Peter Counter, Nightmare Host
@peterbcounter.com
Spooky ace essay boy. Author of BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING (Invisible Publishing, 2020). HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE (House of Anansi, 2023). https://peterbcounter.com/
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Hi new followers!
I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Mi'kma'ki. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. I have two essay collections that contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.
I hope we can be friends.
I am a culture writer and memoirist based in Mi'kma'ki. I write about music, film, tv, technology, games, mental illness, and the occult. I have two essay collections that contain my entire essence: BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, and HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE.
I hope we can be friends.
Day two of my final uhaul trip from Halifax to Kingston. Of course it's snowing!
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Day two of my final uhaul trip from Halifax to Kingston. Of course it's snowing!
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Articles about performative reading are of a category with book bans, attacks on libraries, and underfunding public education.
#BuySomeBooks
#BuySomeBooks
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Articles about performative reading are of a category with book bans, attacks on libraries, and underfunding public education.
#BuySomeBooks
#BuySomeBooks
From the bottom of my heart: thank you to everyone that attended this!
HALIFAX! In just over two hours I will be at Cafe Lara reading and discussing post-traumatic narratives. It is free to attend! I'm looking forward to seeing you!
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Reframing Narratives For The Post-Traumatic Experience - Afterwords Literary Festival
With Peter Counter
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November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
From the bottom of my heart: thank you to everyone that attended this!
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Hal-Con! The @writersfedofns.bsky.social booth has free zines, writing prompts, and info about upcoming workshops for you!
(I'll be here until 7 pm today and until noon tomorrow if you want to drop by and say hi!)
(I'll be here until 7 pm today and until noon tomorrow if you want to drop by and say hi!)
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Hal-Con! The @writersfedofns.bsky.social booth has free zines, writing prompts, and info about upcoming workshops for you!
(I'll be here until 7 pm today and until noon tomorrow if you want to drop by and say hi!)
(I'll be here until 7 pm today and until noon tomorrow if you want to drop by and say hi!)
HALIFAX! In just over two hours I will be at Cafe Lara reading and discussing post-traumatic narratives. It is free to attend! I'm looking forward to seeing you!
afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/product/refr...
afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/product/refr...
Reframing Narratives For The Post-Traumatic Experience - Afterwords Literary Festival
With Peter Counter
afterwordsliteraryfestival.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
HALIFAX! In just over two hours I will be at Cafe Lara reading and discussing post-traumatic narratives. It is free to attend! I'm looking forward to seeing you!
afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/product/refr...
afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/product/refr...
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If you like this but want a Canadian perspective, buy my latest book, called Corporate Control, about how Canada set its economy on fire to sell smoke to the world.
“Legislation should prevent discrimination and self-preferencing, and put a price on data extraction-and in some cases cap excessive fees.” The legendary thinker + doer Tim Wu www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Can we go back to the optimism of the 1990s, before the extraction economy took over?
Our economic system benefits only those at the very top – but it’s not too late for change
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November 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If you like this but want a Canadian perspective, buy my latest book, called Corporate Control, about how Canada set its economy on fire to sell smoke to the world.
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Could have increased taxation on the rich but instead, he chose to sunset important programs and dump millions and millions into AI - a piece of tech that we're all expecting to bust any minute.
The way Carney's budget has tanked morale in the city of Ottawa is a sight to behold, let me tell ya!
The way Carney's budget has tanked morale in the city of Ottawa is a sight to behold, let me tell ya!
Here's what each federal department plans to cut under Budget 2025 | CBC News
Tuesday's federal budget offers a glimpse into how dozens of government departments plan to rein in spending following this summer's comprehensive expenditure review. Here's a department-by-departmen...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Could have increased taxation on the rich but instead, he chose to sunset important programs and dump millions and millions into AI - a piece of tech that we're all expecting to bust any minute.
The way Carney's budget has tanked morale in the city of Ottawa is a sight to behold, let me tell ya!
The way Carney's budget has tanked morale in the city of Ottawa is a sight to behold, let me tell ya!
I see a lot of people saying that taking the perspective of a Predator in Predator: Badlands signals a sort of mainstreaming that defangs the horror. But it doesn't sound like anything in this new movie breaks ground that wasn't covered by Dark Horse Comics in the late 90s.
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I see a lot of people saying that taking the perspective of a Predator in Predator: Badlands signals a sort of mainstreaming that defangs the horror. But it doesn't sound like anything in this new movie breaks ground that wasn't covered by Dark Horse Comics in the late 90s.
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you have been visited by THE CAT FACE
this happens once every 5000 years
repost or you will never have happy again
this happens once every 5000 years
repost or you will never have happy again
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
you have been visited by THE CAT FACE
this happens once every 5000 years
repost or you will never have happy again
this happens once every 5000 years
repost or you will never have happy again
there is no conservative feminism—that's just conservatism!
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
there is no conservative feminism—that's just conservatism!
it's the Internet! I'm only here to be rude!
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
it's the Internet! I'm only here to be rude!
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
a conservative crossing the aisle is another illustration of how the canadian people were conned into electing a conservative PM
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
a conservative crossing the aisle is another illustration of how the canadian people were conned into electing a conservative PM
This is it. People want to be engaged in making their community better. A good leader helps us work together. The idea that people just want someone else to fix everything is inaccurate and cynical.
It's not false modesty -- he's charismatic as hell and he knows it -- but it's an awareness of the challenge he's taking on, and the responsibility that comes with it. "Help me lift this heavy thing" is simply more truthful than "I've got this."
More leaders should try this.
More leaders should try this.
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is it. People want to be engaged in making their community better. A good leader helps us work together. The idea that people just want someone else to fix everything is inaccurate and cynical.
Halifax, the reason the wind is so high and the animals are behaving weirdly is this: I'm back.
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Halifax, the reason the wind is so high and the animals are behaving weirdly is this: I'm back.
more unapologetic socialists to vote for, please!
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
more unapologetic socialists to vote for, please!
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Got a text from senior relative who lives in middle of nowhere Ontario that read: “all hail Mamdani” if you’re wondering how much people are desperate for decent leaders internationally
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Got a text from senior relative who lives in middle of nowhere Ontario that read: “all hail Mamdani” if you’re wondering how much people are desperate for decent leaders internationally
🎵New York I love you... and you're bringing me *UP*!🎵
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🎵New York I love you... and you're bringing me *UP*!🎵
Currently eating breakfast at the Billy Bishop Balzac's and there's a bro talking very loudly about Jersey Shore season one, which he just started watching. He is laughing so hard about The Situation.
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Currently eating breakfast at the Billy Bishop Balzac's and there's a bro talking very loudly about Jersey Shore season one, which he just started watching. He is laughing so hard about The Situation.
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Helen Garner's collected diaries just won the 2025 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction. Here's my NYRB essay about the first two volumes. (Paywall'd, but easily found online if you have a library card.)
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Misbehaving Like Adults | Nathan Whitlock
Making new friends as an adult can be difficult. During a time when almost any social interaction not conducted via webcam was a potential super-spreader
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November 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Helen Garner's collected diaries just won the 2025 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction. Here's my NYRB essay about the first two volumes. (Paywall'd, but easily found online if you have a library card.)
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
I have been informed this event is being livestreamed for those in far off lands!
Hey everyone! In addition to the previously announced nonfiction workshop and Matthew J. Trafford interview, I will be hosting a lecture at the AfterWords Festival in Halifax on post-traumatic narratives. Hope to see you there!
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Reframing Narratives For The Post-Traumatic Experience - Afterwords Literary Festival
With Peter Counter
afterwordsliteraryfestival.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I have been informed this event is being livestreamed for those in far off lands!
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I do love following @notalawyer.bsky.social, but the number of times I have ALMOST tagged him when trying to tag my real life husband @peterbcounter.com is truly embarrassing. Why do you come up first, Peter S, when your @ doesn't even start w "peter"? Is this a bsky illuminati situation?
November 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I do love following @notalawyer.bsky.social, but the number of times I have ALMOST tagged him when trying to tag my real life husband @peterbcounter.com is truly embarrassing. Why do you come up first, Peter S, when your @ doesn't even start w "peter"? Is this a bsky illuminati situation?
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Hey everyone! In addition to the previously announced nonfiction workshop and Matthew J. Trafford interview, I will be hosting a lecture at the AfterWords Festival in Halifax on post-traumatic narratives. Hope to see you there!
afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/product/refr...
afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/product/refr...
Reframing Narratives For The Post-Traumatic Experience - Afterwords Literary Festival
With Peter Counter
afterwordsliteraryfestival.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Hey everyone! In addition to the previously announced nonfiction workshop and Matthew J. Trafford interview, I will be hosting a lecture at the AfterWords Festival in Halifax on post-traumatic narratives. Hope to see you there!
afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/product/refr...
afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/product/refr...
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Dick Cheney died 🥳🥳🥳
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Dick Cheney died 🥳🥳🥳