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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This get a random postseason bracket by saying predict @boxscore.online thing reminds me of when I "predicted" that the Reds would sweep the A's in the 1990 World Series. Anyway and this year's winner according to me is...

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

TIL the kind of baseball cap that sits low and snug on your head, which I would say as compared to a standard baseball cap has been coded female through most of my life, is now called a dad hat

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last day of a cursed Jays season and it's that time of year when it feels weird to know that before long I'll be emotionally invested in hockey

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just occurred to me to look at the Toronto Maple Leafs' website to see what became of their Yasiel Puig adventure (you heard me) and this was about the most confusing headline I have ever seen

Website headline reading "MULTI-HOMER GAME FROM DEI BANING POWERS LEAFS TO COMEBACK VICTORY", with a picture of a baseball player about to throw a baseball in the background

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anaximander: From that which things have their genesis they also have the generation of their decay as they owe. For they must do justice to each other for their injustice by the order of time. A poem of mine that appeared in @arcpoetry.bsky.social in 2024:

Autumn Equinox, Ontario

For a split second the tops of our heads
face the centre of space. We try to stand
our eggs on end. Time cracks us up again.

The barometric pressure bottoms out
and we are changed, our great steaming bodies
of water streaming away from themselves.

Today the atmosphere adheres strictly
to the calendar. A child calculates:
the cosmos carries on necessarily

in accordance with absolute justice.
We've taken its measure precisely.
Each and every thing comes just as it's called.

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The cave allegory is Plato's way of tricking power-hungry dudes into loving the life of the mind: what if you can win by simply not being one of the mass of dumb dupes and Knowing Things

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

2026, folks, it'll be here all year

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Yankees really need Judge and Stanton back just so they're a less continuously annoying bunch of guys to look at

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Welp that's that, it was bound to happen sooner or later, we have become a just normal men, just innocent men household bsky.app/profile/weju...

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hadn't planned to but so far for the Sealey Challenge I've just been reading highly miscellaneous Canadian poetry books I've been in some way meaning to get to and I swear most of them have had a poem about a fox. Poems about foxes always make me think of somebody I saw or heard somewhere...

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Colorado Rockies x ERA under 3.00 in today's Remembering Some Guys game is just mean (the guy I guessed missed by 0.07) but it did send me off down rabbit holes that led to my learning that the last hit Bob Gibson gave up in his major league career was a grand slam by Ralph Pierre "Pete" LaCock, Jr.

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Just saw the first standard course description concluding with course objective I've seen in a long time & it reminded me of the best one I ever saw, Jay Lampert's for his Deleuze & Guattari seminar at U of Guelph c. 1997, which concluded "by the end of the course students will become schizonomads."

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Up again on my old hobby horse: why (apart from the extreme PITAness of getting it going) don't players own their leagues as co-ops? Jays on Apple TV tonight prompts me to think of another reason: in the same way that e.g. we're all uh incentivized to entrust our "savings" to people more...

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Too late now maybe and you never could've convinced people of the harm it would do until it was maybe too late but banning machines from being programmed to use first-person pronouns would've been a really, really good idea

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#SealeyChallenge 2026 Day 7/31: from the above/ground chapbook Weeds of Canada by Dawn Macdonald (@yukondawn.bsky.social), "Flowering Rush Family"

Flowering Rush Family

card and discard, garden leavings,
long, linear, basal, bulbous.
along the waterways of the St. Lawrence
plus the trades; yours and mine, that’s oars.
common inflated pods often scatter inland.
ditch the ditches, seek deep fruits,
arise leafless individual. after a
considerable and equal nuisance, well,
get out of here, he said, and that’s what she got.

Cover of Weeds of Canada by Dawn Macdonald

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#SealeyChallenge Day 1/31! Kicking off this year with SPECTACLE/SPECTATOR by Noah Sparrow, from @robmclennan.bsky.social 's above/ground press As last year I'll post my more-or-less favourite poem or excerpt from each day's book without commentary So here's "No Science in the Grocery Store"

No Science in the Grocery Store

I used to have a recurring nightmare.
At age five, I'd stand across the aisle
from an old lady, never taller than myself.
She would beat me with her purse
in the grocery store and tell me
it's what I deserved. After all, this is
what happens when you are bad, somehow

I'd wake in my own bed, my eyes
shaded by a purple room. A colour
I didn't like nor mind but it was real,
and the woman was never real
and I was real enough,
if only differently conscious.
I decided to undergo a forfeiting
of the dream-world,
instead trying to conquer every
single shadow in the living room

There were too many heads to count.
At that age, I could barely keep counting
yet I had the periodic table memorized
because my father used to be a scientist
Maybe he still is one, like how we've
always been, and always will be, Irish.
Maybe he isn't a scientist anymore,
I don't know how far the word goes.

When he was my age, the one I'm at now, he built a laser and shot it into space.
I don't know what he wanted to hit, or if
there was a target in mind. When I was
seven, a girl asked me if I thought I was strong.
I said yes, and to check, I punched her in the nose.

I thought I was incapable of harming anybody
because I thought I was forgettable, like an
old dream where everything goes mostly right,
and you wake up, you're smaller than before,
and there's more milk to drink.
Her tears wrote up a consensus:
sometimes the motion itself can be enough.

With every paper-cut, there's always
a little bit of mourning left over,
hidden in the drain of a bathroom sink,
a band-aid in the garbage.

This was inside you and
you will never see it again.
Everyone around you has been
aging this entire time, they
just forgot to let you know.

My father made good money from
a photo of Halley's Comet. It made
an appearance in the local paper.
It's hanging on the wall but in a way
I've never really seen it:

The paper grew into yellow
before I got here.

The cover of SPECTACLE/SPECTATOR by Noah Sparrow

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Excellent case in point: I very nearly learned from this article, clicking and skimming as one does, that there are multiple fires burning on Kharg Island

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Swear to God I had not read this when I posted that

Screenshot of a bluesky post by Emily Wilson reading: "1. It's a fun action movie. A line that got cut but sums up some of my overall feelings: This Odyssey is not a rich, satisfying Homeric banquet, but sometimes in the heat, an ice-cold Philly water ice is all you want - even it's mostly sugar and food coloring, and makes no nutritional sense."

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Just ate some peanut butter & remembered on TV for 5 year olds when I was 5 what a big concern getting your mouth stuck together with peanut butter was, if you didn't have a glass of milk ready when you ate peanut butter you were probably going to get your mouth stuck together Is this still a thing

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Getting Emily Wilson to review the Nolan movie is like getting a nutritionist to review the food at the CNE

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Anyway @rick-glid.bsky.social was sufficiently impressed by this joke that she impulse bought Emily Wilson's Iliad last week so now I'm reading Homer FOR THE FIRST TIME shock shock horror horror

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Typical Bluesky quote post: Are we still doing threads about wrenches, I'm tired y'all ℹ️Blocked

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Absolutely tickled to place second in this year's @cv2magazine.bsky.social 2-day contest! That weekend in April has been one of my writing high holidays ever since I found out about it in 2020; truly a game you win just by playing.

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Since everyone's getting excited about Emily Wilson again I feel compelled to point out again that she said CHAPMAN'S HOMER and as we're tallying up points in whatever wars we're trying to decide what side we're on that must be worth a bunch I reckon plough.com/articles/who-is-americas-homer

plough.com

Who Is America’s Homer? | Plough

If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the America...

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Pretty sure I heard the joint Sox-Jays fans Yankees suck chant in the bottom of the 8th there at Fenway, is anything in the world more heartwarming

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Saw this from Krugman today and the penny dropped on those radio ads that very irritatingly seem to pronounce "Uline" like "Elon" (which has been exhibit A in my "ads these days deliberately say things strangely or have messed up grammar to trip your brain and make you pay attention" hobby horse)

Screenshot from Paul Krugman's blog: "People who follow politics closely have long been aware of the key roles in right-wing politics played by Sheldon and Miriam Adelson (gambling money), Paul Singer (vulture capitalist), Robert Mercer (computer scientist turned hedge funder), and Richard Uilein (shipping)."

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Lake effect streamers in July? Lake effect streamers in July.

Radar grab showing lake effect showers off both Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, with very nicely defined streamers stretching almost all the way to Lake Ontario from Georgian Bay

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

An interesting set of responses @plough.bsky.social to what is on its face a ludicrous question. I'd also vote for Frost if I had to vote for anyone--what other American literary figure is so instinctively quoted? (Well, obviously Tracy Chapman* opens a can of worms... www.plough.com/articles/who...

plough.com

Who Is America’s Homer? | Plough

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Pic of the Week: Dog Day Cicada on False Sunflower birdsandbeesandblooms.com/2026/07/19/d...

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Anyway, again, for those of us old enough to remember 2000 and who was on what side about Diebold machines and all that then, this continues to be quite a trip

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Though there is overwhelming evidence that the Weather Underground's POPs make no mathematical sense, keeps the ol' cogitater in tip top form working out if it's this that day and that this it's what for both, what what ho ho jolly good (0.67 * (100-73) + 73 = 91.09 if you didn't know, now you do)

Screenshot of Weather Underground forecasts for Friday (showing a probability of precipitation of 67%) and Saturday (showing a probability of precipitation of 73%)

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Naxos Historical series (got like a couple dozen of these CDs at the York U. bookstore for cheap 20-odd years ago) is one of the low-key best things that ever happened to the world, listening to this right now youtu.be/erM1KnOEe4E

youtu.be

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: I. Allegro con brio

YouTube video by Solomon - Topic

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The fact that bluesky has unnecessarily age-verification-blocked Texas may speak to why I was reluctant to move over here in the first place: bsky was not at all created for the same kind of reasons users migrated here from twitter; in fact it's never been clear what bsky was or is meant for...

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Just spent a solid four or five seconds being thoroughly confused as to how it's America's 250th this year when (a) the bicentennial was before I was born and (b) I'm more than 50 years old (WHAT), then realized I was off on (a) as I had confused my birth year with the Blue Jays' first season

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Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

BEST STAR TREK CAPTAIN. WRONG ANSWERS ONLY.

One of the dogs from The Littlest Hobo, with title text reading "Starring LONDON in"

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