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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 14h

I have just coined a baseball playoffs phrase! Tomorrow’s game is ‘do or die’ for the Blue Jays in Seattle. Feel free to steal it, am not copyrighting it or anything.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 1d

Ya think?

Jeff Passan @jeffpasan.bsky.social · 1d

Three batters into Game 2 of the ALCS, the Mariners lead 3-0. Julio Rodríguez took a hanging splitter from Trey Yesavage out into left field. A nightmare start for the Blue Jays. A dream continuation of last night from Seattle.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, well…

Byzantine Mosaics @byzantinemosaics.bsky.social · 1d

Mosaic of Justinianus I https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/mosaic-of-justinianus-i-547

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 1d

Hot Pants Turtledove!

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 1d

On Canadian Thanksgiving, I am not going to give thanks for anything current or political. I’ll be uncool and sincere and offer, as always, thanks for the parents I had, how they raised us, and sent 3 of us out into the world. As I get older, I am even more aware of what a gift that was, and is.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 1d

MAK? Really interesting place.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 1d

Lives lived. The past is gone, and yet never gone.

An underlying wonder, and paradox, of history.

Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Elyenore balances on a high pedestal beside (probably) her grandfather, John Corp. St Peter’s Stoke Fleming — the earliest brass memorial in Devon. The inscription in French says he died 1361, she 1391.

#devon #memorialbrass #medievalmonday #memorialmonday

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Zbigniew Herbert wrote a poem on chess, referencing Deep Blue...

so this is how
a kingly game
passes into the hands of automatons

we must break it out of
the prison camp at night

when mind drowses
machines are roused

the quest for the imagination
must be begun all over again

tr. Alissa Valles

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

For sure price matters for Broadway or off-Broadway (or theatre anywhere!). For movies, as everyone notes, watching at home on a good-sized tv becomes a real option, too. The see a movie vs a tv series issue is also a factor.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Just saw a report that every new musical on Broadway last year (as opposed to revivals) lost money, though. Bad work, or audiences want familiarity?

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

For this SCOTUS one might surmise … President > precedent.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 2d

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

Aww, Paul… comment!

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

This has real -- I intended to dm "Pam" -- energy.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

Editor fired before publication.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

Moi? Art photos sometimes? Ummm…

This is in a stylish Viennese Restaurant (including their angled windows) 7 floors up In the Motto Hotel. Patron at their bar.

Photo of bar patron in angled window reflection at night.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

Well put. Trump does same! ‘There was a war, the Civil War, many people don‘t know about it…’

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

That was part of the Wachau Valley outing, yes.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, the writer is being eviscerated for a self-reveal outgrown, and that’s mean. On the other hand they got a major venue, and the take is really dumb, so … what do we DO with such cultural takes?

I guess … eviscerate?

Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 5d

'I somehow never appreciated the only person equally worshipped by punks, rappers, preachers, cowboys, metalheads, rastas, soul singers, bluesmen, grandmothers, & Bob Dylan - the fault must be everybody's.'

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 5d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

Vienna, as Billy Joel noted, waited for us.

Spent a week there, purely focused on it (one day trip to Wachau Valley) and, especially if art and history (and pastry and coffee) matter to you, can entirely recommend as an autumn trip. Habsburgs were not low-key.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

I think the too-easy word ‘quirky’ is about to get a real workout, Judith. Watch for it!

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

A question: why would pro athletes need ’extra’ motivation at this point in a (baseball at the moment) season? You’re on the brink of a WS, after 162+ games! The other manager said your star isn’t as good as someone else’s? THAT is what’ll make you want to win?

I think it is all media. And dumb.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

Thread, ties the vulnerability of suffering people (or people whose children are) in general to the quackery of RFK Jr and ‘theories’ of vaccines autism.

The vulnerability is key, for me: predators and charlatans seize on this. He calls the @theguardian.com irresponsible and that feels accurate.

Dr David Robert Grimes @drg.bsky.social · 8d

Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵

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Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 7d

Nineteen years ago, on October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated by Putin's hitmen.
She was the first to tell the truth about Russia's mass crimes in Chechnya, which foreshadowed those in Syria, Ukraine, Africa and elsewhere. They could have been prevented.
Almost no one listened to her.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton was so much a part of the cultural landscape for Boomers, and in ways that went SO far beyond Annie Hall and la-di-da (glorious as she was in that part).

Hard to even picture her as gone. RIP.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 3d

Endorsed happily. See the film, it is a delight. It *brings* delight.

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 3d

I wasn’t sure about I Know Where I’m Going the first time I watched it. Now I am. It is perfect. boxd.it/bkJTol

A ★★★★★ review of I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

I remember watching this the first time and being a bit baffled by it. It seemed weirdly theatrical, the Scotland unconvincing and clichéd, and I didn’t pick up on any chemistry between Wendy Hillier ...

boxd.it

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