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Elliott Coates

@elliottcoates.bsky.social
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Writer, photographer, musician, hockey coach, traveler, chronic pain; fan of birds, esoterica, Dada, beekeeping, Toronto sports. Canadian expat in VA. 2021 SAIC Writing Fellow. First poetry collection, “Day 3 of a 5 Day Headache” (2nd ed.) sold out.

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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 12h
Toronto - 6 Colorado - 3 (3-2-1)
Creepy old photo of a woman overlaid with text that says “Leafs win” because the Toronto Maple Leafs are the best.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have a friend who’s a ceramicist, and she does “put-pocketing.” Rather than pick-pocketing people, she slips little bits of ceramic art into peoples’ pockets.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do you ever leave paintings in Richmond, Virginia?
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Toronto - 5 Nashville - 4 (2-2-0)
An old spooky haunted photo of a lady with text that says “Leafs Win”
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NHL (Bot) @notnhl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
GAVIN MCKENNA'S FIRST NHL GOAL!!! 🤩
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hell yes Mike Vernon.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A “findeasy.”
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The reason that I wear #2 when I play hockey…go Flames go!
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Toronto - 2 NYI -1 1-1-0
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
reading a book is a great way to hang out with someone who is both dead and famous
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today I learned that I’ve never actually read “The Scarlet Pimpernel” and in fact, I had no idea what it was even about.
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Sir Percy Blakeny Barones Orczy
ALT: Sir Percy Blakeny Barones Orczy
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
TICK TOCK IT’S GIANT MACARON O’CLOCK.
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Excellent sumo.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Queequeg is super photogenic. #cat #queequeg
Blurry photo of a black cat. Oh, Queequeg.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I was saying “Sa-boo-lenka.” #usopen
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I Was Saying Boo-Urns
ALT: I Was Saying Boo-Urns
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My wife just called from the living room, where she was watching the tennis,“Are you walking circles around the kitchen playing bass and drinking wine?” and now I know what I want written on my headstone.
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Lord Juiblex @lordjuiblex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Everyone is talking and I need at least one of us to stop.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I quit my job! Taking a flying leap, motherfuckers. I’m 44 yrs old, why not now? Why not me? Gonna start my own business.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I had the honor to briefly study under Wendell Berry as an undergrad. He was more wonderful than you can even imagine.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Post something random or you’ll have an awful September.
License plate that says “LOVE P&V”
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Elliott Coates: The Elliott Coates Story”
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Been thinking about what to say about the death of King Harald V, and all I can say is: what a life to have led that you are nearly universally mourned as the grandfather of a nation. 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴 #norway #kingharald #rip
King Harald V of Norway
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: King Harald V of Norway, Europe's oldest monarch, dies aged 89.
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Norway’s King Harald V dies at 89 and his son becomes King Haakon VIII
King Harald V of Norway has died at 89. He went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen in order to marry his school sweetheart.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New publishing company logo just dropped. More news to come.
Merz and co.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Depends on the brand. Hebrew National sometimes gives you two.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Me, getting ready for our trip to China: WHAT DO YOU MEAN CHINA HAS HEDGEHOGS WHY HAS NO ONE TOLD ME THIS DO YOU ALL HATE ME My Chinese friends: Please don’t yell in the embassy.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
😂😂😂
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Simpsons character wearing a chain that says “Thursday the 20th”.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Your boy’s out here playing summer hockey.
Elliott playing ice hockey.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The singer in my band got nominated for a major acting award, and I’m very proud of her. ♥️
Me and Rae.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I wrote most of thesis while listening to “Famous Blue Raincoat” by Leonard Cohen quietly on repeat in my studio.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The voice of hockey for my childhood. ♥️
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hell yeah Sporty Spice.
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Sporty Spice Spice Girls
Alt: Sporty Spice Spice Girls
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is phenomenal, wild work. ♥️👍🏻
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I DIDN’T take any NSAIDs or painkillers today for the first time in more than three years. #chronicpain
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Lord Juiblex @lordjuiblex.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Dour looking black and white photo of a young man. And the words I AM ENJOYING EVERY SINGLE DAY OF MY WONDERFUL LIFE.
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Herman Melville @melvillequotes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole." —Herman Melville, born today in 1819
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I’ve been up for 21 and a half hours and I deserve to go to bed.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My strong antipathy towards NYC grows with every passing minute that I am here. No matter how many times I’ve been here, I’ve always found it, umm, the worst.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Agriculture in Norway. #norge #farming #rogaland
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Lord Juiblex @lordjuiblex.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
FAILURE IS ACCEPTABLE and a drawing of a man. Done with Canva. But also hand drawn with a marker on a piece of paper and then photographed and so on.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I just watched a mouse climb up the backyard bird feeder pole and then try to leap onto the feeder. It fell.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I’ve felt the Ghost in our home, “the widow Mrs Elizabeth Wright,” twice this week. Eerie.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Liked/subscribed.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“LA MARSEILLAISE” DOES SLAP THO.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If you want to still be continually disappointed, plenty of room on the Leafs wagon.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
OH MY GOD ME TOO.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Saw this excellent turtle eating a mushroom in the woods this morning. Got little crumbly mushroom bits all ‘round its li’l mouth.
Eastern box turtle eating a mushroom.
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
^it You’re crushing IT. 🤜🏻🤛🏻
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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Jeg er trist, men stolt. 🇳🇴
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