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My 10,000-word novelette 'Aspect of the Moth' just got into Beneath Ceaseless Skies. It's the 15th Churchlands/Five Deserts story and the 6th to feature Tyrra the Painted, dye-worker turned wandering sorcerer. Also the first (published) to explicitly join that setting to my Broken Season stories.

My Churchlands story 'Ninnagan Says Remember' is in here, and a very nice place for it to be.

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦@ourmankoto.bsky.social · last wk.

I've just seen the first print proof of Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol 4, so there's no better time to announce the full TABLE OF CONTENTS!!! Join us for our launch at Can*Con on Oct 17 and our Bakka-Phoenix launch on Nov 14 or pre-order your copy now! #booksky

Vanity shot of a WIP trench reconciling the low end of a drainage ditch to the high end of an old creek, both of them recently dug out, enlarged, and aggressively regraded to guard against flooding. Basically, a moat.

Jon Olfert@jonolfert.bsky.social · 2w ago

Over the last two months, have completely replaced gym time with digging and digging accessories. Here's the latest indulgence. My life is work, kids, writing when rarely feasible, and dirt. Dirt in all varieties. Dirt at all hours. A little more dirt as a treat.

Over the last two months, have completely replaced gym time with digging and digging accessories. Here's the latest indulgence. My life is work, kids, writing when rarely feasible, and dirt. Dirt in all varieties. Dirt at all hours. A little more dirt as a treat.

til this core memory has a sequel (released almost 30 years after the original). baby's first thriller, featuring eugenicist villains who are both colossal, ineffective dipshits and catastrophically evil. haddix mastered the kiddie dystopia thing long before the wave hit. underappreciated talent

Running the new data and >50% of the Very Expensive Dubious New Revenue Generator will bleed straight from first-year students. Plus ça change.

Truly terrible news! My paleolithic cannibal story, 'Antecessor,' which featured in a charity anthology a couple of years ago, has found a home at @talestoterrify.bsky.social 'Antecessor' is in the deep time before almost 30 stories of mine that share a world, so keep an ear out for the familiar.

Googling with GREAT interest the various category winners and runners-up of this Canadian Armed Forces science fiction contest. Almost $50k in prize money dished out. Submissions opened in early October last year; I wonder if they're gearing up for a second round soon. Congrats to the winners.

In my quest to eat healthier, made a cauliflower and lentil soup so irredeemable that four hours of aggressive ventilation later, there are ongoing Febreze patrols and bedtime impacts. I have become persona non grata, which is appropriate for someone in the biochemical weapons research business.

Stayed up all night checking weather radar and certain drainage situations every fifteen minutes to make sure all the fixes did their jobs. Spent the night watch working on my business and, in the cold light of day, most of the work will keel.

The only opinion I'll ever maintain on Joe Rogan comes from @greatdismal.bsky.social's COUNT ZERO: "...she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were not even remotely human."

Good morning everyone, I have the privilege of leading HESA's Focus Fridays this year and I'm excited to launch today. At 12:30 Eastern I’ll be joined by Sterling Crowe and Jennifer Browne for a discussion on The Student Experience This Year. Registration here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It's one fifth, at least where I work. One fifth of undergrads are severely food insecure by Health Canada standards. One fifth is also the number who are currently skipping meals at least once a week due to the cost of food. Don't even get me started on how bad things are for Indigenous students.

Jon Olfert@jonolfert.bsky.social · 4w ago

Love and respect McMaster's student union running free soup and bread, and Waterloo's running pay-what-you-can meals. But man do I wish student food insecurity stats were not so crushing and they didn't need to do this. www.thesil.ca/news/msu-sou...

Love and respect McMaster's student union running free soup and bread, and Waterloo's running pay-what-you-can meals. But man do I wish student food insecurity stats were not so crushing and they didn't need to do this. www.thesil.ca/news/msu-sou...

MSU Soup and Bread program expands to Fridays

Starting this week, the Food Collective Centre’s Soup and Bread program will run from Tuesdays to Fridays from their location in the Hub. This years offerings also include a new flavour. This change w...

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Update! My partner and I have saved up about $1,000 this month! It's nothing to sneeze at but we have a long way to go. So far we've raised $230 thanks to all of your help! Thank you! Every bit helps truly. If you can repost this, please share! :D gofund.me/1370f0b84

Donate to Help Me Stay Safe in my Partner's Country, organized by Caster Jones

If I am forced to return to the U.S., I am likely to get my passport … Caster Jones needs your support for Donate to Help Me Stay Safe in my Partner's Country

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This novelette is my second Recommended Story in Locus; the first was 'Crickets in Lost Light,' another Ander Carmora piece. 'Fletcher's Flights' finds our turncoat tithe-collector older and dustier, skulking in the prairie coulees between the Five Deserts and the ravenous Churchlands.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Fletcher’s Flights by Jonathan Olfert

In smoky light, Carmora watched for jackals and looters (which he'd been at times) and Churchmen (which he'd also been), one hand by the short-sword on his thigh. For months, he'd ranged back and fort...

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Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · last mo.

“First To Rot” by @jnhowell.bsky.social from @othersidespec.bsky.social, “Fletcher’s Flights” by Jonathan Olfert from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @paulaguran here - locusmag.com/review/...

So, so excited for Alberta Time (permanent UTC-6) to kick in, you have no idea. Cutting the time difference for half the year has a couple of positive effects for my family and work. Can't wait.

Oh look, that very appealing job has been reposted for the third time in a year and a half...

Mermaid Siren

Alt: Mermaids swirl dangerously around a boat from below

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Defeat the curse of knowledge bias by having the guts for the basic conversations.

Jon Olfert@jonolfert.bsky.social · last mo.

TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN ALBERTA: Two weeks left to apply for your special ballot. The line about being unable to vote is a mistake and is NOT included in ballots going out now. Long lineups on voting day. The other 9 questions are important to know about too. abreferendum.dignityforum.org

TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN ALBERTA: Two weeks left to apply for your special ballot. The line about being unable to vote is a mistake and is NOT included in ballots going out now. Long lineups on voting day. The other 9 questions are important to know about too. abreferendum.dignityforum.org

If this was a cyberpunk dystopia worth a damn we’d all have cobbled-together black market personal surveillance scramblers by now

mcc@dryad.technology · last mo.

What's not clear to me is whether Recap will be on by default, in which case a more complex script may be needed. I'm not sure why there are people talking about news from the Apple event other than Apple Watches now being roving surveillance devices. Especially with the camera Airpods coming soon.

Four days of shoveling have forcibly reminded me why I no longer do this for a living. I'm only capable of remaining vertical because my blood is currently 38% pumpkin spice latte by volume.

On the one hand, all my deeply held feelings about consumption as identity. On the other, a shuttlecraft of baked mac and cheese.

TrekCore.com 🖖@trekcore.com · last mo.

NEW! The first big announcement for #StarTrek's 60th anniversary week is here — a new collaboration with luxury cookware company Le Creuset to send your kitchen to the final frontier blog.trekcore.com/2026/09/star...

This man cloned Sam Rockwell, printed Robert Pattinson, commanded the Callister, did NOT help Sharon Stone forget the Sphere, has a great job lined up with Weyland-Yutani, and left Matt Damon back on Mars on purpose.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last mo.

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Read KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social while fighting water. Think 'The Long Dark' in Ontario, with the same personal, authentic sense of place as TO THE LAST MAN, Zane Grey's love letter to every nook and cranny of the Tonto Basin. The Canadiana I needed this flood season.

KAYAK - a novel by Kristal Stittle (print + eBook)

For eighteen-year-old Keith—floating alone on a series of lakes and rivers, lost and without supplies—his kayak is his means of survival. Solid ground means certain death at the scissor-claws of vicio...

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Good thing I was raised Mormon; praying to a god of money is like riding a bike.

Jon Olfert@jonolfert.bsky.social · last mo.

O god of money, merciless though Thou art, please send my like $4k USD of assorted accounts receivable forthwith, as this entire goddamn day is shoveling, due to flooding, again. There is also an axe involved.

O god of money, merciless though Thou art, please send my like $4k USD of assorted accounts receivable forthwith, as this entire goddamn day is shoveling, due to flooding, again. There is also an axe involved.

Pretty accurate. Western Canada, Eastern Canada, couple of years in California, lifelong friend and gig work in Florida...

Mike Manzer@nevtelen.bsky.social · last mo.

As a language teacher, I'm not shocked, but it is pretty impressive how accurate this is.

That HWA NDA is significantly nastier than when I got Secret clearance. Good lord.