Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦
@ourmankoto
SF/F Writer | Aurora Award winner | World Fantasy & Locus Award finalist | Editor, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, SFWA Nebula Award Showcase anthologies | Ansible Press | Tesla: The Life & Times Podcast | Bonsai enthusiast | 🇨🇦+🇺🇦+🌳
I had to drop a friend at the airport today. The air at Pearson is cleaner (though still not great) than it is back home right now (!!!)
Doesn't surprise me. Doug's probably at his cottage. He couldn't be bothered to declare a SOE for the flooding in Ottawa, why worry about one for air quality up north? Also, this can't be a good sign when the govt air quality site gives you a 503 error, right?
We now have to have forecasts for smoke pollution due to wildfires thousands of kilometers away
You may want to plan on other ways to get to work tomorrow, too. Forecast is worse than today (and today is already an orange-level alert)
Huh. Why is the sky so yellow-orange this morning? * checks weather app * Ohh...
My Dutch-Canadian wife has sworn vendetta against Morocco for beating both her main (Netherlands) and backup (Canada) teams at the World Cup. Guess I should cross visiting Casablanca off my bucket list. Maybe Natalie Portman would join me... 🤔 #FWC26 #WeAre26 #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup2026 #Somos26
Awake Shake dreams from your hair, my pretty child, my sweet one / Choose the day / and choose the sign of your day / the day's divinity / First thing you see
I assume the results will be about as good as those from the no-bid contract for the reflecting pool 😂
This is like reading a headline saying "SCOTUS Reaffirms Water is Wet."
Looks like my marriage won't be tested by a Canada v Netherlands elimination game after all. Natalie: call me. #FWC26 #WeAre26 #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup2026 #Somos26
My wife (Dutch-Canadian) has already informed me that if it's Canada v Netherlands in the Round of 16, she's supporting the Dutch. Never thought it would be soccer that came between us. I always assumed/hoped it would be Natalie Portman #FWC26 #WeAre26 #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup2026 #Somos26
Turned on the news channel to find a story about fast food restaurants in the US switching to AI chatbots to take orders at drive-thrus. Switched over to the other news channel to learn of AI being rolled out for use in air traffic control. SMASH THE MACHINES.
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I don't know enough about the sport, so putting this out there for the fútbol experts: is bumping dicks a traditional form of celebrating a goal or is that a Team Canada innovation? #WorldCup2026 #copa2026 #copadomundo2026 #worldcup #copadomundo #fifa #fifaworldcup #fifaworldcup2026 #teamcanada
Am I the only Canadian who grew up with Tom Green as a media presence who doesn't find him a comedic genius or cultural icon? I can't think of anything I've ever seen him do that I've found entertaining. Trying to figure out his core viewership. How does he keep booking gigs?