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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 02/10/2026

god that sounds fucking horrible I must do it

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 02/10/2026

but like what would happen if I poured it into a pot and made KD in it instead of using water

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

HELLO! Thank you! It's about ALL those things. It's why I love it!

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 02/10/2026

it's hard to balance being excited about writing news (secret) with being sick and anxious about phd thesis feedback

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 01/10/2026

Man I’m so excited. Saint of Bright Doors and Rakesfall were both mind-altering pieces of work, the kind of writing I spend all of my time HOPING to encounter but rarely do

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 01/10/2026

there is too much vomiting in poetry. stop that. take a graval

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 28/09/2026

AI on my phone, on my laptop, in my spreadsheets, in my word processor, in my PDF reader, in my student assignments, in my ads, on my maps I’m going to scream get this shit away from me

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 27/09/2026

Pls send authors nice emails about their work Otherwise it's a wasteland of slopscammers and "Were is the addiobook I want addio" "Wy is ur book not for sale in my nation no one has ever herd of" "I live on Enceladus & I cannot find ur bok"

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 27/09/2026

INCREDIBLE writing news that I cannot speak about publicly just yet. but please know: I am over the moon

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TriCon @tricon-hfx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

WE HAVE DATES! We are delighted to confirm that TriCon Halifax will be returning in 2027! May 21-23 2027 at the NSCAD Port Campus. And TODAY ONLY we are taking EARLY-Early bird weekend pass registrations at the @halconscificon.bsky.social Stories from the Stars book fair!

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 25/09/2026

Muppets The Tempest Willem Dafoe as Caliban send tweet

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 21/09/2026

For all the folk down south of the border having trouble getting their hands on Canadian books, you could also grab my collection of weird stories, THE LIBRARY COSMIC, as an ebook! Here is the Kobo link, but I'm sure Apple and Barnes & Noble and (gags) Kindle all have it too!

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The Library Cosmic ebook by Ben Berman Ghan - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Library Cosmic" by Ben Berman Ghan available from Rakuten Kobo. The child lies in the snowy north, where the halls of essays are heavy with the thoughts of poets and politicians and ph...

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 20/09/2026

Just following this up to emphasize how insane I feel making distinguishing between pre and post-crisis DC character an important part of a university lecture

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 20/09/2026

Most of the hate for the new Wolverine game is so silly to me, BUT something about making Jean Grey have a big blushing schoolgirl crush on Wolverine makes my blood boil

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 19/09/2026

I’m back to doing back squats at 225 (hurray!) I’m making terrible noises in the third and fourth sets (oh no)

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 19/09/2026

Hysterical that they clearly even had AI write this email to you

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 19/09/2026

Spending World Batman day exactly the way I'm supposed to

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Folks going to Can*Con, and folks looking for cool mostly-Canadian SFFH writers to follow, I made a starter pack with the folks I could find from the program: go.bsky.app/SE8c2SQ #BookSky @canconsffh.bsky.social

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 19/09/2026

You CAN find me at @canconsffh.bsky.social this year! See you in Ottawa when the leaves are changing!

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 19/09/2026

Finally caught up on all the Atthis Arts crap. Super depressing! Why does it often feel like spec-lit generates this kind of stuff way more than the mainstream presses? is it just that this is the scene I'm in so these are the scandals I see? Ugh

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 15/09/2026

This segment will air tomorrow, and also tomorrow morning I'll be going on CBC Edmonton's morning radio show to talk even MORE about The Ol' Canucklehead!

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Robert J. Sawyer @robertjsawyer.com · 15/09/2026

For those planning to attend the Montreal Worldcon (the World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal) September 2-6, 2027 (next year), note that the membership rates GO UP on September 30, 2026 — get your membership before they do! montreal2027.ca/en

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Welcome to Montréal 2027 Worldcon | Montréal 2027 Worldcon

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 15/09/2026

If you told me at 16 that at 30 the CBC would be asking me to come on to talk about X-Men, I actually think he would have fully taken that in stride

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 15/09/2026

Join me tomorrow morning on CBC Radio's "The Calgary Eyeopener" where you can listen to me say “oh my god did you know The Wolverine is Canadian? Did you know his claws originally came from the gloves? Did you know he was going to be a real wolverine that fell into radiation? And did you know Wolve

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I preordered this book, and cannot wait for its release next Tuesday. Klein has always managed to channel both rage and hope, a tough and vital balancing act these days.

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 11/09/2026

You know what sometimes I think more comics should bring back the old Claremont style third person narrator shtick. I fucking love this stuff

Image of some suckers going in to fight cyclops and phoenix

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 08/09/2026

prepping a lecture on Claremont and Byrne's Dark Phoenix Saga is crazy for me. I open this book and I'm 4 years old in my dad's basement looking into a milk crate full of dusty comics, and taking Uncanny X-Men 131 out of a plastic sleeve. SF, fantasy, this is where it all started for me

Screenshot from the dark phoenix saga. black bird explodes. text says Witness the birth of a god!

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 03/09/2026

Those are my favourite kind of words

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 03/09/2026

I’m honestly so psyched to dive into this everyone should be so grateful we live in the timeline with a new @premeemohamed.com novel coming out

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 02/09/2026

Well I’ve submitted my postdoctoral application to sshrc. So time to vomit with anxiety every single day till like February when I get the decision!

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 01/09/2026

Really excited to say that The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits is being translated!!!! But I will do best not to say more until the translation is ready lmao

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 24/08/2026

Ppl are using starter packs again eh? Sick

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 24/08/2026

this is the first time I've ever taught a course that could be defined as "Exlusively Ben's favourites" Only downside is how much I had to CUT to make this work!!!

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 23/08/2026

Unfortunately I’m mostly caught up on it. But I don’t think I can even hate watch the rest of this season.

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 23/08/2026

Either it’s the laziest SF possible, starfleet crew are saying that some races are ontologically evil, or they are making Spock make out with someone ffs

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 23/08/2026

Great cast! Horrible cowardly occasionally super offensive writing

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 23/08/2026

Think I just have to accept that after season 1, I just strongly dislike Star Trek strange new worlds

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING, HUMAN-WRITTEN STORIES! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 14/08/2026

Kudos also, and to Kate Herron too, for being public about it. I'm kinda wondering how many directors and actors might have turned down offers without us hearing about it because that's not automatically gonna be announced like casting news.

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 10/08/2026

The Giller foundation trying to wipe away the bad feelings about their former association with scotiabank by announcing funding from... The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation... is certainly a choice! I wonder how much bread will cost at the next Giller Gala lmao

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 09/08/2026

Had to explain to a friend both the Fauci diary story AND the twist at the end of the first season of the Apple TV series Sugar. I fear I’m making the lives of my close friends materially worse

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 09/08/2026

I mean. You made a movie where the plot seems to be “the day where it’s time to have sex”

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

they should do a movie called Sleepy in Seattle

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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca · 04/08/2026

Mixed messaging from the he-man movie where the climax is him receiving a spirit-vision telling him his true power is reaching out and talking and empathy, and then the very next scene is him saying “the time for talk is over” as he beats the skeleton man to death

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