Heather J. “I Should Be Writing” Wood
@rollwithheather.bsky.social
Author, Publicist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Cat Lover, Feminist (she/her but they/their is good too!)
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“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
February 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
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Back in 2023, I noticed the refreshed Ursula K. Le Guin website no longer had this essay. I reached out to ask if it could be restored, and a few days later someone from the foundation sent over the URL to show it was back online :)
Ursula Le Guin wrote a response to this kind of nonsense years ago. Read it instead.
www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
February 18, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Back in 2023, I noticed the refreshed Ursula K. Le Guin website no longer had this essay. I reached out to ask if it could be restored, and a few days later someone from the foundation sent over the URL to show it was back online :)
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"Media veterans looking to join a groundbreaking publication will receive a plot of land to tend and protect in exchange for publishing ten articles per week and complete loyalty to the Crown."
Digital Media is Broken, So We’re Turning Our Company Into a Feudal State
Face it: digital media is broken. Advertising revenues are dropping, employee turnover is skyrocketing, and publications are making ends meet with ...
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February 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM
"Media veterans looking to join a groundbreaking publication will receive a plot of land to tend and protect in exchange for publishing ten articles per week and complete loyalty to the Crown."
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“I walked in the meadow. Soon I came to another corner. I went around the corner to see if spring was there. “
February 18, 2026 at 5:37 AM
“I walked in the meadow. Soon I came to another corner. I went around the corner to see if spring was there. “
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What isn’t being widely discussed is the connection between #IPV and #MassShootings, as seen in Canada’s two largest mass shootings in Montreal and Nova Scotia - this isn’t even getting into Incels as a specific extremist subgroup.
policyoptions.irpp.org/2020/05/the-...
policyoptions.irpp.org/2020/05/the-...
The intimate connection between mass shootings and violence against women
Last month 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman killed 22 people over two days in a shooting and arson spree across Nova Scotia. Immediately prior to the killings he had assaulted and bound his girlfriend. The...
policyoptions.irpp.org
February 17, 2026 at 3:09 PM
What isn’t being widely discussed is the connection between #IPV and #MassShootings, as seen in Canada’s two largest mass shootings in Montreal and Nova Scotia - this isn’t even getting into Incels as a specific extremist subgroup.
policyoptions.irpp.org/2020/05/the-...
policyoptions.irpp.org/2020/05/the-...
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"Nearly 90% of firms said AI has had no impact on employment or productivity over the last three years, the research noted."
Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago | Fortune
In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
fortune.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:57 AM
"Nearly 90% of firms said AI has had no impact on employment or productivity over the last three years, the research noted."
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On this day in 1918, Georges Vezina recorded the first shutout in NHL history when Montreal blanked Toronto 9-0. It was his only shutout that season. In his career he recorded 15 NHA/NHL shutouts, with a career high of five in 1924-25.
February 18, 2026 at 12:02 PM
On this day in 1918, Georges Vezina recorded the first shutout in NHL history when Montreal blanked Toronto 9-0. It was his only shutout that season. In his career he recorded 15 NHA/NHL shutouts, with a career high of five in 1924-25.
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Doug Ford criticizes students for studying 'basket weaving' in college. www.youtube.com/shorts/8uN6t...
Ford responds to student complaints over OSAP funding changes
YouTube video by CBC News Toronto
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February 17, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Doug Ford criticizes students for studying 'basket weaving' in college. www.youtube.com/shorts/8uN6t...
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Why are people always yelling at The Left, a group almost entirely shut out of public life, including mainstream news outlets. You are mad at people on social media. Get a life
February 18, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Why are people always yelling at The Left, a group almost entirely shut out of public life, including mainstream news outlets. You are mad at people on social media. Get a life
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That time Jesse Jackson, at the height of his political importance, visited Kahnawake to give his support to the Mohawk warriors there, during the Oka Crisis.
February 18, 2026 at 5:58 AM
That time Jesse Jackson, at the height of his political importance, visited Kahnawake to give his support to the Mohawk warriors there, during the Oka Crisis.
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In their last Olympics Isabelle Weidemann, Valérie Maltais, and Ivanie Boutin won their second Olympic gold in long track team pursuit. They hugged on the podium, and talked about trust. And as Weidemann said, this was the light at the end of a four-year tunnel. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
The pursuit is over for Canada’s Weidemann, Maltais and Blondin, the end of a golden era
Canadian trio defend their Olympic gold medal in what was likely their last race together.
www.thestar.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:17 AM
In their last Olympics Isabelle Weidemann, Valérie Maltais, and Ivanie Boutin won their second Olympic gold in long track team pursuit. They hugged on the podium, and talked about trust. And as Weidemann said, this was the light at the end of a four-year tunnel. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
February 18, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
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“He got Me Tooed” “He got Epsteined” amazing that people have re-invented the police passive for rapists.
February 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
“He got Me Tooed” “He got Epsteined” amazing that people have re-invented the police passive for rapists.
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NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
futurism.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Eternal thanks to the movie people who let O'Leary star in whatever that recent amoral film was called that had all the film buffs talking, giving him some extra cultural lift to spread his bullshit further and farther.
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Eternal thanks to the movie people who let O'Leary star in whatever that recent amoral film was called that had all the film buffs talking, giving him some extra cultural lift to spread his bullshit further and farther.
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There’s a good comparative essay to be written about how Bill Blair has spent 20 years being lauded for failing upwards vs the way politicians like Melanie Joly or Jagmeet Singh are constantly all-but described as stupid by the same commentators
February 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM
There’s a good comparative essay to be written about how Bill Blair has spent 20 years being lauded for failing upwards vs the way politicians like Melanie Joly or Jagmeet Singh are constantly all-but described as stupid by the same commentators
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I just got my annual Public Lending Right cheque for Because Internet from the Canada Council for the Arts, so permit me a thread about what the public lending right is and why you should request books you love from public libraries!
February 18, 2026 at 2:56 AM
I just got my annual Public Lending Right cheque for Because Internet from the Canada Council for the Arts, so permit me a thread about what the public lending right is and why you should request books you love from public libraries!
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New 'elbows up' just dropped: Protecting our sovereignty by destroying our capacity to tell our country's history.
Ask any Canadian historian and they will tell you that things were already extremely dire at Library and Archives Canada. Not sure it will even be functional after this.
Ask any Canadian historian and they will tell you that things were already extremely dire at Library and Archives Canada. Not sure it will even be functional after this.
Library and Archives Canada to cut 56 positions
Library and Archives Canada to cut 56 positions
Ninety-four employees at Library and Archives Canada have received notices that their jobs could be at risk, as part of the federal government’s plan to cut the size of the federal public service by 2029.
bit.ly
February 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
New 'elbows up' just dropped: Protecting our sovereignty by destroying our capacity to tell our country's history.
Ask any Canadian historian and they will tell you that things were already extremely dire at Library and Archives Canada. Not sure it will even be functional after this.
Ask any Canadian historian and they will tell you that things were already extremely dire at Library and Archives Canada. Not sure it will even be functional after this.
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The frustrating thing about ✨The AI Discourse✨ is that ALL the tech critics said “hey, shit like this👇will happen unless we take regulation seriously.”
And the tech hype men were like “no it won’t, don’t be so pessimistic.”
And now it’s all happening and they’re like “lol shut up we don’t care.”
And the tech hype men were like “no it won’t, don’t be so pessimistic.”
And now it’s all happening and they’re like “lol shut up we don’t care.”
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
futurism.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:42 AM
The frustrating thing about ✨The AI Discourse✨ is that ALL the tech critics said “hey, shit like this👇will happen unless we take regulation seriously.”
And the tech hype men were like “no it won’t, don’t be so pessimistic.”
And now it’s all happening and they’re like “lol shut up we don’t care.”
And the tech hype men were like “no it won’t, don’t be so pessimistic.”
And now it’s all happening and they’re like “lol shut up we don’t care.”
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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ask anyone on the left about high-speed trains
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 7:37 AM
ask anyone on the left about high-speed trains
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Windswept Pine XV
Monica Morrill
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Monica Morrill
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February 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Windswept Pine XV
Monica Morrill
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Monica Morrill
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I am going to gather every basket I can gather, weave those baskets together to make a wicker man, and then we'll see how effective those courses are, Douggo
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Ford says students must be focused on ‘jobs of the future’ and not ‘basket-weaving courses’
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is standing behind his government’s decision to lift a freeze on college and university tuition, telling reporters that some institutions could have been forced to close with...
www.ctvnews.ca
February 17, 2026 at 10:57 PM
I am going to gather every basket I can gather, weave those baskets together to make a wicker man, and then we'll see how effective those courses are, Douggo
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Low birth rates is a manufactured crisis that was always about control of women’s bodies. Specifically, maintaining the level of unpaid labour which is at the heart of our economic system:
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/13-60...
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/13-60...
February 17, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Low birth rates is a manufactured crisis that was always about control of women’s bodies. Specifically, maintaining the level of unpaid labour which is at the heart of our economic system:
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/13-60...
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/13-60...