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Science-fiction author; maker of dinners. You might know me from the other place. Let's see: Robots, Vintage Toys, History, Sumo, Pro Wrestling, Art, Paleontology, Silent Film, Video Games. Yes, that'll do for now. https://chrisedwardsauthor.ca/
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Better report my accomplishments for the week before the deadline

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

I’m at a bar, couple of beers in. And maybe it’s those beers, but on the TV just now was an ad for the Terry Fox Marathon of Hope and it used AI. And there was nothing hideous or sloppy about it. The ad was beautiful.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Just to throw a little sand in the gears: This sudden, necessary focus on chains of command, who is/isn’t entitled to fire people, and by what process, gets me wondering what 20+ yrs of bringing your whole self to work and calling bosses and teachers by their first names has left us with.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 17 hours ago • 425 comments

Feds vs blue states will be one of the tension points. Could be among the most dangerous, actually.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s 2025, which means the next Pope will be as close to Pius XII as possible.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

AOC is one of the politicians with any weight who’s getting the tone right here.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

@krissyt.bsky.social I sold my soul to The Final Boss, The Rock, in exchange for being elevated from ankle-height to just above the shin. No regrets.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Guy can bring whatever he wants to bring to Boston, but unless he has a warrant from a judge, you don't have to open the door when he knocks.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

I'm looking forward to hearing the conversation. I do hope @ianhanomansing.bsky.social frames Trump's musings as advocating for an illegal and hostile action, and not just some random idea that he threw out. I will reserve judgement until after the broadcast.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I don’t understand the anger over this. For one thing, any Americans who do tune in will hear a variety of Canadian callers expressing rage and a sense of betrayal that is not breaking through in mainstream American media almost at all….

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

I've heard Trump tell the "Raizin" Caine story numerous times. It's incredibly telling about how he sees the military.

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

It’s been unsettling of late to realize how hard it is, as a Canadian, to decrease reliance on American culture.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Elon Musk's pinned tweet right now.

submitted 18 hours ago • 250 comments

Accepting a ‘diversity of strategies’ that include violent resistance isn’t going to work out for anyone who won’t bust heads. (And not even them, ultimately. But they’re primarily interested in busting heads, so…)

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 129 comments

french far-right leader jordan bardella canceled his remarks at cpac today reason given: “one of the speakers allowed himself, out of provocation, a gesture referring to nazi ideology.”

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

It means Europe must move away from all American enablers. Including GPS. The mind boggles. The scale of change required is very large. But it must be done.

submitted 23 hours ago • 14 comments

[threatening a baby] here comes the airplane

submitted 3 days ago • 136 comments

More of this

submitted 1 day ago • 200 comments

If people wonder who are the most hated accounts here (I.e. you get labeled if you follow them, here they are).

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Old ads that seem relevant now department: from the May 4, 1992 edition of Maclean's, Bell introduces Canada's 11th province.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

@erikmissio.bsky.social @alcreed.bsky.social @krissyt.bsky.social @edkanerva.bsky.social 1973 Flair is almost unrecognizable. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Aur...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Emerging Canadian writers with no more than 1 book: the deadline to enter the Writers Union of Canada's Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers is this Sunday, February 23, 2025, 11:59pm PT. #CanLit writersunion.ca/short-prose-...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The guy who used to run social media for the NRA is now creating the same violent rhetoric for the White House.

submitted 3 days ago • 76 comments

We’ll freeze him in effigy.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A painting of him appeared in the end papers of my Canadian Encyclopedia, along with Macdonald and Laurier, Terry Fox and Jeanne Sauve.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Dunno, seems harsh.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

What's brought us into this terrible period, more than anything, is the refusal to accept any positions but the most extreme and least compromising as true. It's a conflation of what you think with how you feel; no daylight in-between. This is why damaged people hold power now.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Hasan is to be commended for writing that post. Career-wise it does him no favours, and of course the comments are a cesspool of contrarian ignorance.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The deaths of innocent kids Kfir and Ariel Bibas in captivity is a war crime & a heartbreaking tragedy. Whether they were killed in an Israeli airstrike, as Hamas claims, is frankly irrelevant. There was never any justification whatsoever for kidnapping kids in the first place.

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments