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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 19h

I first saw her video on Much Music and then I saw her ad a teenager, and then the Rats tour at the Back Alley in Calgary in about 1998, a couple times at other outdoor venues.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 20h

Been listening to her music for almost 40 years. Saw her in person several times. She was an amazing musician.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 03/10/2026

I did a short reading from the start of my #scifi story, “Corn Scabs”, and was told it was funny & intriguing. 🤔 A divorced lobster fisherman named Al, encounters one of a race of recently landed aliens. The vegetarian aliens are taking jobs to work for food. The ousted humans call them Corn Scabs.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 02/10/2026

A good theme for a novel would a Trophy Hunter Hunter.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 02/10/2026

I continued working on my story "Corn Scabs" today. I wrote a good portion of an exchange between a truck driver and his alien lover, and a whale sighting during a meetup between fishermen on the Bay of Fundy. 📚💙 #booksky

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 01/10/2026

Apparently they haven't played Valheim or Satisfactory...

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 01/10/2026

I've been getting more fake publisher scam emails. A lot more. Sadly, no agents are reaching out to me by email to publish my books. But if you are a real literary agent, my new novels are going to knock your socks off and I'll be reaching out to you soon. 💙📚

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 28/09/2026

The more commentary I hear about the future of #AI, the more I realize that my SciFi stories about AI/AGI are more factually accurate than most reporting I see in the world.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 28/09/2026

I’m a “sprinkle of shaved chocolate” cappuccino person. ☕️ 🧍

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 28/09/2026

Working on writing today, finally. Cappuccino, rain, and a little damp chill in your bones can make it easier for the mind to float off to a far away fiction.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 27/09/2026

I was going to finish my latest story but instead I got addicted to SatisFactory (the game).

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 25/09/2026

Lot of talk in writer's groups lately to "go where the money is" (write fantasy, horror, or romance) because of greater market share. Good advice if your goal is to earn more. No judgement, everbody gotta feed the fam. The real magic is writing your passion to become a category of one. 📚💙

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 21/09/2026

I joined the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia on the recommendation of Andy Tolson, author of the Tiny Wilde adventure series. With half a dozen published scifi & fantasy stories under my belt, it's time to get around to my novel. @andytolson.bsky.social @writersfedofns.bsky.social

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 18/09/2026

You won't have to rush to get the sequel done if it goes well! I am re-writing my "debut" novel (I used to write non-fiction books for small businesses and entrepreneurs). I decided I was biting off too much side-plot and big topics and needed to simplify. So far, it's going well.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 18/09/2026

Good luck with finding an agent. 🍀 I will start looking for an agent when I get my novel done, now that I have a half dozen publications under my belt.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 18/09/2026

I am thrilled to tell you that "Where The River Starts" has been accepted for an upcoming Filidh Publishing anthology. ( @filidhbooks.bsky.social ) Monstrously Misguided: Heart of the Beast (Volume 1) is slated for publication later this year. My story is about Death, the entity and the event. 📚💙

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 17/09/2026

This HIP song was in the in-dash car CD player when I worked in the USA and would come back to Canada to visit. Now that I have been living in #Canada again for many years, it always reminds me of seeing the "last exit" signs to not go to Canada, and the red and white flags flying over the border.

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The Tragically Hip - Last American Exit (Official Video)

YouTube video by TheTragicallyHipVEVO

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 17/09/2026

Someone told me, "If I win the lottery, I'm going to buy LinkedIn... and turn it off."

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 16/09/2026

Never underestimate the stupidity of people, especially in large groups.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 16/09/2026

She knew by the tone of the machines when she was working them, but not over-stressing the system. "The system scored outcomes with five variables. 1. confirmation of corruption stopped, 2. useful evidence discovered, 3. probability of prosecution, 4. collateral harm, & 5. unresolved corruption."

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 16/09/2026

WIP "Reward Farming" Tilly was sitting back in her chair, sipping a steaming cup of macha, and calmly speaking tasks through her headset. The room was cool from the air conditioning, but the constant hum of her racks of servers gave her comfort. (1/2)

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 15/09/2026

No oligarchy bankrolled my wedding. My wife and I worked our asses off to pay for that shit. We did have a couple of nice friends who chipped in for more bar tab. Somehow, without any political corruption, we managed to get married and have a good time with our family and friends on 08-08-08.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 14/09/2026

I was today years old when I discovered Rammstein was also a town.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 14/09/2026

If you don't want OpenAI folks reading your conversations, this is where the setting is to turn it off. (The settings button is the bottom right under your profile image on desktop)

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 14/09/2026

I hope you get the care you need soon, regardless of the sad political corruption.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 14/09/2026

The only reason to buy this is to try to show other people that you can afford it. It’s just a flex, but also a reminder to other that you probably dont make good decisions with money 💰

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 14/09/2026

I write fiction and I can’t make up some of the stupid shit I see people believe online. How did we make the movie Idiocracy and then have half the world go, “oooh, I want that.”

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Loki Says Ooh Me Likey

ALT: Loki Says Ooh Me Likey

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 11/09/2026

Is the 10% chance that AI will rule the world because it can write competent instructions for SaaS products, unlike nearly every company in the world?

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 11/09/2026

No one really knows why. Time travel stories are different stories the first and second time you read them. All good #timetravelstories make you think back to the start and for hints at what happens. Now go back to the start and think about how one story, with the same words, can be two at once.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 11/09/2026

If the USA could stop doing stupid shit in trade with Canada, I'd have a lot more time to write SciFi instead of dealing with tariff BS for my clients.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 10/09/2026

The science does prove that Europe is getting hotter.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 10/09/2026

I made a shirt with the Dude riding a digital dragon over the Tron game grid and it’s epic.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 10/09/2026

I will give $5,000 Bazillion Spacebucks to any voter who reads my free #SciFi story (The Longest Wait) on @starfarerscafe.bsky.social. Drop your feedback in the comments. I had a reader request another story with the same characters/universe, so I may look at that if Starfarer's Cafe is into it.

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The Longest Wait

Matt Rouse arrived at Starfarer’s Cafe earlier this week with the fantastical tale of an information thief and a robot – except this is no ordinary robot, and the information thief soon…

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 09/09/2026

“What was it directed toward?” Reward. “You, me, and everyone else, sister,” Tilly chuckled at her own joke as one who spends too much time with computers tends to do. “You are talking about a system that is trying to acquire the reward for accomplishing a task?” Exactly. -WIP Reward Farming

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 08/09/2026

He thought the first couple of syllables sounded like “yeah” and “tee.” Al handed her a small brass fitting. "I'm gonna call you Yeti, if dat’s fine wit you?" The alien tilted her head. Considered for a moment, perhaps translating, and then replied, "Acceptable." -Work in Progress (Corn Scabs)

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 08/09/2026

"Thank you," the alien said at last. Her voice was careful, precise, almost musical. "My designation is…" and here she said something Al's mouth could not have made if he'd practiced for a year. A jumble of mushy vowels, scratching noises, rolled notes and clacks. (1 of 2)

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 06/09/2026

I find it difficult to sit and read a book. I have hundreds of books to read, but I an pulled to do more work or at least write more of my own stories and books. But I will sit on the couch and read whether I like it or not, dammit. #mightBeWorkaholic

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 04/09/2026

I’m off to do another volunteer teaching gig. Automation, basic AI, and marketing to help people get jobs or start businesses on their own. I am the author of “Will AI Take My Job? 2” and feel like that gives me insight into which sectors are safer from automation than others.

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 03/09/2026

Could we just all agree that our tax dollars should be used to feed hungry kids? No matter where we live? Just feed the hungry kids. This isn't really a hot take. If you think any kids should starve for any reason, you're a piece of shit. 💩

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Matt Rouse (Author) 🇨🇦🍁🐔 @authormattrouse.hookdm.com · 02/09/2026

Writer Scorecard Rejected-7 Pending-4 Accepted-5 31% acceptance Latest acceptance for Monstrously Misguided Anthology series by Filidh Publishing (Canada🍁) I feel that my rate is due to researching the right place for the work (Duotrope) and editing by @laurentaylorbak.bsky.social 📚💙 #booksky

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