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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

nah I used to have this one and it rocked weighed like 5 oz empty and the straps were on rollers with springs so that they retreated into the backpack when you took it off instead of drooping so tidy expansion zipper, stood up neatly on its own when you took it off whether it was empty or full

Zab backpack from 2001 designed by Phillipe Staark for Samsonite. It is a vertical rectangle covered in a heathery grey fabric with a tidy minimal handle at the top for carrying and expansion zipper on the side. When not in use it stands up neatly on its own and the straps coil themselves up into the interior automatically so it always looks snazzy.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New Year's card I made back when I had a letterpress studio and did such things, maybe 2012? Cherry blossoms as a symbol of the transient beauty of living in the present moment.

A linoleum block/letterpress version of the same Ralph Waldo Emerson text being responded to in the thread. The typeface is Gill Sans and the linoleum block is a scattering of cherry blossom petals on a pale blue background. The petals are white with subtle pink tinting that was done via stencil after the printing.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Man Ray, The Lovers (painting 1931, this print 1964)

art by Man Ray entitled The Lovers depicts a pair of female lips (presumably) wearing red lipstick and curved in an enigmatic smile. The lips are enormous and float over a landscape like a huge blimp in a twilight sky scattered with small clouds.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

La Sportiva makes really good shoes for taking a long walk/hike in, too. I couldn't drive or bike most of the summer and put in 6 or 7 miles of walking every day and these were awesome. Bought them for the Grand Canyon.

Woman's shoe with fancy features that are kinda like a hiking boot (Vibram sole with deep textured tread) but kinda like a climbing shoe (flexible upper with asymmetric lacing system that hugs your foot).

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ah you don't know about Caganers! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer

Photos of colorful clay figurines in Barcelona called 'caganers'. From left to right we see Angus Young of AC/DC, Gene Simmons of Kiss, and David Bowie as Aladdin Sane.

The same three figures but the Gene Simmons figurine has been turned around and you can see that he is pooping.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this is what the refills look like. I search 'Nivea Water Gel spf 50' on eBay

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Reaper Man is my fave of the adult Discworld books and I just finished reading this book (Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, by Ben Reeves) and find myself wondering if he too read and liked Reaper Man.

Cover of book by Ben Reeves; the title is Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt. The cover design festures the title and author's name spiraling around a very dark greenish-blue cover with additional little images of a rising sun, a crescent moon, and a white cat.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

washing your face: quite similar to what Ernest Shackleton did back in 1914

Bar of soap whose wrapper reads Triumph and Disaster, like you have to make washing one's face into some kind of Shackleton expedition kind of ordeal before it's manly enough for guys to consider doing it

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Welcome! I'm across the bay, in El Cerrito! Coming into the city Tuesday night for a fundraiser at the Stud though.

Flyer advertising a Queer NonProfit Happy Hour featuring two drag performers raising money for two different non-profits; on Sept. 8th it'll be Rainbow Families Action and Slay AF Loans. Doors open at 5, event goes til 8.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've lived all over but I guess I really am a Californian

Answers that point to California being where I come from: freeway, firefly, drinking fountain, pill bug

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The art one of my kids made at about the same age. Yes, framed.

2 framed pieces of child's art. The first one says, in smudgy black brushstrokes 'fart fart fart fart fart fart'. The second says 'wers all thatt farting coming from?'

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The designer for these was Massimo Vignelli, who also designed the iconic 1972 NY Transit map, as it happens.

Detail of the brightly-colored NY subway map from 1972, very stylized and elegant with sans serif type and surprising color choices

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In case you needed more reasons not to use Amazon; this is downtown Berkeley today. So much for protected bike lanes.

Amazon truck parked in protected bike lane with one set of wheels on one side of the protective curb and the other set inside and blocking the bike lane. Not visible is the fact that it also cuts off access to the mid-block curb cut for wheelchair users.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

the cover had me doing a double-take, having just finished reading this (which also was excellent and surprising but an entirely different book)

cover of a book titled 'the ministry of time'. The type is multicolored and at an upward slant from left to right against a dark background suggesting a night sky. The book Amy is praising has a very similar cover but is not the same book at all.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Here's another. Does this person think the folks *opposed* to the bike paths came to the meeting still undecided about whether they favored a bike path or not?

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It took me until today (what is that, three weeks of Jimothy memes?) to figure out that he reminded me of Jeremy Hilary Boob AKA Nowhere Man!

Jeremy Hilary Boob aka Nowhere Man, from the Beatles animated movie Yellow Submarine

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

And this one, from the Berkeley Scanner. Someone quite obviously has no idea what the businesses on Hopkins sell/has never visited the area. Or perhaps the poster thinks only older folks eat pizza and drink boba tea? Who do they think the preschool serves?

I think it depends on what the small businesses are offering to their customers. A business that caters to those over 50, maybe selling different goods and services than those whose customer base is much younger. If many of the businesses on Hopkins have older, and possibly non-cyclists for customers, they may have to change what they offer, or move to another area, or go out of business. This would be a shame for many because it's their livlihood.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

yeah I'm not seeing a problem here but then I like this sticker too

sticker features a slightly crazy-looking lady wearing an apron and wielding an axe. She's standing over a cooking pot and there are human arms sticking out of the pot and some ordinary soup-making ingredients (onion, tomato) on the counter along with a human skull. The text reads: if we eat just one billionaire the rest will fall in line.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Spending a LOT of time observing my caterpillars this summer

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Vik Muniz is great; my current fave subway art though is the Nick Cave ones. Times Square shuttle station, more than one location.

photo of tiles hallway underground with fluorescent tube lighting and mosaics of multicolored human shapes surrounded by multicolored outlines in that echo outward from their silhouettes like the colored layers of a geode

A detail from another mosaic rendering of works by the same artist Nick Cave. This mosaic is of dancers wearing suits that cover their bodies entirely and seem to be made of very long multi-colored fake fur that sways with the wearer's dance, amplifying their motion

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@celestepewter.bsky.social Details (size, paper) in the alt text.

2 small handmade journals featuring salvaged materials and pages from Richard Scarry. The larger is 6 by 4.5" and the illustrations are humorous etiquette lessons about how to behave in a castle. The smaller is 4.5 by 4" and has endsheets featuring a pickle truck, and a ribbon bookmark.

2 small handbound journals featuring B & W photo covers. The larger is 9.5 by 4.5" and has imagery from an Italian design magazine and the smaller is 7 by 4" and has an X-ray image of a human baby. The paper in the smaller is salvaged ledger paper; the larger is vintage typing erasable bond.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Great novel that proceeds from this concept.

Cover of the book A Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I can donate a handbound blank journal; I have a bunch in stock that I made just for fun. Tell me which of these (if any) you want, and where to send 'em.

grubby desk with 7 different handbound books in a variety of colors and sizes

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

My kid and her girlfriend planted milkweed alongside our rented house and observing the lil guys is such a pleasure! Currently: 5 chrysalises, 7 inch-long caterpillars and one (that I'm aware of) that's maybe 3/16 of an inch long. This is from last summer:

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

My critter-viewing these days is all about the caterpillars growing in some milkweed next to our house

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

oh yeah! my soap (when I can get it)

round cake of soap in a pretty blue wrapper and box; label says Roger & Gallet Bois de Santal

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Has your wife read this book ? 400 pages about the history of the pencil (yes, including Ticonderogas!). You can read it for free on the Internet Archive, too. I saw it at the library and started reading it kind of as a joke but it turned out to be fascinating.

The front cover of a book called The Pencil, a History. The author is Henry Petroski and it has an illustration on the cover of a yellow #2 pencil

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The GOAT Kate Beaton is on it! From the Hark a Vagrant archive www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...

Comic by the GOAT Kate Beaton depicts Catwoman being all sexy and evil and then nonplussed when a very coy and buff Batman responds in kind with sexy posturing and innuendos right back

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Such a good book about the history of white Americans happily enshittifying their own lives just to prevent having to share anything good with people who aren't white

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The zine garland/library in my older kids' college dorm room

Above a blue sofa with various pillows and stuffies on it, a garland made by pinning long pieces of string across the wall displays approximately 40 or so zines that are hanging over the strings like clothes on a clothesline

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

trying to fit it to the cadence of

still from the video of the song Where It's At, by Beck. The still shows Beck in business wear holding a microphone on some kind of impromptu outdoor stage, and the captioned lyric is "I got two turntables and a microphone"

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

vimeo.com/406004813 Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle So good!

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's got chocolate chips in it and I am literally eating some of it RIGHT NOW

Photo of laptop computer displaying this message; there is a plate resting on the keyboard holding a half-eaten piece of tasty tasty double-chocolate banana bread

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

But this one... make sure he can turn his attention away from that model and focus on what you are saying to him.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Leftwing politics has never had a good track record of treating women as fully human, tbh. The women's movement in the US in the 60's came out of that.

Poster from the anti-Vietnam war movement shows three girls sitting demurely on a sofa under the words 'Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No' implying that these girls are will be the reward for young men who adopt the correct political position, i.e. transactional objects.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Reminds me of a Nick Cave soundsuit!

A person wearing multicolored striped tights is enveloped in a costume that makes them very tall and conceals the upper part of their body. The costume is made of long fur in blotches of various bright colors, and the person is jumping or dancing so that the fur flies around in all directions

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

If you're traveling by subway, the Times Square Station has the most amazing mosiacs of Nick Cave's art; I route through there every time I'm in NYC just to marvel at them.

A mosaic-covered wall stretches down a tiled hallway, curving away to the left. The mosaics feature larger-then-human sized images of costume sculptures made by the artist Nick Cave (not the musician of the Bad Seeds). They typically cover the body entirely, and feature accumulations of materials like fur, mirrors, buttons or childrens' toys, and they are designed to make sounds as one moves, and to amplify the bodies' movements in ways that are celebratory and ritualistic. In the mosaic, the translation into tiny bits of tile is spectacularly achieved, creating a really magical effect. The figures are surrounded by rings of colored tiles that evoke both energetic emanations and the layered colors in a geode.

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