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Ryan North
@ryannorth.ca
You know, the @qwantz.com guy! The How To [Invent Everything | Take Over The World] guy? The Fantastic Four / Flash / Squirrel Girl / Star Trek comics guy? The non-linear Shakespeare guy? The "stuck in a hole with his dog" guy?

Look... I'm a lot of guys
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I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.
January 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Meant to post this some days ago but I got distracted.

My latest for @invertebratepal.bsky.social's work on Hallucigenia's ecology, interpreting the little fellas as scavengers of soft-bodied carcasses.

Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Art #SciArt #FossilFriday
January 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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they're little bundles of joy that you can't talk to but need to somehow teach complicated concepts to, and they have knives for teeth but don't know it yet. what could go wrong

www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
January 9, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Like the bible says: live by the sword, no worries
January 8, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
WORDS ADDED TO SPELL-CHECK TODAY:

- Grodd
- Terrifitech
- monumentaAAARRGGHH
January 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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woah if only there was a very cool shot glass available somewhere that could invoke THIS EXACT FEELING

👀 wait wh- topatoco.com/collections/...
January 7, 2026 at 6:03 PM
many are saying this is a tiny can, but it's normal size and i just have extremely large hands!! i could grip your head in one hand like a basketball and still have room to hold a magazine or perhaps novel. all bodies are beautiful THANKS
I wonder how many people are pairing their lunch today with a can of Fanta haunted apple flavour Beetlejuice Beetlejuice caffeine-free soda. Retweet if you are pairing your lunch today with a can of Fanta haunted apple flavour Beetlejuice Beetlejuice caffeine-free soda
January 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.

Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Hell yeah brother
January 7, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I wonder how many people are pairing their lunch today with a can of Fanta haunted apple flavour Beetlejuice Beetlejuice caffeine-free soda. Retweet if you are pairing your lunch today with a can of Fanta haunted apple flavour Beetlejuice Beetlejuice caffeine-free soda
January 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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in truth there are simply two types of people: people of the first type, and people of the other types

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January 7, 2026 at 12:52 PM
A motorist just drove by while I walked past a big puddle near the sidewalk and splashed me like I'm some sort of sad sack in an 80s movie!!
January 6, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Reed "Secure in His Sexuality" Richards by @ryannorth.ca and Carlos Gomez. #FantasticFour #comics #marvel
January 6, 2026 at 6:25 AM
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“you won’t get away with this”
January 5, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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wait, i ALSO have to forget all my old acquaintances? BUT THEY WERE SUCH A GREAT SUPPORTING CAST FOR ME

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January 5, 2026 at 1:24 PM
*making conversation with you, a complete stranger, at a bar* I kissed a girl and liked it too, I just didn't write a whole song about it
January 5, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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January 2, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible

🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌
January 2, 2026 at 2:16 PM
this was probably my experience here in 2025
January 2, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I had thought "one of the movies of all time" originated in someone forgetting "greatest" or "best" on a forum post and we all ran with it, but turns out the construction goes back much further!
January 1, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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Nice acquaintance. Auld?
December 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Mike was one of the guys laying the framework for what good jokes would look like in a novel format with a strict character limit. 35 is so young. Rest easy good stranger
One of the best to ever do it
December 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
inspiration is all around us. for example, i was inspired by a mug i saw to create my new invention, the Dishwasher Safe
December 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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👍
December 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM