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Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦
@markdykeman.bsky.social
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Canadian | New Brunswicker | Gex X | pens | paper | notebooks | 90s PC games | public libraries | the Moon | music | reading | introvert | writing | kindness. He/Him. https://buttondown.com/markdykeman
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Look what I got @dawnymock.bsky.social !
A photo of the book Save the Earth(lings) by Dawn Mockler. The cover picture is a cartoon of Earth with a flying saucer to the right, with aliens in the saucer exclaiming Swipe Left!
July 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Sometimes unrelated posts line up (apologies, I'm not doing detailed ALT Text for this but basically these skeets describe traditional beauty standards for women, including skin care, and some rejection thereof)
skeets about female beauty standards and some rejection thereof
July 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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New shoes, because I didn't have anything between dress shoes for work and running shoes.
A pair of Kharkiv men's shoes from Denver Hayes, sold at my namesake store aka Mark's.
June 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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I love how these skeets appeared in sequence.
A couple posts separate skeets about a hawk in their backyard. One of them posted a photo of the hawk on their lawn, it's a Cooper's Hawk.
April 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Idea for working on creative projects in coil bound #notebooks - use multiple lined post it notes (sticky notes) to create a table of contents or index - easier to rearrange/replace #gaming #writing #creativity #journals #ttrpg #solorpg.
A coil bound notebook with 3 lined post it notes used as a table of contents describing what is in the notebook
January 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I don't usually do these things but if I can be considered a rising star at my age I'll take it!
From blueskywrapped.com. My most active month was December. Total posts = 2164. Longest streak = 56 days. I'm ranked as a Rising Star.
December 29, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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A couple of images from a work in progress - early days. Also, if this resembles any game that you've seen it played before (excluding D&D), please let me know! #ttrpg #dicegames #spaceexplorationgames
A diagram called Star System and Planet Creation with Zones representing parts of a galaxy, Star Systems representing individual stars, each possibly containing a number of planets. Each Zone contains up to 10 Star Systems, while each Star System contains up to 10 planets. There's another note at the bottom right of the page: but there are other enormous objects in space... The page is handwritten and drawn on lined paper, you can see coiled rings holding this notebook together on the left hand side of the page. This page describes some of the rules of a dice and card TTRPG in progress tentatively named Galaxy Explorer. This is version 0.3, so it's an early early version. If you've read this far, thanks! More pictures and information to come! This page is titled Random Encounter Table (First Encounter). Roll 2d6 (two six sided dice) to see the value of your roll. Scores of 2 to 12 yield different Values which describe something that will happen on a planet when your spaceship lands on it for the first time. The Values could have positive, negative or neutral results. The word Subtable is written beside many Values, which means that a different table is used to determine the detailed results of the Random Encounter. The page is handwritten and drawn on lined paper, you can see coiled rings holding this notebook together on the left hand side of the page. This page describes some of the rules of a dice and card TTRPG in progress tentatively named Galaxy Explorer. This is version 0.3, so it's an early early version. If you've read this far, thanks! More pictures and information to come!
December 27, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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Some pics
Book cover, a notebook made by repurposing a used book cover, the notebook's title is Media Consumption Notes. The spine of a repurposed hard book cover, called Media Consumption Notes. A very poor and ugly book binding job. A notebook index, handwritten, with page numbers written in smeared ink which smeared when Scotch tape was put over the numbers.
December 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Viz a video my earlier skeet Ihave accepted this challenge.
A photo of an expensive Reese's peanut butter cup that weighs 226 grams or half a pound. Called a half pound cup, oddly enough. It's possible this is too much peanut butter cup, being 5 to 10 times larger than the typical peanut butter cup.
December 7, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Do not fall for this one
markhamil1.bsky.social is not the real Mark Hamill - beware!
November 18, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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Was going through an old bullet journal and was going to toss it but I decided to preserve this journal entry from Jan. 6, 2021. The riot/incursion, etc. occurred on the day Electoral College vote certification, hardly a coincidence.
The bullet journal entry from January 6, 2021 clearly notes a rally that turned into a riot at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on the day of the Electoral College vote count where Donald Trump was defeated by Joe Biden despite attempts by then President Trump to interfere with the due, time honored process of accepting a vote count.
November 17, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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First a red sunrise this morning that reminded me of Krypton in the fall, now this, it's all too much!
September 17, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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I didn't buy these because of the Keats quote, I bought them because they are 5 hard covered notebooks totalling about 1,000 blank pages for $20. I couldn't resist!
A book shelf featuring a slipcase containing 5 hardcovered notebooks. The following quotation is written across the spines of the books: give me books, fruit, French wine, and fine weather and a little music out of doors... Quotation from John Keats.
September 2, 2023 at 8:10 PM
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Selfie because... shrugs? Also trying ALT text.
A middle aged man with short brown hair, glasses slightly askew over a slightly deviated nose. Eyebrows a bit wild on the sides. Crows feet and furrows (light) across his forehead. Chicken pox scar to one side of head barely visible. Two days worth of stubble: this is a fellow who doesn't grow beards. Eye color looks green but is really hazel. Seated in a bluish easy chair, back barely visible. Brownish bookshelf to one side, bottom corner of navy blue picture frame to the other side. The eyes look kind but the grin is a bit forced, that of a person who is not used to having his photo taken. My apologies to any sight-impaired readers for the amount of text for you to read through! Hope you are having a good day!
August 6, 2023 at 11:42 PM