Lynn Coady
@lynncoady.bsky.social
Giller Prize winning fictioneer and screenwriter. Irony-poisoned. lynncoady.com
Pathetic. Elbows down, backbone absent www.thewirereport.ca/2026/07/28/b...
BREAKING: Ottawa to scrap base contribution requirements for U.S. streamers - The Wire Report
In a recent letter to the Federal Court of Appeal, the government outlined its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services and to provide government funding to repl...
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They thought he was a dead man… Nobody heard him moaning… Jason Statham IS: Not Waving, but Drowning
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Like all Canadian government surveys on AI, this is hilariously pro-AI. But it only takes like 5 minutes to fill out, and at the end you can make it clear that the only focus of the government when it comes to AI and culture is that Canadian artists need copyright protections from AI scraping.
Sonja Boon@storiedselves.bsky.social · 2w agoCanadian 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...
I'll say it again... bsky.app/profile/step...
Stephen Lautens@stephenlautens.bsky.social · last yr.Canada: Walk away from negotiations. Don't retaliate. Diversify. Find new markets. Buy European military equipment. Reinstate the digital services tax. Let Americans pay more for the things they want from us. Keep up the public boycott. Welcome American refugee talent. Be Canadian. #cdnpoli #USpoli
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
Attention everyone, critic Richard Brody at @newyorker.com says the best film of 2026 so far is Canadian @sophyromvari.bsky.social ‘s debut feature Blue Heron. Support Canadian artists, thank you and have a good day.
The look is clearly a tribute to Roy Rogers, the greatest warrior of all the singing cowboys
Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 4w agocan't stop laughing at this Poilievre: "We will reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture."
I wonder if the next time someone tells us who they are we’ll believe them
Megan Greenwell@greenwell.bsky.social · last mo.I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.
Such a fantastic interview with Andy Brown, dynamo publisher of national treasure @conundrumpress.bsky.social and all around great guy lareviewofbooks.org/article/andy...
Diving In Feetfirst | Los Angeles Review of Books
Andy Brown talks about the 30th anniversary of Conundrum Press and building a support system for Canadian comics publishing.
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Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
Here you see what results from the ruling class delusion that human workers have no value whatsoever beyond total obedience
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr
Once again, misogyny is the impetus behind brutal killing, this time in Montreal. Once again, we're going to ignore that simple fact. It's already happening, like it did with the Montreal Massacre, where the killer's anti-feminist ideology was initially dismissed as unimportant.
Wonder who picked a photo of women performing domestic labour as an illustration of ‘doing nothing’
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2mo ago“Some of the best time we spend with other people happens not when we’ve planned something special, but when we simply make room for them in the middle of an ordinary day,” Rafaela Jinich writes in The Wonder Reader:
Pardon my french but what kind of fuckass chipmunk fells a healthy cucumber plant by chomping at the stem like some vainglorious beaver taking out an ancient oak
“The order states she’s entitled to continue living in her apartment until Sept. 30, but that’s an impossible reality right now because her former home has been turned into debris.”
Matt Stickland@landofsticks.bsky.social · 2mo agoHow about maybe like... At least one barrier?
Sounds festive
Lindsay Brown@lidsville.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe whole city of Vancouver is crawling in cops right now—black police boats patrolling an empty bay, black helicopters flying low over crowds with guys in paramilitary gear hanging out of them Ken Sim's ABC Vancouver is filled w/ cops, and now the whole city is their self portrait #vanpoli #FIFA
This is nonsensical. Libraries buy huge numbers of books you wouldn't otherwise sell. They're a massive discoverability vector for authors. The reasons behind the declining author earnings are not hard to guess. People read less, have less $ to spend, +media is being consolidated by megacorporations
Becky Spratford@raforall.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou all-- I never thought I'd see the day, but library peeps, strap in for a fight. The Author's Guild is going after us as the reason why authors are making less money. I don't think they understand who they are dealing with: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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Scott Pelley tearing up over his coleagues being insulted and disrespected is strong stuff in this AI-blighted age of worker immiseration www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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When I lived in Vancouver I once watched a crow fly off carrying a bag of someone’s takeout in its beak
The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 2mo agoCrows, magpies and ravens — all members of the corvid family — are exceptionally intelligent. An excerpt from 'A Bird's IQ," Louis Lefebvre's new book, tells us why. 📘🐦⬛ thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
