Reposted by Sheldon BirnieJonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 30/09/2026It’s a very good book and is extremely Western Canadian 141
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pulled these weird little guys from the garden’s gumbo. 🥕 050
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieSheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wrote about the landline revival for work. We’ve got one (VOIP) at home and my kids have really enjoyed being able to call their friends or grandparents anytime they want, and you better believe they too are racing to answer the phone each time it rings. 131
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wrote about the landline revival for work. We’ve got one (VOIP) at home and my kids have really enjoyed being able to call their friends or grandparents anytime they want, and you better believe they too are racing to answer the phone each time it rings. 131
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieAndrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 05/10/2025every day I wake up and kill a computer because I can 47010
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Behold, a treasure trove of nifty appliances & assorted doodads! Visited & wrote about the Electrical Museum’s vast warehouse of artifacts for work @winnipegfreepress.com www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...winnipegfreepress.comMuseum warehouse holds the history of electrical power in ManitobaThe work it takes to bring any endeavour to light is rarely, if ever, seen by those who look upon the final result — be that a creative work such as a feature film or a museum display. 020
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Shitbird has landed @spencerfleury.bsky.social @stanchion.bsky.social 2101
Reposted by Sheldon BirniePookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc 113060981
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I wrote a million emails, and I sent them all. 0111
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieAP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542321628
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Playing a gig with the boys on Oct 10 at Park Alleys. Won’t be the first time we play a bowling alley, but it could be the best time we do? See ya there, Winnipeg 3common.com/event/cheeri...3common.com3Common - One platform for event businesses to run it all 011
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieElephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Elbows up Canadians come January. 041
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Chased by a dog down Magnusson Avenue this morning on my bike to work. 020
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieLJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Libraries are free! Browsing and choosing books and movies and picking up a magazine or newspaper and thumbing through is good for your brain! Make regular library time a part of your schedule and your whole life will be enriched! 1215
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Son and I enjoyed a very rock n roll weekend, with AC/DC as the soundtrack ⚡️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif... 050
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Taking my son to see AC/DC tonight. Not pretty stoked ⚡️ 280
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieSeán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It's a day ending in 'day', so I thought I should post about this collection of both the spectral and the bodily horrific: 14 stories of unease and alienation, bleak elation and despair. Ghosts and illness and pain and catastrophe. All the good stuff. undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would...undertowpublications.comI Would Haunt You if I Could — Undertow PublicationsCOVER ART: Jana Heidersdorf I would haunt you … The debut short story collection from Seán Padraic Birnie does indeed haunt. Sown with seeds of sorrow and grief, and imbued with disquieting bodily h... 01911
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieSheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Finally stopped in to check out Other Places Books. Great selection, picked this nice looking edition up. @didichanoch.northsky.social 0154
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Beauty evening in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to play a couple tunes outdoors with your best buddies last night, you guys. 050
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Finally stopped in to check out Other Places Books. Great selection, picked this nice looking edition up. @didichanoch.northsky.social 0154
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Had to get the Conair out to dry my reporter’s notebook after today’s bike ride home from the office. 🌧️ 🚲 🕵🏻♂️ 120
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So much “buddy” on the new This Is Lorelei record, buddy 110
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieSheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The boat reading was a blast. Thanks to all who were there and made it happened. 0101
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieBen Sigurdson @bensigurdson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Great piece by @badguybirnie.bsky.social on a titan of local/Canadian lit. I worked for him as a research assistant in grad school and took a Canadian literature and the archive class with him. There was no one like him. 1105
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The boat reading was a blast. Thanks to all who were there and made it happened. 0101
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Looking forward to reviewing this bad boy for work @jimvermin.bsky.social 050
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Getting on a boat, rain or shine, this evening to read a story about a boat. Been looking forward to this for so long, you guys. 060
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieSheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Strong competitor for new author photo just dropped 📷 @dreabells.bsky.social 162
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Saw two dead crows on my ride into work today. An ill portent. Clothes are still drying, dripping wet from the sodden commute homeward. 000
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Strong competitor for new author photo just dropped 📷 @dreabells.bsky.social 162
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieSheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Wrote about generative AI and gig posters for the paper today. Check it out ❌ 🤖 🖼️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...winnipegfreepress.comWinnipeg venues saying no to AI-made advertisementsAlthough the days when telephone poles and notice boards across the city were thick with gig posters, either slopped up with wheat paste or wrapped tight with packing tape, are behind us, the art of m... 0146
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Wrote about generative AI and gig posters for the paper today. Check it out ❌ 🤖 🖼️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...winnipegfreepress.comWinnipeg venues saying no to AI-made advertisementsAlthough the days when telephone poles and notice boards across the city were thick with gig posters, either slopped up with wheat paste or wrapped tight with packing tape, are behind us, the art of m... 0146
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Watching Fiddler on the Roof at Rainbow Stage with the family. 030
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We started a trade war with these people because the president, who has some sort of degenerative brain disease with visible bruises on his hand's injection site that the press doesn't talk about, was bored. 201110712285
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“This machine-god narrative is, in my opinion, meant to distract us from these. The industry has become a mix of cults, a mix of people who are true believers, just like a preacher who says the end times is coming. The singularity has been coming for decades now.” 1219
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A pleasant new This Is Lorelei day to all who observe. 010
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Until computers can drink beers I'm not impressed 2697
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Fine, twist my arm, I’ll spin it all morning 060
Reposted by Sheldon BirnieSpencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Some of my absolute goddamn favorites in this pile. 021
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Peep all these beauties, bud @malarkeybooks.bsky.social 1275
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026First skate of the season tonight. Cats scrimmage action. Low key stakes but still expecting to be very sore tomorrow. 010
