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Mark A. Rayner
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Human-shaped, simian-obsessed, robot-fighting, pirate-hearted, storytelling junkie, Mark A. Rayner is an award-winning writer of satirical & speculative fiction.
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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.com · Aug 22
Howdy Bluesky!

I write #ScienceFiction, #humor and some literary fiction. I teach at a university.

My cats are keeping me sane. (Ish.)

If you want to understand my rich inner life, I recommend this #book: Alpha Max geni.us/AlphaMax

Hear my voice at:
re-creative.ca

#SFF #humour #writing
B&W Photo of Mark lying on pillow with hands behind his head thinking: "Life is too important to be taken seriously." ~Oscar Wilde
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Guilty of all of these except lawful good and neutral good.

I'm a monster.

#books #book #bookstodon #humor #humour #dnd #alignment
bookmark alignment chart lawful good: book ribbon neutral good: sentence pointer chaotic good: scrap paper, recipts lawful neutral: memorizing the page number true neutral: proper bookmark chaotic neutral: leaf lawful evil: e-book neutral evil: leaving the book face down chaotic evil: dog ear
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Oh, I'm sorry, did you have to hand this in to your professor on Monday?

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #monday #humor #humour
white and black cat looking up innocently from a set of papers that have been ripped up
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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She seems nice.

#sundayfunday #humor #humour
black and white photo of a young woman with an assortment of knives laid out before her, smiling in what can only be described as a murderous way
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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When your cheat day is also #caturday.

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #cute #humor #humour
a small grey kitten chomping on a baguette that is almost as big as it is
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Unless you're in the world of The Fridgularity.

https://geni.us/TheFridgularity
https://books2read.com/u/492V00
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-fridgularity-mark-a-rayner/1bda57a97bb32c76

#books #book #sciencefiction #sff #singularity #ai
simple drawing of fridge looking at a screen with the label: on the internet of things nobody knows you're a fridge
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I don't care what the Boomers say. The 50s were terrifying.

#Photoshopped #vintageads #humor #humour #boomers
old ad photoshopped to advertise Chase and Sanborn "Instant Mock baby". Two women smelling the jars ecstatically with the label: you small the rich baby flavor!
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Seems legit.

#freecandy #aliens #humor #humour
a rusty white van with the words "Free Candy" spraypainted on the side with two grey aliens inside
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Baby: it's what's for dinner!

#humor #humour #weird #signs
a microwave that says: "child" in the screen and a label on the image that says: "When your microwave demands a sacrifice."
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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A little something to help with the post-timeshift Monday blues: a dog eating celery. [sound on!]

#dog #dogs #dogstodon #dogsofmastodon #cute #asmr #humor #humour

[description: a golden retriever happily munching on a very crunchy piece of celery with the phrase […]

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November 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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This is 10,000 nunspotting points. No arguments , please.

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #nun #nuns #humor #humour
a cat dressed in a little nun outfit
November 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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A day late, but prime #caturday fuel: The Great Pumpkat

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #cute #humor #humour #halloween

[description: a cute grey kitten wearing a witches hat sitting in an orange blanket-lined bowl]
November 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Have a spooky Halloween everyone!

#dog #dogs #dogstodon #dogsofmastodon #humor #humour #halloween
a dog dressed as a ghost, with it's muzzle sticking through the boo hole
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Like this weird dog, I have busy plans for the weekend.

#iknowitsabear #bear #polarbear #humor #humour #weekend #friday
a polar bear lying on its belly with it's head hidden in a pool
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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In Canada, Halloween Moose kicks The Great Pumpkin's ass, every time.

#moose #Meese #mooses #humor #humour #halloween

[description: a huge bull moose eats jackolanterns by the street.]
October 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Just a reminder to my Halloween-deranged neighbors, it's hard to top this dude.

#halloween #vladtheimpaler #yarddecorations
painting of vlad the impaler, with the caption: halloween yard decoration champion, 1456-1462
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I think this video may have been altered.

#obiwankenobi #ewanmcgregor #otters #humor #humour

[description: Ewan McGregor points to six otters in the sea. The video cuts to one of the otters with an obviously fake mouth on it, saying: "That's fucking Obi Wan Kenobi."
October 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Monday dog explosion cuteness. [sound on!]

#dog #dogs #dogstodon #dogsofmastodon #humor #humour #cute #orf

[description: a wooden gate opens and dozens of dogs burst through in slow motion as Carl Orff's O Fortuna plays dramatically]
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Roo reaction

[description: kangaroo checking out a Halloween display is scared by the cackling skeleton -- you can see the roo running away far down the street]

#kangaroo #roo #animal #halloween #humor #humour
October 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Really shouldn't have had that peyote milkshake for breakfast

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #caturday #humor #humour
A tabby cat sitting in a sink, looking shocked as it sees itself in a convex mirror.
October 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I'm enjoying this new genre of jump scare video.

[description: a possum eating candy from a bowl is surprised by a robot witch as it cackles -- jumps straight up.]

#possum #animal #halloween #jumpscare #humor #humour
October 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Sharing this. Sorry. I don't know what's wrong with me.

#lotr #austinpowers #pun #puns #humor #humour
Still of Frodo Baggins from LOTR movies, with his face swapped with Austin Powers (in the 'british teeth' era.) Label: Frodo Shaggins
October 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Missed opportunity to call it the "spokeslizard."

#simulation #lizardpeople #humor #humour
Lizardman in a blue suit. Headline: Overlords Apologies, Will Reset Simulation to 2015 Caption: "We just wanted to see what you would do," explains spokesman.
October 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The labeling on this Inspector Gadget toy is wrong.

#weird #design #humor #humour
Fake toy packaging: Image of C3PO. Actual toy of Iron Man. They Toy is labelled T-800. The package says: "Robotcop - America's favorite cyborg" (Ages 4 and up, Kenner)
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Hmm. The #aws #outrage reminds me a bit of The Fridgularity -- in which a rogue AI takes over all the internet and only wants to talk to one human via his web-enabled fridge. (The book is 13 years old now, but I think it's aging pretty well.) […]

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cover art for the fridgularity by mark a rayner -- an old timey fridge with a raven on top, in front of an apocalyptic sky
October 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Too derpy to understand gravity.

#dog #dogs #dogstodon #dogsofmastodon #humor #humour
a husky looking excited as it apparently stands on a brick wall
October 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM