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Ted McCoy 🖖

@tedmccoy.bsky.social

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(he/him) university professor and some kind of writer Star Trek: M33 comic. https://www.instagram.com/startrekm33

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · Apr 26

Writing my new theme music

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 1h

My 7/11 is now serving cold beer and wine which you can drink in a little fenced off corner of the very tiny store. Grim.

A sign reading now serving cold beer and wine

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 3h

Jays

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 7h

Jays and Flames two big wins coming up for da little guys

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 9h

appear to be extremely focused during the meeting but actually watching live webcam footage of my sleeping dog

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 10h

they don't ever have an idea of their own, just vapid lockstep with American conservatism.

National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 10h

Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of temporary residents nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of…

National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 17h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 13h

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 14h

The first Silmarillion map. Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet.

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 15h

don’t see too many antennas like this anymore. They used to be all over. Sorry for this old man skeet

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 16h

worst people at UofC's Speaker's Corner now in charge of everything in the province :(

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 16h

everybody do your best on Worf Wednesday

Our boy in security yellow looking focused and ready to go

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Tom Rodgers @tojuro.bsky.social · 17h

If AI can use our words and thoughts so that they can replace our jobs, then people should be given lifelong reparations in the form of UBI.

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 1d

rally time

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 1d

Alberta has a real streak of "everybody should be poorly paid except for me"

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 1d

Corgi and dad hanging out mid-walk

Ted holding Maggie, a corgi puppy with one blue eye

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 1d

thanks!

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 1d

nature's perfect build

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 2d

Me and my girl out for a long walk

A corgi on a rock looking at the horizon

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 2d

bullshit website

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 2d

how?

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 2d

Banned?

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 2d

A 200k SSHRC grant to spend more time listening to, thinking about, and talking about The Jayhawks

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 2d

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 2d

Proud little thing after climbing Grasshopper Hill

A corgi puppy standing on top of a rock with the city behind her

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 2d

we could make choices about what type of province we want, it doesn't have to be this way forever!

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