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@tygnst.bsky.social
Husband, father and relentless tinker.
Pushing for open-mindedness, equity, understanding, respect, empathy and education for and about all persons, communities and cultures.
Absolute ally. He/his. Vegan. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
SciFi geek.
Probably listening to somafm.com
Pushing for open-mindedness, equity, understanding, respect, empathy and education for and about all persons, communities and cultures.
Absolute ally. He/his. Vegan. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
SciFi geek.
Probably listening to somafm.com
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Wonderful read on the souls of animals (and what we mean by "soul")
The Souls of Animals
“They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick …
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December 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Wonderful read on the souls of animals (and what we mean by "soul")
But there are corners on the oldest ships where the dark settles, and not even the brightest light can burn it away…No one who goes into that shadow comes out quite the same. This is the price that is paid to defy the laws of space and time, and jump like thought across the stars.
#SciFi
#SciFi
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
But there are corners on the oldest ships where the dark settles, and not even the brightest light can burn it away…No one who goes into that shadow comes out quite the same. This is the price that is paid to defy the laws of space and time, and jump like thought across the stars.
#SciFi
#SciFi
Ladytron
Dead Can Dance
The Damned
Depeche Mode
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
1997-2007 Toronto’s music scene perfectly accommodated my kinda dark musical taste
Dead Can Dance
The Damned
Depeche Mode
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
1997-2007 Toronto’s music scene perfectly accommodated my kinda dark musical taste
the pillows
death cab for cutie
radiohead
rasputina
st vincent
honestly I went to a lot of shows when I was like 16-24 and haven't really since haha. I'm too short to see anything and I hate standing around waiting for stuff to start!! the pillows was great though
death cab for cutie
radiohead
rasputina
st vincent
honestly I went to a lot of shows when I was like 16-24 and haven't really since haha. I'm too short to see anything and I hate standing around waiting for stuff to start!! the pillows was great though
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Magic Sword
Surfrajettes
Weird Al
John Denver
Dolly Parton
Magic Sword
Surfrajettes
Weird Al
John Denver
Dolly Parton
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Ladytron
Dead Can Dance
The Damned
Depeche Mode
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
1997-2007 Toronto’s music scene perfectly accommodated my kinda dark musical taste
Dead Can Dance
The Damned
Depeche Mode
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
1997-2007 Toronto’s music scene perfectly accommodated my kinda dark musical taste
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This has saved me many times – Baldwin on how to live through your darkest hour: www.themarginalian.org/2020/04/23/j...
James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of th…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This has saved me many times – Baldwin on how to live through your darkest hour: www.themarginalian.org/2020/04/23/j...
Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social is a beautiful, poignant and disturbing story about getting lost and the people close to you trying to find you. Young focuses on what's happening inside her characters, not around them - makes for a very intimate and empathetic narrative. Amazing artwork.
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social is a beautiful, poignant and disturbing story about getting lost and the people close to you trying to find you. Young focuses on what's happening inside her characters, not around them - makes for a very intimate and empathetic narrative. Amazing artwork.
We thought…that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project…a machine with lots of networking circuits…aping the human brain.
Of course AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when humans were looking the other way.
#SciFi
Of course AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when humans were looking the other way.
#SciFi
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We thought…that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project…a machine with lots of networking circuits…aping the human brain.
Of course AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when humans were looking the other way.
#SciFi
Of course AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when humans were looking the other way.
#SciFi
Technology implies belligerence…
And if the best toys do end up in the hands of those who’ve never forgotten that life itself is an act of war against intelligent opponents, what does that say about a race whose machines travel between the stars?
Blindsight -Peter Watts
#SciFi
And if the best toys do end up in the hands of those who’ve never forgotten that life itself is an act of war against intelligent opponents, what does that say about a race whose machines travel between the stars?
Blindsight -Peter Watts
#SciFi
October 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Technology implies belligerence…
And if the best toys do end up in the hands of those who’ve never forgotten that life itself is an act of war against intelligent opponents, what does that say about a race whose machines travel between the stars?
Blindsight -Peter Watts
#SciFi
And if the best toys do end up in the hands of those who’ve never forgotten that life itself is an act of war against intelligent opponents, what does that say about a race whose machines travel between the stars?
Blindsight -Peter Watts
#SciFi
She lays traps. She doubles back in time to build dead ends to history; she tangles strands. Her quarry, whose quarry she is in turn, slips free, leaving now a sound, now a taste on the air, nothing so grand s as a thread caught on a thorn.
-This Is How You Lose the Time War
#SciFi
-This Is How You Lose the Time War
#SciFi
October 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
She lays traps. She doubles back in time to build dead ends to history; she tangles strands. Her quarry, whose quarry she is in turn, slips free, leaving now a sound, now a taste on the air, nothing so grand s as a thread caught on a thorn.
-This Is How You Lose the Time War
#SciFi
-This Is How You Lose the Time War
#SciFi
You pressed your face into the surface of the table, and you closed your eyes so violently that the pressure stung your brows and cheeks. No star hung so still as you did then, at the end of its hard hydrogen burn, breathlessly waiting to slough off its outer layer.
#TheLockedTomb
#TheLockedTomb
October 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
You pressed your face into the surface of the table, and you closed your eyes so violently that the pressure stung your brows and cheeks. No star hung so still as you did then, at the end of its hard hydrogen burn, breathlessly waiting to slough off its outer layer.
#TheLockedTomb
#TheLockedTomb
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“This abuse is becoming seemingly a fact of life. I think that’s kind of an unsaid strategy of Fairlife — it’s just to ride it out so [people] become numb to it.”
The terrifying reality behind one of America’s fastest-growing dairy brands
The dark side of Fairlife — and America’s protein craze.
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August 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“This abuse is becoming seemingly a fact of life. I think that’s kind of an unsaid strategy of Fairlife — it’s just to ride it out so [people] become numb to it.”
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Nick Cave on music, mystery, and the relationship between vulnerability and freedom www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/10/n...
Nick Cave on Music, Mystery, and the Relationship Between Vulnerability and Freedom
“There is more going on than we can see or understand, and we need to find a way to lean into the mystery of things…. and recognise the evident value in doing that, and summon the coura…
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July 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Nick Cave on music, mystery, and the relationship between vulnerability and freedom www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/10/n...