We are ENTHRABULATED to see friends of the con @amalelmohtar.com and @ourmankoto.bsky.social on the final ballot for the 2026 World Fantasy Awards! Congratulations to all the finalists!! locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Thrilled and shocked (throcked? shrilled?) that Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Three is a Best Anthology finalist in this year's World Fantasy Awards! This is the second WFA nom for a book in this series and just as much a surprise this time :) Congrats to all the nominees!

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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I'm Canadian and apparently I know more about the role and function of the United States Congress in constraining the power of the American president than * checks notes * a SITTING US SENATOR

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Happy (?) "There Will Come Soft Rains" day to all who celebrate! (Pics are from my Broadview Anthology of SF). broadviewpress.com/product/the-... @broadviewpress.bsky.social

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Name a song with gun, shot, or bullet in the lyrics. The Doors - The Unknown Soldier

The Doors - The Unknown Soldier (Live At The Bowl '68)

YouTube video by The Doors

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gwsimmers.bsky.social@gwsimmers.bsky.social · 3d ago

Name a song with gun,shot, or bullet in the lyrics. Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello youtu.be/snPDoXl9ZPs?...

Bluejays fans after the Gausman trade be like.....

Tina Fey Binge Eating Cake on SNL

ALT: Tina Fey Binge Eating Cake on SNL

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Rubber Soul (Dec 1965) Revolver (Aug 1966) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (June 1967)

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

Four great B/W films: Some Like It Hot Seven Samurai Arsenic and Old Lace Clerks

Si Domingo@syd1971.bsky.social · 3d ago

Four great B/W films: Casablanca Psycho The Dambusters It’s a Wonderful Life

The Dodger acquire Tarik Skubal for * checks notes * some magic beans? Enjoy the lockout next season. I'm going to see how you stream the Japanese and Korean leagues here in Canada

Ken Rosenthal@ken-rosenthal.bsky.social · 3d ago

Tarik Skubal addition takes anti-Dodger hysteria to new heights as MLB lockout looms. Column, unlocked and free to read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/748...

I love STAR TREK (especially TNG). Seen every ep of every series multiple times. But I will NEVER re-watch “The Griffin Incident” from ST: Strange New Worlds (S04E02). It was CREEPY & SCARY AF and I cannot handle horror. I powered through but NEVER AGAIN! 😂😱👻🐓 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #BigChicken

📣 New Edge Sword & Sorcery is open to short story submissions now through 8am EST, Sept 1st! 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

A friend reached out this evening to request clarification on an AI apologist’s talking point, and it’s worth reiterating: Digitizing is a process librarians, archivists, and curators understand to preserve the information inside a book as a unique entity. What these bros are doing is destroying.

✨🎸 #comics #webcomic #art

She has my vote for the Order of Canada

CTV News Kitchener@ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · 6d ago

‘Seemed appropriate’: Vancouver Island artist uses horse manure to paint Trump portrait - When Vancouver Island artist Wendy Chartrand decided to paint a portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump, she used a new medium she thought “seemed appropriate” for the subject—horse manure.

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." Ray Bradbury

If so, are we entitled to compensation?

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

Worked out just as well 100 years later for another well-known politician

Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · 7d ago

just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Some Like It Hot: Band Members Smiling

ALT: Some Like It Hot: Band Members Smiling

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Dantastic@dantastic.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Cool. In that case, let's adjust the high-speed rail route so that the federal government has to expropriate DoFo's precious cottage? That way he might spend more time at Queen's Park doing his actual job

Brendan Dawe@dawe.bsky.social · 7d ago

The legal power is that Ottawa has patently clear authority to do what they want with respect to any infrastructure they deem to be a work or undertaking for the general advantage of Canada. This was recently demonstrated with the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion in B.C.

AI bros are not the first to do this. Back in the early 2000s, just after I'd started in publishing, Google did the same thing as part of a drive to digitize all books...illegally, without copyright holder permission. 1/

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Oof. Not that the wingnuts need more fuel for their conspiracy theories, and while I 100% understand why Fauci did it (Rand Paul et al ARE unhinged and fixated on him) but taking the 5th is only going to stoke their fires :(

Africa is smashing all the solar records. The continent installed more grid-connected solar in the first half of 2026 than in all of 2025, and with projects under construction the year could finish at triple the previous record. buff.ly/NirgzLn #ShareGoodNewsToo

African 2026 on-grid solar additions surpass those of 2025 | African Energy

The latest analysis from African Energy Live Data shows despite a slow 2025, solar capacity additions in 2026 have already surpassed each previous year. Falling costs and several recent agreements…

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Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

Are you an emerging BIPOC author in Canada? You have until August 3 to apply for this. writersunion.ca/bipoc-writer...

I thought the plural was just Spider-Man? You know, like moose. One Spider-Man, two Spider-Man, three Spider-Man, etc

Molly White@molly.wiki · last wk.

enjoying imagining the discussion among editors in which they determined if this ought to be pluralized as Spider-Mans, Spider-Men, or Spiders-Man

enjoying imagining the discussion among editors in which they determined if this ought to be pluralized as Spider-Mans, Spider-Men, or Spiders-Man

New from 404 Media: a company is selling tons of old books specifically to AI companies and says they have a strong NDA to never reveal which AI company bought all of the books. They don't want headlines of 'we scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI' www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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No one has ever looked cooler than this