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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 10/01/2026

Boris is so cool youtu.be/TzA_0YBKRHM?...

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 29/11/2025

Granted, if you're a heavy metal ambassador, Finland is probably one of the best places to wind up!

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 28/11/2025

Just saw a fire truck pull a tight u-turn. Pretty impressive driving!

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 06/11/2025

Saving this so I don't forget!

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 23/10/2025

The Apocamist Audiobook, Chapter 4: Dead Boy, Soda and Garden get themselves in trouble in the fog. #audiobook #horror A completely amateur selfmade production. Which is actually really fun to do! youtu.be/PeCMJ65YzlI?...

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The Apocamist, Chapter 4 [Epic Superhero Horror Audiobook]

YouTube video by D.J. Baker

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 07/10/2025

LAST NIGHT AT LAKE BLACK They thought it was just another party out at the lake. But when a lone oarsman drifts across the black water, the night takes a darker turn. A short horror story written, narrated, and produced by yours truly. Watch it here: youtu.be/LK89_X5rXuw?... #horror #audiobook

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Last Night at Lake Black | Short Horror Story Audiobook (Creepy Campfire Tale)

YouTube video by D.J. Baker

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 30/09/2025

Ever wonder what it'd be like growing up at the top of a skyscraper above a killer apocalyptic fog? THE APOCAMIST, CHAPTER 3: OUT OF THE FRYING PAN #horror, free #audiobooks youtu.be/9Hcz9OD5q40

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 13/08/2025

After a whole summer in Asia, looking forward to getting back home to Canada tomorrow. And getting back to writing! 🤘

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 23/07/2025

RIP Ozzy! He sure did put on quite the farewell party. This is one of my favorite songs of his. The lyrics are also very fitting for a final sendoff over the mountain, so please join me in dedicating this to Ozzy Osborne, father of heavy metal! youtu.be/yWfSyhcJyHw

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Ozzy Osbourne - Over The Mountain (Live)

YouTube video by OzzyOsbourneVEVO

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 26/06/2025

I'm excited to announce the launch of my new website: djbakerbooks.com! Watch this space for lots of new content, including: - Multiple free web serials in various genres - Custom roleplaying games and TTRPG content - Free audiobooks on YouTube!

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 13/06/2025

So, I’m halfway through Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, and all I have to say is: that scene with his father? Wow, just wow.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I think it's time we resign ourselves to 'literally' as a contronym. 'Obviously' as a filler word, however, I will resist to the end. If you have to say it to me it's not bloody obvious.

What is a contronym?
Single words that have two contradictory meanings (they are their own opposites) are known as contronyms, and they are quite rare. Here are ten of them:

1. apology: a statement of contrition for an action, or a defence of one.
2. bolt: to secure, or to flee
3. bound: heading to a destination, or restrained from movement
4. cleave: to adhere, or to separate
5. dust: to add fine particles, or to remove them
6. fast: quick, or stuck or made stable
7: left: remained, or departed
8: peer, a person of the nobility, or an equal
9: sanction: to approve, or to boycott
10: weather: to withstand, or to wear away

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 25/04/2025

Just found this picture from Xmas, but don't wanna wait a year to post it lol. It's me!

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 24/04/2025

Skeleton Beethoven music videos need to be a thing youtube.com/shorts/_e04C...

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How Beethoven Heard Music While Deaf 😮

YouTube video by Zack D. Films

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 27/03/2025

3 years ago, a serial killer claimed four lives of First Nations women in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Today, one of the victims was finally named. To honor her memory, the Premier of Manitoba sang a traditional First Nations song. Fucking gut-wrenching.

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 17/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 16/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 07/03/2025

My mom got me a subscription for this TIME Life Mysteries of the Unknown series when I was a kid. We didn't collect the whole set, but I had over a dozen books and read them ALL the time. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 05/03/2025

I've been using Mac computers since 2002, and I almost never update to newer MacOS versions unless absolutely necessary. Usually new OS versions offer little in the way of improvement, while also adding bloat that slows down the computer. But now I finally gotta upgrade after 5 years with Big Sur.🥸😔

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 01/03/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 28/02/2025

Ever since I finished reading Daisy Jones & The Six, I can't stop listening to Stevie Nicks. I'm obsessed. She's just so great!

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a woman with long red hair is singing into a microphone .

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 22/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 19/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 14/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 14/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 14/02/2025

Somehow I've managed to lose two dental fillings in just a few months after moving to Canada. WTF's up with that? 🤬

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 13/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 13/02/2025

I've been playing guitar for almost 30 years, but I don't play hardly any songs. I just play music; it sounds great to me. What is the writing equivalent of this?

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 13/02/2025

Was Dracula originally based on Walt Whitman? Bram Stoker famously wrote this “love letter” to Whitman that suggests he may indeed have been his muse for his now-quintessential vampire novel. In this light, Anne Rice’s homoerotic vampires make much more sense… www.themarginalian.org/2019/01/09/b...

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“Dracula” Author Bram Stoker’s Extraordinary Love Letter to Walt Whitman

“How sweet a thing it is for a strong healthy man with a woman’s eye and a child’s wishes to feel that he can speak to a man who can be if he wishes father, and brother and wife to his soul.&…

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 12/02/2025

The shift keys on my keyboard are slowly giving out. It started out not registering right shift + N. Now, the only way I can type a capital Y is with the Caps Lock. I'm lazy and pretty cheap, so I figure I'll wait until at least one or two more letters fail. I'm a writer though, this is painful lol

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 12/02/2025

Picked up Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix at the library today. Funny, I never knew it was an IKEA gag. The book is pretty, almost coffee table book material. My first Hendrix novel ... I've seen a lot of mediocre reviews actually, but I dig campy horror so let's give it a shot! 🙂

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 12/02/2025

I often wonder how some people can read sooooo many books in one year. I swear I spend more time thinking about what book to read next than many avid readers spend reading two or three thickass novels. I'm incredibly picky when it comes to the content I consume.

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 11/02/2025

Damnit Canadian radio, why'd you have to get Nickleback stuck in my head again for the first time in over 20 years? Oh wait: "This is how you remind me of what I really am..." 🧐

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 10/02/2025

Ha! I watched this over and over again when it came out in '22. The YT algorithm finally re-delivered something good. Check out the fever-dream of Toro y Moi's 'MAHAL' Listening Party: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPB...

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Toro y Moi 'MAHAL' Listening Party

YouTube video by Toro y Moi

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 10/02/2025

You know what I really love, guys? FUNK MUSIC. But, being a white guy who mostly hangs out with heavy music types, I rarely have the chance to talk funk. So hey, tag me if you ever wanna chat about funk musicians. I absolutely love that shit! ❤️❤️❤️

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 09/02/2025

Just started the audiobook for Daisy Jones & the Six, and HOLY CRAP they have different voice actors for every single side character. Such a cool presentation!

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 09/02/2025

Was recommended to read Italo Calvino by an author I respect, so I picked up "Six Memos for the New Millennium" at the library today. Not his fiction, but rather a collection of five literary theory essays about what qualities Calvino sees defining literature in the new century. Interesting stuff!

Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 07/02/2025

If there's one thing you should know about me, it's that I love sharing Lord of the Rings memes!

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D.J. Baker @djbakerbooks.com · 07/02/2025

Officially posted a "I've moved to Bluesky" notice on Twitter. I'll still keep my old account open, but only using it for work and to post my book news. I'm only really creating new content on Bluesky now, while Facebook's just for keeping tabs on family and sharing LotR memes.

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