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DB Powell
@dbpowell.bsky.social
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She/they. 🇨🇦 FR<>EN translator. Wannabe writer. Animal lover. Wrestling fan. Reading challenge creator. Night owl. Yeet genAI into the sun.
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And if you think that's a one-off, here's another example from a riding just north of Montreal: the Bloc candidate was leading by a handful when we went to bed last night.
Results from the Terrebonne riding in the 2025 federal election: Liberal candidate wins by 35 votes, <1% margin and a flip from the Bloc incumbent.
April 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Just finished Heavenly Tyrant by @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social. A masterful exploration of society and power dynamics, wrapped in action goodness perfect for this child raised on Grendizer. Glorious cover art as always. And one heck of a cliffhanger!
Book cover of Heavenly Tyrant: a Chinese woman with a jaw-length bob and golden eye mask, dressed in a long golden dress of scaled armor with matching elbow-length gloves, surrounded by swirling abstract coils of a yellow dragon's body
March 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by @claymcleod.bsky.social. Many horror novels rely on your imagination, like the monster under your bed. What is terrifying about this story is how little suspension of disbelief is required. It is bleak, it is tense, it is gory, and it is a phenomenal read.
Cover of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman. Against a blood red background, a grayscale family gathers around a long dinner table with a plain white tablecloth. At the head of the table, mother sits before a large serving dish, while her husband and three kids await with empty plates. Of the five, only the youngest son appears normal: the other four's faces are covered in TV static/snow that completely obliterates their features. The pattern of static is also weirdly reminiscent of the texture of crumpled tinfoil - an apt analogy.
February 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Coup de Grâce by @sofiaajram.bsky.social. New fear unlocked: Honoré Beaugrand station. Lush writing that plays off the Brutalist setting. Deeper than subway tunnels, with more turns than the MTL underground, this novel 100% deserves its Stoker nod. Merci de m'avoir fait voyager Sofia! #booksky 📚💙
Cover of Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram. A small silhouette of a man is surrounded by a weighty maze, with openings into rooms that glow crimson, shadows of truncated ladders, and staircases that slash diagonally in concrete, with dark sconces that cast minimal light.
February 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Digging Never Whistle at Night. I love stumbling upon a gem of a sentence that makes you swoon. One that stops you dead in your tracks. One you mull over like a delectable morsel. And then @tiffmorris.bsky.social just comes along and drops TWO within a seven-page story. Thank you for the feast!
Cover of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. All sorts of small animals peek out from a field of grasses and wildflowers, while two yellow eyes shine in the black background of this vivid illustration. There are also two teeth and a single eyeball with a purple iris and attached optic nerve strewn about. The moon and stars shine high above.
January 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Milkcap. Some are edible, others... not so much. And there's a fabulous indigo one!
An indigo milkcap mushroom, broken at the stem and revealing fabulous blue gills, on a green, grassy forest floor
January 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

20/20
Cover of Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez - a pattern of the classic representation of a man (like on bathroom signage) in black, interspersed with the equivalent symbol for women in very light gray on a white background
December 2, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

19/20

We, the Others by @mtltoula.bsky.social
Cover of We, the Others by Toula Drimonis: a black and white photo of a male cook behind a diner counter
December 1, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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Yeah, I'm religious. I believe in the holy trinity
The three Muppets that sing Mahna Mahna. In the center, a hot pink skinned Muppet with bright green body hair, an orange mane, a pale pink nose and hollow yellow eyes. It is flanked by two identical pale pink skinned Muppets with hot pink body hair, dark lashed eyes on top of their heads, pink horns on either side, and bright yellow lips
November 30, 2024 at 4:38 PM
dbpowell.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

18/20
Cover of The Gnole by Alan Aldridge, Steve Boyett and Maxine Miller. A small mole/gnome character smiles and sits on a levitating bed of moss. His robe and pointy hat are decorated with twigs, leaves, berries, fungi, and antlers
November 30, 2024 at 4:22 PM
dbpowell.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

17/20
Cover of Plague Ship by Andre Norton. A white male astronaut in a white spacesuit peers over his shoulder as he flees a landed silver rocket in the background. In one hand he holds a blaster, and in the other, a bird cage with a kiwi-like greenish bird. Another armed astronaut in a lime green suit is in hot pursuit
November 29, 2024 at 3:24 PM
dbpowell.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

16/20
Cover of Astérix et Cléopâtre : Astérix, Obélix and Cleopatra recline on a pink fabric-covered dais with green and blue tasseled pillows, while Numérobis bows before them with architectural plans in hand. In the background, pyramids rise from the desert, and Amonbofis lurk with an evil smile from behind a column. (character names may be different in English - I'm going with the original French)
November 28, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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You can read my bio, or you can glance at my bookshelves through this little challenge.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

15/20
Cover of Le salaire de la peur by Georges Arnaud: a sepia-toned photo of two grimy men, one of whom is injured and leaning on the other, in the cab of a transport truck
November 27, 2024 at 2:37 PM
dbpowell.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

14/20
November 26, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

13/20
November 25, 2024 at 3:16 PM
dbpowell.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

12/20
November 24, 2024 at 8:54 PM
dbpowell.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

11/20
Cover of Babel by R. F. Kuang: a monochrome etching of a tower rising among the rooftops of Oxford University, with pigeons lying around it against a dark sky
November 23, 2024 at 9:10 PM
dbpowell.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

10/20
Cover of Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice, Old English font on a red ombre background
November 22, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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Captain Harlock, or Albator as he was known in the French dub in Quebec. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman Dungeons and Dragons, the Saturday morning cartoon The original Looney Tunes
November 22, 2024 at 12:12 AM
dbpowell.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

9/20
Cover of The Translator's Invisibility by Lawrence Venuti, an abstract mix of magenta, green, and goldenrod.
November 22, 2024 at 12:00 AM
dbpowell.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

8/20
Cover of the book "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by Rick Rubin: a small black dot and wider black ring reminiscent of a stylized vinyl record over a plain gray field.
November 20, 2024 at 8:56 PM
dbpowell.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

7/20
November 19, 2024 at 7:24 PM
dbpowell.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

6/20
November 18, 2024 at 11:41 PM
dbpowell.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

5/20
November 17, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

4/20
November 17, 2024 at 1:04 AM