Monique AC

Anytime I see someone complaining about how they aren't seeing X topic on bsky, or that they see more of it on Twitter, I'm reminded how many people have no idea how an algo works. If you aren't seeing posts about a topic, it means you aren't following people who post about that. Easy fix for that!

Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com

We've waited so long to yell this: IF YOU'RE A SUBSCRIBER OR KICKSTARTER BACKER, ISSUE 1 IS IN YOUR INBOX! 🪐🗡️

Issue 1 will be free to read online March 15th, but if you can't wait, get your hands on it RIGHT NOW!

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I run outside, year round, mostly along the canal MUP.

It makes such a difference to get outside, even in the worst of the winter.

This probably makes me a bad Ottawan, but even though I live along the canal, I don't skate :-) I really don't enjoy it at all, despite my best efforts.

I really hope so!

Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...

"We invoke international law and the 'rules based international order' when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it’s the Americans doing the bombing."

#Opinion from former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy

I'm watching a PWHL game right now, but I don't expect he cares about that.

Congratulations!

A graphic promoting the meet and greet for the Brampton writer's residency. With a magazine style lay out with a picture of my face in the background. I'm a brown woman with shoulder length black hair. Text: MEET Writer in Residence. Community members of all ages are invited! Register to learn about her writing process. March 3. 7-8:30p p.m. Mount Pleasant Village Library. Suzan Palumbo In Partnership with the Brampton Arts Organization (BAO) + The FOLD FOUNDATION.

Graphics! Tuesday, Brampton area friends. Come hang out at the library. We're going to talk about becoming a writer, the writing process and the shift from writing for yourself to trying to publish. Bring your general writing career questions!
Info in thread. All ages welcome!

Quite the choice to not include policing...

Thanks! It's a lot (& I'm slow lol), but I'm stubborn & it's definitely satisfying when it's done.

Support Team CIM at the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend 2026! Help Monique Cuillerier raise money to support Connected in Motion

So! I'm running the marathon at Ottawa Race Weekend in May & I've set up a fundraising page for Connected in Motion, an organization that connects people living with Type 1 diabetes.

This'll be my 3rd marathon since I was diagnosed with T1D in 2022 :-)

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So, thank you for posting this, because I always mean to set up a fundraising page for Race Weekend (I'm doing the full) & I always put it off & then it doesn't happen. (I've set one up now lol)

I think that works. Also, a beer around mile 8.

Doug obviously had the worst time on field trips to the Science Centre when he was a kid.

Oh sorry. I'm on a Mac. That is so weird. I've never had that happen with an image file (& I dump a lot into the research folder).

What format is the image? Are you on a Mac or pc? (I just tried in my open Scrivener project & it was fine)

A policy proposal for Canadian provinces. policyoptions.irpp.org/2021/11/gend...

They also have a very cool, online course called "A Year of Canadian Wool" where you get monthly resources, videos, & activities. (Okay, I'm also going to their in-person sheep & wool camp in June :-D I'm kind of obsessed with them)

But sharing AI slop doesn’t help anything

Congrats! (I submitted a request that the Ottawa Public Library buy it :-))

Yeah, and most often away from their families.

And sent to stay with a billet family in another city when you're a teenager.

Off the top of my head (I'm sure I'll think of more later):

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social
Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social
Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social
Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social

Gaudy Night is mine, too!

Yeah, but there's video of Matthew Tkachuk putting it on Patel's neck

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Space does not belong to America. Why is it only America that is getting a say in this obviously terrible proposal?

Silk and Foxglove anthology, a BIPOC erotic eco-horror anthology, with a collaged artwork of a red circle, a dragonfly, and a sensual rear end!

Due to the sudden closure of the small press publishing our anthology, we're looking for a new home!

"Silk and Foxglove" is a BIPOC anthology of 13 stories of erotic-eco-horror! It's weird, gorgeous, evocative, & unnerving as hell!

Please boost! If any small presses are interested, let me know!

I wouldn’t be surprised if one side of these exchanges never really thought it was *that* gentle or good natured…