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JP Babb

@jpbabb.bsky.social
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I am an SF author and academic, currently pursuing a PhD in science and technology studies in Toronto. My research interests include science fiction, epistemology, and the history of cosmology, among others. Author of Reality's End

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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 3h
Prediction: The Republicans will badly lose the midterms (because of course they will), and then "Canadian political interference" will become a new Lost Cause myth amongst the American hysterical Right.
ctvnews.ca
PM Carney laughs off Trump adviser telling Canadian lobbyists to ‘get the hell out’ of U.S.
Tensions between Canada and the United States continue to evolve after U.S. tariffs on several Canadian products went into effect Tuesday morning.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026
It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"...And fucked be he who cries 'hold, enough'"
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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.
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Cavalier Ash @lonelyashtree.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just finished @jpbabb.bsky.social great book 'Reality's End'! Reads like a mix of Pratchett and Tchaikovsky, but grounded in a much more modern perspective. Highly recommend!
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New chapter of my serialised audiobook is up! www.buzzsprout.com/2589821/epis...
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18 - Parapsychotherapy - Reality's End
Lester gets therapy.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
erininthemorning.com
The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm willing to go one further: everyone should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries whether they're making income for stockholders or not.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anything is "Superior Intelligence" when Donald Trump is the point of reference.
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simon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @trillymopena.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Finding new and innovative ways to breach an existing agreement is, let’s say, an interesting strategy to convince your counterparty to sign a new agreement.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 14/09/2026
The midterms are shaping up to be a referendum on whether trans people should exist, with Republicans saying we shouldn't and Democrats saying maybe Republicans have a point on some of these issues. Good luck, everybody!
assignedmedia.org
Democratic Candidates Abandon Trans Folks, Are Attacked For Their Support Anyway - Assigned Media
Leading Off: Republicans set the stage for further attacks on trans rights while some democrats continue to walk back support. Our top headlines as we start off the week.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Controversial opinion, but I don't think it's possible for regular people to meaningfully defame billionaires. Like I think it's basically impossible for anything I say online about JK Rowling to demonstrably hurt her. I don't think that such lawsuits should be legal.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/09/2026
Americans Fondly Recall 9/11 As Last Time Nation Could Unite In Bloodlust theonion.com/americans-fondly-recal…
Americans Fondly Recall 9/11 As Last Time Nation Could Unite In Bloodlust
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: Saddle Lake Cree Nation calls Alberta trans health-care laws a violation of Treaty rights, announces path to work around the legislation
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 08/09/2026
PEOPLE WITH LIBERAL ARTS DEGREES: so while i see there is utility to the system, i’m more or less morally opposed to their current constructs and have big concerns over the business structure and environmental impact WEB CODER: so i met God today,
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Guys, I can't stress this enough: We had nothing to do with this. Tucker's team cut this up like this. They are 100% serious. These people really are this stupid.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New chapter of my serialised audiobook is up! www.buzzsprout.com/2589821/epis...
buzzsprout.com
17 - The New Normal - Reality's End
Chuck mingles with the commoners.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The year is 1969 and the executives are cancelling Star Trek after grievously mishandling it The year is 2005 and the executives are cancelling Star Trek after grievously mishandling it The year is 2026 and the executives are cancelling Star Trek after grievously mishandling it
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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 07/09/2026
Happy STAR TREK DAY (Canada) and Star Trek 60th Anniversary to all Star Trek fans in the Great White North! The "official" Star Trek Day in the U.S. is Tuesday, September 8, but we all know Canada was there first. LLAP, Canada! 😉 🇨🇦 🖖
A colorful starfield/nebula over which is imposed the STAR TREK logo above a big 60, for the franchise’s 60th Anniversary (1966–2026). On either side of the 60 are white outlines of the Canadian Maple Leaf.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy Star Trek day from the tiny Borg action figure that I keep on my desk to remind me to always be obsessed with hiveminds!
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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Paramount: “Hey, we’ve got this valuable property with a deeply loyal, almost-rabid fan base. …let’s cancel all of it and then try and make them buy cookware based on it instead!” Every Trekkie ever: 😑
A billboard with a background of Paramount blue that shows a bunch of Le Creuset Star Trek themed cookware. The text reads: “CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF STAR TREK. We cancelled every Star Trek show in production. BUY THE COMMEMORATIVE COOKWARE. —PARAMOUNT.”
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 60th Birthday to OG Star Trek, a show I loved watching in reruns with my Papi, and that taught me the future was filled with possibilities for little Black girls like me, thanks to Roddenberry's vision and casting. #LLAP abcnews.com/GMA/Culture/...
abcnews.com
As 'Star Trek' turns 60, its idealistic vision for the future is more vital than ever
As 'Star Trek' turns 60, its idealistic vision for the future is more vital than ever
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
COYOTE v ACME is very very good.
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Coyote Vs Acme Tweety Bird
ALT: Coyote Vs Acme Tweety Bird
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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy bi-sexual awareness month to icon of the movement, spinning spirally blue head guy from the x files.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Going to be honest, I don't think that things will ever be "normal" again, and that my default impulse of asking "but how will this look when things return to normal" is now a maladaptive social behaviour. The world we grew up in is gone.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The words "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" leap to mind.
ctvnews.ca
Calgary home with pro-Trump flags becomes vandalism target in cross-border trade war
Some Calgarians frustrated by the renewed U.S. tariff trade war appear to be taking out their anger on one pro-Trump home by using eggs, dog feces and online suggestions of arson.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Even by reactionary centrist standards, this is an insane issue to hang this argument on. Gaza *is* a case of an oppressor and victim. There's no "both sides" reason why hospitals need to be bombed and children starved.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/09/2026
have to imagine living in mid- to late-30s Europe had a similar vibe. Hitler taking these insanely aggressive gambles and almost every opposition figure going "buhh guhh duhh...uhh...he'll probably be satisfied with the Sudetenland right" bsky.app/profile/sahi...
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is where we post from
Borg Cube interior
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
TL;DW - "Artificial intelligence" is really just a capitalist attempt to enclose the collective intelligence of humanity, and we should start calling it collective intelligence
youtube.com
ChatGPT is Soylent Green : the enclosure of Collective Intelligence
YouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Canada currently seems significantly more likely to become a de facto EU member than an American state.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026
Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Canada, like every other nation on Earth, is holding out for Trump to die before we try negotiating with the US again.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Once again, Trump’s foreign policy isn’t really realist, or imperialist, or neoroyalist, or about spheres of influence, etc. Its sexual predation/abuse elevated the level of the state
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Series of tumblr posts:
@quasi-normalcy: "You don't notice subtle changes in culture as they're happening until one day, you reflect on how jarring it would be if you, in the year of our lord 2026, heard something described as being "made of win""
@quasi-normalcy: "We don't make things out of win anymore. Win is too expensive. You'll be lucky to find something made out of stalemate. Mostly we've been using decaying status quo or even outright lose as our construction materials"
@packofstereks: "I have in my possession certain heritage items made of win, but they have to be kept under archival conditions due to the win shortage nowadays."
@quasi-normalcy: "Even when you see things claiming to be made of win nowadays, it's usually no more than a 20% win composite with concessions. Or it's made of "fool's win" (pyrrhite)"
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 23/08/2026
there are now almost 600 signatories to the pro-cofnas letter. of the first 100 i examined, _two_ spoke out against campus crackdowns on pro-palestinian speech. 75 said nothing and 23 spoke out _in support of the crackdowns_!
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My annoyance with some Mark Carney's policies always has to be cut with my certainty that if Poilievre were Prime Minister, we'd be a colony of the Americans by now.
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Ron Marz @ronmarz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Jake Lang getting his Nazi ass beaten by Spider-Man in Minneapolis today is the ray of sunshine I needed.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Agnes Jurati being sexily shadowed by the Borg Queen
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sorry, what? The US didn’t just demand the right to restrict us from making trade deals with other countries - they demanded that they be able to force Canada to impose new tariffs on other countries and set the rates of those tariffs. That’s just agreeing to let the US control our economic policy.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A racial underclass is too useful for Capital to allow it to be done away with, and I think that a lot of them were seriously spooked by the cross-racial solidarity during BLM in 2020.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Apparently "Bluesky users celebrate Canadian culture" is trending, so may I direct everyone's attention to my VERY Canadian novel: www.amazon.ca/dp/1997596113
amazon.ca
Reality's End: Babb, J.P.: 9781997596110: Books - Amazon.ca
Reality's End: Babb, J.P.: 9781997596110: Books - Amazon.ca
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Finally finished the draft of my chapter on the many-worlds interpretation for my thesis. I'm at the point where even thinking the word "quantum" makes me feel vaguely nauseous.
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When I first moved to SoCal and took my child to the city library (as one does, first thing), this book title had me confused for several minutes.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I think Donald Trump has permanently ruined gold for me. Like I can't even look at it now without thinking "Ugh, trash."
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John Hansen🦞 🖖 @suburbanerd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
From Star Trek: The Next Generation. Data and Geordi are dressed up like Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I don't like sounding like a humourless poopyhead, but I just keep coming back to the fact that the writers of SNW have ten hours to tell any sort of Star Trek episode that they want and they spend it on gimmicks. Like I would trade an arm for that opportunity.
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JP Babb @jpbabb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Crimes against humanity and the future.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/08/2026
In July, on ABC, CBS, and NBC, there were 194 segments on the extreme heat waves rolling across the US. Number that mentioned climate change: 0.
mediamatters.org
ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate change
From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...
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