David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚
@daviddemchuk.com
I put the sewer into connoisseur. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. https://linktr.ee/ddemchuk
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You may know the tale of Sweeney Todd, but what of the tale of Mrs. Lovett? The Butcher’s Daughter, by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark. Serving customers May 2025 🥧🔪
Oh interesting, the San Diego Zoo has messaged me to ask if I’d take her place
After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. https://to.pbs.org/43Tdww9
Gramma the Galapagos tortoise, oldest resident of San Diego Zoo who delighted visitors for almost a century, dies at about 141
Known as "the Queen of the Zoo," Gramma lived through two World Wars and 20 U.S. presidents.
www.pbs.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Oh interesting, the San Diego Zoo has messaged me to ask if I’d take her place
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If you like an author’s work, tell them. Buy their work. Follow them home and make them dinner. Spaghetti and meatballs. Or maybe something with shrimp. Run them a bath. Not too hot. Buy them a sea monster toy for the bath. Rrwarrr! Feed them grapes. But not in the bath. That would be weird.
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you like an author’s work, tell them. Buy their work. Follow them home and make them dinner. Spaghetti and meatballs. Or maybe something with shrimp. Run them a bath. Not too hot. Buy them a sea monster toy for the bath. Rrwarrr! Feed them grapes. But not in the bath. That would be weird.
I am a relatively successful writer. Each of my three novels has earned out. I have a day job, one that I have had for many years. I will have it until I am forced to retire at gunpoint. If I did not have this day job, I would not be able to write, it’s as simple as that.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I am a relatively successful writer. Each of my three novels has earned out. I have a day job, one that I have had for many years. I will have it until I am forced to retire at gunpoint. If I did not have this day job, I would not be able to write, it’s as simple as that.
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As you head out for your very own blood feasts this week, check out our @tendersubject.bsky.social episode on Hershel Gordon Lewis’s splatter fest Blood Feast with @laborkyle.bsky.social from @horrorvanguard.bsky.social. On the menu: Egyptomania! Walter Benjamin! So much blood! Enjoy!
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
As you head out for your very own blood feasts this week, check out our @tendersubject.bsky.social episode on Hershel Gordon Lewis’s splatter fest Blood Feast with @laborkyle.bsky.social from @horrorvanguard.bsky.social. On the menu: Egyptomania! Walter Benjamin! So much blood! Enjoy!
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100%. screenwriting mentors went from, 'do your homework' to 'wait HOW are you doing your homework exactly?' #ai
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
100%. screenwriting mentors went from, 'do your homework' to 'wait HOW are you doing your homework exactly?' #ai
Read Victor’s book!
Happy #bookbirthday to THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED by @victormanibo.com! 🎉
"Manibo has written a chilling gothic tale, using classic tropes to explore history, corruption, and injustices, both of the nation and the family"
—Library Journal
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"Manibo has written a chilling gothic tale, using classic tropes to explore history, corruption, and injustices, both of the nation and the family"
—Library Journal
awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-v...
The Villa, Once Beloved – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
awfulagent.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Read Victor’s book!
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sharing this industry-wide initiative for Canada's film & tv 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, w thanks to researchers, organizers @queeringthescreen.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Research, real data; help make positive changes in workplaces, and queer lives :)
www.inkcanadascreenwritersandfriends.com/whatshappeni...
www.inkcanadascreenwritersandfriends.com/whatshappeni...
inkAmplifies Queering the Screen Survey — inkcanada: canadian screenwriters & friends
OPEN NOW - QUEERING THE SCREEN RESEARCH SURVEY (closes 5th December 2025) #signalboost #inkAmplifies inkcanada encourages all eligible members to participate in this important research survey...
www.inkcanadascreenwritersandfriends.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
sharing this industry-wide initiative for Canada's film & tv 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, w thanks to researchers, organizers @queeringthescreen.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Research, real data; help make positive changes in workplaces, and queer lives :)
www.inkcanadascreenwritersandfriends.com/whatshappeni...
www.inkcanadascreenwritersandfriends.com/whatshappeni...
@csmith03.bsky.social Happy birthday Colin! (Had I known when we were at lunch!)
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
@csmith03.bsky.social Happy birthday Colin! (Had I known when we were at lunch!)
What a surprise—The Bone Mother receives a shoutout from @reactorsff.bsky.social !
“Such a chilly atmosphere that even in sequences set in the summer, the cold still whips through the characters’ bodies, just as the quiet dread still engulfs everything around them.” reactormag.com/six-dark-chi...
“Such a chilly atmosphere that even in sequences set in the summer, the cold still whips through the characters’ bodies, just as the quiet dread still engulfs everything around them.” reactormag.com/six-dark-chi...
Six Dark, Chilly Reads to Liven Up Late Fall - Reactor
Ghost stories, gothic tales, and other works perfect for autumnal evenings...
reactormag.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
What a surprise—The Bone Mother receives a shoutout from @reactorsff.bsky.social !
“Such a chilly atmosphere that even in sequences set in the summer, the cold still whips through the characters’ bodies, just as the quiet dread still engulfs everything around them.” reactormag.com/six-dark-chi...
“Such a chilly atmosphere that even in sequences set in the summer, the cold still whips through the characters’ bodies, just as the quiet dread still engulfs everything around them.” reactormag.com/six-dark-chi...
Now watching 🩸
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Now watching 🩸
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extremely excited to see this found footage horror short, Amber Deer, in a theatrical showing next Saturday. It was produced and directed by my former sister-in-law, Amy Stewart and filmed here in New Brunswick, Canada.
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
extremely excited to see this found footage horror short, Amber Deer, in a theatrical showing next Saturday. It was produced and directed by my former sister-in-law, Amy Stewart and filmed here in New Brunswick, Canada.
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GTA friends I will be at this Canadian-Caribbean showcase on Dec 14 discussing Writing Speculative Fiction with Terese Mason Pierre and Lue Palmer! All of it is free. There are workshops on poetry, self pubbing, non fiction, short stories etc!
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
Diaspora Dialogues Presents the 2025 Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase - Diaspora Dialogues
The Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase is a three-day celebration of Caribbean voices and their influence on Canadian literature, art, and culture. Over the course of the showcase, audiences are inv...
diasporadialogues.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
GTA friends I will be at this Canadian-Caribbean showcase on Dec 14 discussing Writing Speculative Fiction with Terese Mason Pierre and Lue Palmer! All of it is free. There are workshops on poetry, self pubbing, non fiction, short stories etc!
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
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This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
Buy Peter’s festive book!
How To Restore a Timeline is a holiday story about violence and memory. It takes place on a special variant of December 27, 2006—one that never ends, overlapping and consuming all time that dares come after.
And I hear it makes a great gift, available everywhere you buy books.
And I hear it makes a great gift, available everywhere you buy books.
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Buy Peter’s festive book!
We have lost a legend 🖤
This line reading lives rent-free in my head. RIP Udo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXh...
Andy Warhol's Blood for Dracula The blood of these whores
YouTube video by Marie Ruggirello
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
We have lost a legend 🖤
Canada, get on this!
AUSTRALIA! My friends have made an incredible horror film called Bunny which is basically Mad Max meets Trouble Every Day, and they are doing it full indie and self-distributing its theatrical release.
Naarm screenings are this weekend, times/dates/places below.
Please help me spread the word!
Naarm screenings are this weekend, times/dates/places below.
Please help me spread the word!
BUNNY | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Sneaky Films
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Canada, get on this!
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“Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile.” How AI is trained: garbage in, garbage out. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile.” How AI is trained: garbage in, garbage out. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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A business that turns a profit, while making good products, that pays and retains its staff and pleases its customers won’t necessarily find a use for shoddy AI.
If the shitty output of AI seems a godsend, that’s an active decision you’ve made: to not be that sort of a business.
If the shitty output of AI seems a godsend, that’s an active decision you’ve made: to not be that sort of a business.
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A business that turns a profit, while making good products, that pays and retains its staff and pleases its customers won’t necessarily find a use for shoddy AI.
If the shitty output of AI seems a godsend, that’s an active decision you’ve made: to not be that sort of a business.
If the shitty output of AI seems a godsend, that’s an active decision you’ve made: to not be that sort of a business.
The logical outcome of all this is no washrooms on work premises for anyone. If you need to piss, you’ll have to go home, sorry I don’t make the rules.
ending of a bbc article i just read. this is so fucking funny im sorry
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The logical outcome of all this is no washrooms on work premises for anyone. If you need to piss, you’ll have to go home, sorry I don’t make the rules.
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This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI.
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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Incredible.
OK tonight I learned that Gaspar Noe brought Dario Argento as his +1 to meet the Pope, and this is possibly the sweetest and the maddest thing to ever happen.
The Pope got to meet Dario Argento! I wonder which of the Three Mothers trilogy is Leo's fav, I'm gonna say Inferno, cos this Pope doesn't seem like a Suspiria kinda guy.
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Incredible.
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Today is the Trans Day of Remembrance and taking a moment to honour all those who aren't with us, and particularly those who should have been elders. But I also want to celebrate all of the wonderful trans thinkers, advocates, friends and family who are here today. Thank you for being who you are.
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Today is the Trans Day of Remembrance and taking a moment to honour all those who aren't with us, and particularly those who should have been elders. But I also want to celebrate all of the wonderful trans thinkers, advocates, friends and family who are here today. Thank you for being who you are.
@corinneleighclark.bsky.social and I have received some excellent news: After just six months, THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHER has earned out its advance. Many thanks to Soho Press/Hell's Hundred, Barbara Berson, and to everyone who has made the acquaintance of our Mrs. Margery Lovett. Pies for everyone! 🥧
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
@corinneleighclark.bsky.social and I have received some excellent news: After just six months, THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHER has earned out its advance. Many thanks to Soho Press/Hell's Hundred, Barbara Berson, and to everyone who has made the acquaintance of our Mrs. Margery Lovett. Pies for everyone! 🥧