Michael Tamblyn
@mtamblyn.bsky.social
Kobo CEO with zero chill. Chaotic good, anti-fascist, bi-coastal Canadian bookseller ereader-purveyor - unsupervised & unofficial
https://www.michaeltamblyn.com
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Michael Tamblyn
@mtamblyn.bsky.social
· Jan 8
Welcome to the BlueSky Refugee Centre for Displaced Threads #BookPeople. On your left, blankets. On your right, warm beverages. Pick up your cat or dog on your way to the soft chairs and sofas. The person with the clipboard will take your reading preferences so we can get you with the right group.
You have all kinds of bad news. But do you have slo-mo video of my dog running in today’s snow? #toronto #snowmageddon
January 25, 2026 at 8:17 PM
You have all kinds of bad news. But do you have slo-mo video of my dog running in today’s snow? #toronto #snowmageddon
Reposted by Michael Tamblyn
January 20, 2026 at 10:56 PM
"Nostalgia is not a strategy." Thank you Mark Carney for articulating the challenge ahead. And thank you for taking our sign out of the window. IYKYK
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in provocative speech at Davos | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based intern...
www.cbc.ca
January 21, 2026 at 1:12 AM
"Nostalgia is not a strategy." Thank you Mark Carney for articulating the challenge ahead. And thank you for taking our sign out of the window. IYKYK
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
That's right folks - more Kodansha manga titles have arrived on #KoboPlus and we'll continue to add more!
Kodansha USA announced they're adding Shaman King, Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, Initial D, Vampire Dormitory and more titles to the following manga subscription platforms
• comiXology Unlimited
• Omoi
• Mangamo
• Kobo Plus
#manganews
• comiXology Unlimited
• Omoi
• Mangamo
• Kobo Plus
#manganews
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 PM
That's right folks - more Kodansha manga titles have arrived on #KoboPlus and we'll continue to add more!
Kobo launches in Argentina! 🇦🇷 A country with an incredible reading culture, of course we wanted to be there. Thank you to the partners, retailers, authors and publishers who have welcomed us so warmly. And to the readers of Argentina - we can’t wait to meet you!
January 16, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Kobo launches in Argentina! 🇦🇷 A country with an incredible reading culture, of course we wanted to be there. Thank you to the partners, retailers, authors and publishers who have welcomed us so warmly. And to the readers of Argentina - we can’t wait to meet you!
Love this! Congratulations! ❤️
Okay, I'm officially now selling more books on Kobo than Amazon.
This has never happened in all the years I've self-published (since 2011). But this is now the third month in a row.
This calls for something...
🥂 🥳 🍰
This has never happened in all the years I've self-published (since 2011). But this is now the third month in a row.
This calls for something...
🥂 🥳 🍰
January 7, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Love this! Congratulations! ❤️
Get your books noticed!
To give us an idea of books available on Kobo & Kobo Plus, I'd like to do a Kobo Books Thread🧵
So authors drop your;
Genre & book or series description
Kobo link & graphic
Let us know if your book's also in Kobo Plus!
🌈📚🪐📚💙
So authors drop your;
Genre & book or series description
Kobo link & graphic
Let us know if your book's also in Kobo Plus!
🌈📚🪐📚💙
January 7, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Get your books noticed!
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December 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Reposted by Michael Tamblyn
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
This would 100% work for me.
“This is totally the World Juniors” says woman trying to trick her boyfriend into watching Heated Rivalry
“This is totally the World Juniors” says woman trying to trick her boyfriend into watching Heated Rivalry
SUDBURY, ON - Local girlfriend Ashlynn Timbers is currently monitoring her boyfriend as he watches the program she told him was the World Juniors Hockey Tournament, but is in fact the steamy gay roman...
www.thebeaverton.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
This would 100% work for me.
today's "Is it a bubble?" instalment, selected by the ever-sagacious @ritholtz.bsky.social - definitely worth your time.
The most interesting thing you will read today, via Howard Marks (@Oaktree):
"Is It a Bubble?"
www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/mem...
"Is It a Bubble?"
www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/mem...
Is It a Bubble?
In his latest memo, Howard Marks explores if there is a bubble in AI, identifying uncertainty, parallels to past bubbles, AI's vast potential, and emphasizing the importance of prudence.
www.oaktreecapital.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
today's "Is it a bubble?" instalment, selected by the ever-sagacious @ritholtz.bsky.social - definitely worth your time.
Franklin, Canadian reptile and kids icon, stands up for justice.
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Franklin, Canadian reptile and kids icon, stands up for justice.
Hey People of the (e)Book in London -> I’m at #futurebook2025 on Monday, oversharing about Kobo, ebooks, bedazzled ereaders and whatever else the lovely people from @thebookseller.com decide to ask me about. Come say hi!
November 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hey People of the (e)Book in London -> I’m at #futurebook2025 on Monday, oversharing about Kobo, ebooks, bedazzled ereaders and whatever else the lovely people from @thebookseller.com decide to ask me about. Come say hi!
usually, when I wake up in Toronto, all of the UK online anger hits me at once in that first morning scrolling. It's nice to be here in London and have it gradually build over the course of the morning as nature intended, ready to meet the early waves of transatlantic online anger in mid-afternoon.
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
usually, when I wake up in Toronto, all of the UK online anger hits me at once in that first morning scrolling. It's nice to be here in London and have it gradually build over the course of the morning as nature intended, ready to meet the early waves of transatlantic online anger in mid-afternoon.
It's all any of us have ever wanted.
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It's all any of us have ever wanted.
It was always going to be the poets who brought this whole thing crashing down...
Term of the week, probably month (maybe even year):
Adversarial Poetry
LLMs like Grok and GPT can be "jailbroken" -- made to give prohibited answers -- through the use of poetry.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Adversarial Poetry
LLMs like Grok and GPT can be "jailbroken" -- made to give prohibited answers -- through the use of poetry.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It was always going to be the poets who brought this whole thing crashing down...
The best answer I've been able to find.
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The best answer I've been able to find.
Nailed it. 😂
The Kobo guys are like "I either hate Amazon or am Canadian, guess which one"
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Nailed it. 😂
We love Romance authors and Romance readers, so *of course* we are the lead sponsor of the new Ever After Romance Festival by Toronto International Festival of Authors. Books! Cake! Signings! Ballgowns! Cake! ❤️
festivalofauthors.ca/romance-2025/
festivalofauthors.ca/romance-2025/
Romance 2025 - TIFA
Join us to celebrate stories from Toronto and around the world! Whether you love fiction or non-fiction, sci-fi or romance, picture books or YA, there’s a story for you!
festivalofauthors.ca
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We love Romance authors and Romance readers, so *of course* we are the lead sponsor of the new Ever After Romance Festival by Toronto International Festival of Authors. Books! Cake! Signings! Ballgowns! Cake! ❤️
festivalofauthors.ca/romance-2025/
festivalofauthors.ca/romance-2025/
Ruin a workplace like Marie Curie where you leave it so radioactive it is dangerous to human life a hundred years later.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Ruin a workplace like Marie Curie where you leave it so radioactive it is dangerous to human life a hundred years later.
My social strategy non-strategy: optimism, Canadian friendliness, reading obsession, heart on sleeve, zero chill, kindness by default. It doesn't yield the clout that comes from feeding the outrage machine, but the people that do come along for the ride are lovely to be around. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
My social strategy non-strategy: optimism, Canadian friendliness, reading obsession, heart on sleeve, zero chill, kindness by default. It doesn't yield the clout that comes from feeding the outrage machine, but the people that do come along for the ride are lovely to be around. 🥰
Reposted by Michael Tamblyn
I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season
Reposted by Michael Tamblyn
At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.
Reposted by Michael Tamblyn
The last time the Toronto Blue Jays were in the World Series, I was nine years old. Congratulations to the 2025 ALCS champions, Toronto Blue Jays!
October 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The last time the Toronto Blue Jays were in the World Series, I was nine years old. Congratulations to the 2025 ALCS champions, Toronto Blue Jays!