@paulisci.bsky.social
Researcher, UCalgary PhD, Political Science Dr. Cronk, Historian of Complaints. I've written a book, The Press Gallery (release TBD). Headline of the Year! Lots going on.
Definitely 🔍
09.12.2025 03:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sure the crossover novel would win a GG Literary Award
06.12.2025 00:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maybe we could all watch the Canadian-made adaptation together.
05.12.2025 23:45 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0I love a crossover
04.12.2025 02:06 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maybe I'll play it safe and read both.
04.12.2025 02:02 — 👍 32 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Down to the final copies in downtown Calgary.
04.12.2025 01:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bear by Marian Engel
Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Wondering which Canadian novel to read out loud to the family at Christmas.
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Seven new AHS CEOs have been fired and replaced by seven others who have also been fired. Recall petitions have been issued against all MLAs, as well as several non-MLAs. The Notwithstanding Clause has been used to overturn Santa. Every MLA has crossed the floor twice.
Welcome to #ableg.
Thanks! Still collecting them, and probably will start on approx the 21st(+/- 1).
03.12.2025 15:26 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The year is 2026. Ward 15 councillor Jenkins Malone introduces an amendment to add $1M to the budget to celebrate this inaugural budget meeting hitting the one year mark. It fails 7-8, after two weeks of debate. #yyccc
03.12.2025 00:22 — 👍 28 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Idea: An artist named Al should rebrand as Generative Al. That's it. That's the whole idea.
01.12.2025 20:53 — 👍 40 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0I wonder how people named Al are dealing with the explosion of people using the term AI.
01.12.2025 19:31 — 👍 60 🔁 2 💬 12 📌 3Excellent 😊
01.12.2025 00:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Will start again on probably the 21st or so.
30.11.2025 23:37 — 👍 54 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0It's amusing how important the Headline of the Year contest has become to my internal sense of the course of the year.
I mean, it's not a particularly big part, to be fair, but the fact that it's more than none at all is quite fun.
Another good reminder to apply for my "what if I have to flee North America all of a sudden" passport.
29.11.2025 17:05 — 👍 61 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0✍️
29.11.2025 16:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This feels like a metaphor about politics.
29.11.2025 02:18 — 👍 46 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0She's going to have to cross the floor again
28.11.2025 22:34 — 👍 130 🔁 7 💬 9 📌 0phew, thanks :)
28.11.2025 22:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
28.11.2025 21:57 — 👍 1867 🔁 308 💬 51 📌 21Yeah, they changed the whole website at some point after this version of the site. Are you up-to-date about the whole *waves arms* situation?
28.11.2025 21:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Happily, not really. Mostly just for it to not appear to be selling books again :)
28.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Still working on the new home.. some progress, but not there yet.
I did finish the book in July *2024*... and then they slowly and then quickly went bankrupt in March and then again in August. An ordeal to say the least.
🤷♂️ cc @effinbirds.com @alexdecampi.bsky.social
28.11.2025 21:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yeah... it was a whole thing. My version from a few months ago: bsky.app/profile/paul...
28.11.2025 21:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks! They've definitely shut down (they and the successor company both went bankrupt in 2025... what a thing.) The website also went down... and now it is not down. So 🤷♂️
28.11.2025 21:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
