Lore Austin
@loreaustin.bsky.social
they/them 🏳️⚧️ • chronically ill • plotter of things, builder of worlds • maple leaf cryptid • rep'd by @jjbker.bsky.social
📍 edmonton 🇨🇦
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📍 edmonton 🇨🇦
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Booksellers rock, just fyi 🖤
In a post apocalyptic world of climate disaster and internet collapse, which has left drifting digital ghosts infecting the human world, @rainewilson.bsky.social's new book The Salt Oracle is a unique and intriguing tale of dark mystery and murder aboard a floating research college
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November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Booksellers rock, just fyi 🖤
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
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I live in Alberta. This time last year we were drowned out by separitist chuds. Now we rejected Provincial meddling in our civic elections, used our provinces own laws that they made to reject the issue of separation, and 24+ MLAs are in the process of having *their* recall legislation used on them.
maybe i’m naive but i think it’s kinda doomerism to always be saying this is gonna take decades to undo or you’ll be old or dead when it ends. first it doesn’t matter, plant trees you won’t live to sit in the shade of. second great change is capable of happening very quickly
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I live in Alberta. This time last year we were drowned out by separitist chuds. Now we rejected Provincial meddling in our civic elections, used our provinces own laws that they made to reject the issue of separation, and 24+ MLAs are in the process of having *their* recall legislation used on them.
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imho one of the most effective ways to gain a genuine respect for someone’s craft is by trying to do it yourself.
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
imho one of the most effective ways to gain a genuine respect for someone’s craft is by trying to do it yourself.
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There are people who say “I would sell my soul to write a book that good” who aren’t willing to write the four or five shitty books that stand between them and the good one.
October 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
There are people who say “I would sell my soul to write a book that good” who aren’t willing to write the four or five shitty books that stand between them and the good one.
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Not a Good day in Alberta Naheed Nenshi made this statement today.
Which of your rights is Danielle Smith going to come after next?
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #FireTheUCP #FireSmith
#NotWithStanding #Clause #AbuseOfPower #Canada
Not a Good day in Alberta Naheed Nenshi made this statement today.
Which of your rights is Danielle Smith going to come after next?
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #FireTheUCP #FireSmith
#NotWithStanding #Clause #AbuseOfPower #Canada
Which of your rights will Danielle Smith come after next?
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi
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October 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
youtube.com/shorts/UEVW3...
Not a Good day in Alberta Naheed Nenshi made this statement today.
Which of your rights is Danielle Smith going to come after next?
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #FireTheUCP #FireSmith
#NotWithStanding #Clause #AbuseOfPower #Canada
Not a Good day in Alberta Naheed Nenshi made this statement today.
Which of your rights is Danielle Smith going to come after next?
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #FireTheUCP #FireSmith
#NotWithStanding #Clause #AbuseOfPower #Canada
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Canadians don’t actually have rights when premiers can use the notwithstanding clause at will to revoke them. This is a giant problem.
October 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Canadians don’t actually have rights when premiers can use the notwithstanding clause at will to revoke them. This is a giant problem.
✨️ Evergreen reminder that municipal elections are important! Go vote in them!! ✨️
October 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
✨️ Evergreen reminder that municipal elections are important! Go vote in them!! ✨️
Read it again. Next year. You have to preorder the vaccine over a full year in advance or you just don't get one.
So, Alberta folks, go do that. And then get really vocal about how weird, unhinged, and harmful this is as a decision.
So, Alberta folks, go do that. And then get really vocal about how weird, unhinged, and harmful this is as a decision.
if you're in Alberta and you want your flu and covid shot in 2026 - yes you read that correctly - you have to preorder them right now. So here's the link. go do that. Just in case none of those people get removed from power by then.
please repost this, as the province seems bent on killing us.
please repost this, as the province seems bent on killing us.
bookvaccine.alberta.ca
October 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Read it again. Next year. You have to preorder the vaccine over a full year in advance or you just don't get one.
So, Alberta folks, go do that. And then get really vocal about how weird, unhinged, and harmful this is as a decision.
So, Alberta folks, go do that. And then get really vocal about how weird, unhinged, and harmful this is as a decision.
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Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.
I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.
October 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.
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pathetic
October 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
pathetic
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A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly
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October 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly
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Umm, Canada, are you taking notes???
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
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www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Umm, Canada, are you taking notes???
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No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck.
Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.
"She probably doesn't mean me"
I do.
Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.
"She probably doesn't mean me"
I do.
I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this;
most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!
well, we do. so fuck off.
most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!
well, we do. so fuck off.
May 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck.
Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.
"She probably doesn't mean me"
I do.
Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.
"She probably doesn't mean me"
I do.
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Has anyone else noticed that many non-writers don't seem to have a sense that there is anything between "full time writer who writes for a living" and "total amateur who writes for funzies and never shares it with anyone" even though the middle makes up like...almost all writers?
October 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Has anyone else noticed that many non-writers don't seem to have a sense that there is anything between "full time writer who writes for a living" and "total amateur who writes for funzies and never shares it with anyone" even though the middle makes up like...almost all writers?
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I've taught many people new to gamedev from kids to adult, from a practical educator lens I believe the main difference people credit to kids learning faster or easier than adults is they aren't yet consciously trying to avoid temporarily looking like a beginner at something
adding alt text to help
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March 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I've taught many people new to gamedev from kids to adult, from a practical educator lens I believe the main difference people credit to kids learning faster or easier than adults is they aren't yet consciously trying to avoid temporarily looking like a beginner at something
adding alt text to help
adding alt text to help
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Important info on scams for authors here.
My new Genre Grapevine dives into the book club scams targeting authors. These scams now include creating fake Discord communities filled with AI slop and chatbots. Artificial intelligence circles every level of this scam like water down the toilet.
www.patreon.com/posts/139940...
www.patreon.com/posts/139940...
Genre Grapevine: Book Club Scams Are a Warning of Emerging AI Super-Scams | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
Get more from Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine on Patreon
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September 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Important info on scams for authors here.
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I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.
Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.
This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.
This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.
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
September 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.
Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
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It's genuinely insane that this isn't a bigger news story.
Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they
Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they
Hundreds of people who were once detained at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, have disappeared from government records.
We speak to a reporter and an advocate about what we know.
We speak to a reporter and an advocate about what we know.
September 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It's genuinely insane that this isn't a bigger news story.
Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they
Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they
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This is the way
September 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is the way
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You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.
September 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.
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Hey, Rapture's today. This could be your last chance to tell me I'm pretty
September 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Hey, Rapture's today. This could be your last chance to tell me I'm pretty
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![Typewriter Monke
@tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social
"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
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