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K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦
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The wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of Canadian Literature. www.krwilson.ca No A.I.
Stan On Guard coming Mar 2026.

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Richard Middlewood Wilson was an English philologist.

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K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social · Jul 1
TEASER BOOK TRAILER
Stan On Guard. The sequel to Call Me Stan that you didn’t know you were waiting for. Coming in 2026 from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social.

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Stan On Guard book trailer
Teaser trailer for the 2026 novel Stan On Guard by K. R. Wilson.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16h
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 20h
Advances range from $500 to millions. (All will be USD in this thread). You can see examples on the Publishing Paid Me spreadsheet, and you can also see that different genres tend to have different averages. 3/
#PUBLISHINGPAIDME
docs.google.com

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 20h
I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1d
Manosphere antivaxxers: Olympic level mental gymnastics!

Vaccines (among the most studied & regulated interventions) are evil, but...

- Overuse of testosterone therapy? Cool
- Unproven supplements? Cool.
- Unproven peptide therapy? Cool.
- Steroids? Cool.
- HGH? Cool.

Sigh.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d
when its definitely not a hostage situation

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 1d
Trump's lawfare takes a big L

"In theory, Trump could nominate someone actually qualified and bring new charges. In reality, the Venn diagram of confirmable candidates and people willing to pursue bogus indictments shows little if any overlap"

www.publicnotice.co/p/trumps-law...
Trump's lawfare takes a big L
The war isn't over but this battle was a rout.
www.publicnotice.co

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 1d
Gender-affirming care saves lives
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 2d
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025

SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
This image shows gauges with the Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: HIGH - 9.4 Alberta: SEVERE - 15.1 British Columbia: HIGH - 7.2 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 13.9 New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 14.0 Newfoundland & Labrador: HIGH - 7.9 North: VERY HIGH - 11.1 Nova Scotia: VERY HIGH - 14.3 Ontario: HIGH - 8.2 Prince Edward Island: HIGH - 8.8 Quebec: HIGH - 8.7 Saskatchewan: VERY HIGH - 14.5 A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 2d
“In Canada, the total burden on the healthcare system from long COVID was estimated to be between CAD 7.8 and CAD 50.6 billion up to spring 2023, with unvaccinated individuals having higher impacts.”

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: Months after many supervised injection sites were shut down, Toronto is reporting an increase in “visible substance use on the street" and “open use of substances in public spaces.” #ToPoli #ONpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154127...
Toronto reports more visible drug use after supervised injection sites closed down - Toronto | Globalnews.ca
The City of Toronto is reporting an increase in visible drug use in the wake of the Ford government's decision to pull funding for several safe-injection sites earlier this year.
globalnews.ca

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 2d
Eroding access to childhood vaccines jeopardizes health for all www.sciencenews.org/article/chil...

“The growth and ability of children to thrive in all aspects of their lives has been supported in great part through prevention of infectious diseases.”
Limiting childhood vaccines puts everyone's health at risk
Recent U.S. decisions about vaccines signal bigger changes to come that could threaten the foundation of the national childhood immunization schedule.
www.sciencenews.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
July 2020 👇
"We're signing a health care plan within two weeks. A full and complete health care plan, that the Supreme Court decision on DACA gave me the right to do" -- Trump routinely cites a two week timeframe for new policy initiatives when he's just making stuff up

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 2d
I hate when people ask me, “Why are you so quiet?” I’m quiet because that’s how I function. I don’t ask others, “Why do you talk so much?” That would be rude.

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Nosferatu @realnosferatu.bsky.social · 3d
If you are in a public space. WEAR A MASK.
N95 or KN95 at minimum.

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Ray @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 3d
The problem with climate change is we have to convince a bunch of people that future people are actual people, when they don't even believe some currently alive people are people.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
392,000 followers on X.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 4d
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta’s AI by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%, NewsGuard found. None of the companies responded to NewsGuard’s request for a comment at the time.

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Tim Westland - Screenwriter @timwestland.bsky.social · 4d
#scriptsky

Excellent advice from @crobertcargill.bsky.social

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Holly Hoye 🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 4d
“A government does not reach for the notwithstanding clause four times in a month unless something is deeply wrong. This isn’t normal. It isn’t safe. And it isn’t democracy. Each time rights are pushed aside, a warning siren is blaring: Power is being placed above people.”

~ Stephanie Shostak
Thursday's letters: UCP hiding from accountability
Edmonton Journal readers speak out on on Alberta invoking the notwithstanding clause and CFL rule changes.
edmontonjournal.com

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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 4d
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announces today Trans Mountain Pipeline to be renamed Assigned Gender at Birth Pipeline.

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Robert “The Baste God” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 4d
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 5d
When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage.

One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 7d
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?

And rightfully so.

So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?

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Paul ✍🏻 Dean (Holiday mode) @paullicino.bsky.social · 5d
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

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Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 5d
Conservatives: “DEI unfairly rewards low-quality applicants.”

Also conservatives: www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Low-scoring applicants averaged the highest payouts from Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund
Until the Star obtained the database, scores were such a closely guarded secret the public didn't know the application scores of funding recipients.
www.thestar.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6d
The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.
littlebadger.bsky.social Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 6d
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 6d
Yep. Political identity now THE key variable...

How People Feel About Vaccines Is Now Largely Political time.com/7334826/repu...

"About 83% of people who identified as Republicans or leaning Republican said they don’t want to get the shot, compared to 44% of Democrats."
How People Feel About Vaccines Is Now Largely Political
A new survey reveals growing divides on issues related to vaccines.
time.com