Marcus Closen
closen.bsky.social
Marcus Closen
@closen.bsky.social
Canadian novelist, tech worker, recovering academic. 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈
To be fair, this is how it feels to buy your first drill. The limitless potential flowing through you.
February 12, 2026 at 3:24 PM
I feel this, I miss living in an old house with radiators
January 25, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Ah god Andy you’re gonna make me google this?
January 24, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Thanks! I’m hugely proud of it, and it was a nice “being done with academia” moment for me
January 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
My novel is available here: barreldog.ca/books/scient...
Scientia Ex Machina – Barrel Dog Press
barreldog.ca
January 8, 2026 at 11:18 PM
It’s great to have the means of production

I found a pen that was good enough, I’m still searching! (Sharpie pens were good for my signings at my book party)
January 8, 2026 at 10:53 PM
My partner has one and the number of times we’ve needed something and just been able to print it at home is AMAZING
January 7, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Make a spritzer with it. Do half wine, half sparkling water, twist of lemon, one short gin. You’ve got a party.
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The seafood one is also ridiculously good and enhances many a dish
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Thank you! 😊
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I like to use diagrams in a setting where I can explain what I did, and spend a few minutes in the next meeting with the diagram talking through it

We’ve used diagrams successfully in my team to get on the same page about a lot but it needs to be complimented by something else
September 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Tbh it was the platipussary joke and then the moustache.

But believe in your own optimism if you need to!
August 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I’m still working on it. I did check out the sharpie pens but found them insufficient juicy when writing 😔
August 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Ah I took a pic!!
Clearly a blue bin. Clearly a box marked “dead raccoon.” Clearly living in a society.
July 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This reminds me of the time I was out for a walk on recycling day in Toronto and someone placed a box atop their blue bin labelled “dead raccoon”
July 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If it moved too fast it makes me think about infinity and that’s frightens me
June 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM