Stephen Geigen-Miller
@stephengm.bsky.social
I work at the University of Toronto (but speak only for myself). I love the heck out of my two kids and my wife. In between, I write. He/him
January 25, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Just 3 days left to buy a membership and vote for the next leader of the NDP!
Something special is taking shape: sold-out town halls, waves of moving endorsements, thousands of volunteers, and countless conversations. Don’t just watch from the sidelines.
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Something special is taking shape: sold-out town halls, waves of moving endorsements, thousands of volunteers, and countless conversations. Don’t just watch from the sidelines.
Be part of it: https://avilewis.link/join
January 25, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Just 3 days left to buy a membership and vote for the next leader of the NDP!
Something special is taking shape: sold-out town halls, waves of moving endorsements, thousands of volunteers, and countless conversations. Don’t just watch from the sidelines.
Be part of it: https://avilewis.link/join
Something special is taking shape: sold-out town halls, waves of moving endorsements, thousands of volunteers, and countless conversations. Don’t just watch from the sidelines.
Be part of it: https://avilewis.link/join
I've been invested in the kakapos and New Zealand's efforts to conserve the species since I first read about them in Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine's book Last Chance to See. This is wonderful news!
Last week no living person had seen a #kakapo lay an egg. Now you can watch it on our webcam: Rakiura laid her second today (15:01 on 25/1/2025). She'll probably lay another in 3 days' time. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
January 25, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I've been invested in the kakapos and New Zealand's efforts to conserve the species since I first read about them in Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine's book Last Chance to See. This is wonderful news!
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Stand With The Sinister Minnesotans Against ICE https://store.theonion.com/products/sinister-minnesotans-t-shirt?variant=44569654984773
January 24, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Stand With The Sinister Minnesotans Against ICE https://store.theonion.com/products/sinister-minnesotans-t-shirt?variant=44569654984773
If you have any information, please share it. As Canadians, it often feels like there's little we can do to help our American friends. But identifying these companies and holding them accountable? That, we can do.
Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments.
I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite.
Would love to gather any and all other names.
I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite.
Would love to gather any and all other names.
January 24, 2026 at 10:20 PM
If you have any information, please share it. As Canadians, it often feels like there's little we can do to help our American friends. But identifying these companies and holding them accountable? That, we can do.
Dave Sim?!
We can and should talk about how to acknowledge a creator's body of work and contributions to a medium without endorsing them as a person. But this strikes me as a bad idea. It's a worse time than ever to overlook overt misogyny and bigotry in who we choose to honour.
We can and should talk about how to acknowledge a creator's body of work and contributions to a medium without endorsing them as a person. But this strikes me as a bad idea. It's a worse time than ever to overlook overt misogyny and bigotry in who we choose to honour.
Eisner Awards Hall of Fame inducts 18 Judges Choice creators
The Will EisnerComic Awards Judges Choice committee has chosen 18 creators for induction into the 2026 Hall of Fame
The Will EisnerComic Awards Judges Choice committee has chosen 18 creators for induction into the 2026 Hall of Fame
Eisner Awards Hall of Fame inducts 18 Judges Choice creators
The Will EisnerComic Awards Judges Choice committee has chosen 18 creators for induction into the 2026 Hall of Fame
www.comicsbeat.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Dave Sim?!
We can and should talk about how to acknowledge a creator's body of work and contributions to a medium without endorsing them as a person. But this strikes me as a bad idea. It's a worse time than ever to overlook overt misogyny and bigotry in who we choose to honour.
We can and should talk about how to acknowledge a creator's body of work and contributions to a medium without endorsing them as a person. But this strikes me as a bad idea. It's a worse time than ever to overlook overt misogyny and bigotry in who we choose to honour.
This is OUTSTANDING.
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
January 23, 2026 at 2:41 PM
This is OUTSTANDING.
Solidarity with the people of Minnesota, today and every day.
January 23, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Solidarity with the people of Minnesota, today and every day.
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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
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I should probably ask - Is there a magazine here which wants a review of Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou?
I wrote this for a (large, pro-rate) venue which sent me the review copy, but it has been something like 9 months at this point and I don't think they are going to run it.
I wrote this for a (large, pro-rate) venue which sent me the review copy, but it has been something like 9 months at this point and I don't think they are going to run it.
January 21, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I should probably ask - Is there a magazine here which wants a review of Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou?
I wrote this for a (large, pro-rate) venue which sent me the review copy, but it has been something like 9 months at this point and I don't think they are going to run it.
I wrote this for a (large, pro-rate) venue which sent me the review copy, but it has been something like 9 months at this point and I don't think they are going to run it.
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The acceptable-or-marketable range of implied knowledge in speculative fiction could maybe use a closer look while we're at it. Won't kill me to look something up once in a while.
"If you watch an episode of Cheers, you might hear references to foreign filmmakers, to classical musicians, to Russian novelists. The level of assumed knowledge back then was far greater; now, TV is rarely adventurous in its allusions."
TV brain rot: The real reason television shows are getting stupider www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
January 20, 2026 at 11:44 PM
The acceptable-or-marketable range of implied knowledge in speculative fiction could maybe use a closer look while we're at it. Won't kill me to look something up once in a while.
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I’ve seen several posts of folks sharing the transcript from someone’s Substack. That is a platform that financially supports Nazis. So here is a link to the transcript from a source that isn’t a Nazi bar. It’s a major speech worth reading, unlike any speech from the orange guy
Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum
Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
globalnews.ca
January 20, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I’ve seen several posts of folks sharing the transcript from someone’s Substack. That is a platform that financially supports Nazis. So here is a link to the transcript from a source that isn’t a Nazi bar. It’s a major speech worth reading, unlike any speech from the orange guy
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Go back SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1! The 1st issue of a sapphic vampire noir miniseries from an increduble creative team. Follow disgraced PI Corsica Smith as she drags herself from rock bottom into a deadly conspiracy with her ex-love at the center
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January 20, 2026 at 4:41 PM
They had me had sapphic vampire noir! Backed, and I encourage you all to join me!
There's a lot - a LOT - that I don't agree with Carney on (like, I am extremely mad about most of his domestic policy priorities) but this? Holy SMOKES. Good stuff, let's hope he backs it up with more action.
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 4:24 PM
There's a lot - a LOT - that I don't agree with Carney on (like, I am extremely mad about most of his domestic policy priorities) but this? Holy SMOKES. Good stuff, let's hope he backs it up with more action.
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This is the very simple obvious thing every politician should be saying and it is amazing how many manage to make it weird in some way instead.
2/ Greenland is not for sale. Its land and resources are not up for grabs. It is home to 57,000 Greenlanders who alone have the right to determine their own future. They have our full solidarity.
January 19, 2026 at 9:27 PM
This is the very simple obvious thing every politician should be saying and it is amazing how many manage to make it weird in some way instead.
Very true. I want to add: This would be a phenomenally stupid reason to start a war, even by the standards of the history of war, which is full of stupid reasons to start wars.
I know pointing out his stupidly is almost boring at this point, but I can't believe he can't grasp that the Norwegian government doesn't decide the Peace Prize winner
January 19, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Very true. I want to add: This would be a phenomenally stupid reason to start a war, even by the standards of the history of war, which is full of stupid reasons to start wars.
Earthworms are an *invasive species* in North America?! And they're *bad for native trees*?!
Yeah, the ones we had didn’t survive glaciation. (One species did survive, but it wasn’t very productive.) The glaciers ground them up.
www.history.com/articles/ear...
www.history.com/articles/ear...
Earthworms Arrived to North America as Stowaways
European explorers didn’t arrive in the Americas alone.
www.history.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Earthworms are an *invasive species* in North America?! And they're *bad for native trees*?!
A good call from NDP leadership candidate Tony McQuail.
My Twitter/X account is no longer active. The campaign and I made the decision that we cannot stand behind a company-owned and manipulated by a fascist oligarch, containing a dangerously unregulated AI platform, and not reflecting the values of our green-progressive campaign or its supporters.
January 19, 2026 at 1:57 PM
A good call from NDP leadership candidate Tony McQuail.
I'm gonna go back more like 30 years for this one, but in Toronto there used to be this burger place called Fatso's on St Clair West a couple of blocks west of Vaughan, and it had these giant messy cheeseburgers and the best onion rings I've ever had in my life. It's been gone for decades.
Sunday night timeline cleanse
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
January 19, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I'm gonna go back more like 30 years for this one, but in Toronto there used to be this burger place called Fatso's on St Clair West a couple of blocks west of Vaughan, and it had these giant messy cheeseburgers and the best onion rings I've ever had in my life. It's been gone for decades.
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If I had a dollar every time a mediocre man known for his orangeness lied about Greenland for his colonial project, I'd have two dollars
January 17, 2026 at 10:25 PM
If I had a dollar every time a mediocre man known for his orangeness lied about Greenland for his colonial project, I'd have two dollars
I enjoy 'Nathan's #StarTrekAdventures Saturday posts and this one is timely because @shaunduke.net was just talking about ep1 of Starfleet Academy and how some of the characters don't exactly reflect Starfleet as "the best of the best". Lt Traitor here shows that was always more myth than reality!
#StarTrekAdventures Saturday! I’ve reached "Space Seed" in my re-watch with an eye to mining scenario ideas for @modiphius.bsky.social's awesome Trek #TTRPG.
McGivers is kind of the worst officer yet, sure, but I mean, look at her view here. Who could resist Khan’s short-shorts and sleeveless top?
McGivers is kind of the worst officer yet, sure, but I mean, look at her view here. Who could resist Khan’s short-shorts and sleeveless top?
STA Saturday — “Space Seed”
Every Saturday, I’ve been sitting down and re-watching TOS-era episodes of Star Trek with the goal of finding ideas—what I’m calling scenario seeds—for Star Trek Adventures as put out by …
apostrophen.wordpress.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I enjoy 'Nathan's #StarTrekAdventures Saturday posts and this one is timely because @shaunduke.net was just talking about ep1 of Starfleet Academy and how some of the characters don't exactly reflect Starfleet as "the best of the best". Lt Traitor here shows that was always more myth than reality!
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✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
![An announcement card for Augur's first novella acquisition, CREST. A mountain peak is featured in the background, with a pink gradient below.
Text reads:
ANNOUNCING AUGUR SOCIETY'S FIRST NOVELLA
CREST by A.D. Sui
After more than a decade no-contact, two former friends keep their promise from undergrad and meet up to hike the Pacific Crest Trail together.
But urban legends haunt the trails; secrets hang between them; and an eerie otherside pulls at them both, threatening to keep them from ever going home.
CREST weaves a story about complex friendships, love, and regret, told as an atmospheric contemporary fantasy travelogue by the Nebula-winning author of The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock).
Coming Fall 2027
Tags: Contemporary Fantasy, Queer MC
For lovers of [When Marnie Was There, Love Death and Robots, Wild] as images](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lamjrufb4kabavnm4jojmbre/bafkreidlmhp2jdgite5bcvhxp4xwiah6hymfxxpcxlny7fu6im2atnfln4@jpeg)
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
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Least surprising update ever. Glad SDCC got on the right side!
It looks like SDCC updated their terms on the art show! shaming works!
(and thank you @senguie.bsky.social for posting this screenshot)
(and thank you @senguie.bsky.social for posting this screenshot)
January 14, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Least surprising update ever. Glad SDCC got on the right side!