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mike @sixam.net · 05/09/2026

#DragonCon Friday toy camera photos. Alt text if you wanna know who they are.

An array of black and white cosplay photos. From top left: a ghost and a Beetlejuice, a Waffle House Cook / Mandalorian mashup, Dr. Henry Jones Sr. and Indiana Jones, an NCR Ranger, an Imperial puppeteer and Grand Admiral Prawn, and Vinz Clortho keymaster of Gozer.

mike @sixam.net · 04/09/2026

After years of being too precious about them, I started a sticker book for my artist friends’ stickers. My first page is two friends marveling at a giant floating pickle. ‘Best Friends’ (AKA ‘It us’) by @melissasuestanley.bsky.social ‘Pickle’ (AKA ‘Pickle Stickle’) by @emeraldbarkley.bsky.social

A page of a spiral-bound bound book with two stickers. At the bottom are two green and purple forest creatures holding hands and looking up. Above them is a large green and purple pickle.

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mike @sixam.net · 05/08/2026

One of our yard toads that like to hang out on the driveway at night.

Photo of a handsome toad sitting on a driveway with a bit of grass in front of him.

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mike @sixam.net · 08/07/2026

I saw this painting leaning against a building in Manhattan in 2019. Every time I see it in my camera roll when I’m searching for “painting”, I regret not taking it.

A painting of a blue goblin with red eyes, fangs, floppy ears, and four fingers on each hand. It appears to be a beach scene with palm trees, a bright sun, and mountains in the background. The painting is leaning against a stone building.

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mike @sixam.net · 17/01/2026

I don’t know the functional difference between a list and a feed. When I click on feeds, it shows me my lists. Anyways, there’s a button on the top right when you’re looking at a list to pin it. I pin them all and my lists show up next to Following and I click on each one to read the posts. Lists

Cropped screenshot of the top of the Bluesky app showing the default Following feed, followed by custom lists titled Political/Disinfo, Tech, and Funny

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mike @sixam.net · 25/12/2025

Last night, @joannabarnum.com and I exchanged our Xmas presents. Ahead of our trip to Cornwall next year, I gave her The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain and a few issues of @helleborezine.bsky.social 1/2

Photo showing the cover of the book “The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain.” The cover is illustrated with demons, a horned skull, a portal tomb, a witch’s hat, an evil eye, and a hand candle with burning fingers.

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mike @sixam.net · 09/12/2025

Gen Alpha is gonna tell their grandkids this was Karl Marx.

A color photo of Jack Black that looks a bit like Karl Marx if you squint

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mike @sixam.net · 04/10/2025

You said “anything but country” but let me give you a not-country album by a country artist. Sturgill Simpson’s Sound & Fury is one of my all time favorite albums. It all started when I saw this image reposted. I still haven’t watched the anime (it’s on Netflix).

themysteriousmurasamecastle
Sep 28, 2019

losing my shit because my dad was telling me that some country music artist he likes went to the hospital and got high off edibles and made an album that was so far removed from being country music that country music fans of his are having fucking fits about it online but that's not the strange part, the strange part is that this dude sought out the guy who animated those cool 3d jojo intros from parts 1-3 and that one batman ninja movie (i think his name is junpei mizusaki) and got him to animate a full 40 minute short film set to his new weird album and it looks like fucking

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mike @sixam.net · 26/09/2025

I bought a toy camera that prints on thermal receipt paper. I’ve been taking photos of random things. This was from a recent trip to the Halloween section of a Home Goods store.

An array of 5 grayscale photographs printed on thermal receipt paper. From top left: a zombie face, 2 skeletons with their heads on their hands thinking, a jack-o-lantern face, a creepy bear with a skeleton body, a basket of dismembered feet, a skull made up of smaller skulls.

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mike @sixam.net · 09/09/2025

This guy is my desk buddy. (I do not remember the artist’s name off-hand. I met him at Son of Monsterpalooza last year and he was a really nice guy)

Purple toy that is a skull with tentacles wielding a retro space gun.

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mike @sixam.net · 01/09/2025

A neighboring artist asking if they can hire me on for other shows is the highest compliment a Booth Ogre can get. #DragonCon

A business card in the style of a D&D character sheet.
Name: Mike, Class: Booth Ogre.
Skills: Reach Things, Lift Things, Get Things, Watch Things.
Strength +2, Speed -1, Intelligence -3, Charisma +1.

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mike @sixam.net · 22/08/2025

The drainage things are sort of visible from street view. You could pop your head up in there and see out. There were more of them the deeper you go.

Photo of a drainage hole that sticks up out of the ground.

Photo of a field with bleachers and a small drainage hole

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mike @sixam.net · 21/08/2025

I couldn't decide which way worked better. Enjoy the alternate cut. 2/2

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mike @sixam.net · 21/08/2025

Stirring rendition of Hammer Knock Knock by @nicklutsko.bsky.social yesterday. 1/2

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mike @sixam.net · 20/08/2025

Yall are missing out.

A deranged man wearing a homemade Shrick costume (legally distinct from Shrek), and livestreaming to raise money for his album release.

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mike @sixam.net · 12/08/2025

If you board and bag in advance, you can stand prints up in the bin under the table to easily pull from at the show. Second photo is our full GenCon loadout (minus paintings in the back seat, suitcases, and cooler). They stack perfectly to the ceiling for us.

Prints of paintings standing up in a bin

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mike @sixam.net · 12/08/2025

We unified (almost) everything into Brute totes when I realized I could stack them perfectly in the truck. They come in a short and tall size. They’re extremely sturdy. We take a few of them and put a pile of prints in each, then fill them in with other stuff to keep the weight manageable. 1/2

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mike @sixam.net · 01/08/2025

I grew up on these streets

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mike @sixam.net · 25/06/2025

The latest skin for Marvel Rivals literally gives him a hair cut.

Side-by-side screenshots of Marvel Rivals character The Thing. On the left, the top of his head is pointed and jagged. On the right, the head is rounded and smooth.

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mike @sixam.net · 17/06/2025

Me and my bsky bubble

A photo of a bed covered and surrounded by at least 50 “Raggedy Anne and Andy” dolls with red yarn hair and dead black eyes.

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mike @sixam.net · 15/04/2025

I was at my local game store (shoutout to @gamesandstuffmd.bsky.social ). I picked up a random box and whose name did I see on the back?!

Box for the game Five Hundred Year Old Vampire. It shows a red illustration of a vampire wearing large sunglasses.

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mike @sixam.net · 14/04/2025

I can’t believe you’re doubting the electoral power of this photo.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer awkwardly covering her face with file folders in the Oval Office.

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mike @sixam.net · 09/02/2025

My washing machine doesn’t believe in self-improvement.

Photo of the display of a washing machine that reads “Change not possible”

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mike @sixam.net · 08/12/2024

Alas, the only Minoltas in the collection are a 7s, a 110 Zoom SLR, and this amazing Minolta 16 spy camera. No extra lenses to be found.

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mike @sixam.net · 20/11/2024

Search “concert” in your camera roll and post the oldest image. I used to archive photos off my phone a lot because I was always running out of space. Where I put them, who knows 🤷. This is the oldest I’ve got. GWAR at the Electric Factory, 2015.

A concert photo of GWAR, a heavy metal band wearing large monster costumes

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mike @sixam.net · 16/11/2024

Danhausen would never do this to you.

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