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Stephen Childs
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Senior Statistician and Systems Analyst, Humber Polytechnic. ORCID 0000-0002-4450-4281 He/him
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
My wife and I both hold multiple masters degrees and the labyrinth of getting aid for our disabled kids puts any masters degrees to shame
measuredandslow.bsky.social Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 1h
I’m trying very hard to be measured about this conversation but I am so, so frustrated with the idea that accommodations are easy to get and enforce. They are not, and every parent of a disabled child spends an extremely considerable amount of time getting them and then making sure they’re enforced
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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weisanboo.bsky.social
it's december !! 🙀 good excuse to post these guys again ...!
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Voyager scene. Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct adjunct of Unimatrix-01, is seen up close absolutely devouring a big ol' turkey leg like some kind of vicious animal. It's one of those tin foil wrapped Renaissance festival turkey legs, absolute unit. Closed caption reads: (ravenous growling)
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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mxdshipwreck.bsky.social
Modern television doesn't have enough shows where a guy drives around the city at night brooding while another guy mercilessly roasts him over the radio
dialacina.com Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 6d
The world is ready for the return of Forever Knight
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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catherinewinters.com
Canadians all know which show this is referring to, and that there's a roughly 50-50 chance that they totally had an episode like this.
cindyphanauthor.com Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 6d
Didn’t they also do one where he met Sherlock Holmes and/or Dracula or was that a fever dream still very based on reality?
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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cindyphanauthor.com
Didn’t they also do one where he met Sherlock Holmes and/or Dracula or was that a fever dream still very based on reality?
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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cindyphanauthor.com
Graphic design skills I do not possess, as evidenced by this free template I selected because the other free templates kept crashing...

Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨
2025 Awards Eligibility Post Cindy Phan “All Her Darling Little Ones” - Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology. “Ron, Howard” - Baffling Magazine, Issue 19.4. “What to do When a Demon is Talking Shit at You” - Inner Worlds, Issue 8. more stories and links at cindyphanauthor.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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cindyphanauthor.com
Pomelo season starting off with this Abosolute Unit™️
My hand holding up a gigantic yellow-green pomelo. It is so large you can see how my wrist strains just trying not to drop it. Behind it: a messy kitchen counter and sink and a dishrack full of dishes.
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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cindyphanauthor.com
Quick check in on Lemon Pig!

🍋🐷

Oh. Oh my god. Hang in there, little guy! Just a month and a half to go, ok, buddy? 😭
A very desiccated and discoloured lemon pig holding a Canadian dime in its mouth. Its skin is soo dry, soo black and grey. And yet, it’s looking up at the camera with a “Am I doing good?” expression on its face.
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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usili.bsky.social
person holding up test tube on top reads FINALLY Python 3.14.0 Release Date: Oct. 7, 2025 π-thon
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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cindyphanauthor.com
While I’m away my sister decides to give my dog a new look 💗
A black standard poodle sitting on a leopard print rug, wearing a hot pink bandana wrapped around her head. She’s looking at the camera like, “I am. ADORABLE.” Her long snout looks that much longer with her topknot and ears pulled back. She looks like a starlet from a bygone era. Beside her are the legs of a metal stool. Behind her, a brown couch and a red-patterned rug in a sunken living room.
November 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
Best literary analysis ever
"The Hobbit to LOTR pipeline is hilarious. it would be like if 20 years after Stuart little was published, EB White slammed down 1000 pages about how Stuart's nephew killed the devil."
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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cindyphanauthor.com
Once in a blue moon, when I visit my friend, if the stars align, I get to post for #caturday. So here is Queen Bean in all her glory ✨✨✨
A glorious, huge steely grey cat with blue eyes. She’s loafing on two flat boxes (one brown, one white) and looking up to someone off screen. The cat, facing the camera now with her eyes closed. She is very content.
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social
Stunning video from last night’s Aurora Borealis: recorded 30 minutes north of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

#Canada
#AuroaBorealis
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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cindyphanauthor.com
If you see this, post a #StarTrek

Fun fact: the Vulcan, Alberta visitor centre is Star Trek themed, as are parts of the town (murals, think murals), AND includes this monument of its own Starship Enterprise WITH a plaque in Klingon 🖖
A tall white man and a short southeast Asian woman stand under a statue of the Vulcan Starship Enterprise FX6-1995-A ("FX6" is its Canadian Flight Supplement, "1995" the year it was created, "A" because it's the first among its kind for the town). Both people are giving the Vulcan salute, the man with his other arm around the woman's shoulders. Beside the woman on the stone pillar on which the ship rests is a plaque written in Klingon and with a Klingon insignia on it. It is a bright summer day, blue sky, green lawn and a gas station in the near distance.
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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markster3000.bsky.social
Kitchener GO Train weekend schedule! (Sat & Sun)
7:49 Kitchener -> Union 9:35
15:49 Kitchener -> Union 17:35
16:48 Union -> Kitchener 18:38
22:48 Union -> Kitchener 00:38

Great (if minimal) start for daytrips into Toronto.
I hope no one in Toronto was planning daytrips to Kitchener.
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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cindyphanauthor.com
Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want!

(If you like erotic stories about love, revenge and growing families, with gourds, "All Her Darling Little Ones" in A BIPOC Erotic Eco-Horror Anthology might just be for you) @hedonebooks.bsky.social
All Her Darling Little Ones CINDY PHAN They'd find the woman as they always did, laying face down in the woods behind the Estate in the sober hours of the morning, grit under her fingernails, sand in her teeth, loam in her hair, nose pressed so far and deep into the muddy turf that made up the back of the property it's a miracle she didn't ever suffocate.
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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thwphipps.bsky.social
My last word on the matter
a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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lavietidhar.bsky.social
A noir boardgame where it doesn't matter what you do, you die
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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cindyphanauthor.com
HUNTR/X (of stuffies)
A black standard poodle holds a bright orange chameleon stuffie in her mouth as she eyes the camera (ok, me) seeking praise for her hunting prowess. She’s standing in the kitchen on the hardwood floor in front of the fridge.
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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skilletqueso.com
don’t be fooled. if you try to get th grinch she’ll run away
small black and white dog with brown around face. she is holding a stuffed grinch dog toy (it’s holding present in his hands and she has that present in her mouth). she’s looking at the camera with puppy dog eyes
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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cindyphanauthor.com
First snow of the season and she’s already having the time of her life
A black standard poodle wearing an orange bandana having zoomies in our snow-covered backyard. Behind her is a wooden fence and snow covered garden boxes and composter. In the corner of the pic, a plastic shed can be seen. The poodle (centre) about to take another big leap in the snow. Off she goes again, mid-leap through the snow.
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
sechilds.ca
Blogging again. The snow put me in a bit of a wistful mood.

sechilds.ca/first-snow.html
Stephen Childs - First Snow
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November 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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thomasha.bsky.social
getting two things out of my system at one time
Zohran generator text, you're my soda pop my little soda pop
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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fromthemorgue.bsky.social
Pretty sure like there’s a dungeon design lesson here for DnD folks
erindwyer.bsky.social Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 23d
New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.
It’s like photos of corn on plastic in an inflatable corn maze on grass. The inflatable parts are yellow and blue. It looks like an AI hall of mirrors but it’s IRL.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM