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Mike Hasko
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You might know me as @mhasko from the bird site
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It took me a year to believe it was over
And it took me two more to get over the loss, woah-woah
I took a beating when you wrote me those letters
And every time I remembered the taste of your lip gloss

Enid, we never really knew each other anyway
Enid, we never really knew each other anyway
Pope Leo holding a microphone on a stand similar to a lead rock vocalist in the middle of one of their power verses.
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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When a Pez collector makes it to the Pez factory and museum.
October 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Sticked curled all last spring cause my legs couldn't handle getting in the hack. Futures League started tonight, spent it all getting down to the ice. Fell on my knee about 15 times total. Sore all over, can only sweep about 10% of what I was doing in May

Can't wait for next week. #curling #pcc
Shot of 2 curling sheets at the Pittsburgh Curling Club. There are descending stairs in the foreground
September 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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This is one of those albums that, for me, I have to listen to in one go, from start to finish, no shuffle, no skips. The balance between manic energy and somber ballads makes this a personal road trip album.
The second cover of Barenaked Ladies first studio album Gordon. A ball appears in the center of the image, the left hemisphere red, the right hemisphere blue, and a wide vertical white stripe down the center between the two. The band's name is in white on top, with a font made of worn or broken up letters. The name of the album, Gordon, is below the ball, in a sci-fi type of font, the text also in white. The background is made of black and violet stripes that vertically reflect around the lower third of the image.
September 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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3D-Printed out this little pen and notebook holder.

File was on thingiverse:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:1723116
August 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Do you feel like a hero yet?
The cover of the video game Spec Ops: The Line. The top half of a special forces man stands in the foreground. The top half of his face is dirty and bloodied, the lower half of his face is covered in a mask. A rifle is in his right hand, pointing up. The lower half of his torso is dissolving into falling sand, with dream like images of solders walking on a highway full of abondanded cars which merge into a a tattered American flag. The upper right background is an image of single helicopter against a massive sand cloud, and the left side of the background has another helicopter with what looks like 2 soldiers descending on rope lines. In the lower right hand corner are the red boxlike logo for 2k Games and the black logo for Yager games, which is a stylized eye with a human torso as the pupil next to the word Yager
July 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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At TropiCurl in Pittsburgh to catch a bit of end of year curling. #curling
June 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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It's an election night in Pittsburgh!
May 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Pen and ink from Birmingham Pen Company (Alumina pen medium nib with Gunpowder ink). With a "Subtle Notebook" from Cortex.
A silver fountain pen rests upon a 5 inch by 8 inch notebook with a blue cover and a tiny Cortex brand logo stamped in the upper right.
April 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Post your favorite Doctor Who, wrong answers only
Jeremy Irons in HBO's Watchmen Series
March 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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New-ish ink day. Got a few bottles of Birmingham Pen Co ink for Christmas, giving Butcher's Broom a spin. Pen was my first fountain pen I got as a gift over 20 years ago, don't know the brand. It's battered and beat up but keeps working
A capped bottle of ink with the label Writing Ink, Butcher's Broom, Birmingham Pen Co. Below that is an uncapped fountain pen in a dark blue body, and a collection of ink swatches with the redish orange ink on the top swatch
February 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Let's do this Monday morning. Since I'm still feeling the pain from curling this weekend, figured I'd break out this mug
A selfie of Michael, looking tired before having coffee. He is wearing a N7 hoodie and holding a curling stone coffee mug. In the background are plushies of video game characters
February 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Home from holiday travel, time for fountain pen ink searching time with my gifted Birmingham Pen Co inks: Boiler Steam, Butcher's Broom, and Combine Harvester
Three ink swatches are in front of 3 capped glass bottles of ink. To the right is a large collection of other swatches of ink in ROY G BIV color order The 3 main swatches in the foreground are, left to right, a dark smoky blue called Boiler Steam, a brown/red mix called Butcher's Block. And a deep green called Combine Harvester
January 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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I generally have 4 or 5 on my desk.
A 3D printed stand holding 5 fountain pens and a few small notebooks
January 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Quote a title screen that is iconic to you.

I can hear this image because I always let it play out. It has no right to go as hard as it did
December 27, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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Proof I can curl
December 14, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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Time for my first curling lesson
December 14, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Using my fountain pen travel case for the first time. This is from Galen Leather and has already proven itself useful.
Leather case for fountain pens on a desk. The brown leather case is engraved with the letters PEZ in the lower right corner. The case is unzipped but unopened The interior of the leather pen case. Five different pens are inside the five loops on the left side.
November 27, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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So...um..
Balatro is the real deal. No pun intended. Here's my first win:
A deck of cards used in the Balatro game. Most of the number cards have been removed, with many face cards and aces added and modified A screen shot of the end screen of a Balatro match, showing the wild cards used. Left to right is trading card, used to remove cards from the deck, Smily Face a gold card with a smiley face used to give bonuses to face cards, Sly Joker a blue jester, used to give chip bonuses on a pair, Clever Joker a pastel jester used to give chip bonuses on 2 pair, and Raised Fist a red upraised fist on an red and orange background used to give a bonus based on double the value of the lowest card in hand
November 25, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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Introduce yourself with four video games!
Mass Effect 2 cover art Final Fantasy 14 login for the Shadowbringers Expansion Logo of the mobile game Ingress Key art for the MMO City of Heroes
November 25, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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Here's a video of the box opening and closing
November 22, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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My coffee Advent calendar from Onyx Coffee has arrived. Gonna be a good December:
A large black box with gold lettering of the Onyx Coffee Labs A list of the 24 coffees included in the Onyx Coffee Labs 2024 Advent calendar The fanning out of the pockets inside the Onyx Coffee Labs 2024 Advent calendar
November 22, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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Doodling campaign ideas at a coffee shop during the first snow of the year. #fountainpen
November 21, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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It's an ink refill day, going from orange to purple in my highlighting fountain pen. Using "Pop Art Purple" from Birmingham Inks. #fountainpen
A close up picture of an uncapped maroon Lamy fountain, a closed glass bottle of Birmingham Ink's Pop Art Purple ink, and a swatch of ink showing the range of colors the ink can produce
November 19, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Alright, I'm making my shot, this is how I predict tomorrow's election will turn out.
A map of the United States with fake election results. The parties listed as winning each state are UK parties, the joke being the juxaposition between the two countries.
November 4, 2024 at 4:11 PM