Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas
@roseoftheswamp.bsky.social
Slow attempts at writing spec fic 🥀 in love with golden hour, fountain pens, indie games and reverb. Human rights and climate IRL. In Canada, from elsewhere.
If you are in Toronto @thelocal.to published a candidate tracker. Very helpful, as it can be difficult to find info on municipal candidates. Please vote this month. thelocal.to/candidate-tr...
Candidate Tracker: Toronto Election 2026 | The Local
The only place to find reported, fact-checked biographies and platform summaries for every candidate running in the 2026 Toronto municipal election.
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this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word
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In the sirens and the silences now All the great set up hearts All at once, start to beat #jasonmolina #songsohia #farewelltransmission
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d agoAI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
I just backed Apex Magazine 2027! Let's get many more strange, surreal and beautiful stories! @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape... @apexmag.bsky.social
Apex Magazine 2027
An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
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I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.
A second story of mine is long listed! I'm sorry downstairs neighbours for jumping up and down! Don't look so worried, cat, this is me happy!
Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas@roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 2w agoI am vaguely aware that me dancing like an absolute freak in my living room = a disproportionate response to what has actually happened (a first reader thought my story was good enough to move it forward for further consideration)
Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.
Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · last wk.They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Feeling very grateful for Canadian health care today, as the sun streams into my private room and a volunteer just came into do reiki (!) on me (with my consent). I had to have a small surgery and two nights in the hospital. I'll go home having to pay absolutely nothing. All staff were so kind.
Carney: The rules-based international order is crumbling. International Criminal Court: As a participating member you are required by the rules to arrest those with a warrant if they pass through your territory. Carney: Fuck you.
I am vaguely aware that me dancing like an absolute freak in my living room = a disproportionate response to what has actually happened (a first reader thought my story was good enough to move it forward for further consideration)
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
Someone on zoom today: oh you live in Toronto?? You totally gave off cool Montreal vibes Me: (immediately throws Toronto under the bus) ok wow this is the biggest compliment
The main distinction between the AI resignations and pronouncements is that while they say there is a >10% chance AI will wipe us out, there is a 100% chance that emissions from all the fossil fuel reserves that exist on these companies balance sheets will wipe us out.
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Sad guy recovering in hospital tells a long story to happy girl recovering in hospital.
Kerry C. Byrne@kercoby.bsky.social · last mo.A young Spanish girl gains a stepfather, reads a book, and wanders her new estate while adults deal with adult things.
For the first time, a peer-reviewed study has "drawn a straight line from single corporate emitters like Exxon or Chevron ... to specific heatwaves and areas of extreme rainfall." The new methodological framework could make it much easier to hold Big Oil accountable for its climate lies.
It just got way easier to sue fossil fuel companies over climate change
For years, industry has argued you can't prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise.
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Never forget that the clowns who are currently saying “we can’t stop climate change, just accept it” are the same people who spent the last decade doing everything possible to prevent us from stopping climate change.
We are in the last few hours of the @uncannymagazine.bsky.social kickstarter, thank you for the support! it would be especially amazing if we could add flash fiction to each issue!! So fingers crossed for reaching that stretch goal in particular. LET'S GO! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!
Funding to support Year 13 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!
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For creative writing: the most joy I feel is when I'm writing through a tough spot and something all of a sudden clicks. Things are coming together, sentences flow; I am in love with this process. I can feel pride because my pieces took time (literal years) and effort. Prompters do not love writing.
Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas@roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 2mo agoBut, now that Google is broken and and AI stuffed down everyone's throat, how are younger folks supposed to build up their own expertise and critical thinking skills? Esp if they're told there won't be any jobs anyway
But, now that Google is broken and and AI stuffed down everyone's throat, how are younger folks supposed to build up their own expertise and critical thinking skills? Esp if they're told there won't be any jobs anyway
Rosa (Swamp Rose) de Haas@roseoftheswamp.bsky.social · 2mo agoI genuinely do not understand the AI appeal. At work, a few colleagues gush over Claude. I tried it once for research and it cost me SO much time to correct and fact check, because unlike AI, I know my shit. If you don't know your shit what you will be regurgitating via AI is, well, actual shit.
I genuinely do not understand the AI appeal. At work, a few colleagues gush over Claude. I tried it once for research and it cost me SO much time to correct and fact check, because unlike AI, I know my shit. If you don't know your shit what you will be regurgitating via AI is, well, actual shit.
Just spent a delightful hour with the Travelling at Night demo, by indie studio Weather Factory. It's on Steam, to get it! I am now craving pastis, patting French cafe cats and the smell of old books.
It's Bastet worship Monday (currently manifesting as my kitty Tilda) youtube.com/watch?v=CaIG...
Hymn to Bastet Sung in Middle Egyptian
YouTube video by Siamun
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I just backed Uncanny on Kickstarter. Let's get all the way to 100%!
Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 3mo agoPLEASE REPOST AND SHARE WIDELY!!! We need your help once again, you magnificent Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter!!! buff.ly/Gab1zWu
It's 4pm on a Friday and I've just spilled beer on my work laptop What does this say about Me Work Fridays?
