Derek Kunsken

It's amazing! I saw the new hotel yesterday too. It looks like a great venue!

Starting today and running all weekend! Canada's premiere literary #scifi and #fantasy conference with editors, writers, sometimes literary agents, readers, and other excellent creators! Also lots of stuff for sale in time for Xmas :)

Pssst... hey... fellow white people

We don't get to say "Let's not make this about race"

We literally made everything about race
From the get go

That is literally why this conversation is happening

Because we made marriage, education, voting, policing about race

for CENTURIES

Fix it or shhhh

I am binging like a champ. I watched another 35 minutes of The Matrix tonight. At this rate I will reach the end in another night or two.

Wow.

Beautiful!

We are getting close to @canconsffh.bsky.social and I am taking a moment to say that I have the best crew anyone could ever ask for. Ever. Lemme go on for a bit. You need to know how amazing they are, and they deserve it to be seen.

Speaking of sharing the love... @mariebilodeau.bsky.social is awesome and I'm sad I'm missing Can-Con this year and its awesome crew.

Oh cool! What's the paper about?
(I am unlikely to see all four...lol)

I will have to post-read haha

Minor correction. I will binge 1/3 of it tonight.

Ok. I'm finally watching The Matrix. @arleysorg.bsky.social is helping with encouragement. I got this.

The text on an abstract purple background reads: Clarion West logo with "2026 Novel Writing Workshop" Apply now through November 13, 2025 2026 Instructor Karen Lord with image of the author. March 9-November 23, 2026 Virtual Workshop

Applications are now open for the 2026 Novel Writing Workshop with @drkarenlord.bsky.social!

Read more & apply before November 13! Link in bio.

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On Spec has long deserved recognition for best semiprozine at the Hugo Awards, but has never even made the ballot because it's Canadian and most Hugo voters are U.S.-based.

2026 will be your final opportunity to nominate an institution that has been an incubator for so much talent.

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Facebook has a lot of pretty niche groups so I have to admit some surprise that there's no tribute group the 1983's Manimal TV series.

YouTube video by Rolling Stone Stephen Colbert Connects Chance the Rapper with "Lord of the Rings"

Wow. Solid hats off nerd cred to Stephen Colbert for his knowledge of the First Age of Middle Earth...
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Oh sweet!

YouTube video by Rich Mullinax Debbie Harry & Kermit The Frog - Rainbow Connection

The world is a dark place these days. If you need a few minutes of something soothing, Debbie Harry once performed The Rainbow Connection as a duet with Kermit the Frog.
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Well, yes.
It was Venus.
But that wasn't my point.

I didn't mean this kind of food astronomy.

He really wanted to sing that song with Debbie. I think it's a tadpole scout troop. It shows up later in the show when she sings again :)

YouTube video by Rich Mullinax Debbie Harry & Kermit The Frog - Rainbow Connection

The world is a dark place these days. If you need a few minutes of something soothing, Debbie Harry once performed The Rainbow Connection as a duet with Kermit the Frog.
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PublishersMarketplace Deal Report, from January 9, 2023, in the Non-Fiction: Science/Technology category: "Theoretical astrophysicist and author of THE END OF EVERYTHING Dr. Katie Mack's HOW TO BUILD A UNIVERSE, an exploration of the quantum realm that explains what the universe is really made of and how physicists have arrived at those discoveries, illuminating the weirdly beautiful workings of the universe and how contemporary scientists are approaching deeply unsettling truths about how it is built, to Christopher Richards at Scribner, by Mollie Glick at CAA (NA)."

🎉 Update from me: I've just sent my editor the first draft of my second book, "How to Build a Universe"! ⚛️ ➡️ 🌌

It's probably still about a year from publication, but even just getting this draft together has been a journey. Really looking forward to sharing more with you! #HowToBuildAUniverse
🧪🔭🎢

Interesting analysis on how robust the US democracy is against the authoritarian forces on display.

JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

New #scifi conference in Canada! Halifax. Check it out! I hope to go to the inaugural next year. Follow them! @tricon-hfx.bsky.social

Ahhhh!

“…the best story in the collection, Catherynne M. Valentes Came the Last Night of Sadness…”

From Locus Online’s review of #TheEndoftheWorldAsWeKnowIt: New Tales from #StephenKing ‘s The Stand!

Congratulations! That residency looks so cool!