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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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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 1h

the story of the 2025 toronto blue jays is a guy you've barely heard of who plays four positions and has been in and out of the minors for the last three years hitting .491 in scoring position

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 6h

Also, Roncesvalles Avenue, Spadina Avenue, Yonge Street, Etobicoke, and if you want to get hyperlocal, Balliol Street, which locals pronounce differently than even other people in Toronto do.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 6h

We're in Toronto, so also: "Toronto". 😉

Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 6h

In Toronto? "Toronto". 😀

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 7h

Look, for starters, if someone finally really fixed CHESS that's amazing, but more importantly, *how did I not know that Murray Head and Anthony Stewart Head are brothers?!*

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Danny Strong Turned Down Writing the Buffy Reboot to Rewrite Chess on Broadway - Reactor

Yes, Chess. The musical. Chess.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 12h

I don't pray, but thank goodness.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

Freida Parton says she did not mean to scare anyone when asking for prayers for her older sister, Dolly:

Freida Parton
“I want to clear something up. I didn't mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers for Dolly. She's been a little under the weather, and I simply asked for prayers because I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up. Your love truly makes a difference.”

Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, avoiding fighting in an unjust war was good! Sure, there's nuance around the unequal opportunities offered the poor vs. the rich to avoid the war, and the people who avoided the war who later became warmongers. But it's important to remember that evading the draft was a morally correct choice.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 13h

Wow, even she agrees that she's a large flaw!

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14h

Whose safety or health is being threatened?

Whose safety or health is being threatened?

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: Privacy officials with the Ontario government won’t release details of who was responsible for cabinet minister vehicles caught speeding, saying it would violate personal privacy and could threaten the “safety or health of an individual.” #OnPoli

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Ontario government won’t say which cabinet minister vehicles were speeding, citing safety | Globalnews.ca

Documents show vehicles assigned to Premier Doug Ford's cabinet ministers were caught by automated speed cameras 23 times, including one driving at 70 km/h in a 40 zone.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

All right, this could go either way but I have to go into the office in the morning so I'm tapping out.
#LetsGoBlueJays

Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

DAMMIT. Three run homer for the Yankees. It's tied up.
#LetsGoBlueJays

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

DAMMIT. Three run homer for the Yankees. It's tied up.
#LetsGoBlueJays

Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

Jays bringing on another reliever to try to salvage the 4th. Fluharty really lost the plot unfortunately. Hopefully we can dig out of this without letting the Yankees gain any more ground back.
#LetsGoBlueJays

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

Once again Jays get on base but can't build. Looks like that pitching change by the Yankees was smart! Top of the 4th over, still 6-3 Jays.
#LetsGoBlueJays

Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

Vladdy hits, gets on base. Yankees bring on another reliever before Kirk's at bat.
#LetsGoBlueJays

Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

Little pause while they dealt with a couple of streakers on the field.
#LetsGoBlueJays

Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

But the Jays get through it. 3rd's over, that was a wild inning! 6-3 Jays.
#LetsGoBlueJays

Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

Pinch hitter for the Yankees.
#LetsGoBlueJays

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

Pinch hitter for the Yankees.
#LetsGoBlueJays

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