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Stephen Graham King

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Toronto based. Queer space opera writer, black and white street photographer, disabled cancer survivor. Aspiring mensch. Aro. He/They. Pew pew pew. I can words! Dum spero spiro (While I live, I hope) https://linktr.ee/stephengrahamking

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · Nov 17

Known for my Maverick Heart books (Killjoys meets Firefly only queer). 20+ year survivor of metastatic synovial sarcoma (mortality rate 90-95% at the time so all this is dessert) Leg disabled. And I take pictures, mostly B&W, mostly street, but lately I want to branch out and shoot ALL THE THINGS

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 7h

I did my nails for the first time in many months, and I feel a little bit more like my old self.

Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 13h

"AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it."

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 17h

Is anyone else travelling to @canconsffh.bsky.social from Toronto on the 1:23 train on the 16th? I'm hoping to find someone to split the cost of the cab to the hotel.

Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 18h

David Pecaut Square. September, 2025
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The upper left corner is filled with the curved glass structure of Roy Thomson Hall, sunlight hitting the individual, diamond shaped panes. Along the bottom of the frame, participants in Word on the Street walk back and forth in bright sunlight. Some push children in strollers. Some walk alone.

Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 1d

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Met a 7-year-old at McDonald's. She stared at me and said, "why are you so ugly?"
I leaned down and whispered, "I can't tell anyone, but I came back in a time machine... I'm you, from the future."
She cried for 20 minutes straight.

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 1d

"When you're in a battle against an enemy so much bigger, so much stronger than you, well, to find out you had a friend you never knew existed, well, that's the best feeling in the world. So, thank you."

Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 1d

Decided to watch this today as I need a good cry. And to see people being lovely to each other. Nothing's even happened yet and I'm a mess already.

Pride (2014 film) - Wikipedia

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 2d

It's a "Recently Deceased Movie Star" afternoon. Just finished First Wives Club and have moved on to Sneakers

Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 3d

Yeah, this is bad. And completely unsurprising.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.

AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots

Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 3d

Official Trailer | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | NYCC 2025

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 3d

Claudia Winkleman has the best stylist.

Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 3d

Season 4 Exclusive First Look | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | NYCC 2025

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 3d

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin

Happy National Coming Out Day!

National Coming Out Day art by Keith Haring

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 4d

One of those films that's absolutely perfect. Never fails to delight me. I think I'm due for a rewatch.

🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 14d

Walter Matthau, Audrey Hepburn “CHARADE” (1963) dir. Stanley Donen

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 4d

I just really love Richard Osman, so I was an early adopter 😆

Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 4d

This new one is number five. And they are GREAT. Loved them all.

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 4d

I'm reading the new Thursday Murder Club book and I'm hearing all the characters in the voices of the actors from the movie. Which ain't half bad considering how great the cast was.

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 4d

Aren't they? I'm seething with envy 😆

Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 4d

a man in a green shirt is eating a sandwich with the words life on mars on the bottom right

Alt: a man in a green shirt is eating a sandwich with the words life on mars on the bottom right

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 4d

These are just amazing. I continually aspire to someday take a shot as gorgeous as these.

40 Winning Photos From the Pure Street Photography Awards 2025

Embracing authentic street photography.

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 4d

Broadview Station. September, 2025
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#PhotographersOfBluesky

On the outdoor platform, the curving buttresses hold up the roof, the perspective receding from left to right. At the far left of the frame, a streetcar waits in the brightly lit background. Framed by the structures around him, a bearded TTC employee in a hi vis stands, one leg extended as if kicking a ball. He is surrounded by the flow of riders going in various directions.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 4d

Today's newsletter is about the patterns in fake book club and other scam emails sent to authors.

How to spot an author scam email

I’ve grumbled enough on social media about the rise in AI-generated scam emails that now, more than one of my author friends has sent an email to me, asking...

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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 5d

I don't. I have thought about it often, though

Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 5d

If I was ever granted three wishes, one of them would definitely be for ICE agents to shit themselves uncontrollably any time they tried to arrest someone.

Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 5d

Church and Wellesley. September, 2025
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The left third of the is the wall of a building where we see queer iconography in a painted mural. It is the side of a barber shop where we see an Asian man talking on the phone. Further right, on the street leading to the intersection in the far right background is a young, black woman walking toward the camera. Further right, another man walks in the same direction, his head down. At the far right edge of the frame, another person waits at the sunlit intersection for the light to change

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