Julie McArthur
@diarydramatist.bsky.social
Short Story Writer • Fiction Editor • Respite Caregiver and Advocate
Toronto from Ottawa🇨🇦
juliemcarthur.com
Toronto from Ottawa🇨🇦
juliemcarthur.com
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The Fiddlehead #301 features my short story “Under Alexandra.” thefiddlehead.ca/issue/301
Borden Brook Falls just a trickle, with severe drought conditions in Nova Scotia.
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Borden Brook Falls just a trickle, with severe drought conditions in Nova Scotia.
Blomidon Provincial Park
October 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Blomidon Provincial Park
Smelling fire smoke today in the Annapolis Valley… keeping the windows closed.
October 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Smelling fire smoke today in the Annapolis Valley… keeping the windows closed.
Sorting beach treasures.
October 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Sorting beach treasures.
Rissers Beach, NS with my bestie and her bestie.
October 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Rissers Beach, NS with my bestie and her bestie.
Blue Jays Grateful Dead hat on at the south shore today in NS… wow, what a game tonight!💙⚾️🎉
October 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Blue Jays Grateful Dead hat on at the south shore today in NS… wow, what a game tonight!💙⚾️🎉
I’m determined to get my licence but what I have to say is after a three-hour, two-ferry drive practice out to Brier Island NS, I never want to take another downtown Toronto lesson.
October 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I’m determined to get my licence but what I have to say is after a three-hour, two-ferry drive practice out to Brier Island NS, I never want to take another downtown Toronto lesson.
Puzzle buddy Starling
October 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Puzzle buddy Starling
Finding peace in beautiful Nova Scotia
September 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Finding peace in beautiful Nova Scotia
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Ernie Coombs was, and still is, a beloved symbol for generations of Canadians.
As Mr. Dressup, he was a fixture of Canadian television for decades. Even 24 years after his death he is remembered fondly.
This is his story.
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As Mr. Dressup, he was a fixture of Canadian television for decades. Even 24 years after his death he is remembered fondly.
This is his story.
🧵 1/16
September 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ernie Coombs was, and still is, a beloved symbol for generations of Canadians.
As Mr. Dressup, he was a fixture of Canadian television for decades. Even 24 years after his death he is remembered fondly.
This is his story.
🧵 1/16
As Mr. Dressup, he was a fixture of Canadian television for decades. Even 24 years after his death he is remembered fondly.
This is his story.
🧵 1/16
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This not elderly Kathryn Grody’s show The Unexpected 3rd starts tomorrow! Link to tkts at peopleslight.org or in our bio. Playing in Malvern PA @peopleslight theater right outside Philly directed by the glorious Timothy Near!
September 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This not elderly Kathryn Grody’s show The Unexpected 3rd starts tomorrow! Link to tkts at peopleslight.org or in our bio. Playing in Malvern PA @peopleslight theater right outside Philly directed by the glorious Timothy Near!
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Oh, hi there... 👀
We've got THE @bcdreyer.social (of Dreyer's English) teaching an unlimited-enrollment online class for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social on everything that make prose good...
We've got THE @bcdreyer.social (of Dreyer's English) teaching an unlimited-enrollment online class for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social on everything that make prose good...
August 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh, hi there... 👀
We've got THE @bcdreyer.social (of Dreyer's English) teaching an unlimited-enrollment online class for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social on everything that make prose good...
We've got THE @bcdreyer.social (of Dreyer's English) teaching an unlimited-enrollment online class for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social on everything that make prose good...
Venus Flytrap too!
August 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Venus Flytrap too!
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does anyone else have a cat that nags them to go to sleep? like buddy im working to pay YOUR BILLS
August 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
does anyone else have a cat that nags them to go to sleep? like buddy im working to pay YOUR BILLS
“I don’t believe that a disembodied mind that’s just regurgitating what other embodied minds have said—about the life that they’ve had, about love, about lying, about fear, about mortality—and put it all together in a word salad… is going to move an audience. You have to be human to write that.”
James Cameron warns of ‘Terminator-style apocalypse’ if AI weaponised
Humans face three existential threats, from super-intelligence, nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, says blockbuster director as he announces new Hiroshima project
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“I don’t believe that a disembodied mind that’s just regurgitating what other embodied minds have said—about the life that they’ve had, about love, about lying, about fear, about mortality—and put it all together in a word salad… is going to move an audience. You have to be human to write that.”
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I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?
wapo.st
August 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
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We’re hosting a Screenwriting Workshop in the bookstore on Wednesdays starting next week!
Join @jkrawczyk.bsky.social (writer & director of HE NEVER DIED, SUNSET SUPERMAN) for 5 weeks of instruction for just $50!
Sign up here:
checkout.square.site/merchant/ML6...
🖤👻🎥
Join @jkrawczyk.bsky.social (writer & director of HE NEVER DIED, SUNSET SUPERMAN) for 5 weeks of instruction for just $50!
Sign up here:
checkout.square.site/merchant/ML6...
🖤👻🎥
July 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We’re hosting a Screenwriting Workshop in the bookstore on Wednesdays starting next week!
Join @jkrawczyk.bsky.social (writer & director of HE NEVER DIED, SUNSET SUPERMAN) for 5 weeks of instruction for just $50!
Sign up here:
checkout.square.site/merchant/ML6...
🖤👻🎥
Join @jkrawczyk.bsky.social (writer & director of HE NEVER DIED, SUNSET SUPERMAN) for 5 weeks of instruction for just $50!
Sign up here:
checkout.square.site/merchant/ML6...
🖤👻🎥
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I think that if you're a writer and you don't invent a word every now and then you're missing out on a solid chunk of the fun.
July 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I think that if you're a writer and you don't invent a word every now and then you're missing out on a solid chunk of the fun.
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‘The sorest my legs have ever been’: hordes to descend on Hackney for litter-picking world cup
‘The sorest my legs have ever been’: hordes to descend on Hackney for litter-picking world cup
The public-spirited sport of spogomi is catching on across Britain, which boasts its world champion team
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
‘The sorest my legs have ever been’: hordes to descend on Hackney for litter-picking world cup
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I love my bookmark. It’s especially funny when I use it to read super serious books.
Hat tip to @tylerjameshill.com for letting me know such a bookmark (and socks!) exist.
Hat tip to @tylerjameshill.com for letting me know such a bookmark (and socks!) exist.
July 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I love my bookmark. It’s especially funny when I use it to read super serious books.
Hat tip to @tylerjameshill.com for letting me know such a bookmark (and socks!) exist.
Hat tip to @tylerjameshill.com for letting me know such a bookmark (and socks!) exist.
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Stephen Colbert replies to Trump’s post on Truth Social:
“How dare you sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go fuck yourself.”
“How dare you sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go fuck yourself.”
July 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Stephen Colbert replies to Trump’s post on Truth Social:
“How dare you sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go fuck yourself.”
“How dare you sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go fuck yourself.”
Morning visitor to my second floor window off alley… such nimble creatures!💕🐿️
July 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Morning visitor to my second floor window off alley… such nimble creatures!💕🐿️
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30 percent is rearranging commas, 9 percent is "stop using that word so much," and the rest is "my god who taught you how to spell?"
A solid 17 percent of copyediting is encouraging writers not to unintentionally irritate their readers.
July 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
30 percent is rearranging commas, 9 percent is "stop using that word so much," and the rest is "my god who taught you how to spell?"