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Chris Bailey

@thischrisbailey

Author: WHAT YOUR HANDS HAVE DONE (@NightwoodEd), FORECAST: PRETTY BLEAK (@McClellandBooks). Commercial fisherman. Graphic Designer. Denim enthusiast.

 Prince Edward Island, Canada
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Joined March 2012
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An illustration I did of my father, based on a photo took a couple years ago after we came in from lobster fishing and raked 17,000lbs of gravel for the floor of his building in North Lake has won me the BMO First Art Award for PEI. It’ll be at the UoT Art Gallery Oct 26-Nov 19
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@edzitronOct 26
The Great Dunce Reveal
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@keithedwardsOct 25
this is so bleak
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Vince Mancini@VinceManciniOct 20
If you post one of those long ass, faux serious posts with 17 one-sentence paragraphs in a row, I have to assume it's either AI slop or you are a genuine dullard.
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We’ve automated jingling keys with frightening efficiency
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@unusual_whalesOct 19
BREAKING: President Trump is calling for New Mexico to be renamed New America, effective immediately.
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you're an idiot if you unfollow me on twitter. my tweets are funny, edgy, unfunny, lame - its always a surprise. spice up your life.
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Nora Loreto@NoLoreOct 17
oh come on now
Actual Names (@ActualNames1) profile pictureActual Names@ActualNames1Oct 17
Ottawa Police arrest Donald Popadick for indecent exposure in public park globalnews.ca/news/1300067/o…
Ottawa Police arrest Donald Popadick for indecent exposure in public park | Globalnews.ca

Ottawa Police arrest Donald Popadick for indecent exposure in public park | Globalnews.ca

A 62-year-old man has been charged after he was caught exposing himself in an Ottawa area park.

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Vince Mancini@VinceManciniOct 16
Being plainly incompetent enough to get fired by this administration is honestly inspiring
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@TMZOct 16
🚨 BREAKING: Katie Zacharia has been fired as the White House press secretary tmz.com/2026/10/16/katie-zac…
Katie Zacharia Fired as White House Press Secretary

Katie Zacharia Fired as White House Press Secretary

Katie Zacharia's White House career is apparently over before it even got started ... with President Trump's newest press secretary reportedly getting the boot after a week on the job.

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A poem from my new collection, The Shutdown Sequence, coming in Spring 2027 from @UofRPress, is a finalist for the @montrealprize. Read “New Adventures in Terraforming” and all the shortlisted poems here: montrealpoetryprize.com/2026… #poetry #poems
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It is theorized that today in 1000 A.D., Leif Erikson and his group landed in Newfoundland. And thus Norwegian black metal music was introduced to the Beothuk. They were not big fans.
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troglodyte@saddy_issuesOct 8
when I was in college, my professor asked Anne Carson if she would give a lecture on her translation of Sappho to the entire freshman class, because they’d been assigned the book and she just replied “Everything I have to say is in the text” lmao congrats queen
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this is my Mecca
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Brandy Jensen@BrandyLJensenOct 8
god I love her
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BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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mothman@grantisdumbOct 7
had to clip this moment from last night's Jeopardy immediately
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@AndyMSFWOct 6
guy inventing libraries in the big 26
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@andruyeungOct 5
We created gyms because modern day work no longer required physical activity. Without exercise, our muscles atrophy. I predict we’ll need gyms for our brains too, once AI starts doing our knowledge work.
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@edzitronOct 6
I was just saying this
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@atruparOct 6
Trump: "You need to be a student at the top of your class at MIT to turn on a lawnmower nowadays, you know? But I got rid of all that stuff. Now you can have a lawnmower."
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At the @festofauthors on October 29, series editor @laheyam and I will be presenting BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2027, and selected readings from some of the featured poets.
Graphic with the following text against a background showing the side profile of a smiling audience: Oct 28 - Nov 1, 2026 Toronto International Festival of Authors

ALT Graphic with the following text against a background showing the side profile of a smiling audience: Oct 28 - Nov 1, 2026 Toronto International Festival of Authors

Book cover featuring the following text: Best Canadian Poetry 2027 Selected by Tolu Oloruntoba

ALT Book cover featuring the following text: Best Canadian Poetry 2027 Selected by Tolu Oloruntoba

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Daniel D'Addario@DPD_Oct 6
Bugs Bunny threatening Elmer Fudd:
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@ElizabethHolmesOct 6
I really don't think you are ready for this doc
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Justin Halpern@justin_halpernOct 6
Sometimes I think about how I used to have a podcast called “Wild’n Out Without Nick Cannon” and Nick Cannon’s lawyer sent us a cease and desist that said you can’t wild out with or without Nick Cannon.
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Theodore Kaczynski, mathematician who was later jailed for misuse of the postal system, has died.
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“im the man with the ball im the man that can throw it faster than fuck” - Kenny powers said that on tv and it’s the best sentence any one has ever uttered
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