Julian Day
@julianday.ca
Poet, gamedev (Shadow of the Wyrm), pixel artist, composer. Editor/publisher, null pointer press. Chapbooks: Late Summer Flowers (Anstruther Press), Orbits (Model Press). he/him
Website: julianday.ca
Fedi: @[email protected]
Website: julianday.ca
Fedi: @[email protected]
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Julian Day
@julianday.ca
· May 26
Tables Ladders Chairs
by Julian Day
onefallreview.com
Hey you! My little wrestling poem "Tables Ladders Chairs" is now up at @onefallreview.bsky.social. Huge thanks to Chris and Logan for publishing it.
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That is, uhhhhh, whew
September 20, 2026 at 8:31 PM
That is, uhhhhh, whew
Bad Dudes
What's your "origin" video game?
Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you.
I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer.
So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?
Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you.
I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer.
So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?
September 20, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Bad Dudes
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My band @survivalclubtheband.com is hitting the road next week for 6 shows in Ontario and Québec, supporting the Honest Heart Collective. Here's where and when you can see us!
09/24 Sudbury
09/25 Ottawa
09/26 Kingston
09/27 Montréal
10/01 London
10/02 Toronto
It would be awesome to see you there!
09/24 Sudbury
09/25 Ottawa
09/26 Kingston
09/27 Montréal
10/01 London
10/02 Toronto
It would be awesome to see you there!
September 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
My band @survivalclubtheband.com is hitting the road next week for 6 shows in Ontario and Québec, supporting the Honest Heart Collective. Here's where and when you can see us!
09/24 Sudbury
09/25 Ottawa
09/26 Kingston
09/27 Montréal
10/01 London
10/02 Toronto
It would be awesome to see you there!
09/24 Sudbury
09/25 Ottawa
09/26 Kingston
09/27 Montréal
10/01 London
10/02 Toronto
It would be awesome to see you there!
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Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)
September 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)
I am way too excited for my 10k trail run tomorrow. Treherne is always one of my favourite weekends of the year. There's less than 50 people signed up for the trail runs (there's around 450 for the marathon/half/etc). Fall colours. Actual elevation!
September 19, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I am way too excited for my 10k trail run tomorrow. Treherne is always one of my favourite weekends of the year. There's less than 50 people signed up for the trail runs (there's around 450 for the marathon/half/etc). Fall colours. Actual elevation!
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part of doing a large project is just managing your own belief that the thing you imagine can exist, will exist, that somewhere within what you're making it already is.
September 18, 2026 at 9:24 PM
part of doing a large project is just managing your own belief that the thing you imagine can exist, will exist, that somewhere within what you're making it already is.
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the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor
September 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM
the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor
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It’s flooring to think about what happened Swartz and Altman is just doing what he’s doing
OpenAI employees circumvented paywalls to scrape training data from sites like NYT, per un-redacted court docs.
An alleged violation of JSTOR's terms of service set federal prosecutors on Aaron Swartz, even though the parties had already settled. Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann disregarded that.
An alleged violation of JSTOR's terms of service set federal prosecutors on Aaron Swartz, even though the parties had already settled. Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann disregarded that.
Sam Altman and Aaron Swartz Saw the Future
The inaugural class of the YCombinator venture capital/startup accelerator was photographed in 2005. YCombinator provides seed money and advice to promising startups in exchange for a percentage of eq...
flaminghydra.com
September 17, 2026 at 11:26 PM
It’s flooring to think about what happened Swartz and Altman is just doing what he’s doing
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a guy in a tesla honked at me because i was a tiny bit in the street taking this picture. i moved aside and he rolled down his window to ask, with furrowed brow, "why take pictures of nothing?". he drove off before i could answer maybe the stupidest question i've ever been asked #coolpicturesbynicky
September 17, 2026 at 11:53 PM
a guy in a tesla honked at me because i was a tiny bit in the street taking this picture. i moved aside and he rolled down his window to ask, with furrowed brow, "why take pictures of nothing?". he drove off before i could answer maybe the stupidest question i've ever been asked #coolpicturesbynicky
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everyone is trying to sell you on their view of the world at all times
September 17, 2026 at 11:07 PM
everyone is trying to sell you on their view of the world at all times
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Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
September 16, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
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It's publication day for my new book, THE PLAYER AND THE PLAYED: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st Century Fascism, now out open access (free) from @mitpress.bsky.social
September 15, 2026 at 10:16 AM
It's publication day for my new book, THE PLAYER AND THE PLAYED: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st Century Fascism, now out open access (free) from @mitpress.bsky.social
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Shape of You sounds like its by a one hit wonder named GrandpaBoy who died in a razor scooter accident before he could record a second song
September 16, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Shape of You sounds like its by a one hit wonder named GrandpaBoy who died in a razor scooter accident before he could record a second song
The Jays go from having a perfect game in the 6th to losing 6-5. This season hurts so bad.
September 15, 2026 at 2:20 AM
The Jays go from having a perfect game in the 6th to losing 6-5. This season hurts so bad.
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the danger of AI, specifically in the "rogue AI hacking" stuff, is less that it's doing anything novel or "emergent," but much more that it is like handing over a enterprise-grade red-teaming tool suite to anybody that will pay them a subscription
A little weird that the pro-AI position is that it could potentially kill all of humanity and the anti-AI position is that it definitely won't.
FWIW I think there's a range of plausible outcomes for e.g. rogue AI hacking that are very bad even if you take human extinction off the table.
FWIW I think there's a range of plausible outcomes for e.g. rogue AI hacking that are very bad even if you take human extinction off the table.
September 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
the danger of AI, specifically in the "rogue AI hacking" stuff, is less that it's doing anything novel or "emergent," but much more that it is like handing over a enterprise-grade red-teaming tool suite to anybody that will pay them a subscription
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It's amazing how many "before the industrial revolution" takes can be demolished by flipping open almost any page of the diary of Samuel Pepys. For example, he meticulously documented MANY woodland rambles, with and without groping of women, for "country pleasure and good ayre."
The Washington Post opinion section is an elaborate experiment to find the least compelling angle on everything
September 13, 2026 at 7:25 PM
It's amazing how many "before the industrial revolution" takes can be demolished by flipping open almost any page of the diary of Samuel Pepys. For example, he meticulously documented MANY woodland rambles, with and without groping of women, for "country pleasure and good ayre."
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You can just unfollow people. It’s free and often healthy
September 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM
You can just unfollow people. It’s free and often healthy
5k done. I might've squeaked in under 30m, we'll see. Sprinted past some much-younger people the last few hundred metres. Last year I had to pull out of all my races with right knee pain, so I'm proud of this; I'm not young anymore. Trail run at Treherne next week.
September 13, 2026 at 4:18 PM
5k done. I might've squeaked in under 30m, we'll see. Sprinted past some much-younger people the last few hundred metres. Last year I had to pull out of all my races with right knee pain, so I'm proud of this; I'm not young anymore. Trail run at Treherne next week.
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September 13, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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Looking for published Canadian poets interested in form poems to answer a few questions on form and give me the permission to use one of their form poems for a manuscript I am working on! Please contact me at [email protected] #canlit. THANK YOU!
September 11, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Looking for published Canadian poets interested in form poems to answer a few questions on form and give me the permission to use one of their form poems for a manuscript I am working on! Please contact me at [email protected] #canlit. THANK YOU!
RedHawks 6 - 5 Goldeyes. Fargo-Moorhead sweeps Winnipeg out of the playoffs. Poor umpiring misses several calls at 1st for the Goldeyes, and calls an out at 2nd for a basepath violation that would've given the Goldeyes a run. One of the worst-umpired games I've witnessed. A brutal end to the season
September 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM
RedHawks 6 - 5 Goldeyes. Fargo-Moorhead sweeps Winnipeg out of the playoffs. Poor umpiring misses several calls at 1st for the Goldeyes, and calls an out at 2nd for a basepath violation that would've given the Goldeyes a run. One of the worst-umpired games I've witnessed. A brutal end to the season
Misread this ad as ZERO MERCY TO THE MACHINES, which would be a killer band name.
September 11, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Misread this ad as ZERO MERCY TO THE MACHINES, which would be a killer band name.