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Cheryl Rosbak

@csrosbak.bsky.social

Queer Canadian romance author. Occasionally I make things that aren't books. she/her. Against generative AI for any reason. csrosbak.com

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Artem Zakharchenko@kettanaito.com · 9h ago

Where are my indie author friends on Bluesky? 👀 If you've ever created an EPUB for your book only to upload it to a storefront and be slapped with a wall of cryptic HTML/CSS errors, I have something for you. I'm building @bytebinding.com, a modern EPUB editor that won't waste your time. #booksky

Phil@philmarfisi.bsky.social · 11h ago

All major local municipalities (including Guelph and Waterloo's regional government) subsidize a Backyard Tree Planting Program thru Reep Green Solutions that includes onsite consultation with an arborist and delivery and planting. Something we should consider giving more operational funding to!

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 13h ago

Planting trees in cities saves lives. A new study in Chicago estimates that planting 14,000 trees per year to increase shade would save 104 lives annually Conversely, eliminating urban trees increases deaths from heat agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

David K. Barnes@davidkbarnes.com · 2d ago

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · yesterday

How to make a $60 air purifier as wildfires rage in Canada, Vancouver’s abandoned boats problem and more: July in review Here’s a highlight of some of our stories from last month at The Narwhal.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · 3d ago

A dog attacks your dog/latches on. What do you do? DO NOT GRAB COLLARS. YOU WILL GET BIT. Getting bit by a dog is AWFUL, 0/10 Instead, GRAB THE BITING DOG’S HIPS. The dog will let go of the other dog to figure out what’s going on. You walk them backwards until there’s enough distance / it’s safe

Suw@suw.bsky.social · 3d ago

Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...

Solar Panels Are Helping Crops Grow Better, Global Studies Show - Microgrid Media

For farmers worried about losing land to solar energy, new research brings surprising news: many crops actually produce more food when grown beneath solar

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Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…

• panters cannot pant hım; looks like someone else (38b) • insensitive to music (38b) • despises death and the dead (38b) . is affected only by relics that are older than he is (38b) • can create evil thoughts in others, banish good ones, and destroy will (38b) • cannot be photographed; photographs come out black or like a skeleton corpse (4, 38b) • can tell if bodies are dead or alive (4) • sees man semingly dead and says "no" (4) • has to be brought or carried over threshold. Dracula visits an asylum where he stumbles on the threshold (4, 16) • named "Count Wampyr" (1) • can determine and prove if people are sane (24) green taper with blue flame in Count's house (43va)
Tess is Surviving the Horrors@mothmother.com · 5d ago

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

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Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 4d ago

Welp guess we know what we're talking about in tomorrow's Sunday Morning Outbreak News Livestream! (Plus Salmonelleggs, & ANOTHER botulism outbreak in baby formula that's somehow going under the radar. So obvs we gotta talk about… all that.) youtube.com/live/_mjPVY1...

Yep, Taylor Farms Uses Prison Labor (& Other Outbreak Updates)

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

addy,@addyct.bsky.social · 5d ago

my favorite religious theory is that "biblically accurate angels" is just someone tripping balls who encountered a peacock for the first time

'Nathan Burgoine (he/him)@nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 4d ago

A thing I’ve always found useful in discussion with Canadian folk who like to over-focus on "but it’s something like 1% of the population!" when talking about any group of people is to point out Canada isn’t even 1% of the world’s population, but they'd never suggest tossing aside, y’know, Canada.