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Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦

@markdykeman.bsky.social

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Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 2h

That's it for me. Night.

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 2h

The fellas have their work cut out for them. #BlueJays

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 3h

NGL, getting nervous here. ##BlueJays

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 3h

Solid pitching on both sides so far. #BlueJays

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 3h

a close up of a man 's face with a tear running down his cheek .

Alt: a close up of a man 's face with a tear running down his cheek . Dawson Leary from Dawson's Creek.

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Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 3h

Keith, I'm with you.

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 4h

2nd inning - nice job, Gausman. #bluejays

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 4h

That must have hurt like hell- Lukes got the walk though. #BlueJays

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 4h

Springer! #BlueJays

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 4h

Let's get out of this inning. #BlueJays

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 4h

Game time! #BlueJays

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 5h

Dubious about Uno expansion packs.

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 10h

Awesome!!!

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 16h

New to me as well!

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 16h

I *may* have slept more than 9 hours last night, which is hard to believe, plus I had two short naps during the day.

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 16h

I can grok at least 3 of those! I think I deserve a silver star! 😁

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 16h

LinkedIn and Bluesky are two completely different worlds, man.

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 16h

I do like this.

MakesMeWannaUke🇨🇦 @makesmewannauke.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving Canada

Be thankful for the little things, for they are the most important.

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 1d

Rebarbative [ree-BAR-buh-tiv]
(adj.)
- Causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
- Unattractive and objectionable.
- Fearsome; forbidding.

Use:
“Harold’s rebarbative disposition lingered in the air like mothballs and melancholy; even the dusty old taxidermy seemed to recoil.”

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19h

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 1d

Crap, swap out 1st Space Shuttle launch with the launch of the VCR

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

1. Introduction of the metric system
2. Wrath of Khan
3. 1st Space Shuttle launch
4. Challenger explosion
5. MuchMusic debut

Amanda Moses @warpizza.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

1 JonBenet Ramsay
2 Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky
3 Princess Diana
4 Dolly the cloned sheep
5 OJ Simpson

Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1d

What 5 events defined your childhood? (babyhood for the 1st one)

1. Pierre Laporte Dead in a Car Trunk
2. Pierre Trudeau twirling behind the Queen’s back
3. Stagflation
4. The Threat of Nuclear Winter
5. The Montreal Summer Olympics

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 1d

They look delicious

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 1d

Shelf assembly this afternoon... whew. I could nap.

Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦 @markdykeman.bsky.social · 1d

Tres cool.