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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 29/09/2026

Tuxley now tries to get into his food bin when the pantry's open. He's having trouble keeping on weight as he approaches 16 so sometimes I do this intentionally, let him get a few good mouthfuls, then shoo him away.

An old beagle face first in a food bin in a pantry.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 27/09/2026

Humanoids in SotW can now be paid off for their peace. The implementation is kind of basic right now, with some edge cases (Sceadugenga's followers will not do this; creatures won't accept payment again if hostilities resume) still to come.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 26/09/2026

I can't wait to be done supper.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 26/09/2026

My own list (posted to the vgo discord a few days ago)

FF1, Master of Magic, Gorillas, Mega Man 2, Star Control 2, Final Fantasy Tactics, Chrono Trigger, Vega Strike, Dragon Warrior III

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 26/09/2026

Don't usually post pics of myself, but someone just posted this picture of the Treherne 10k trail run with me looking like a big-headed cryptid in the distance, so,

Three runners in the foreground of a trail, with me in a red shirt in the distance.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 24/09/2026

Rain this morning. The dwarf lilac's starting to turn

Red and green dwarf lilac leaf dotted with rain.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 23/09/2026

Rue Deschambault, last night

A row of cars down a long street at sunset. A distant cathedral is lot by orange-yellow light.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 23/09/2026

Name your fav game made before 2000 (1992)

Screenshot from Star Control 2 showing the player talking to the Zoq, the Fot, and the Pik.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 13/09/2026

5k done. I might've squeaked in under 30m, we'll see. Sprinted past some much-younger people the last few hundred metres. Last year I had to pull out of all my races with right knee pain, so I'm proud of this; I'm not young anymore. Trail run at Treherne next week.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 12/09/2026

RedHawks 6 - 5 Goldeyes. Fargo-Moorhead sweeps Winnipeg out of the playoffs. Poor umpiring misses several calls at 1st for the Goldeyes, and calls an out at 2nd for a basepath violation that would've given the Goldeyes a run. One of the worst-umpired games I've witnessed. A brutal end to the season

Winnipeg pitches to the RedHawks in the early evening.

The RedHawks pitch to the Goldeyes late in the game.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 11/09/2026

Misread this ad as ZERO MERCY TO THE MACHINES, which would be a killer band name.

Ad with two guitarists noodling like dopes with "ZERO MERCY TONE MACHINES" overlaid.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 10/09/2026

The latest to emerge. Made its chrysalis on the fold of a yard waste bag.

Butterfly spreading its wings on a yard waste bag.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 07/09/2026

Feels like a recession indicator.

A warning in Google Photos saying that items in the trash are now gone after 30 days instead of 60.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 29/08/2026

Tonight @ Papiiro. Last performance of the summer. Love this group so much.

Sidequest Quintet in the photo booth in the courtyard behind Papiiro, in Osbourne Village.

Sidequest Quintet peforming a private event in the courtyard behind Papiiro in Osbourne Village.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 21/08/2026

Went to check on the chrysalises on the milkweed after I let the dogs out at bedtime. Almost there, little butterfly

A butterfly inside a chrysalis hanging on a milkweed leaf. Its wing is visible.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 18/08/2026

Starting to think about the fall again. Going to keep at stuff on electric but I've been neglecting my classical guitar since I finished some compositions last winter. Getting back to it later today with an almost 500 year old piece by Pietro Paolo Borrono

Lute tab for Pavana chiamata La Desperata

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 18/08/2026

Unlocked a memory of a game I used to play with a friend who lived down the lane from me when I lived in Vancouver.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 15/08/2026

Met up with a couple of our old friends and their kids by the river today and saw some cool frogs

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 09/08/2026

Yesterday at Extra Life North. Two of our summer gigs are now in the books. Two to go!

Sidequest quintet - bassoon and clarinet

Group picture of the Sidequest Quintet after playing.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 08/08/2026

A couple months ago we planted native Prairie plants, including a bunch of milkweed. It's starting to get tall, and before I went to get supper, I saw this little caterpillar. After supper, it was in its chrysalis stage.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 04/08/2026

youtube finally giving me the good stuff

A young woman playing two recorders with her nose.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 30/07/2026

Bought a horn audition book basically for funsies but also because the heart wants what it wants (Bruckner and Mahler excerpts).

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 28/07/2026

This summer The new horror film everyone's talking about. At the end of her suffering There is a door.

The creepy shack in the woods from the "free hugs" meme but it's been updated to read "Wild Iris".

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 28/07/2026

Lilies along the walking path today.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 24/07/2026

Had a few cherry tomatoes ripen here and there but finally got a bunch all at once. Manitoba's growing season is...yeah, at least I can get tomatoes.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 22/07/2026

I think I found the most Bluesky reply ever.

Skeet showing a little library with DVDs.

Skeet replying, "hold on, making a road trip." Someone skeets back, "Public libraries also rent out DVDs, just saying."

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 21/07/2026

Frances Cannon, from "Grotto" (above/ground press @robmclennan.bsky.social)

Limerence

It's been three days since you pressed me up against your car in the dark driveway.
You pinned my arms over my head and I wanted more-more pressure, more contact, more skin.
Now we're four states apart and I have nowhere to put my energy, no body to squish my flesh into, yet the memory still quickens my pulse and keeps me up at night. Half a week's sleep lost, and I would lose many more to keep these images on loop: Our socked feet rubbing under the table at the dinner party; your towel slipping and bunching under our grinding bodies on the pine needle slope; the kiss I stole in the dark between rooms while everyone else circled the kitchen counter; our accidentally matching button-downs; the single chanterelle we found in the woods.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 15/07/2026

I guess the lesson is to always pair the mouthpiece to the horn. On the left is my old Yamaha 30C4, on the right my new Laskey 75G. If I ever take the plunge and get a better horn, I look forward to doing this all again.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 02/07/2026

There's a section of "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" by Roald Dahl that's stuck in my head since childhood.

Men like Henry Sugar are to be found drifting like seaweed all over the world. They can be seen especially in London, New York, Paris, Nassau, Montego Bay, Cannes and St Tropez. They are not particularly bad men. But they are not good men either. They are of no real importance. They are simply a part of the decoration.

All of them, all wealthy people of this type, have one peculiarity in common: they have a terrific urge to make themselves still wealthier than they already are. The million is never enough. Nor is the two million. Always, they have this insatiable longing to get more money. And that is because they live in constant terror of waking up one morning and finding there's nothing in the bank.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 27/06/2026

Beautiful day for a run down country roads.

A dirt road passing a collapsing farm building.

A dirt road beside a farmer's field, filled with some sort of crop, maybe potatoes.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 20/06/2026

some days the timeline really delivers

two skeets: "ai use is a kind of ritual impurity"/"'American Gothic' but the wife is wearing an ahegao hoodie"

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 19/06/2026

One of my guitar teacher's cats, looking like a sentinel from the next world.

Shadow, a long haired black cat, in side portrait, framed by lots of light exposure from a window behind her.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 13/06/2026

The biggest problem has never been actually making something - if you have the desire and the time, you can do it - it's been getting strangers to care about your work. And now, everywhere, that's going to be even harder.

So you made an app? DO NOT POST IT HERE.

Congratulations so did 10,000 other people who tried to post it on a reddit sports sub this week. With AI making coding easier, everyone and their mother made an app.

It's overwhelming the sub and considered spam to post it. You will get an automatic ban for spamming.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 07/06/2026

30 degrees. Hot night for baseball.

Goldeyes vs Explorers from the first base line.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 04/06/2026

First bloom on our white irises.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 17/05/2026

for #smallpoemsunday. from my last chapbook (Orbits, Model Press, 2023)

August 98

When the dopamine died, and the heat
of us cooled.

When you came to visit, the Brown-eyed
Susans yellow-bright.

When we briefly caught fire,
burning both

with and out, our phosphorescence
heady/empty glow.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 30/04/2026

Advertise your account with a Simpsons image

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 27/04/2026

I got this for $5 at Valu Village in 1999. I think it's a first edition. At the end of high school I got in shit with my parents for staying out all night and partying (extremely unlike me), and spent the first week of summer holed up in my room, reading this, and learning to write C.

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Julian Day @julianday.ca · 27/04/2026

It's spring, so I'm reading Stilt Jack again.

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In this place we might be happy; blue-winged teal, blacks, bats, steam

from cows dreaming in frost. Love, you ask too many questions.

Let's agree: we are whole: the house rises: we fight; this is love

and old acquaintance. Let's gather the stars; our fire

will contain us; two, one.

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