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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Curse of Fenric, the last truly great Doctor Who story from the 20th century era. And it made me a fan for life

You want to know the first media that scared the crap out of me as a child? These zombie vampires from the future that rose out of the fog-ridden seas of coastal England to devour humanity in The Curse of Fenric, one of the greatest Doctor Who stories of all time. Here, Captain Sorin uses the psychic field generated by his faith in the communist revolution to hold the zombies at bay while he walks through them

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unexpected insights from the streets of Toronto

Wedged into the biggest of several pieces of very gross dog poop abandoned on the sidewalk is a is a small and brutalized American flag

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Their new guitarist is a seasoned metal musician named Nick Johnston, who grew up in small-ish towns of southern Ontario. He rocked so hard & it was amazing watching this new lineup groove together. The most professional & the most fun

New Mastodon guitarist Nick Johnston (from, in his own words, “fucking Guelph,” rocks out with their special guest John Baizley of Baroness

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mastodon is a very different beast today, obviously because Brent is gone. But with that lineup’s last album Hushed & Grim, I felt like that was a natural end to the old band. This is a new Mastodon, it’s just as weird, there’s more keyboards, I’m here for it

Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelleher rocking out under red lights

Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelleher rocking out under blue lights while Joao plays keyboards in his funny little hat

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Troy Sanders’ energy and love of music was beautiful. The man who co-wrote an album about Rasputin going on an astral trip now looks like Rasputin. It was wonderful seeing his joy in metal & performance as well as his embrace of his age & sage

$Troy Sanders and Brann Dailor rock your socks off while illuminated from fractal flames$

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had no idea that the visuals would be such an amazing, detailed trip. The whole venue was lit bright with the spectacle of this animation

A demon night who is on fire swings his axe blade down to the audience of the Mastodon show. The axe is also on fire

A queen made of stone hovers with menace over the audience while Brann Dailor plays some wicked awesome drums

A terrifying octopus beast with a mouth full of fangs and countless eyes threatens the audience with a great time at the Mastodon show

The eyes of a snake emerge from the mouth of a snake which emerged from the eye of a snake which emerged from the mouth of a snake at the Mastodon show, all of which is fucking metal as fuck

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My last year needs a cathartic Deafheaven / Alcest / Mastodon show to power me through the next three months

George from Deafheaven bathed in red light and the glow of a loving audience

Neige and his bandmates from Alcest play beautiful guitar solos by their backdrop image of cranes and moonlight silhouetting a tenderness flute player

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On a walk to run some errands today, I passed along the pedestrian bridge overlooking the subway station construction near our house. It demolished a gas station & mini mall. I hope this is eventually worth losing the Little Caesar’s

An epic view of the construction site that will eventually become Gerrard Subway Station in East Toronto. Trucks, workers, and trailers are scattered around a dusty site, with trees lining the residential streets on the far side look on

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m a pretty big Dropout fan & I have to tell myself that the contestants from the “What’s the Catch” Game Changers episode regularly have videos sent to them of people singing karaoke of “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So there’s one person in my neighbourhood who REALLY loves Jesus

A house in east Toronto with a full window display of Catholic style Jesus and Mary. Whoa

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Taking a moment to reflect on some beauty in decay as I take out some trash. Come for the intelligent takes on contemporary business and politics. Stay for the wasps

Is that an apple fallen out of a bag when one of my neighbours was taking out the trash a while ago?

Yes, it’s an old apple but I think something else is there as well

Aha! Wasps. It seems to be lunch time for the wasps and one apple really goes a long way

This really is a very large number of wasps eating this apple. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen this many wasps crawling on one thing before in my life. There really are quite a lot of wasps

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yesterday the wife & I took an evening trip to Hamilton for Supercrawl. I was happy to see more art & more space on the street, even if it likely means smaller profits for the festival. Community atmosphere is how these thrive Also, this:

This is a praying mantis sculpture that is also a fully functional bicycle. What else do you need to know?

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The company already has the disadvantage of having the same name as a classic-period Doctor Who villain

Toy model of an Axon from the 1971 story The Claws of Axos, here to install surveillance cameras on your street

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

At Toronto Fan Expo with the family today and slowly losing my mind, as illustrated by this sad, grumpy frog

Grumpy artisan frog sculpture held delicately in my hand is grumpy

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So I found this child size Québec Nordiques hat in a vintage shop for my cousin’s birthday to add to his collection of merch from defunct sports teams

Adam trying on a Quebec Nordiques hat that’s much too small for him. He has a frustrated expression that he can never find hats large enough for his enormous head

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So my wife bought this hat with the traditional logo of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. Am I the only one who sees Alex DeLarge here? A wonderful fair for all Toronto’s little malchiks & devotchkas?

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Astonishingly accurate costume of Stephen Miller at Spirit Halloween Scarborough

Very accurate depiction of Trump Administration official Stephen Miller

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My snake is resting after a nice meal

A small snake inside a little hovel after a pleasant meal of a fuzzy mouse

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Strong words, but probably good advice

If he’s trying to share an Aperol Spritz with you at a bus stop on a humid afternoon in east Toronto, you should probably dump him

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

At Osheaga festival with the extended family this weekend. Wolf Parade still rocks but Dan Boeckner has aged into Trailer Park Kieran Culkin

Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade on a distant soundstage while I lounge on the grass, looking like Kieran Culkin fully gone to seed in Sunnyvale Trailer Park and getting up to all kinds of shenanigans with this best friend Ricky

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A benefit of my kids taking a couple of weeks of summer camps at the Art Gallery of Ontario is being able to scope trippy installations before pickup time, like these sculptures by Ranbir Sidhu

Steel sculpture by Ranbir Sidhu evoking the human will to connect our world with the divine. Holy shit

The largest sculpture in Ranbir Sidhu’s Asteroid series, conceived as a heritage of human ingenuity adrift in interstellar space. Holy shit

These 21 sculptures by Ranbir Sidhu represent the virtuous warrior spirit of his Sikh heritage. Each one is unique, designed a little differently from all the others. Holy shit

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This one isn’t necessarily judging you but is also totally judging you

A cat in her home, Minden, ON. She’s judging you

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Selected cats from a small town Ontario menagerie that’s part of the Minden movie theatre and cat sanctuary complex

Cats gather in one room of the interconnected maze of outdoor fence zones ringing Minden, ON’s movie multiplex

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Fascinating to think how only five years later, he’d become Prime Minister himself, one of Britain’s most incompetent & disastrous

The cover of Boris Johnson’s celebratory biography of Winston Churchill. I won’t comment on irony that speaks for itself

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What’s better for the quality of people’s lives? Whimsy like this? Or a destructive airport that won’t even be used?

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I’m spending the day with my family on the Toronto Islands exploring the whimsical fun which is at risk of being bulldozed for an airport expansion so that JP Morgan doesn’t have to write off its bad investment in Billy Bishop Airport

Low key rides at the Toronto Islands Centreville park: a little tugboat ride, a small roller coaster, a 20 foot high drop ride with a frog on top, and a ski lift ride that slowly carries you over the amusement park and petting zoo. All this whimsy is at risk because JP Morgan has been lobbying the Ontario and Canadian governments to expand the Billy Bishop airport over the entire area of the three main islands, so that they can reap profits from an otherwise sundowning investment

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A few months ago, I found a used copy of Persepolis & started reading it this week for the first time in about 20 years. My daughter bedazzled it this morning, which I feel like Marjane Satrapi would have enjoyed

My copy of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, bedazzled this morning by the daughter

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I stopped in a Walmart a while ago and saw a display of Mario and Luigi toys. Luigi gets no love

A stack of stuffed toys of Mario and Luigi where clearly no one has bothered buying the Luigis

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When you live in a maximally decorated house, you don’t always notice new deco right away. One of my kids built this in a cosplay class that just wrapped & I didn’t realize that this has been in my living room since Wednesday evening

Sitting next to a bookshelf in my living room is this enormous green rabbit head of one of the characters from Five Nights at Freddy’s that my enby made in class. That is very realistic. Much too realistic. Why didn’t I notice that this has been here for 38 hours already?

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

As usual for me at festivals, one of my favourites was the fourth billing act. An amazing set from Momma with some blistering guitar & happy head bopping.

One of the singers of fuzz rock indie band Momma plays on the jumbotron, slightly obscured by a railing

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Consider that Smalls does a lot of his social platform networking on X and would seem to spend a lot of time there

While Smalls uses his platform to draw labour organizing into the popular imagination, he also uses it to lash out at labour’s allies. His feed on X has increasingly become left-sectarian and self-promoting, lashing out at left wing politicians when they fail to give him the attention he desires. Politicians like APC and Bernie Sanders, who helped boost Smalls’ platform from the beginning and have been great allies of the ALU, have been frequent victims of his wrath.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Today I’m at a beautiful beach on Vancouver Island with a long path through the woods to reach it & a very visible recycling bin. Good to know they encourage recycling visitors’ trash & that some poor parks worker has to trudge along that km-long path with a bag of recycling every day

A tree and a recycling bin in the foreground of a long beach stretching out to the Vancouver Island channel waters. Witty Beach, Vancouver Island

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

QRT with the doctor you would trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.

Peter Capaldi as Doctor Who looking suitably intensely at you, into your soul! Even in a very small box, like he is here, he has been and would be much more effective than a conspiracy-addled sociopath who dissects roadkill, hasn't eaten a vegetable since the last century, and may or may not consume distilled extracts of bear penis to treat his erectile dysfunction

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The excitement of a work from home job is when your partner leaves you a lunch sandwich so thick that it stands up on its own

Two thirds of a crab sandwich in a baguette standing upright with the sheer thickness of its intense volume of crab meat

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The things I do for my family on Record Store Day. Still, it’s better than when people used to do the same lineups just to get an iPhone

A line of people stretching two blocks down the road for Record Store Day so they can buy some records, unlike every other day when the same record store is also open

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Now I’m posting food this morning on an afternoon trip to Hamilton. Thanks Berkeley North for being one of the only restaurants serving food this afternoon on King William Street

Late lunch on a sunny afternoon: chicken sandwich and fries, ketchup and aioli, kohlrabi salad, cheese on some damn hearty toast, and a pair of alcohol free cocktails

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Among the entirely new infrastructure Memorial built over only the last ten years or so, this huge new building of scientific research labs & grad student residences halfway up a cliff face accessible by a twisting, difficult road, while main campus buildings crumble www.mun.ca/signalhill/

A promotional photo of the Signal Hill Campus of Memorial University in St. John's. Not shown: The twisting, winding, difficult road up a 40-50 degree angle for several kilometres to reach this facility where I don't even think the city runs bus routes.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The enby & I are cruising a dollar store at Gerrard Square while my wife is at the passport office. It’s closing down, everything is on clearance, & the place is an apocalypse

An aisle in a closing dollar store that’s already abandoned, with caution tape blocking the entrance

The spray paint section in an otherwise half empty dollar store aisle

Dollar store closing sale. Everything half off. Still not worth it

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

My own headcanon is that Waluigi became a villain because he’s Greek & the Mario Bros never understand that there’s a Gamma on his hat & his name is actually Georges

Adam wearing what people think is a Waluigi hat but he’s Greek and his name is actually Georges

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Doing my part for the movement (or at least paying for the transition) from Canada this Xmas. A great gift this year

Adam’s chest, wearing a “Bodega Cats for Zohran” tshirt, featuring a cat sleeping on top of a candy bar box snoozing “zzzz - zohran”

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I've shared about this incident on LinkedIn, but it matters for the folks connected to me on BlueSky & #AcademicSky too. Storytime! www.linkedin.com/posts/adamri...

From my LinkedIn: Today, a story of frustration about publishing. Although I no longer work full-time in the higher education sector, I still work on research and pursue projects in non-fiction publishing and media. A really nice opportunity I got a few weeks ago was a request from a major research journal on the history and philosophy of science to peer review a submission. The article was great, and a sign of a very fascinating larger project to come, so I recommended publication.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Antiquing around Oshawa today and discovered a book that should have been made very obsolete this weekend

A book entitled “The Story of Prince Andrew” sits on the shelf of a vintage store on Oshawa, Ontario, which likely doesn’t include the most interesting parts of the story of Prince Andrew. On the book’s cover, Andrew looks like a right little shit

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Things that happen in a home office that don’t occur on site. A neighbour’s cat, who’s normally outdoor, followed me inside because it was too cold out for her so I invited her in to warm up

A chilly neighbour cat has followed me indoors. This black cat is usually outdoor but we’ve been in a cold snap and she followed me inside after I dropped off my wife

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

All workplaces have their distractions, but remote work has the strangest ones. Consider this cat who huffs the radiator behind our living room couch

Beetle the cat sitting on the back of a couch covered in blankets. The cat has stuck his head under a shelf to marinate in the heat of our living room radiator

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