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Roger Vaillancourt

@rogerjva.bsky.social

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Professional explicator and maker of soothing sounds. Author of "The Inaccessible Rail" (2026) and "Un-ruined" (2022) novels from Malarkey Books https://asterismbooks.com/product/un-ruined

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 22m

Classic eschatological problems

Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 4h

*Unfolding my emoji ouija board*

Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 5h

Just seeing the name written out conjures that music to mind

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 6h

The rare vacuum tube zeppelin, known for its warm sound as it passes overhead

Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 18h

Garden hose cappuccino, the genx special

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 1d

Really the perfect vehicle for a bananas foster

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

The most important political thread of our time.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 1d

Serving size is .125oz

Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 1d

Hustle culture is a death drive

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 1d

Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!

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Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow, that place looks awesome. When I worked there, we had only the old-school cafeteria with orange trays.

Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hey, worked there for many years. Nice to see it again.

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot kill them in a way that matters

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 1d

Just keep finding the stars in each other

Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 1d

SURRENDER DOROTHY

Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 1d

Take liberally until concerns are resolved

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

made another poor man's book commercial, this one for FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN

please enjoy (the commercial and the book)

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 1d

a man wearing sunglasses and a green jacket is standing in a crowd and says `` do it '' .

Alt: Ben Stiller in Starsky and Hutch saying "Do it"

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely

Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 2d

The same TV screen, but instead of "Ian Fleming's Dr. NO" it reads "Percival Everett's Dr. NO"

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 2d

Ask not for whom the monkey shrieks

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 2d

"Eleven tons of glass and gunmetal. It's floating in a trough of mercury"

Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 2d

The line "As usual after leaving Holmes for any length of time, I returned filled with apprehension as to his mood," called to mind this classic Peter Serafinowicz sketch.

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Sherlock Holmes's Mood Swings

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 4d

You giving us the high hat here, Tom?

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