors, in this case light pollution and private mosquito spraying companies. joshuasokol.substack.com/p/mosquitoes...

Mosquitoes, light pollution, and why we can’t have nice things

A recent study out of Columbus, Ohio shows that mosquitoes living in suburban lawns illuminated by “porch lights, garden pathway lights, or security lights” keep biting weeks or even a month longer in...

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This, from food safety attorney Bill Marler, is so much better than anything I've seen from the FDA.

Taylor Farms Posted Its Own Recall. It Went to 27 States, Not 5 — and the List Includes Bags Sold in Grocery Stores.

Taylor Farms has posted a recall notice on its own website. As of this morning it is still not on FDA's recalls page, which means the only

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hi this is a really big deal. Chaco Canyon is one of the most important historical sites in North America. the area tribes are extremely opposed to this. please please please comment on this with the BLM. it takes two minutes.

Daniel - Desert Apostate@hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 3w ago

The asshole administration is planning to remove the mining buffer around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. This is being done without tribal or expert input and the public comment time is incredibly, and cowardly short. Please comment to help try and save Chaco. www.koat.com/article/chac...

Following up on the magnets, I've just made an open post over at Patreon to discuss what reward tiers people might be interested in for the crowdfund: www.patreon.com/ce_murphy/po...

more shark-man thoughts | CE Murphy

So right now I've got a pretty basic setup for the SHARK-MAN crowdfund: €1+ : I just want to support the project, name in acks €12: ebook, n

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CE (Catie) Murphy@cemurphy.bsky.social · 3w ago

I swear I'm going to actually do my words in a minute but LOOK! I got my sample Shark-Man magnet & it's just what I hoped for! The backerkit project will launch in August! Probably. We're going to the States & it's messing up my timeline, I gotta figure it out. :) www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes

The only way it could be more Saskatchewan-ass is if he'd said we gotta start given'er

Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · 3w ago

okay, this is terrifying, but also, sound on for the most beautiful Saskatchewan-ass motherfuckers you ever heard