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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 14h

On a late night / early morning walk and just made a new friend

A piece of corrugated cardboard that looks like a smiling face. Pareidolia in full effect!

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Aymeric Kevin @aymerickevin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Don’t mess with her

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Station master cat is ready to greet customers in Ashinoyu Onsen Station, Japan. 📸 ashinomakionsen

Fluffy brown tabby cat with bright green eyes lounging on a yellow wooden bench beside a plush mascot, posed in front of a Japanese sign.

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gothic göre @britneyspheres.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jay Scott Pike (1924–2015) Young Love #90 Cover Original Art (DC, 1971)

Close up of a a pair on the beach about to kiss, she thinks "HE'S ONLY NICE TO ME WHEN THERE'S NO ONE AROUND!

IS HE--ASHAMED OF Me?", pencilled and inked version

Close up of a a pair on the beach about to kiss, she thinks "HE'S ONLY NICE TO ME WHEN THERE'S NO ONE AROUND!

IS HE--ASHAMED OF Me?", colored version, colorist uncredited

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you’re like me, and you love Akiko Yano, then you should check out her Tiny Desk Concert on NHK World. It was fun! www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Akiko Yano performing her NPR / NHK Tiny Desk Concert

The Akiko Yano Trio performing thier NPR / NHK Tiny Desk Concert

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lizzy has made a rather large new friend.

Our cat Lizzy, a brown tabby with bright green eyes, laying down on my son’s bed, under his giant Pikachu cushion / plush toy.

Fun fact: that was my bed as a kid (and my sheets form the late 80s!), and the bed goes back in our family as far back as my great grandfather Willy. He came from the Orphan Train and apparently this is the bed he slept on as a kid.

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What's Aidan up to? Oh you know, just putting out some of the best lettering you've ever seen! 🏆A+

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sharp MR990 Synth Boombox with a removable ‘Melody Computer’ (1985)

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Le Cartographe 🗺️🍷 @lecartographe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

L’ambiance actuelle c’est quand même Guillermo Mordillo qui en parle le mieux…

Un lotissement sombre. Une seule maison colorée. Un fourgon de police vient chercher son propriétaire.

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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The Art of Guillermo Mordillo → bit.ly/3GLzunK #artist #portfolio #illustration #art

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Y'know, one thing that's been really nice about working in the manga world, and getting to know so many cool people because of it and being on here, is that in my middle age, I've been able to totally embrace my inner otaku & set it free.

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The 9 manga that shaped me (plus 9 more honorable mentions that I love!) 9koma.com/en (I feel so lucky to have worked on several of these 🥰)

The nine manga that shaped me. Battle Angel Alita, Phoenix, Domu, Akira, Land of the Lustrous, Ashita no Joe, Ranma 1/2, Adolf, Video Girl Ai

I've worked on: Battle Angel Alita (all the series in some capacity, especially Mars Chronicle & Holy Night), Akira (35th anniversary boxd set), Land of the Lustrous (all), Ashita no Joe (all)

Nine more manga that I deeply love. DNA², Blood on the Tracks, Die Wergelder, Heavenly Delusion, Maison Ikkoku, Crying Freeman, The Strange Tale of Panorama Island, My Name is Shingo, Eden: It's an Endless World!

I've worked on: Blood on the Tracks (all except vol 2), Die Wergelder (all), Panorama Island (all)

There are even more manga I love a lot that I want to add to this list, but gotta cut it off here. Man, I didn't get to squeeze in any Junji Ito (almost put Gyo on here.) Also was very tempted to put Urusei Yatsura, but I have more experience with the anime of it, and the general aura surrounding the franchise (I love collecting Lum stuff), than the manga. Gotta rectify that one day and read it all!

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stuff I wanna share on Bluesky, when I have more time: 1. photography from my Nagasaki days 2. anime/manga ephemera from the 80s/90s 3. my old original comics I made as a teen 4. old art & music I made over the years 5. hopefully ...new art & music?

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's been a great month for classic anime on the big screen. Saw Ghost in the Shell today, 30 years after I first saw it in a theater in Dallas during A-Kon, as a teenager. (Like Akira, probably the tenth or so time I've seen it.) Oh man, what a beautiful work on animated art.

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Ghost in the Shell Anime - Jojo Gif

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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I resent a lot of things about AI in creative spaces. But the thing that I hate the most is that a year or two ago, if I saw something cool on the internet, I DIDN'T HAVE TO QUESTION whether or not human effort created it. I could appreciate what an achievement it was that a person could do that.

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Last week I saw Akira in the theater for the second time, and probably tenth time overall. It just keeps getting better and more beautiful every time I see it. There's always some new detail I notice. Seriously, between that and the manga, what an unbelievable timeless masterpiece

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Akira Motorcycle

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Regarding that post I shared about the use of one of Bowie's finest songs, "Five Years", by that trash-ass company, maaaan, I'm so tired of feeling angry so often these days. These soulless companies want to suck the soul out of everything, and cheapen life's beauty. Blearghhh... 🤢

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P.D.W. @whitepatrick.com · 15/09/2026

Meta using Bowie's "Five Years" in an ad is like Republicans using "Born in the USA." Clearly they didn't read the lyrics. Idiots.

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wow wow wow, I'm so excited for this! One of my favorite movies. I really hope it finally gets the blu-ray release stateside I've been waiting for. I saw the blu-ray on a demo TV at Nagasaki Best Denki in Japan ten years back, & have been waiting to own it in HD. (Still rockin' my VHS!)

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I want to force myself to draw more regularly again, even just sketches. Hopefully daily, but if not, at least a couple times per week. I used to draw every day, from age 3ish to around 25. It feels wrong to me that I barely have time to draw anymore. It’s like a fundamental part of me is missing.

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Anthony Martin @lightinganthony.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The stool leg always makes me think of the T-1000

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Nat Gertler, man of easily-solved mystery @nat.gertler.com · 11/09/2026

The people who design modern newspaper banners are all cowards. (1917) (This one's for @bullythelsb.bsky.social )

The banner for a 1917 issue of The Holly Chieftain places the title against a drawing of cows, pigs, haystacks, and a silo.

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: Steely Danish

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thinking back to when Penguin Books and Random House merged, they should have called the new company "Random Penguin House"

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Te Amo Amor

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Rômulo Aguiar @rominho666.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

City Hunter Tsukasa Hojo (北条司), 1985-1991

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was watching some of NBC’s coverage of the 9/11 memorial, & they cut off the speech the guy on the right was giving about his family, to go to commercial. They did that to several others too. Seriously, can we tell the advertising sponsors to go buzz off for just a few hours out of one solemn day?

A couple of gentlemen reading off names of the victims of 9/11. (I didn’t catch their names.) I was taking random pics throughout what I watched of the memorial, because it feels historic. The man in the right side, in the FDNY went on to be a firefighter like his uncle who died in the attack, and NBC cut him off in the middle of his speech for an ad break. 😟

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Forgive the selfie, but I posted this in a Bluesky buddy’s comments & decided to share it here too. I don’t, um, *officially* condone bootleg shirts, but I’ve gotten so many cool ones over the years. I’m a total freak for 80s/90s Japanese graphic design & love this kind of logo design.

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today is Star Trek's 60th birthday. I feel like the present that it deserves is for a company other than Paramount to own it (given who owns Paramount now.) I want to see a bright, thriving future for Star Trek, for future generations. Live long and prosper. 🖖

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I made a couple new friends while on a walk over the weekend 😊

One of two beautiful butterflies I saw, that were visiting the same pink flowered plant. I'm no entomologist, but after some googling, I think this one is a "dainty swallowtail" (Papilio anactus.) It's black, and has white & orange spots. It's resting on a puffy pink flower.

One of two beautiful butterflies I saw, that were visiting the same pink flowered plant. This one is a lovely monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus.) It's orange with stained-glass-looking black lines, and black edging on the wings that is filled with white spots. It's resting on a puffy pink flower. I'm not sure exactly what kind of flower. Seems close to a mimosa, but the images I was seeing for that, the stalks look different. Oh well, whatever it is, it's pretty!

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's Labor Day, and thus it is again time to post the champion of workers across the universe, Rom. #startrek, #ds9, #laborday

Some screenshots I stitched together from "Bar Association", an episode of the beloved show Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Quark, a Fergengi bartender / con-artist, is talking to his brother Rom. They are having a dispute about the way Quark treats his employees. Quark says "Rom, can't we talk about this?" Rom goes full-on Karl Marx and retorts "There's only one thing I have to say to you. Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

(As for me, I make this post on Labor Day 2026. I already worked earlier today, and have to work the rest of the evening. Labor day indeed!)

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Lots of articles like this lately. Man this shit gets me angry. Always blaming immigrants and other minorities instead of trying to change the system that's keeping EVERYONE down. Same nonsense repeating itself, in so many countries, forever.

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Opposition to accepting more foreign residents growing in Japan: study

The percentage of people in a panel study who opposed accepting more foreign residents in Japan grew to 56.3 percent this year, up 20.7 percentage points from 2024, according to the results recently a...

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Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This is his time.

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David Johnston @dljohnston.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Apparently this guy here in Huntington has committed to sitting here with a piece of cardboard on a pole to block this Flock camera to protect his neighbors' privacy. I want to shake his hand and buy him a hotdog

A man in a ballcap and sunglasses sitting in a camping chair holding a long pole with a piece of cardboard on it in front of a Flock camera

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This post reminded me of how my old beloved friend Magnus used to love hanging out on the heater in the bathroom in my old family home. That was one of his favorite places to watch squirrels in the giant tree in our backyard. He was such a sweetheart. Perfect cat 10/10.

My cat Magnus (?-2014 - I got him in 2008) on a morning in January 2013, sitting on the radiator next to the toilet in my old bathroom, at the home my family lived in for 30 yrs, in Monroe MI. Magnus was a fluffy brown cat with green eyes. I always thought he was a Norwegian Forest Cat, and maybe he was, or maybe he was a domestic longhair of some sort, I dunno. So fluffy and soft. He was very sweet and loving. Always curled up in my lap when I was working at the computer or watching movies. Always wanted to be near me. I took him back and forth to California twice with me, so he was a well-traveled kitty. I still miss him so much. I moved to Japan a couple weeks after this photo was taken, and though my Japan years were so good to me, but I regret not being with Magnus at the end. He died just one week before I came home to visit in December 2014. This was after my other cat, a Tonkinese (maybe?) named Cleo, and my husky dog Nero, both passed away in 2013 when I was gone. It was very sad timing. Man, this really turned into a sad remembrance, huh. Anyway, all three pets were wonderful and I miss them.

My cat Magnus (?-2014 - I got him in 2008) on an afternoon in April 2012, sitting on the toilet in front of the radiator in my old bathroom, at the home my family lived in for 30 yrs, in Monroe MI. Magnus was a fluffy brown cat with green eyes. I always thought he was a Norwegian Forest Cat, and maybe he was, or maybe he was a domestic longhair of some sort, I dunno. So fluffy and soft. He was very sweet and loving. Always curled up in my lap when I was working at the computer or watching movies. Always wanted to be near me. I took him back and forth to California twice with me, so he was a well-traveled kitty. I still miss him so much.

My cat Magnus (?-2014 - I got him in 2008) on a morning in April 2012, resting on the radiator next to the toilet in my old bathroom, at the home my family lived in for 30 yrs, in Monroe MI. Magnus was a fluffy brown cat with green eyes. I always thought he was a Norwegian Forest Cat, and maybe he was, or maybe he was a domestic longhair of some sort, I dunno. So fluffy and soft. He was very sweet and loving. Always curled up in my lap when I was working at the computer or watching movies. Always wanted to be near me. I took him back and forth to California twice with me, so he was a well-traveled kitty. I still miss him so much.

My cat Magnus (?-2014 - I got him in 2008) on an afternoon in March 2012, stretching on the radiator next to the toilet in my old bathroom, at the home my family lived in for 30 yrs, in Monroe MI. Magnus was a fluffy brown cat with green eyes. I always thought he was a Norwegian Forest Cat, and maybe he was, or maybe he was a domestic longhair of some sort, I dunno. So fluffy and soft. He was very sweet and loving. Always curled up in my lap when I was working at the computer or watching movies. Always wanted to be near me. I took him back and forth to California twice with me, so he was a well-traveled kitty. I still miss him so much.

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have the post-vacation / post-AnimeNYC blues. Wish it could happen more than once a year! I wish I could do more stuff like that in general. I really miss traveling. Used to be able to do it a lot more. I like that feeling of community, too. Haven't really had that since my JET Program days.

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Dog Sitting in Ocean Waves on Beach

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The NEC Bungo Hyper 7 (1991) (Source.)

A magazine ad showing the Hyper7. It's a dedicated word processor all-in-one, with a PS/2 keyboard, a monochrome backlit LCD monitor device left, twin vertically mounted 3.5" floppies device right, and a thermal printer device rear. The screen on the device shows a multi-application operating system, including word processor, spreadsheet, rolodex, drawing program, graphing program, disk utility, telecommunications terminal, and tutorial. The only thing it's lacking is a way to program on the thing.

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How do you even come up with a scene transition like this?

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dvlsblsh @devilsblush.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

bishoujo senshi sailor moon - another story / super famicom angel, 1995

usagi and luna standing on the road with their backs to the camera. they're beside a two story apartment with a coke machine out the front and a grey car is passing by.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Dolly Parton: the American Diogenes

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of the holes in my sense of empathy is that I can't empathize with others who aren't willing to empathize. Does that make sense? Like how could you NOT try to imagine how a terrible thing happening to someone else would feel until it happens to you? We're all human (after all.) (🤖)

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Evan Hayden @electronvolcano.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Got myself a wee li’l present to celebrate finishing 7/8 of Ashita no Joe. (One more volume to go!) I’d been looking for this for months! Brick Shop (Mattel’s take on LEGO) 1990 Honda Civic EF hatch in turquoise, just like I desired in my youth. It’s got a little sibling too!

Mattel Brick Shop 1990 Honda Civic EF hatchback, a turquoise LEGO-esque brick toy with white wheels, red seats, opening doors, and some sticker customization. Accompanying it is a matching turquoise Hot Wheels Civic EF with white wheels. I love them. 🩵

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Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.com · 01/09/2026

Celebrate the 11th anniversary of the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain by picking up Billy Bat volume 2, now available in English!

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