Kim Werker

I'm really excited about this book! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...

(1/2) Books BC is a signatory to a recent letter calling on Nova Scotia to reinstate funding for publishers and the arts: buff.ly/ExtCcJW

David Eby speaking in a room of kids

BREAKING - B.C. is switching to permanent daylight saving time, making this week's time change the last one in the province. Announcement is live here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

This is very warranted cynicism. What a massive mess.

I mean, that's the only reasonable way to think about it. Your kid will be nearing the end of high school, no doubt, by the time this school is ready for students.

Part of a ruling in a discrimination lawsuit against a transphobic school trustee. "Calling transness “gender ideology” allows anti-trans activists to hide behind a veneer of reasonableness. It allows them to say, as Mr. Neufeld did in his statements as well as at the hearing of this complaint, that they are not attacking human beings. They are simply opposing a set of ideas. But behind this insidious veneer is the proposition that transness is not real. Such phrasing can make it easier to ignore that trans people are human beings. Referring to “gender ideology” or “transgenderism” – “-ism” denoting a belief or ideology such as capitalism or communism – pushes the idea that trans people have an agenda rather than being just another demographic group. As this decision illustrates, such terms can create the conditions for discrimination and hatred to flourish."

I 💜 Canada.

www.bchrt.bc.ca/law-library/...

It is absolutely WILD that it took so long. There has never once been issued, from any level of government, a clear or acceptable reason why this school wasn't built 19(!!!) years ago.

This egregious timeline didn't only affect residents of Olympic Village. It had bizarre and toxic ripple effects.

And now pre-orders are actually working! shop.ninetenpublications.ca/products/a-u...

(Insert gripe about how Shopify requires a bunch of settings for every individual product to be able to be purchased, and it is unnecessarily dumb.)

It's one of those things that made Canadians delight so much in the book and tv "stupid Canadian wolf bird." That bird is on our currency, y'all.

It's like a cycle that adapts to a prominent issue every few years, but really does come down to everyone having the right to say hateful stuff, and others having the right to block them or not do business with them as a consequence.

In yarn, it's about the red hats, and some companies telling influencers they can't mention the companies in posts even remotely about politics (even as these companies are apparently sold out of red yarn).

In fabric it's about hateful rhetoric being excluded, and cries that that is unfair.

💡 Pre-orders help us decide how many books to print, they help build buzz about the book, they help us to pay for the print run (when you purchase from us), and they support bookstores and craft shops and help them learn about the book and get excited about it (when you purchase from them).

The book cover of A User's Guide to Yarn, by Michelle Boyd, is featured in a graphic declaring that pre-orders of the book are open. Below the book cover it says the title and author, "Coming June 16, 2026. Pre-order today at shop.ninetenpublications.ca."

A USER'S GUIDE TO YARN, by Michelle Boyd @spindleprincess.bsky.social, is coming in June, and it's now available for pre-order in our online shop 👉 shop.ninetenpublications.ca/products/a-u...

You can also pre-order through your local bookstore or craft shop, and we encourage you to do that 📚

I see both the fabric and yarn craft worlds are (again) absolutely melting down over politics.

Predictably. It's been a short while since there was a big meltdown like this.

Look. Craft has always been political. What we choose to buy has always been political. Ignoring it doesn't negate it.

This is the heartbreaking, rage-inducing, scream-at-everyone piece you must read. Especially if you're in Canada. Especially if you're in BC 👇

(Almost always the culprit-and/or-solution-and/or-confounding-factor is metadata itself, who is sending the metadata, and are the metadata being somehow altered on receipt and if so is it a bug in a system or a human error.)

Something I do far more of in my work than I'd ever thought I would is solve puzzles. I simply had not anticipated the amount of time I would spend sleuthing, deducing, and otherwise logicking. There are mysteries in publishing that need solving is what I'm saying. So many mysteries.

This is where I YET AGAIN encourage people, especially creators, to have, develop and actively maintain their own websites where people can find you, away from the social media sites you don't own and/or can't control and/or whose discoverability algorithms are at the whim of billionaire weirdos.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

I was still sick when I recorded these last couple vids. My hair is A Situation lol.

Seeing the way people are showing up to smoke the N*H*L’s Insta is frankly hilarious. Shitty that they have to but awesome that they’re doing it.

I'm a KA fangirl, too. Tagging her here because I know this will make her smile – @kateatherley.bsky.social

This makes my entire week ❤️

I read the headline before I read @wilwheaton.net's comment when he shared it. I snorted, made my teen read it, he nearly spat food, and then I was like, "Yes we are all twelve."

February 22–28, 2026 is Freedom to Read Week. Text declaring this in English and French is boldly displayed on an illustration of a person wearing glasses and holding a key in their hands, standing in a maze comprising books that are chained up with a lock on each.

Even here in Canada, schools and libraries are regularly asked to remove books from their shelves. Banning books affects the right of Canadians to decide for themselves what they choose to read. Better that Canadians be free to read, and to read critically! #FTRWeek www.freedomtoread.ca

This week on the pod, join Joe and Elly as they talk about what’s new in the second edition of “A People’s Guide to Publishing!"

Check it out at microcosm.pub/newpodcast

Flurries didn’t mark Vancouver’s first official snowfall of season, ECCC says Light flurries that drifted into parts of Vancouver Wednesday morning did not meet the bar for the city’s first official snowfall of the season, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Brief snow flurries in Vancouver today too lame to count, Environment Canada says, basically
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

My dad taught me to drive, so my experience was that every time the brake lights on the car in front of us lit up he'd yell, "BRAKE!!" Anyway I have a habit of keeping a very safe driving distance.

Also he lived in NYC till he was in his forties so he taught me to parallel park by feel 😬