Hey friends, my garden just got its own #Instagram! It's very empty right now, but we're hoping to post lots of nice pictures and cool gardening tips and info about plants and insects soon! If you have Insta, give us a follow @comeunityrootsgc @waterlooregion #VictoriaPark #WillowRiverPark […]

Fantastic event with Natalie Haynes at the Kitchener Public #Library tonight! I am so excited to read these books! Thanks for going with me @crystalsmusings.bsky.social and @arielkroon.bsky.social! #booksky #newbooks

Hey #Ontario friends, take this chance to do something nice for the environment that is simple and fast! Right here is a petition to look into alternatives to road salt, which is toxic and polluting the Great Lakes. Given current #water issues, this is pretty important, I think […]

Still looking, sadly. I desire the unborn but, y'know, ethically. #CSA #localfood #buylocal #eggs #Farmfresheggs

Ariel Kroon@arielkroon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 8mo ago

Looking for an egg-only CSA delivery in the KW area is a bust so far. I don't need veggies; I grow 'em. What I do need is eggs. And I don't have a car, so what I want is delivery. What's a woman gotta do to get some free-range fresh eggs around here that don't come with so many vegetables it […]

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

Claire Nevin-Field@clairenf.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

My Calvinist ancestors are rolling in their graves because I am considering conversion to Rave Catholicism.

David✶🇬🇹@vuc.bsky.social · 9mo ago

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

ccla.org/press-releas... My first thought was of an Atwoodian "Torching the Dusties"-style situation.

a man with a beard is asking what can men do against such reckless hate .

Alt: Théoden king asking what can men do against such reckless hate. Gendered, but hey. It's an older kind of English mimicking an even older style of speech reflecting an older understanding of gender and cultural mores. Just substitute "people" in there. We should all get mad and demand change.

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Our final Guest of Honour for 2026 will be author @chuckwendig.bsky.social! Chuck is a NYT bestselling author, writes games, comics, film and TV, and we are so excited that he will be joining us in the fall!

We are very excited to announced that our 2026 Agent Guest of Honour will be @hel-no-wai.bsky.social! Hana is a Literary Agent and Rights Manager at Cooke McDermid and a co-founder of BIPOC Publishing in Canada. We are super thrilled that Hana can join us next fall!

We are HYPED to announce that our 2026 Editor Guest of Honour will be @jenralbert.bsky.social - Jen is an acquiring editor at ECW Press, won a British Fantasy Award for her editing work and has been nominated for the Hugo, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Awards. So excited to have Jen with us next fall!

We are EXCITE to be able to announce our Guests of Honour for 2026 this week! First up is @tonialaird.bsky.social! tonia is a Michif writer from Treaty 6 who does video games, comics, an interactive novel, and her debut novel Seventhblade was released in June from ECW Press.

Tremendous news. Solidarity forever!

a close up of a man with big ears wearing a suit and tie .

ALT: a close up of a man with big ears wearing a suit and tie .

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Rascal News@rascal.news · 10mo ago

Workers with @kickstarterunited.org end their six-week strike victorious, enshrining 4-day work weeks and salary floors while also adding protections against gen AI replacing human labor.

You know what would be nice? If Canadian identity wasn't defined by hypermsculine white guy from a beer commercial. Just a thought.

No you know what people who will say things like "I use ChatGPT to DO MY JOB" with their whole ass SHOULD be publicly embarrassed like this

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The only one learning is ChatGPT

Expected to see a lot more Guy Fawkes memes and references, perhaps I am showing my age and internet proclivities a little too openly... #RememberRemember #GuyFawkes #VforVendetta #IYKYK

Okay, but now the Terminators will come for all these people first

Cinephilia & Beyond@cinephiliabeyond.org · 10mo ago

“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement. After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”

"The solution is going to have to come from everyone else, using every tool at our disposal to push back against an ecocidal agenda driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and too often now, the press."

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I appreciate @michaelemann.bsky.social’s ability to call out this trash thinking.
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Hi friends. Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica *hard* last month; my neighbour just shared with me that her mother and sister, who were evacuated before landfall, haven't been heard from since :( Melissa devastated her home community of Wakefield, but the ForUsGirls organization is organizing relief […]

It's Hamilton Days this weekend in Hamilton, and lots of local businesses are participating. We're taking this opportunity to highlight some of our books by Hamilton authors. You can learn more about Hamilton Days here: hamiltonday.ca And these books here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...

RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY! #BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐

Chuffed to have a story in here! (And in Volume One too!)

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦@ourmankoto.bsky.social · 10mo ago

RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY! #BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐

This bus is extremely nice but the seats are just a TINY bit off the ground and there is no footrest in front of me D:

Someone forgot their mug at #CanCon2025 @canconsffh.bsky.social !

My brain was definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel when it came to energy. Thankfully I avoided saying anything embarrassing, and I'm told I actually was able to provide mildly interesting facts about historical Canadian SF and publishing!

Andy W. Taylor@sooguy68.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Last panel of the day/con! “Just Let me Sell a Canadian Story” with @arielkroon.bsky.social (Ariel Kroon), @ourmankoto.bsky.social (Stephen Kotowych), @ecwpress.bsky.social (Jen Albert), @ashhisson.bsky.social (Ashley Hisson) #cancon2025 @canconsffh.bsky.social

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

#CanCon2025 'fit for the last day!

Gotta resist going off on a tangent about Canadian Literary nationalism and academic slapfights about thematic criticism tomorrow. I mean, it's relevant but I also don't want to speak in paragraphs. #CanCon2025 #CanLit

Prepping for my panel tomorrow ("Just let me sell a Canadian story, dammit!") and also packing up to check out in the AM. Although I plan to call and see if I can store my things up at the front desk, because they call it "luggage" for a reason.

I have changed my profile pic and banner here about three times now, and apparently they have not stuck. What gives? I feel very silly.