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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15h

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.”

Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Breaking Bad continues to be overrated. The show ditched the moral ambiguity (and complexity) of Walter White around season 3. —he stopped breaking, settled into bad. The show became another plot-driven narrative. I realize I’m howling at the moon here…

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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Tell Doug Ford to fight Trump, not Toronto. Add your name:

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Fight Trump Not Toronto

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Q: Who is the Canadian Carl Phillips? Longlined, recursive, abstract, metaphysical lyric. Poems that would not survive a workshop and better for it.

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Now that Canadian publications flatly refuse to publish critical reviews--how is that going for us? Do we have a more vibrant literary dialogue? Gushing replies only, please.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

i like to come up with opinions that no one has ever believed or even heard of before and put "gentle reminder:" in front of them

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Real Estancy: “And then, when you think you can’t take anymore, the garage. OH…MY…SHARONA. This massive 2 car beauty is a quivering dream for anyone.”

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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

So for instance, how about a 20 grand prize or grant for book reviewers so they can actually make a living doing this important work for a period of time instead of getting $50-150 per review and most mags only "allowing" one to write one review A YEAR! Reviews are vital for writers, no?

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Does this mean Toronto-area poets are going to attend the Griffin readings again?

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Writers, a tempered pushback from the mathematicians against the AI revolution: "[Math's] most precious aspects, such as the collective quest to understand beautifully intricate ideas, and to explore the limits of the human imagination, cannot ever be automated." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/s...

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As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

my brother-in-gore Nick Cutter is clearing out his parents' basement. 100% of the proceeds from every autographed book will go to The Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre—whose mandate is to rescue, rehabilitate, and release turtles native to the Ontario region. we do love turtles. nickcutter.com

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Nick Cutter Autographed Books | Signed Copies & Official Shop | Nick Cutter Fans

Shop a limited selection of Nick Cutter autographed books, including The Queen and The Troop. Inventory changes over time—check the shop or contact us about signed copy availability.

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Agentic poet attends AI conference.

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A “sadness / empty of sadness” is 😱… What a risky poem, what a payoff, @afmoritz.bsky.social .

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Ace poem. “There are things that trying solves but this / is not one of them.” —Robert Wood Lynn

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Some days you get your socks and underwear on then just say, fuck it, enough.

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The sequence of these NYT answers from AI experts is hilarious. AI is more transformative than AGRICULTURE! Than SPECIATION! No, no, there's NO comparable! I'm on team steam engine. 🚂

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

A Transtromer night if there ever was one. “roof silence” is a good descriptor for the quiet out there.

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

"Then, in 2023, she decided on a whim to write a poem instead. 'I wrote about how I had a month left until my twenties were over and I put it up online,' said Balka." INSTANT. NEW. YORK. TIMES. BESTSELLER. 😱 www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

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Poet Josie Balka on going from TikTok to the page

Loves of Our Lives, Balka’s second book after her New York Times bestseller explores the types of love people experience throughout their lives

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My book also in the bucket of poetry for the “tetchy” people who think &tc. 😠

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Well, well. Karen Solie wins the 2025 Forward Prize for Wellwater. 🎉 forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-priz...

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The You’re Still Doing This? award for poets aged 45-55

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Lossless reviewed. "The prose poems are standouts: Tierney crafts what seem to become miniature films within the tight and witty narrative space of his works." ✒️ Caleb Edmondson, Mid-American Review, Bowling Green State U. Speaking of reviews...

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Gorgeous poem by Geoffrey Nutter; for anyone who’s read to a little one…

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The fine establishment where I’m about to eat has some toilet seat art framed by a toilet seat…natch.

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

😱: “I found myself dwelling on what creators face: producing work of deep value from shallow resources, and doing it in a society that treats their labour as disposable even as it consumes it constantly.”

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Is there a word that has been more sapped of meaning than “thrilled”…

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I'm reading next Thursday, May 22. Celebrating the Al Purdy Prize & foundation, including this year's winner, Al Moritz, with Molly Peacock. I have one Al Purdy anecdote that I may or may not share. If I don't, it'll be my great silent ballad.

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Nils Frahm tonight at Massey Hall. 🤯 I mean, look at that gear. Writers just don’t have any gear.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

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adamsol.bsky.social @adamsol.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Really excited to have Karen Solie on Vic’s campus next year as the Shaftesbury Writer in Residence. www.vic.utoronto.ca/academic-pro...

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Shaftesbury Creative Writer-in-Residence » Victoria College

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I am asking Canadians for a strong, positive mandate to deal with President Trump and build a stronger economy here at home.

Prime Minister Carney speaks from behind a podium at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

When Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet, died in 2013, his last words were sent by text: Noli timere. “Don’t be afraid.” I wrote about these words, why I stopped fighting cancer, and knowing a black bear for @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e51db13... #booksky #cancer #naturewriting

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How not to be afraid

Increasingly, the problem for people like me isn’t dying from cancer, but learning to live with it

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

"and you can see that I am a sensitive man" 🌼

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hertz in G&M, sugarcoating: "Flight Risk is not so bad that it is good – it is simply so bad that it is really terribly awfully very very very bad, the kind of zero-effort exercise that will leave even the most bruised and battered action-movie junkie begging for the sweet release of death itself."

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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

👀 Some welcome transparency here: On jury work: "Of the 118 books, I read 27 cover-to-cover (23%). I read less than 10% of 42 of the books (36%)... On winners: "70% of the finalists for the 2023 and 2024 Governor General’s Awards were first books; prizes too often treat writers like new cars" 👏👏

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