Evan May
@gianttourtiere.bsky.social
Tiny writer. I wrote 'Easter Pinkerton and the Case of the Heretic Blood' and some other stuff. Can*Con bridge crew, still. Avatar art by Jay Odjick. Only a fool would complain. He/Him.
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Evan May
@gianttourtiere.bsky.social
· Oct 18
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Easter Pinkerton and the Case of the Heretic Blood by Evan May
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Yes hello if you would enjoy reading a story about a female version of James Bond taking on a Lovecraftian death cult in 19th century London then you might like my most recent book, 'Easter Pinkerton and the Case of the Heretic Blood'.
... there's also a sword cane.
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... there's also a sword cane.
books2read.com/u/ba6P0q
Hildegard of Bingen opera?
Hildegard. of Bingen. Opera.
Glad to see they directly engage with her sapphic relationship with another nun, and like way more people should know about Hildegard.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Hildegard. of Bingen. Opera.
Glad to see they directly engage with her sapphic relationship with another nun, and like way more people should know about Hildegard.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Review: Hildegard von Bingen was a saint, an abbess, a mystic, a pioneering composer and is now an opera
L.A. Opera presents the world premiere of Sarah Kirkland Snider's 'Hildegard,' about the mystical 12th century composer/abbess St. Hildegard von Bingen.
www.latimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Hildegard of Bingen opera?
Hildegard. of Bingen. Opera.
Glad to see they directly engage with her sapphic relationship with another nun, and like way more people should know about Hildegard.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Hildegard. of Bingen. Opera.
Glad to see they directly engage with her sapphic relationship with another nun, and like way more people should know about Hildegard.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Someone has created a hallway display at the college titled 'Brains grow faster than you think' and my first thought was 'nobody tell @premeemohamed.com'
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Someone has created a hallway display at the college titled 'Brains grow faster than you think' and my first thought was 'nobody tell @premeemohamed.com'
Oh what the fuck, we can't be opening time capsules from the 1980s
<crumbles to dust and blows away in a mysterious breeze>
<crumbles to dust and blows away in a mysterious breeze>
I assumed from the headline that the time capsule was 125 years old but it was from 1988 lol
Tucson Water opens historic time capsule for 125th anniversary
YouTube video by News 4 Tucson KVOA-TV
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Oh what the fuck, we can't be opening time capsules from the 1980s
<crumbles to dust and blows away in a mysterious breeze>
<crumbles to dust and blows away in a mysterious breeze>
This seems good, but I'm sure they're not done.
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This seems good, but I'm sure they're not done.
Every year when the heat comes back on, Dominic rediscovers his love for this perch on the cat tree, directly under a vent.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Every year when the heat comes back on, Dominic rediscovers his love for this perch on the cat tree, directly under a vent.
'Feed the hungry' is one of the basic, fundamental, direct-order-from-Jesus, tenets of being a Christian, and it's not 'feed the hungry when it's politically expedient to do so or advances your wider agenda'.
You'd think the party full of people claiming to be guided by their faith would be on this
You'd think the party full of people claiming to be guided by their faith would be on this
Donald Trump has asked his employees on the Supreme Court to overrule lower court orders demanding that he fulfill his duties to feed Americans who are due SNAP benefits
AND
He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.
AND
He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
'Feed the hungry' is one of the basic, fundamental, direct-order-from-Jesus, tenets of being a Christian, and it's not 'feed the hungry when it's politically expedient to do so or advances your wider agenda'.
You'd think the party full of people claiming to be guided by their faith would be on this
You'd think the party full of people claiming to be guided by their faith would be on this
Just a 'spider megacity' in the depths of the earth where no light ever reaches.
Seems good, seems fine.
I think @daviddemchuk.com sent me a postcard from there.
Seems good, seems fine.
I think @daviddemchuk.com sent me a postcard from there.
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Just a 'spider megacity' in the depths of the earth where no light ever reaches.
Seems good, seems fine.
I think @daviddemchuk.com sent me a postcard from there.
Seems good, seems fine.
I think @daviddemchuk.com sent me a postcard from there.
Get WEIRD!
I love @brandoncrilly.bsky.social, I love found family nonsense, and I love that this event is in ONE WEEK!
I am rarely in Toronto these days and miss so many good people there! if you're available at 3pm on the 15th, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see you and get weird in @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social !!!!
I am rarely in Toronto these days and miss so many good people there! if you're available at 3pm on the 15th, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see you and get weird in @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social !!!!
One week from NOW!
You can see Can*Con Vice Admiral @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and Certified Brilliant @thescreambean.bsky.social at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social discussing found family, their rad new books, and what else?
WHO KNOWS?
YOU MUST COME AND FIND OUT!
You can see Can*Con Vice Admiral @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and Certified Brilliant @thescreambean.bsky.social at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social discussing found family, their rad new books, and what else?
WHO KNOWS?
YOU MUST COME AND FIND OUT!
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Get WEIRD!
So in this game I’m playing I just encountered a character who said ‘You there, buffoon. You’re not a genius super scientist so it doesn’t matter if you die of radiation poisoning’ and I just hope @premeemohamed.com is getting a nice royalty payment
November 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
So in this game I’m playing I just encountered a character who said ‘You there, buffoon. You’re not a genius super scientist so it doesn’t matter if you die of radiation poisoning’ and I just hope @premeemohamed.com is getting a nice royalty payment
Ye Amazing @siennatristen.bsky.social is here!
Go back their Kickstarter with IMMEDIACY!
(I got a wee listen a while ago and it is going to rock your socks)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
Go back their Kickstarter with IMMEDIACY!
(I got a wee listen a while ago and it is going to rock your socks)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming: An Orchestrated Audiobook
Help fund the long-awaited audiobook of this cult-classic fantasy novel, complete with musical accompaniment.
www.kickstarter.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Ye Amazing @siennatristen.bsky.social is here!
Go back their Kickstarter with IMMEDIACY!
(I got a wee listen a while ago and it is going to rock your socks)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
Go back their Kickstarter with IMMEDIACY!
(I got a wee listen a while ago and it is going to rock your socks)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
Ok so there was an Incident.
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Ok so there was an Incident.
Good lord. I've worked in a bunch of minimum wage jobs and I swear to jeebus I would have stabbed someone if they had said I not only had to do X but I also had to look happy doing it.
Just leave people alone, man, they don't owe you a smile or anything else.
Just leave people alone, man, they don't owe you a smile or anything else.
There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Good lord. I've worked in a bunch of minimum wage jobs and I swear to jeebus I would have stabbed someone if they had said I not only had to do X but I also had to look happy doing it.
Just leave people alone, man, they don't owe you a smile or anything else.
Just leave people alone, man, they don't owe you a smile or anything else.
A *million* people.
Lawn darts were banned forever in Canada after like 50 people got injured.
Any company not run by absolute ghouls would shut this thing down. Governments should be banning the fuck out of it.
Lawn darts were banned forever in Canada after like 50 people got injured.
Any company not run by absolute ghouls would shut this thing down. Governments should be banning the fuck out of it.
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A *million* people.
Lawn darts were banned forever in Canada after like 50 people got injured.
Any company not run by absolute ghouls would shut this thing down. Governments should be banning the fuck out of it.
Lawn darts were banned forever in Canada after like 50 people got injured.
Any company not run by absolute ghouls would shut this thing down. Governments should be banning the fuck out of it.
I very briefly had an Academia account and I still get emails asking if I have written papers by other people with my name but now I'm getting these weird science ones about 'discovering surface phases with electron diffraction' and I suspect @premeemohamed.com shenanigans.
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I very briefly had an Academia account and I still get emails asking if I have written papers by other people with my name but now I'm getting these weird science ones about 'discovering surface phases with electron diffraction' and I suspect @premeemohamed.com shenanigans.
YOU ARE COMPELLED TO GO!
One week from NOW!
You can see Can*Con Vice Admiral @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and Certified Brilliant @thescreambean.bsky.social at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social discussing found family, their rad new books, and what else?
WHO KNOWS?
YOU MUST COME AND FIND OUT!
You can see Can*Con Vice Admiral @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and Certified Brilliant @thescreambean.bsky.social at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social discussing found family, their rad new books, and what else?
WHO KNOWS?
YOU MUST COME AND FIND OUT!
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
YOU ARE COMPELLED TO GO!
I don't understand how with even just one case of this you wouldn't immediately shut the entire thing down until you were 100% certain you'd fixed the problem.
Like, even if you don't think 'AI' is a ghastly plagiaristic slop extruder, it's so clearly awful
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Like, even if you don't think 'AI' is a ghastly plagiaristic slop extruder, it's so clearly awful
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT accused of acting as ‘suicide coach’ in series of US lawsuits
Chatbot was first used for ‘general help’ with schoolwork or research but ‘evolved into a psychologically manipulative presence’, plaintiffs say
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I don't understand how with even just one case of this you wouldn't immediately shut the entire thing down until you were 100% certain you'd fixed the problem.
Like, even if you don't think 'AI' is a ghastly plagiaristic slop extruder, it's so clearly awful
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Like, even if you don't think 'AI' is a ghastly plagiaristic slop extruder, it's so clearly awful
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Apparently there’s a giant snowstorm coming.
Well, @nathanburgoine.bsky.social’s husky will be pleased
Well, @nathanburgoine.bsky.social’s husky will be pleased
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Apparently there’s a giant snowstorm coming.
Well, @nathanburgoine.bsky.social’s husky will be pleased
Well, @nathanburgoine.bsky.social’s husky will be pleased
This audiobook is going to be so good, friends!
Much beloved friend of the con Sienna Tristen is bringing out an audiobook of their 'Heretic's Guide to Homecoming'!
If you had a chance to listen to the sample in our vendor's room, you know this is going to be AMAZE!
If you didn't - it's going to be AMAZE!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
If you had a chance to listen to the sample in our vendor's room, you know this is going to be AMAZE!
If you didn't - it's going to be AMAZE!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming: An Orchestrated Audiobook
Help fund the long-awaited audiobook of this cult-classic fantasy novel, complete with musical accompaniment.
www.kickstarter.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This audiobook is going to be so good, friends!
I mean I can’t say that I’m surprised that Poilievre’s endless attack mode has an expiry date for people but with the Liberals basically being Con Lite there’s only so much delight I can take in it
November 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I mean I can’t say that I’m surprised that Poilievre’s endless attack mode has an expiry date for people but with the Liberals basically being Con Lite there’s only so much delight I can take in it
I learned a lot today but one thing I could have done without learning is that when they clean the grease traps in an industrial kitchen it creates a stench nightmare from which there is little, if any, deliverance
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I learned a lot today but one thing I could have done without learning is that when they clean the grease traps in an industrial kitchen it creates a stench nightmare from which there is little, if any, deliverance
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Haha these fools have given me the corporate credit card
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Haha these fools have given me the corporate credit card
It is snowing a little this morning so I can get my reflex 'ooo how pretty' reaction out of the way and get straight on to 'ugh fuck winter' before we're even halfway through November.
Efficiency!
Efficiency!
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It is snowing a little this morning so I can get my reflex 'ooo how pretty' reaction out of the way and get straight on to 'ugh fuck winter' before we're even halfway through November.
Efficiency!
Efficiency!
In addition to the great points in this thread I would like to grab the people making these decisions and ask them what they know about 'soft power'.
There will probably be nations willing to step forward as Canada steps back and it's important to think about what *that* looks like.
There will probably be nations willing to step forward as Canada steps back and it's important to think about what *that* looks like.
I don’t object to cuts to Canada’s international spending per se
I object to the capricious, callous and dismissive way it’s being done
I get this is feminized, wooly stuff. Not like hard, tangible economics, or hanging out with private equity talking billion dollar deals
I object to the capricious, callous and dismissive way it’s being done
I get this is feminized, wooly stuff. Not like hard, tangible economics, or hanging out with private equity talking billion dollar deals
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In addition to the great points in this thread I would like to grab the people making these decisions and ask them what they know about 'soft power'.
There will probably be nations willing to step forward as Canada steps back and it's important to think about what *that* looks like.
There will probably be nations willing to step forward as Canada steps back and it's important to think about what *that* looks like.