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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 19h

We have one of those with the Canadian equivalent of PBS 😊

retrokid.ca

Exclusive collections of retro apparel celebrating your most fondest memories from your childhood. Officially licensed tees, hoodies, and sweats, designs and printed in Canada.

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 1d

This survey is baffling. WHY do they want adoption of this technology so badly???

A question and answer from the governmentms information survey.

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely, one of the best things about running a business is hiring artists. You go to them with vague notions and they come back to you with beauty and fun and vibes, all of which you get to HAVE just for you!! 🤯

Anyway 👇 Love for @tricon-hfx.bsky.social's designer!!

TriCon @tricon-hfx.bsky.social · 2d

Today we’d like to shine a spotlight on our designer, Sorry Sacha!

Sacha is an incredible designer & tattoo artist, and are also designing our tshirt. It will be revealed closer to the con, BUT, if you pre-order it now with your ticket, you do get a discount!

www.eventbrite.com/e/tricon-the...

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 3d

How to ymprove higher ed
And win all the pryzes:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

kotowych.com

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 4d

Almost everything in my life started online--I've lived here since Usenet in 1995. 😅 So let's go with the latest:

I bought @tridenthalifax.bsky.social after seeing it for sale on IG.

The text under an Instagram post of Trident Cafe Halifax offering a bookstore/cafe for sale, and hidashara's reply asking how much.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4d

And I just want to reiterate this ( from a thread deep in replies). I started doing this work before any of these tools existed. The number of my contemporaries in the field who have died by suicide is NOT A SMALL NUMBER. The work is incredibly traumatizing.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4d

As someone who was doing that human review of images before even PhotoDNA existed, I can testify that the amount of human suffering automated image classification prevents is MASSIVE. Like, I am the best case scenario of the human cost of that work and I still have lifelong consequences from it.

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 6d

We tend to fail at the livestream part, though. 😅 Only for paid hybrid workshops... (see: @tridenthalifax.bsky.social )

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 7d

I eat octopus *because* they might be sapient and I think it is important that we show em who's boss 😒

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 9d

It's me, I am TriCon! Kid A and I will be in Ottawa in a couple of weeks repping TriCon and answering all your questions. Come chat, hang, exchange. 😊

TriCon @tricon-hfx.bsky.social · 9d

TriCon will be at @canconsffh.bsky.social! Look for our Executive Chair, @charlotteashley.bsky.social, in Ottawa the weekend of October 17-19 2025. She'll have TriCon swag & all the answers you could want about Kjipuktuk's newest literary event!

Come say hi and introduce yourself! 💙📚🔱

TriCon's schedule: Saturday, October 18, 11:30-12:20pm, Reading Like a Writer w/ several panelists; Sunday, October 19, 2:30-3:29pm, Local Writing Communities & How to Join Them w/ several panelists.

An October calendar indicating the dates of Can*Con (October 17, 18, and 19) reading Let's hang at Can*Con! Includes social media handles.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 10d

New Tron movie looks pretty co - aw, shit is Jared Leto in this?

Saint John, New Brunswick - Initial excitement over the latest entry in Disney’s sci-fi Tron franchise was ruined when it was discovered it also stars Jared Leto. During a recent family movie night, a...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social · 11d

I’m sorry, HOLD THE PHONE. The Brilliant Lady has the ability to light up balconies in either blue or red light to SPELL THINGS????????

It says “❤️ HALIFAX”

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 12d

That's fantastic, we'll be so thrilled to have you. 😁

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 12d

This has got to be ragebait, right?! "Job hugging??"

Are you being exploited and belittled by uncaring parasytes? Get a plant! Remind yourself you technically get a paycheque! Be silly, but only after hours and remember that this is technically mischief...

Definitely don't change anything!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d

Hate your job – but can’t afford to leave? 20 ways to love your work a little more

In these precarious times, many people hang on to roles they’d rather ditch. So, how to rekindle your passion and purpose? Readers and experts share their best suggestions

www.theguardian.com

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 12d

A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran?

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 13d

That was me! I moderated the panel, and I am now the Chair of TriCon. 😂

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 14d

Just saying

Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 14d

There is no such claim on kinktober however

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 15d

This is ultimately the same as being with a small press, imo--except you *are* the small press.

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'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 15d

I keep thinking about buyers and how—over the space of a decade or two—I watched how the chain bookstore I worked at went from "let us tell find the right book for you" to "these books go here on these displays, exactly like this, no exceptions."

It… sucked.

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 15d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 15d

I write my best with no prep, a tight deadline, and an excuse to show off. I am so excited about this!!

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 15d

Late night weekend promo, you say? Best time for marketing!

I am gonna be participating in the WFNS's Writing Rumble this Oct 23! We're raising funds for the Alistair MacLeod Mentorship program by writing team stories over the course of an afternoon! Sponsor me at:

writers.ns.ca/workshops-ev...

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 15d

Anyway, there's nothing we can do about this except maybe break up PRH and Amazon, B&N and Indigo. Don't put this on readers. This is out of our hands. -.-

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 15d

But that's economics of scale for you. Way cheaper to make 100,000 of one thing than 1,000 each of 100 things.

Since when has big business *ever* been about serving customers? We only get Oreos and Star Wars.

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Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social · 15d

Here's a secret: nobody who enters a bookstore leaves it empty-handed.

They don't come in, look for ONE SPECIFIC BLOCKBUSTER, and leave if they don't find it. They explore and buy something that catches their eye.

Blockbusters are created by Amazon, B&N, Penguin, S&S. Not readers.

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