Paul Fagan 🇮🇪🇵🇸
@paulfagan.bsky.social
Love space, books and books about space. But our planet is the only one we know with life, which makes us precious. Love my family most.
All of my pics are in the finals! Yay! Vote here to show your love to your favourite reads (or mine, if you don't have an opinion)
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November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
All of my pics are in the finals! Yay! Vote here to show your love to your favourite reads (or mine, if you don't have an opinion)
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Thanks Elizabeth May, and also Lori and Gord for putting corporate greed ahead of working class people.
They know that the Canadian people who really matter are people with fancy stock portfolios and wealth managers, not losers who work and pay taxes and struggle to afford groceries. #Soldout
They know that the Canadian people who really matter are people with fancy stock portfolios and wealth managers, not losers who work and pay taxes and struggle to afford groceries. #Soldout
Budget passes 170-168
Green Leader Elizabeth May votes in favour.
Unofficial vote tally shows five abstentions, two NDP MP’s, one Liberal MP and two Conservative MP’s. #cdnpoli
Green Leader Elizabeth May votes in favour.
Unofficial vote tally shows five abstentions, two NDP MP’s, one Liberal MP and two Conservative MP’s. #cdnpoli
November 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Thanks Elizabeth May, and also Lori and Gord for putting corporate greed ahead of working class people.
They know that the Canadian people who really matter are people with fancy stock portfolios and wealth managers, not losers who work and pay taxes and struggle to afford groceries. #Soldout
They know that the Canadian people who really matter are people with fancy stock portfolios and wealth managers, not losers who work and pay taxes and struggle to afford groceries. #Soldout
My picks for the Goodreads Choice Awards:
🌍Non-Fiction: One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This by Omar El-Akkad 🇵🇸
🪄Fantasy: Katabasis by RF Kuang 🤯
⚔️YA F & SF: Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao 👾
Who are you voting for?
#Booksky #BookAwards #Goodreads
🌍Non-Fiction: One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This by Omar El-Akkad 🇵🇸
🪄Fantasy: Katabasis by RF Kuang 🤯
⚔️YA F & SF: Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao 👾
Who are you voting for?
#Booksky #BookAwards #Goodreads
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
My picks for the Goodreads Choice Awards:
🌍Non-Fiction: One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This by Omar El-Akkad 🇵🇸
🪄Fantasy: Katabasis by RF Kuang 🤯
⚔️YA F & SF: Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao 👾
Who are you voting for?
#Booksky #BookAwards #Goodreads
🌍Non-Fiction: One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This by Omar El-Akkad 🇵🇸
🪄Fantasy: Katabasis by RF Kuang 🤯
⚔️YA F & SF: Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao 👾
Who are you voting for?
#Booksky #BookAwards #Goodreads
I wasn't sure, so I looked it up, and it turns out Black Friday is November.
#BlackFriday #consumerism
#BlackFriday #consumerism
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I wasn't sure, so I looked it up, and it turns out Black Friday is November.
#BlackFriday #consumerism
#BlackFriday #consumerism
It's not.
0% feasible.
I'll accept that $9.1M now, please and thank you.
Taxpayers on the hook for $9M to study Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel idea | CBC News share.google/C19FmeJg8Tlg...
0% feasible.
I'll accept that $9.1M now, please and thank you.
Taxpayers on the hook for $9M to study Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel idea | CBC News share.google/C19FmeJg8Tlg...
Taxpayers on the hook for $9M to study Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel idea | CBC News
Ontario taxpayers are set to spend $9.1 million to learn if or how it is feasible to build a tunnel under Highway 401
share.google
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It's not.
0% feasible.
I'll accept that $9.1M now, please and thank you.
Taxpayers on the hook for $9M to study Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel idea | CBC News share.google/C19FmeJg8Tlg...
0% feasible.
I'll accept that $9.1M now, please and thank you.
Taxpayers on the hook for $9M to study Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel idea | CBC News share.google/C19FmeJg8Tlg...
I've been rewatching Full Metal Alchemist, and today started reading Katabasis.
Turns out the stories of Alice Law and Edward Elric have the exact same starting point!
Not complaining. FMA is the best, and I'm loving the magick and the whole vibe of the book so far!
#Katabasis #storylink
Turns out the stories of Alice Law and Edward Elric have the exact same starting point!
Not complaining. FMA is the best, and I'm loving the magick and the whole vibe of the book so far!
#Katabasis #storylink
September 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I've been rewatching Full Metal Alchemist, and today started reading Katabasis.
Turns out the stories of Alice Law and Edward Elric have the exact same starting point!
Not complaining. FMA is the best, and I'm loving the magick and the whole vibe of the book so far!
#Katabasis #storylink
Turns out the stories of Alice Law and Edward Elric have the exact same starting point!
Not complaining. FMA is the best, and I'm loving the magick and the whole vibe of the book so far!
#Katabasis #storylink
When half of CBCs World News update was about Charlie Kirk, my first thought was "That's a lot of sympathy for 1 dead fascist homophobic white supremacist. I wonder how many innocent Palestinian refugees died that day?" That wasn't mentioned though.
For the record, the answer is 72.
For the record, the answer is 72.
September 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
When half of CBCs World News update was about Charlie Kirk, my first thought was "That's a lot of sympathy for 1 dead fascist homophobic white supremacist. I wonder how many innocent Palestinian refugees died that day?" That wasn't mentioned though.
For the record, the answer is 72.
For the record, the answer is 72.
Get your share of the settlement: CanadianBreadSettlement.ca
September 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Get your share of the settlement: CanadianBreadSettlement.ca
What if Charlie Kirk's assassin was a time traveler who is trying to save America from turning into a full blown dystopian Hunger Games country?
Like you know how people ask if you'd go back in time to kill baby Hitler? What if that's what this guy did?
#CharlieKirk #hottake #scifi
Like you know how people ask if you'd go back in time to kill baby Hitler? What if that's what this guy did?
#CharlieKirk #hottake #scifi
September 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
What if Charlie Kirk's assassin was a time traveler who is trying to save America from turning into a full blown dystopian Hunger Games country?
Like you know how people ask if you'd go back in time to kill baby Hitler? What if that's what this guy did?
#CharlieKirk #hottake #scifi
Like you know how people ask if you'd go back in time to kill baby Hitler? What if that's what this guy did?
#CharlieKirk #hottake #scifi
Reposted by Paul Fagan 🇮🇪🇵🇸
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Where's the Live Aid concert for Famine Relief in Palestine?
Someone like Taylor Swift could single-handedly put an end to this unimaginable suffering by gathering her celebrity friends and putting on a fundraising concert.
But our celebrities are vanilla cowards.
#famine #genocide #freepalestine
Someone like Taylor Swift could single-handedly put an end to this unimaginable suffering by gathering her celebrity friends and putting on a fundraising concert.
But our celebrities are vanilla cowards.
#famine #genocide #freepalestine
August 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Where's the Live Aid concert for Famine Relief in Palestine?
Someone like Taylor Swift could single-handedly put an end to this unimaginable suffering by gathering her celebrity friends and putting on a fundraising concert.
But our celebrities are vanilla cowards.
#famine #genocide #freepalestine
Someone like Taylor Swift could single-handedly put an end to this unimaginable suffering by gathering her celebrity friends and putting on a fundraising concert.
But our celebrities are vanilla cowards.
#famine #genocide #freepalestine
Ray Nayler has become one of my favourite authors lately. I'm reading his latest novel, Where the Axe is Buried, and his writing is so addictive!
Congrats to him and all the other winners from last night!
Congrats to him and all the other winners from last night!
The #HugoAward for Best Novella goes to The Tusks of Extinction, Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
August 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Ray Nayler has become one of my favourite authors lately. I'm reading his latest novel, Where the Axe is Buried, and his writing is so addictive!
Congrats to him and all the other winners from last night!
Congrats to him and all the other winners from last night!
How to dodge labour rights in Canada:
-Ignore reasonable demands for decent wages & conditions
-Lock out workers on strike deadline day
-Blame workers for inconveniencing Cdns and endangering economy
-Ask Feds to step in
Air Canada just repeated what happened to dock workers & rail workers in 2024
-Ignore reasonable demands for decent wages & conditions
-Lock out workers on strike deadline day
-Blame workers for inconveniencing Cdns and endangering economy
-Ask Feds to step in
Air Canada just repeated what happened to dock workers & rail workers in 2024
August 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
How to dodge labour rights in Canada:
-Ignore reasonable demands for decent wages & conditions
-Lock out workers on strike deadline day
-Blame workers for inconveniencing Cdns and endangering economy
-Ask Feds to step in
Air Canada just repeated what happened to dock workers & rail workers in 2024
-Ignore reasonable demands for decent wages & conditions
-Lock out workers on strike deadline day
-Blame workers for inconveniencing Cdns and endangering economy
-Ask Feds to step in
Air Canada just repeated what happened to dock workers & rail workers in 2024
Reposted by Paul Fagan 🇮🇪🇵🇸
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
August 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
Congrats to @premeemohamed.com & @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social on winning Aurora awards. Both are top-quality genre writers. It's nice to see so much SFF talent in Canada!
I'm actually reading Heavenly Tyrant right now and it kicks so much ass! The Iron Widow series is a 💎 www.cbc.ca/books/these-...
I'm actually reading Heavenly Tyrant right now and it kicks so much ass! The Iron Widow series is a 💎 www.cbc.ca/books/these-...
These creators won Aurora Awards, which recognize Canadian sci-fi and fantasy writing | CBC Books
The awards are given out by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). They celebrate Canadian science fiction and fantasy writing across 10 categories, including fiction, YA, poetr...
www.cbc.ca
August 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Congrats to @premeemohamed.com & @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social on winning Aurora awards. Both are top-quality genre writers. It's nice to see so much SFF talent in Canada!
I'm actually reading Heavenly Tyrant right now and it kicks so much ass! The Iron Widow series is a 💎 www.cbc.ca/books/these-...
I'm actually reading Heavenly Tyrant right now and it kicks so much ass! The Iron Widow series is a 💎 www.cbc.ca/books/these-...
Stopped watching #Untamed mid-season. Such lazy tropey writing and overworn "twists" makes it feel like it's mostly written by AI.
What's wrong with our media landscape that The Residence gets cancelled while Untamed gets immediately greenlit for a 2nd season?
#TheResidence #Netflix
Spoilers in 🧵
What's wrong with our media landscape that The Residence gets cancelled while Untamed gets immediately greenlit for a 2nd season?
#TheResidence #Netflix
Spoilers in 🧵
August 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Stopped watching #Untamed mid-season. Such lazy tropey writing and overworn "twists" makes it feel like it's mostly written by AI.
What's wrong with our media landscape that The Residence gets cancelled while Untamed gets immediately greenlit for a 2nd season?
#TheResidence #Netflix
Spoilers in 🧵
What's wrong with our media landscape that The Residence gets cancelled while Untamed gets immediately greenlit for a 2nd season?
#TheResidence #Netflix
Spoilers in 🧵
bookish checkpoint 🕯️
🎾 last book you read:
💥 Claw of the Conciliator
🤩 your current read(s):
📖 Where the Axe is Buried
🎧 Heavenly Tyrant
👏 last book added to your tbr:
📖 Brown Girl in the Ring
✨ next anticipated read:
📖 The Folded Sky
Quote with yours! #booksky #books 📚
🎾 last book you read:
💥 Claw of the Conciliator
🤩 your current read(s):
📖 Where the Axe is Buried
🎧 Heavenly Tyrant
👏 last book added to your tbr:
📖 Brown Girl in the Ring
✨ next anticipated read:
📖 The Folded Sky
Quote with yours! #booksky #books 📚
August 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
More top tier reporting from everyone's favourite "fake" news source!
Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalism
theonion.com/israel-...
theonion.com/israel-...
August 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
More top tier reporting from everyone's favourite "fake" news source!
#BookSky #BookReview #SFFBookReview
Brilliant writing, brilliant world. Epic fantasy style with an SF twist. "Show don't tell" writing at its best. I often felt lost but didn't mind.
Lady characters were objectified and their relations with the protagonist were cringy which ruined the vibe a bit. 3⭐
Brilliant writing, brilliant world. Epic fantasy style with an SF twist. "Show don't tell" writing at its best. I often felt lost but didn't mind.
Lady characters were objectified and their relations with the protagonist were cringy which ruined the vibe a bit. 3⭐
August 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
#BookSky #BookReview #SFFBookReview
Brilliant writing, brilliant world. Epic fantasy style with an SF twist. "Show don't tell" writing at its best. I often felt lost but didn't mind.
Lady characters were objectified and their relations with the protagonist were cringy which ruined the vibe a bit. 3⭐
Brilliant writing, brilliant world. Epic fantasy style with an SF twist. "Show don't tell" writing at its best. I often felt lost but didn't mind.
Lady characters were objectified and their relations with the protagonist were cringy which ruined the vibe a bit. 3⭐
Advice needed from #sci-fi #sff #booksky :
I want my next read to be Ray Nayler because his first novel was a favourite of mine.
Should I read Tusks of Extinction or Where the Axe is Buried?
(Or if there are similar fast-paced, short near-future stories you like, feel free to add a recommendation)
I want my next read to be Ray Nayler because his first novel was a favourite of mine.
Should I read Tusks of Extinction or Where the Axe is Buried?
(Or if there are similar fast-paced, short near-future stories you like, feel free to add a recommendation)
August 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
We DESPERATELY need this
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK government announces £63m funding for EV charging infrastructure
Transport secretary promises to make buying electric cars ‘easier and cheaper’ as £700m subsidy package prepared
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
We DESPERATELY need this
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Anyone going to #DTK for Palestine Day?
#KwAwesome #PalestineDay
kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/07/13/f...
#KwAwesome #PalestineDay
kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/07/13/f...
Fourth annual KW Palestinian Festival being held in Downtown Kitchener
The event begins at 1 p.m. at Carl Zehr Square and will feature live music, Palestinian food and vendors and various exhibits.
kitchener.citynews.ca
July 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Anyone going to #DTK for Palestine Day?
#KwAwesome #PalestineDay
kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/07/13/f...
#KwAwesome #PalestineDay
kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/07/13/f...
Congrats to the Canadian writers who cleaned up at the Nebulas! Southern Ontario is apparently a hotspot of SFF talent! #booksky #CanLit
www.cbc.ca/books/canadi...
www.cbc.ca/books/canadi...
Canadian sci-fi scribes among the winners for this year's Nebula Awards | CBC Books
The awards, which are given out by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, recognize the best science fiction and fantasy writing.
www.cbc.ca
June 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Congrats to the Canadian writers who cleaned up at the Nebulas! Southern Ontario is apparently a hotspot of SFF talent! #booksky #CanLit
www.cbc.ca/books/canadi...
www.cbc.ca/books/canadi...
www.readthemaple.com/while-ice-ro...
"Bill [C-2] denies the right of asylum to anyone who first stepped foot in Canada more than one year before their claim... [which is] worse than anything in U.S. law."
It "also expands surveillance powers, letting police obtain data from ISPs without a warrant."
"Bill [C-2] denies the right of asylum to anyone who first stepped foot in Canada more than one year before their claim... [which is] worse than anything in U.S. law."
It "also expands surveillance powers, letting police obtain data from ISPs without a warrant."
While ICE Rounds Up Migrants, Canada Ramps Up Co-operation With U.S.
“We’ve really caved to American demands over the past more than two decades now, and this is just another extension of that same pattern.”
www.readthemaple.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:50 AM
www.readthemaple.com/while-ice-ro...
"Bill [C-2] denies the right of asylum to anyone who first stepped foot in Canada more than one year before their claim... [which is] worse than anything in U.S. law."
It "also expands surveillance powers, letting police obtain data from ISPs without a warrant."
"Bill [C-2] denies the right of asylum to anyone who first stepped foot in Canada more than one year before their claim... [which is] worse than anything in U.S. law."
It "also expands surveillance powers, letting police obtain data from ISPs without a warrant."
WHAT DO I PACK??? #Booksky
I have a 2-wk vaca starting this weekend, and I've narrowed my vacation reading down to six books.
Almost finished One Day, and Last Man is def coming bc GNs are great on a plane. Then I figure I can either read a short book and shorts or dive into a really big read.
HELP!
I have a 2-wk vaca starting this weekend, and I've narrowed my vacation reading down to six books.
Almost finished One Day, and Last Man is def coming bc GNs are great on a plane. Then I figure I can either read a short book and shorts or dive into a really big read.
HELP!
June 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
WHAT DO I PACK??? #Booksky
I have a 2-wk vaca starting this weekend, and I've narrowed my vacation reading down to six books.
Almost finished One Day, and Last Man is def coming bc GNs are great on a plane. Then I figure I can either read a short book and shorts or dive into a really big read.
HELP!
I have a 2-wk vaca starting this weekend, and I've narrowed my vacation reading down to six books.
Almost finished One Day, and Last Man is def coming bc GNs are great on a plane. Then I figure I can either read a short book and shorts or dive into a really big read.
HELP!