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Kim Mannix
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Listener. Watcher. Writer.

First full poetry collection, Confirm Humanity, published Oct 2025

https://wildskiespress.com/our-books/#confirmhumanity

We are in a climate crisis and an empathy deficit. Be a good human.

🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸❤️☮️🐈‍⬛️🌎 #Treaty6 #YEG #ShPk
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Kim Mannix @kimmannix.bsky.social · 25d
My publisher added some jazziness to their holiday gift guide! I love it. 💜

Here's the pitch for my book. Available widely on the bad billionaire site, select local stores in Edmonton and Saskatoon, and direct from the publisher.

wildskiespress.com/our-books/#c...

#GiveTheGiftOfPoetry
A photo of the book cover for Confirm Humanity by Kim Mannix, with an illustrative skull, laptop computer and flowers as its cover image. Below the text reads: For your brother that watches the Nature Channel and falls adkeep to the 11 o'clock news. The one who might need to process some grief, but thinks that chat gpt is basically therapy (It's Not.)
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Humans matter. I want art to be made by humans and enjoyed by humans. And I want that to be true across the chain of creation. From idea to implementation to publication to presentation and distribution. Fuck AI.
December 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Merry Catmas to all!
An orange and white tabby peeks out of a red Christmas gift bag and is surrounded by other festive Christmas wrapping paper
December 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
You can see over 8000 human made images (97% of them with AltText) posted by over 600 #ArtAdventCalendar participants just by clicking or long pressing on the hashtag and selecting See Posts.

I guarantee you it's better for your mental health than whatever else you're looking at on here.
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 26d
I mean...just look at this. It goes on and on and on.

#ArtAdventCalendar is amazing and you really should check it out.
December 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
kimmannix.bsky.social
Everyone in my house (except the cats) is super sick, but at this moment I'm well enough to whine about it here, so I must be on the road to recovery.
December 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Work deadlines met! The festiveness can finally begin!
Close up of chocolate cookies on a parchment paper lined tray. There is melted chocolate minus on top of each cookie
December 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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It's just that I would *like* to stop writing poems that question and seek hope, beauty, joy, reason in this bonkers and increasingly awful world, but they're the only ones that come out.
December 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Ditto the 'it's too late to do anything about climate change' crowd
jekeep.bsky.social Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social · 11d
"We lost the battle to AI already" or "this isn't a fight worth battling" are not objective or neutral stances. They are pro-AI stances, intended to demoralize or deflect people against genAI. The person saying them is spending their time and energy pushing back on us for the benefit of the AI corps
December 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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This is so f%$#ing infuriating. Killing the planet and wasting precious water for a plagiarizing, stupifying, meme-making, disinformation centre.

Brilliant.

#WeLiveInTheDumbestTime
jansplanet.bsky.social Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 11d
"Wang estimated the water needed for the fully completed data centre, including both cooling and for the power plant, would be between 112 and 195 billion litres per year. That is roughly one-third to two-thirds of the total annual water consumption of all the households in Alberta."
EXCLUSIVE: O’Leary’s Gas-Powered Data Centre Emissions Could Wipe Out Alberta’s Coal Phaseout Gains
Celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary’s proposed $70-billion data centre, designed to run on 7.5 gigawatts of gas-fired power, could raise Alberta’s greenhouse gas emissions to levels not seen since the co...
www.theenergymix.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Tonight, #YEG friends...if you can brave the snow for a little merriment!
kimmannix.bsky.social Kim Mannix @kimmannix.bsky.social · 23d
Come be festive with me, wordy #YEG friends!
Red and green poster for Writers' Guild of Alberta Holuday Pub Night. December 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM MT, Edmonton All are welcome! featuring Kim Mannix; Jessica Carmichael Rooster Bar and Kitchen - 10732 82 Avenue www.writersguild.ca
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
kimmannix.bsky.social
very Happy Wednesday to Skate Canada and gratitude for speaking out against the UCP's BS!

I hereby apologize for and take back all the mean things I ever said about figure skating.
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
kimmannix.bsky.social
Cigarettes aren't coming for your body -- they're already here. Our new Smoking for Health Bootcamp gives your heart and lungs the chemicals and carcinogens to die quicker.
publisherswkly.bsky.social Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 12d
AI isn’t coming to publishing—it’s already here. PW’s new AI for Publishing Bootcamp gives teams the tools and workflows to keep up.

First session is Feb 11. Early Bird pricing is now open.
👉 buff.ly/jTdumKC
December 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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3 days left to enter this contest!! We want your poems! ❤️
December 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 16

A bunch of random animals I drew whom study in the same school as our bunnies. ✒️
At Carrotington school, they welcome all sorts of animal pals - big and small, furry and feathered! 📚

#traditionalart #conceptart #characterdesign #anthroart #pendrawing
Concept art of random animals, for a fictional world and school in which animals study.
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar no15

Meine #sewingbee hängt über meinem Nähplatz an der Wand.

Wie immer mit Finger auf Smartphone gezeichnet, kein AI.
Digital gezeichnete Biene auf einer weißen Fadenspule.
December 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Day 15 of #ArtAdventCalendar this snowy Monday, with the Stump Witch. She's got that Monday vibe. Not the defeated one so much as the 'try me. Go on' one.

Coloured pencil in sketchbook.

#Witches #Sketchbook #Spooky
A sketchbook illustration of a rugged witch, seated on a stump, a fairy ring of mushrooms growing around her. She sits, barefoot and legs splayed, smoking a pipe. Her clothing is tagged and her hat resembles the remains of a stump. Her eyes are hidden beneath the brim of her hat, and her fingers are stained green. She grins, and there is an air of menace, though she's doing nothing to threaten anyone. A small toad looks up at the witch, from between her feet.
December 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Day 15: #ArtAdventCalendar

Tisha Mark ©2024, Storm's End, oil on linen, 20"x16"

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#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Storm's End" 20"x16" oil on linen, 2024. An atmospheric cloudscape over a coastal marsh with rich, earthy tones underneath a sky filled with layered gray and white storm clouds with light starting to shine through.
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
For #artAdventCalendar Day 15

Carstairs Redux
42×34″ 107×86 cm
Oil on Canvas
2025
Painting of a swirling storm cloud over a field with a road on the far right
December 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Day fifteen of #ArtAdventCalendar

Here’s a little watercolour of a Jenny Wren.
A watercolour painting of a Wren. The bird is perched on the ground and surrounded by blue Forget-Me-Not flowers.
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
kimmannix.bsky.social
That was an especially awful weekend of news, so time to revel in some joy, my friends! Please tell me something good that you did, will do, saw, ate, made, listened to, etc. etc.

Hit me with the happy!!! 💖
December 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Credit Matt Z. Haig
@matthaig.bsky.social
The arts are not an extra. Books, films, music, theatre -- these are our tickets to empathy. To our best and biggest selves. When the arts are in decline, so is humanity.
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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grhoda.bsky.social
we need to flush this rancid garbage out of this province
charlesrusnell.bsky.social Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 16d
Here is a transcript of what the premier said.
When I came in, I thought, why is $40 billion of our budget in an Alberta Health Services agency we have no oversight over and then when you look at schools, we have $10 billion of our budget that we've delegated authority to 61 school authorities that we have no oversight over. We have another huge chunk that we give to universities that we have no oversight over, and on and on and on it goes. So I think you need to have a conservative vision for what you're going to do with the government’s spending. And our conservative vision is very different than the progressive vision. Our conservative vision is to partner with private entities, whether in the private sector, whether in the nonprofit sector, or whether it's charities, to deliver on the services that people care about. When you think about historically, where did all of the supports for widows and orphans come from? Where did the supports for the vulnerable sector come from? It started with faith-based communities. And government said, ‘Wait a minute, we've got a patchwork here. Why don't we step in to help?’ But in doing so, they have often crowded out some of that incredibly important nonprofit work. And so we're restoring that. We're finding a way to create a structure in government where you do have competition and choice and funding following patients or students or clients, so that you can create an internal market. So that is what I want to do, is I want to apply principles that I know work in the private sector to how we deliver government services, and we're making great strides in a lot of different areas. I think education is probably the greatest example in Alberta of how we do that. You have a choice of sending your kids to a public school or a Catholic school or a charter school or an independent school, or even home school if you want. We have different funding models for each of those. But in Alberta, we have parents willing to pay a portion of their own money to homeschool thei…
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Please stay home if you’re feeling sick.

If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.

There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.

Help break chains of transmission
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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My completely unimportant seasonal take is that white chocolate is grossly sweet, chalky, trash that has zero business calling itself 'chocolate' in the first place.
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Never have small acts of human creativity mattered so much. Paint, draw, put on a play, write a song, learn an instrument, write a story (or a book!). The worst thing you ever make will be better than all this slop.
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.
TIME cover showing a bunch of billionaires imposed into the famous photo of engineers sitting on a steel bar as they're building a skyscraper.
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM