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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 11h

Navi Pillay, the newly announced Nobel Peace Prize winner, wrote this essay over a year ago. "To do nothing is not neutrality. It is complicity." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

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Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide (Gift Article)

The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded that Israel is guilty of the “crime of crimes” in Gaza.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hills of Thunder Bay Terry Watkinson 2020

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

George Saunders provides thoughtful responses to questions on the purported usefulness of AI. Worth reading just for the relief that comes with someone else (someone smarter than me) taking on the labour of explaining why using one’s own brain is a good thing. on.substack.com/cp/218234700

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Model Behavior: George Saunders

“Of course, if AI can cure cancer, bravo. I’m all for it. But even with cancer cured, death will still arrive somehow.”

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very interested to learn the story behind this bridge painting. I lived in the Soo before the Highway 17 bypass, so I used to see this bridge every time I drove east out of the city. youtu.be/TfrNDiZN8AI @therundowntvo.bsky.social

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Who Painted the Words That Became an Indigenous Rallying Cry? | The Rundown

YouTube video by TVO Today

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finally digging through my TBR pile and this essay from Sheila Heti is so, so good.

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(MIS)Treated @mistreatedtvo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're thrilled to share that (MIS)Treated has been nominated for two Signal Awards! 🎉 A huge thank you to our incredible guests, listeners, and community for making these conversations possible. Please consider voting for us before October 15. @signalawards.bsky.social

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm adding the hot wings show to this mental list.

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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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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Whirlwind trip to Timmins! Super grateful for the opportunity to run a writing workshop and give a reading at the Tamarack Arts Festival.

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happening this weekend! Looking forward to being back in Timmins for the first time in like 30 years. I played some baseball tournaments there as a gangly teenager. ⚾️

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As part of my learning journey through the Irish language, I subscribe to a handful of newsletters written as Gaeilge (such as the daily one from @sceal.bsky.social) -- just to see how much I can understand through quick skims. It's rare that I 'get' the context/substance this quickly:

'Aontas Eorpach ag oscailt an dorais do Cheanada'
Tá sé fógartha ag Uachtarán an Choimisiúin Eorpaigh Ursula von der ⁠Leyen go bhfuil an tAontas Eorpach "ag oscailt an dorais" do Cheanada agus ag tabhairt cuiridh don tír sin a bheith ina "ball comhlach" den Aontas.

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The science centre has no scientists now? #onpoli

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Heading to Timmins soon to take part in the 2026 Tamarack Arts Festival (Sept. 23-27). Check out the full schedule: www.tamarackfestival.ca #ontario #booksky #writing #timmins

Artist Spotlight: Sean Minogue
Sean Minogue grew up in Sault Ste. Marie and now lives in Toronto. His book Terminal Solstice was listed as one of The Seaboard Review of Books best books for 2025. He's written widely for a variety of publications (LitHub, Globe and Mail, This Magazine, among others). He's also written a play, Prodigals, that was produced as a feature film.

Sean will be offering a writing workshop, "Finishing Strong: How to Write an Ending to Your Story" at the Timmins Public Library on Saturday, September 26th at 10:30am. He will then read from his novel at 2pm and give a talkback about the book, his life as an author, and his creative process.

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One more pipeline will help address this summer of wildfires and intense storms. (Just an itty-bitty one 🤏)

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"The state of the lake’s pollution was all too evident when, in August 1987, swimmer Vicki Keith became the first person to complete a two-way crossing of Ontario. [...] When her swim finished, Keith noted that she had lost her sense of taste." Now, *that* is the Lake Ontario I remember as a kid.

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'll be at the Mississauga Literary Festival on Saturday, Sept. 12 to give a workshop on writing across industries like film, theatre, and print/online media. More details below: www.eventbrite.ca/e/mississaug... #mississauga

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Mississauga Literary Festival

Celebrate the culture of reading and writing in Mississauga.

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CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

CV2 is very sorry to share that a poem we published in our most recent issue, Vol.49.1, is a work of plagiarism. The piece in question plagiarizes the poem “Another Poem About My Father” by Kayla Czaga, originally published in 2014 in her debut collection, For Your Safety Please Hold On. 🧵 (1/)

Text graphic with a black background, beige text, and two small lines ending in small circles framing the text. Text: CV2 is very sorry to share that a poem we published in our most recent issue, Vol.49.1, the summer 2026 issue, is a work of plagiarism. The piece in question, detailed in the next portion of this statement, plagiarizes the poem “Another Poem About My Father” by Kayla Czaga, which was originally published in 2014 in Kayla’s debut collection of poetry, For Your Safety Please Hold On.

Text graphic with a black background, beige text, and two small lines ending in small circles framing the text. Text: We hereby formally retract the poem titled “Another Poem about My Father”, which appears on page 18 of Vol.49.1 of CV2 Magazine, and which is, on that page, and in the issue’s table of contents, attributed solely to the person who submitted it to us, Kathleen Champoux. The poem we published uses the title, structure, and many near-identical phrases to ones that originated in Kayla’s poem

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Online video series like Tiny Desk Concerts and Criterion Closet were so much better before press tour publicists started shoehorning celebrities in there.

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Look, I’m committed to learning this language but it’s just a little insane that there are three different ways to pronounce “years” in the same breath. #gaeilge #irish #whytho

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It's been a year since my first novel came out. Still tickled whenever I get to see it on a bookstore shelf or at the library. If you haven't had a chance to pick it up yet, check out terminalsolstice.com for online ordering options. #booksky #writersky #indieauthor

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation." - #UEFA, expressing the kind of purpose and clarity I'd like to see everywhere these days.

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"Powered by AI" gives me the same blech as "Sold over asking."

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I mean ... ca.news.yahoo.com/jimothy-maga... #jimothy

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Waiting for Jimothy to become the latest milkshake duck. 🦝

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This part of the 2023 doc about photographer Tish Murtha is🔥 "What is becoming clear to the generation now approaching maturity is that our society has no solutions for their problems, can give no direction to their lives." youtu.be/NTxEqvUlStk?... @tvodocs.bsky.social

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Tish | TVO Docs

YouTube video by TVO Docs

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026

“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”

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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pretty sure one of the wildfires in northwestern Ontario is occurring in an area where I planted trees many summers ago. It’s such a beautiful part of the country. Hope the folks living in the area are getting the support they need from the government.

Screenshot from Google Maps of an active wildfire area near Upsala, Ontario.

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Bhí an cluiche sin spraíúil. I imagine Ireland is gonna be one big party tonight.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We are experiencing the world's worst air quality, and we're getting absolutely no response from leadership other than announcements about building more pipelines. Do not normalize this.

A screengrab of the weather app showing a Yellow Heat Warning for Ottawa and the headline that Ontario faces world's worst air quality

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Met this little guy on Beausoleil Island earlier this week. He was sweet (for a watersnake). Not pictured: two black bears and a massasauga rattlesnake I also encountered. #parkscanada

Photo of a small snake on a rocky surface partially under water.

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Collett was such an important figure for me as an undergrad. I was one of the earliest editors of In/Words. I even married an In/Words editor. She was the best kind of academic, one who brought students together & empowered their creativity. I wouldn't be the writer I am without her. @carleton.ca

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"If all of this sounds familiar it’s because it largely mirrors the legal strategy the Ford government in Ontario pursued to end its legal back-and-forth over its own climate policies."

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

These World Cup hydration breaks are about as annoying as the Fox Sports laser pucks from ancient times.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I would’ve loved to hear a convo like this in Vancouver 15 years ago when developers were ripping out all my favourite hangouts to build investment properties.

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My family's commentary moments into watching a movie I'm really excited about:

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I was today years old when I learned that Conan O'Brien appeared on the Irish-language series, Ros na Rún, as a balloon delivery boy. youtu.be/UvFQ2MB9Alk @tg4.bsky.social

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Conan O'Brien ar Ros na Rún

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I stopped by an Ottawa-area cemetery to check out the (surprisingly well-maintained) gravestone of one of my ancestors. James was a teenager in Kilkenny during Ireland’s Great Hunger and came to this land a few years before Confederation.

Gravestone for James Minogue, his wife Sarah Burns, and their daughter Maude.

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It's always been May "two-four" to me, but happy to start using this holiday as an opportunity to learn more about the "Famine Queen." youtu.be/oIYeG0CD_as

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The Famine Queen? The Truth of Queen Victoria & the Great Hunger

YouTube video by Irish History Podcast

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Pretty thrilled my book Terminal Solstice (Turnstone Press, 2025) has been translated into braille. Shout out to @nnelsca.bsky.social for making this happen. 🙏

Cover of a spiral bound braille book displaying Terminal Solstice publication info.

Interior view of a braille-printed book.

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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I could get into this. youtu.be/k1MVnzd2aVc?... Context: exclaim.ca/film/article...

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Tony | Official Trailer HD | A24

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/04/2026

If there's a battle over device-based learning, it's between schools and families on one side and big tech on the other. Big tech spent decades selling schools and family on tech as a panacea. And schools/families now see--that promise was hollow. But it takes time and money to walk it all back.

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