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Just realizing in real time that Pontypool star Stephen McHattie is a syndicate henchman in the awesome The X-Files train episode.
If you look close enough I believe you will find that "English countryside murder" is often a variant of the first two story types. Those that don't fit the pattern are likely Videodrome hallucinations.
Any time I accidentally see a post from Threads it's something like:
"Hey, I have a very specific and barely related life experience that makes me the ultimate authority on the popular media of the moment and we have a moral obligation to discuss it on my unreasonable and very specific terms."
there are three types of story:
- a person goes on a journey
- a stranger comes to town
- Videodrome
Realizing there's almost no lore about the Easter Bunny. You can tell your kids that he'll bust all the windows in the house if they're bad and they won't get fact-checked at school like with Santa.
Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption:
"The highest quality video of the moon was just released…
so beautiful
* Artemis II"
It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.
When there's no room left in hell, the dipshits will flood our inboxes.
I don't ever want to hear anything Richard Hanania has to say unless it's "AAAAAAUUUUGHHHH!!!!"
a more accurate title would be Wheels of Fortune since there are in fact two wheels of fortune in Wheel of Fortune
Idea! The Big Four sports leagues need to create streaming packages prices by team: I want to watch every game by these X teams…sell me that. I shouldn’t need to upgrade a service I already barely use to watch a team I’m currently WEARING THE JERSEY OF.
National Poetry Month: Jessi MacEachern, / @jessisays.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ;
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I'm sorry but this is not a pro-AI post.
Yes, I recently became a mug. I'm glad you noticed.
(also also, I promise these won't all be about AI- this was just the first thing I was able to post through the fog of grief)
Today in terrible irony: just got an AI-generated book marketing pitch for BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING that mashed up @paultremblay.bsky.social's blurb for the book in its concluding paragraph, attempting to flatter me into responding. Fools! Don't steal his praise to steal my money!
(also, I write these solo, so if you find a typo or something let me know and I'll fix it)
New newsletter just dropped. Test Obituary no. 4 is about the choices we make as artists in the age of AI, inspired by the book BLACK HOLES by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw.
If you like it, please share it. The more people read, the more motivated I am to write.
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Around the Lazaretto album, I began to convince myself I wasn't a Jack White fan, just a White Stripes fan. It was a difficult thing to process. But this post-No Name era has proved me wrong. Turns out he was just in a phase.
it absolutely is
thank you so much for this
I can’t tell you why but I woke up this morning thinking “the ending scene from the movie Drive but the soundtrack is Aquatic Ambience from Donkey Kong Country” so I made it for us all to have something beautiful
I don't follow her anymore, but I can't help but be morbidly curious about how this all came to be.
I have 35 respected canlit mutuals with an author I've never met but exclusively posts unhinged conspiracy shit and AI generated promos for her books.
even the interviews are excellent
killer season of taskmaster coming this week
The Last Crusade is an Easter movie.
Canadian Poets Series #24 : Conyer Clayton / @conyerclayton.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social ;
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Another writing first: I'm going to have a poem in Best Canadian Poetry!
"We Go Down to the Sea of Myrrh," which originally appeared in @cv2magazine.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue, will be reprinted in the forthcoming 2027 anthology.
Edgy guys are always referencing the supernova of our sun, but our star isn't big enough to explode so their nihilism comes off as uninformed.
