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Chris Millar @achhansfun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jim Carrey Says Of Course
ALT: Jim Carrey Says Of Course
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Raymond Chandler on science fiction
Raymond Chandler making fun of science fiction in 1953
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Mercedes Lenz @yeguablancaa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Have you heard about the repairable tractor being manufactured in Canada? www.404media.co/demand-is-bo... They can't keep up with demand
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Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
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Chris Millar @achhansfun.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Shane Hawk @shanehawk.com · 20/08/2026
People Magazine requested @tvayyyy.bsky.social and me to highlight some Indigenous Horror novels for folks to check out in celebration of the release of our new anthology, NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT, PART II: BACK FOR BLOOD, which is now available wherever books are sold. people.com/terrifying-n...
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9 Terrifying Native American and Indigenous Horro Books to Welcome Spooky Season (Exclusive)
‘Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II’ editors Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. share their favorite Indigenous horror novels to mark the book’s release.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Almost every city in the world needs to urgently understand the need to get really good at planning and designing for shade. #UrbanHeat
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Chris Millar @achhansfun.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This was a great tribute. I watched it at the time and several times since. #FirstCommunion
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Chris Millar @achhansfun.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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City of Truth
Truth reigns supreme in the city-state of Veritas. Not …
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
4 of our backlist eBooks are on sale for just $2 each, until the end of July. 4 stylistically different voices that display a unique sensibility. Each sale helps us continue. So dig in! undertowpublications.com/ebooks
4 books covers: THE TALOSITE, by Rebecca Campbell; BREAKABLE THINGS, by Cassandra Khaw; NOTHING IS EVERYTHING, by Simon Strantzas; THE SHIPBUILDER OF BELLFAIRIE, by M. Rickert.
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Hey ho, look at all this. Pretty good. Might be your jam, and we have the ebook on sale for just $4. undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
UNCERTAIN SONS paperback book listing with award designations circled in yellow highlighter.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 17/04/2026
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A thriving community of culture writing makes everyone in it smarter; we learn from colleagues, from competitors, from writers who are better than we are! A community that devalues knowledge and accuracy demeans and degrades everyone in it and everyone it's trying to reach. We have to do better.
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Chris Millar @achhansfun.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Shirley Jackson back catalogue.
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Chris Millar @achhansfun.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Kind of...
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Chris Millar @achhansfun.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Will anyone be able to keep up with them?
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But Dave Died 10 Years Ago This Very Night @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
back when Magic the Gathering debuted and the market was filled with CCGs, I tried a few, plus got hold of promos and samples for a bunch of them. I still have a lot of these. 1 like = 1 item I have from a CCG I most likely never played
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today. Streets for people. HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
Street transformation from car space to street willed with people including kids
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Chris Millar @achhansfun.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Lol. I nearly spit my coffee through my baleen.
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Chris Millar @achhansfun.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
HBD!
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
As a teacher and as someone who’s created political education materials, I think we need to make more stuff like this. A lot of the easily available videos on social issues are riddled with misinformation or disinformation or bad politics or are panels, and often don’t explain how things work.
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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
For LARB, I wrote about the principled dissenters of Pluribus, The Lowdown, Andor, and The Pitt, and 2025 as the year TV celebrated resistance @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/lowd...
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Opposition Party | Los Angeles Review of Books
In 2025, television offered a primer in principled dissent.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
SOMETHING NEW: Since SO MANY great new books on cities, city-building & urbanism have been published since I did my “Top 100” List back in 2013, on 100 (non-consecutive) days I’ll profile 100 NEWER BOOKS for the #UrbanismBookClub in THIS thread! Starting today (in no order), with “Messy Cities!” 1/
Cover of “Messy Cities: Why we can’t plan everything” with @johnlorinc.bsky.social @jasonthorne.bsky.social etc
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Hey, folks, please consider grabbing a copy of this anthology. I hope to keep it going.
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn: 1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business; 2. worry over small presses closing or paring down. Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀 IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 12/11/2025
2/ If the federal govt funded transit operations and urgently scaled up EV bus manufacturing on this model... That would be a nation-building project for the 99%! #cdnpoli
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 12/11/2025
1/ An inspiring visit to the New Flyer bus plant in Winnipeg! (Special thanks to @unifor.org local 3003!) 👷🏼‍♀️ EV buses with Canadian steel and unionized labour 🇨🇦 Making parts + assembling = 100% tariff-proof ✅ Slashing emissions 🚍 $13.5 billion in orders, years-long waiting list.
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
BOO! The Coach House squirrels are insisting that spooky season isn’t over. We’ve rounded up our most chilling reads, featuring monsters, the dead, and climate horror, for a Halloween weekend sale! Shop select titles for 20% OFF (until midnight Nov. 2) here: chbooks.com/Collections/...
A graphic for CH's Halloween Weekend Sale, featuring nine book covers and a very scary squirrel!
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We published some bangers this year. Hope you got your weird on. Well, I'm sure you did. Thanks to everyone for your support. undertowpublications.com
Our 4 titles: Weird Horror issues 10 $ 11; Uncertain Sons and Other Stories; The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1.
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James G @orth.ca · 21/10/2025
George's full AB with in stadium audio only.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
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The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social
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New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution
Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.
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Angtha Thar @untamespirit.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Read an essay on how expensive Cities are Killing Creativity and @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was ahead of the AI revolution and Hollywood's obsession with remakes. (With some few good and improved exceptions). This made me thought back to Dragonball Evolution and most recently Powerpuff. #booksky 📚💙
Bias Against Creativity 
In an article for Slate, Jessica Olien debunks the myth that originality and inventiveness are valued in U.S. society: "This is the thing about creativity that is rarely acknowledged: Most people don't actually like it."
She cited academic studies indicating that people are biased against creative minds. They crave the success of the result, but shun the process that produces it: the experimentation that may yield to failure, the rejection of social norms that breeds rejection of the artist herself.
Today, creative industries are structured to minimize the diversity of their participants-economically, racially, and ideologically. Credentialism, not creativity, is the passport to entry.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If you told me I could have a great review of my new book from the NYT or from Cory Doctorow, I'd take the latter in a heartbeat pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) (23 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
“European cities, like Paris, were smart to focus on air pollution rather than climate change. Air pollution is more real for people. You can see it, smell it. People liked what @annehidalgo.bsky.social did.” — My comments on leadership & urban transformation To be clear, cities should do both.
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Bikes, pedestrians and the 15-minute city: How the pandemic is propelling urban revolutions
In Europe, cycling caught on in a big way this year as COVID-19 discouraged cars and crowded public transit. Some cities’ leaders hope to make the habit permanent and make congestion a thing of the pa...
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I've posted our first piece of fiction from Weird Horror 11, @daviddemchuk.com's sublime "The Start of Something." And it definitely is. www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/the-start-of...
Screen grab from web page showing the first paragraph of David Demchuk's story.
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Chris Millar @achhansfun.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Recalls classics like "Melo lifts Nuggets over Blazers."
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Joanne Anderton, Jason Baltazar, Seán Padraic Birnie, Chris Campbell, F.E. Choe, Kay Chronister, Dominique Dickey, Diana Dima, Hiron Ennes, Richard Gavin, Elliott Gish, Thomas Ha, Rachael K. Jones, Joe Koch, Uchechukwu Nwaka, Kelly Robson, Nicholas Royle, Kristina Ten, Natalia Theodoridou, Charlotte Tierney, Shaoni C. White, Kaaron Warren, Zachariah Claypole White, Greg van Eekhout, Mia Xuan.
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
NOTE - It'll soon be up at Amazon, BN, Bookshop, etc. But for now you can pre-order direct. Price includes the physical book, plus eBook, and free shipping. Help us keep this series going. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...
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Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1 (Pre-Order - Print & eBook bundle) — Undertow Publications
PRINT AND EBOOK (Pre-Order Ships November) A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2024, the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year pays homage to, and builds ...
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The original Boxing League as promulgated by Sheldon and BDM is probably my favorite way to play magic, with full understanding that it is a luxury format for folks with boxes sitting around, or a great convention event with a ton of random packs.
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Mike Breen: "IT'S GOOD! IT'S GOOD! AT THE BUZZER! A 30-point lead facing elimination! Everything going down for the Indiana Pacers! They're one quarter away from a Game 7!" 🏀🔥🎙️ #NBA #NBAFinals
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A Juneteenth boost; read weird fiction by Black authors
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TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The Portuguese call of Siakam’s poster is PURE ELECTRICITY! ⚡️⚡️ (via Pacers)
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Steve Jones @stevejones20.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
OH MY
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I saw someone say AI is useful because it generates ideas. My dude, I'm full of ideas. I have docs and docs marked under 'ideas.' I have outlines and fragments of stuff I might work on. Trunked stories galore. Even if I continue to write a novel a year for the next 40 years I won't run out of ideas.
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Chris Millar @achhansfun.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I think the Wilds of Eldraine Enchanting Tales have underrated text. A fave:
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Michelle Rapp ➡️ MagicCon Atlanta @kilnfiendpotter.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
What a mensch. Thank you, @maro254.bsky.social . It's wonderful to see the wide range and diversity of humanity seen and celebrated in our game. www.tumblr.com/markrosewate...
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I want to speak out against the whole push towards DEI. I feel that ever since you made the push to make identity the forefront of a character it has hurt the stories you tell. Captain Sisay's race w…
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Shane Hawk @shanehawk.com · 26/01/2025
Excited to now be adjudicating applications alongside Cherie Dimaline and Jessica Johns for the #horror writing residency we are mentoring this April up in Banff! Lots of promising #writers out there but only so many spots. www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
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Indige Tea 🦬🧡 : ✊🏾 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital. You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library. You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library. You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library. You want sourced info? Library.
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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 03/01/2025
Preposterous that someone nominally in charge of seven companies can act so deeply unemployed. Buddy, I run one company and I’m trying to figure out when I can find time to take down the Christmas tree.
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