Someone should write some cautionary sci-fi literature about the dangers of artificial intelligence.
That Paul Moffett
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Medieval Arthurian scholar and sessional instructor at Memorial U of Newfoundland. Principal of Clockworks Academy. He/him
Some years I clarify that it's Canadian Thanksgiving, but I think there's like a 40% chance the American version is going to be renamed "Trumpsgiving" or something so it's a moot point.
How much of something do you have to have done yourself with your own body for it to count as something YOU did? Take making a cake, for example. Did you make the cake if you bought it from a store? If no, what about icing a cake that you bought? Hiring a baker? Using a cake mix? Where's the line?
Why are literary editors spending their Sundays rejecting me? Don't they have something better to do?
I'm loving being in a classroom this semester. I don't know if it's just been too long since I was teaching in person or if we've turned a post-covid corner or both but my classes seem really especially full of bright thoughtful insightful creative students and it's a delight.
Canada is doing the opposite of a Brexit. What are we calling it? Entranada?
In retrospect, should they have made Cyclops' optic blasts green or something so people didn't always think they were lasers or heat vision?
A study in contrasts, in a convenience store in Ypres.
Went to the top of the tower in Bruges with an Irishman, but everyone survived!
Spotted Tingle from Legend of Zelda in the Royal Museum of Art in Antwerp.
Spotted Tingle from Legend of Zelda in the Royal Museum of Art in Antwerp.
Prometheus is not having a good day, but the eagle is.
Illuminated Pontificate (book for leading liturgical worship) in the KBR museum in Brussels, where I currently am.
It turns out photographs do steal your soul. If you just give them enough time.
Did Interdict Pumpkinpatch and Soft-duvet Grey-toupee ever do a movie together? That one about Bob Dylan, right?
TFW someone bothers you with trifles when, after twenty years at last your father's soul will be at peace.
A short story I wrote was published! Read it here! And tell me what you think! brightflash1000.com/2026/08/03/h...
Housesitting
By Paul Moffett I was only supposed to feed the cat. Martin asked me to check in on his apartment over the weekend. Feed his cat, water his plants. Check for robbers under the bed, I guess. Now, Ma…
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How good do you imagine different classical composers were as visual artists? Mozart was good, right? But Beethoven couldn't draw a stick figure.
Gary Oldman & Paper Boat in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Alt: Gary Oldman & Paper Boat in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
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Professor Edward Birack@nicosan1.bsky.social · 3mo agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.