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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 04/10/2026

Tonight is session 100 of my Traveller campaign.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

River Phoenix, Robert Redford, Dan Ackroyd and Sidney Poitier looking at a computer screen in a publicity shot for Sneakers.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 11/08/2026

I’m not going to get into AI boosterism here but when it’s right it’s right.

Sceeenshot where ChatGPT describes Arial as “the typographic equivalent of surrender.”

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 31/07/2026

Honestly the whole Odyssey argument feels like my insisting that the Scouring of the Shire is essential to the Lord of the Rings (it is and if you don’t see that you’re just wrong). Adaptations are doing different things in different media and can work even when having a very different take.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 22/07/2026

This would be @dysonlogos.bsky.social’s work.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

A screenshot of Mad Men of Don Draper yelling. The subtitle has been edited to read, “that’s why I write books!”

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

As a long time Cape Verde supporter (8 days) I want to welcome all the newcomers to the bandwagon

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 26/04/2026

I’ve been grading and the papers are hitting 100% AI at this point. I’ve talked to my Dean and I am going to move to 75% of the grade being in-person exams in future. It’s the only way to be sure that the student is actually thinking.

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 03/01/2026

Other than Trump saying so, is there any evidence that Venezuela is under US control right now? Everybody on here seems to be taking his word for it but nothing in today’s events suggests that is the case.

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 29/12/2025

A spicy thought: There are a multitude of reasons that running a country like a company is a lousy idea but one of the most paramount is that in the post Jack Welch era, most of the people who run companies are absolutely terrible at running companies.

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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

If you VPN into Canada you can watch the 60 Minutes CECOT story here (for now). Global TV appears to have posted the original tape by accident watch.globaltv.com/series/2893d...

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Home | Global TV App | Watch Shows, Movies and Live TV

The Global TV App is home to some of the most watched Canadian channels. Watch full episodes, Live TV and Global News.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/12/2025

Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

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Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News

Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 13/12/2025

I was all set to be “ah I see the scolds of Bluesky are at it again” and then I watch this abomination.

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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It’s my book’s half-birthday today! To celebrate, I’d like to mail one of you a free signed copy. Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd. Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...

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A Cold Colonialism

A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 01/12/2025

I bought a Mac so I could use Vellum. If you create ebooks, it will relieve your life of HUGE amounts of stress. If it’s on sale today, and you’ve got the cash and the inclination, GO GET IT. 😄

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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We have an immediate need for an RPG proofreader. This is a paid gig, proofing just over 11,000 words. Experience is preferred. Please email jon@handiwork.games with your resume and rate. If you don't have a set rate that's fine - we can talk. Please feel free to share, tag and recommend.

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caidid @caidid.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

You do absolutely have to hand it to Yamamoto.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 02/11/2025

What a painful loss. So many things had to go exactly wrong down to that bat breaking.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 02/11/2025

Well this is stressful.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 30/10/2025

I have never seen a team get two homers in the first three pitches before.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 28/10/2025

Just get a grand slam already Lukes I need to go to bed

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 25/10/2025

L.A. remains a great team but all those pundits saying they were going to walk all over the Jays not looking too good right now.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 21/10/2025

But honestly as delighted as I am to see the Jays go to the Series that was a brutal way to lose for Seattle. Of course it was going to be a brutal loss for either team at this point but still.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 21/10/2025

Let’s goooo Blue Jays!

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 18/10/2025

Urrrgh is this what being a Leafs fan feels like c’mon Jays.

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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 05/10/2025

blue jays fans rn

still of the simpsons. children look horrified and upset. one of them is pointing. the caption says “keep going”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 19/09/2025

Well there go all the tech companies…

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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hi Canadian friends! Want to help prevent what’s happening to science south of our border from happening here?? Hope the answer is YES… Assuming it is, it took me about 2 mins to fill out and send this pre written letter #ArmchairActivism #AcademicSky 🇨🇦 🧪

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 03/09/2025

I mean as crackpot as this is I also feel the need to point out that these guys don’t know much about organ transplants. They don’t make you immortal! The immunosuppressants have side effects and you can’t just keep transplanting.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 26/08/2025

For the first time in my life I am being impeded in my work because the org chart is down. Not because a reorganization is underway but because the host is not connecting. Sigh.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 15/07/2025

We absolutely do not need to “remove the power” from this word. Naziism is evil.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 24/06/2025

I mean, what did you think was going to happen in a world where ATS means you need to hit all the keywords for a job to get a resume looked at by a human and you have to submit hundreds of resumes to get an interview?

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 17/06/2025

There’s too much news, can it slow down and let me catch up?

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 16/06/2025

It’s a little surreal watching students get tested on material I wrote a decade ago. Like my old opinions coming back to haunt me. Mostly, though, it’s the recurring sense that this isn’t the best way to teach this stuff.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 28/05/2025

“Uncontrolled Reentry” is right up there with “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” as a good name for a book about Musk.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 19/05/2025

Biden and the people around him should have recognized earlier than they did that he shouldn’t have tried for a second term, it might or might not have changed the outcome, and nobody but the terminally media-brained will care in 2028. Also I hope his treatment goes well.

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Kevin Brennan @newba.com · 09/05/2025

This is exactly the problem. If AI can do the work of a junior team member, it still needs to be supervised and managed—so how do you teach that?

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