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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 10h

Reading some posts by @englishmansdcc.bsky.social about AI & doing so made me realise that AI would undoubtedly be a component of Darkseid’s Anti-Life Equation. Which puts it into a context I can make sense of in emotional terms. No wonder AI makes my flesh crawl. How else to respond to Anti-Life?

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nothing soothes the souls and hearts of people whose children have made the ultimate sacrifice like knowing the President has a cool new room to eat well-done steak with ketchup

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.

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Steven D. Greydanus @decentfilms.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please enjoy ten gorgeous Calvin & Hobbes Sunday strips from 1992 to 1995, when Bill Watterson was free to draw it any way he wanted—along with my long-winded commentary on the syndicate-mandated limitations on his prior work, how he exploited his later freedom, and why his work generally is great.

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The Unbreakable Calvin & Hobbes: The triumph of Bill Watterson

[LONGREAD: how the cartooning legend broke the Sunday template and went big, and then went home]

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 27/09/2026

Look, if you want me to be hip to new pop music, you are going to have to bring back the Muppet Show.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Happy birthday to Jim Thompson, one of the best and most uncompromising American noir writers. If you only know The Getaway from the film versions, you're missing a lot. Neither had the guts to go all the way to the real ending of the story.

a photo of a young Jim Thompson writing at his desk

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The actress who played Yeoman Rand, Grace Lee Whitney, toured the convention circuit for years, where she would play a song she wrote and sang called 'Disco Trekkin'. It is the weirdest fucking thing ever, it sounds like Pokemon having a sex party. Listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQD5...

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Grace Lee Whitney - Disco Trekin'

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is remarkable how many people are exhausted by his idiocy, criminality, greed. He lives in peoples’ heads … but they want him GONE from there! He’s a loud, fatuous imposition on thought, and a stain.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“The Greedy Carpet”, by Ronald Searle, 1972.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026

Conditions don't work to fix the problems caused by media consolidation, especially at the hands of authoritarian zealots. They rarely are meaningful or consistently enforced. this is why, as they say, we can't have nice things

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Paramount and state AGs will settle lawsuit, allowing Warner Bros. merger to proceed, reports say

The antitrust lawsuit threatened to delay Paramount's acquisition until mid-2027 and to cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars in fees.

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Trevor Foster @darthfos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another moment in history that is changing the way the world views Canada. My Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking to the EU Parliament. "Canada and Europe are each strong. Europe and Canada are stronger together." Here is his full speech:

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PM Mark Carney addresses European Parliament – September 17, 2026

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Carney repeats his European banger speech performance. Well timed when Canadians & Europeans are angry at MAGA & exasperated by useless US democrats & esp a liberal population who don’t totally seem to get what their country has done & are prone to joke about it.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I would give a million bucks to any reporter who, the next time Trump calls Democrats communists, asks him why his biggest political allies and the rulers he admires most are the most powerful communists on Earth—Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong Un.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great montage of one of Bob Mackie's signatures--the Cher unveilings, circa 1976.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years ago today, I was in Canada covering the Toronto Film Festival with five cherished colleagues. In the days before we could get back to New York, the kindness and empathy of Torontonians sustained us. Today I'm thinking of everyone we lost that day, and everything we have squandered since.

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

A former PM of Canada - Jean Chrétien is 12 years older than Trump, sharp as a tack 🍁🇨🇦 much smarter too

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Institute @institute11.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The world has turned upside down when I consistently agree with Andrew Coyne. This piece represents my feelings when I listen to the "pro-negotiate" pundits (often former Conservative Party candidates role playing as objective economists) on CBC Newsworld.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/09/2026

If you want to learn more about "MUSK," I highly recommend this recent piece by The Hollywood Reporter. My understanding is that Musk's lawyers already tried to intimidated THR over it, showing just how sensitive he is about this film www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”

He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he also may be among the most dangerous.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is such a good answer by comedian Josh Johnson to the question "how much does AI impact your job and are you afraid of it for the future?" youtube.com/shorts/7JYZV...

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Josh Johnson on why he thinks that AI can't win when it comes to comedy #AfterTheCut

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Word that Roger McKenzie has died. Best known for writing Daredevil in the 1970s, including the first year of Frank Miller's run. He wrote the Star Hawks and Tarzan comic strips with Gil Kane, and for the Warren mags until its ugly end. Buncha other stuff. He left comics at the end of the 1980s.

DD runs across a wire high above Hell's Kitchen.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I used note cards for my speech so I didn't forget anyone...and I STILL managed to! Big shoutout to the indie bookstores carrying the series. Thank you to @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social, @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social, and @tridenthalifax.bsky.social! (I'm more like Dory than I'd care to admit...)

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Friends of the Merril Collection @merrilfriends.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The oldest science fiction book at the Merril from 1708 #rarebook #sff #tpl

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I was blown away the first time I hear Make and Break Harbour. I played Stan Roger's first album over and over until the grooves were worn out. He was such a beautiful talent and we lost him in a tragic air disaster in 1983. The songs remain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2D...

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Stan Rogers - Make and Break Harbour

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Sean Phillips @seanphillips.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Favourite face I’ve drawn today.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“The Guardian wins the ‘Caption of the Year’ competition: - William Merrin @theguardian.com

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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Happy Birthday to Barbara Stanwyck, the most casual domme in movies. #BOTD

stanwyck and henry fonda in the lady eve, with fonda kneeling and holding her foot.

stanwyck and fred macmurray in double indemnity with her reclining in a chair and macmurray holding her foot.

stanwyck, gary cooper, and the seven little old men in ball of fire, as she sits back, and holds up her foot up.

stanwyck lying back on a divan with a man giving her a foot massage in "ten cents a dance."

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

But at his best? Woof. Dude was astounding.

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

we did it comrades

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Matt Norlander @norlander.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Messi looks like he just stared down death and won, which of course is exactly what happened.

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James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Belgium players mocking the US and Trump's meddling in the World Cup by doing the Trump dance after scoring the 4th goal against the USMNT

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Dressed up as Buzz Lightyear, entering from stage left: I’m proud of you, cowboy.

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Friends of the Merril Collection @merrilfriends.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

🚀Join us July 4, 2026, from 3–4 PM at the Merril for a talk, audience Q&A, and book signing with author and space historian Rob Godwin as he explores the story of Project Apollo and shares firsthand insights! tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a... #sff #tpl #merril #apollo #toronto

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

That dime in the bucket is the pass of the century. I mean that's already hard enough to throwing a football, this mf did it with his feet. Absolutely incredible.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

By Jesse Duquette.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Not sure, which group of assholes are you currently in?

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Andreea @infinitetext.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I got some pulps

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo

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Andreea @infinitetext.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Weird Wednesday is back this week with Ligotti #booktube www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhhN...

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The Frolic by Thomas Ligotti

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is a beautiful (and hilarious) bit of writing.

If everyone in the United States weren't living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has always been right about everything when he is transparently a butterfingered dunce whose professional expertise more or less begins and ends at making cutting remarks from a safe distance and directing other people to file nuisance lawsuits on his behalf. If assessed from a sufficient remove, the spread between the opening proposition—the man who knows more about every subject than any expert without even having to study or even pay attention to any of it, because he is just that much of a natural talent—and the relentlessly oafish output is a great bit, if admittedly also a bit one-note.

Lots of awful people are like this, and a great percentage of the degenerate gentry that is Trump's truest and most durable base is extremely like this: Dumb old bullies all grandiose and soft from golf and infidelity; illiterate real-estate types with detailed opinions on The Differences Between The Races; the luridly unemployable adult children of car-dealership guys; anhedonic beneficiaries of a good investment or two who have, through sheer restless indolence and various dull biases, backed into some truly berserk and totally bespoke authoritarian worldviews. Aging phone addicts who think the country "needs a pharaoh." Ruddy tax evaders who fear cities and are insecure about their boats. None of these people really do things especially well, and all of them are visibly getting worse, but they are all far enough from experiencing any kind of consequences that they can't really imagine failing at anything they try.

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Friends of the Merril Collection @merrilfriends.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There's nothing more fun than exploring what gems are hiding at the Merril! Today's feature is this incredible edition of The House on the Borderland, accompanied by a soundtrack from @swanriverpress.bsky.social #Merril #TPL #Hodgson #WeirdFiction

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Institute @institute11.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

That is a well formed and revealing thought by Dave Karpf: "Software ate the world, and then finance ate the software industry, and now here we are."

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