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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 19d

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

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 · 9h

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'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 · 6d

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 · 12h

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

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 11h

"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 · 12h

My Very Dear Ones,

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

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 12h

My husband has been making me watch the Blue Jays for like 20 years and it's finally pretty good.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 12h

Me, watching the Blue Jays right now
#GoJaysGo #ALDS #DamnedYankees #OctoberBaseball #WantItAll #AllTheWay

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 22h

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 23h

Sometimes exceptions need to be made. Throw the book at them.

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 23h

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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

Odds-Truth Untold

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

Umm, Canada, are you taking notes???

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Montreal WorldCon 2027 @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social · 1d

'The Sunburst Award Society is pleased to congratulate "Blackheart Man" author, Nalo Hopkinson, on winning the $3,000 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.'
www.sunburstaward.org/node/145

Announcing the 2025 Sunburst Award Winner! | The Sunburst Award Society

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

Love it! Thanks, Bill!

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 2d

wake up, hosers

new petition just dropped

e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money

Sign this Petition - Petitions

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

A very good idea indeed. Canadians, please sign.

C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 2d

Sign this Petition - Petitions

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

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

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

...for now.

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 2d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

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

Nope. Not even Happy Gilmore

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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 2d

we all need to do this

max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 2d

i gotta start blogging again. we're never returning to a functional social media internet

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

I have never seen either Wayne's World movie, nor any movie staring Adam Sandler

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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

Ten! Ten strikeouts! Ah ah ah ah ah! #GoJaysGo #OctoberBaseball #BlueJays #ALDS