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Matt Cahill
@mattcahill.bsky.social
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Novelist (Radioland, The Society of Experience) / short fiction / essays.
Agent: Kelvin Kong, K2 Literary

Former film/TV post supervisor, currently Registered Psychotherapist in private practice

Haunting the margins
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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · Feb 23
I don't promote my writing very often (ironically because I'm usually busy writing in my spare time), but I'd like to feature my two novels today, THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIENCE and most recently RADIOLAND.

Both are mind-bendy urban literary fiction with generous doses of dark spec blended in.
My two novels laying on nicely art-directed industrial flooring.
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scottpb.bsky.social
Did you or anyone you know dance on Soul Train in the 1970s?

Looking for folks to interview for some book research

Thanks!

#BlackSky
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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thegrindto.bsky.social
The Grind has learned that the City of Toronto is the new owner of 720 Bathurst St., the former Annex location of the Centre for Social Innovation.

The City plans to create a shelter for Indigenous people experiencing homelessness. By @dgrdon.bsky.social.
Former CSI Annex Location to Become City-owned Shelter
When the Centre for Social Innovation sold its building on Bathurst just south of Bloor, the identity of the buyer was kept confidential. The Grind has now learned that the City of Toronto is the new…
www.thegrindmag.ca
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
mattcahill.bsky.social
Happy 3rd adoptaversary to our salt dragon/hamster muffin ❤️
A gorgeous tabby sits imperiously on the mattress/me, likely expecting food.
December 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
mattcahill.bsky.social
If a jaguar and a bald eagle were driving in a car and struck a moose in the middle of the road, the moose would likely be the only survivor, fyi.
The mascots for the FIFA World Cup 26 draw: moose (Canada), jaguar (Mexico), bald eagle (other place)
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
Geneticist here. Anyone telling you that they can just change intelligence (which isn't what IQ measures well anyways) by fiddling with a few genes is just straight-up grifting, it doesn't work like that. And yes it's basically definitionally eugenics.
jawnthedon.bsky.social Chaotic Neutral @jawnthedon.bsky.social · 3d
I saw this ad on the train and I’m curious how yall feel about it… I’m very much in the center, but slightly more towards than against…
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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swanmichaels.bsky.social
it's december! life is sometimes bleak! here are my 100 favourite songs, and a man's fumbling swerves about why he loves them so much.

www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...
illustration of a night-blowing cereus flower and the words SAID THE GRAMOPHONE BEST SONGS OF 2025.
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
mattcahill.bsky.social
Ugh. RIP Steve Cropper.
Steve Cropper, Legendary Guitarist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Otis Redding and the Blues Brothers, Dies at 84
Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died. He was 84.
variety.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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merriam-webster.com
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The Secret Society of Middle Aged People At The Gym Who Have to Do 30 Mins of PT Work Before Getting Started
December 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
mattcahill.bsky.social
Wolsak & Wynn is having a 30% off sale for the holidays* which means you can grab either RADIOLAND or THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIENCE at a heavily discounted price.

* free shipping with orders over $50
Matt Cahill — Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd.
Matt Cahill is a Toronto writer whose debut novel,  The Society of Experience , was picked as a must-read by Harper’s Bazaar magazine. His short stories have appeared with Found Pre...
www.wolsakandwynn.ca
December 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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somemelodiousplot.bsky.social
Apparently Spielberg asked Tom Stoppard to write the screenplay for Jaws, but Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC.

"I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster, and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV?"

"No," Tom said, "BBC Radio."
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
mattcahill.bsky.social
Here's a question I've been meaning to ask the gang: I'm looking for a streaming jazz station that isn't trying to be Jazz For Everybody™️. In other words, no cloying interpretations of pop songs, decent balance between eras and/or hosts worth checking out. Lemme know!
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
mattcahill.bsky.social
Everyone seems to have quietly come to the same conclusion, that this is the weekend where the Xmas tree goes up. On my #runTO along Dupont yesterday, I swear every fifth car had a tree on the roof. And yes, we decided before the weekend to do the same (mind you ours is artificial). 🎄
November 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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lisakramer.com
Instant endorphin rush: husband and I just bought toys our childhood selves would have enjoyed and then dropped them off at the “Stuff the Bus” event jointly organized by Toronto Police Services and Toronto Transit Commission
A Toronto city bus decked out for a “Stuff the Bus” event to accept toy donations.
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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celechii.itch.io
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Louis Armstrong and Lotte Lenya, 1955

Lenya was in the studio when Armstrong recorded "Mack the Knife," which is why he improvised the line "and Miss Lotte Lenya!"
White German woman and Black American man, both with big smiles
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 AM
mattcahill.bsky.social
This is wonderful, and a great argument for the importance of print media.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
mattcahill.bsky.social
From all appearances, there is now public/traffic access to the Augusta Ave extension, from Dundas W. down to Queen W. #TO
Looking south from Augusta in Kensington Market, viewing Dundas W. and the now open Augusta extension on the south side.
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
mattcahill.bsky.social
I worked on a film w/ Udo Kier in it--Guy Maddin's KEYHOLE--and was surprised to see him at the TIFF after-party (he must've been in town shooting something else). I was tempted to introduce myself, but was super intimidated and didn't want to make an ass of myself.
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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redvineski.bsky.social
I finally figured out how to design my radiator cover because of Nicole Kidman's monologue in Eyes Wide Shut.
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
mattcahill.bsky.social
Good explainer on the precariousness of the AI industry (gift link)
What you need to know about the AI bubble – and how it will pop
Real estate, technology, energy – history is full of booms and busts. Why should artificial intelligence be any different?
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
mattcahill.bsky.social
I mean, sure, we'll take your scientists and researchers, but I can also get behind this a whole bunch.
blockclubchi.bsky.social Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 15d
The oldest brewing school in the U.S. is leaving Chicago for Canada, citing Trump visa restrictions. blockclubchi.co/4oaLGmn
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
mattcahill.bsky.social
Same goes with instrumental jazz
moviessilently.bsky.social Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 15d
When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage.

One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 17d
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?

And rightfully so.

So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM