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Melissa Yi (Yuan-Innes)
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Writing, dreaming, occasionally saving lives in the ER
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Little penguin couple holding hands at the beach in South Africa

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August 9, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Thank you to the cruise ship captain and crew who actually helped boat in distress, while Zuckerberg's yacht repeatedly (illegally, and inhumanely) ignored them
August 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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The latest mystery coming attractions from Crime Writers of Color kingsriverlife.com/11/08/crime-... #mysterybooks @melissayi.bsky.social @gigipandian.bsky.social @crimewoc.bsky.social @mpmthewriter.bsky.social #booksky #cozymystery 💙📚
Crime Writers of Color: Coming Attractions October-December 2025
by Elizabeth WilkersonI just learned that my thriller Tokyo Firewall was scraped by the AI company Anthropic to train its new large language models. To quickly amass the staggering amount of prose nee...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Horrific
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jul 29
The Trump administration has approved the first AI data center to be built on federal public land. The project will occupy roughly 88.5 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in southern Nevada and will set a major precedent for using America’s public lands for private AI infrastructure.
July 29, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Yay, @kobowritinglife.bsky.social interviewed me! www.kobo.com/kobo-writing...
July 6, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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Roxy Yuan-Innes, 13 3/4 minus 3 days. For the past ten months, she has fought high grade mast cell tumors and metastatic thyroid cancer, yet never stopped loving and giving. Even in the waiting room at the vet today, she made friends. Love you forever, my beautiful girl. Thank you.
June 18, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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Found on Facebook:
"Anyone wanna go plant endangered native plants that are illegal to remove on the land they want to build data centers?" "Environmental scientist here. Plant Elderberry shrubs Sambucus spp, which are native to North America. It's illegal to remove them because they provide habitat to Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetles, which are federally protected by the Endangered Species Act."
June 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Sting Never Gave Up on His Musical ‘The Last Ship.’ Now It’s Back www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/t...
Sting Never Gave Up on His Musical ‘The Last Ship.’ Now It’s Back
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June 12, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Sting: "I don’t conflate commercial success with excellence at all, and I’m fortunate enough to be able to test that theory.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/t...
Sting Never Gave Up on His Musical ‘The Last Ship.’ Now It’s Back
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June 12, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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Happy holidays!
December 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Is it possible to retire from writing?
Do you want to?
Many wise writers weigh in here, my cover story for Write Magazine with the Writers' Union of Canada: writersunion.ca/sites/defaul...
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Guess who's the top blogger of 2025 at @themedicalpost.bsky.social? Congrats to all winners!
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December 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Books for the holidays! Hooray for the Mesdames of Mayhem! mesdamesofmayhem.com/2025/12/10/t... #mystery #thriller #romance #nonfiction #canada
THE MESDAMES 2025 YEAR END BOOK REVIEW
Happy Holidays, Dear Readers! Winter has arrived, and the Holidays are just around the corner. Books make great gifts. What’s more wonderful than snuggling up to a book or story by the fabulo…
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December 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Pride and Prejudice between an artist and a tech bro in Dildo, Newfoundland. Kickstart the book until Nov 6. Includes original, human-made art. No AI.
#BSNM #janeausten #romancebooks www.kickstarter.com/projects/mel...
October 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Our dog, Roxy, is home from surgery, and doing well. I love her so much. #dogsofbluesky #dogs
October 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Ahh, dogs & horses 💕
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Can I get $30 for gas? My dad is the sole provider for my family and he needs gas money to get to work tomorrow!!

#HelpSky #HelpFolksLive2025 #MutualAid #Disabled #DisabilityCrowdfund 💕💸
October 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Who loves #dogs? And #mysteries? Thanks to Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine for publishing this--and "For Love and Bacon"! trace-evidence.net/2025/10/21/t... #shortstories
The French (Bulldog) Connection (by Melissa Yi)
Credit: Melissa Yi I love dogs. I love my first dog, Olo, who would wait up at 1 a.m. to greet me when I came home from my ER shift. I love my now-dog Roxy, whom I adored from the first moment she …
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October 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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So. Many. Things. Wrong. In. Medical. Shows.

Luckily, the Crime Writers of Canada asked me, an emergency physician, to give a talk on how to get it right! 7 pm ET.

If you’re not a member, join me tomorrow through the Canadian Authors’ partnership with SF Canada canadianauthors.org/national/pro...
September 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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I love this interview. Thank you so much to #CBC's #Ontario Morning and Nav Nanwa for inviting me, "the Asian Nancy Drew" Edan Sze, and The Red Rock #Killer! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #YA #mystery #book #novel
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September 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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This is going to be awesome!
September 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Eek! THE RED ROCK KILLER made the Killer Nashville Readers' Choice ballot. My first time.
Double eek! Voting closes at midnight.
Anyone with an email address can vote five favourites.
Good luck to all!
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#mysterybooks #thrillerbooks #killernashville #vote
August 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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#DisabilityPrideMonth featured creative: Emergency physician and award-winning author, @melissayi.bsky.social is also the guest of S1,Ep3 of the Disabled Crone podcast! Her third book of the Glengarry Guards series, Icing Down, is out now! www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DV4Y2F4X #Romance #BookSky
"I thought my life had ended when I broke my knee," Candela said. "And then to lose my skate on top of it!" She gazed at Jake, a smile breaking across her face. "But the skate brought me you. What is your name?" On a fake date for the charity ball, will the hockey team captain find his Cinderella? ICING DOWN BY MELISSA YI Cover image is a cartoon of a male hockey player holding a hockey stick and a woman using crutches to walk in the snow
July 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Marilyn Kay is eligible for the Killer Nashville best investigator manuscript!
Sylvia Warsh and I are are eligible for the KN Readers' Choice Award, which closes for voting August 18th lnkd.in/eyGqbEzy
I'll appear at Readers Take Cornwall August 17th!
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NEWS FLASH: Upcoming August Events!
Record hot temperatures outside, Readers. The intrepid Mesdames are beating the heat with terrific events. Read on! FINGERS CROSSED FOR AWARDS AT KILLER NASHVILLE Congrats to Mme Marilyn Kay, whose…
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August 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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For everyone fighting against #AI:
Especially #writers and #artists, but really, anyone who'd rather help 99.99999999% of the world instead of billionaires.
Fight the power.
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Zuckerberg's Theives https://www.realityskimming.com/post/zuckerberg-s-thieves
July 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM