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CALL FOR SUBS 📣 Augur Society will be offering OAC Recommender Grants and we are accepting submissions until January 15th @ 1 PM 🕐 We love to champion fresh new ideas in sci-fi, speculative fiction/poetry, and fantastical works 💫🔮🌠 send us your proposals and DON'T SELF REJECT!! 🔗 buff.ly/ET84fxE

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Autumn Hillside Franklin Carmichael 1920

We've raised $3,643 toward our $15,000 goal for the Voyageurs Shield! Help us build a lasting trophy for women's soccer in Canada. Donate at TheVoyageurs.com #AllezLesRouges #CANWNT 1/2

Final day! 📚 The Kickstarter for *Bestsellers: Excavating the Tools and Techniques of Successful Novels* closes today at 5pm PT. I took eight 2025 bestsellers across genres apart to see exactly how they work: 40 full-color charts, 95 takeaways for your own writing. 🧵 (1/4)

Scope creep, late-night client emails, the “quick look” that isn’t. Our International Chapter is talking boundaries. Members and nonmembers welcome! 📅 Friday, October 16 🕘 9 a.m. BST · 10 a.m. CEST · 4 p.m. CST · 5:30 p.m. ACST (Yes, that’s 4 a.m. ET.) Register: bit.ly/4hImeop?utm_s...

Only two days remain to enter the 2026 Raven Short Story Contest! Get your entries in ASAP for a chance at the top prize and publication in Pulp Literature. Find all the details on our website: pulpliterature.com/contests/the...

Friday poem Short Talk on Reading BY Anne Carson. youtu.be/70o4qvcJ5II?...

Red Cedar Emily Carr 1931

Loosen up and listen in, Oct 11! Connect your artist's mind, ear and eye, sketching along to an album. Find inspiration in melodies while choosing your own medium. Draw what you hear in this jam session hosted by A.C. Esguerra, followed by an optional show & tell to share your creations!

Somberness Sunlit Emily Carr 1938-40

The road to reconciliation begins with truth Mishiikenh Kwe ~ Anishinaabe c. 2022

Beta readers can make or break your next draft. Make sure to hire one who knows your genre, send clear questions with your manuscript, and look for patterns in the feedback. Luckily for you, we've already done the hard part! Find a beta reader in the EFA Member Directory: https://bit.ly/4rBhVhR 🌐

Seems like it should be part of the "are phones ruining the kids" debate that every marker of teen mental health has improved since 2021 www.cdc.gov/yrbs/youth-h...

“While estimating age based on user behavior is less invasive than requiring users to upload photos, credit card information or a state-issued ID, age-gating the internet creates dangerous new forms of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @cnet.com.

Ancillary Review is looking for more editors! Message me if you're interested in copy-editing, dev editing, or graphics creation for a Hugo finalist magazine of spec fic criticism! It's volunteer-based and fits with your schedule <3

Join the TAG Foundation this Thurs. (Sept. 24) for in person, live figure drawing hosted by Kyle Neswald. Practice your skills in a creative, professional environment. Limited space; RSVP at https://tagfoundation.org/event/live-uninstructed-figure-drawing-september/. $15/members or $20/non-members

A Canadian study of nearly 9,000 adults looked at repeat COVID infections. Researchers found that people who reported having COVID at least twice had 76% higher odds of being diagnosed with a new health condition, across 21 conditions studied, compared with those who reported never being infected.

This is the globule of stale semen who steals words then watermarks them as his own. 492k followers on Instagram. "Actor and comedian". Original source: my notebook. May, 2014. Second source: a tweet I did, just after that. Third source: when I put it in my book Ring The Hill (published 2019).

New comic! Possession might be nine-tenths of the law, or possession might be theft... We only know that possession of a game doesn't guarantee you'll ever play it! 😇 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: semicoop.com/comic/purchasing-games-2026/ #boardgames

Happy Labor Day!

What is he looking at?!

It is possible, because of a poorly understood quality of fluid dynamics and surface tension, for particulate in a cup to flow *up* the stream of pouring water from a vessel above it to contaminate the upstream source.

Interdisciplinary journals help create the intellectual communities in which new kinds of scholarship become possible. Join us 9/22 for a behind-the-scenes conversation about how this works in practice. 12-1 pm EST | Free | Zoom ideasonfire.net/leading-an-i...

🗣️ Calling all comic book nerds, graphic novel geeks, and manga fans! Want to break into editing but don't know where to start? 👀 Elizabeth Flynn's dropping insider secrets🤫 on this booming industry! Join her Sept. 10 @ 5 PM ET. Register: bit.ly/EditComics?ut...

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Building a list of 🍁Canadian BIPOC board game content creators (EN/FR)! If you know folks who should be included, drop their names below or send them to saltandsassgames@gmail.com. Thak you so much! 😊

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Join EFF today and help us: - Push back against government surveillance 📸 - Protect end-to-end encryption 🔐 - Create technologies to keep you safe online 🧑‍💻 Your support makes this work possible. Donate today! eff.org/join

Good evening. I've taken the paywall of this, the opening story of my upcoming book, in the hope a few of you might find the time to read it. It's narrated by a badger. But not just *any* badger. You'll probably like the rest of the book if you enjoy it. www.tom-cox.com/letter-from-...

FUCK IT! Who'd like to win a signed book from me & Jim? 3 of these going to 3 randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. YOU MIGHT LIKE IT IF YOU LIKE: Weird stones Bookshops Mysterious pensioners Badgers The devil fungi Deer Pixies Sample story here: www.tom-cox.com/the-date/

The risk of being doxxed is top of mind for many movement workers. Learn what you can do to care for your digital footprint without compromising your work.

Wirecutter will only include products in their reviews that will give them an affiliate commission or referral fee. Always important to keep in mind.

Pls share: We have a new position for an Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology at UNLV. tinyurl.com/4uhpav4j

Funny you bring that up. The prime meridian was actually defined by the U.S. when it set up the GPS network, based on an extrapolation from the U.S. domestic datum. I wrote about this several years. nautil.us/what-happens... 🧪

Inside Out D.P Brown 2024

@mapquest.com How do you flag incorrect locations on your map?

Grad students from across disciplines: consider this fall seminar on what happens when cities become training grounds for AI. Explore how AI inherits an understanding of urban life that determines what becomes visible, remains invisible, who gets served https://ow.ly/i3RR50ZGS3R

Being aware of any potential privacy risks is an important part of the decision to use any software, and that includes AI tools. ssd.eff.org/module/priv...

I’m still shipping to many countries including the USA with new codes, they are not entirely tariff free but they’re the least evil. Canada, Australia, the UK and some EU countries are still perfectly fine. 🍁Say Bonjour/Hi if you live in Canada and love handmade cute pottery :D

GDI. I saw all the Dolly posts and hoped it was because she had a new song or posted about something. Boooo to this news 😢

Badlands Airstream Taralee Guild 2023