Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16hChim-kin. #dog #dogs #leeloo #fifthelement #humor #humour 022
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026This week's edition of Pirate Ontology is all about the terrible time I lost the funny. Yes, it was worse than writer's block! markarayner.beehiiv.com/p/worse-tha… Sign up to get a free novel! #humor #humour #writing #amwriting #bookstodon #novel #comedy 003
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026The vibe when I finally eat dinner. #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #humor #humour [video description: an orange kitten lies on its side in a food bowl, kneading the kibble and eating it. 011
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026That look, when you're caught stealing all the wombats. #wombat #wombats #humor #humour 3813
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026A writer's solution to the eternal problem. #cat #cats #castsofmastodon #humor #humour #writing #amwriting [video description: a cat sleeps in the sunshine while its hooman types on a keyboard resting on the cat's side.] 053
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026October is off to a humiliating start. #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #october #pumpkin #humor #humour 1814
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026It's Sunday, so here is the required Jesus content. Sorry, best I could do. #keanu #Capybara #humor #humour 011
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026Worst #caturday ever. #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #dog #dogs #humor #humour 142
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026No, that's just the disembodied skull bebop you're hearing. #scoobydoo #daphne #fred #humor #humour #spooky 001
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026"Is Canadian conspiracy." #rocky #bullwinkle #cartoons #humor #humour 026
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026It's not an oxymoron, it's a superposition! #dickens #quantum #humor #humour #schrodinger 032
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026Spooky season is almost here. #soon #skeleton #october #humor #humour 025
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026Wow, that guy really wanted that last parking space. #monday #mondaymotivation #humor #humour 032
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026Are you crying? There's no crying in *checks notes* in the Zipper! markarayner.com/the-zipper #carnies #rides #humor #humour 012
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026Yet another confusing #caturday for this kitten that thinks it's a duck. #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #humor #humour [video description: a little black kitten meowing in a store, sounding more like a duck than a cat] 030
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026@tezoatlipoca Yes, desiccated but at the same time, also rotting. 000
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026@tezoatlipoca Yeah, maybe just some dried-out carrot sticks. 100
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026Do you get fries with that? Or is that more of a mashed potatoes dish? #dystopia #weird #signs #humor #humour 146
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026"Wacky with a sustaining thread of raw existential angst. .. Mark A. Rayner juggles it all in his black humor, satirical multiverse romp layered over the big questions of identify, meaning and what matters when everything is jumbled up." –Lynda Williams, author of the […] [Original post on mas.to] 022
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026Just kittens? Surely, puppies too? And what about baby otters? #cat #cats #kittens #humor #humour #catsofmastodon 011
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026Yeah, yeah. The time knife. We've all seen it. [video description: Eckhart Tolle discussing how the future does not exist over pretty images of sunsets, etc ... ] #thegoodplace #eckharttolle #time #existentialism #humor #humour 000
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026This setup really puts the "loo" in ballooning. #prollyAI #balloon #loom #humor #humour 003
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026Same here vending machine. You got this. #monday #mondayvibe #humor #humour #darkhumor 11652
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026Sunny Day Sweepin' the tanks away Looking for cookies to eat Can you tell me how to get, How to get to Ka-i-ju Street #cookiemonster #grover #thatTail #kaiju #godzilla #humor #humour 109
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026Somehow, the brother IN the box is still winning. 000
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026It's another brotherly #caturday! #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #humor #humour 2740
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026Very weird dogs have a cute case of the zoomies! #Iknowtheyarebovines #bovines #cattle #dog #dogs #humor #humour 012
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026Uh, guys, I know you're operating out of a former fast food joint, but typography still matters. #Taintstore #TaintGoodDesign #humor #humour 032
Reposted by Mark A. RaynerMark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026Some days you just need to say "fuck it" and go for a walk in the rain with an ungulate. #deer #Ithink #antlers #ungulate #humor #humour 3822
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026Today's Pirate Ontology is all about dark humor and why we need it. (Especially these days, but I'd argue humans require it always.) It's an essay you can check it out on my website directly: markarayner.com/what-is-dark-comedy… […] [Original post on mas.to] 012
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026I'm not sure what's happening here, but this lady's milliner is certifiable. #sillyHat #verySillyHat #namethatmovie #humor #humour 000
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026If you like to review books, are a librarian, a bookseller, or in the book trades generally, you can get an advanced reading copy of Beta Max, the second novel in the Tundraverse series. It's chock-full of Maximilian Tundras, this time featuring a few dinosaurs and […] [Original post on mas.to] 001
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026The irony police have been alerted. #robot #sweeping #humor #humour 052
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026When the company is finally fed up with the ballet master's perfectionism. #ballet #master #rifles #humor #humour 012
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026If my brother is doing it then I'm doing it too 000
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026Just hanging out on another super-normal #caturday! #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #catstodon #humor #humour 11033
Reposted by Mark A. RaynerMark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026Robot existentialism. (Art by Eric Joyner.) #robot #robots #existentialism #theThinker #humor #humour 026
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026Some fabulous writing by Tom Junod about the Falling Man and 9/11: www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4803… #911anniversary #fallingmanesquire.comThe Falling ManDo you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day. 011
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026Robot existentialism. (Art by Eric Joyner.) #robot #robots #existentialism #theThinker #humor #humour 026
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026The cosmic ballet goes on. #gull #sheep #apotheosis #humor #humour 102
Reposted by Mark A. RaynerMark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026Sharing this insightful review by Shannon Pilcher of The Gates of Polished Horn in full. "Intelligent, original, and consistently entertaining, Mark A. Rayner's collection will resonate with readers who appreciate literary fiction infused with speculative imagination […] [Original post on mas.to] 013
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026When your goblin enjoys your beverage more than you. #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #catstodon #humor #humour 012
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026It's the fall, so that means a-woo school starts again. #husky #awoo #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #dogstodon #humor #humour 0154
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026It's hard to stay hydrated when you're really confused. #FartFreeWater #humor #humour #badDesign #weird #signs 0512
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026Weird dog, making its own Jacuzzi . #IknowitsABear #dog #dogs #bear #humor #humour [description: a black bear frothing up a large tub of water like its a jacuzzi.] 031
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026Wow, this is a really judgy #caturday. #surveillance #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #humor #humour 195
Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026A modern-age Tantalus. #balls #roof #childhood #tantalize #humor #humour 032