Lynn Coady
@lynncoady.bsky.social
Giller Prize winning fictioneer and screenwriter. Irony-poisoned.
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While the giant corporate media mergers are depressing, I note that HBO’s buzziest new show this week happened because LETTERKENNY writer Jacob Tierney adapted Rachel Reid’s gay romance novel. These companies are *nothing* without weird creative people and we need to keep reminding them of that ✊🏼
i just gotta hope there's a swell of movement in underground and fringe spaces that can spring out and grab a corner of culture. these are the conditions that create true DIY spaces, spaces that always exist, but that maybe can hold a swell of cache for ppl as they realize it's all bullshit
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
While the giant corporate media mergers are depressing, I note that HBO’s buzziest new show this week happened because LETTERKENNY writer Jacob Tierney adapted Rachel Reid’s gay romance novel. These companies are *nothing* without weird creative people and we need to keep reminding them of that ✊🏼
No idea what to make of this creative writing competition sponsored by the um Canadian Department of National Defence www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
IDEaS fictional intelligence contest: Polar paradigms 2045: Defending Canada’s sovereignty - Canada.ca
Think like an enemy. Disrupt like an innovator. Write like the future depends on it. This contest is a launchpad for game-changing ideas, arming military leaders with bold, mind-bending insights they ...
www.canada.ca
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
No idea what to make of this creative writing competition sponsored by the um Canadian Department of National Defence www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
America’s anti-vax, anti-science stance endangers all of us macleans.ca/society/heal...
Canada’s Flu Seasons Are About to Get a Lot Worse - Macleans.ca
Our flu shots rely on U.S. health data. Without it, the whole health system will suffer.
macleans.ca
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
America’s anti-vax, anti-science stance endangers all of us macleans.ca/society/heal...
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
“(W)hen Canada walks away from feminist policy, it abandons a key driver of poverty and strife. And when Canada appears to bow to bro-signalling, it means Canada has joined the league of polite misogyny”
Mark Carney is giving in to the bros, @supriya.bsky.social writes www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Supriya Dwivedi: Mark Carney is giving in to the bros
Fighting poverty and violence around the world means embracing feminist ideas.
www.thestar.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“(W)hen Canada walks away from feminist policy, it abandons a key driver of poverty and strife. And when Canada appears to bow to bro-signalling, it means Canada has joined the league of polite misogyny”
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The story of what's driving rising beef prices is yet another canary in the climate coal mine. It sure would be nice if we started listening a little harder. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
Why sky-high beef prices are a lesson in supply and demand
After years of drought, North America’s legacy industry – and consumer steak holders – face a climate hostile to cattle ranching
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The story of what's driving rising beef prices is yet another canary in the climate coal mine. It sure would be nice if we started listening a little harder. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...
Ok so now I want to give up everything and work in a typewriter repair shop for the rest of my days
November 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Ok so now I want to give up everything and work in a typewriter repair shop for the rest of my days
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
Shame if the BBC censoring the line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in US history led to all sorts of people chattering online about the line calling Trump the most openly corrupt president in US history gosh that would totally defeat the purpose of removing the line about T
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Shame if the BBC censoring the line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in US history led to all sorts of people chattering online about the line calling Trump the most openly corrupt president in US history gosh that would totally defeat the purpose of removing the line about T
“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...
Our national spite can move mountains I tell you
More than half of Canadians choosing local food, big jump from year ago, report finds #BuyCanadian #BuyLocal #ViveLeCanada #Canada #BoycottUSA
www.ctvnews.ca/business/inf...
www.ctvnews.ca/business/inf...
More than half of Canadians choosing local food, big jump from year ago, report finds
Amid Canada’s ongoing trade dispute with the U.S., Canadians are increasingly choosing local food products over other options, according to a new report.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our national spite can move mountains I tell you
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
Lost a beloved colleague this month. And Canada lost a rare talent. www.legacy.com/ca/obituarie...
ELLEN VANSTONE Obituary (2025) - The Globe and Mail
View ELLEN BARBARA VANSTONE's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
www.legacy.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Lost a beloved colleague this month. And Canada lost a rare talent. www.legacy.com/ca/obituarie...
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“Canada lost its status last week, ending a 27-year run, after failing to control an outbreak that began at a Mennonite gathering in October 2024. (Thank Alberta for selling out healthcare to antivax privatization fiends, then Ontario) -pre-embarrassed in CA.
Tommy Douglas spinning in his grave
Tommy Douglas spinning in his grave
"Experts have called the possibility of losing elimination status for measles 'deeply embarrassing' for a wealthy country with the medical resources of the United States..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“Canada lost its status last week, ending a 27-year run, after failing to control an outbreak that began at a Mennonite gathering in October 2024. (Thank Alberta for selling out healthcare to antivax privatization fiends, then Ontario) -pre-embarrassed in CA.
Tommy Douglas spinning in his grave
Tommy Douglas spinning in his grave
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“What these pundits are nudging us to do… is accept that women are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be.” Blowing up the ‘man crisis’ rhetoric www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“What these pundits are nudging us to do… is accept that women are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be.” Blowing up the ‘man crisis’ rhetoric www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.
Fun and playful to imagine barring an entire population from public life if it’s just ladies, cuz who wants to see all that pink and hear about periods all day at their job?
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Fun and playful to imagine barring an entire population from public life if it’s just ladies, cuz who wants to see all that pink and hear about periods all day at their job?
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cc all members and industry allies of @inkcanada.bsky.social
ART IS HUMAN. The development of generative AI in the cultural sector must be done with artists, for artists. Our governments must put in place a clear and ethical framework for the development of AI. Add your voice to ours by signing the manifesto.
lartesthumain.com/en/
lartesthumain.com/en/
Art is Human - Manifesto for the Protection of Authentic Creation
The development of AI in culture must be done with the community, for the community, and in a careful, reasonable, and well-thought-out manner, because art is Human!
lartesthumain.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
cc all members and industry allies of @inkcanada.bsky.social
Bluesky is kinda shit for Canadian news. I opened TikTok and immediately got live updates on the budget from actual news orgs
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Bluesky is kinda shit for Canadian news. I opened TikTok and immediately got live updates on the budget from actual news orgs
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This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
“I hope… readers will keep going back to her original works. They were written by the light of her darkness.” Wow this memoir of living with Patricia Highsmith near the end of her life is gripping. yalereview.org/article/work...
My Harrowing Months as Patricia Highsmith’s Assistant
Elena Gosalvez Blanco recalls her time as Patricia Highsmith's assistant in the novelist's final months.
yalereview.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
“I hope… readers will keep going back to her original works. They were written by the light of her darkness.” Wow this memoir of living with Patricia Highsmith near the end of her life is gripping. yalereview.org/article/work...
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microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs
turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs
turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM