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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 3h

Bashed my toe so bad 2 weeks ago that I limped for a full week... This morning I woke up & had the thought "Hey, my foot doesn't feel so bad, what a relief." & within 5 minutes I bashed my finger so hard that it's turned purple, so I'm afraid I may have entered my glorious "Klutz Era"

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Carla has a very special skill where when we're watching a movie she holds out for as long as she possibly can before requesting a quick break to go get more water, and when she eventually does, almost without fail, we press pause and learn that there are 5 minutes or less left in the movie.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It feels insane listening to the NYT talk at length about the differences between prediction markets and stock market trading, and whether prediction markets are actually gambling sites.. as though the stock market isn't also just gambling in a nicer suit.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's awesome how Ewan McGregor can be a really great actor, and can do a decent American accent, but absolutely can't do both at the same time.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Doing what we in the biz refer to as a "two dinosaur movie weekend".

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just walked through the house and saw two separate piles of acorn caps left by me in different rooms, not counting the ones in my pocket right now, and realised that Carla basically lives with a squirrel.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Recently learned that I apparently missed the last *three* albums by Built to Spill (including an album of Daniel Johnston covers) so brother you know what I'm listening to for the next week.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Two smallish projects that I don't really have time for, but am squeezing in, and folks, I'm pretty excited about both of them!

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Carney is using the threat of a far-right Conservative government to advance increasing right-wing economic policies under the centrist Liberal label.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Any mutuals in the UK - I impulsively bought tickets months ago to a show in London in November, and now I’m actually considering maybe going. Looking for recommendations on accommodations, etc, in or near Camden. Also if anyone wants to hang, hit me up!

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s wild how when Pokemon Go first came out a bunch of folks were like “This feels like a way to crowdsource very detailed maps of the insides of public & private spaces which could be used for pretty bad reasons”.. & people were like “calm down, it’s a game!”, & guess what turned out to be true?

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Got a v nice email from someone letting me know this towel I designed for @maximumfun.org last year is their fav towel & wondering if there’s a way to get another. I can’t help with that part, but honestly it was really nice to hear, because this is one of my fav things I’ve made in recent years. 🦄

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 26/08/2026

once again,

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just got one of those weird AI-generated paid-promotion book review emails about a book that is basically a perpetual day-planner / art book, with short fiction, which was published 16 years ago, and is likely close to out of print.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

the new BBC Lord of the Flies miniseries is very good, and also, extremely harsh and upsetting. Like, pretty brutal, which of course it should be.. but dang.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I was just sent a finished reference image by a coworker for a project I was about to start on, and I said “Oh wow, that’s really beautiful, who drew that one?” & she said “well, I composited it, but those are your drawings” so basically I’ll be hiding in this hole for the rest of the day.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You'll never guess who is the source of the increase in wildfires.

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The violation of consent is part of the thrill for them

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’d like to thank @agoldman.bsky.social & the team at @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social because I genuinely think that their two part episode about FIP, played a major role in this insanely cute little weirdo (my parents 1 year old cat Bentley) being alive & thriving today.

An american short hair cat with brown Tabby patterning, big, wide set eyes and a smushed little nose, reclining on a wooden coffee table, totally unaware of how close he came to shuffling off this mortal coil

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Listen I know ad*be is awful, but if you need to use it for work, here’s something I wish I’d known SO LONG AGO. If you go to the align panel, choose "Align to Glyph Bounds", and then select "Point Text” then you can actually properly center text vertically! Imagine!

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

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+ All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is really weird, but there’s a guy I don’t really like who has a tattoo of my old band, and literally every time I run into him, he says “I still have that tattoo, man!” and I’m always like “Yeah, I mean, that’s famously how tattoos work."

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Constantly honing my unique skillset (putting a pot of rice on, walking away “just for a second” while waiting for it to boil, completely forgetting about it, and then running upstairs in a panic to find it boiled over and burned to the bottom of the pot)

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Recently learned that someone I know and like doesn’t just not believe in the moon landings, she genuinely doesn’t believe that space is real at all. I don’t know what to do with this information.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My mother, who is perfect and wonderful, just sent me an absolutely deranged AI video about people with irish heritage (me) having a higher incidence of celiac (questionable) and it’s all extremely uncanny “people” looking at bread with devastated expressions, and then weird animations of DNA.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Just impressed my coworkers by knowing this guy’s full name right off the dome, (it’s Michigan J. Frog) if you were wondering what I bring to the table as an employee.

Michigan J Frog, the dancing frog from Warner Bros. cartoons. An illustration of a green cartoon frog, standing on a tightrope wire, with a cane and top hat, kicking his leg up, illuminated by a spotlight.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Imagine going back in time, into the room where Quaker execs are pitching the name “Cap’n Crunch OOPS All Berries!” and being like “Listen, this is going to sound crazy, but what you’re doing here today is going to become the foundation of SO many podcast jokes for decades to come."

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I can’t really articulate why, but @jennifermarmor.bsky.social proclaiming “I don’t give a dog’s rip!” on the most recent #JJHO membo mailbag really got me in a way that felt very Nova Scotia coded.

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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 30/06/2026

Reminder that thousands of female athletes across America are going to have their access to sports limited because of a witch hunt to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. xtramagazine.com/culture/olym...

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IOC fairness in women’s sports policy makes sports less fair for women | Xtra Magazine

In banning trans women from the Olympics and mandating strict gender testing, the IOC just set women’s rights overall back

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Just remembered one time in highschool when I saw a local ad on tv that had a teenage weirdo in it, who looked so much like me, that it really rocked me, and I got kind of freaked out and kept worrying I was going to run into my doppelgänger somewhere in the city.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Our whole garden which I can see from my office window has just been full of cedar waxwings since this afternoon, and badabababah I’m lovin’ it.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I know duckduckgo isn’t perfect, but it does allow you to easily disable ALL of the AI features from search, & everywhere else, which is huge. The biggest, absolute game-changing feature though is using duckplayer to watch any youtube video WITHOUT ADS. None. It’s a beautiful thing.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Yet another reason why I love the Maximum Fun Co-op and the kind folks who own/operate it.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I keep thinking about a gag from Widow’s Bay where the mayor is absent-mindedly flipping thru a calendar, pics of wolves one after the other. Then a photo of a transport truck flipped in a ditch.. at which he pauses, flips back to the cover to see the title “Wolves” & then puts it back on the wall.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It's amazing that Christian Bale's Frankenstein makeup in The Bride! kind of just makes him look like Ted Danson.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Getting into Bonkmaxxing (bonking my head really hard every time I go under our deck to get something)

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Here's a poster I designed/illustrated for this year's Sappyfest in Sackville, New Brunswick. Lots of fun little critters getting sappy, making music, having fun! A variation of this will be available as a limited edition screen print as well at the festival.

A poster for a music festival called Sappyfest, in Sackville New Brunswick. The poster is framed by a wiggly yellow arch shape, with 3D lettering in an arc spelling SAPPYFEST at the top. The poster is illustrated in bright yellow, pink, and green, on a cream background. It features a grouping of illustrated flowers with faces, with leaves reaching all over the page, and populated by small critters who are making music, celebrating and enjoying the summer sun. The dates of the festival are July 31 - August 2, 2026. The lineup of the artists includes: Sofia Alarcon, Jordan Beulieu, Bibi Club, Bon Enfant, Misha Bower, Boyhood, Jennifer Castle, Brighde Chaimbeul, C. Ruth & the Mango Street, DJ Mommy & User 9, Green Eyes Witch Hands, Steve Haley, Whess Harman, HRT, Jane Inc., Joyfultalk, Kxng Wooz, Lucky Line Dancing, Andrew Maize, New Chance, Eliza Niemi, Annie France Noel, North Barn Theatre, The Orchids, Piss, Potions, Ribbon Skirt, Sam Salmon & the Grand Manan Bandits, Sappy Mail, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Freddy Hyun Smith, Status/Non-Status, Teagan Stewart & Jacob Puffer, Stone Bonnet Choir, Surprise Pink, Swamp Magic, Zamani

An illustrated detail of the poster featuring a frog on a bicycle with a bullhorn, and a little flag on its bike that says "OKAY", a pink chickadee waving it's wings, a mouse with a hat and mailbag that says SAPPY MAIL delivering a letter, a roly-poly bug, a caterpillar and a daisy with small beady eyes.

An illustrated detail of the poster featuring a sweet little frog playing a pink guitar on a leaf, a yellow fuzzy caterpillar, two daisies with beady little eyes, two shrews cheers-ing with canned beverages, a snail, and a ladybug.

An illustrated detail of the poster featuring a small white mouse playing a pink drum on a leaf, and three little mushrooms.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I simply love to live in a time where AI is being used to turn every aspect of our lives into a scam, or gambling, or both, including.. [checks notes].. obituaries for friends, family & loved ones.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm not saying this will be any good at all (I didn't see the first one) but I am saying that Jeremy Strong is doing the funniest Zuckerberg impression possible and that alone is valuable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOV...

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THE SOCIAL RECKONING Official Trailer (2026) The Social Network 2, Jeremy Allen White

YouTube video by KinoCheck.com

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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

RIP, Ms. Satrapi’s “Persepolis,” along with being educational and important, is also just really goddamn good.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Major congratulations to this ridiculous little face - my parents kitten Bentley - who was just declared by their veterinarian to be making “incredible progress” after a very scary, nearly fatal bout of FIP. Not quite out of the woods yet, but he's on his way! ♥️

An adorable kitten, smol boy, Brown with Tiger stripes and an adorably smushed face. Get a load of this little dude.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I need all the positive energy in the universe to focus on getting Eddy Current Suppression Ring to come back to North America & play some shows in support of this new record please, I'll be so good, I promise. eddycurrentsuppressionring.bandcamp.com/album/in-lig...

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In Light Of Recent Events, by Eddy Current Suppression Ring

11 track album

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Grab this soundtrack on sale while you can! I'm really proud of the design of it, with die-cut windows allowing you to display the junk drawer cover as either "messy" or "tidy", and the music by @justinkaras.bsky.social is really calming and beautiful! Like an auditory nap in a square of sunlight!

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Robby Hoffman is extremely funny & cool but she should respectfully not talk about celiac unless she wants to come hang out with me while I black out and then marathon vomit while shaking & sweating for a full day after accidentally eating a single normal cookie.

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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It's windy enough today that I just saw a seagull flying fully sideways through the sky.

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