Stephen Geigen-Miller
@stephengm.bsky.social
I work at the University of Toronto (but speak only for myself). I love the heck out of my two kids and my wife. In between, I write. He/him
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I think the left needs to start coming up with its own online seminars and courses that anyone can join. If Jordan Peterson and Richard Spencer have them, so should we. We can't rely on the academy anymore.
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I think the left needs to start coming up with its own online seminars and courses that anyone can join. If Jordan Peterson and Richard Spencer have them, so should we. We can't rely on the academy anymore.
"Pirates" is too romantic and cool a term for these clowns. They want to abuse Marxist and Communist ideas to justify stealing to benefit themselves at the expense of authors?
Let's start calling them kulaks.
Let's start calling them kulaks.
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"Pirates" is too romantic and cool a term for these clowns. They want to abuse Marxist and Communist ideas to justify stealing to benefit themselves at the expense of authors?
Let's start calling them kulaks.
Let's start calling them kulaks.
Doug Ford is the same guy he always was - a mean-spirited, selfish bully. I have never forgiven or forgotten what he said as a councillor about developmentally disabled kids, when he fought against a group home for them in a neighbourhood in his ward. On a fundamental level, he's not a good person.
It really has been interesting the last while to see Doug Ford's outbursts. The true Ford. From "get a job" to "audit orgs that might support left wing causes". The authoritarian belligerent bully that had no staff to muzzle him in City Hall days is still there. Does Ontario see? Do they care?
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Doug Ford is the same guy he always was - a mean-spirited, selfish bully. I have never forgiven or forgotten what he said as a councillor about developmentally disabled kids, when he fought against a group home for them in a neighbourhood in his ward. On a fundamental level, he's not a good person.
Edwin Booth was by most metrics the best Booth. The no-good, extremely racist, Confederacy-loving assassin brother was clearly the worst Booth. Junius Brutus Booth Senior, Junius Junior, and sister Asia (she didn't act) fall in between.
My BBS handle back in the day was "EdwinBooth," named for a famous ancestor who was the greatest actor of his generation and who did NOT assassinate a beloved president, unlike his no-good brother of whom we do not speak.
Did 1986 Scalzi have a cool BBS handle?
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Edwin Booth was by most metrics the best Booth. The no-good, extremely racist, Confederacy-loving assassin brother was clearly the worst Booth. Junius Brutus Booth Senior, Junius Junior, and sister Asia (she didn't act) fall in between.
In addition to being a fascinating (if horrific) insight into a mostly-unknown period of European prehistory, this includes a BANGER of a quote: "I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In addition to being a fascinating (if horrific) insight into a mostly-unknown period of European prehistory, this includes a BANGER of a quote: "I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment."
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
I'm doomed, but it'll be delicious!
(That's the contestants on Season 9 of the Great Canadian Baking Show, for those who aren't familiar.)
I'm doomed, but it'll be delicious!
(That's the contestants on Season 9 of the Great Canadian Baking Show, for those who aren't familiar.)
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 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?
I'm doomed, but it'll be delicious!
(That's the contestants on Season 9 of the Great Canadian Baking Show, for those who aren't familiar.)
I'm doomed, but it'll be delicious!
(That's the contestants on Season 9 of the Great Canadian Baking Show, for those who aren't familiar.)
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Super non-controversial take: Oglaf continues to be one of the best comics on the internet.
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Super non-controversial take: Oglaf continues to be one of the best comics on the internet.
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Bigger than this, I think people should be more skeptical of online leftism that says, "Actually, under capitalism I don't owe other people anything." Oh, your communal philosophy says you can be interpersonally vicious and steal from other people? How convenient!
Always worth taking a moment to remind you if you’re pirating authors’ book you’re a shitty person. You can rail that our profession isn’t a profession all you want. You can paint yourself as an online revolutionary liberating ideas. It’s all bullshit.
You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.
You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Bigger than this, I think people should be more skeptical of online leftism that says, "Actually, under capitalism I don't owe other people anything." Oh, your communal philosophy says you can be interpersonally vicious and steal from other people? How convenient!
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Tomorrow (Nov 25) is the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of #16Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence
I'm offering 2 FREE bystander intervention webinars to mark the date: 1 in English et un en français
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I'm offering 2 FREE bystander intervention webinars to mark the date: 1 in English et un en français
Learn community care with me. Sign up! ⬇️
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November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Tomorrow (Nov 25) is the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of #16Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence
I'm offering 2 FREE bystander intervention webinars to mark the date: 1 in English et un en français
Learn community care with me. Sign up! ⬇️
I'm offering 2 FREE bystander intervention webinars to mark the date: 1 in English et un en français
Learn community care with me. Sign up! ⬇️
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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 O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley 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 O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
Listen: Charlie Brown has come unstuck in time.
Do you read Sutter cane, Charlie Brown?
You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, and you ask me to do murder for money, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Listen: Charlie Brown has come unstuck in time.
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Yet when we warned you that he had all the warning signs of a dude who does not understand gender-based analysis, y'all squawked at us.
No more feminist foreign policy, Carney says
Prime Minister, who made the comments at the G20 summit in Johannesburg, has placed less emphasis on feminist policies than the Trudeau government
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Yet when we warned you that he had all the warning signs of a dude who does not understand gender-based analysis, y'all squawked at us.
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It’s pretty remarkable how in a minority government situation, Carney forces budget votes without offering olive branches to other parties then repeatedly takes positions like this that are alienating to his base and own Liberal MPs
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It’s pretty remarkable how in a minority government situation, Carney forces budget votes without offering olive branches to other parties then repeatedly takes positions like this that are alienating to his base and own Liberal MPs
It's a great movie. Sexy, smart, and there isn't enough working class noir. See it if you haven't.
(Also, in 1996, I didn't notice or appreciate that Gershon's character has that double-headed axe tattoo; nice touch.)
(Also, in 1996, I didn't notice or appreciate that Gershon's character has that double-headed axe tattoo; nice touch.)
cannot express how much my weekend has been improved by watching, for the first time!, BOUND (1996)
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It's a great movie. Sexy, smart, and there isn't enough working class noir. See it if you haven't.
(Also, in 1996, I didn't notice or appreciate that Gershon's character has that double-headed axe tattoo; nice touch.)
(Also, in 1996, I didn't notice or appreciate that Gershon's character has that double-headed axe tattoo; nice touch.)
Tampopo (1985)
Name a non-English film.
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Tampopo (1985)
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we honour the memory of the people who've lost their lives due to transphobic violence and oppression.
Transphobia is a vicious bigotry and an eliminationist ideology that must be entirely dismantled. No more lives lost because of transphobia!
Transphobia is a vicious bigotry and an eliminationist ideology that must be entirely dismantled. No more lives lost because of transphobia!
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we honour the memory of the people who've lost their lives due to transphobic violence and oppression.
Transphobia is a vicious bigotry and an eliminationist ideology that must be entirely dismantled. No more lives lost because of transphobia!
Transphobia is a vicious bigotry and an eliminationist ideology that must be entirely dismantled. No more lives lost because of transphobia!
Holy smokes, this is going to be amazing! Just got my ticket, you should too!
Toronto Public Library coming through with some great horror programming.
HELPMEET sicko-in-chief Naben Ruthnum discussing AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS with all time greats Brian Evenson and Victor LaValle on Friday Dec 5th.
Online, free, and at lunch time (EST).
www.eventbrite.ca/e/classics-o...
HELPMEET sicko-in-chief Naben Ruthnum discussing AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS with all time greats Brian Evenson and Victor LaValle on Friday Dec 5th.
Online, free, and at lunch time (EST).
www.eventbrite.ca/e/classics-o...
Classics of Gothic & Horror: At the Mountains of Madness
Join acclaimed authors Brian Evenson and Victor LaValle as they discuss H.P. Lovecraft's genre-bending masterpiece with host Naben Ruthnum.
www.eventbrite.ca
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Holy smokes, this is going to be amazing! Just got my ticket, you should too!
Yes, THANK you, @straith.ca, we were all thinking it, but only you had the courage to ask. Where is Godzilla's mechanical pal who can program himself to increase his size?
are the modern era godzilla films courageous enough to adapt Jet Jaguar? id like to see them try... what kaiju couldn't use a size-changing robot friend with jet flight and superior wrestling skills
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Yes, THANK you, @straith.ca, we were all thinking it, but only you had the courage to ask. Where is Godzilla's mechanical pal who can program himself to increase his size?
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National Loblaws. It's basically a crown corp already w public subsidy.
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
National Loblaws. It's basically a crown corp already w public subsidy.
Didn't quite call it, but I was pretty close.
I think the Conservatives and Bloc oppose, NDP abstain, Greens support the Liberals, so it passes narrowly 171 to 165.
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Didn't quite call it, but I was pretty close.
Unrelated, but springboarding off Charlie Jane's post, I've always been grimly amused that Save The Cat - a pernicious book - has a LENGTHY digression in a SHORT book about how bad the movie Memento is, justifying this view by saying the movie was a gimmick AND didn't make much money.
I have been gaslit by a book of writing advice.
When I was a teen I liked John Updike (I know!) until I read a writing advice book called Writing Well by Donald Hall, which included a chapter explaining why Updike was bad.
I've found copies of Writing Well, but none include the Updike takedown.
When I was a teen I liked John Updike (I know!) until I read a writing advice book called Writing Well by Donald Hall, which included a chapter explaining why Updike was bad.
I've found copies of Writing Well, but none include the Updike takedown.
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Unrelated, but springboarding off Charlie Jane's post, I've always been grimly amused that Save The Cat - a pernicious book - has a LENGTHY digression in a SHORT book about how bad the movie Memento is, justifying this view by saying the movie was a gimmick AND didn't make much money.
My most woke? How much time do you have?
We START with universal basic services. Everyone gets the health care, child care, food, housing, public transit, education, and access to information they need to thrive. Maybe money can still exist, just for treats and perks. But no one should NEED it.
We START with universal basic services. Everyone gets the health care, child care, food, housing, public transit, education, and access to information they need to thrive. Maybe money can still exist, just for treats and perks. But no one should NEED it.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
My most woke? How much time do you have?
We START with universal basic services. Everyone gets the health care, child care, food, housing, public transit, education, and access to information they need to thrive. Maybe money can still exist, just for treats and perks. But no one should NEED it.
We START with universal basic services. Everyone gets the health care, child care, food, housing, public transit, education, and access to information they need to thrive. Maybe money can still exist, just for treats and perks. But no one should NEED it.
I've mostly been reading ebooks lately, via the library app on my phone, and it's been great Convenient! Portable!
But now I feel like I miss holding a book. I never stopped *acquiring* books, so I have a big print TBR pile. I'm going to prioritize that for the rest of 2025 and into the new year.
But now I feel like I miss holding a book. I never stopped *acquiring* books, so I have a big print TBR pile. I'm going to prioritize that for the rest of 2025 and into the new year.
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I've mostly been reading ebooks lately, via the library app on my phone, and it's been great Convenient! Portable!
But now I feel like I miss holding a book. I never stopped *acquiring* books, so I have a big print TBR pile. I'm going to prioritize that for the rest of 2025 and into the new year.
But now I feel like I miss holding a book. I never stopped *acquiring* books, so I have a big print TBR pile. I'm going to prioritize that for the rest of 2025 and into the new year.
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
The Kickstarter is live! Steve's 5e subclasses are always great fun and this one looks ESPECIALLY so. I backed it, and I hope you'll join me!
The Kickstarter for my latest 5E zines (plural!) launches today at noon ET. If you’re so inclined, you can check it out here… stabracadabra.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The Kickstarter is live! Steve's 5e subclasses are always great fun and this one looks ESPECIALLY so. I backed it, and I hope you'll join me!