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Matt Cahill

@mattcahill.bsky.social

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Novelist (Radioland, The Society of Experience) / short fiction / essays. Agent: Kelvin Kong, K2 Literary https://k2literary.com/ Former film/TV post supervisor, currently Registered Psychotherapist in private practice

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · Feb 23

I don't promote my writing very often (ironically because I'm usually busy writing in my spare time), but I'd like to feature my two novels today, THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIENCE and most recently RADIOLAND.

Both are mind-bendy urban literary fiction with generous doses of dark spec blended in.

My two novels laying on nicely art-directed industrial flooring.

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 1h

Hoping Kluivert adds something.

Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 6h

I'm an analog runner. I don't even listen to music, let alone use tracking devices. The whole "if it's not on Strava it didn't happen" has always felt cringy to me (obvs being over 50 I'm not exactly looking to step on a podium anytime soon).
#runTO

What happens when your watch and fitness app don't get along? Many runners are about to find out | CBC News

With fall race reason at its peak, some athletes are stressing over news that fitness-tracking app Strava is suing device-maker Garmin in a U.S. lawsuit alleging patent infringement and breach of cond...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 23h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 7h

Not furniture per se, but the exterior of the Lillian H. Smith branch of Toronto Public Library.

The exterior of the Lillian H. Smith branch of Toronto Public Library, bracketed by two gryphon statues built into the archway.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 19h

$5 says CBS News does a diss about The View

Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 19h

The sounds of Torontonians outside my window, whooping, celebrating taking down the Yankees.

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 1d

Before this morning's peer supervision sesh, I was asked if it was ok if the other therapist could bring their dog, and folks it was a no-brainer.

Close-up of big grey oodle dog snout mid-boop toward camera

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 1d

There needs to be a Quatermass revival. Have been watching the TV series on archive.org and loving it.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 2d

Dmitri Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar! He also liked it so much he considered writing a rock music themed suite (like his earlier Jazz suites) but died soon after.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 2d

When seeing headlines like this, from a Canadian perspective it's a reminder that our federal government doesn't even give grants like this in the first place. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars

The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 2d

Optometrists finally admit there is no difference between one and two

Welland, ON – In a big win for optometry patients around the country, the nation’s eye doctors have finally come clean, admitting there is no difference between lens number one and lens number two.

www.thebeaverton.com

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 3d

Here are some of the automated speed enforcement tickets given to vehicles assigned to Ford cabinet ministers. #OnPoli

Story ▶️ globalnews.ca/news/1146373...

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 3d

Cinematography by some guy named Nicholas Roeg sure helped. Just a stunning, awful, beautiful film.

Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.social · 3d

The Masque of the Red Death (1964, dir. Roger Corman) gives us, among many other delights, one of Vincent Price's great performances. As the red death kills off entire villages, the wicked Prospero and his dreadful guests party. A genuine sense of malevolent evil pervades. Gorgeous, still shocking.

Title card for The Masque of the Red Death

Juliana, a woman in a dark wine coloured dress, stands speaking in a deserted banquet hall. In front of her, a double sided axe swings like a pendulum

Prince Prospero, dressed in a dark, hooded cloak with a gold headband, stands in front of Francesca, a red haired young woman in a dress, wearing a necklace and with a veil across her face. They are both looking ahead intently at something offscreen.

Against a black backdrop illuminated only by a bright spot of red, stands a figure in a bright red hooded cloak and mask

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 3d

If there's a national side to take risks on, it would certainly be Malta.

Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 3d

aka Cobra Duck

Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 4d

Great seeing Water From Your Eyes at St. Anne's Parish Hall tonight.
#liveTO

Three people onstage (drummer out of view). From left to right, guitarist, vocalist and bassist. Projected onto them are psychedelic patterns.

Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 5d

Dropped off a whack of old cords and dead devices at Free Geek for e-waste recycling.

A sign at the office entrance that says FREE GEEK TORONTO / E-WASTE DROP-OFF

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

how it feels to wear a sport coat in modern society

A guy waiting for a train in Boston. He's dressed like a man would in the late 1700s.

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 6d

I hope Koeman saw Kluivert's goal against Fulham tonight

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d

A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 6d

I don't want to sound like a conspiracist, but part of me wonders if some of this is intentional, to drive some of their workforce to voluntarily resign. Not unlike corporate-owned apartment buildings that have constant construction to drive tenants out.

Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 6d

For Halloween I used to play the hospital hallway scene for the film school class I taught.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information:

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6d

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration

Apple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration.

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 6d

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