Definitely NOT a badge of honor, as Meg notes below. As a brown midlist author, it's hard enough to get the word out about my books--so if they get banned, that's it. You can't buy or borrow what you don't know exists. (And the author gets blamed for poor sales numbers and can't sell future books.)

Meg Elison@megelison.bsky.social · yesterday

Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.

how are Rage Against the Machine still managing to shock people with their politics that band is 35 years old. are people shocked that woody guthrie was a leftist too? going on god’s own internet all ‘you’ll never believe what i just learned about karl marx’?

'There is an urgent need for an Emergency Debate to allow Parliamentarians to respond to the attacks on the truth of what happened in residential schools,' says NDP MP Leah Gazan.

Gazan calls for emergency debate on residential school denialism

NDP MP Leah Gazan is calling for an emergency debate in the House of Commons over residential school denialism.

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LOL! (if you don't get this, scroll up the thread)

Ben Bolker@bbolker.bsky.social · yesterday

"Never buy dice from a wombat", from @nathanwpyle.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who watched my performance of The Secret Of The Poets at the Edinburgh Book Festival at the @iamloudpro.bsky.social Grand Slam! I'm still reading through comments ❤️ Here's the text version, which you can also find on my poetry site. I'll post a video soon about why I wrote this ❤️

Here is the video of my poem, The Secret Of The Poets, which has gone mini-viral on insta. It's about the use of generative AI for emotional moments. I had three minutes on the biggest stage I'm ever likely to have, and this is what I did with it. I've also posted the text version (see below).

It's shameful how little the gov't is doing to bring justice to MMIWG2S+ and their loved ones. These lost lives are worth more than platitudes & empty promises. This should be a top priority, and yet those with the power to do something just don't. They need to be held to account.

Leah ProudLakota (she/her)@leahgazan.bsky.social · 2d ago

October 4th is the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people, also known as Sisters in Spirit Day. Please read my full statement here:

Went out on a rare excursion today to get some fun things for my niece's Spooky Season gift at Obscurity Shop and ended up finding myself this print. It's a *perfect* reward for finishing the manuscript I worked on for 8 years, which will unfortunately likely never get published.

Daily bunny no.3459 is getting ready

Rather ironic that this proposed pipeline goes through places burnt to the fucking ground due to out of control forest fires.

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 5d ago

Carney announces the crude oil pipeline to the West Coast, which will almost certainly drive the orcas there to extinction, is designated in the “national interest.” That means it can bulldoze past environmental laws, impact assessments and Indigenous consultation. He laughs while announcing it.

Projects that truly serve the national interest would lower costs, create good jobs, protect our environment and prepare us for the green economy of the future.

The oil industry is unwilling to pay for this pipeline because even they know the world is moving away from fossil fuels. This project leaves Canadians bearing all the risks of a bad investment without any of the rewards.

i can feel the spookiness in the air

Jackson Lamb interacting with a kid is as hilarious a juxtaposition as Reacher holding a kitten lol.

The story behind Orange Shirt Day

September Rain 🌧️🍂 #art

Notable that no one is suggesting replacing athletes with AI because everyone immediately recognizes that extraordinary human achievement is the point. Why is it that we devalue the arts so much?

If we're going to talk about truth and reconciliation we should talk about Canada fighting First Nations in court. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/liberal...

Liberals are playing legal hardball with First Nations over drinking water - Investigative Journalism Bureau

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is playing legal hardball with First Nations fighting for clean drinking water — and First Nations are fighting back. Interviews and hundreds of pages o...

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We're live with APTN News anchors Dennis Ward and Tiar Wheatle as they provide live coverage ahead of the national commemorative gathering, Remembering the Children. Watch: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/r...

Remembering the Children | APTN News

For 160 years, Indigenous children were taken and put into institutions across Canada. September 30 is a day to remember the children.

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Predictably, instead of trying to change hockey culture or lifting the ban on Pride Night jerseys, the NHL is hiring romance authors to write short stories that wink at the insinuation that NHL stars might be into each other without ever needing to support any actual gay people.

KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today!@kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 6d ago

The nhl would rather do whatever the hell this is than have a dv/sa policy www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

A lot of you can't stop conflating cognitive, psychiatric, & neurodevelopmental disabilities with immoral behaviour, bc it's easier to pathologize ppl for making shitty choices than it is to acknowledge we're all inherently capable (intentionally or not) of causing grave harm. You're not immune.

On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we acknowledge and reflect on the deep intergenerational harm residential schools have caused to Indigenous families and communities. Art by Elaine Landry #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters #TruthAndReconciliation

Yep, junior hockey is a prime example of this. The descriptions of hazing in Rick Westhead's book, We Breed Lions, were horrifying. Basically older players sexually abusing rookies. When boys are steeped in that toxicity it's no bloody wonder they go on to assault girls/women.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 7d ago

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

GOAT OR BIRD????

BIGGER IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER. I'm so tired of the machismo in Carney's rhetoric: Canada STRONG building BIG MASTERS in our own home These themes are repeated ad nauseum and there's this sense of masculine dominance that's so off-putting to me.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 7d ago

Canada is building big again. LNG Canada Phase 2 will be the second-largest facility of its kind in the world.

The Liberal Government is slated to CUT ALL FUNDING for the Indian Residential School Resolution Health Support Program (IRS-RHSP) on March 31, 2028. There will be NO further funding allocated for these life-saving programs that support survivors and their families.

Residential school survivors should not have to plead for funding. Please read this thread to find out how the Liberal government is cutting funding to healing programs for residential school survivors.

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪