ariel
@arielkroon.bsky.social
ah-riel, she/her. usually on mastodon @arielkroon@wandering.shop. settler scholar on the haldimand tract. one half of @solarpunkpresents.bsky.social.
www.arielkroon.ca
#academia #spoony #solarpunk
www.arielkroon.ca
#academia #spoony #solarpunk
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You know what would be nice? If Canadian identity wasn't defined by hypermsculine white guy from a beer commercial. Just a thought.
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
You know what would be nice? If Canadian identity wasn't defined by hypermsculine white guy from a beer commercial. Just a thought.
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No you know what people who will say things like "I use ChatGPT to DO MY JOB" with their whole ass SHOULD be publicly embarrassed like this
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
No you know what people who will say things like "I use ChatGPT to DO MY JOB" with their whole ass SHOULD be publicly embarrassed like this
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Expected to see a lot more Guy Fawkes memes and references, perhaps I am showing my age and internet proclivities a little too openly...
#rememberremember #guyfawkes #vforvendetta #iykyk
#rememberremember #guyfawkes #vforvendetta #iykyk
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Expected to see a lot more Guy Fawkes memes and references, perhaps I am showing my age and internet proclivities a little too openly...
#rememberremember #guyfawkes #vforvendetta #iykyk
#rememberremember #guyfawkes #vforvendetta #iykyk
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Okay, but now the Terminators will come for all these people first
“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement.
After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”
After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Okay, but now the Terminators will come for all these people first
"The solution is going to have to come from everyone else, using every tool at our disposal to push back against an ecocidal agenda driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and too often now, the press."
I appreciate @michaelemann.bsky.social’s ability to call out this trash thinking.
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-ca...
#ClimateChange
Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"The solution is going to have to come from everyone else, using every tool at our disposal to push back against an ecocidal agenda driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and too often now, the press."
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Hi friends. Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica *hard* last month; my neighbour just shared with me that her mother and sister, who were evacuated before landfall, haven't been heard from since :( Melissa devastated her home community of Wakefield, but the ForUsGirls organization is organizing relief […]
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November 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Hi friends. Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica *hard* last month; my neighbour just shared with me that her mother and sister, who were evacuated before landfall, haven't been heard from since :( Melissa devastated her home community of Wakefield, but the ForUsGirls organization is organizing relief […]
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It's Hamilton Days this weekend in Hamilton, and lots of local businesses are participating. We're taking this opportunity to highlight some of our books by Hamilton authors. You can learn more about Hamilton Days here: hamiltonday.ca And these books here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's Hamilton Days this weekend in Hamilton, and lots of local businesses are participating. We're taking this opportunity to highlight some of our books by Hamilton authors. You can learn more about Hamilton Days here: hamiltonday.ca And these books here: bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...
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RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
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Chuffed to have a story in here! (And in Volume One too!)
RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY!
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
#BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Chuffed to have a story in here! (And in Volume One too!)
This bus is extremely nice but the seats are just a TINY bit off the ground and there is no footrest in front of me D:
October 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This bus is extremely nice but the seats are just a TINY bit off the ground and there is no footrest in front of me D:
Someone forgot their mug at #CanCon2025 @canconsffh.bsky.social !
October 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Someone forgot their mug at #CanCon2025 @canconsffh.bsky.social !
My brain was definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel when it came to energy. Thankfully I avoided saying anything embarrassing, and I'm told I actually was able to provide mildly interesting facts about historical Canadian SF and publishing!
Last panel of the day/con! “Just Let me Sell a Canadian Story” with @arielkroon.bsky.social (Ariel Kroon), @ourmankoto.bsky.social (Stephen Kotowych), @ecwpress.bsky.social (Jen Albert), @ashhisson.bsky.social (Ashley Hisson) #cancon2025 @canconsffh.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
My brain was definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel when it came to energy. Thankfully I avoided saying anything embarrassing, and I'm told I actually was able to provide mildly interesting facts about historical Canadian SF and publishing!
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With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.
October 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.
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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
October 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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.
Gotta resist going off on a tangent about Canadian Literary nationalism and academic slapfights about thematic criticism tomorrow. I mean, it's relevant but I also don't want to speak in paragraphs.
#CanCon2025 #CanLit
#CanCon2025 #CanLit
October 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Gotta resist going off on a tangent about Canadian Literary nationalism and academic slapfights about thematic criticism tomorrow. I mean, it's relevant but I also don't want to speak in paragraphs.
#CanCon2025 #CanLit
#CanCon2025 #CanLit
Prepping for my panel tomorrow ("Just let me sell a Canadian story, dammit!") and also packing up to check out in the AM. Although I plan to call and see if I can store my things up at the front desk, because they call it "luggage" for a reason.
October 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Prepping for my panel tomorrow ("Just let me sell a Canadian story, dammit!") and also packing up to check out in the AM. Although I plan to call and see if I can store my things up at the front desk, because they call it "luggage" for a reason.
I have changed my profile pic and banner here about three times now, and apparently they have not stuck. What gives? I feel very silly.
October 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I have changed my profile pic and banner here about three times now, and apparently they have not stuck. What gives? I feel very silly.
@sillysyntax.bsky.social I was hoping to run into you this year ar Can*Con by the way! How are you?
October 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
@sillysyntax.bsky.social I was hoping to run into you this year ar Can*Con by the way! How are you?
October 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Being at Can*Con always makes me think about being a writer.
A writer of what? Sure don't know. It's been years of having the best intention to publish my thesis as a nonfic but for that to happen I'd have to... work on it. Kind of would rather do #solarpunk flashfic tbh.
A writer of what? Sure don't know. It's been years of having the best intention to publish my thesis as a nonfic but for that to happen I'd have to... work on it. Kind of would rather do #solarpunk flashfic tbh.
October 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Being at Can*Con always makes me think about being a writer.
A writer of what? Sure don't know. It's been years of having the best intention to publish my thesis as a nonfic but for that to happen I'd have to... work on it. Kind of would rather do #solarpunk flashfic tbh.
A writer of what? Sure don't know. It's been years of having the best intention to publish my thesis as a nonfic but for that to happen I'd have to... work on it. Kind of would rather do #solarpunk flashfic tbh.
October 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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It is #CanCon2025 Day 2 and today we have Robot Lovers, we Deal with Self-Doubt, and we Explore Space *and* the Biology of Zombies! The Program of Myriad Excitements (tm) has something for all!
We've also got book launches and author pitch sessions happening all day long!
Come and CAVORT!
We've also got book launches and author pitch sessions happening all day long!
Come and CAVORT!
October 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It is #CanCon2025 Day 2 and today we have Robot Lovers, we Deal with Self-Doubt, and we Explore Space *and* the Biology of Zombies! The Program of Myriad Excitements (tm) has something for all!
We've also got book launches and author pitch sessions happening all day long!
Come and CAVORT!
We've also got book launches and author pitch sessions happening all day long!
Come and CAVORT!
I now have had to consult 2 different hotel staff about how to turn off the light behind my headboard so I can actually sleep tonight. There is a third one on the way. Hopefully this does it. I am so tired and I cannot find this stupid lightswitch. I feel like it should be intuitive...
#CanCon2025
#CanCon2025
October 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I now have had to consult 2 different hotel staff about how to turn off the light behind my headboard so I can actually sleep tonight. There is a third one on the way. Hopefully this does it. I am so tired and I cannot find this stupid lightswitch. I feel like it should be intuitive...
#CanCon2025
#CanCon2025