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Gord Sellar

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Activists in Seoul lie on the ground near the Israeli Embassy in a symbolic scene representing the victims of the genocide in Gaza, during the National Day of Action Condemning Israel’s 3 Years of Genocide in Gaza. Video: IG: Mo.alriashi
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Judy Jaguar Jetta @judyjaguarjetta.bsky.social · 14h
Carl Sagan A brilliant human who lived during our lifetimes "This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so... brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power."
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026
Canada is not actually 'battling for survival' in the context of secession, because in both Alberta and Quebec secession has relatively small amounts of public support. What we're battling is dipshit far-right populist politicians enabling/pushing for this destructive bullshit.
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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🏕️ Saskatoon has cancelled direct surveys of unhoused residents during its 2026 homelessness count, citing potential protest-related safety concerns. CBC spoke with encampment residents who dispute that characterization. How can cities plan more effective housing responses?
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Alberta separatists:
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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A 73 minute exposure of the Earth rotating below the stars over Colpoy's Bay, Ontario for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #3rdPlace #BrucePeninsula #BruceCounty #ECK #photography #TenMinutesFromHome #LongExposureProject #ManualFocusPrimeLens
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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Apparently this is a real thing. Campaign to get these up and running in the UK starts here 😂
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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every time someone makes an unforced error like this, I'm going to reflect on Coates' wisdom:
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Monte Cook Games @montecookgames.com · 03/10/2026
Based on the acclaimed bestselling novels of Rebecca Roanhorse—Black Sun, Fevered Star, and Mirrored Heavens—Between Earth and Sky: The Roleplaying Game immerses you in the Meridian, a rich and beautifully detailed world inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas. 1/3
Fantasy-style game art of a woman in blue and gold ceremonial clothing casting glowing magic amid swirling water and stars, framed by decorative geometric borders.  Her magic seems to be coming from her voice, as if she is calling the water around her with her Song. Readable text says Between Earth & Sky and The Roleplaying Game.
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Plume rouillée @plumerouille.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I know I have a few international followers, and I'd like you to know what's currently happening in France High-school children are protestinf fir better studiying conditions : enough teacher, enough table and chair, fonctionning toilets, toilets paper, heating in winter. Really, basics needs.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Would love to know A) exactly how this vast amount is costed B) why they think we should care how much money they have to lose over their own f-ups www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day
Company says it is reviewing 50 petabytes of data after its agents accessed websites including Medicare without authorisation
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Gord Sellar @gordsellar.com · 03/10/2026
Blogging Pound's The Cantos: Canto LXXVI This is a series where I post what I think are slightly atypical readings of  the Cantos of Ezra Pound. There's also an (updated) index of all the Cantos (and...
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Blogging Pound's The Cantos: Canto LXXVI
This is a series where I post what I think are slightly atypical readings of  the Cantos of Ezra Pound. There's also an (updated) index of all the Cantos (and related...
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026
"Everyone knows Frodo’s the hero of Lord Of The Rings, but he’s not in this case, which—I mean, evil is a form of innovation, right?” — Peter Thiel
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Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev...
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026
This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.
From the source: "Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left."
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Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.com · 29/09/2026
It's my birthdaaaaay!🎊 As an artist, it's often difficult to acknowledge how much I work and how much I improve, so today I want to be nicer to myself and share some of my favourite pieces I made since my last bday.💙 If you'd like to share, it would be a lovely gift!🙏✨
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Gord Sellar @gordsellar.com · 27/09/2026
A wonderful story that kind of sums up a lot of things I think are on most of our minds these days!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.
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Richard Baker @rchrdbkr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sure our intellectual forebears would have been fascinated by the current real-time experiment we appear to be running to answer the question, ‘what happens when you give unlimited power to people without an education in the humanities?
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m genuinely shocked at the people on here who think long covid isn’t real. Seriously? Your actuaries, departments of health even the freaking department of defense know it’s real. Apparently people used to think MS wasn’t real. There’s a long history of telling sick people they’re crazy.
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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Listening to this today in honour of John Coltrane's centenary. He was born on 23 Sept 1926 in North Carolina, and went on to become one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time
A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s the Coltrane centenary.
Black and white photo of John Coltrane on stage, c 1964.
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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...
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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall
A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!
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Gord Sellar @gordsellar.com · 22/09/2026
Not praising Youtube's policies generally, but... personally, I've always thought of mukbang as "disordered eating, now televised!" I cannot watch it or even wrap my brain around anyone wanting to, to be honest. www.koreajoongangdaily.com/korea/as-you...
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As YouTube cracks down on eating disorder content, mukbang creators feel the squeeze
Tighter eating-disorder policies have prompted some Korean diet and mukbang (eating show) creators to lose monetization or remove hundreds of videos.
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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Eroding privacy, climate change mitigation and labour rights—the hits keep coming. I can’t with Canada’s current PM. Glad it’s not a Poilièvre aka Maple MAGA government, but I was never this enraged under extremely fallible Trudeau.
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Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office
ALT: Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office
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mal vSpooky.0 👻🎃🦇 @malorienilson.com · 19/09/2026
The perfect thing to hit my inbox. I too am tired of it.
While this position is described over and over again in the press, which is largely composed of people from the same class, as “moderate” or “reasonable,” it is anything but. When you know a preventable crisis is bearing down on you, and you know what to do to stop it, the sensible thing to do is act, not to fiddle around with your shopping list and ignore it. The reasonable recommendation right now is to do absolutely everything possible to stop the AI buildout and rapidly transition away from fossil fuels, and lucky for us those two things are inextricably linked. The data center buildout is ratcheting up the use of fossil fuels exponentially. Why not cancel both? Is it really more radical to make that suggestion than to suggest that 90 percent of the planet suffers enormously so that 10 percent of humans can remain comfortable?
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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Welcome to another Free Fiction Friday! Today we have a story about what goes on in the labyrinth we call our minds. Things are definitely not as they seem in "The Bell Jar Frequency," by Gretchen Tessmer. magazine.trollbreath.com/the-bell-jar...
Social media image for the short story, "The Bell Jar Frequency," by Gretchen Tessmer, which appears in Trollbreath Magazine issue 9. Besides the magazine name at the top and the story title and author at the bottom, the image shows a faint outline of a human head as though we can see partially through it, and there's a brain inside in orange tinted colors.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
"If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured' - John Coltrane "us to..." -esperanza spaulding, the Songwrights Apothecary Lab This is "Formwela 1", a healing spell. youtu.be/YEL1e4n-X2g?...
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esperanza spalding - Formwela 1 (Official Music Video)
Watch the official music video for esperanza spalding’s Formwela 1 AVAILABLE AT SONGWRIGHTSAPOTHECARYLAB.COM Formwela 1: designed for memorizing, then hearin...
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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 17/09/2026
It's live! 🎲 The System Neutral Kit Bundle is now available on RPG Trader. A bundle of 75 adventures, settings, NPCs, items, bestiaries, tools, art and other useful bits from some great indie creators - all system neutral. $15 or PWYW. Go have a rummage through it👇 rpg-trader.com/products/927...
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System Neutral Kit on RPG Trader
A bundle of 75 modules for use in any TTRPG
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
god this is good
flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine. 

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present
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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Americans talking about petrol prices is unreal. $20 to fill up a tank is expensive? No wonder they make so many giant inefficient cars. And have so little investment in mass public transport.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.
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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So I’m pretty sure this is to disguise naphtha shortages from the Iran War. www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/j...
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Some Japanese snack packages are turning black and white as Iran war depletes ink supply
The move is the latest caused by the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz because of the war in Iran. The war has sent prices of oil and other products higher, as well as caused supply crunches.
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Gord Sellar @gordsellar.com · 13/09/2026
Appendix K Added to Sidebar I just realized that I didn't have a link up to my Appendix K posts, so I've added that to the sidebar on my site, but I figured I'd...
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Appendix K Added to Sidebar
I just realized that I didn't have a link up to my Appendix K posts, so I've added that to the sidebar on my site, but I figured I'd also...
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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
TL;DR - Greed and wealth addictions need to be treated like illnesses, not rewarded.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When disabled people oppose Assisted Dying, it’s almost never from a religious point of view. It’s not because we’re anti-choice or that we want to force people to suffer. We oppose it because society devalues disabled lives and uses these programs in an unethical manner. They become eugenics. 🧵
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Gord Sellar @gordsellar.com · 10/09/2026
Restoration Complete I recently mentioned that I was working on restoring some old posts that had been mangled or partially lost. Well, I've just finished the process. In all, it looks... www.gordsellar.com/2026/09/10/resto…
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it.
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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm an official D&D/MTG illustrator working on a game that's p much a love letter to everything I like about RPGs. and more: it's pay-what-you-like. get OMIOS URES for free if you want, I don't care. spread the word, play the game once with your group and I guarantee they will want a campaign. :)
page of OMIOS URES. digital painting over graphite sketch of a chameleon hunter with a hand cannon. his prehensile tail is holding a torch behind him, and various items are strapped to his body. a bandolier with potions, a large bag with a bear trap sticking out, a fairy in a cage hanging from a rod. waterskin, pocket watch, sleeping bag, retro aviator-like goggles on his forehead. he walks hunched, as if sneaking about, and his delicate gait - exactly like a chameleon's - is a visual play, resembling the tippy toe walk of a cartoonish hunter

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The following pages cover a number of ordinary (and extraordinary) miscellania favored by adventurers.

When employing an item’s Skill Check for a NPC, replace the skill with the NPC’s Body, Mind or Magic. An NPC trying to break out of manacles uses Body instead of Physique.
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Gord Sellar @gordsellar.com · 03/09/2026
Aw man, Gloria Steinem *and* Cassandra Wilson in one day?
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W. Ethan Duckworth @weduckworth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh no! Love her voice, and I remember when I first got this album, in about 1999. Was instantly blown away. We should have had more years of her music.
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Gord Sellar @gordsellar.com · 03/09/2026
New Interview! Jihyun Park and I were recently interviewed by Cristina Jurado about our translation work—that is, our work translating Korean SF to English. You can see the interview (and lots...
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New Interview!
Jihyun Park and I were recently interviewed by Cristina Jurado about our translation work—that is, our work translating Korean SF to English. You can see the interview (and lots of...
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Cristina Jurado @cristinajurado.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🌎 SMALL PLANET magazine #2 is out!!! This is a publication about all things related to fiction in translation. In the newest issue you can find my interview to Korean to English translators Jihyun Park and @gordsellar.com lnkd.in/dqpr9Efk #translation #fiction #magazine 📚
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Gord Sellar @gordsellar.com · 30/08/2026
The (Great?) Restoration, and Looking Forward So, one of the things I've been doing behind the scenes, a few posts at a time, is restoring posts and comments that ended up with garbled text. Something... www.gordsellar.com/2026/08/30/the-g…
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Gord Sellar @gordsellar.com · 29/08/2026
I missed this mention of my weird little AI book review story back in December, but yeah, the story reads a lot more like horror nowadays, given the whole AI thing: reactormag.com/five-sff-sho...
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Five SFF Short Stories Told Through Articles and Reviews - Reactor
Speculative tales that unfold through (fictional) pieces of journalism.
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Gord Sellar @gordsellar.com · 23/08/2026
𝖪𝖾𝗏𝗂𝗇 𝖸𝗈𝗌𝗎𝖺 𝖳𝗋𝗂𝗈 , 𝖥𝖾𝖺𝗍uring 𝖩𝖺𝖼𝗈𝖻 𝖢𝗁𝗎𝗇𝗀
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𝖪𝖾𝗏𝗂𝗇 𝖸𝗈𝗌𝗎𝖺 𝖳𝗋𝗂𝗈 , 𝖥𝖾𝖺𝗍uring 𝖩𝖺𝖼𝗈𝖻 𝖢𝗁𝗎𝗇𝗀
Tonight, I saw the Kevin Yosua Trio, with guest Jacob Chung at our local jazz venue, Jazzin Lab. It was a great show.  Everyone played their asses off! As a...
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