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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)@caramartin.bsky.social |
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Canadian & Irish novelist of character-driven fiction from horror to sci-fi to contemp. Film school grad. Time traveller. Humanist. 😷 INFJ www.caramartin.ca | www.ckkellymartin.com
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Flight out from Ottawa was cancelled after being delayed twice so I can't make my ongoing flight out from Pearson. Had to catch a cab back home and try all this again tomorrow, this time via Montreal. 😩Only positive is now I won't miss the Oilers game.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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"We are completely under-investigating this virus. The effects of repeatedly getting this throughout our lives is going to be much more significant than people are thinking." Douglas C. Wallace, geneticist & evolutionary biologist at University of Pennsylvania theweek.com/health/covid...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Watching Donald Sutherland and Kate Bush do some cloudbusting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllR...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Very sad to hear the news of Donald Sutherland's passing. He was a colossal talent and truly one of a kind. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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2 days until my new sci-fi's official release. Healed of plague after years in cryogenic storage, a 17-year-old Canadian struggles to integrate into a world that's moved on without her and then must fight to stay alive, fleeing an American invasion.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Thank you!!!!
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Pulling out RATs, unopened Enovid, sipmask valves and an assortment of masks (N99s, N95s, KN95s) for my trip to Ireland. Dreading the two flights and the layover in Pearson.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Wowza
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Audra Wolfe
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Your sometimes reminder that you don’t actually have to do what the peer reviewer says; you just have to solve the problem they identified. (For books, anyway.)
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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I just signed the petition calling on federal MPs to host an emergency debate on Canadians' "right to be cool," as millions suffer through another deadly heat dome. Will you join me in taking action? act.leadnow.ca/Debate-Right...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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I just signed the petition calling on federal MPs to host an emergency debate on Canadians' "right to be cool," as millions suffer through another deadly heat dome. Will you join me in taking action? act.leadnow.ca/Debate-Right...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Definitely do.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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I have those anti slip strips on the bathtub/shower floor and they really help too.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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don't find "it" slippery.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Hmm, I have foot sensation problems and rely on the vertical bar in my shower but I don't find slippery.
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Alyssa Harad
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If you can’t bring yourself to admit that we need masks for wildfire smoke, Covid and whatever the next pandemic will be, I hope you can at least see that this is about intensifying hyper surveillance and comes straight from the cops.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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UPDATE: NY Governor Kathy Hochul said on CNN last night that she is considering a ban on masks. This is absolutely shameful! New York has suffered so much from COVID, and COVID is not over. We should be normalizing and depoliticizing masks, not banning them.
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Kathleen Rowan 🌱
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Men who sincerely want to know how to write women better: It genuinely wouldn't hurt to read more authors who are women themselves.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Knew about the sky colour but didn't realize the following: "Tornados often happen later in the day as the sun approaches the horizon, according to oft-cited research." www.ctvnews.ca/canada/green...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Canada's preparation for bird flu. None whatsoever.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Take it from an NHS doc.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Having read the book a couple of years back I wasn't sure how well The Idea of You (slight spoiler ahead) would translate to the screen but I enjoyed it. And appreciated the ending being a bit different. Kind of surprised the audience score isn't as high as the critics' on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Delilah S. Dawson
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This is your reminder that tagging a writer in a bad review of their book is just plain mean. Yes, you have a right to review the book wherever and however you like, always. But if that author is just going about their day, not looking for reviews, and they're forced to see it? Cruel.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Good idea re. the MPP. I contacted Ford yesterday but will try my MPP as well.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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I definitely can and do. I wonder is there any correlation between picturing things in your head and having an inner monologue - which I assumed everyone had until a year or so ago when I learned only about half of people do.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Exactly this :(
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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I truly hope so! Still waiting for that bubble to burst.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Ford is cutting Ontario's wastewater surveillance program. This surveillance is critical for many infectious disease threats & potential future risks. Premier's contact info in the graphic below or the link will take you to a form to message him.
correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/EN/feedback/...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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First review for my sci-fi RISE, TOMORROW GIRL is up. theusreview.com/reviews-1/Ri... The US Review of Books call it "cleverly crafted" and a "heart-in-the-throat journey."
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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I think so much of the western world, to varying degrees, has this problem.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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So, any Canadian residents hoping to cross the U.S. border to get a spring covid vaccine they can't get in Canada might want to go in the next couple of days so they don't have to deal with this. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/a-c...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Lovely day in Watertown NY. Fabulous architecture downtown and they have the most beautiful library I've ever seen. If you're visiting I highly recommend Starch Cafe at 320 State Street. They have outdoor seating this time of year too. starchcafe.com
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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You can now pre-order e-copies of my upcoming sci-fi RISE, TOMORROW GIRL at Amazon and Google. On June 21st e-copies will also be available at Apple, Barnes & Noble and Kobo, and paperbacks via Amazon. More info and read chapter one at: www.caramartin.ca/p/rise.html
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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I agree - a big NO to compulsory national service. "They would be given the choice of a full-time military placement for 12 months or a scheme to volunteer for one weekend a month for a year." news.sky.com/story/refusi...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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WTF! All 18-year-olds in Britain will have to perform a year of mandatory military or civilian national service if the governing Conservative Party wins the July 4 national election, the party said Sunday. kitchener.citynews.ca/2024/05/26/s...
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FEISTY😈
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I couldn't agree more with Cyndi Lauper & Laura Dern.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Protests in Tel Aviv tonight, demanding an immediate hostage release deal and new elections. www.jpost.com/israel-hamas...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Went book shopping for cozy mysteries for my MIL at Perfect Books this afternoon and I'm sorry but I'm keeping the bag for myself. #Ottawa
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Sydney Sweeney was very good in Immaculate and I also hope she'll help bring more horror films to the big screen.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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I saw 2 scary movies revolving around young nuns in two weeks and enjoyed them both. The First Omen genuinely scared me. It had the confidence & gravitas of the 1976 film but with a strong young woman at its centre. I hope there'll be more; I'd love to see where they go with the antichrist concept.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Please keep signing and sharing this petition against the banning of masks in North Carolina. It’s helping to get more media attention on the issue!
You can sign here: www.change.org/p/halt-the-p...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Lest we forget. Before covid vaccines 18% of hospitalized patients and 44% of those admitted to ICU for covid-19 died. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Scientists have confirmed that, for the very first time, a human has contracted the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus — not from a bird, but a dairy cow. www.thestar.com/news/first-c...
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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The Rise, Tomorrow Girl proofs I ordered from Amazon arrived today and on first glance they look great.
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Mer
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🎉
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Susan Kiddie 🍉
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Cops went in to clear the encampment at University of Alberta this morning. Armed to the teeth, of course.
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John Wiswell
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Fantasy is make-believe wearing a cloak. Science Fiction is make-believe wearing a lab coat. Horror is make-believe wearing those candy wax fangs our moms wouldn't buy for us.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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There's a story for your memoirs!
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Have seen this done several times already but plugging existing long covid data (below chart is from Moderna's website on March 15th) into ChatGPT and asking it to estimate the chance of suffering from long covid after a 4th and 5th infection is . . . not good.
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin)
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Ottawa's Parliament Hill updated for the year 2075, according to AI. Dang - looks like we scrap most of the green space in front of Parliament and widen Wellington Street to allow for more lanes of traffic.
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