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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 21d

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 1d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 9h

This represents a huge loss to Canadian SFF

On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 9h

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 17h

Bring on the ALCS, bay-bee! #GoJaysGo

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 Start spreadin' the news... 🎶 www.mlb.com/news/blue-ja...

Blue Jays prove they're top dog, clinch ALCS berth in the Bronx

NEW YORK -- Start spreading the news, the Toronto Blue Jays are going to the ALCS. The Blue Jays have eliminated the Yankees in four games with Wednesday’s 5-2 win at Yankee Stadium, finally knocking ...

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Mike Wilner @wilnerness.bsky.social · 1d

I love that Hazel is saying "We're live" to everybody in the hopes that they will understand that they should keep their language clean and none of the #Bluejays actually give a f***.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

To the victors go the @#$@% spoils ;)

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bookishblip.bsky.social @bookishblip.bsky.social · 1d

a blue jays logo with a red maple leaf on it

Alt: A Toronto Blue Jays logo with a red maple leaf. It looks like it's on a billowing blue flag.

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 1d

We were lucky enough at @smallwondersmag.com to publish @timothyquinn.bsky.social’s “The Warfighter” that appeared in the 2024 edition of this collection. If you’ve got an eligible story, please submit it!

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

Extra glad we beat them, then 😉

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

In between pitches, the Yankees PA person keeps playing the klaxon from STAR WARS that you only ever hear on Star Destroyers and imperial bases. Are the Yankees trying to lean into being the evil empire? #GoJaysGo #ALDS #OctoberBaseball #DamnedYankees

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MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan for You

Nathan Lukes delivers a clutch 2-run single in the 7th!

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, but where's the fun in that? ;) I just keep thinking, "Man--what this poor guy must have gone through growing up." Some family names you just change 😂

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

The length this is...negotiable. I've done three volumes and each has something 9000+ words and less than 1000 words. I also include a list of the year's best novellas and novelettes (that I really can't include for length/rights reasons). So if you've got long or short stuff, can't hurt to send it?

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

I've counted at least three times when Buck and/or Dan have mispronounced the Yankees' pitcher as "Shitler" and not "Schlittler." You can sense a moment's hesitation any time someone on the Sportsnet team has to say his name 😂 #GoJaysGo #ALDS #OctoberBaseball

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating article! How wind-driven pollution explains impoverished sections of cities and a health divide between rich and poor over decades and CENTURIES
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Column | Why this one area of cities is usually the poorest

The Department of Data went looking for geographic patterns in poverty, and stumbled upon a surprising culprit.

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Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

a group of men are sitting around a table with one of them saying one of us !

ALT: a group of men are sitting around a table with one of them saying one of us !

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 1d

Most days, I wake with a song in my head. Today, it was this one. I can only assume it's my punishment for the sin of pride in thinking that the Blue Jays were about to sweep the Yankees when we were up 6-1 in the 3rd. As a Toronto sports fan, I ought to have known better. Mea culpa... 😞

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Official Music Video)

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 2d

UNFOLLOW

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 8d

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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BlueJays in Germany ⚾ @bluejaysingermany.bsky.social · 2d

Blue Jays chasing Judge with a baseball sums up this series quite well.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 2d

"In Portland, they're eating the quinces, the people who came in. They're eating the fuyu persimmons. They're eating--they're eating the produce of the people who live there."

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

My Very Dear Ones,

I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.

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