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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He figured out the whole deal right away

Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 01/10/2026

I was introducing my fifteen year old to some of the chaotic 90s animation i grew up with, and I've just a realization... If and when @criticalrole.bsky.social brings in Sprinkle in the animated Mighty Nein, I hope they put feelers out to try to get Michael Dorn to voice him. IYKYK.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 12/09/2026

Went walking a neighbour's dog today while they were out all day, and the poor thing wears a cone while she recovers from an injury. And now I'm thinking I need a joke item in D&D, the Ruff of Recuperation. Maybe it recovers Exhaustion faster when you wear it all day, or you get one of the...

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 02/09/2026

All these islands are yours, except whatever's going on on Williston Lake. Attempt no landing there. youtu.be/5OAmaS-GiTA?... No, seriously, there's no universe in which you can go there safely. But it does feel at least a little sci-fi/horror-ish.

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Boaters warned to avoid mysterious floating island in Williston Lake

YouTube video by CJDC-TV News

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 31/08/2026

Important reminders with the school year starting back up and youth adventure groups like Scouting and Guiding and Cadets resuming...

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 30/07/2026

Possibly daft D&D character idea: a hexblade Warlock who regrets their pact and is trying to break it, because every time they use their pact powers, they get 1% closer to becoming fully subsumed by their sword for the same number of minutes.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 25/07/2026

There are some amazing choices in the thread, but let's see... Lance Reddick, Andre Braugher, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Neil Peart, Richard Dreyfuss (just saw Stand By Me recently)... Fred Rogers? Ernie Coombs? Ian McKellen... Bruce Boxleitner would be interesting. Matt Lillard?

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 22/06/2026

I feel like stirring the pot a bit. Who's going to win their respective championship first? England in the men's World Cup, or Toronto for the Stanley Cup?

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Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I know Stephen Colbert is punching the air and screaming right now

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 17/05/2026

Who was @joelplaskett.bsky.social's strongest musical influence circa Ashtray Rock and Three and why was it Tom Petty? I'm not complaining! I love both! I was just listening to Full Moon Fever, and half expected Through & Through & Through to come up next.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 04/05/2026

Adjacent to that, I always get a kick from the passerby telling Uhura and Chekhov where the Alameda naval base is ("in Alameda") was just that, because they were using a hidden camera, and the crew had to chase her down to pay her, give her a SAG card, and credit her.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 01/05/2026

Post your warning sign

A black and white pictogram of a small 4x4 checkerboard with a ball sitting atop it, reflecting the board back down, in the manner of countless 90s and 2000s 3D rendering tests.

Below the pictogram is an all-caps warning, "absolutely no chrome spheres over checkerboards permitted in this room."

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 16/04/2026

"Captain, can I PLEASE target their warp core? I have been VERY good this month!"

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 25/03/2026

Nobody tell Wayne. Unclear whether it's 'berta beef, but i still wouldn't pay twenty apiece for top sirloin from anywhere. Berta beef, Japanese Wagyu, Australian Wagyu.

A photograph of a $20.10 top sirloin steak, at the store.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

There is a unique dialect of the Irish language that evolved in Newfoundland and became forever linked with the island. It is called Newfoundland Irish and many work to keep the language alive. This is the story. 🧵 1/7

Coastal landscape showing several red wooden buildings scattered across grassy terrain near the water. A small red house with white trim stands in the foreground on the right, while additional red sheds and houses sit farther back along the shoreline. Wooden fences run through the grass, and a couple of small white boats rest upside down on the ground. In the distance, more houses line the opposite side of the inlet under a clear sky with warm evening light.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 11/03/2026

I apologize for putting an ad in your Bluesky, but my Scout Group is starting fundraising for the year, and I'd love to help folks get their gardens started! Just visit the shop (makeitsow.com/seeds/shop/#...) and enter the code KINGSTON_2026 to help Kingston Centre Scouts with our fundraising!

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 24/02/2026

Well now, I spoke too soon about what my opinion of Dylan Larkin was going to be this week. I am... deeply disappointed by everybody on the USA men's hockey team. And especially Dylan.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 19/02/2026

...why do I suddenly have the X-Men cartoon's theme song in my head? I don't mind. I'm just... where did that come from?

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 31/01/2026

An oldie but a goodie. I'm sure my parish priest would get a kick out of this.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 03/01/2026

It is with some hesitation that I admit that it was in the Year of our Lord 2026 that I finally listened to any Joy Division beyond Love Will Tear Us Apart. I'm offended by my own failure in this regard. But, in the same vein as the second-best time to plant a tree being today, I'm fixing that now.

The cover art of Joy DIvision's 1979 debut album, Unknown Pleasures. On a black background, the band's name and album name are written in plain white letters at the top and bottom, separated by a graph of apparent mountains on otherwise horizontal lines. The album art is a ridgeline plot of the radio emissions of a pulsar, CP 1919.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 13/12/2025

Walking around downtown Kingston yesterday afternoon, I ran across Santa Claus doing some shopping. He made time for everyone. Not just little kids! Everyone. Said he liked my beard. It was kind of wild to see how people not only were suddenly much more upbeat having seen him, but were also... 1/4

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 27/08/2025

I double checked the magical number that reflects my relationship with gravity and not my self-worth and was pleasantly surprised to learn that I'd been overestimating it Freedom Units. I'm not sure how I feel about that? Nothing has changed but I oddly feel like fitting in my kilt again is closer.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 01/08/2025

I'm in a phenomenal talk on gender inequality in cybersecurity this morrning and this is such a great cheat sheet for intersectional fair employment.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 30/07/2025

A humble request to individuals posting job listings: if there is a geographic restriction on where applicants can live, please put that in the job description! Otherwise you will end up wasting a lot of people's time, including your own HR team's.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 23/07/2025

Do driving tests no longer require three-point turns? Or is it just a thing where I live where they'll cut a giant circle through an all-way stop without signalling, being utterly unpredictable to everyone around them?

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Diego Nicolás Argüello @diegoarguello.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

spine is taking pitches again, ranging from short ($30 for 150-300 words) to longer form pieces ($60 for 500-700 words). *please* read the guidelines carefully, which now reflect the current monthly budget. i want to hear from bipoc and queer folks first and foremost. intothespine.com/write-for-us/

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Write for Spine - Into The Spine

Do you want to write for Into The Spine? Here's everything you need to know, including rates and what we're looking for at the moment.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 17/06/2025

How is it that I've lived this long, and been this much of a fantasy AND sci-fi nerd, and I'm only just NOW reading A Wizard of Earthsea?! This book is great!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

www.ibiblio.org/harris/500mi... You might be one of the lucky people to learn today about an emailing bug that turned out to be caused by the speed of light.

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The case of the 500-mile email

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 06/06/2025

Had to walk past a couple of families of Canada Geese this morning on my walk. First of all, juvenile geese are not nearly as cute as goslings. They're cute! Just less so, because most of the yellow downy stuff is gone. Also, turns out, geese can growl. And it is intimidating.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 24/05/2025

I got access to crayons and kraft paper. Of course I drew Trogdor. And then my 14yo showed me his skills of an artist! He wonders who can guess what the li'l guy next to his thumbs-up is. I got it wrong.

Crayon sketches on kraft paper of various characters and items. Trogdor the Burninator is shown near a burning thatched-roof cottage.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 12/05/2025

Java programmer complaint: after fighting with it for two weeks, I really dislike Observable. I find it much harder to reason about than CompletableFuture. Possibly because I know the CF will happen at most once, and RX and Observable is about setting responses for every time the thing happens.

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Hunter D Phoenix 🐦‍🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @hunterdphoenix.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

As a blind dude, your images mean nothing to me without an alt-text description. I know it’s a pain & I have zero expectations of you using this #Accessibility tool so thoughtfully provided by #BlueSky but I appreciate every effort. It doesn’t have to be The Great Gatsby but please include me 😎

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 27/01/2025

Canada's first national urban park is getting bigger. The Narwhal has learned the federal government will cancel its plan for an airport in Pickering, east of Toronto, and transfer most of the land set aside for it to Rouge Urban National Park. #onpoli thenarwhal.ca/pickering-ai...

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Rouge National Urban Park to get bigger as feds scrap airport plan | The Narwhal (80)

The federal government is cancelling plans for an airport in Pickering, east of Toronto, and transferring land for the project to Parks Canada

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 24/01/2025

Is it wrong that I'm getting a strong Evangelion vibe right now? Or is it just because I started (re-?)watching Eva earlier this week? #CritRoleSpoilers

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 10/01/2025

DO NOT FLY YOUR DRONES OVER ACTIVE FIRES YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS WE ONLY HAVE TWO OF THESE AIRCRAFT AND YOU JUST GROUNDED ONE OF THEM

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 05/01/2025

My favourite local bakery and cafe, Pan Chancho, published a couple of cookbooks with recipes that they use in-house, and my partner came home with one of them a couple of weeks ago. I finally got a chance to try making some bread from their pain ordinaire... looks like it turned out pretty well!

Two home-baked batard loaves, which is a long, broad French loaf of bread, cooling on wire racks on a black countertop. The loaves are pale and the slashes often seen on French bread are quite shallow and somewhat hard to distinguish. One loaf's exterior texture is much smoother than the other. They're certainly not expertly made, but for an amateur baker, they're at least reasonable.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 02/01/2025

Finally saw Howl's Moving Castle at the rep cinema near the house. Loved it. After all, it's Miyazaki! But Howl is absolutely going to be an NPC in at least one future D&D campaign. Maybe the PCs will interact with him. Maybe they'll just uncover some of his spells in a library...

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 22/12/2024

Just dropped by the library today to pick up Agency, by William Gibson. Been looking forward to this for a while. Teenage me realized "I have to read everything this guy writes," and so far, teenage me has had good taste. Still glad I got to tell Gibson so when he released Spook Country.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 29/11/2024

Got the latest Bluesky update? Great! Alas, the developers changed how replies are ordered that, while it will provide for vibrancy flywheels, changes a behaviour you may have preferred. Setting > Content > Threads > Sort replies to a post by "hotness"? No thanks. Chronological for me!

The Bluesky settings menu, on Android. To change your reply order setting, start on this screen and choose "Content and media," which is the fifth menu option.

The Bluesky Content and Media Settings menu, on Android. To change your reply order setting, select "Thread preferences" on this menu, which is the second option.

The Bluesky Thread Preferences menu. For sorting replies, five options are given: "Hot replies first," which brings replies to the top that, themselves, have more interactions; "Oldest replies first," "Newest replies first," "Most liked first," and "Random, also known as Poster's Roulette," all of which seem fairly self-explanatory. I've selected "newest replies first," to maintain the generally reverse-chronological order that seems to work well on Bluesky.

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Darlena Cunha @darlenacunha.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Today I turned off Microsoft permissions for AI training. The AI option is automatically on now, and Microsoft can go through and use anything you write in the program for AI. The bots automatically go through all of it. Here is how you disable it: One small thing a day.

Screen shot with these instructions :

Go to file > options > trust center > trust center settings > privacy options > privacy settings > connected experiences.

Turn that off.
Save.
Restart word

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 29/10/2024

To be filed in the he-who-laughs-last-thinks-slowest department, I just realized the It's A Wonderful Life is a retelling of A Christmas Carol, with three less ghosts and, instead of the actual Stooge in the story getting the message, it's one of his competitors.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 16/10/2024

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 23/09/2024

13yo and I were looking through his Mordenkainen's Monsters, and after noticing how much the Shadar-Kai look like they're from Giedi Prime, he decided that House Atreides are from Planet Scotland with their desert bagpipes. He's also mad that Part 2 didn't have any bagpipes.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 23/09/2024

My cat is broken. He likes being cuddled in arms, being upside-down, and (failing at) suckling my other male cat's nipples. And yet, I wouldn't have him any other way.

The author, in a grey t-shirt, photographing himself in a mirror against a living room background of several filled bookcases, a couch, and an easy chair. In his arms is a grey tabby cat, with his limbs extended, and head dangling upside-down, looking off-frame to the left.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 17/09/2024

Hey @bsky.app , maybe set "disable autoplay videos" as the default? And automatically mute until the user interacts and explicitly unmutes? Opening the app to immediately hearing some racist asshat saying a bunch of racist garbage about Haitians was NOT. PLEASANT. Do better.

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Matthew G P Coe @mgpcoe.ca · 01/09/2024

I discovered Wrath of Khan at my drugstore's $5 DVD rack tonight, so naturally I grabbed it. I don't think I've actually seen it! I've seen The Voyage Home (aka The One With The Crap Lousy Whales) and The Undiscovered Country a bunch. Also, I've decided that Into Darkness is now "Sharper Image WoK"

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