Mark Dykeman 🇨🇦
@markdykeman.bsky.social
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Good morning - give it all.
November 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Good morning - give it all.
Saturday slothfulness.
November 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Saturday slothfulness.
Watched the first two episodes of The Thick of It - enjoying.
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Watched the first two episodes of The Thick of It - enjoying.
This is quite a sick burn.
Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
HAMILTON, ON - Local residents this morning report driving past an excitingly long lineup and assuming it was for a blowout Black Friday sale, before realizing that it was just a regular queue for a b...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This is quite a sick burn.
Like if you have an actual Easy button from Staples.
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Like if you have an actual Easy button from Staples.
OK geeks, chew on this: Carol from Pluribus is the 21st century version of Odo (DS9), somewhat inverted. Discuss.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
OK geeks, chew on this: Carol from Pluribus is the 21st century version of Odo (DS9), somewhat inverted. Discuss.
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Neil Young with Booker T and the MGs
Bruce Cockburn
Sloan x2
Motley Crue (RIP some of my hearing)
Neil Young with Booker T and the MGs
Bruce Cockburn
Sloan x2
Motley Crue (RIP some of my hearing)
Introduce yourself wit five concerts you’ve seen
Wilco
Zappa Plays Zappa
Joel Plaskett
Pearl jam
Matt Mays
Wilco
Zappa Plays Zappa
Joel Plaskett
Pearl jam
Matt Mays
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Joel Plaskett
The Joel Plaskett Emergency
Nine Inch Nails
Dan Mangan
Metallica
Joel Plaskett
The Joel Plaskett Emergency
Nine Inch Nails
Dan Mangan
Metallica
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Neil Young with Booker T and the MGs
Bruce Cockburn
Sloan x2
Motley Crue (RIP some of my hearing)
Neil Young with Booker T and the MGs
Bruce Cockburn
Sloan x2
Motley Crue (RIP some of my hearing)
Good morning - lack of communication.
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Good morning - lack of communication.
A note to 25 year old me, in passing: someone YOU will become one of those people who forgets to take medication some days because you got out of your routine and, oh yes, you will need to take several medications 30+ years from now, you young fool.
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A note to 25 year old me, in passing: someone YOU will become one of those people who forgets to take medication some days because you got out of your routine and, oh yes, you will need to take several medications 30+ years from now, you young fool.
So much fun to remember some of this stuff.
Never felt more patriotic than I have while reading this thread 🍁
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
So much fun to remember some of this stuff.
Forever putting tape over labels... what do you mean, I have trust issues?
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Forever putting tape over labels... what do you mean, I have trust issues?
Just went down a Pluribus rabbit hole, don't mind me, Carol.
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just went down a Pluribus rabbit hole, don't mind me, Carol.
Wishing a wonderful Thanksgiving to US family, friends and colleagues today.
November 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Wishing a wonderful Thanksgiving to US family, friends and colleagues today.
Good morning - round and round.
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Good morning - round and round.
The feeling when you can come up for air and breathe a bit.
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The feeling when you can come up for air and breathe a bit.
Professional certifications: essential or millstones due to recertification needs? Unserious replies only.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Professional certifications: essential or millstones due to recertification needs? Unserious replies only.
Twitter "in the gold old days"
Or, social media back in the day.
Or, social media back in the day.
Hiraeth (HEE-reyeth)
(n.)
- An intense longing for a home you can’t return to, or that never was.
Used in a sentence:
“And evermore, deep in his small and ancient brest, there stirred a sorrow sharp as winter wind—a hiraeth for the numinous lands of Faerie that slipt into legend many ages agone.”
(n.)
- An intense longing for a home you can’t return to, or that never was.
Used in a sentence:
“And evermore, deep in his small and ancient brest, there stirred a sorrow sharp as winter wind—a hiraeth for the numinous lands of Faerie that slipt into legend many ages agone.”
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Twitter "in the gold old days"
Or, social media back in the day.
Or, social media back in the day.
Good morning - in your direction.
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Good morning - in your direction.
RIP Colleen Jones
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
RIP Colleen Jones
Thought for the day: every time is a first time.
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Thought for the day: every time is a first time.
Good morning - back for more.
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Good morning - back for more.
Good morning, take a violet pill if you're on the fence. Whatever.
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Good morning, take a violet pill if you're on the fence. Whatever.
I was quit when I came in here, Charlie Brown. I'm twice as quit now.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, Charlie Brown.
You have friends nowhere, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I was quit when I came in here, Charlie Brown. I'm twice as quit now.
Are there any good alternatives to Field Notes out there, just in case I wanted to source some notebooking goodness outside of the US?
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Are there any good alternatives to Field Notes out there, just in case I wanted to source some notebooking goodness outside of the US?