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Andy W. Taylor

@sooguy68.bsky.social

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Canadian writer of speculative fiction who buys more books & comics than he can ever hope to read. Viable Paradise (VP19), Codex, TWUOC, CSFFA, Playwright Junction. Cancer Survivor. He/Him

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Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · Dec 7

"I woke up this morning feeling weird, disoriented, and uncomfortable. Then I remembered I was in Sudbury and it all started to make sense." - Ramona, Roadkill (1989)

Still black and white image of actress Valarie Bughair as Ramona from the 1989 film Road Kill by Canadian Director Bruce McDonald which is largely set in Sudbury, Ontario.

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Shane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com · 7h

Great video on AI SLOP and how it's destroying the internet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 7h

Hematoma?

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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 8h

Yes. He’s white.

Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 8h

When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.

www.latimes.com

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 8h

Free shipping at Bookshop lasts until tonight. I have an affiliate shop there with a handy list of my available books:

Kate Heartfield Bookshop

Kate Heartfield is the author of several novels, including The Tapestry of Time (2024), about clairvoyant sisters in WWII; The Valkyrie (2023), a retelling of legends; and the Sunday Times bestseller ...

bookshop.org

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 8h

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

Screenshot of IngramSpark impersonator's contact form, with chat window where scammer sales rep "Travis Clark" claims that "We are Ingram Spark's hands-on services department. You will be able to find our information here: https://www.ingramsparkbookpublishers.com/

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Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 8h

Sadly we’ll never get to read that novel. Janice loved long bike rides and I’m picturing her riding her bike on a fine summer day without a care in the world right now.

Janice was one of the many writers who was supportive of me while I was going through my own cancer treatment 5 years ago.

Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 8h

Received news yesterday that a writer I knew through my local writing group died from cancer. She had been diagnosed over a year ago and briefly won a reprieve from it last spring. Janice was working on a historical novel that fictionalized a relative’s exp growing up as a young woman in the 1920s.

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Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 1d

Or Donald’s underwear which are most certainly gold plated.

Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the same shot from Feb 2017 with a meeting with Justin Trudeau. No gold leaf in sight.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in Feb 2013 with distinctly a lot less gold leaf than in 2025

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Margaret A-Spelle 🎃 @margaretadelle.bsky.social · 1d

The new blog post is here.

And we're talking about my new favorite sci-fi trope: Gay Robot Romances!

Seriously, if you have any more recs, PLEASE let me know.

#bookblog #booksky

Gay Robots in Love

Fictional creatures have always been used as allegories for queer romance. It’s long been speculated that original tale of “The Little Mermaid” was inspired by the depression it&#…

margaretadelle.wordpress.com

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Bluesky Announces New Slogan “Not as Transphobic as X, But We’re Working on It”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry I misspoke. They got conditional sentences not conditional discharges. Either way they get no additional jail time. But they will have criminal records. Lich has already proven she can’t follow bail orders. We’ll see how she does this time around.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Freedom Convoy leaders Chris Barber, Tamara Lich given conditional sentences | CBC News

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy," have been handed conditional sentences and spared further jail time.

www.cbc.ca

Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 1d

Please write both your govt officials and the Ottawa Citizen if you feel safe doing so. I think they need to hear from people that this is not forgotten.

Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 1d

Conditional discharges. Disgusting.

Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been a long time coming but Chris Barber and Tamara Lich finally find out out what price they pay for their role in the 2022 Convoy protests.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Freedom Convoy figures Tamara Lich and Chris Barber to be sentenced today | CBC News

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber — two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy" — will find out Tuesday if they will receive prison time after being found guilty of mischief earlier this year.

www.cbc.ca

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky's lack of a coms team does indeed give us some of these funny moments such as:

"You're aware that you are ostensibly speaking for the company with the current role you have and the subject matter you're wading into, right?

what?"

Maja Öberg @majaoeberg.bsky.social · 2d

I do find it hilarious how they immediately backtracked after this and deleted the comment

a member of bluesky saying "Yeh" in response to the above post, with a journalist responding asking to get their exact quote over the thread in which the bluesky member responds with "what" and the journalist then rephrasing the question only for the bluesky member to delete the entire thread

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 1d

I would love this to be rolled out across the UK but it's so vanishingly unlikely I can barely see the percentage.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

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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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d

Please don't shame users for posting AI slop. You'll hurt the slops feelings.

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 2d

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

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Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 1d

Good point! I still cling to my Vinyl collection even though I haven’t owned a decent turntable in years.

Also my vintage 1983 VIC-20 and its tape deck (which was obsolete when I bought it) replaced by the oh so fancy Commodore 64 and its external floppy drive.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 1d

Maple MAGA autocorrect get it straight.

Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 1d

This should be on the lefts flag a la the Fuck Trudeau / Carney flags the Maple Magda like to fly.

Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 1d

Shut up, Pierre.

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Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social · 1d

Random question: What piece of “obsolete” tech do you still hang onto and why? (regardless of whether you use it regularly or not)

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 2d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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