Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦

Oh and the superfecta is that I also go and get my covid vaccine today!

It's a trifecta kind of day: payday, Friday, long weekend ahead. I plunked down my sweet treat allowance on the Ursula K. Le Guin short list, and also Kate Cayley's 'Property.'

Is this what you plan to do on the boat?

A white mug with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo holds a spray of lavender next to a stack of the eight books shortlisted for this year's prize: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

WE'RE BLOGGING

YAASSSSSS FINALLY

Omg are we blogging? Is blogging back?!!

I can't see anything on the Alberta government page about whether this will be considered taxable income or not. That would have some pretty significant implications for parents on AISH or EI, wouldn't it?

Three hours???

Scholastique Mukasabonga's Our Lady of the Nile (translated by Melanie L. Mauthner) was such a good read. Feels eerily familiar when reading it today and looking at America.

Oops, I thought we were riffing Chernobyl quotes! 😂

I'm told it's the same as roughly four chest x-rays.

I was already feeling leery but wow did that ever settle it.

I am supposed to go to the US to give a presentation at a conference...I have just finished cancelling the hotel booking.

Screenshot of the US Treasury dept website with the banner referring to 'radical left' shutting down the government.

Uh... Americans? You, um, okay down there?

Paper Bill press A new Canadian based chapbook publisher committed to spotlighting both established and emerging writers in many genres

Kickstarter has opened for a new Canadian chapbook press!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pap...

One of the ways I'm trying to combat how I feel about <waves hands> everything these days is to set alerts for accounts that post artwork so that they show up in my mentions. @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social and @moma.bsky.social are accounts I really enjoy!

'Best Kebab', Old Street, Hoxton (2003) by Georgia Peskett
georgiapeskett.com

I'm so very sorry for your loss.

I sent my parents instructions with screenshots. It was so much easier when they could just roll up to their pharmacist.

New ‘artificial plant’ uses solar power to clean radioactive soil Researchers have created a game-changing device that purifies radioactive soil using nothing but sunlight.

Cool.

"Solar-powered ‘artificial plant’ purifies radioactive soil by 95% in 20 days"

interestingengineering.com/innovation/a...

Richard S. Zeisler Fund

Jasper Johns, Green Target, 1955
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134554

(I mean, of course we knew it already BUT cat eating hair just seals the deal)

THIS HOW WE KNOW YOU ARE A REAL WRITER

Today a classmate unironically described flash mobs as being "a relic of history" and I think my JESUS CHRIST exclamation was worth not being raptured.

Lake of fire zit 0/19 would not recommend

Did your zit get raptured tho

Since someone else posted my ai statement from my syllabus on the thread, sharing myself as well. Need to push back… bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Yeah, I totally get that. *I'm* glad you're here, and I think the majority of Calgarians really don't agree with that kind of thing. You are welcome here, and you belong here, and you are entitled to feel safe here.

That thing you felt was a collective shudder running through almost all Calgary.