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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Joe Walsh Is Right......

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Henceforth, my coffee grinder shall be known as Grond the Beanbreaker.

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Still rocks! My 10 year old loved it!

Mini-disc player with Radiohead mini disc. Still works!

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Stopped to charge at OnRoute Barrie Northbound and 3 out of 4 chargers are out of service. Brutal. The only working charger has a snow bank taking up half the parking space. Just embarrassing how Ontario treats EV drivers. #onroute #ontariogov

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 18/02/2026

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

On Spec @onspecmag.bsky.social ceased regular publication in late 2025. It's a magazine that's launched careers, served as an incubator for talent, and has done enormous good for SFF. Publisehed Doctorow, Czerneda, Peter Watts Deserves semiprozine nod and short-form editor nod for Diane Walton 9/X

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

ONLY 24 DAYS LEFT! Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian F&SF: Volume 4 (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025--details in the link below. Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY. (And why 24 day? Well, because I forgot to post this on a day that is a multiple of 5!)

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 05/01/2026

We're a bit late with our new year's wishes. It takes time to muster up the optimism these days, but what else can we do but face the year with love and creativity and good books to support us? Resistance and transformation are hard work. May you find the stories and the courage you need this year.

Happy new year post featuring the covers of the 2025 books: Lynn Hutchinson Lee's ORIGINS OF DESIRE IN ORCHID FENS, Mahaila Smith's SEED BEETLE, Syr Hayati Beker's WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE and Rebecca Campbells' THE OTHER SHORE. Plus 2026 book T.K. Rex's THE WILDCRAFT DRONES, and two not yet announced titles.

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Ordered an egg McMuffin behind Liam Gallagher in Gatwick. Years later, ordered a beer after Noel at the Horseshoe.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.harpercollins.com/products/los...

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Lost Worlds

The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by t...

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TriCon @tricon-hfx.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Introducing TriCon! ✨May 15-17, 2026 in Kjipuktuk | #Halifax. Celebrating spec fic, we couldn't be prouder to have @amalelmohtar.com @englelaird.bsky.social and @kurestinarmada.bsky.social joining us as our Guests of Honour. Earlybird tickets available now! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/tricon-the...

Blue graphic stating that Earlybird Tickets for TriCon: The Trident Conference for Soeculative Fiction are on sale now. Lower right corner says Kjipuktuk | Halifax, May 15-17 2026

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This is * chef’s kiss *

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I saw an honest to god UFO tonight. Around 10:45 PM near Carp, Ontario. No idea what it was. Maybe Perseids? Never seen a meteor move like that though Initially thought it was the ISS but the ISS was over Africa. Anyone else see this? Any ideas what it was?

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Instead of thinking of the wild fires ravaging North America and Europe as random events loosely associated with climate change, we should reframe them: this is the oil and gas industry and the politicians that support them waging war on us. They are fire bombing our forests.

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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It's just a “swarm of fish" following a duck.

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Hi folks, I'm teaching a writing workshop this fall and I want to write hot hot climate fiction with you! Whether you're writing stories about the world finally conquering climate change or telling bleak post-collapse stories, I want to help you write the best story you can.

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ONLINE Writing Climate Fiction

The Earth's climate is at the start of an unprecedented period of change caused by human activity. For many of us, human-caused climate change is a source of anxiety, fear and despair, but it can also...

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Voting for the Aurora Awards (Canada's top fan-voted SF literary award) closes July 19th! I'm nominated for Best Short Story for "Desolation Sounds" and Best Novelette/Novella for "Zebra Meridian". Get your votes in before voting closes! Vote here: www.csffa.ca

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The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) – Home of the Prix Aurora Awards and CSFFA Hall of Fame

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

When I die, I want the starting lineup of the Maple Leafs to be my pallbearers so that the #Leafs can let me down one last time

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Happy 13th birthday to this old guy. He's a lot slower and greyer but still brings us joy and slippers every day. We love you, Monti.

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Happy 13th birthday to this old guy. He's a lot slower and greyer but still brings us joy and slippers every day. We love you, Monti.

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Anyone else watching BBC's Ghosts? I adore this show. Best after-life comedy I've seen in years.

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Gabe Cole Novoa @thegabecole.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

*clears throat* *taps mic* soooo today is my last day at the day job. Monday I begin living my dream of making my author career my full-time job 😱

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We're _THIS CLOSE_ (like, $50) to unlocking extra word count to make it a 150K word anthology! And then? One last stretch goal: a second story translated from French! We have 8 HOURS LEFT--can we do it??? That's up to YOU. So pledge now & pls share this WIDELY down the homestretch! @kickstarter.com

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Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume 3

Award winners. Award nominees. Hidden gems. All Canadian. All in one anthology.

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I'm delighted and honoured to be on the Aurora ballot this year for both Best Story and Best Novelette/Novella. Congrats to all the nominees, and thank you to everyone who nominated! Thanks to @stelliform.press for bringing Zebra Meridian to the world. Get in your votes!

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I was today years old when I realized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space is also Pachelbel's Canon. I knew it borrowed from Elvis but didn't realize how deep Jason Pierce and Spiritualized dug for this one. Love it! What else is hiding in there?

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2025

Trump’s view on trade deficits is like getting mad at Target because you spend money there but they never buy anything from you. It’s just complete brain dead nonsense.

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My Climate Fiction writing course starts next week and there are still a few spots available! Register here to spend 8 weeks learning to write fiction about climate reality: www.alexandrawriters.org/store/p721/W...

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SFF Reviews @sffreview.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

What a fantastic opportunity for Canadian #SFF fans! 🌟 Nominating is a great way to celebrate our amazing authors and stories! Let your voice be heard! 📚✨ #AuroraAwards #CanLit

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

If the US does ever invade and I have to form a resistance cell, our password will be "Oh, I wish I were--" because all the Canadians will instinctively reply "IN SHERBROOKE NOW!" while the Americans will all reply "an Oscar Mayer wiener" and we'll know who the spies are

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The Onion summer writing fellowship is seeking applicants! It's six months, good salary and benefits. This year's applicants do NOT have to complete the Eating Challenge, as it turns out this does not adhere to Illinois labor law. We apologize to those who have died in the past.

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Writing Fellowship, Summer 2025 at The Onion

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Christopher Buehlman @buehlmeister.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Keep it up. Knock this shit down.

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Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association @csffa.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Here is the list of confirmed eligible works of Canadian SFF published in the year 2024: www.csffa.ca/awards-infor... Please use this list to explore the work of talanted Canadian creators and help us recognize their achievements by nominating your favourites!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Let this sink in.

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I'm signing copies of Zebra Meridian at the Indigo in Oakville today! If you're in town, drop by for a signed copy of one of these beauties.

The author holding a copy of his story story connection Zebra Meridian

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I was today years old when I realized "All By Myself" is a reworking of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Subs close on Feb 28 @ 11:59pm Pacific for Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3. If you're a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or ex-pat, send me your published work from 2024. Yes, this means YOU! Don't self-reject! I can't wait to read your work. Deets here: kotowych.com/yearsbest/ Pls share widely!

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Geoffrey W. Cole @geoffreywcole.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Anyone else notice that everything's gone to shit since David Bowie died? Correlation doesn't equal causation but the evidence is compelling.

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