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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I just moved the router in my home network to another physical location, and it was dead simple thanks to the work I’d done labeling which Ethernet port on the switch corresponds to which in the wall. Good job me!

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John Schrag @jvschrag.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

This afternoon I rode my bike to Biidaasige Park to see the new sculpture by Kent Monkman, one of my favourite Canadian artists. “The Colony” is just a delight. It’s a group of giant beavers all engaged in different activities —playing music, dancing, bringing […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Photo of a bronze sculpture featuring a cutaway three-story beaver lodge, full of beavers engaging in creative activities — reading, making food, praying, gossiping, making music and love.

Close-up photo of a detail of a bronze sculpture. Two giant beavers are looking excitedly through a telescope while a beaver Cupid soars above them, bow in hand

Photo of a bronze statue of two giant beavers dancing ballet — one lifting the other in a spin. In the background, plants and the skyline of a city is visible.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Voting an absentee ballot from France makes me so mad about how hard it is to vote when you live in the US, like 99.9% of citizens. It’s just a website! It’s so simple! WE COULD ALL HAVE THIS

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Just started rewatching Attack on Titan—what an incredible show, fascistic tendencies aside. Music, animation, characters. Solid.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

It’s bullshit that Cartesian coordinates are named after Descartes and not someone named Cartés. Descartian coordinates more like.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Oh hey it’s my 27th veganiversary! Not dead of protein deficiency yet but I’ll let you know. #vegan

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Starting—starting!—to figure out pizza in the new place. Different flour, different tomatoes and cheese, different (electric!) oven, different mixer… but we’re getting there. #pizzursday #pizza #baking #sourdough

A Neapolitan style pizza with spots of mozzarella and large pepperoni. The crust isn’t exactly leoparded but it’s browning in a way that’s not dissimilar.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

You cannot take a bad picture inside La Sagrada Família. I tried. #FensterFreitag

A bank of stained glass windows ranging from green to orange, sunlight streaming in through them dying an interior space in absolutely saturated color

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

A brief thread of biblically accurate angels from the National Art Museum of Catalonia’s Romanesque church mural collection. These murals were painted in the 1100-1200s, and stripped from their churches for conservation in the 1970s. #ArtHistory

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

My eclipse photos are pretty garage—90 seconds is not much time to figure out how your phone camera works!—but it was incredible to see with the naked eye and I recommend it heartily.

A wide photo of the eclipse showing dawn-ish light to the left and right with night and an eclipsed sun in the middle

A zoomed in eclipse photo, blurry as hell, showing the corona around the moon

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

You cannot take a bad picture inside La Sagrada Família. I tried. #FensterFreitag

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

The music video for Junior Senior’s “Move Your Feet”, agree or disagree m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPlQpGeTbIE&r…

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-Boulet- @bouletcorp2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Nouveau Rogaton - 08/08/2026 - "Génération Perdue" À lire ici: www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2026/08…

La page de titre du strip (en anglais) annonçant "Lost Génération". On voit Boulet devant un pupitre avec un gros bouton, et la Mort se tient debout derrière lui, les doigts (squelettiques) en clocher.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Quelqu’un saurait où acheter des lunettes spéciales pour l’éclipse à Paris ? Il est trop tard de les acheter en ligne, je crois.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

I just made such a good salad. Tomato and peach and sourdough croutons with harissa cumin dressing. And some lettuce too. I am really happy about it, I didn’t expect that to be the best food experience of the day but I think it was. #vegan

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Huh, glad I happened to be home to see the Tour de France going right past my apartment!

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Just now realizing how much of my childhood I spend trying to figure out how to pronounce “scythe”. Thanks Terry Pratchett, I guess!

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@nancycomics/116966… For all that Nancy is (rightly) lauded for breaking convention, this strip is a great example of how Bushmiller’s complete dedication to four panels hurts him. The gag would’ve been better with three panels, and possibly even two.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

We're looking for talented artist-engineers to help us take Keynote to the next level! 🎉 If you love writing beautiful realtime shaders and want your work to show up on stage introducing the next Apple product, come join our (amazing) team. You would be designing and optimizing the effects that […]

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Welcome to the nation that invented gastronomy,

A sign advertising Cheetos and Doritos hot dogs. I live in France.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A heatwave cartoon for @newscientist.com

1. Title: The North Wind and the Sun quarrelled as to who was the stronger.

2. The Sun says: "I propose a wager: See yonder traveller, let us see who can make him remove his cloak."

3. The northwind blows on the traveller, the sun says: "You blow yet he only wraps it tighter!"

4. The sun shines on the traveller, saying: Observe! . The traveller mutters "nice and warm"

5. The Sun says "See, my kindness brought results!" The traveller has removed hos cloak and begins to sweat. "Fair enough, you win." concedes the North Wind.

6. "Tremble before my gracious heat!" says the sun, smiling bradly. His heat has started a fire. the traveller flees. The North Wind says "I think that’s enough."

7. "Let the world burn with my cleansing benevolence!!" blazes the sun madly, now grown huge in the sky. The land is a burning fireball. "Now you’re scaring me!" says the North Wind anxiously.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

“Budget” and “low budget” mean the same thing. Are there other constructions like that?

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Stained glass shadows in a church in Dubrovnik

The stone interior wall of a church, with tall stained glass shadows from one side cast on the supporting columns of the other

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

I went to a yoga class in French tonight and did not know what the fuuuuck was going on. It was kind of a nostalgic throwback to the first years of yoga where I’d spend a lot of time looking around trying to figure out what “artichandrasana” meant, but now it’s « coudes bien serrés » instead.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Today included voted for the people’s choice rose at the Bagatelle rose garden, and a lovely asparagus frittata. #vegan

A rose, densely packed petals. Each one is bright red on the inside and yellow on the outside.

A frittata in a cast iron skillet. It’s chickpea flour, studded with asparagus, and has halved cherry tomatoes and la vie bacon bits scattered across the top.

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BunnyMama @bunnymama.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Following up on today’s discussion about rabbitty pedicures ;) here’s a tip I learned a few years ago…. Use a piece of sturdy netting to keep your bunny’s foot fur out of the way while you trim their nails. In the States, bags made out of netting are commonly […] [Original post on sfba.social]

A snip of orange plastic netting from an onion bag sitting on a white towel.

BunDad and Bramble modeling the plastic netting. As you can see, it’s been a bit since we chopped of his nails!

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

In French they call a fanny pack a banana and I think that’s beautiful

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

LaCrèma had this amazing saffron date flavor as their special today. The person working insisted that I try it before I be allowed to get it; too weird for some people I guess? But listen: it was incredible. #vegan

A cup with a scoop of coffee ice cream, and a cone with a scoop of saffron and a scoop of vanilla. Both are topped with fluffy whipped cream.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

I got my titre de séjour today, I am officially allowed to be in France for like ten years (as long as I have a job sponsoring my visa). I only had to stand in line for three hours! And only the first hour was in the sun! What a country 🥲

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

It’s amazing how well Sudafed works and how absolutely ineffective every other decongestant is

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

In the midst of a bread fail this morning so I’m pivoting to focaccia. I haven’t gotten the hang of baking with French flour. But actually I think it’s that all the flour I’ve found is low protein (AP in American parlance). My kingdom for clearly marked bread flour, or an indication of which […]

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The Moldy Peaches (Kimya Dawson and Adam) reunite to perform the Adventure Time theme song for the new Side Quests series, coming June 29th. #AdventureTime

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John Schrag @jvschrag.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

It was ten years ago that I found out my cousin was an MI-6 agent. More precisely, it was my mom’s cousin (and next-door neighbour growing up) Larry, who had kept it a secret all his life. Not a hard secret to keep, since no one expects a kid from small-town Ontario, Canada to be recruited to […]

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Want to see the most French thing ever?

An Eiffel Tower made of bread, on a platform with the sign “fête du pain Paris 2026”

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Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE @nicolaz.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

Did you know that more than 40% of SHE IS HERE is an original novella, "Many Things In Dumnet," that will form part of a *delicious* sword-swangin' alt-history fantasy lathered with love and lust, loss and longing, and lusty lesbians using music (and sex and swords) to save the world? You do now […]

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

Fontainebleau is beautiful and an absolutely unbelievable resource for climbers in Paris. It’s so wild to have world-class bouldering an hour (train ride!) from home. Too bad there’s no sport climbing though… #climbing

A wide angle shot of a boulder with crash pads in front of it. The boulder is 5-10 meters high (sorry I’m not good at meters) and totally riven with pockmarks. It looks like a set from Stargate. There’s a guy at the top, looking over the edge.

A bright orange crash pad in front of a boulder. The crash pad is in sunlight and is reflecting onto the boulder face.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I'll be in Paris on Saturday! Come along and get a book signed! librest.com/librairies/lib… editions2042.com

An image of a stick figure on the road to Paris carrying a huge uni-ball eye micro pen. He is followed by a black cat.
This Saturday, 18th April 2-4pm I will be signing and doodling in my books at Librairie l'Atelier
2 bis rue du jourdain, Paris, 75020

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Turns out Paris has wild parrots too. I feel right at home!

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

I had a lovely today #today. I framed and hung an art print, got veggies and cashew cheese at the farmers market, put some herbs in window planters, and walked a ton around Paris. Le week-end !

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

Fun fact: a common cold can read positive on a rapid antigen #covid test! PCR will tell you the truth. I learned this last week after deep confusion and soul (nostril) searching.

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Joel Kin @foon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Paris weather suddenly got beautiful. I just ate some onigiri for lunch while sitting in the sun. Springtime. #today

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