Social Digest 2023.04.09-2023.04.15

It was an eventful week and my engagement on Mastodon was rewarding.
A blue bunny on a pastel background.

It was an eventful week and my engagement on Mastodon was rewarding.

Celestine had a great time hunting for eggs, but you wouldn’t know that from her tough-as-nails glare.

A child holding an Easter basket and giving an evil glare.
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Halifax has some Easter bunny street art I made a point to visit after my run this afternoon.

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Here are more bunnies from earlier today.

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It’s been about 20 years since one of the oddest Canadian pop acts started. Jakalope had a lot of industrial DNA but was decidedly pop and in heavy rotation on Much Music.

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The Tears of the Kingdom trailer this morning finally got me excited for the game. Nintendo Life published a thorough breakdown of everything it revealed.

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After nearly two years without a new podcast episode, El diabolik’s World of Psychotronic Soundtracks is back with more than two hours of hidden gem soundtracks. The archives are well worth combing through.

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If I had the bricks around, I’d love to make this Lego Game Boy.

MOC – Ultimate LEGO Gameboy

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Celestine and I stopped in at Freak Lunchbox today and couldn’t resist getting a candy tin featuring the banana cup from Mario Kart.

A Mario Kart tin on a desk with other Nintendo items.
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Literate Machine’s episode on Star Trek and socialism, Star Trek Into Socialism, treats both with the dignity they deserve and makes a clear, well researched case that the best parts of Star Trek are rooted in a reasonable longing for socialism.

The transcript of the episode is available to read alongside the audio podcast.

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I think this print was from 2010’s Nocturne, and I don’t recall the artist that made it, but I love the sci fi take on the Halifax Citadel.

A depiction of the Halifax Citadel with a dome over the fortress.
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We walked to the waterfront and of course checked out some murals.

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We stopped at the Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market at its new location for the first time. There was a long chalkboard with drawings all along it. There were some good drawings among the scribbles.

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