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Hey pals,

It is the LAST WEEK to donate to the Little Ghosts workshop fundraiser to help us build out our space to host even more marketplaces, workshops, and reading events for our community. If 300 people got a commemorative wall plaque, we would reach our goal!

Thanks so much for the support!🤍

Applied for the #RevPit BIPOC Mentorship this year. Thanks for creating this opportunity! And good luck to all the other hopeful mentees!

Going to follow the contest again this year whether I get picked or not. Go go, all you brilliant writers!

Not sure if the iPhone’s Lockdown Mode is for you? Here’s some advice on who it’s for and when to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

My junior and senior high schools n.e.v.e.r. got listed. Not once. Never had a snow day after grade 5. This was in Edmonton

Husky is slowly “shutting down” as he watches friends leave shelter “This breaks my heart," one user wrote. Another added: “PLEASE someone save this sweet boy!”

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2 year old husky mix. Really needs a home. He's shutting down at the shelter. Please please read the article below. And if you can, go adopt this poor dog.

the Valley Animal Center
3934 N Hayston Ave
Fresno, California,
(559) 233-8566

www.newsweek.com/husky-slowly...

How to Submit The Revise & Resub (RevPit) Annual Contest is open to completed, unpublished, fiction manuscripts ONLY. Nonfiction, poetry, chapter book

And a step-by-step How to Submit including a MSWL spreadsheet for all the #RevPit editors broken down by age category and genre, examples of materials, and a checklist for submission reviseresub.com/annual-conte...

One vaccine may provide broad protection against many respiratory infections and allergens Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens — the closest yet to a universal vaccine.

Stanford Medicine researchers and collaborators "have developed a universal vaccine formula that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria and even allergens." Wow. And it's a nasal spray, not a shot. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Oh 100%! I’ll buy this for no other reason than I support the concept

2026 RevPit Participating Editors: Allison Alexander, Ash P, Ayesha Ali, Carly Hayward, Dana Draper, Demi Michelle Schwartz, Hanna R. Neier, Hannah Kate Kelley, Jeni Chappelle, Kala Godin, Laura Galan-Wells, Leah Rambadt, Madelyn Knecht, Miranda Darrow, Natasha Hanova, Nicole Frail, Raquel Brown. Find each editor's MSWL on reviseresub.com

ANNOUNCING the 2026 RevPit Participating Editors!

reviseresub.com/editors

Silence at Kokanee Top,
Robert Genn
1973

In other words, we don't even ask "is the world a better place if this thing doesn't exist?" in so many situations. Generative AI is just a case of such scaled-up fully visible harm that we begin to ask questions that should be asked about a lot of other things. That's not anti tech that's anti harm

Q about rule 4: how do you tell the difference between a harsh good editor and a harsh bad one?

Sensory Perception in a Changing World graphic. The graphic has a black background. The text in the top right says: Special Issue. Next line: Sensory Perception in a Changing World Next line: Guest Editors: Almut Kelber, Kathleen M. Gilmour and Sanjay Sane Next line: the Journal of Experimental Biology logo Left of graphic: image showing a moth drinking nectar from cluster of white flowers against two circular green leaves

Many aquatic creatures have a well-developed sense of hearing & in their SI Review, Ana Širović &co discuss the impact of human noise pollution, from shipping & submarine prospecting to construction & military sonar, on fish, marine mammals & invertebrates

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Two skulls with the hedline: Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s

The spread of agriculture didn’t just change our diets—it altered our jaws as well, making it easy to pronounce "f"s and "v"s and opening a whole new world of words.

Learn more on #WorldAnthropologyDay: https://scim.ag/4rHq0k1

The young stars of the constellation #Taurus: GN 04.32.8 is a reflection #nebula, clouds of dust in space that don't emit their own light, but reflect light from nearby newly forming stars. 480 ly from Earth.

Link for more info: esahubble.org/images/potw2...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Duchêne

So your book didn't sell... what now? Next steps if your book stalls on submission

My agent brings the wise, again

'it’s healthier, especially in this current market, not to assign any kind of moral or qualitative value to being traditionally published.' among other nuggets of great advice

portobelloliterary.substack.com/p/so-your-bo...?

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

Canadian authors, remember to register your books for the PLR program by May 1! For the first time, you are no longer required to mail things in—you can do it online.

2026 Olympic Games: Mitch Marner wins it for Canada in win-or-go-home hockey quarterfinal | CBC

2026 Olympic Games: Mitch Marner wins it for Canada in win-or-go-home hockey quarterfinal #TeamCanada #Canada 🍁

www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

RevPit: Participating Editor Announcements Coming Friday! Are you ready for our 10th Annual Contest? www.reviseresub.com

This Friday! Who's ready to meet our annual contest #RevPit editors? In the coming weeks, each will host an #AskEditor session where you'll be able to ask about their wishlist, editing process, and more!

The Bobsled
Ken Danby
1971

Wow.

RevPit Success Story. Book cover reads Rules for Second Chances by Maggie North.

🌟(#RevPit Success) Story Time!🌟

We'd like to recognize those authors who were selected as finalists of our annual contests in the past and have gone on to achieve success in the writing community!

Today, we're highlighting @maggienorthauthor

Coming this Saturday: SEEDS FESTIVAL!

MA|DE is very happy to be reading at this literary extravaganza put on by Draft Reading Series!

We'll be reading on Saturday February 21 from 11am-12:30pm EST on Zoom with writers @fmolavi.bsky.social @ehjchang.bsky.social @storiedselves.bsky.social & more!

A logo with a circular image with a rainbow background and the white silhouette of an open book and a poised quill over the circle. Text beside this reads Indie Press Webring.

A year ago, I proposed making a web ring for independent presses! And - tada! The Indie Press Webring connects independent publishing houses. We're small, and we need your help spreading the word so we can grow.

Readers and Press folks alike, check it out: indiepresswebring.com

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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

Check out my report from last year for more on these book club scams and how they work. 5/ www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...

These plagiarism checkers also don’t notice when you put quote marks around text (or understand what that means), so even when you quote and reference something, it’ll still flag it as plagiarism. Which is idiotic

I tried a plagiarism checker on an essay I wrote and it said I plagiarized part of it, namely the part I quoted and put a reference to.

These things are not able to do the things they’re meant to do. No one should be using LLMs for proof of anything

In Alberta, too. At least when I was growing up. Most people I knew had bagged milk in the fridge, though my parents mainly bought cartons

Don’t know who needs to hear this, but finish that first draft. Seriously.

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a

Don’t be fooled by Ring’s latest attempt to make mass surveillance and real-time identification the new norm in our neighborhoods. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...