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Chris Walsh

@chriswalsh709.bsky.social
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I'm the Chris Walsh from NL, Canada 🇨🇦 that writes fantasy books you probably haven't read. The Gold & Steel Saga, specifically. My main site with book info and related ramblings: www.thegoldandsteelsaga.com

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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A fantastic message using one of my absolute favourite games? Why yes, yes I will share that. Image credit to @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social.
An image comprised of various sprite-animated characters from the 1995 Super Nintendo video game Chrono Trigger, with the games text-system reading a caption that says "Transgender people and immigrants are not at the root of any problem that we face in this country and I will not be tricked into thinking otherwise."
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Smith is quoted in the video saying that while she understands that people were offended, it wasn't real, but AI generated. This feels like such a weird thing to say, because whether the sweaters were physically real or not is moot because the intent was to deliver a joke she knew to be hurtful.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This Macklemore-Ed Sheeran-Pink debacle demonstrates that the cultural zeitgeist is pro-Palestinian. This is despite pro-Israel sentiment dominating public and private institutions, the ruling class punishing us for speaking out, state violence. Despite this 👇🏾 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran read The Hobbit and wrote a song for the second movie of the trilogy called "I See Fire". We don't often get to choose when defining moments hit us, but we do get to decide how we react to them, and that's a big part of Bilbo's story. Ed clearly missed all that in his read.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
End of an era. The Kennedy Center is closing its doors and won’t re-open unless Trump can put his name all over the historic building. His name doesn’t belong on a theatre dedicated to the arts. They move, inspire, unite and transform. He embodies none of these things.
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Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center board votes to immediately close venue for renovations
The board made the move after finding the structure of the main building is “unsafe” and “hazardous.”
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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
An incredible piece of Simpsons history uploaded to YouTube today: The Tracy Ullman short “Family Therapy” was repurposed as a theatrical short before 1989’s The War of the Roses—released 9 days before the Xmas special. This 35mm film scan has an original opening I’ve not seen before!
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The Simpsons Family Therapy (1989} -35mm - Flat - Mono - UHD
YouTube video by The Scan Man Gallery
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Robber Baron Oligarchy and their media wing have a simple strategy of saying, "Look over there!" and El-Sayed is nerfing its effectiveness by simply saying, "No, I'm going to keep looking at the problem."
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
when i started grad school, i was the first person in my extended family to get an advanced humanities degree and i was so shocked that what passed for smart, or at least confident, in seminars was negative critiques of the readings
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My only question to him would be, "How did you foresee this playing out and have those expectations been met?" Yes, it's technically two questions, but they're related.
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Darth Empath @jhatman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A human can only survive 2-7 days without clean water, whereas we can survive in perpetuity without datacenters. Choose wisely.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I would suggest to all these tourism groups that if they want to start seeing Canadians return to the U.S. to spend, it starts within. Your leader is sowing chaos across the globe and you're all keeping the machine running that allows him to do such. apnews.com/article/us-c...
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US tourism groups want to win Canadian visitors back. A testy trade war isn't helping
An acrimonious trade war between the United States and Canada is threatening to reinforce the resolve of Canadians who stopped visiting the U.S. last year.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
15 years after WWI, but because of WWI, a country ceased to exist: the Dominion of Newfoundland, today a Canadian province, risked defaulting on its debt primarily because it raised its own regiment (building a train line also contributed). The gov suspended its constitution to rejoin Great Britain
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's also the middle-playing and right-leaning democrats who have decided that, "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" is a viable strategy to deal with the opposition while working overtime and at max budget to hamstring anyone in their own party even hinting at progress.
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here’s a truth that lands harder every year.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My latest blog post over on the primary Gold & Steel Website. thegoldandsteelsaga.com/2026/09/01/w... tl;dr: #fuckAI
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What It Is To Be Human in the AI Age.
This piece I wrote was initially published on Facebook, specifically on the Gold & Steel Fandom Group Page in response, or rather in tandem with, a Wired piece titled: Silicon Valley Doesn&#821…
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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.
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I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.”
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
As if I couldn’t hate the orange felon more than I already do, over 60 trees which include historic Cherry Blossom trees were quietly cut down recently in Washington DC without court approval. I’ll never forgive anyone who supports this monstrous hateful destructive criminal.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's classic bully behaviour. Beat up someone you think won't punch back, then get upset when they do in fact, punch back and play the victim, despite knowing that you started this shit in the first place, and your nose wouldn't be bloody if you had left the other person alone.
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Aaron Wrotkowski @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 26/08/2026
There really isn't a fight between humans and generative AI. It's once again the ultra rich versus the ultra poor. aaron.wrotkowski.ca/journal/08/2...
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Complaining about AI again
Have had troubles focusing on writing since I wrote about Writing Atrophy two weeks ago but here we go. Let’s complain about AI. Again. I’ve done it twice before. Why I hate Generative AI and The Cata...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
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Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment.
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Keith Dunne @keithdunne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In a world of Trumps, be a Dolly.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And I'll say it now: more kids have grown up as readers thanks to Dolly than any amount of Harry fucking Potter.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This same cohort that at best ignored the WNBA and at worst mocked it now have concerns about its integrity? Yeah, not buying that.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
He's so full of shit he qualifies as a septic system. #ElbowsUp
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David Cochrane @davidwcochrane.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
21 days before the 25th anniversary of September 11th, the United States imposes 50% tariffs on the country that gave its citizens refuge during the worst terrorist attack in US history.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason.
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Strange Worlds of Jason Kilgore - Author @worldskilgore.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Daily Writing Quote: "Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book." - Mickey Spillane #dailywritingquote #booksky #authors #mystery #writing
color photo of author Mickey Spillane, wearing a black sweater, arms crossed, looking sideways at the camera, and standing on a porch with a river behind him.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Carville's single strategy, that he's clung to for almost 40 years, has been to emulate the GOP to some degree to snag a few center-rights. In that same breath, he called one of the GOP a clown. All Carville has proven is that if you emulate clowns, you get a circus. www.salon.com/2026/08/14/t...
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Time for James Carville to sit down and shut up
The strategist and other Third Way advocates think they have the answers for Trump. But they got us into this mess
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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Please stop paying for anything Harry Potter. This is where your money is going. At this point, you're not an ally, you're an abuser and we're your victim.
JK Rowling says the lawsuits will keep coming - to prevent trans women from using the right restroom.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Maybe it's the litigious nature of the wealthy and society in general these days, but the insistence of legacy media to avoid honestly labeling the amoral and/or unethical actions of wealthy bad actors is more harmful to legacy media than it is those wealthy bad actors. 1/2
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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
buddy i have never used it. i don't know how to use it. i don't know if it's an app or what. i will never use it. if it disappeared today i'd go out and celebrate because it being gone would be instantly great for the planet and humanity
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It's so wild in 2026 to see Angine de Poitrine take off in popularity in such a spontaneous and organic viral moment. In a time when it feels like damn near everything is inauthentic and forced into the mainstream via algorithm, two guys in polka dots playing math rock showed us how real it can be.
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Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Using AI for "smoothing over" your writing or spell checking has also been demonstrated to change the writing, even when you tell it not to. AI tools have no legitimate place in writing.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
After reading about the hour of droning that the journalists put up with, I started to feel bad, then I remembered that they willingly went there, knowing that affront to democracy and decency was going to be, and then, having to listen to the windbag seemed apropos for their cowardice.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Whenever I see one of you-know-who's cabinet going before committees or journalists with even a shred of integrity, and these cabinet people just keep performing for him, all I see is Joo Dee from Avatar: TLA repeating, "There is no war in Ba Sing Se."
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Avatar: The Last Airbender - No War In Ba Sing Se
Alt: Avatar: The Last Airbender - No War In Ba Sing Se
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
theverge.com
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
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LT @haciendathomaso.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
GENERAL STRIKE, NATIONAL BOYCOTT, AS LONG AS WE PAY THEM THEY WILL FUCK US!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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Emily Inkpen @emilyinkpen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Saw this. Had to share it.
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Ryusui @theryusui.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
the democratic institutions have been captured by capital because they are run by people who, fundamentally, believe that those who have capital should be able to function as autocrats to repeat myself for the infinitieth time, "divine right of kings" just turned into "divine right of coin"
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary" - Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale They want this to become normal, but, as also said by Atwood, "Don't let the bastards grind you down."
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Sad to see that Team Canada lost, but man, that was a hell of a run, all things considered.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh709.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Tonight, June 29, 2026, marks the first time in the 30+ year careers of the four men, that the teams of Edge & Christian and the Hardy Boys have simultaneously held World Tag Team Championships. (AEW and TNA, respectively). #ForbiddenDoor #AEWForbiddenDoor #TNASlammiversary #Slammiversary
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Biden: Putting his name on the Kennedy Center. Building an arch in his own honor. Even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool. Whoa. What a loser.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The rise of AI-generated animal videos and images is such a travesty. Animal content has always been one of the best things about the internet and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell what’s real
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