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Jonathan Leggo

@jjleggo.bsky.social

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Editor (course materials and board games), spec fic reader, former biologist (botany and entomology), geek. Settler from Gespeg (Gaspé), now in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). He/they

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Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 1h

Perfect
I'll add that to my calendar

Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve got a thing on Friday.
Can we do Tuesday next?

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19h

I hesitated to share this with all of you, but I fear I must.

I recently got a bluetooth kegel device that gives you exercises in the form of little games — airplane dogfights and hurdle-jumping and so on. It just gave me a new one, flappy bird duel, for which it found a human opponent.

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Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 22h

Here's a link!
www.youtube.com/@HowItsmade8

How It's Made

www.youtube.com

Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 23h

iow, I'm equally as frustrated when fiction breaks its own rules

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Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 23h

I was going to make a joke about sff, magic, & tech,
but actually, those authors need to think about how everything fits together -- perhaps even more so bc if normal rules don't apply, then you need to think about the implications of the things you've invented.

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 1d

How It's Made After Dark

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Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 1d

I get around this by assuming everything is a joke

Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 2d

Good point!

Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 2d

Thanksgiving seems pretty widely celebrated in small anglophone communities (based on the number of harvest suppers my mom is talking about going to in Gaspe)

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EL BARTO ANTI-WORK @elbarto.bsky.social · 2d

I had a friend who was 6'1" and when guys would exaggerate their height around them, they would say they were 5'10" which, I imagine, was a devastating emotional blow.

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 2d

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 4d

Omg I was just thinking about this book today but couldn’t remember where I’d seen it!

Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 4d

I had this exact experience last week at a philosophy conference where I attended a talk on “ecology” and “biomimicry.”

Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 4d

It’s been a while since I helped someone apply for work, but I am an editor, so lemme know if I can help!

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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 6d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 6d

When parakeets cosplay

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 6d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6d

Mickey 17 was a masterpiece and you guys fucked up by not watching it

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MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 6d

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Jonathan Leggo @jjleggo.bsky.social · 6d

Accurate

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 6d

In my experience, the people who most resist editors need them the most.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 7d

Wage labor hasn’t always existed and won’t always exist and neither has or will private capital. You can’t prove this claim it’s just something you’ve been taught to feel so you will get online and defend your oppressors for free.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jill S @outseide.bsky.social · 8d

How many times does UBI have to be tested

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 8d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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