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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 4h

The hockey season begins tonight, and this Saturday marks the first Hockey Night in Canada. For the rest of this year into April, if you need a Canadian on a Saturday night, no you don’t

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 1d

Blue jays look good in October. (Yes, in baseball too.) BUT LOOKIT THE CHIPMUNK AND THE WEE PAWS ON THE PEANUT

Blue jay eyeing me from a tree, fall colors behind it. He’s waiting for me to lay out some peanuts and doesn’t think I’m moving fast enough.

A chipmunk holding a peanut up to its mouth like corn on the cob.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 2d

Aw yay!!!

Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 3d

💙📚 The only thing better than a book by @kevinhearne.bsky.social is that book read by Luke Daniels. This laugh-out-loud wild ride accompanied me & my family on a recent road trip. The 14-year-old was locked in immediately locked in, but even the 19-year-old was quickly captivated.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 2d

They do provide value

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 2d

Two shows in LA, Greg! I am gonna try to get tix for Toronto.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 2d

They just announced it on Instagram

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 2d

Holy moly and marshmallows too, Rush is going on tour again! @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social needs to know and maybe you do as well.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 2d

Aw yay!!!

Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social · 3d

💙📚 The only thing better than a book by @kevinhearne.bsky.social is that book read by Luke Daniels. This laugh-out-loud wild ride accompanied me & my family on a recent road trip. The 14-year-old was locked in immediately locked in, but even the 19-year-old was quickly captivated.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 3d

Yes!

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 3d

Update: Apparently he had good reason to be confident. Heartily pleased.

Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 3d

Blue jay came to hang out with me on the deck. He’s confident about Game 2 against the Yankees in a couple hours.

On a deck railing, an actual blue jay provides incisive sports commentary as a Canadian flag flies behind him.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 3d

Blue jay came to hang out with me on the deck. He’s confident about Game 2 against the Yankees in a couple hours.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 3d

Today in Kevin Got the Heck Outside: a turbo mega cute eastern phoebe! 🪶

Eastern Phoebe on a birdhouse box. The bird is just super cute

Same Phoebe on a different perch, still super cute

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 3d

Book tour for Queen Demon (the sequel to Witch King, next book in the Rising World series) starts tomorrow! 1/11

artsatthearmory.org/events/bill-...

Bill Blumenreich Presents Martha Wells - The Center for the Arts at the Armory

Martha Wells in conversation with Holly Black for the new book, Queen Demon

artsatthearmory.org

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 3d

The additional fees I see now for shipping to the U.S. amount to about $2–a customs brokerage fee and something else I forget. But yeah. These fees did not exist prior to these tariff shenanigans.

Also, US friends, if I owe you a letter, look for it after the Canada Post strike ends. Someday.

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 3d

The 'handling fees' and whatnot that are suddenly being charged along with tariffs really is making it a complete crapshoot when you order or ship anything outside the US. DO feel like a lot of companies are taking advantage of chaos to skim some off the top.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 3d

No, those aren’t up here in Canada

Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 4d

Canada Hive wasn’t paying them enough and announced it was doing away with royal jelly to cut costs, so yeah

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 4d

After the strike is over

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 4d

That would be Dr. Joseph Lister, namesake of Listerine

He has a pretty long wait time, alas

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 4d

Went to this new grocery store that opened near me because hey, grand opening, big sale. Raspberries for 98 cents. Holy crap. But it was nuts in there. NOSTALGIA PRICES

I played (and lost) two games of chicken with elder folks who decided I was in their way

But I also got some chicken so YAY

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 4d

Grabbing small joys where I can: produce at the farmers market. Just a bunch of Samwise Gamgees there wanting to sell me stuff from their gardens.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 5d

The absolute nerve of that thing!

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 5d

I would accept whatever smells it offered. Paper, glue. Ink. Dust mites

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 5d

How much would it be for us just to attend the auction and smell the pride and the prejudice

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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 6d

Just made this granola and can confirm: it is amazeballs! It is supposed to last me a week...it is quite possible I will eat all it in the next two days.

Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 17d

Whaaaat two recipe threads in a day?

Gotta share because @alwayscoffee.bsky.social demanded it

I tried making my own granola and it’s …amazeballs?!? Unexpected beginner’s success! WHICH MEANS YOU CAN DO IT TOO

Except if you have nut allergies, sorry

Okay let’s do this—
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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 6d

Oh yay! So glad you dig it! *high fiber fist bump*

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