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Maria
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Maria. She/Her/they/them. Officially in my 30's. I like TTRPG stuff, books, and cats!
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Voices From the North: @jbarchivist.bsky.social reviews AS THE EARTH DREAMS: BLACK CANADIAN SPECULATIVE STORIES, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@houseofanansi.bsky.social)
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Voices From the North: As the Earth Dreams
Jeremy Brett Under Review:As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories. Edited by Terese Mason Pierre. Spiderline, October 2025. There are many beautiful and well-known examples of recen…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
That's a wrap for the Vancouver writer's fest this year! Best week of the year ❤️
October 27, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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TTRPG thoughts:

Running a homebrew setting can really be such an intimate thing. You’re saying to your friends, here’s this world filled with my own imagination, I want to share it with you and if you’re feeling up to it, come join me and create it with me.
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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you can dl high res illustrations for wallpapers ! jadezhang.art/digiprints
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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this is what we could have
October 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Locus Magazine is available as an ePub or PDF for all of you bookish eReader people! That way, you can fit it in your pocket and read it anywhere. Check out digital subscriptions here at subscribers.locusmag...
October 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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This is of niche industry interest, but here goes:

The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%.

Why does this matter?
October 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

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September 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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“It was a lightning rod of hope. We brought in thousands of new members to this party, many of whom were completely disillusioned with politics.”

Emily Lowan’s victory is a sign that the climate movement still has the energy to capture voters. Hugh Chan writes. #bcpoli
How a Zoomer Became Leader of the BC Green Party | The Tyee
Inside the campaign that scored a victory for 25-year-old Emily Lowan.
thetyee.ca
September 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.
September 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.
September 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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It’s funny because promoting and marketing a book in any way, shape, or form is actually NOT the author’s job. At all. It is unpaid labor we’ve been forced to do for so long the expectation has mutated like a virus into “okay now you also have to be a TikTok sensation to do this as a job.”
I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!
September 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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new site from ex-polygon folks just launched. hell yeah
Rogue.site is now a reality! Thank you to everyone along the way who helped make it possible.

If you like what you see, and want more of it. Consider pledging your support with a subscription. Your funds will go to support independent games journalism written by humans, for humans.
Rogue
Ad-free video game news, guides, opinions, history, culture, previews, interviews, and reviews written by humans, for humans
Rogue.site
September 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Every single convention organizer, publisher, art director, project manager, etc. who's even once entertained the thought of using genAI imagery or LLM generated text at any stage should be paying *full* attention to how popular DragonCon is becoming for enforcing their "no genAI" policies.
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
September 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE! 💫

Check out...
🤖 A disaster relief delivery robot
🧟 Touring a mall in a zombie apocalypse ⭐️ A love letter from a star
& plenty more!

& you can read two FREE pieces on our site NOW!

🔗 Link to Issue 8.1: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

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August 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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“We could have species that are playing very important ecosystem roles, and are in decline, and we don’t even realize it.” 🐝
Citizen Science Is the Bee’s Knees | The Tyee
BC is abuzz with curiosity. Meet the volunteers contributing valuable scientific knowledge about local bees.
thetyee.ca
August 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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We're bringing you an actual play of Ahu Tiiko from @manysidedmedia.bsky.social, @roll20.net, and @foundryvtt.bsky.social content, and so much more!

Please sign up, reskeet, and share across socials: bit.ly/3IXeKPk

#Native #NativeAmerican #IndigenousFuturisms #Indigenous #TTRPG #RPG #tabletop
August 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Wouldn't it be cool if in response to Kpop Demon Hunters being the most successful animated movie of the year/all time/whatever companies paid artists to do cool original projects and more shows and movies and more stability in animation and design. Hahahhahahahahahhaha man. Oh well!
August 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM