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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There was a little pretend polling station set up for kids. Super cute.

Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Right. Voted early and voted for the party that I reckon will do the most good and that doesn't have the weird nugget of racism that a few of the other parties have. Best I can do and it means I can start my annoyed letters to my MNA with "as a (riding name) voter...". #votequebec

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Credit to thespicynonna - check out his TikTok, he’s always making something. 🥰 Tribute to Gord Downey of The Tragically Hip, he moved from Italy to Canada years ago #InGordWeTrust #Canada #TheHip

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I were a billionaire, I would put on so many free concerts. Everyone deserves to hear beautiful things.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My choir was giving out free tickets to see Iestyn Davies sing Handel tonight. What a fabulous evening. Amazing musicians accompanying him too, les Violons du Roy, who included a bass lute among other things. Just brilliant. He was so _nimble_.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Small Beloved Child saw an octopus kite when he was two and was obsessed with the Octopus in the Sky. When i found Octopus Shocktopus, about a giant octopus that falls from the sky to live in a small town, it was my Best Aunt Move Ever. We read it eight times in a row immediately.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The new Map Men video shouts out "HOW TO KILL A LANGUAGE: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words" by Sophia Smith Galler, who I was just listening to on the latest @lingthusiasm.com episode! Love that.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Starting Slow Horses immediately after catching up on All Creatures Great And Small is a same-actor whiplash

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It is semiannual "buy an aubergine because I want to be the kind of person who cooks aubergine" week! (It's a common vegetable. It is just not one I ever had growing up or in my twenties, just not in my culinary idiom.)

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Quebec election seems, as usual, to be a choice between "party who is not going to do much that I particularly like" and "party who cares about a lot of things that I care about, like transit and infrastructure and culture, but is also weirdly racist so not an option for my actual vote."

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pleased with these. If they bake as well as they rose, well. Yum.

A glass pan full of raw, swirly cinnamon rolls ready to go into the oven.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Doing a Big Thing for my mother's milestone birthday, and the price for a major part of it comes out to pretty much exactly the interest earned from money my aunt left me a few years ago. Mum's getting a last birthday present from her big sister. I'm sitting here feeling a little weepy about that.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In an art gallery and there are so many things I want to buy and I am caught in that terrible paradox of knowing they are simultaneously underpriced and a little out of my budget

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years ago, I was running a little late to CEGEP so got right in with no chat, and my teacher said "well, the world may be ending but you'll all know how to write a thesis statement." The guy next to me saw I was confused, and told me. "That's not funny, don't joke about that," I said.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There are few experiences like watching Brad Gushue win from the university pub in Newfoundland and then staggering into your classes hoping your professor won't notice you are drunk, except he was also in that pub and is also verging tipsy

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Conductor: So this is in the enigmatic scale, which some guy came up with in the 18th century to be a weirdo. Monteverdi wrote in it basically to prove someone could Choir, in unison : y tho

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Context-free quote from my work chat today: "If it is exploding, it is not safely stored."

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When you think to yourself, "okay, I'm gonna get that citybuilder DLC and spend a nice night poking at things and playing Spreadsheets The Game" and it turns out that when you bought the citybuilder, you bought the edition that included future DLC so you already own it: Hurrah!

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The patent for the fire hydrant was lost when the patent office caught fire.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My approach with this writer was along the lines of "congrats on the Hugo win, just finished your latest, what the FUCK."

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some days you get a ticket to see a friend sing in the chorus of Retrofuturist Turandot. Those are good days. Puccini wrote good chorus parts. Some operas just have the choruses go oooh and aaaah in the background. Not Puccini's operas!

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Me when my favourite thing wins a Hugo: aw yeah, people loved this thing! That's great. Me when something that wasn't my jam wins a Hugo: aw yeah, people loved this thing! That's great.

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meshell @meshell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This was genuniely so great. Congrats to Ellis Montgomery for Hex Supply Customer Support in Strange Horizons. This year's poetry Hugo Award Winner! #HugoAwards strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Hex Supply Customer Support Log

please do your job and check the thing / I want my frog antiques

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So the band at the Hugo Awards is great. I hope they have snazzy outfits.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's Hugos Longlist Day! (I hope!)

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Basketball isn't one of the sports I watch, but hot damn I'm a fan of these players.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Having a day at work that is full of things that suck and people in pain, but ameliorated by the fact that my job is to help them and I have tools to do so. It's not the pain that gets you. It's powerlessness.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Josiah Wedgwood was a man of his time.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Friend's neighbour put a trap out by their front door to catch a groundhog. They have caught a skunk! Let's see how this goes.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My friend Iris, who I have known since I was four months old, got ill the summer I lived in Toronto, and died so fast that nobody but her family had time to even know she was sick. Eight years ago. This type of story brings me so much joy.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Leifs are like engineering Nac Mac Feegle.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I had to pause and laugh for a good minute during the season finale of @midnightburger.bsky.social . (INTENSE LEIF. ALL THE LEIFS. I LOVE THEM.)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026

the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss

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Tim Curry Laughing as Pirate Captain

Alt: Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island laughing

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Late summer peach, vanilla ice cream, sprinkle of cinnamon. Sublime.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good lord, I am getting AI comments on fanfic now. The alternative is that there's a sudden interest in cartoonists wanting to illustrate 20+-year-old stories that were okay for things written by a teenager with no editorial oversight. My money's on AI.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A tiny person said my name for the first time today. I am so happy.

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Em Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Successfully did a bureaucracy and celebrated by buying myself some of my favourite cheese. :D (Oka. It's Oka cheese. Mmm.)

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