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Stephen Geigen-Miller
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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
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This werewolf is howling for the Jays tonight!

#WantItAll #HappyHalloween
A photo of the poster, who's wearing furry pointed ears AND a Toronto Blue Jays ball cap, for Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Using the online form to unsubscribe from Paramount Plus, I selected the "Other" reason, and included the feedback, "I'm disgusted that in a blatant display of currying favor with Trump and his fascist cabal, your parent company has installed Bari Weiss - a racist, far-right propagandist with zero experience in anything to do with real journalism - as the head of CBS news. You're fascists or cowards and you don't get my money for that."
October 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Last year I went to Plauen, the small city in Germany my grandfather was from. The town records office told me the address of the *building where he was born*. There's a pub there now, the Weisses Rössl. VERY much a local. The proprietor spoke no English but happily served us goulash and noodles.
Picture of me, the poster, in the Weisses Rossl in Plauen, Germany, eating a plate of goulash and noodles.
August 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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The handsome goofs are having fun at Toronto Pride!
The poster, a middle-aged white man, sits with his son, a young white man with a beard, wearing and rainbow sunglasses, at a bench at Toronto Pride
June 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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This is the book that goes with me to the hospital. I wouldn't necessarily RECOMMEND it anymore - it hasn't aged well in some very significant ways - but that doesn't mean I don't LOVE it. It still makes me cry.
Cover of the 1984 fantasy novel Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart. The cover is modern but uses a style inspired by classical Chinese art to depict a woman being borne aloft by a flock of birds. The text includes the title, the author's name, and the description, a novel of an Ancient China that never was.
June 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Wishing you the best on this Glorious 25th of May.

Source: reverse-mermaid, via Tumblr

GNU Terry Pratchett
An illustration of a stylized sprig of purple lilac, superimposed over a rectangle in lighter purple, and text in white reading "How do they rise up?" Below the rectangle, in smaller purple text against a white background, are the words, "The Glorious 25th of May" Source: reverse-mermaid, via Tumblr G N U Terry Pratchett
May 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The handsome goofs are ready to see the Jays beat the Padres!
May 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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In more pleasant news? MURDERBOT!
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Vanity Fair: 'Murderbot' Would Hate You - But That's Why You'll Love It

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
A still photo showing a scene from the Apple+ TV adaptation of Murderbot, with Alexander Skarsgård as the title character in the foreground.
April 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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When the TTC doesn't put a bench at your bus stop and you take matters into your own hands.
A folding wooden chair sits just off the sidewalk, on a thin patch of mostly dead grass in front of a metal fence, at a Toronto Transit Commission bus stop.
April 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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DAMN STRAIGHT
Me, the commenter, a middle-aged white dude with glasses. I'm seated and pointing at my t-shirt, which is black with the words, "YOU WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH ME" in the colours of the trans flag
March 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Canada, it's 35 days until election day.

Please remember that the rights of our trans siblings, already under attack in some provinces, would be in terrible danger if Poilievre's Conservatives win the election. Support parties that uphold LBGBTQ safety, equality, and dignity!
A photo of me - the poster - seated. I'm pointing at my t-shirt. It's black, with text the colours if the trans flag which reads "You will have to go through me."
March 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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It literally got on the subway at Dundas West station, walked from one set of doors to the next, and flew off at the next stop.

#DontLetThePigeonRideTheSubway
A pigeon stands on the floor of a TTC subway car.
March 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Hands und Fronds!
Picture of the poster's arms extended and hands splayed against a background of Florida plant life, with some kind of fronds most prominent.
February 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.
Illustration by Garth Williams from Charlotte's Web, which shows Charlotte, a small and ordinary seeming spider, using her webs to securely attach her egg sac, which is many times her size, to a weathered board in an old barn.
December 22, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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My comment that I included with my signature.
My comment on the Change dot org petition "Bluesky must enforce its Community Guidelines Equally", which reads: The whole point of Bluesky, the selling point that brought so many of us to it, is that it promised to be a better social media platform that isn't regularly used as a vehicle for harassment and abuse. This is a real test of that commitment, and the only possible decision if we're going to have the Bluesky we were promised is to immediately and permanently ban Singal, who has already violated Bluesky's community guidelines and has made it clear that he plans to continue to do so.
December 13, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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The Came From Beneath The Sea! You're a character in a 50s B-Movie, fighting off monsters from the deep, aliens from beyond the skies, and other ridiculous horrors. Comedy, horror, science-fiction and maybe a little romance, all in one game!
The cover of the table-top role-playing came They Came From Beneath The Sea! A furious, gigantic octopus-like sea monster rises from the depths. It lifts a huge cargo ship in its tentacles. In the foreground, one crew member clings desperately to the prow as others plummet into the creature's maw, or to the sea below.
December 3, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Monsterhearts 2 (the revised edition). You're a teenager. And a monster. You were expecting a bunch of new feelings and for your body to change, but not exactly like THIS.
Cover of the MONSTERHEARTS 2 table-top role-playing game. Against a red moon, three monstrous teenagers stand gazing at the reader. One, at the front, is bestial or vampiric, their long fingernails claws, fangs visible in their snarl, eyes glowing red. To their right is a witchy-looking goth, arms crossed, regarding you with a mysterious and maybe superior stare. On the left, a more nervous-looking teen with glasses, a bandana covering their hair, and a shirt decorated with a unicorn, holds their chain-clad arms over their body protectively. Are they a monster too? Are they an ordinary teen? Is there any difference?
December 3, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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You're a broken toy in a broken world, fighting to put yourself back together, and maybe the world too. IT'S TOY STORY: FURY ROAD.
Cover of the Threadbare table-top roleplaying game. Against a background of weatherbeaten cardboard boxes painted to look like buildings, a worse-for-wear teddy bear wearing a cape and clutching a wrench in one hand triumpantly rides a haphazardly-repaired T-Rex. The dinosaur is covered with tape and odd screws and has a can opener instead of one of its arms. In the foreground, broken-down toys including a knight with one arm, a doll with an eyepatch and a mismatched limb, a wrestler with an eggbeater in place of one arm, a saluting toy soldier and a posable wooden doll with its arms raised all stand ready for action.
December 3, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Court of Blades. You're the courtiers, retainers, and operatives of a noble family, engaging in courtly intrigue, dalliance, and occasional brutal violence for position and status in a deeply intricate, highly corrupt city-state.
Cover of the table-top roleplaying game Court of Blades. Against the background of a starlit garden and palace by night, two figures are framed by an intricate wrought-iron gate. Both wear ornate gowns. One, in a white and gold gown highlighted in blue, wears a mask and wears their hair up. They are holding a dagger in one hand. The other, in a blue gown highlighted in gold and white, smiles and wears their long hair down. Their face is uncovered and they hold a mask in their hand. Both figures have a hand concealed. It's not clear if they're embracing, fighting, concealing truth or revealing it - or all of those at once.
December 3, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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B.O.A. (by @brandoncrilly.bsky.social!) You're part of a team of secret agents carrying out missions on behalf of a secret society dedicated to helping others and doing good in the world. Also you're snakes.
Cover of the table-top roleplaying game B.O.A. A snake wearing sunglasses and with an insouciant expression coils around and dangles from a doorknob. Held in the coils of its tail is a lockpick.
December 3, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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DIE! (based on the comic book series of the same name). When you were younger, you and your friends travelled into the world of your role-playing game, and it was all real and wonderful and terrible. You got out, but now you have to go back.
Cover of the table-top role-playing game DIE! Two crouching figures do battle with a third, who's wielding fire and surrounded by mystical sigils or eyes. Above them, against the background of a ruined city-scape, a mysterious head looks up, hands outstretched towards a glowing twenty-sided die. Behind it is a ruined cityscape and billowing smoke or magic.
December 3, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Back Again From The Broken Land. You got caught up in a big war. Now you and your friends are on the way home, trying to heal from the hurts you suffered - or caused.
Cover of the TTRPG Back Again From The Broken Land. Four small figures and a pony cross a fantastical landscape, with mountains in the background, and a river, a ruined fortress and the discarded sword and helm of a Titan behind them.
December 3, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Name a show you're positive no one remembers but you.
The cast of the 1985 CBS TV series Otherworld, about an American family, the Sterlings, who become trapped in a dystopian parallel world. The characters from left to right are teenaged son Trace (Tony O'Dell), mom June (Gretchen Corbett), younger son Smith (Brandon Crane), dad Hal (Sam Groom) and teenaged daughter Gina (Jonna Lee)
November 22, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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Today, on the Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honour the memory of transgender people who lost their lives through acts of transphobic violence.

Today, let's commit to act in solidarity with trans people, fight for their rights, safety, and dignity, and oppose transphobia everywhere.
Image shows a black background, with five candles, like those used at a vigil, in alternating blue, pink, white, pink, and blue - the trans flag colors. The text, also in the colors of the trans flag, reads "Transgender Day of Remembrance November 20" Image source was the Evident Change website evidentchange.org
November 20, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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America, you got this one wrong in 2016, but right in 2020.

Don't mess up 2024.

Love,

Toronto
Screenshot of my Facebook status update from November 2, 2016, reading, "America, FYI from Toronto: We lived through the Rob Ford years. Seriously, DON'T elect the incompetent bigot with anger management issues."
November 2, 2024 at 6:51 PM