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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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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes. - Kobayashi Issa

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Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” –Joan Didion

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Nuts-kun, a squirrel with tree hair, is a mascot from the town of Satosho in Okayama, Japan.

A squirrel mascot with a treetop haircut stands on a lawn in front of several people and a brick building

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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 · 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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