beentsy
@beentsy.bsky.social
I love books, yarn, beasties, movies, and pop culture. Left coast of Canada and so liberal I'm almost a communist, kidding, but definitely a socialist. 🇨🇦🍁🧶🐾
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beentsy
@beentsy.bsky.social
· Aug 9
Drop an old person that you're going to turn into in the future.
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Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
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PSA for podcasters & other reviewers of stuff:
It's disabled people.
When you say "but does anyone really need this [device that helps cut/peel/prep food]…
Or "I can't imagine who would use this [widget for making household tasks easier]…
It's us.
We exist. You absolute prize lawn ornaments.
It's disabled people.
When you say "but does anyone really need this [device that helps cut/peel/prep food]…
Or "I can't imagine who would use this [widget for making household tasks easier]…
It's us.
We exist. You absolute prize lawn ornaments.
February 12, 2026 at 5:20 PM
PSA for podcasters & other reviewers of stuff:
It's disabled people.
When you say "but does anyone really need this [device that helps cut/peel/prep food]…
Or "I can't imagine who would use this [widget for making household tasks easier]…
It's us.
We exist. You absolute prize lawn ornaments.
It's disabled people.
When you say "but does anyone really need this [device that helps cut/peel/prep food]…
Or "I can't imagine who would use this [widget for making household tasks easier]…
It's us.
We exist. You absolute prize lawn ornaments.
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Ominous bird valentines.
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Ominous bird valentines.
This is why things don't get better, or at least different. The crappy, craven politicians are basically albatrosses around our necks for their entire lives. cheknews.ca/rob-shaw-for...
Rob Shaw: Former BC Conservative leader John Rustad eyes running to reclaim his job
Former BC Conservative leader John Rustad confirmed he’s eyeing a return to his old job on Tuesday.
cheknews.ca
February 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
This is why things don't get better, or at least different. The crappy, craven politicians are basically albatrosses around our necks for their entire lives. cheknews.ca/rob-shaw-for...
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so so so thrilled that my deeply Canadian horror story about maternal love and old secrets hidden in the Quebec woods is coming out in the next issue of Haven Spec Magazine
Our ✨February 2026 issue✨ is ready!
Subscribers will get it February 16th (maybe sooner!), and everyone else can read it February 23rd!
Five brand new stories and five brand new poems to delight and amaze!
Subscribers will get it February 16th (maybe sooner!), and everyone else can read it February 23rd!
Five brand new stories and five brand new poems to delight and amaze!
February 12, 2026 at 1:56 AM
so so so thrilled that my deeply Canadian horror story about maternal love and old secrets hidden in the Quebec woods is coming out in the next issue of Haven Spec Magazine
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Many of the poems I love are like artichokes.
Slightly prickly and perhaps even a bit dull on the outside. Till you strip them, layer by layer by layer, and discover the aching, delicious nub of their heart.
Slightly prickly and perhaps even a bit dull on the outside. Till you strip them, layer by layer by layer, and discover the aching, delicious nub of their heart.
February 11, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Many of the poems I love are like artichokes.
Slightly prickly and perhaps even a bit dull on the outside. Till you strip them, layer by layer by layer, and discover the aching, delicious nub of their heart.
Slightly prickly and perhaps even a bit dull on the outside. Till you strip them, layer by layer by layer, and discover the aching, delicious nub of their heart.
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Wrote about why I love Stephen King's Holly Gibney and how her "do no harm but take no shit" ethos can be a model for the times we live in for @reactorsff.bsky.social
reactormag.com/how-a-stephe...
reactormag.com/how-a-stephe...
How a Stephen King Character Becomes an Unlikely Source of Hope - Reactor
Holly Gibney embodies the ethos of “do no harm but take no shit.”
reactormag.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Wrote about why I love Stephen King's Holly Gibney and how her "do no harm but take no shit" ethos can be a model for the times we live in for @reactorsff.bsky.social
reactormag.com/how-a-stephe...
reactormag.com/how-a-stephe...
Amazing!
February 11, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Amazing!
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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"Fuck Landlords"
Seen in Bristol, UK
Seen in Bristol, UK
February 11, 2026 at 12:11 AM
"Fuck Landlords"
Seen in Bristol, UK
Seen in Bristol, UK
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i am once again asking @nycwater.bsky.social to resume posting on bluesky
February 10, 2026 at 4:43 PM
i am once again asking @nycwater.bsky.social to resume posting on bluesky
Burst into tears. Oh dear, it's so beautiful. ♥️
A poem for this evening. Not new...I wrote it a while ago. But one I come back to.
![A poem titled: "Recalling Ourselves." The body of the poem is in two columns, with the text starting in the left column and ending on the right. The text reads:
We are held together by memory,
each of us raveled tightly
around recollection
as if it were a certainty,
each telling our heart that
this past is the one.
We are great storytellers,
and rapt listeners.
But we are prisoners, too.
The histories we tell ourselves
about who we are
and why we are:
these are wax and twine.
We are stuck and bound.
Afraid.
Scared of the courage
it takes to set the past aside.
Fearful of a letting go
that might unwind us from ourselves.
[this is where the column break is]
But we are more than memory.
More than we recall.
Our long-told then
is just an echo of the now
and a shadow of the soon,
it is neither who we are,
nor who we must become.
It is merely
who we always said we were.
And if we can undo the twine
and melt the wax,
we might just find ourselves anew,
clean-woven from fresh yesterdays.
Then, binding up our old wounds
with the cloth of new remembering,
we can break bread
with all those selves
we never could recall before:
the dusty splinters of our soul
that were neglected,
and long held apart by memory.
- John Wyatt Greenlee](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vtulckfwhlh3ndn4iqfcg3an/bafkreid6nwdqpqjihzm5mp3ripmhomj7k22csp3qbjwsnwckip4p4vcmoq@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Burst into tears. Oh dear, it's so beautiful. ♥️
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Hey, neat! The Winter 2026 issue of Star*Line, the journal of @sfpoetry.bsky.social, includes (among lots of other things) an interview with me!
Star*Line 49.1 (Winter 2026) – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association
sfpoetry.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Hey, neat! The Winter 2026 issue of Star*Line, the journal of @sfpoetry.bsky.social, includes (among lots of other things) an interview with me!
So beautiful.
Michelle Mischkulnig, contemporary Australian textile artist #WomensArt
February 9, 2026 at 6:08 PM
So beautiful.
Huh. It's really true. I've wanted to live in a treehouse for the last 51 years or so because of Casey and Finnegan.
You ever sit back and just think about what an enormous impact puppets have had on your life? It’s pretty wild if you really give it some thought.
February 9, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Huh. It's really true. I've wanted to live in a treehouse for the last 51 years or so because of Casey and Finnegan.
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Iconic moment as he says "God Bless América" and then names every country in South, Central, and North america in order
For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.
It means evveeerrybody
For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.
It means evveeerrybody
February 9, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Iconic moment as he says "God Bless América" and then names every country in South, Central, and North america in order
For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.
It means evveeerrybody
For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.
It means evveeerrybody
@nicolemwolverton.bsky.social This may interest you. 🙂
February 9, 2026 at 4:40 AM
@nicolemwolverton.bsky.social This may interest you. 🙂
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 8:03 PM
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
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“If you remember when the ATM was first invented… you would think we fire a lot of bank tellers… But… the number of bank tellers didn't fall. That's because people in those jobs adapted.” And perhaps there's a lesson in this story for how we adapt to AI.
February 8, 2026 at 9:20 PM
“If you remember when the ATM was first invented… you would think we fire a lot of bank tellers… But… the number of bank tellers didn't fall. That's because people in those jobs adapted.” And perhaps there's a lesson in this story for how we adapt to AI.
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For #SuperbOwlSunday a gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.
📷Louvre, Paris
📷Louvre, Paris
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 AM
For #SuperbOwlSunday a gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.
📷Louvre, Paris
📷Louvre, Paris
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this banged, great vancouver scenes too
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
this banged, great vancouver scenes too
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Molas, traditional textiles created by Guna (or Kuna) women, indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, which evolved from body painting #WomensArt
February 8, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Molas, traditional textiles created by Guna (or Kuna) women, indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, which evolved from body painting #WomensArt