Marilyn Rude

How to Get Signed & Personalized Books From Me For the Holidays, 2025 Edition We’ve come to that time of the year again, where folks begin to think about their holiday gift giving, and at least some of you think about books as the perfect gift. Well, they are! But would…

DEAR US FOLKS: Once again I am teaming up with my local bookseller, Jay and Mary's Book Center, to offer up signed (and if requested, personalized) books for the holidays. All the details are at the link. Go there and get books for everyone! Including you!

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The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.

This is the Canadian Premier League soccer finals and we have a bicycle kick goal in the middle of a blizzard … and that’s the most Canadian thing I’ve ever seen 😂

EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’

EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/

Alberta's role in Canada's loss of measles elimination status embarrassing, former chief medical officer says | CBC News The latest federal data shows Alberta accounts for 38 per cent of Canada’s cases.

Alberta's role in Canada's loss of measles elimination status embarrassing, former chief medical officer says

Alberta accounts for 38% of Canada's measles cases this year

It’s not the flex you think it is Alberta, herd immunity is tanking 😑

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I would just live my life so that Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy me.

Lest we forget.

A bow on view of the SS EDMUND FITZGERALD afloat on the Great Lakes in calm seas under a partly cloudy sky. Image source is Wikipedia

#OTD in Weather History, 48 years ago, on November 10, 1975, the ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior.

She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/

Least favourite of all airports. Hope you got to the gate ok.

Reaction to the FDA Announcement on MHT Removing the Black Box Warning was Served with a Side of Serious Misinformation

My thoughts on the FDA announcement today about MHT vajenda.substack.com/p/reaction-t...

And it was on this day, this hallowed day, we all, as a people, agreed to never again say the name Kim Davis, so she could slink back to her normal life, living in a candy cottage, cooking and eating children who took the wrong dark, crooked path through the woods.

To move from reliance to resilience, Canada has to become its own best customer. 
 
Our new Buy Canadian Policy will put Canadian materials and resources at the centre of housing and major project construction across the country.

Our freedom was won by brave women and men who answered the call — including the heroic First Nations, Inuit, and Métis members of the Canadian Armed Forces.

On Indigenous Veterans Day, we honour the sacrifice of those who have served, those who serve today, and their families.

Over at Tumblr: off a reader's ask, a discussion on how to write/pace characters undergoing change and/or growth. www.tumblr.com/dduane/79969...

Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria Nature - Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.

By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections

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A reindeer butt taken from the sleigh it's pulling through the snow with other sleighs in front curving toward the left. The sun is setting above the fjord and mountains in the background. The sky is peachy with a large cloud on the left.

Arctic magic

Reindeer sleigh ride at Tromso Arctic Reindeer.

#BlueSkyArtShow #evening

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear
#MobilePhotography

The folkloric belief that catching twelve falling leaves ensures good luck for a year = the perfect excuse to just stand here and wait long enough for twelve leaves to fall #AutumnVibes #Folklore

Victoria-based author writes book framing Canada-US trade war as satirical fantasy Local Victoria author Septimus Brown’s latest offering frames the ongoing US-Canada trade as a satirical fantasy quest titled We’ve Come for Your Eggs (And Other Reasons to Annex the North).

"Some early reviews of the book have called it “laugh out loud funny,” with one reviewer stating that they spat their drink out of their mouth at one point due to laughter."

Check out the article about my book on Victoria Buzz 🤩

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#booksky

I tried to do a screen record, hope it does it justice!

Revisiting Patricia McKillip's Timely, Timeless Fantasy - Reactor A short tribute to the work of one of SFF's greatest writers and storytellers

“Whenever I read her work, I am reminded why I read fantasy. And why—while I may take breaks, even stop reading fantasy for long periods—I always return to it, and always will.”

My newest hand printed winter woodland garlands are complete! Cardinals, hares, squirrels, foxes and deer. Coming with my holiday drop tomorrow (11/7 at 12 pm et!)

#art #handmade #linocut #illustrator

if you've been in/lived in your aging grand/parent's house, you know the sign and label stage of trying to care for them at home

Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz Team with ‘Ready or Not’ Filmmakers for New ‘Mummy’ Movie Radio Silence, the directing team known for the recent 'Scream' hits, will direct the feature for Universal.

What. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

In Memoriam:

Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.

I was able to, but I’m not black. It does seem weird that you can’t. I’m using the app not a browser.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.

Dear Canada, can someone explain why we are not doing this??

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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.