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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 02/10/2026

I've literally never heard of hyperbole before now.

Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 27/09/2026

Had my intro to curling class and it was so much fun, definitely found a new hobby. It was way more physically demanding than I realized, particularly in muscle areas my physical therapy addresses (is this good?).

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Curling

ALT: Curling

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 25/09/2026

If @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social played a cover of Nitroglycerin by The Gories, would they cease to exist?

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 25/09/2026

Got my tickets for Wildwood, only a month early. At a McMenamin's for extra Portlanditude. Thank you to all the folks who moved things ever so slightly for months on end to make this film happen.

Process image from the making of Wildwood. A large open set. An animator sprinkles something on the miniature wood set. A puppet of the main character is seen from behind towards the left. A camera is behind the animator (you can see their back on the screen on the far left). Someone in the background has a ladder.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 24/09/2026

More Eleanor & Williams! (and some other folks in "lead" roles too)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 18/09/2026

There's a really inappropriate joke that I'm working really hard on not posting here and I just want you all to appreciate my restraint, and no I won't elaborate because I don't want to be one of those people who post "well I could've said X but I didn't" (you just did mate)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 13/09/2026

Various Wildwood Crows spotted around Portland today. Unlike a couple of years ago with the cats, the website doesn't list all of the Crows and all of the artists. Instead you need to download an app which isn't free (so two ways I'm not getting it). So I'm not able to credit the artists here.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 11/09/2026

just had some quick service done on the car at the Jiffy Lube on Beaverton Hillsdale Highway and one of the mechanics had multiple Nazi tattoos... so I don't think I'll be stopping there again.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 11/09/2026

There is nobody writing about comics I find more enjoyable to read than Chloe, and this one is ever better than usual.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 11/09/2026

Hear me out for a second: wintergreen gum with chili flakes, or Icy Hot the chewing gum

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 10/09/2026

If we do end up getting the $5k, I'm booking a week at the Château Frontenac.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 04/09/2026

huh, bsky now auto-numbers bleat storms. When did that start (also, impressed at an actually useful new feature)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 04/09/2026

I grew up exposed to multiple accents just in my community, let alone ones from travel and summer camp. I kinda use bitsa alladem. I'll add eh, no or yo to the end of sentences (the latter less since leaving NY) consistent w/dialects, but inconsistently to myself.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 03/09/2026

where can I find pants for my gothling who is apparently now too tall for girl's clothes, but doesn't seem to quite fit women's clothes? (or does fit some women's clothes but somehow only pants that are in bright colors, which are no-gos)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 02/09/2026

what's a good free (pref. open source) software program for making fumetti comics?

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 01/09/2026

Hearing all these longform interviews and seeing all these books about the weird quasi-religious beliefs of silicon valley billionaires and thinking maybe more people should've watched an Adam Curtis documentary.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 24/08/2026

Just a couple of quick landscapes from my recent trip

a different shot of the same harbor from lower down with white flowers in the foreground and a slightly obscured boat-plane.

View from the hotel overlooking one of Nanaimo's harbors. Seysetshun & Protection islands are visible in the distance, a Service Canada building is visible to the left.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 24/08/2026

my musical loving child picked The Greatest Showman for our family movie night. I'm not going to comment on the movie itself, but I am going to wonder when someone is going to do a biopic of Tom Thumb, a less heralded and more interesting story.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 23/08/2026

I don't agree with everything that Mark Carney does, but I'm consistently impressed with how he seems to be the only (friendly) world leader willing to robustly stand up to Trump's bullshit. I'd be rooting for him even if I had no ties to Canada.

talkingpointsmemo.com

The US-Canada Trainwreck and the Limits of American Power

A few more thoughts on the collapse of US-Canadian trade negotiations and...

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 23/08/2026

Hope to see this as a cover for an issue of Amazing Fantasies soon

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 15/08/2026

all registered to learn curling (the winter sport, not the hair style) in Beaverton in September. Who's joining me? Anyone?

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Random Tuesday Kitty

ALT: Random Tuesday Kitty

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 05/08/2026

hey @faitherinhicks.bsky.social, long shot, but are you doing any book events somewhere by the Canada line on the afternoon of the 11th?

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 26/07/2026

also, not to pat myself on the back, but I called Young's win before the shortlist was posted. (The book's just that good, folks)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 26/07/2026

the most important (to me) awards in comics were given out this weekend, and most of all I'm happy to see @keezyyoung.bsky.social repeat win.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 23/07/2026

an OPB article about a potential 3rd party spoiler for Kotek w/o a single mention of all the breathless coverage about how Betsy Johnson would do the same 4 years ago and ultimately took votes equally from both parties and had minimal practical impact.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 18/07/2026

Highlight from drive home: I pulled into a truck stop to charge the car a bit and use the rest room. Kids asked for seltzer. The closest I could find was tall boys of Liquid Death. Spouse was convinced I just gave the kids beer until she read the label. (unsurprisingly, the gothling loved the can).

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 18/07/2026

Took a trip to Crater Lake on our way to Ashland, OR. This did not go so well thanks to wildfire. Air was unhealthy at Crater Lake, so no walks, but also you couldn't see across the crater. Ashland was so bad we left two days early because it was even smoky inside and we were feeling sick.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 13/07/2026

what's the over/under for Platner showing up on Carlson or Owens complaining about the media, the elites or the globalists taking him down in a way that is perfectly aligned with his tattoo?

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 12/07/2026

After deciding that I needed to take on a new challenge, I signed up for ice skating classes. I made it through one half of a class, which is honestly not as bad as I feared. I clearly have a balance deficit. I'm gonna figure out how to work on that and try to get back out on the ice.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 10/07/2026

thanks again to @jennykwan.bsky.social for beating the drum on this in Parliament. IRCC needs to handle the citizenship part of its mandate better. My file's been marked "urgent" for ~1 year and my application is simple (G-2 with all certified birth records). But lately, nobody's getting processed.

newcanadianmedia.ca

Proof-of-citizenship wait jumps to 19 months as queue nears 100,000 - New Canadian Media

IRCC’s proof-of-citizenship wait has risen to 19 months, with nearly 100,000 people in queue as Bill C-3 changes, staffing pressures and backlogs fuel concern.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 09/07/2026

guy with a Nazi tattoo ranting about how his downfall is the fault of an unspecified "them". Quelle surprise.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 08/07/2026

Brink by Abnett & Culbard (via @2000ad.bsky.social) just continues to be utterly brilliant and insightful speculative fiction in comics form.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 04/07/2026

I was rooting for Cabo Verde, but no disappointment in that loss.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 02/07/2026

Why does it seem like the people most likely to decry an "argument from authority" as a fallacy are the most likely to insist that their argument is authoritative? This is a rhetorical question, you don't need to answer it.

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 02/07/2026

there is a bar in Nanaimo called The Nanaimo Bar, but it does not serve Nanaimo bars, and this my friends is an unforgivable oversight

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 01/07/2026

6 of the 9 knockout games so far in the World Cup have seen a 80th+ minute goal that either won the match or sent it to overtime (half of those after the 90th minute)

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 30/06/2026

The surrender letter situation at IRCC is apparently (almost) over, with still no clear explanation as to exactly what happened or why they handled it so poorly. (Letters were sent on Saturday, this is posted shortly before Canada Day. Feels like trying to keep things out of the news to me.)

cicnews.com

BREAKING: IRCC claims only 1% of citizenship by descent applicants impacted, in first official statement on certificate surrenders

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has released its first detailed statement on the review of citizenship certificates issued under Bill C-3, saying it initially flagged just 100 cert...

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Dan of the various projects of limited interest @thepuddingblog.blog · 29/06/2026

my littlest got a rainbow sequin cowboy hat at a Pride parade, which only makes me think of Randy Savage

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