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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I wish I had been the first person to say that maybe we should start breakdancing to save the Kennedy Center. He's always been an 80s movie villain (a multi-genre one at that!), so the solution has to be either breakdancing or The Goonies.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I bailed on Spider-Noir 4:48 minutes in. I'm rewatching with someone who loves mysteries and noires , and in episode 3 we switched to the black and white version and it's way better.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'm really enjoying The Boroughs. I vote for more like this.

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James Easterly @easterlyart.com · 16/10/2024

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The Really Huge Comic Book Printer Guide - EasterlyArt

So you’ve finally finished making your first comic book, and now you’re on the hunt to find a printer to bring your comic book to life. You jump online, start searching for printers, and you suddenly ...

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Dream sequences are a narrative scourge. Neither plot nor character nor setting is informed best by a dream sequence. It takes an exceptional storyteller to make a dream sequence worthwhile.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The last day of Comic Con starts with a donation to the San Diego Blood Bank. #sdcc

A sign indicating the next number in line, above comic themed posters for the San Diego Blood Bank

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Starting Saturday of Comic Con with the Comic Law School panel on Trademark Parody Limitations #sdcc

The panel of lawyers on the stage in front of the Comic Con banner.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Starting Friday with the @roddenberrypod.bsky.social panel, Designing The Future: 60 Years of Star Trek Visual Evolution. Featuring @hollyamos22.bsky.social @johnchampion.bsky.social and @jameskerwin.com. #sdcc

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Now I'm at an off-site event, Indigicon, celebrating Native contributions to the comic art landscape. #sdcc

Photo of the stage at Indigicon with the banner on the screen

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

At the @cbldf.bsky.social panel today, the fact that the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund owns the trademark and logo for the old, repressive, Comics Code came up. It was proposed CBLDF do a book with artists contributing their ideas about what a new permissive code would look like. #sdcc

View of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund panel at Comic Con

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

After midnight crews were still working to get downtown ready for the official start of An Diego Comic Con today. In this case changing a decorative arch in the Gaslamp to showcase an Avengers Doomsday theme.

Construction crews change a decorative arch over 5th avenue to a stylized Avengers Doomsday color way.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

First line of Comic Con! We did it, everyone!

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm heading to San Diego for Comic Con. I'll be checking out some indigenous comic stuff (in addition to the usual SDCC nonsense and fun). I'll also be posting amazing photo content here and on Instagram, like this one from 11 years ago: a real Comic Con water fountain!

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The Bat Cave must smell absolutely awful.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Actually that's not an example of pedantry. THIS is an example of pedantry.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"Here at Freezr we've given people the ability to automatically share with their network every time they open the fridge. What's more, your Friends (a combination of Freezr+Friends we came up with) can reply to your updates with preloaded quips, a.k.a "Freezr Burns" that will delight everyone."

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My books are double-stacked, and sometimes triple-stacked, on my bookshelves. We did a remodel on this house 10 years ago and we added a laundry room (instead of a library just for me) and I'm starting to think we could have just been going to the laundromat this whole time.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I did the dishes again today. Despite all...this...I still have to do the dishes. Get to do the dishes. I have clean dishes. Okay then.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Oh, is the kitchen clean? Time to make spaghetti I guess. I do this every time. It's like a pathology about having a clean kitchen.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

By Grabthar's Hammer... What a savings.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What did you do today? The barbershop quartet I joined last month just won the Novice Quartet competition for the Nor Cal West division of the Far Western District of the Barbershop Harmony Society. Not a bad Saturday.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

When entering Canada, it is important to dress like all Canadians dress every day.

Shawn is facing the camera, wearing the coolest shirt ever: A black t-shirt in the trademark Supreme style that instead says Poutine, because Shawn loves poutine and is visiting Canada where poutine grows on hockey sticks everywhere you look.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Signing an executive order today that states in no uncertain terms that olives are gross.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In order to carry out my sworn duty as the head of the executive branch of this parking lot, I have signed an executive order declaring Skee-Lo to be a little bit taller, a baller, and to have a girl who looks good. I further order Skee-Lo, on pain of punishment, to call her.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

My teens have been all over the place and eaten food from everywhere, but they still get charmingly excited when I make them "butter rice". It's just rice. But I add a little salt and butter. It's like a novelty dish for them.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

People are overreacting. He wasn't celebrating that one fascist state, he was celebrating a different fascist state, so, like, take that. #pwnage.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Half Moon Bay sunset anniversary toast.

Champagne glasses filled with Veuve Cliquot frame the sunset over the ocean very nicely if I do say so myself, which I do.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

No, emoticon means “electric moticon” to distinguish it from analog moticons.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I’m the one who has been going to convenience stores and putting “Take a nap, leave a nap” dishes by the register. So far I have contributed to the redistribution of 17 million naps. You’re welcome, you well-rested citizens.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

A belief management tool you can have for free is to occasionally ask yourself: "What would count as evidence that this belief is false?" If the answer is "Nothing" or close to thereabouts, you might have some dogma mixed in with your peanut butter.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Backpacking Dad Fans Stunned By Backpacking Dad's Appearance. "He looks so old now. Like how is it even possible to be that old?"

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I'm still robo writing 3024 on my robo checks. Robo ugh!

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I wanted to make Mohawk corn soup for New Year's, but I had to do a variation. I don't have access to lyed white corn and I needed to start with a vegetarian base (ham added later). Some of my family in Akwesasne call us the California Cousins, so here is California Cousin's Mohawk Corn Soup.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

In 1969, a Mohawk activist from Akwesasne, Richard Oakes, led the occupation of Alcatraz alongside Lanada Means (Shoshone-Bannock). Shé:kon, tourists. It's a beautiful day.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

So many comedians are so authoritative in the way they talk onstage which makes it extra delightful the way Nate Bargatze makes jokes about not knowing most things.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Happy Boxing Day from me and my glasses.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Merry Christmas from me and my hat.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Cobra Kai is like, just so many crimes. Crimes all day.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

So many tv shows and movies focus on characters' traumatic backstories, but the backstory that explains the personalities of half the guys I've ever met is just that they saw Scarface or The Big Lebowski in middle school.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

People forget the real meaning of the solstice and I just think it's wrong. Today is a day to stop. Today is a day to collaborate. Today is a day to listen. If we are good, then maybe he will return this year with a brand new invention. Keep Ice in Solstice!

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a man is standing in front of a wall with the words `` ice ice baby '' on it .

Alt: Alright stop. Collaborate and listen. Ice is back with a brand new invention.

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

left: Nicolas Cage with long black hair and a moustache in a black top
right: Spinoza with long black hair and a moustache in a black top

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day I died from no heart.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I bought a book because an author I respect posted about someone else's book that was about to be released. Post about all books all the time.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Looking around at the DMV, you might think everyone is there because of some motor vehicle or license issue. But you'd be wrong. The real reason they are all there is because they have a cold and need to be around as many people as possible for as long as possible.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Happy Updated Privacy Policy season to all who celebrate. And a Merry Updated Terms and Conditions to you all.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Alan Rickman has given a necklace to someone other than Emma Thompson, which which means Christmas is all around us.

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a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with a glass of wine

Alt: Tis but the work of a moment.

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

MOM SAYS SHE IS PROUD OF BOTH OF US EQUALLY

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Call Me Maybe is a really fun song and I like it.

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Shawn Burns @backpackingdad.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I drink something caffeinated in the morning just to put off dealing with a caffeine withdrawal headache. But it isn't something I do to wake up. Caffeine is just as likely to make me want to take a nap as it is to perk me up.

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