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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 13h

Since it's spooky season I'm going to be recommending spooky stories as often as I can! First up, THE SHADOW OVER PSYCHE STATION by Yuval Kordov! A recent release in Canadian fiction this plays with some well known Lovecraft tropes in a unique setting! matthewstienberg.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/t...

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The Shadow Over Pysche Station

In space people can become strange. Mankind is teetering on the edge between Mars and the asteroid outposts, but one outpost in particular has become odd indeed. Hard to communicate with and becomi…

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 5h

Resident Evil (2026) is not your typical Resident Evil story! And honestly as a reboot for the franchise it's stronger for that! I have thoughts!

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 5h

And for some reason he's supposed to be sitting at a conference postulating on the future of warfare.

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Iain Bancarz 🇨🇦 @iainrb.bsky.social · 12h

Tech bro is upset to learn the Pope believes immortal souls are real and computer programs don't have them. 🫠

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 13h

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You could easily make a personal conspiracy out of this that there is in fact a serial killer but the multinational authorities are too embarrassed to admit it, thus find a more publicly palatable proposal that saves face. Definitely a dark story in there somewhere!

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It needs to be said often and loud that the often self serving memoirs of people - especially in politics - should be treated as at best unreliable narrators. At worst completely dishonest. Basic source criticism takes into account the question of "who wrote this and why?"

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

sort-of former-historian here to underline the whole "memoirs are deeply suspect as sources and notoriously unreliable" thing everyone already understands implicitly

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On this day in 1998, Raccoon City was destroyed after the failure to contain a massive viral outbreak with approximately 100,000 dead. Never forget the tragedy caused by the Umbrella Corporation!

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ATTENTION ALL SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHORS COMING TO CAN*CON!!! This year we want to celebrate YOU and how gosh dang hard it is to publish a book all by your lonesome Bring an 8.5x11 printout of your book cover(s) to our party at 8pm on the Friday and join in the fun!

On top of a background of covers of self-published books, text reads:
Friday, October 16
8pm in Celtic
Self-Pub Soirée
Meet the sovereigns of self pub
Find your next great read
Grab a drink at the bar
Support local artists
All are welcome!

On top of a background of covers of self-published books, there is an image of a megaphone and text reading:
"Call for Covers
Are you a self-published author? We want to create a photo wall full of self-published books at Can*Con, and we need your book cover to do it!
Bring a 8.5x11 printout of your cover (one per book, please!) to the Self Pub Soiree on Oct 16. Comics and anthologies count, too. Help us wallpaper the Brookstreet with excellent self-published books!
And over Can*Con weekend, don't forget to pose for a photo in front of the wall and share it with #CanConReadsSelfPub"

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I will also say that even in purely formulaic space opera or MilSciFi there are absolutely differences in quality that are very noticeable.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After having lived my entire life in rural white Ontario, stepping into a university in Ottawa where I encountered Canadians of all ethnic backgrounds and walks of life was probably the best thing that ever happened to me.

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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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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If I have learned anything I have no fear of being mistaken for AI because inevitably some typo is gonna sneak through to my final draft and leave me screaming at the sky!

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British Cop Screaming Sad

ALT: British Cop Screaming Sad

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm well on my way to having consumed enough pumpkin and pumpkin spice to be orange by the end of October.

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 30/09/2026

Posting an AI book trailer sure is a new fun way to make me block you. Have some fucking integrity.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

July through August were excellent writing months! September was a bit of a mixed bag through wild personal circumstances! Read on for general writing updates and a strange story! matthewstienberg.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/2...

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2026 July September Round Up

These last three months have been quite interesting in terms of progress! I got more drafting and editing done on two projects, leading to an extremely productive July through August with a very pr…

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 30/09/2026

Me: Do I need a movie about Aegon’s Conquest? Deadline: It is written by Beau Willimon (House of Cards), who wrote a quarter of Andor, and directed by Owen Harris, the director of “San Junipero” (Black Mirror) and half of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Me: I need a movie about Aegon’s Conquest.

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'Game Of Thrones: Aegon's Conquest' Movie Gets 2029 Release Date

Warner Bros movie 'Game Of Thrones: Aegon's Conquest' has no cast or production start yet, but it does have a release date. It's not exactly around the corner.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Many thanks to the artists who responded to this post, but as an addendum please link to your portfolios outside of social media as well! Or your websites! I want to browse work so I know it's what I'm after 🙏

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely peak shot. I too now want to feel what the Russian admirals felt the day after in 1905.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay, another genuinely funny thing from early in Fellowship of the Ring is when they are being tracked by the Black Rider across the Shire and he does all this sniffing Pippin is just acting like a bit part in a horror movie saying "well yes he's odd, but whats this sniffing?"

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Artists out there! I follow more than a few, but as someone who is looking for illustrators, please make it easy to find out whether you offer commissions or not and where I can inquire! I beg you!

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Fay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I say you should always be marketing I mean that if you are not actively promoting your current novel, then you are building brand (your title list) and reaching out toward readers. You won't spend the same year-round but the work of marketing continues. #writingcommunity #booksky #writinglife

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up" - C.S. Lewis

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't think it's controversial to speculate that the recent flood of concerns about the "existential risk" of AI by tech companies has more to do with the threshold of legal consequences to said companies for their actions versus risk to humanity as a whole. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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OpenAI scraps rollout of new AI model over safety concerns

The firm also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you joke but in 1920s Japan there was a Marxist detective writer apjjf.org/2019/06/mich...

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Oleg Benesch @olegb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm thrilled that Michele Monserrati's excellent article on uses of samurai symbolism by the Italian far-right in the early twentieth century has been featured on JSTOR Daily: daily.jstor.org/why-italian-...

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Why Italian Fascists Loved Samurai - JSTOR Daily

Japan offered Italian Fascists a powerful example of how ancient traditions could serve modern nationalism.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had forgotten how quippy the initial hobbits were in The Fellowship of the Ring and how much Frodo's early plot is the family feud with the Sackville-Baggins!

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Benedictine Funk @jdandeneau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

salem's lot is about how awful small towns can be at their worst. vampirism spread like a rumor.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm truly beginning to understand why some writers will end up hating their own work after you've reread it a dozen times and made tweaks and edits enough that you can probably recite the story by heart!

Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My short relationship with a demanding work culture did in fact include having corporate leaders with wildly unrealistic expectations of both their business model and the ideal type of employee they would retain based on bare minimum compensation.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My favourite xkcd

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have such a skewed sense of what is and isn't contemporary in period history because of the very real (and necessary) urge by historians to categorize and wall off eras of history for ease of study. But I assure you that history doesn't stop on a dime!

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Blaze @blazeberaht.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

“If it’s in Crusader Kings, it’s Medieval, if it’s in Europa Universalis, it’s Early Modern” is such a callout post lol. youtu.be/5IPQIl-FiCY?...

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Your D&D Campaign's Medieval Tavern is WRONG

YouTube video by History In Taberna

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GeekToyLove CIS (he/him) 🇨🇴 🇷🇴 🇺🇸 ᐰ @geektoylove.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#2026Projects #GeekDen #Shipyards #TheExpanse MCRN Heavy Frigate Deimos. Stl by Martin Taichl. On screen these seemed to have a much more subdued paint scheme than the Tachi. The PDC doors warped a little and I might replace them later. Last pic with MR Tachi close to scale

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An ongoing series in why trusting "AI" to manage your stuff is currently not just often inefficient but also horribly dangerous.

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Forward Canada @forwardcanada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In this week's Public Service Announcement for Forward Weekly, The Beaverton's @clareblackwood.bsky.social reminds us that Danielle Smith thinks she knows more about the constitution than the experts. Read the latest issue and sign up for free at: Forwardweekly.ca #ableg #abpoli #canpoli

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My patience for people who want to LARP as Templar Knights and go "Deus Veult" while swinging swords wears thin as it seems most of them would also be revolted by the idea of shepherding the poor and being good Samaritans. Embrace the moniker of "poor brothers" to the needy.

Seal of the Knights Templar with two knights riding a single horse

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🎃🦇👻 Sam Miller 👻🦇🎃 @kaisermiller.family · 27/09/2026

As a guy who also loves lemonade, I really respect the attitude of "If you're going to put all these ridiculous qualifications on being a 'man' then fine, I won't be one. But I'm not changing my pronouns or presentation or anything about myself, because this is actually a you problem."

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect," 1 Peter, 3:15

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saw Sabaton live last night. An outstanding performance by a legendary metal band that went hard! Bucket list item for me 🤟⚔️

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A particular bugbear of mine in recent reading is when people assume that cavalry was a spent force in combat well before it stopped having utility on the battlefield. A prime example is the Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava in 1854! It is then forgotten ⏬

Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava in 1854.

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