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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 29/09/2026

Because of Steve Dangle, I now sit on my porch with the Merlin app open to watch it ID bird sounds in real-time.

Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 22/09/2026

Spending $350 on a set of mouth X-rays that took under 2 minutes to complete and already exist at my daughter’s other dentist. I hate everything.

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 15/09/2026

Pop Loser Vol. 7, No. 2: We Can Work It, a mixtape tylerhellard.com/posts/vol7no2/

An old cassette tape with "We Can Work It" scrawled on it in marker.

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 15/09/2026

If you use the word “clearly,” you’ve already lost.

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 14/09/2026

Just did that thing when talking to someone I haven’t seen in awhile and we paused to have a sad little moment about how fun the first few years of Twitter was.

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 11/09/2026

Pop Loser Vol. 7, No. 1 - The last redemption of geist. tylerhellard.com/posts/vol7no1/

A stylized image of the Group of Seven artists.

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Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New books are making their way into the world. They have flaps!

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 28/08/2026

I keep making the same app over and over to test different coders. Glaze built this version of Marktwain in 94 minutes of prompting with 3 of 50 free credits to spare. That is by far the best performance I’ve found and is absolutely fucking bonkers. www.glaze.app/app/marktwain-b03H7i

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Marktwain for Mac — A markdown editor for novels. | Glaze

Markdown is great, but markdown editors are generally bad for writing a novel — they either have too many or too few features. Marktwain is a simple…

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 27/08/2026

I think I’ve found the fatal flaw in this plan.

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 25/08/2026

On this 25-day trip I learned a lot of people don’t log out of their Netflix when leaving their AirBnb and I absolutely sullied the shit out of everyone’s algo.

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 23/08/2026

I would like to join cheerleading the love for Canadian art! If you need to refresh your soul, renew your hope for the future, and deliver your damaged corporeality into a new, unified, eternal community of mutual aid, you definitely need to read @ravineangel.bsky.social's PERSONA! 🇨🇦😍

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 18/08/2026

I’d like to thank Apple for saving us all from the terribly trying task of writing down a book title now and then.

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 16/08/2026

Family Circus hitting real close to home today.

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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

JOSHUA BÁEZ THREE HOME RUNS IN HIS FIRST THREE BIG LEAGUE AT BATS HOLY CRAP

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Esoteric Collector @vcreedsabretooth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Let's take a look at the history of Dungeons&Dragons Dice, a thread. #Dungeons&Dragons #Dice #TSR Part One Continued below...

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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Alright I'm doin this Gonna keep all my posts to this thread but sitting down and watching Deep Space Nine I've seen a good chunk of it already but never sat down and watched Every Episode so this is gonna be a long one

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 05/08/2026

Arrived in Toronto after 4 days on the train. Everyone shouldn’t only do that once, it should be the default mode of travel across Canada.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The only creative industry that is inarguably both doing well and doing great work right now is "new baseball guy names."

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SABR Baseball Cards @sabrbbcards.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

SABR 54 Card of the Day courtesy of 2026 Burdick Award winner Gary Cieradkowski.

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 30/07/2026

Having some perfectly normal conversations with mostly C-student robots.

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 30/07/2026

I think that’s called “working the problem.”

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 30/07/2026

Got the toots working on my website. Have also committed to calling them toots from now on regardless of network. It’s addictive. Toots.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In my day the Backrooms brought hope not stress

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 12/07/2026

Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 9 - Everything is going to be OKayfabe. / tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no9/

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Andrew Brown @browncbc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

You could write the entire history of Major League Baseball without mentioning the Mariners.

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Alberta Magazine Publishers Association @albertamags.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

JOB POSTING Are you the person who everyone asks, “What should I do tonight?” The Scene is hiring an editor who is in the know! They are looking for someone passionate about the Calgary’s arts and culture scene. Learn more and apply today! albertamagazines.com/job-listing/...

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 03/07/2026

4 months in a row. ALWAYS FILL OUT YOUR PLR FORMS KIDS 😭

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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Remembering Poly Styrene, born on this date in 1957

Colored-pencil card drawing of Poly Styrene

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 02/07/2026

Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 8 - Ra.i.dio Ga Ga. tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no8/

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lpgcanada.bsky.social @lpgcanada.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A NATION OF TINKERERS: A HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN CANADA FROM 1945 TO 1985 by Michael Rancic from @invisibooks.bsky.social is a summer 2026 selection for The Booksellers’ List!

The cover of A Nation of Tinkerers: A History of Electronic Music in Canada from 1945 to 1985 by Michael Rancic with a sticker indicating it is a Booksellers' List selection.

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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

as a former/recovering independent bookseller, it means a lot to have my upcoming book, A Nation of Tinkerers, featured on Indie Bookstores' The Booksellers' List for Summer 2026! check out the full list here: www.indiebookstores.ca/tbl/

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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#BookReview: Barefoot Gringo by George Bowering “It tracks George Bowering’s education in Mexico, from famous poet itching in the constraints of academic life to an old guy in a wheelchair in a Mexico in which everyone knows his name” thebcreview.ca/2026/05/13/2... ubcpress.bsky.social

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 26/06/2026

Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 7 - Haute Fuzz, a mixtape. tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no7/

A vintage cassette tape with "Haute Fuzz" scribbled onto it.

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 11/06/2026

Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 6 / Dumb and stange in the Fediverse of madness. tylerhellard.com/2026/06/11/p...

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 10/06/2026

Someday I will write another book. And it will be an introspective comedy about a guy who wrote a novel that became unexpectedly popular eight years later and then we all learn that he neglected to fill out a PLR form.

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Alberta Magazine Publishers Association @albertamags.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The Prairie Journal is seeking previously unpublished poetry, short fiction, plays, creative non-fiction, literary essays, reviews, and interviews for upcoming issues. Submissions open until August 31, 2026. Visit their website to learn more! prairiejournal.org

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 08/06/2026

Actually the inventor of gooning pronounced it with a soft g

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Read Anne Thériault's starred review of Stacey May Fowles' new memoir here: bit.ly/3Q9jFk2

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 30/05/2026

ONLY IMPECCABLE BANGERS

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 28/05/2026

When I was at StFX I‘d work the occasional shift at the gallery, which mostly involved screwing around on the nice computer (big luxury in 1998) and making sure nobody stole the paintings. I was sometimes paid in cigarettes.

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 28/05/2026

Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 5 / Don't yuk-yuk my yum (and other confusions) / tylerhellard.com/2026/05/28/p...

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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 26/05/2026

Since painting my van I'm banned from introducing myself to people

A butcher's van with the slogan "Pleased to meet you, Meat to please you." emblazoned on its rear doors

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Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com · 22/05/2026

Every year on domain renewal day I wish I could go back 25 years and talk to younger me about his online identity choices.

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