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Margo MacDonald

@margo-thespian.bsky.social
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Actor, Playwright, Ghost Researcher, Author, Book Lover (she/they) 🌈✨🇨🇦 My first book: “A Curious Presence: An Exploration of Ghosts and the People Who Haunt Them” Coming October 6th from ECW Press

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From my notebook. My philosophy, while writing books, for the last ten years.
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thanks so much, Kayle!! 👻🖤
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Geoff McBride @mcbgee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Happy book birthday to @margo-thespian.bsky.social The offical launch of "A Curious Presence" with a forward by @amalelmohtar.com published by the fine folks @ecwpress.bsky.social You can order at your favourite local bookstore or at: ecwpress.com/products/cur...
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A Curious Presence: An Exploration of Ghosts and the People Who Haunt Them
In which the author investigates the true nature of hauntings, visiting haunted sites and interviewing paranormal experts and experiencers, all to answer the eternal question: What makes a ghost?
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
👻🎂🥳✨
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Toronto friends!! Please come help me celebrate at my very first book launch!! 👻🎈💃🕺📚🕯️
Event poster for the book launch of A Curious Presence, showing the cover of the book
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Brendan Parry Kaufmann @bpkaufmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have never added a pub to my bucket list so fucking fast.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The reason this sheep looks so sceptical is because a fraction of a second before I photographed it I had told it that it was the best sheep ever.
The best sheep ever, who I met on Dartmoor a few years ago, giving me a superficially sceptical look, ultimately underpinned with the kind of enduring confidence you can only have when you know the value and quality of your own wool.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Night Creature Carrying Baby Aloft” — Edward Gorey, ca. 1960 collagraph print
Black and white art 
A demon creature with bat wings and a head that is little more than a whole lot of teeth carrying a baby in a long gown away into the air
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
SQUEEEE!!! My author copies have arrived!! It’s a real book, and it’s so beautiful. 🥹 Thank you @ecwpress.bsky.social ! #CuriousPresence #GhostBook #AuthorLife #ParanormalLife
The author holds a copy of their book in their hands and are so excited that they are about to bite it!
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I’m saving this to watch every few hours on a really bad day when I’ll need it.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Oh nooooo not the woods 👉👈
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Thread (pls read it all) FUCK IT. I'm giving away another 5 signed copies of my latest novel, Everything Will Swallow You. To enter, simply repost this & pop a reply below. You might like it if you like any of these things: Community Knitting Folklore The sea Dorset Silliness Old records CONTD...
5 copies of my latest novel Everything Will Swallow You
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Time for another cat photo? Of course it is! #Kitteh #Alonzo wonders if you might like to play?
An orange and white kitty shows you his belly while he kicks a chair and stares with excited eyes towards his favourite toy, a little yellow bow, that I am about to throw.
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LilyMuseic @lilymuseic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
⭐️❤️✌️ One of my favorite preteen influencers.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/06/2026
I went from “Wow Elizabeth Bennet kinda feels like a manic pick-me dream girl” to “I will take a blunt object to anybody’s car lights if they say a bad word about Liz.” Jane Austen. Is so good.
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It’s real! It’s my book! In the @ecwpress.bsky.social fall catalogue!! Squeeee! 👻 A Curious Presence: An Exploration of Ghosts and the People Who Haunt Them
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It’s time for a cute cat photo, isn’t it? Here’s #Mister #Kitteh #Alonzo snoozing while his mini-me stuffy watches over him.
An orange and white cat, with curled from paws and fuzzy white belly, perks at you as he snoozes next to a purple pillow. In the background is a miniature stuffy of an orange and white cat, sat atop a TBR pile.
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Ottawa folks!! Only 2 more chances to see this hit show! The Persistent Stain at Ottawa Fringe: Friday, June 26 - 5:30 Saturday, June 27 - 10:30
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Geoff McBride @mcbgee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hey #ottawatheatre lots of great shows this year #ottawafringe26 including mine! Come and visit us at #ottawafringefestival tickets are available through www.showpass.com/the-persiste...
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The Persistent Stain - La Nouvelle Scène Studio A - Ottawa - Jun 19, 2026
It’s 2022. Veteran Canadian punk band The Persistent Stain struggles to play another gig in another nowhere town. 'Aristotle's Dick' was their only hit song, now a younger, hipper band wants to steal ...
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Jessie🦇 @atropius.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
I'll take any opportunity to share this real lesbian sword
A silver sword hilt sculpted into the form of two women embracing and kissing. It was presented to a French marshal in 1919, apparently representing Provence and catalonia
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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Tweet by Nire Bryce @NireBryce 

"the thing about being an ally is that you are required to declare war once the people you're allied with are attacked
otherwise you're just a spectator"

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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Only 3 more chances to catch The Persistent Stain, Ottawa!! You ARE going to be there, right?
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We open The Persistent Stain at Ottawa Fringe tomorrow! Tickets and info at ottawafringe.com See you there! 🎸🤘🏻🎶🎈
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Geoff McBride @mcbgee.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
For folks in #ottawa #ottawatheatre here's a little ditty that I am part of. The Persistent Stain is a loud, love letter to punk and life in the arts. See @margo-thespian.bsky.social and I (and a couple of ghosts) at #ottawafringe2026 down at La Nouvelle Scene Tixs: www.showpass.com/the-persiste...
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Come see!!! 🎸🤘🏻💥
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It’s really happening! Look at the gorgeous job the art department @ecwpress.bsky.social has done on the cover of my book!! I can’t wait to share the whole journey with you after it releases on October 6th! (Thrillingly, @amalelmohtar.com has graciously agreed to write the foreword!) Squeeeee! 👻📘
A book cover for A Curious Presence: An Exploration of Ghosts and the People Who Haunt Them, by Margo MacDonald. Foreword by Amal El-Mohtar 
A gold outline of tree branches, cobwebs, and iron fences, surrounds a human figure in a blue dressing-gown, the hands and head not fully visible, but turning into smokey mists.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
No I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/04/2026
Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away!
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is Steve. #OtherPeoplesCats
An orange and white cat with green eyes and a pink freckled nose sits on the arm of a sofa
An orange and white cat with green eyes and a pink freckled nose sits on the arm of a sofa
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
All creative acts are by nature political and contextual. We cannot make art seperate from the times we live in, the technologies available, and the markets/distribution channels/costs & prices/materials that surround us.
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I was there! I remember. 👑
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Look, sometimes it’s good to spend time with other people’s cats. Here’s Devon:
A black and white cat lying on a bed who looks up at you with big yellow eyes, showing you his cute pink nose.
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
One of my favourite authors. Check him out!
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
😂😂😂
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Scare-ah Colonthree @sarah.northsky.social · 06/02/2026
Doing art badly is good and sacred
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2026
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Astounding.
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I am saddened beyond words. She was one of my great inspirations.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It is so so important that you be both silly and furious right now when necessary
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Dr. Kira Jones, Halloween edition 🎃🦇👻 @flaviansophist.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I will also accept ravens.
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Yes, you need this photo of Alonzo being a little prince, lounging on the topmost level of his new cat-tree. #Mister #Kitteh #Alonzo #PrinceOfCats
Orange and white kitty with pink ears and nose, lounges on his cat tree, admiring the framed art on the wall.
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
In the darkness, a spark, a flame, the coming of the light. 🕯️🔥 #HappySolstice
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Professor R.R. Snakehead @snakehead.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The greatest men of history got to where they were because they didn't care what anyone thought of them. Except Alexander the Great. He worried a lot about what people thought of him.
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Time for another stress break with Kitteh Alonzo? Yes.
An orange and white kitty creep soundly, while softly smiling, in a pool of sunlight on the back of a couch, with a heart-shaped light in the window behind him.
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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Day 5 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is: 🌊 the offing — the distant part of the sea visible from shore, where approaching ships would first appear Whence in the offing — ‘nearby’, ‘at hand’, ‘imminent’ Photo: Rain in the offing, Dornoch, Julian Paren (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Margo MacDonald @margo-thespian.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We open tonight to a sold-out house! There are only a handful of tickets left for the whole run. Hope to have you there to celebrate with us, Ottawa! 🐘👯‍♀️🎈
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