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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 14h

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

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 2d

Shift conversational focus away from any particular type of technology. Focus instead on the people, systems, and political dynamics around the technology.
This is where the power lies.
time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/draft-techno...

DRAFT - Technology in Context Praxis - Thinking

Draft For Feedback Welcome to the first in a series of posts describing the praxis - the working method - behind Time & Space Studios :) This one's about thinking. The next is about doing. The five ...

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Sonia Sulaiman is an Ignyte Award Finalist @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 7d

So, I'm making a video game based on Palestinian folklore. It's called Thursday of the Dead, and you can talk to a Palestinian ghouleh. It will have branching narrative, and art all made by a human (me). I need exactly $100 to launch it on Steam when it's finished.

ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee

Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

ko-fi.com

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 2d

I think it is a good sign for this manuscript that I have had to reposition it as a "reward" - I.e. a thing I get to work on once my other necessary/more time pressing stuff is done, because I just want to work on it all the damn time.

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Rainbow Space Magic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social · 28d

Writing with resistance, Imagining a better future

Join us October 4 & 5 for the 6th annual Rainbow Space Magic, a free, virtual con for writers & readers of queer speculative fiction.

Details on panels follow...

rainbowspacemagic.org

#LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 8d

I love this framework. Thank you for putting it out into the world!

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Erin Rockfort (they/she) @pineapplefury.bsky.social · 8d

Okay so I'm still noodling this out a little but I think I've finally figured out my stance on the whole "what do you owe other people" in the context of therapy

For context: I see a lot of folks stuck in cycles of taking responsibility, people pleasing, downgrading their own emotions, etc.

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 9d

This insight brought to you by the approximately 20 hours of Hades 2 I've played this weekend. (A gift of a day spent playing only this game and not planning to do essentially anything else was the gift I got myself for my birthday this year. And what a great gift it was, if I do say so myself.)

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 9d

I feel like videogames are such a big dopamine hit for me specifically because they have clearly defined goals and explicitly tell you what to do (the games I like, and play anyways). It's just nice to not be scoping and figuring out all the moving parts of a nebulous task in at least one space.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 10d

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 12d

It's Stanislav Petrov Day, the day the world was saved by one man's decision to think and not react. I wrote him a poem.

Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · 12d

> once a year now we speak your name
> when it should be a holiday for the globe:
> because of you we have life,
> and birds, and fairy tales, and poems,

One of my fav poems by one of my favorite people, @popelizbet.bsky.social . For Stanislav Petrov day

Thanks to Stanislav Petrov for Fairy Tales about Birds by Elizabeth R. McClellan

February 2021 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine

utopiasciencefiction.medium.com

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'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 12d

I keep thinking about buyers and how—over the space of a decade or two—I watched how the chain bookstore I worked at went from "let us tell find the right book for you" to "these books go here on these displays, exactly like this, no exceptions."

It… sucked.

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13d

Seems like a good time to remind people that Canada Post will deliver any piece of mail to federal elected officials for FREE.

No stamp necessary!

Just a reminder in case you, oh I dunno, wanna send your elected officials a sternly worded letter a day for a year or something.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

www.cbc.ca

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 14d

Me too! Thank Goodness is such a great "sad song sung to happy tune" and those ALWAYS FUCKING GET ME

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 14d

fair, but I think that was more for length! Turning a 1 hour long act into a whole movie would have been hard to make it feel consistently like a musical without adding more songs!

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 14d

I know that SOME PEOPLE (subtweeting @afsulli.bsky.social here) think that Act 2 of Wicked has no bangers, but this most recent trailer affirms to me more than ever that No Good Deed is going to fucking slap.

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 15d

haha thanks!

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 15d

Me: Excited to have finished my second draft 0 manuscript of 2025!!

Also me: Oh no. Now I have TWO books to edit before I get to write any new fun things. 🥲

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 18d

LOOK AT ALL THESE VERY FINE PEOPLE (THEY ARE CANADIAN CONTENT)

Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 18d

Speaking of @canconsffh.bsky.social , last year's starter pack for panelists, vendors and volunteeers was popular, so I made a new one for this year. Please tell me if you're on programming or helping out with Can*Con this year and would like to be added, or if you'd like to be removed.

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 18d

Baby Cerberus was one of my favourite reads of 2024!! Please let it break your heart.

Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social · 18d

"If an alien anthropologist summarized the entirety of human cultural expressions, they might produce Baby Cerberus" - Whitney Adnane. Check out This Magazine for the full review! You can learn more about Natasha Ramoutar's Baby Cerberus here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/bab...

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 18d

I am on programming! Thanks Kate!

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 18d

Speaking of @canconsffh.bsky.social , last year's starter pack for panelists, vendors and volunteeers was popular, so I made a new one for this year. Please tell me if you're on programming or helping out with Can*Con this year and would like to be added, or if you'd like to be removed.

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 19d

Have you been looking for a round-up of what I'm doing writing-wise lately and where you might be able to find me in the coming months? Here's my update including my schedule for Can*Con and Rainbow Space Magic coming up in October!

scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/f...

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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social · 19d

Have you been looking for a round-up of what I'm doing writing-wise lately and where you might be able to find me in the coming months? Here's my update including my schedule for Can*Con and Rainbow Space Magic coming up in October!

scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/f...

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