Megan Tayles
@taylesium.bsky.social
Writer and reader--fantasy, sci-fi, horror. Story enthusiast. Occasional engineer. She/her. 🇨🇦
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Might try to do 10-minute ink sketches every day I think of it as an attempt to have some sort of regular art practice again.
Day 1: featuring a small segment of messy kitchen
Day 1: featuring a small segment of messy kitchen
February 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Might try to do 10-minute ink sketches every day I think of it as an attempt to have some sort of regular art practice again.
Day 1: featuring a small segment of messy kitchen
Day 1: featuring a small segment of messy kitchen
Good statement from the BC Teachers' Federation.
With alt text (final lines in next post).
With alt text (final lines in next post).
February 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Good statement from the BC Teachers' Federation.
With alt text (final lines in next post).
With alt text (final lines in next post).
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A beautiful essay on how to respond to grief following the horrific Tumbler Ridge shooting.
Respond to horror with kindness. Love, when they tell you to hate. Be thoughtful when they tell you not to think. Build community when they want you isolated. Hug your loved ones.
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
Respond to horror with kindness. Love, when they tell you to hate. Be thoughtful when they tell you not to think. Build community when they want you isolated. Hug your loved ones.
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
Suffering Should Never Be Weaponized | The Tyee
‘Scapegoating vulnerable groups does not make communities safer,’ says a municipal councillor in the wake of the Tumbler Ridge tragedy.
thetyee.ca
February 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
A beautiful essay on how to respond to grief following the horrific Tumbler Ridge shooting.
Respond to horror with kindness. Love, when they tell you to hate. Be thoughtful when they tell you not to think. Build community when they want you isolated. Hug your loved ones.
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
Respond to horror with kindness. Love, when they tell you to hate. Be thoughtful when they tell you not to think. Build community when they want you isolated. Hug your loved ones.
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Remember when BC Conservatives narrowly lost the election in 2024? Remember when several of their candidates started spouting racist and conspiratorial nonsense?
Remember when OneBC sprouted from that particular steaming pile of bullshit? This is the call from inside the house.
Remember when OneBC sprouted from that particular steaming pile of bullshit? This is the call from inside the house.
A former OneBC staffer previously participated in a Spaces call with the leaders of white nationalist/"Canadian nationalist" organizations.
They talked about deporting 10 million people and joked about throwing "millions of Punjabis" into the sea. 1/3 thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
They talked about deporting 10 million people and joked about throwing "millions of Punjabis" into the sea. 1/3 thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
Inside the Far-Right Push to Influence Canadian Political Parties | The Tyee
A conference call shows a political operative with past Conservative connections advising several white nationalist groups.
thetyee.ca
February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Remember when BC Conservatives narrowly lost the election in 2024? Remember when several of their candidates started spouting racist and conspiratorial nonsense?
Remember when OneBC sprouted from that particular steaming pile of bullshit? This is the call from inside the house.
Remember when OneBC sprouted from that particular steaming pile of bullshit? This is the call from inside the house.
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In a month where everything is romantic, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends an alternative. Here's 5 excellent backlist books featuring asexual characters!
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Works of Asexual Speculative Fiction - Reactor
In a month dominated by romance, we're making space for SFF on the ace spectrum
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February 11, 2026 at 3:18 PM
In a month where everything is romantic, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends an alternative. Here's 5 excellent backlist books featuring asexual characters!
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The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)
I've said this before but I truly believe we could revitalize YA and kidlit overnight by switching to MMPB and paperback first. Kids want paperbacks! It is by far the biggest request I get from teen readers.
hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)
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Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment
June 9, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment
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Marvellous u/LonelyMachines to this @askhistorians.bsky.social question.
Say I am a 20-year-old man in a rich farming household in Central France in 456. Do I get any sense that the (Western) Roman Empire is in the process of "falling"? How different is my day-to-day life ...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Marvellous u/LonelyMachines to this @askhistorians.bsky.social question.
The detail that this is sponsored by MP Bruce Fanjoy, who won Poilievre's old seat and forced him into a by-election, is the cherry on top.
Sign here to make Poilievre get top-secret security clearance, or quit already. Seems increasingly like he's afraid he won't pass, which is not cool.
Sign here to make Poilievre get top-secret security clearance, or quit already. Seems increasingly like he's afraid he won't pass, which is not cool.
WAKE UP, HOSERS
NEW PETITION JUST DROPPED
Petition e-7148 calls to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top-secret security clearance to ensure they are fully informed of threats to Canada’s national security and able to act decisively to protect Canadians and our democracy.
NEW PETITION JUST DROPPED
Petition e-7148 calls to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top-secret security clearance to ensure they are fully informed of threats to Canada’s national security and able to act decisively to protect Canadians and our democracy.
Petition e-7148 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
February 8, 2026 at 10:45 PM
The detail that this is sponsored by MP Bruce Fanjoy, who won Poilievre's old seat and forced him into a by-election, is the cherry on top.
Sign here to make Poilievre get top-secret security clearance, or quit already. Seems increasingly like he's afraid he won't pass, which is not cool.
Sign here to make Poilievre get top-secret security clearance, or quit already. Seems increasingly like he's afraid he won't pass, which is not cool.
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some people were asking what this meant. i actually said it on tumblr but here it is
February 6, 2026 at 9:58 PM
some people were asking what this meant. i actually said it on tumblr but here it is
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Read @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social interview with the bundle's curator @edebell.com and then check out the amazing selection of translated books!
lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...
lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...
February 6, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Read @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social interview with the bundle's curator @edebell.com and then check out the amazing selection of translated books!
lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...
lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...
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Re: Bookshop org's new partnerships. I knew Spotify was on the shit list, but I didn't know all of this re: Draft2Digital.
A'ight kids, it's time for a thread giving you the lowdown on Draft2Digital.
1: They were founded by right-wing Xtians.
2: They donate masses of cash to their church and missions.
3: They view ROMANCE and EROTICA as the same thing, *and* as "dangerous".
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1: They were founded by right-wing Xtians.
2: They donate masses of cash to their church and missions.
3: They view ROMANCE and EROTICA as the same thing, *and* as "dangerous".
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Unfortunately they are blocking all erotica from distribution. Very sad to see a champion for indie bookstores take such a restrictive stance on fiction.
February 6, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Re: Bookshop org's new partnerships. I knew Spotify was on the shit list, but I didn't know all of this re: Draft2Digital.
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Don't enter this. You'll lose all rights to your story. Period.
Competitions like this need to be called out, so they learn their good reputation shouldn't be used to steal the bread from writers' mouths. And that we're not all clueless rubes waiting to be taken advantage of.
Competitions like this need to be called out, so they learn their good reputation shouldn't be used to steal the bread from writers' mouths. And that we're not all clueless rubes waiting to be taken advantage of.
Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Don't enter this. You'll lose all rights to your story. Period.
Competitions like this need to be called out, so they learn their good reputation shouldn't be used to steal the bread from writers' mouths. And that we're not all clueless rubes waiting to be taken advantage of.
Competitions like this need to be called out, so they learn their good reputation shouldn't be used to steal the bread from writers' mouths. And that we're not all clueless rubes waiting to be taken advantage of.
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Hideous licensing agreement from Red Ogre Review, but what really jumps out at me is the moral rights waiver
Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*.
And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.
Don't submit to this one, folks.
And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.
Don't submit to this one, folks.
February 4, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Hideous licensing agreement from Red Ogre Review, but what really jumps out at me is the moral rights waiver
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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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It’s Groundhog Day! Vancouver Island Violet has made her prediction! Six more weeks of winter! This was confirmed by her mate Phillip who also got in the weather prediction action. Watch here:
February 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
It’s Groundhog Day! Vancouver Island Violet has made her prediction! Six more weeks of winter! This was confirmed by her mate Phillip who also got in the weather prediction action. Watch here:
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INEXPENSIVE BOOKES YOU SAY??
(Pick up ONE MESSAGE REMAINS, my mini-collection of one novella + 3 novelettes, for le cheap!)
(Pick up ONE MESSAGE REMAINS, my mini-collection of one novella + 3 novelettes, for le cheap!)
we are
SO THRILLED
to see several of our novellas and a collection on the
@locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list
we want you to read those books! (and vote for them, YES, if you love them)
so we put them on SALE
OMR - $2.99
Starstruck - $1.99
NTHTDD - $1.99
you can get them here:
SO THRILLED
to see several of our novellas and a collection on the
@locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list
we want you to read those books! (and vote for them, YES, if you love them)
so we put them on SALE
OMR - $2.99
Starstruck - $1.99
NTHTDD - $1.99
you can get them here:
The Entire Psychopomp Book Collection - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Looking for something to read? Check out our entire collection of books that we've published--from novellas to collections and more!
psychopomp.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:32 PM
INEXPENSIVE BOOKES YOU SAY??
(Pick up ONE MESSAGE REMAINS, my mini-collection of one novella + 3 novelettes, for le cheap!)
(Pick up ONE MESSAGE REMAINS, my mini-collection of one novella + 3 novelettes, for le cheap!)
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The 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List is out! If you follow my work you can probably guess the titles I suggested, but regardless there's so many amazing works on here. locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
locusmag.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:06 PM
The 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List is out! If you follow my work you can probably guess the titles I suggested, but regardless there's so many amazing works on here. locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
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“When a fake ad showing Mark Carney popped up, telling me that the government can provide me with financial assistance, my cheery digital sanctuary was ruined for me.”
When I Saw Scam Ads on Pinterest, I Clicked | The Tyee
Canadians have lost millions to these fake campaigns on various social platforms. Here’s how they work.
thetyee.ca
February 2, 2026 at 6:23 PM
“When a fake ad showing Mark Carney popped up, telling me that the government can provide me with financial assistance, my cheery digital sanctuary was ruined for me.”
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Have you read this one, because there is a bit where I literally jumped even though I was in my brightly lit living room sitting safely on my couch reading a short story.
Happy to see my horror short story LANDLINE on the @locusmag.bsky.social Recommended Readling list. It's been scaring the heck out of readers
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Landline - Reactor
A woman about to leave on an overseas business trip, calls home from the airport and discovers that “daddy” isn’t there and her six-year-old son is all alone in the dark…
reactormag.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Have you read this one, because there is a bit where I literally jumped even though I was in my brightly lit living room sitting safely on my couch reading a short story.
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It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
January 31, 2026 at 12:28 AM
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
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If you're Canadian and shaking your head about the US gov arresting journalists for the crime of doing journalism, well, that happens here too.
And instead of just being furious about it, you can donate money to The Narwhal, who are actually trying to stop it from happening here.
And instead of just being furious about it, you can donate money to The Narwhal, who are actually trying to stop it from happening here.
The second week of The Narwhal and Amber Bracken’s trial against the RCMP is nearing its end — with three more weeks to go. thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom/
The Narwhal’s press freedom case against the RCMP, explained
Stay informed about The Narwhal and Amber Bracken’s lawsuit against the RCMP as we fight for press freedom in B.C. Supreme Court
thenarwhal.ca
January 30, 2026 at 3:26 PM
If you're Canadian and shaking your head about the US gov arresting journalists for the crime of doing journalism, well, that happens here too.
And instead of just being furious about it, you can donate money to The Narwhal, who are actually trying to stop it from happening here.
And instead of just being furious about it, you can donate money to The Narwhal, who are actually trying to stop it from happening here.
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It's lovely to see this discussion continuing:
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
How the (near) death of criticism hurts artists and audiences - Halifax Examiner
I really don't want to look at any more Goodreads reviews.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
January 30, 2026 at 5:57 PM
It's lovely to see this discussion continuing:
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
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It's my BIRTHDAY~! And in the age honored tradition of social media I humbly request a repost of my artwork~!
January 30, 2026 at 4:19 PM
It's my BIRTHDAY~! And in the age honored tradition of social media I humbly request a repost of my artwork~!