Stephen Kotowych π¨π¦
@ourmankoto.bsky.social
SF/F Writer | Aurora Award winner | World Fantasy Award finalist | Editor, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, SFWA Nebula Award Showcase anthologies | Ansible Press | Tesla: The Life & Times Podcast | π¨π¦+πΊπ¦
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kotowych.com
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
Life, uhh, finds a way, Charlie Brown.
Many Who Die Deserve Life. Can You Give It to Them, Charlie Brown?
Okay. Yes. Weβre bored now. Weβre all bored. But has it ever occurred to you, Charlie Brown, that the process which creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money?
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Life, uhh, finds a way, Charlie Brown.
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee OβMalley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee OβMalley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee OβMalley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee OβMalley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
It did, yes. I did a paper on the 1918β1920 flu pandemic in a history of medicine class. It got rolled into the trauma of WWI and both weren't spoken of by survivors. Masks were common during and then dropped afterwards. That paper is why I knew we were in for 2yrs of an acute phase, not 2 weeks
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
It did, yes. I did a paper on the 1918β1920 flu pandemic in a history of medicine class. It got rolled into the trauma of WWI and both weren't spoken of by survivors. Masks were common during and then dropped afterwards. That paper is why I knew we were in for 2yrs of an acute phase, not 2 weeks
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SKULL X BONES, the new #SFF #anthology from @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social, featuring interior art by DH @gregoriusu.bsky.social & Ariel Guzman, & great stories by 14 fabulous authors, will be released Dec. 14. Just in time for holiday giving! Pre-order now at .
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
SKULL X BONES, the new #SFF #anthology from @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social, featuring interior art by DH @gregoriusu.bsky.social & Ariel Guzman, & great stories by 14 fabulous authors, will be released Dec. 14. Just in time for holiday giving! Pre-order now at .
Post a famous bathroom scene
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
November 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it βvibe revenueβ just π¨βπ³ π
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be?
So limitless and free...
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be?
So limitless and free...
Now, what you hear is not a test, I'm rapping to the beat
And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet
You see, I am Pontifex and I'd like to say hello
And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet
You see, I am Pontifex and I'd like to say hello
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be?
So limitless and free...
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be?
So limitless and free...
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At Edmonton City Hall this afternoon for the Holodomor Commemoration - an event with a very real resonance this year, with Ukraine again under Russian threat. #yeg #yegcc #Holodomor #Ukraine #cdnpoli
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
At Edmonton City Hall this afternoon for the Holodomor Commemoration - an event with a very real resonance this year, with Ukraine again under Russian threat. #yeg #yegcc #Holodomor #Ukraine #cdnpoli
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Having down time and rest should be more of a badge of honour than being busy.
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Having down time and rest should be more of a badge of honour than being busy.
Most days, I wake with a song in my head. Today, it was this one
Killing Floor
YouTube video by Howlin' Wolf - Topic
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Most days, I wake with a song in my head. Today, it was this one
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JD Vance slams Canada after being rejected by sexy chesterfield
JD Vance slams Canada after being rejected by sexy chesterfield
WASHINGTON D.C. - American Vice President JD Vance has posted online, slamming the country of Canada's economic and immigration policies, which insiders reveal stems from hurt feelings over being sexu...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
JD Vance slams Canada after being rejected by sexy chesterfield
@benjaminahr.mobi Can we get a ruling?
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
@benjaminahr.mobi Can we get a ruling?
What my theory presupposes is that this CBC newscaster is just a really big fan of Star Trek IV: The One With the Whales. Who wore it better?
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What my theory presupposes is that this CBC newscaster is just a really big fan of Star Trek IV: The One With the Whales. Who wore it better?
Can we also please get their 7/11s? I hear they're incredible
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Can we also please get their 7/11s? I hear they're incredible
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Policy should focus not on fertility targets but on how βsocieties can remain prosperous, equitable & sustainable under conditions of low fertility, population aging & population decline. That is a question better aligned with what we actually knowβand with the uncertainties we must acknowledgeβ
The demographic future that we do not know about
The demographic future of the planet has rarely been as questioned as it is today. For much of the 20th century, the demographic transition theory provided a clear narrative: With modernization and de...
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Policy should focus not on fertility targets but on how βsocieties can remain prosperous, equitable & sustainable under conditions of low fertility, population aging & population decline. That is a question better aligned with what we actually knowβand with the uncertainties we must acknowledgeβ
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
Reskeet with a time you looked cool
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Reskeet with a time you looked cool
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This is just to say
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it
Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldnβt not
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it
Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldnβt not
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This is just to say
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it
Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldnβt not
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it
Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldnβt not
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Someone made a chart of me every time I get online and read the news.
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Someone made a chart of me every time I get online and read the news.
Look, the title "Adversarial Poetry" is just hanging out there, desperate to be used for some poet's next collection...
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Look, the title "Adversarial Poetry" is just hanging out there, desperate to be used for some poet's next collection...