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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 1h

Arguably in Ottawa it's Rideau (Street, Centre, River, Rapids). Anglophones here say REE-dough. Anglophones from elsewhere either try for a French pronunciation or they say "rid" for the first syllable or emphasize the second syllable or some combination thereof.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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

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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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 5h

And here's my UK Bookshop shop:

Kate Heartfield Bookshop UK

Kate Heartfield is the author of several novels, including The Tapestry of Time (2024), about clairvoyant sisters in WWII; The Valkyrie (2023), a retelling of legends; and the Sunday Times bestseller ...

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 5h

Free shipping at Bookshop lasts until tonight. I have an affiliate shop there with a handy list of my available books:

Kate Heartfield Bookshop

Kate Heartfield is the author of several novels, including The Tapestry of Time (2024), about clairvoyant sisters in WWII; The Valkyrie (2023), a retelling of legends; and the Sunday Times bestseller ...

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 7h

The end of this clip is extremely revealing about right wing populism in Canada. You go to a town hall, people there tell you that they're not making a decent living in their factory jobs, and what you latch onto is stoking resentment of people on social assistance. The cause of so much grief still.

TVO Today | The Agenda @tvotoday.bsky.social · 7h

"If you don't believe in what you're talking about, it shows." — Ontario's 22nd premier, Mike Harris, on campaigning on the Common Sense Revolution during the 1995 election. Watch The Premier Files, Oct. 10 at 8pm with @spaikin.bsky.social on @wearetvo.bsky.social | Producer: @carrletta.bsky.social

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 7h

Thank you for making it!

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 7h

I have the tank top (wearing it to a union meeting tonight!) and it's great. Join me in orcanize merch club

Nicole Dornsife | Thornwolf @thornwolf.bsky.social · 14d

*CLEARANCE* #Orcanize merch is now at its lowest prices ever as I'm getting rid of my last of stock. Now's your chance to save on hoodies, tees, tanks, and totes!

Hoodie: Was $65 now $50
Tee: Was $35 now $25
Tank: Was $30 now $22
Tote: Was $25 now $19

thornwolf.com/orcanize
#BSNM #ArtShop #SciArt

A lineup of merchandise featuring my Orcanize design, a faux soviet style propaganda poster featuring orcas leaping out of the water. Lineup includes: posters (sold out), bumper stickers, vinyl stickers, tank tops, t-shirts, hoodies.

A jumbo canvas tote with my Orcanize design on it.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 8h

Ooh: Winnie l'Ourson

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 8h

I second the Winnipeg idea. Or Wayne Gretzky. Proper nouns ftw.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 8h

I think it is good to try to see one's country objectively but a lot of people seem to be getting stuck there. You call it the same because it is the same, moving on

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 8h

Constant "imagine what we would call this if it were happening in another country!" makes me think of blank looks I've gotten trying to explain to some Americans that "international" is not a synonym for "not the US"; as if they don't see the US as a country among countries but as centre-periphery.

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Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social · 1d

BYWORDS.CA CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
We publish a monthly online magazine of poetry.
Call for unpublished poetry by current and former Ottawa students, residents & workers. Max 250 words and 45 lines, 5 poems.
Deadline: 15th of each month for next issue.
Payment is $40.
E-mail poems as one doc, docx or rtf file to submissions@bywords.ca
NO PDFS PLEASE or Google Docs please.
More info: amanda@bywords.ca or visit Bywords.ca and click on guidelines.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

Hey @queermedieval.bsky.social your illustration prints *beautifully*!!

Anti-fascist frogs hot off the press

A print made from wood type and linoleum. The linocut is an early-modern style woodcut rendition of a protester in a frog costume facing off against two ICE officers in riot gear. The text reads

STAND UP
TO
FASCISM!

The ink is green on an off white paper.

wood type and linoleum set for printing in a proofing press. The linocut is an early-modern style woodcut rendition of a protester in a frog costume facing off against two ICE officers in riot gear. The text reads

STAND UP
TO
FASCISM!

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 1d

Nascence by Tobias Buckell is a collection of "failed" early stories with commentary by the author about what they taught him, which might be the sort of thing.

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Lev Grossman @levgrossman.com · 1d

In other scientific literature news, a quantitative linguist published a study comparing the literary output of identical twins. My brother Austin and I were part of the dataset www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YFIRR...

Do Identical Twins Write Identically? Evidence from Authorship Attribution

This study investigates the writing styles of identical twins to determine if their shared genetics result in identical writing. We used computational authorship analysis techniques on writing samp...

www.tandfonline.com

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 1d

Hooray!

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 1d

Peter Wimsey

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 2d

Haha that would only be fair!

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 2d

I also do not really like honeydew and I especially do not like THAT honeydew 😠 and I do not like an underfunded healthcare system, booooo

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 2d

That would make sense! But no.

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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 2d

It is good! So good!

Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 2d

I have still not read The Death of Mountains (sooooon -- I just have a long research and to-blurb list atm) BUT I have loved everything else of Jordan's that I've read, and if Premee says something's good, it's good.

Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 2d

as a reminder, i wrote a book that came out this year and you can read it!! people say it's pretty ding dang good!!

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 2d

haha this is very familiar!

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 2d

My partner is cooking a dinner that I usually cook:

Him: What are the proportions you use for the marinade?
Me: Oh I just eyeball it
Him: What temperature for how long?
Me: Until they're done, I just keep an eye on it

I am ready for my Grandma Years

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 2d

I have still not read The Death of Mountains (sooooon -- I just have a long research and to-blurb list atm) BUT I have loved everything else of Jordan's that I've read, and if Premee says something's good, it's good.

Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 2d

as a reminder, i wrote a book that came out this year and you can read it!! people say it's pretty ding dang good!!

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