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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’re not careful, I may leave little origami cats in your car, too.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This random man will forever be referred to as … THE HOT TUB HUMPER.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The other night, I went to a Nordic spa with my Montréal crew. It was a gorgeous, almost mystical night, soaking in salt pools under a vanilla sky and later the harvest moon. The only blemish? The man full on making eye contact with me while humping a water jet in the same pool.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We all have a few doppelgängers out there in the big wide world. Over the years, several people have mistaken me for my alternates and started conversations with me. Anyway, Boston Aaron held a beatboxing show last weekend. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Battlestar Galactica: Gaius Baltar Sees Cylon Faces

Alt: Battlestar Galactica: Gaius Baltar Sees Cylon Faces

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fled the Nor’easter and now boiling to death in Montréal for a few days.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As it happens, someone actually DID park their car in Harvard Yard!

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An special entrance? For me‽

Aaron, in front of the General Hooker Entrance of the MA State House

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I bought this bottle of Japanese hand (raccoon paw?) wash in Tokyo back in April and at this point it has been my companion across 10 different cities in 3 countries. I’ll be sad when it eventually runs out. (Also hi from Toronto/Boston/Montréal.) 🦝 🫧

A bottle of hand sanitizer with a lurid yellow label. It has Japanese kana on it and a tiny raccoon seemingly washing his hands. It’s sitting next to a Guinness, which I have certainly earned today, let me tell you

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Defend your neurodivergence card! I have a clock in every room and wear a watch at all times because I have an impaired sense of time. The same task a neurotypical person may take 20 mins at may take me 5 mins or an hour.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my guilty pleasures is watching videos about small home design (e.g., Never Too Small). Anyway, this am I watched a handsome builder touring his pristinely designed 600 sq ft Toronto condo. The only wrinkle? THE MAN POSSESSED NO BOOKS. (One must assume he is also missing a soul.)

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This whole thing with DJT being mad at Canada for looking at other trading options reminds me of an old (coincidentally, also American) colleague who demanded I stop using certain words and expressions because he found parts of my dialect annoying.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Proof of life on this fine workday.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Lacking sage or juniper, he improvised.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna top up my Cortexiphan, seal myself into this sensory deprivation chamber, and vibrate into the alternate dimension. Want anything from the other side?

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

At the DnD table tonight … DM: Did you just … offer to give the vampire lord a Mage Hand job? Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Share a horror movie with no sequel 🎥🖤

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today, a man in a black cowboy hat asked me for directions to a bank less than a block away. I pointed the way. The urban cowboy then rolled his eyes and said, “That’s so far; I’m going to drive!” … then stomped nearly half the same distance to get to his car.

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Man With No Name Blowing Bubbles

Alt: A cowboy blowing bubbles, because this cowboy might have been a clown in disguise.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Few things are as hilarious as going through research interview notes from 10 years ago.

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Charlie Day: I'm Sorry... What?

Alt: Charlie Day: I'm Sorry... What?

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Things to do when you have Too Many Apples 🍎 🥧

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pisces: Consider your career choices. It's never to late to realize that you've wasted your life.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Charles III in the house (his first bank note drops into circulation in 2027).

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A fun thought I had while reviewing some documents is that you can (nearly) always tell when a writer’s first language is French, even if their English is technically perfect. (The same is also true in reverse, I’m sure.) It nearly always appears in adjectives and prepositions.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Did I potentially sprain or fracture some fingers in a light pastry-making accident? Maybe. Would that be the most me way to injure myself? Definitely.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’d like to thank my IT department for performing a secure connection update to my workstation which is SO SECURE I cannot connect to anything at all.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Woke up giggling at a dream about the Pope writing his shopping lists in Latin: “Haec sunt quae emenda sunt: Panis Lac Ova Caseus Helera et Caepæ”

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Pope Francis Delivers Blessing

Alt: Pope Francis delivers a blessing upon his completed shopping list

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world …

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

One day I’ll have to ask my uncles why every Irish man of a certain age looks like he’d rather die than crack a smile.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Anyone else find it easier to tell people that their parents are dead rather than get into the whole “my father fled the country and started another family and my mother is a failed actress/new age cult leader/psychologist with whom I’ve gone no-contact” thing?

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Obviously I’m biased but “Lake America” is such a dumb-arsed name

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m jumping on bandwagons today. My favourite Dolly (attributed) quote: “We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

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Dolly Parton's Iconic Smile

Alt: Dolly Parton's Iconic Smile

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Plan a horror fest using only your first name. Annihilation (Les) Affamés (The) Ring Oddity Nosferatu

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was reminded of the Temporary Nature of Life today (don’t worry, I’m fine), so my lovely husband got me these flowers.

A beautiful bouquet of flowers in all colours against a teal wall.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It looks like Duolingo wandered into The Shimmer from “Annihilation” (2018).

$The Duolingo icon, mutated and refracted by otherworldly forces.$

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My cat just licked my eyelid, so I had to remind him to wait until I was dead before chowing down.

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Rob L. White (‘Cuddle’ Short Film OUT NOW!!) @therlwrites.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Retweet if you love, support, and appreciate horror movies 🔄

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Make a band bigger Vampire Sabbatical

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

IT removed some critical software from my work computer without consent, and then made me fill out two different requests to get it back. The real story here is that I didn’t throttle the smarmy “help” desk people, even if my cool was maintained only by the skin of my teeth.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I just love a sugar free Ricola.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Someone told me I have “cute eyelids” today.

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Aaron P @aaronpallan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I am very giraffe-like. Lookit these long legs. (Not actually suggestive photo, but flagged out of an abundance of caution.)

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