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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Friend took me to tonight's Maro concert, which has been such a unique experience: their bus broke down outside Montreal, so she and her band are playing an impromptu all-acoustic set. It's beautiful 💖

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

chat do we love that the dentist now asks if I have covid _or measles_ symptoms n/n

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stopped by Little Ghosts Fest by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social and got some great urban and eco-horror for just in time for October 🏗️💀🪴

The Marigold by Andrew F Sullivan, Our Lady of Holy Slaughter by A.J. Shank, some zines by Jeff Estrella, and The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Grease is the word! Fantastic night at Dumpster Raccoon last night with an amazing drag shadow cast and enthusiastically singing along audience for Grease, a movie whose weirdness and snark always surprise and delight me 😄

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A̶̶c̶̶c̶̶i̶̶d̶̶e̶̶n̶̶t̶̶a̶̶l̶̶l̶̶y̶̶ b̶̶o̶̶u̶̶g̶̶h̶̶t̶̶ a̶̶ s̶̶e̶̶c̶̶o̶̶n̶̶d̶̶ c̶̶o̶̶p̶̶y̶̶ get to give a friend the gift of a queer horror novel by @agawilmot.bsky.social that a friend recommended highly 😹

Two copies of Withered by A.G.A. Wilmot on a desk

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 30/11/2024

My finest work:

Prince Harry:

You see, Luigi and Sonic — they're lovers. More than that, they're life partners. They got married.
And Tails - Miles Prower - is their biological son. Sonic got pregnant with Luigi's baby and he is Tails. Someday, Luigi will die and Tails will replace him as a Mario Brother.

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Awesome Foundation Toronto @awesomefoundgta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

www.awesomefoundation.org/en/submissio...

Apply today! Or tomorrow! Or the next day!

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Awesome first @torontosymphony.bsky.social concert of our season last night! Yuja Wang performed Prokofiev in an amazing piano performance, then gave *4* encores 👏 and also a beautiful modern piece by Linda Caitlin Smith that they ran seamlessly into Debussy's La Mer.

The TSO and pianist Yuja Wang getting a standing ovation

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"It ignored blocks that said 'no'" is how you'd describe a scraper accessing a public website that has a "no bots" file—not how you'd describe unauthorized access to private systems. This careful wording makes me nothing real actually happened.

"There were blocks clearly which were coming back telling the AI agent 'no'. The AI agent found a way around those blocks – didn't accept no for an answer," Albanese told reporters.

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

YOU'RE THE ONE THAT WE WANT - but we're almost out of tickets! This Saturday, Dumpster Raccoon has got MULTIPLYING CHILLS to present GREASE (1978) - a FULL SINGALONG and SHADOWCAST! This hydromatic, ultramatic poster by @montadrew.bsky.social WILL BE available in the lobby during the show!

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DeadGodsBook @deadgodsbook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hideous place. A city's underground should either be spookier or more cheerful, but this half abandoned place with the too low ceiling and no style is just sad

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

really hate the Manulife Centre PATH, bullshit unsignposted liminal space backrooms maze traps me every time

A bunch of closed shops without any guidance how to get to the subway

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

HEY TORONTO: I'll be in conversation with my buddy Jordan Tannahill on Monday night about his new book! COME SAY HI. www.eventbrite.ca/e/jordan-tan...

eventbrite.ca

Jordan Tannahill: The Living Realm

Internationally celebrated author and playwright Jordan Tannahill discusses his moving and dreamlike new novel.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Good for LA. The "Friends of the Park" who blocked the museum from being established in Chicago to preserve the existing parking lots should be run out of town on a rail

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Got to see Altin Gün in Toronto tonight! Fantastic performance by a great band, with some top notch lighting and an energetic crowd. (Really fun to introduce their music to a friend!)

Altin Gün on stage bathed in red light in front of a full crowd, seen from the mezzanine

The lead singer of Altin Gün in a spotlight in front of a dark, full theatre. The stage is the only source of light, mostly bathed in red.

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Joel (Thespis-Punk) @thespispunk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I submit this as another.

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this Halloween, it's KEN RUSSELL SEASON as Dumpster Raccoon *finally* screens TWO of his greatest films - join us for LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM *and* the new 4k restoration of his suppressed masterpiece THE DEVILS!!! TIX FOR BOTH ARE MOVING FAST!!! revuecinema.ca/series/dumps...

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

did I miss several streetcars waiting for fresh garlic knots? yes

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Horrifying and heartbreaking and infuriating. If you're applying for jobs right now, there's some important advice and context in this thread:

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

pics from birthday weekend!

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Those dogs were the best dogs (like all dogs)

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

TIFF movie #1: Viva Carmen (which Letterboxd has under a different and unfortunate name). Beautifully animated and scored film that never quite settles on what it wanted to say about the opera's story. Still, a fun watch and a chance to revisit my favourite opera.

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A ★★★½ review of Love Is a Gypsy Child: A Carmen Story (2026)

A beautifully and well acted animated film telling the story of characters both in but even more just outside the frame of the opera. It's a fun movie and plays nicely with Bizet's wonderful score, th...

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If someone's willing to resign their job as a warning, there's a possibility they're saying something serious, and I appreciate this guy answering that question for us (he's not serious).

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just finished Alan Wake 2 💯 It's been almost a year (it sat for a while), but it was great to revisit the incredibly detailed nightmare version of New York one last time. They did a fantastic job capturing the city—can't wait to play Control Resonant next month!

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ich sitze mich draußen um auf den jungstbestellten Döner zu warten, genau als einige vorbeigehende Deutsche sich bemerken, dass das Dönerladen nicht so gut ist 🫠

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

News sources keep reporting that Google has kept Lake Ontario for Canadian users, but I and another friend in Toronto both see it changed 😒

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

fall has arrived before August is even over, but I'm game for a night of bath weather

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fantastic Flamecon panel about the great comic Have You Heard About Mimi Green, a recent favourite of mine by @connorgoldsmith.bsky.social and @joshcornillon.bsky.social ("Silent Hill 2 x Goop"), moderated by @meakoopa.bsky.social. Got so much from their talk about the art, script, and characters!

Anthony Oliveira, Connor Goldsmith, and Josh Cornillon on stage in conversation

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hello @flamecon.bsky.social! So glad to be back in New York for one of my favourite events each year. Excited to see friends and find some amazing queer nerdy comics and art!

New York with a great view of Central Park

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hanging out with nephews: very cool

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Follow fantasy title convention to make a novel you would not read: The City of Heat and Smells (joking aside it is nice to be back in New York)

a mango beverage on a table outside on a street in New York

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This may be the first positive side effect from the LLM boom I've ever heard about. Doesn't at all outweigh the negatives, but if this data on African language usage becomes available for other research that'd actually be valuable. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

The root problem is lack of data. Common Crawl, a database used to train AI models, scraped 872m English web pages in July, but just 80,000 in Amharic. Across African languages, only Swahili was better represented than Welsh.

High-quality audio for speech recognition is also scarce. African researchers are therefore recording how people talk, with backing from the likes of Google and the Gates Foundation. Audace Niyonkuru of Digital Umuganda, in Rwanda, says his firm strives to get a balance of ages, genders and dialects.

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

[movie theatre lobby] Me: [chanting] tiff, tiff- Other attendees: tiff, TIFF Ticket taker: [pounding their scanner] TIFF, TIFF, TIFF!

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 07/08/2026

tag yourself i’m

this Frankenstein homage could be anything, but I am choosing to see it as the lower legs and feet of a monster holding up the head, creating a mouth-like empty space in the middle with two teeth and a tongue

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/08/2026

Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common.

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Canadian, & therefore treacherous @stoneape314.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

An awesome series of workshops for LGBTQ+ youth who'd like to get crafty/DIY!

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Now watching: Dracula (1977), a BBC production

A projector showing the title card for Count Dracula by Gerald Savory

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