Deanne aka deakat

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.

Senator Paula Simons Topic Intervention 681726 - 29 Senators

"Bill C-12 isn’t about respecting the integrity of Canada’s immigration system. It is about undermining it..." sencanada.ca/en/senators/... @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social

On the left: an illustration of a poodle's backside with a bandage on the hip and a missing, bandaged paw on a pink background. On the right: text that reads “How many poodle rescues have I followed? Oodles. Ollie’s toe-less paw. Mozart’s long-lost father. I was hooked.”

Why do animal rescue stories comfort us? Catherine Bush compares her devotion to poodle rescues to rereading Jane Austen—finding structure, hope, and resolution when the real world feels unstable. https://thewalrus.ca/how-many-poodle-rescues-have-i-followed-oodles/

FYI, I have an arrangement with @printbookstore.bsky.social, my local indie, whereby you can order my books from them & I’ll come in & sign them before they ship!

They have ONE for me to sign, & I gotta take a boat to do it—SO YOU GUYS SHOULD ORDER SOME BOOKS FROM PRINT SO I CAN SIGN EM ALL AT ONCE

It’s a photo of me with red lipstick wearing my Joanne Zebra jumper. Across me is this text: Reminder that I have 7 specials available. Chatterbox - my YouTube channel Thoroughly Modern Millican - my YT channel Home Bird - my YT channel Outsider - my website Control Enthusiast - my website Bobby Dazzler - my website Late Bloomer - my website

Reminder that I have 7 Stand up specials available. They’re all either on my YouTube channel or on my website. Just in case you need a laugh. How many have you seen?

Saving this article for the next time someone blames immigrants for home prices

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

I flamed out over organic chemistry in my first year of college. No conception of how to study.

Alright, where are my gifted kids at? You were smart and you never had to study and then you went to college and suddenly had to learn a new skillset overnight, that everybody else had years to learn, or flame out spectacularly?

That’s what talent is like.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

Prediction: In a few years, some smart publisher will do either a quick-release series or imprint of mass markets and they’ll sell gang busters as a combo of nostalgia and novelty. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

In days of yore when the Earth was young, we used to just block somebody who was posting some garbage opinion. Didn’t matter if they seemed like they were on our side and other things. We just blocked them. It was a simple and a better time here

Why is it Dyson Spheres and not “We have made a pill that means you never need to get your teeth cleaned again?”

“These aren't just numbers on a spreadsheet. This is real science being cut,” he said. "You can't cut public science or staff without increasing public risk.”

“When developers own lg tracts of land, Marketplace found property controls that indicate a radius up to 5km within which no retailer is allowed to sell fresh food on the land. It’s a mutual back-scratching arrange. these co’s invented, but unfortunately consumers were the ones who paid the price.”

BIG UPDATE: Francisco’s lawyer Yanni Nicolidakis-Mustafa says "BC Cancer has agreed to treat Francisco on an urgent basis… He is still waiting for a bed to open up for him, but they have taken note of the urgency of the matter and are moving quickly to get him into treatment.”
@thetyee.ca Impact!!!

A First Nation’s prairie grows in Ontario, then burns | The Narwhal A portion of the Alderville Black Oak Savanna is burned each year, giving way to new life. Conservation efforts have revived the rare tallgrass ecosystem that was nearly lost to colonialism

Indigenous fire stewardship brings rare Ontario prairie back. After nearly disappearing, the Black Oak Savanna at Alderville First Nation is thriving again thanks to 25 years of Indigenous-led restoration. tinyurl.com/25xfwttl
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the choice seems stark, do you want to live in this joyful kind of world or the one inflicted on us on parasites and grifters

Ooh, just saw “without Asimov there would be no science fiction,” and no, you stale crouton, you waterlogged saltine, without Mary Shelley—harassed by her husband and Lord Byron—there would be no science fiction.

You’re confusing fandom for canon.

This is some bullshit. Never enter any contest like this.

Wanna Judge? - The Ignyte Awards For the 2026 cycle, we are opening up our longlist judging cohort to folks who may be a good fit (interested, available, organically well-read in a diverse and inclusive titles in sffh whether profess...

Organically inclusive reader? Fan of speculative fiction? Want to judge the 2026 Ignyte Awards? Judges compose our longlist before we open up to public voting. Applications are currently open thru 2/14.
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/

Hey fellow Canadians, if you've been watching people raise emergency rent funds for Minneapolis and thinking "I would pitch in but we don't have Venmo" here is a fundraiser taking Paypal!

*So* cool!

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:

In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

Fighting Cancer, Facing Deportation and Denied Health Care | The Tyee Francisco Barahona is one of many people denied treatment when they can’t get MSP coverage.

Francisco Barahona, who has been living and working in Canada for 15 years, has been struggling to access treatment for the cancer he was diagnosed with in 2023. A hospital called immigration because he didn’t have status. He’s being deported Wednesday.
thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

It's Time to Get Loud About the Books You Love - Reactor Some ideas to help keep literature and the book community alive.

In a time of book bannings, AI, and decreased library funding, the best thing you can do to support books is be very, very loud about them. @mollytempleton.com on how we can help the authors we love:

This is an important point.

Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.

The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.

So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.

One way in which Israeli settler colonialism very closely matches that of North America's is the way in which the "frontier-settler" has a de facto alliance with the army. The army allows settler violence to happen and in many cases actively supports it, without official policy needing to say so.