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Paul Fagan 🇮🇪🇵🇸
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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.
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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
September 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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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.
September 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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#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⭐
August 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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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)
August 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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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!
Choosing between: One day, everyone will have always been against this, by Omar Al Akkad Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson Claw of the conciliator by Gene Wolfe The last man by Brian Vaughan Exhalation by Ted Chiang The Great When by Alan Moore
June 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Google's weather app is looking at the bright side of the natural disaster out west 😎🌇🔥
I dunno guys. 🙃
June 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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I was so lucky to live in a region with an outspoken progressive MP who was equally passionate about local, national and international humanitarian issues.
Due to vote splitting, the ultra-progressive Kitchener Centre riding has a Conservative MP now.
Never stop fighting @morricemike.bsky.social
Kitchener Centre riding results: Incumbent Green MP Mike Morrice loses his seat to the Conservatives by 358 votes. Liberals came in third with 29.3% of the vote.
April 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Congratulations to @timlouiskitcon.bsky.social 🥳
His 4th win, but every time he wins by just a few hundred votes. Poor guy never gets to sleep on election nights.

I'm wary of Carney for PM and concerned about increasing right-leaning policies, but your commitment to Palestine sold me. ✊
Riding results for Kitchener-Conestoga. Incumbent Tim Louis is declared the winner by 522 votes.
April 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Pope Francis in his last moments #Breaking #RIP
Pope Francis meeting J D Vance and thinking "if I have to listen to this man for 1 more minute I will die."
April 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The highlighted review for this Beer Store in London ON is hilariously inappropriate. I'm glad this lady has such a great experience while feeding her husband's chronic alcoholism 🤣🍺
Beer Store in London, Ontario where the highlighted review says "I go in daily to get beer for my husband and the..."
April 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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#BookSky #BookReview #SFFBookReview
Spectacular space opera. Breakneck pacing, galactic stakes, and a totally unique protagonist.
Earth's destroyed, and a small group of militants are fighting back, but what really happened?
Begs the question: How does your world shape your personality? 5/5⭐
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
April 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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April 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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#BookSky #BookReview #SFFBookReview
"What is, is." - Caryx philosophy
Corey's signature style of imaginative worlds, complex plots and endearing characters told through simple prose is ramped up to 11 in the first of their new series.
Deep future humans encounter aliens that give 0 shits. 4.5/5
Mercy of the Gods by James SA Corey, author(s) of The Expanse
April 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Friendly reminder that things more important than potential market fluctuations are happening.

Mass executions of aid workers are being found buried in ditches.

A stupid man with a list of countries and percentages is not the worst thing happening right now.

mondoweiss.net/2025/03/the-...
April 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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No beauty here?
(Photo credit: Cosmicbackground on Instagram)
Photo of ISS passing the Moon's Tycho crater, by Cosmic Background.
February 27, 2025 at 7:00 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.

19/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. A small cheat since I just finished this book, but I can't shake it. So brilliant, so inspiring. Exactly the book I needed to start 2025. 50 years old, but it's just as relevant now.
February 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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After reading Le Guin's The Dispossessed, I was feeling like some more revolutionary anti-fascist reading, and so I'm rereading V for Vendetta. Sub nuclear war for climate change, and it has proven eerily prescient. #BookSky #ReadsForRevolution
February 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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@jodisz.bsky.social @gowingjoe.bsky.social can one of you please step down & support the other? There's little difference between your platforms & priorities. You agree that stopping the PCs is paramount.
If you actually care about stopping Ford, work together. Stop splitting the left! #onpoli
February 21, 2025 at 1:01 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.

19/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. Another short story collection packed with concepts that I can't shake. Also, just stunning writing. This book is a gem.
February 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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New campaign issue: which party will promise not to push their BS propaganda to our personal devices?
I'm trying to ignore toxic news and watch a movie with my kids and I get interrupted with this garbage? EFF off Doug Ford.
Any takers ON NDP / @ontarioliberal.bsky.social
Text message from Ontario PCs that says "Doug Ford here. Help me protect Ontario's jobs and our economy from Trump's tariffs."
February 16, 2025 at 9:37 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.

18/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. The best time travel story I've read and one of the funniest books I've ever read. Of all the books I've read that I thought should be made into TV, this is number 1. The ultimate escapist book, I recommend it all the time because it feels like nobody's heard of it and that's a damn shame.
February 16, 2025 at 1:32 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.

17/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Crazy intense vibes, some of the best character writing I've ever read, and while exaggerated slightly in some of the tech, I think it's way closer to reality than anyone would like to admit.
February 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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US politics is effed, science funding is tanking and there's a massive comet that's going to come within striking distance of earth, so I'm doing a rewatch of Don't Look Up #DontLookUp
February 13, 2025 at 1:53 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.

16/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. This book was prophetic indeed! Written in a hypnotic style, it tells the tale of a family trying to live their life under a new authoritarian police-state where gradually those who don't tow the ideological line get pushed out or disappear. Sound familiar?
February 12, 2025 at 1:13 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.

15/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
An Immense World by Ed Yong. I read this in bits, because all at once was information overload, but it constantly filled me with a sense of wonder. It made me appreciate the magnitude of how much diversity there is in the animal kingdom and how the world can be something completely different depending on how it's viewed. I feel like I don't need to take 'shrooms because I read this book and now I get it.
February 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM