It bears mentioning that while lately I’ve been getting on and off at Venice in my nocturnal travels, I’ve been dreaming about riding this same train for 40 years. The stops change, the other passengers change, but the train (and its one staff member) is always the same.

Aaron P@aaronpallan.bsky.social · 5h ago

I have this recurring dream that I’m either boarding or getting off a train at Santa Lucia station in Venice. It’s one of those multisensory technicolour dreams in which all the colours are ultra-crisp, and I can smell the water of the canal.

I have this recurring dream that I’m either boarding or getting off a train at Santa Lucia station in Venice. It’s one of those multisensory technicolour dreams in which all the colours are ultra-crisp, and I can smell the water of the canal.

Venice Venezia: Grand Canal & Rialto Bridge

Alt: Venice Venezia: Grand Canal & Rialto Bridge. Not pictured: Venezia Santa Lucia station.

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I’m working with some Francophones from Montréal, and it’s a reminder about differences in how we perceive English versus French as second-language speakers. (This is a nice way of saying that I’m being teased about my Anglo accent.)

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

Jason@jxsxpx.bsky.social · yesterday

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

When other gays are mean to you.

I was gifted a used but completely functional Kitchenaid professional stand mixer today, and it feels like winning the kitchen lottery. 

I had a dream last night that Parker was wearing a little bandana and was driving us in a truck on a road trip. He still can’t drive, but I made the bandana happen.

A young man on his phone nearly ran into me as I was leaving a public washroom today. Me: “Sorry!” Him: “For what?” And that’s how one can easily identify an American in the wild.

Friday activities and such

I put a wool top in the dryer by mistake, and now I have a merino crop top 😡 (Yes, I will try blocking it back into shape.)

Gergely Molnár in Crop Top Posing

Alt: Gergely Molnár in Crop Top Posing

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Found this gem rustling through scanned photos from the 90s. Behold! Teen/early 20s Aaron.

I prefer “cult curator.”

J. Michael Mull@jmichaelmull.bsky.social · last wk.

are you a cult boss or a cult leader

A random tattooed 20-something straight (?) guy told me I smelled nice today and then leaned in uncomfortably close to smell my neck.

I’ve been looking for a new tea mug for a while, and stumbled across this fabulous handmade geometric(ish) one in a lovely dark pewter glaze today.

Sometimes I make up funny/suggestive names for user personas and stand-in characters in writing projects. Anyway, that’s how “Drake Holeborn” became a little joke at work.

Imagine my joy to learn that I’ve become known as “a branding guy” at work.

Dog Crying Meme: Doggo Crys

Alt: Dog Crying Meme: Doggo Crys

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When Einstein said that an object with mass can’t reach or exceed the speed of light, he obviously hadn’t observed how quickly my cat can get to the kitchen when he hears the treat cupboard opening.

A friend has a peach farm and no social edit. So here is Parker’s cousin, Rain, in a peach tree. #caturday

My main, mostly useless skill is tie knotting. (When and where I grew up, uniform schools were the standard, and so I’ve been 4-handing and Windsor-knotting since I was 5).

You should never, under any circumstances, give me this kind of power.

Sorrowscopes@sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pisces: Things have changed. You are no longer the powerless victim of circumstance. You have agency. You have the will to act. You have the Orb of Infinity. DESTROY THE EARTHLINGS!

Everyone talks about the benefits of eating lots of fibre and drinking oodles of water, but no one wants to dwell on the other consequences of these things.

I did the thing, because I love a colour palette.

ᴛᴏᴍᴀꜱ@cinemagay.bsky.social · 3w ago

Okay, in all seriousness I did do the thing. If Pantone is calling me a Christmas fag then so be it! I love Christmas!

What d&d class am I? (Bonus points if you pick a subclass.)

Sea(n) Otter 🦦@seemtoggle.bsky.social · 3w ago

What d&d class am I? Open to multiclassing mixes and other classes not listed here! Bonus points for subclass(es) too!

“Verify your age.” I have, unironically, sent a telegram. The kind that needed to be wired by people at a dedicated office, not the messaging app.

Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🐻 (he/him)@rossz28.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Verify your age." One of my cars has both of these controls and I know how to use them.

One of my favourite tea shops just started carrying their own line of titanium teaware - from basic infuser cups to a full gongfu set and chawan - and I’m heavily tempted to start being that annoying person who travels with his own tea-making kit.

Smelling the roses 🌹 🐈

*Clicks on dictaphone* “Drag name at my future retirement villa: Dusty Loads”

My mother in law REALLY likes Stephen King (she’s downsizing and these are bound for a second hand bookstore).

Having neurospicy texture issues means (amongst other things) cutting up most pitted fruits because THE HORROR of eating around a pit or stone is just too much.

Was having the distractibility strugs, so I took a restorative walk in a graveyard, as one does.