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Joel Hill

@joelh.social
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Software developer in the Canadian Prairies #yxe. He/him

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Bongo” Ballpoint pen, pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and a little colored pencil.

Our man is in trouble this time, reader. Art supplies are scattered around a painting of an abstract cityscape. On the canvas we see a man in a telephone booth making a frantic call to his cat, Bongo. In the foreground, an answering machine is taking his voicemail, [Leave a message at the beep] --- “Bongo, Daddy got stuck in the painting. Go get help, Bongo.” Bongo stands at the base of the easel looking at the phone. Her tail in the air and ears perked up. Whether she’ll be able to help is open to interpretation.

Artist’s note: One of my favorites from the Spooky Pants book. I was playing around with the idea of a painting coming to life (like that guy in Ghostbusters 2) and kind of fumbled my way into this version. I really draw a lot of corded phones. I won’t stop.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 29/09/2026
Okay, maybe some bumper stickers are actually pretty good.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran would one hundred percent hide a zombie bite.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 18/09/2026
#ResidentEvil movie was so good! Takes a lot of inspiration from the mood of the games while still doing its own thing. Plenty of fun Easter eggs from the source material while not rehashing bunch of stuff we’ve all seen before.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 16/09/2026
I forget where I read it originally, but someone commented that Onimusha is a ‘horror game where the protagonist refuses to accept they are in a horror game’ and that lives rent free in my head now. Mushashi is too cool to be afraid.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 15/09/2026
I’m reading the forth book in the Earthsea series, and it’s amazing. The tone was… different, different enough that I looked it up to see what the hell happened. It was written 20 years after the previous book! You think waiting for Winds of Winter is bad? Ha!
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 09/09/2026
The iPhone Duo looks really cool until you look at the price tag. I've been trying to buy my phones outright without a carrier contract and man it's just not going to happen. Yikes.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
FIRST LOOK: bluesky designs for the upcoming foldable iphone have been leaked
a 4:3 screenshot of the bluesky app with the butterfly logo, hamburger and hashtag icons at the top. in the middle are two sections labeled "people yelling at you" and "people you're yelling at". at the bottom is the standard nav for home, search, messages, notifications, and profile. there are 20 unread notifications
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 08/09/2026
This is a public service reminder that your coffee maker probably has a little water filter in it you didn’t know about and it’s time to replace that filter.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Increasingly convinced this is the most important post
Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 02/09/2026
So that new Mastodon album is fantastic. Two of my favourite bands releasing new material and hitting new creative highs is such a treat. mastodon.bandcamp.com/album/marrow...
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Marrow Deep, by Mastodon
12 track album
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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 30/08/2026
Wrong. Goku would simply be disinterested in Road Runner because he displays cunning not strength. Vegeta on the other hand, would spend 5 episodes of B story getting his shit rocked.
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JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
MY DAUGHTER: I think Wile E. Coyote was my favorite character. Or maybe Bugs Bunny hahahaha. Dad, who was yours? ME: [calmly but sternly, with the full weight of my decades of cinephilia and overschooling] The single richest character in the history of American cinema is Daffy Duck.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 30/08/2026
This is cool and probably amazing life saving technology. I simply cannot trust drones though. Obviously I would accept a rescue by one, but I’d be just a little disappointed. Like, “I’m saved… probably!”
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 26/08/2026
Getting closer to looking like a cereal crop field? Still orange kinda, but I don’t think I hate it? My first rookie mistake was choosing such a large canvas. I think after this one I’m going to be buying small practice canvases, softer brushes, and some acrylic medium. #art #painting
Updated painting from quoted post. Bottom third has been painted in two hues that are somewhat closer to a cereal grain yellow colour?
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 25/08/2026
I’m aiming for a blue sky meeting a wheat field but I may have painted ocean meeting sand. Also, acrylic needs to calm down and let me blend. Might need a medium? #painting #art
An iteration of the painting in the quoted post. A blue sky going from a dark to white gradient meeting a flat orange bottom third
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 22/08/2026
This created a great opportunity for me to tell my kids everything I know about Mothra.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 21/08/2026
Oh man I have no idea what I’m doing. #painting #art
Start of a painting showing a canvas with just over the top half of the canvas covered in blue and white thick brush strokes. Bottom is orange-ish colour
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Ben "Ben Pack" Pack @packbenpack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Lore-accurate Futaba
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 18/08/2026
I should write something in #Elixir.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 18/08/2026
Man, Framework is building some of the coolest laptop tech right now. I'll be shopping for a new laptop in about... 10 years so hopefully they are still around then.
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Staid @staidindoors.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
they should make a Blade movie where he has to fight mummies and just has no idea what he's doing
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 15/08/2026
Out here getting it done
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 16/08/2026
Okay, mayonnaise needs to settle down, this is too much
Two squeeze bottles of mayo, each one is a different variety. The left bottle is “Garlic I Ail Parmesan” and the second is “Pickled Cornichons”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…”
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 12/08/2026
Air travel ticket prices are making be consider mailing my luggage ahead of time , Jesus.
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posts inspector @pippy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Iron Man movies did a weirdly good job describing Jarvis as a language model which then only reached AGI when it became Vision. It also portrayed Tony working with Jarvis in a way that closely resembles agentic coding. Which leads me to this question: Was the Iron Man suit vibecoded
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 03/08/2026
Using a stainless steel pan: oh wow, this is great! Why doesn’t everyone just cook with these? Cleaning a stainless steel pan: oh
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 02/08/2026
You never eat a hotdog so bad it ruins your night? Like, not tummy problems. Emotionally? Like, very disappointing and now you’re wondering what led you to that choice? I did.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In the "sequels better than the original" discussion, you gotta put Honey Nut Cheerios right at the top.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 30/07/2026
Perhaps one of the best things to happen (so far) from @avilewis.ca winning the NDP leadership is watching the old guard take their masks off.
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Alex @alex.bsky.team · 29/07/2026
I love how much of the odyssey is just about the perils of being southern European: - it’s hard to make your buddy be quiet in public so you don’t all get in trouble - sometimes other people are taller than you which is scary
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 23/07/2026
I firmly believe that The Odyssey came out earlier in the year to avoid competing with #CoyoteVsAcme
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 23/07/2026
I’m late to the party but I got in at a time when @jay.bsky.team was emailing codes out and it was really cool.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 23/07/2026
You know, since a PDS is just sitting there storing my files, there’s really nothing stopping me from hosting a full on website, right? Like, package up a little single pager as a record. Maybe some DNS fuckery to tie it to a domain name? Anyone try anything like that yet? #ATProto #WebDev
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 22/07/2026
This is the type of leadership I forgot was even possible. Holy hell we have some weak ass people in charge.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 21/07/2026
I am now almost certain I will finish this sometime this year. If anyone out there can see anything obviously wrong I am open to suggestions but also tired and getting sloppy.
A small unfinished deck serving as a landing to the entrance of a house, the beams and joists are all visible. Landscaping fabric can be seen underneath. The yard is a mess of rubble piles, tools and hoses. The remains of the previous stairs are seen just out of frame on the left
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 18/07/2026
It’s not even lunch time and I already need a bandaid.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 18/07/2026
It’s not often a band makes me feel lucky that they’re still making music. If you like metal or punk you need to hear these songs.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/07/2026
Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 17/07/2026
Today I learned I’m a robot
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 17/07/2026
These weirdos will go on to describe a change that just makes everyone’s lives a little better and then they go on to compare it to literal hell. Complete disconnect from the reality that 99.999% of us live in.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 17/07/2026
Hey. Listen to this album. #ProtestTheHero tidal.com/album/526831...
tidal.com
Protest The Hero - Within
Listen to Within on TIDAL
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 15/07/2026
Friendly reminder that CN treats their workers like trash and this is only the latest example. Also if the fire had taken them I doubt we would have heard about it at all.
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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 15/07/2026
Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/
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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
literally this meme:
delta airlines poster: UNION DUES
COST AROUND
$700 A YEAR.
A NEW VIDEO GAME SYSTEM WITH THE LATEST HITS SOUNDS LIKE FUN.
PUT YOUR MONEY TOWARDS THAT INSTEAD OF PAYING DUES TO THE UNION.


homer simpson: Aww, higher wages!
I wanted a video game!

homer simpson’s brain: Higher wages can buy many video games.
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Joel Hill @joelh.social · 15/07/2026
I’ve been seeing these fake DS machines playing roms and Android games and now I see why I might actually really want one.
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