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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Rinrin-chan, the tourism mascot for Tokyo’s Itabashi Ward, is a fairy of the ward’s official flower, the “flaccid anemone”. His special skill is photosynthesis.

A smiling green fairy mascot with two flowers on its head stands, bowing, on astroturf in front of a white PR tent.

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Norman Wilson (⚠️Ontario is not America) 🔵 @oclsc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

@mcphee.com @mcpheeceo.bsky.social See what you could sell if you opened a Canadian store?

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I created Archie McPhee because reality just wasn't living up to my expectations.” November 17, 2008

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Inventor of the essay Michel de Montaigne died #onthisday in 1592. He was 59 years old. Here he is on the importance of facing death head on: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... #OTD

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Eiriyan is the green alien mascot of Sammy's Slot Machines and Pachinko.

A green alien mascot with headphones and red eyes stands in a carpeted hallway.

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Figure out who you are and do it on purpose." -Dolly Parton

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Sabi-chan is a big-eyed wasabi fairy from Shizuoka, Japan.

A green wasabi root mascot with huge eyes stands in front of a roped off red carpet.

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Honetsuki Juju, a man with a chicken leg for a head and who carries a turtle around, is the mascot of Marugame City.

A man with a moustache and with a chicken leg for a head is wearing samurai robes and holding a turtle.

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

One of the many fantastic illustrations to be found in Dr Alesha Sivartha's enigmatic 1898 work titled The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man. Via Public Domain Review.

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Chrissy Callas Big Head, 1990 Ceramic

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

"Anthropic safety researcher Mrinank Sharma said this week that he was leaving the company to explore a poetry degree, writing in a letter to colleagues that the “world is in peril” from AI..." --Sam Schechner and Georgia Wells, Wall Street Journal

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

“The place in which I’ll fit Will not exist Until I make it.” -James Baldwin

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

What I'm reading tonight.

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

“If you sit quietly, like you’re fishing, you will catch ideas.” -David Lynch

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

“I think making jokes is always a way of being subversive without being directly confrontational.” -Roz Chast

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Extra eye for you.

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Archie McPhee @mcphee.com · 09/05/2025

New item! Capybara in a Peanut! mcphee.com/products/cap...

A toy peanut car driven by a capybara with an orange on its head.

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Jyorin-chan, a flying fig, is the mascot for Joyo City in Kyoto.

A pink fig mascot with white wings and yellow boots stands in a crowded field.

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Archie McPhee @mcphee.com · 10/07/2025

New items! Liquid Cats! Kitty looks solid, but can be liquid under some circumstances. mcphee.com/products/liq...

Three cat figures squished into bowls. They are collectible toys. The text says "Liquid Cats"

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

“You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away — a man is not a piece of fruit!” — Willy Loman, 1949.

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.” --Seneca

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. — Arnold J. Toynbee

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

“I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream.” — David Lynch

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"Love for canine pets in particular was one of the most attractive features of the ancient Roman character.” -Arnold Toynbee

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The Beach Boys loved KFC fried chicken.

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

“I have altered the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.” -Darth Vader, MBA

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Minatan, a diver with a basket of seafood on her head, is the mascot of Minamiboso City, Chiba.

A mascot in an old-fashioned white diving outfit and with a bowl of seafood on her head stands on a red carpet.

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Archie McPhee @mcphee.com · 16/03/2025

A box of tiny city critters? We all know someone who needs this. mcphee.com/products/tin...

A box labeled "Tiny Box of City Critters" contains four miniature animal figurines: a raccoon, a squirrel, an opossum, and a rat.

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

"We’re cooking regional Indian food with the world’s best Japanese knife, but asking Siri how much water to put in the rice." --Samin Nosrat

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

"Oh, Tocqueville, you’re the man." -Maira Kalman

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb, is the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company.

A yellow lightbulb mascot stands in a town square.

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Archie McPhee @mcphee.com · 08/03/2025

Our pull-back Rat Racer drives a tiny pizza slice vehicle that can fit in the palm of your hand. mcphee.com/products/rat...

A hand holding a small toy of a rat driving a slice of pizza. The rat is holding a steering wheel.

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Archie McPhee @mcphee.com · 20/03/2025

Our new Corn Multi-Tool is the cob for the job! mcphee.com/products/cor...

A corn-shaped multi-tool by Archie McPhee, featuring eight bits. The packaging states "Industrial Strength," and includes a drawing of a smiling corn cob wearing overalls. A real multi-tool in the shape of an ear of corn is shown in the foreground.

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Ham the Astrochimp, launched into space aboard a Mercury Redstone rocket in 1961, and safely returned to Earth.

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Uesama, a hyperrealistic head on legs, promotes Sof’ ice cream.

A realistic stoic head with a samurai topknot stands in two legs in front of an ad for ice cream.

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" is famously spoken by Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire," by Tennessee Williams. It’s her haunting final line, uttered as she is led away to a mental institution. Now it all makes sense.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

By the age of thirty you should have an all-consuming obsession with one era of history. If you haven’t yet developed a fixation on an historical era, one will be assigned to you shortly.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Ray Bradbury; reading for just a few minutes a night can save your life

“I’ll give you a program to follow every night. For the next thousand nights, before you go to bed, read one short story. That’ll take you ten minutes, fifteen minutes. Then read one poem a night from the vast history of poetry … Read the great poets, go back and read Shakespeare, read Alexander Pope, read Robert Frost. One poem a night, one short story a night, one essay a night, for the next 1,000 nights. From various fields: archaeology, zoology, biology, all the great philosophers of time … I want you to read essays in every field. Every night, before you go to bed, you’re stuffing your head with one poem, one short story, one essay—at the end of a thousand nights, you’ll be full of stuff, won’t you?”

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