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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tolkien once again nailing it.

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RS with your home river. The Humber River, in western Toronto. My parents would take my sister and I to Étienne Brûlé Park on the banks of the Humber when we were kids. I remember when this bridge, which is for pedestrian and bike traffic, was built at the mouth of the river.

A white arched suspension bridge over a green-brown river with a blue sky and white fluffy clouds behind. Trees grow at the near end of the bridge. At the far end, a building under construction with a crane can be seen in the background.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Frogs really do sit on lilly pads. #frog

A spotted frog sits on a bright green lilly pad. Three other lilly pads are partially in frame on the right of the picture. The stalks of the lilly pads re visible beneath the surface of the water.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Had an absolute blast tonight. Metric, with Broken Social Scene and Stars opening for them. Just start to finish bangers. Got to see the show with good friends too.

A concert scene. The stage lights are yellow and purple. A lot of people are on stage.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Time for my twelfth flight in three weeks.

In the foreground, an airplane wing and the taxiway. In the middle ground, and Air Canada turboprop plane. In the background a terminal building and other planes.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Went wading in the Arctic Ocean today!

A man standing with his arms raised and outspread up to his knees in water with a stoney stretch of shore behind him.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It was very cool to visit the Old Town Glassworks in Yellowknife today. It's a worker owned cooperative and focused on turning discarded glass into beautiful drinking vessels and other things. I even got to etch some of my own to take home.

A tall green glass made from the bottom portion of a bottle with etched art of muskoxen and stars.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

12:40am in Yellowknife goes hard.

A sunset over a road with streetlights. The clouds are lit in shades of rich orange and red.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Byzantine-style religious architecture and decorative art is just next level. The Byzantine-style gold field mosaics preserved in Italy are astonishing. This picture I took in the Capella Palatina in Palermo, which was decorated in the 12th century.

Decorated interior of a chapel. Every available wall and ceiling is covered in mosaic, much of it gold-field mosaic showing biblical scenes, dominated at the far end by a mosaic of Christ Pantokrator.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

My new @effinbirds.com shirts arrived today and they make me so happy.

Three T-shirts. Two are grey, one powder blue. One says "Can You Not", one says "I Am A Goddamned Delight" and one says "you cannot be fucking serious"

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Fellow lawyers will recognize a court that is PISSED here. Divisional Court doesn't call decisions it is reviewing "nothing short of shocking" very often. www.canlii.org/en/on/onscdc...

[124] This said, the summary dismissal of the Applicant’s human rights complaint in this case was nothing short of shocking. The Applicant’s position – set out in detail in his Complaint to the HRTO – was that K.S. needed placement in a Regular Class with 1:1 support. He alleged that this had been denied to K.S. by the board, with a resulting failure to provide “appropriate” special education programs and services to K.S., denying him his right to receive an education by reason of his disabilities.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Emergency cat pics you say? Here's Marcus enjoying the view out the window from his favourite chair.

A brown tabby cat with a white face, chest, and socks sitting party curled up facing camera left I. A green chair. He has one leg extended outwards over his tail.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"View full thread" remains undefeated.

On top, a picture of a gorilla in front of a crowd, a quote skeet of a skeet saying "I literally once had a harem of partners. The only reason it fell apart is because the women suddenly decided they werent ok with having to do std panels regularly. I was okay with doing it. So anytime someone tells me that women are more mature than men I laugh bc no, they are not." After the jump, the skeet "What exactly do you think the role of the judge is here? For that matter, what do you think the elements of defamation are in the U.S.?"

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

And now for a timeline cleanse, some mallard ducklings that I saw on Middle Cove Beach in Newfoundland last week. #birds

Two fluffy yellow and brown mallard ducklings standing on grey stones in the sun.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

#bunalert at Long Point Lighthouse near Twillingate, NL.

A brown rabbit with grass sticking out of its mouth, in a field of grass and wildflowers, looking camera right.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I got to see some beautiful things in St. John's today. I also got hailed on, twice, so a classic Newfoundland kind of day.

Purple and blue lupins in a grassy landscape in the foreground, and St. John's harbour out of focus in the background, all under a blue sky with white, fluffy, clouds above.

A view of four identical large ships moored in St. John's harbour, with the town behind. Prominent in the view of the city are a large grey stone church with a green roof, the Basilica Cathedral of St. John, and a large house shaped building with glass between its segments, The Rooms. The water is blue, the sky is mostly white and fluffy clouds with some blue.

A view down the length of St. John's harbour, with the Narrows just out of view on the left. The water is cerulean blue, matching the sky, which is mostly cloudless. A pop of bright red comes from four ships moored on the right side of the picture.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Photo taken by me, a couple days ago.

A brown and white tabby cat in the shrimp position on a green chair, having a big yawn.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Casa Loma has entered the chat.

An outdoor picture showing the exterior of a building. The building is made off grey stone and has a crenellated roofline.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The arcaded sidewalks in Bologna are incredible!

An arcaded sidewalk with a high vaulted roof and a terrazzo floor. The walls and some of the pillars are the colour of terracotta while the vault and other pillars are ochre yellow. The arcade curves to the left. In the background, a woman and a dog a walking in the arcade.

An arcaded sidewalk with a high, groin-vaulted, ceiling. The ceiling is yellow-ochre and the two nearest pillars are brick coloured. The floor is terrazzo. An ivy plant grows out of the grill on a window in the foreground. In the background, outside the arcade, is the brick facade of a church. There are bollards between the pillars.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is my guy right this moment. But he was rescued at six weeks old so can't possibly remember his life outside.

A brown tabby cat stretched out long on a pair of jeans-clad legs.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I wore my @effinbirds.com shirt today, and it was a good day.

A charcoal grey shirt with a drawing of a duck on it along with the words "Are you done being an asshole or do you need a few more minutes?" on it

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I got this gorgeous three-volume set of The History of Middle Earth for Christmas and it's glorious.

A box set of three volumes, bound in black with gold lettering.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

So you felt like stealing this from someone in the replies, did you?

A screenshot of use huwmarshall.bsky.com replying "Halley's Kermit" approximate half an hour beforehand.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I want dinner, but also I have this guy who has been sleeping on my legs for like two hours. I can't eat until he decides to wake up and wander off.

A brown tabby cat sleeping stretched out on a pair of jeans-clad legs.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A screenshot, in case what I am quoteskeeting gets removed:

A skeet from @davidpakman.bsky.social that says "The fact that China doesn't like people switching to Bluesky seems like another sign that it's a great thing". At the time of the screenshot, it has 789 replies, 4.5 reskeets, 233 quotes and 41,900 likes.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

I was at Rome's Palazzo Massimo museum a few days ago, and saw these beautiful mosaic tesserae. They made me think of @guygavrielkay.bsky.social's Sarantine Mosaic and a mosaicist being moved to tears by the quality of some tesserae.

A museum display of glass and ceramic tesserae, tiles for use in a mosaic, with a grey background. The tesserae are arranged in coloured groups: white, red, yellow, blue and green. The tesserae are in a variety of shapes, including triangles, diamonds, rectangles, oblongs, and semi-circles.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

I love it when my drink comes with a free mini drink on the side.

A brown-orange cocktail in a coupe glass in the foreground. A shot glass of the same drink sits behind it.

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Devon Paul @devonp.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

It is steadily more enraging that western media insists on treating a single missile launched at Tel Aviv, that hurt no one, as being equivalent to an Israeli barrage of hundreds of bombs dropped on Lebanon that killed hundreds of people, like this example from the Globe and Mail here in Canada.