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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Gull working hard in Kye Bay to liquefy that sand and free the noms.

Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@translink.ca When are you going to get around to having 4 cars to VCC?Three trains full is not a useful transportation system if you are near the terminus.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was press ganged last week to give a seminar at UBC this week. Always a fun time and a chance to update my slides. Looking forward to Nick Zentner's Cascade Ice A-Z as there is some interesting timing going on.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@patrickwyman.bsky.social When you are in Vancouver, walk along the Coal Harbour sea wall and should find your cormorant.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Gas Station Memory: Working nights there was the occasional homeless guy who bathed in the washroom. Usually wet, but not actually messy, just needed a mop. The worst atrocity was a gaggle of HS grad girls who went in and left a disaster, the worst being a layer cake of shit and tp in the toilet.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The smoke has arrived in Vancouver. Big change from yesterday, although Baker was still obscured.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Beggars and thieves at St. Mark’s.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

“It has been estimated that the city of Rome consumed 1.5 million hectoliters of wine each year.” (The Fate of Rome, Harper) Simpler to say 150 million litres. Don’t make me, the reader, have to do the math to make it legible which would be 200 million wine bottles.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

That greeting you hear today in some communities? Remember, you sail with the Empire.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Feels like summer starts today.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It will be sunny. Eventually.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

@cariad.bsky.social, non-terrible news. What would be cooler is if Luna is making the trip.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A reader (who wished to remain anonymous for reasons of naturalization status) passed along to me their version of a Battle Hymn of Minneapolis, which I now share with you. 'Tis, as they say, a banger. justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...

Lyrics, reading, "My eyes have seen the glory of the city that won’t fall,

Seen it shelter in its bosom hunted children, big and small;

I have seen the hunters pushed back and spat on in front of all,

The city's standing strong.

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

The city's standing strong.

George, roused from gentle slumber by his vine and his fig tree,

Saw fresh tyrants threaten terror, ached to call out for a steed,

Then he saw that Minneapolis held firm in thought and deed,

And proudly he smiled on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

So proudly he smiled on.

As Abe stood deep in grieving by the million Union men,

Voiceless now to move the living to beat evil back again,

The songs of Minnesota soothed his soul with their refrain—

Friend Abe, they carry on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Yes, Abe, they carry on."

Song lyrics, reading, "At the Hall of Heroes’ entrance Martin stood twice in two weeks

There to welcome the new martyrs with tears running down his cheeks,

And he told them “Lay your burdens at your brethren’s tireless feet,

For, look, they carry on.”

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Yes, still they carry on.

In the whirlwind stand two women who well know their time is here:

One is blind, the other bloodied, yet they know no pain nor fear;

One holds sword and one holds flame—their blazing promise perseveres:

For all they shall stand strong.

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

By them we shall stand strong."

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

No fog at the office. It is hanging out to seaward.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The first election I have a distinct memory of is 1988 when the matter was the original Free Trade Agreement with the US. My how times have changed.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Goose Spit, Comox, 2008. When I was in grade 12 in 1997 the up current bluff was largely unarmoured with only the lock block groins to help capture sand. And then the rip rap started to be added and the sand supply was reduced.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Many creatures at the Comox dock.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I have made an arrangement in honour of H.R.1238, Cartel Mark and Reprisal Act from R-TN-2. Oh, the year was 2026, How I wish I was in Palm Beach now, A letter of marque come from the Don, To the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen,

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Going through old photos for a presentation. This view looking up the Halfway River from the Peace River is now flooded. Have one of the concretions as part of my office rock collection. Otherwise choss and sedimentary riprap at the bridge. But we are spoiled on the coast.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Going through old photos for a presentation. This was November 2009. Bill had more or less laid off all his staff (GFC and all) and it was just me and him auger drilling. I leaned that day that Caen is pronounced Kain in Chilliwack. Good crunchy sand and gravel there.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

@goingmedieval.bsky.social Can you help my astronomer friend out? Astrology is what comes to mind, a big astrological ephemeris.

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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 21/10/2025

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

It seems I will be flying on one of the last of Air Canada’s pixelated shit tier livery planes. Good choice with the not so new one.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Santo Stefano in Bologna is one of my favourite churches to visit. A structure so old it predates a lot of conventional church elements. My only lament from my last visit is the holy nocino was not available in the gift shop.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Morning with Professor Nick and Mocha bones.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Called from bed to rescue a crow fledging from a cat, the former now resident on out patio.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Smashy smashy. Although, the geometry of this one is odd.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

When I think of fire MacReady comes before McCreadie.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

@jkass99.bsky.social, have you ever schoon blazed your damn wand slot?

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Plotting room on August 7, 1940? What can go wrong.

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Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I moved to Burnaby 20 years ago. When I did so I stayed at SFU until I found an apartment. I went back on the weekend to retake some skyline photos. Things have changed.