Hobby Jones
@hobjones.bsky.social
I cook, clean, keep house, deliver parts, write books, make up goofy little songs, sell comics. Poet, fictionist, dad. Unqualified, uncredentialed, and unaffiliated.
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The artes and humanityes are the soul of innovacioun
December 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The artes and humanityes are the soul of innovacioun
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The first episode of Backlisted was published on 30th November 2015, ten years ago today. @backlisted.bsky.social
‘We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever.’ - J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country 🙏
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/1-j...
‘We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever.’ - J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country 🙏
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/1-j...
1. J. L. Carr - A Month in the Countr — Backlisted
In the first episode of a new podcast about books, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by novelist Lissa Evans and Unbound's Mathew Clayton to discuss J.L. Carr's A Month In The Country. If y...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The first episode of Backlisted was published on 30th November 2015, ten years ago today. @backlisted.bsky.social
‘We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever.’ - J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country 🙏
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/1-j...
‘We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever.’ - J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country 🙏
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/1-j...
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Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
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“There is no grief like the grief for your younger self, and the world you seemed to inhabit.” - Virgil S. Dinwiddie
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“There is no grief like the grief for your younger self, and the world you seemed to inhabit.” - Virgil S. Dinwiddie
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The opening page of 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens is always a treat.
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The opening page of 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens is always a treat.
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Here's a wacky commission I recently finished-- A mash-up between Batman and Watchmen. Oh, with Dennis the menace thrown in for good measure! See comments for original cover.
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Here's a wacky commission I recently finished-- A mash-up between Batman and Watchmen. Oh, with Dennis the menace thrown in for good measure! See comments for original cover.
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My quote of the day
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
My quote of the day
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Waiting for the punk rock renaissance. The time is ripe for it.
September 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Waiting for the punk rock renaissance. The time is ripe for it.
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Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"
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But as I travel’d hither through the land,
I find the people strangely fantasied,
Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams,
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.
I find the people strangely fantasied,
Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams,
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.
August 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
But as I travel’d hither through the land,
I find the people strangely fantasied,
Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams,
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.
I find the people strangely fantasied,
Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams,
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.
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"All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an unanticipated phenomenon occurs again & again–finally turning into an expectation–then theories are overturned." - Stephen Jay Gould
June 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
"All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an unanticipated phenomenon occurs again & again–finally turning into an expectation–then theories are overturned." - Stephen Jay Gould
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Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.
June 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.
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A fun thing to do, if you like books and book mail and supporting independent literature, is to join our book club malarkeybooks.com/store/2025
2025 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy yourself, or someone else, or lots of people, the gift of book mail with our 2025 book club bundle. You’ll get five books, however many issues of King Ludd’s Rag we end up making, and Hellarkey. P...
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June 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A fun thing to do, if you like books and book mail and supporting independent literature, is to join our book club malarkeybooks.com/store/2025
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I don't know about moving to another planet, but I suggest anyone with access to wildlife collect as many seeds and bulbs and cuttings as may be needed to propagate them should you move to another location . Also, just grow more stuff in your own backyard.
May 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I don't know about moving to another planet, but I suggest anyone with access to wildlife collect as many seeds and bulbs and cuttings as may be needed to propagate them should you move to another location . Also, just grow more stuff in your own backyard.
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I think about this every day
May 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I think about this every day
I have a theory that the state of the world might be understood as the plot of Murder on the Orient Express. I won't spoil it if you haven't read the book or seen the film adaptations. Another theory: it could be The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
May 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I have a theory that the state of the world might be understood as the plot of Murder on the Orient Express. I won't spoil it if you haven't read the book or seen the film adaptations. Another theory: it could be The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
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It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
May 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
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I 100% would have used ChatGPT for homework when I was in school, because homework sucked ass. However, if I hadn't been forced to bullshit a lot of essays 15 minutes before class I wouldn't have learned that I enjoy writing. The moral is to destroy both ChatGPT and homework.
May 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I 100% would have used ChatGPT for homework when I was in school, because homework sucked ass. However, if I hadn't been forced to bullshit a lot of essays 15 minutes before class I wouldn't have learned that I enjoy writing. The moral is to destroy both ChatGPT and homework.