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Hyping The Grey Fox to my kids who’ve spent the holidays playing Red Dead Redemption.

January 3, 2026 at 5:37 AM

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#Versedle #748 5/6
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VERSEDLE

Test your literary knowledge with Versedle!

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January 3, 2026 at 4:42 AM

Elephant Mastodon

@emath.bsky.social

Dream baby dream #hotdogcode

Blurry photo of 7-Eleven trash in the rain.

January 3, 2026 at 4:39 AM

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@emath.bsky.social

Sorry haters

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January 3, 2026 at 4:31 AM

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@emath.bsky.social

Real Mo Willems moment. #hotdogcode

Pigeons gather beside a hot dog cart, downtown Vancouver.

January 2, 2026 at 11:10 PM

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@emath.bsky.social

No Marty more supreme than this.

January 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM

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January 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM

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Michael Rancic

@therewasnosound.bsky.social

hey i wrote a history of electronic music in canada from 1945-1985. it's called A Nation of Tinkerers and it's now available to pre-order through @invisibooks.bsky.social!

invisiblepublishing.com/product/a-na...

A Nation of Tinkerers: A History of Canadian Electronic Music from 1945–1985 · Invisible Publishing

From university labs to home-built studios, A Nation of Tinkerers charts the evolution of Canadian electronic music.

invisiblepublishing.com

January 2, 2026 at 7:08 PM

Elephant Mastodon

@emath.bsky.social

The delivery guy from “Money for Nothing” climbed the ladder.

Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 1d

images from a folder labeled "comics" gathered 1999-2025
(168/≆800)

Black and white REX LIBRIS page by James Turner. https://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/cr_holiday_interview_17/
9 panels, 4-2-3 stack. 7 of the panels are "editor-type" talking in a 3/4 view. 2 panels with Rex from editor POV. Talking heads done right.

Boss: REX, REX, REX! GET WITH THE PROGRAM, FELLA! OF COURSE YOU'VE HEARD OF THAT BEFORE! COME ON! THERE IS NO 'NEW.' DO YOU SEE NEW COKE? NO! THAT'S A FOOLS ERRAND, MY FRIEND!
Rex: BUT YOU JUST SAID...
B: LISTEN REX: ALL WE DO IS PUT OLD STUFF TOGETHER IN NEW WAYS. CREATIVITY IS INCREMENTAL, MY BOY! ONLY THE IGNORANT FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT. LET ME TELL YOU A STORY...
B: OKAY... ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WERE TWO BRICK-LAYERS, OKAY? IMAGINE THESE TWO GUYS...
B: BROTHERS. NOW. THE TWO OF THEM HAVE A PILE OF BRICKS EACH, AND THEY CAN BUILD WHATEVER THEY WANT. SO, THE FIRST ONE STARTS TO LAY BRICKS, FIRST IN A ROW, THEN, OFFSET, ANOTHER ROW ON TOP. THE SECOND BROTHER JUST STANDS THERE AND WATCHES FOR A BIT, THEN HE CRITIQUES HIS BROTHER.
B: "THAT'S EXACTLY HOW EVERYONE ELSE LAYS BRICKS!" HE SAYS TO HIS BROTHER. "THAT IS TOTALLY UNORIGINAL. I'VE SEEN BRICKS LAID LIKE THAT IN EVERY BUILDING IN THE WHOLE CITY! YOU COPYCAT!!" THE FIRST BROTHER IGNORES HIM AND CONTINUES TO BUILD. LAYER AFTER LAYER OF BRICKS GOES UP. NEW PATTERNS EMERGE IN THE LAYOUT OF BRICKS.
B: EVENTUALLY, A BUILDING STARTS TO TAKE SHAPE. AND PEOPLE GATHER ROUND. THEY GAWK IN AWE. WHY? BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH THE ELEMENTS OF THE BUILDING ARE OLD, THE SUM OF THE PARTS IS NEW. INNOVATIVE, EXCITING, FRESH. SEE?
R: HUH! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FIRST BROTHER? WHAT WAS HIS BUILDING LIKE? DID HE BUILD ANYTHING AT ALL?
B: NO, NOT A BLESSED THING, MY BOY! YOU SEE? TO BUILD YOU HAVE TO USE WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, OR YOU GO NOWHERE. THE SUM IS GREATER THAN THE PARTS. FROM ORDINARY BRICKS, YOU CAN BUILD AN ARCHITECTURAL MASTERPIECE! BUT YOU HAVE TO USE THE INNOVATIONS OF THE PAST TO BUILD THE FUTURE. WELL. SORT OF.... NO STORY IS PERFECT, SON!

January 2, 2026 at 6:52 PM

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Bright Wall/Dark Room

@brightwalldarkroom.com

"Bill Forsyth’s 1983 masterpiece LOCAL HERO is perhaps the greatest film ever made about attuning to the frequency of a place, of someone fitting in where they least expected."

I Feel Like I've Been Here Forever - Local Hero (1983) | BW/DR

Bill Forsyth’s 1983 masterpiece Local Hero is perhaps the greatest film ever made about attuning to the frequency of a place.

www.brightwalldarkroom.com

August 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM

Elephant Mastodon

@emath.bsky.social

all your quicksand fantasies come true in GRAIN BIN

jam @socialistboat.dad · 13h

take the opportunity with this new year to familiarize yourself with the fact that grain engulfment can happen to anyone

U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration illustration of grain entrapment

A drawing of a man in work clothes with his legs submerged in grain and a worried look on his face. A text overlay reads "It takes only two to three seconds to become helpless in flowing grain."

There is an inset of a grain silo in cross section showing crusted grain at the surface, voids below, and a person's silhouette sinking into the grain.

January 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM

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@emath.bsky.social

Things fall apart

Gas station accoutrement: Windshield Centre.

January 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM

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@emath.bsky.social

The satires of my youth were too subtle.

A panel from Marshal Law by Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill. A superhero, Marshal Law, in leather and spikes with “fear and loathing” written across his abdomen holds another costumed figure by the cowl—their costume mixes imagery from Superman and Captain America with “big bastard” written across the chest. Marshal Law says: JUST
ANOTHER
LOUSY
DAY
IN
PARADISE

January 2, 2026 at 3:40 PM

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@emath.bsky.social

Léo Malet:

newspaper see ••
From 1930 to 1940 he belonged to the Surrealist Group and was a close friend of André Breton, René Magritte and Yves Tanguy. During that time he published several collections of poetry.
In 1943, inspired by the American writers Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett, he created Nestor Burma, the Parisian private detective whose first mystery, 120 Rue de la Gare was an instant success and marked the beginning of a new era in French detective fiction.

January 2, 2026 at 3:03 PM

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Eric Williams

@geoliminal.bsky.social

good day to grab one of these book fair copies from me, since i'll be heading to the post office later, hint hint

Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 1d

resolve to read more weird fiction in 2026. to help you, why not purchase my book of original weird fic, TOADSTONES, published by (but out of stock at) @malarkeybooks.bsky.social BUT currently available from the box under my desk! $25 (that includes S+H, btw!) AND i'll draw a weird lil guy for you!

January 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM