Custone

@custone.bsky.social

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My name is Mark Lane Vines. Languages, nature, fiction, and musical interval systems fascinate me.

Big green and yellow garbage truck with photo of jackrabbit on side. Day kijawi ji jalo zubaleli lori har foto de daykargux fe comen.
Harvest-themed wreath, mostly sunflower yellow, hanging on exterior front door beneath small decorative glass window.
Unwrapped, a dry pressed Pu’er tea leaf disk of Tiger with Double Wings. The dark green and brown disk is indented at back center so the corners of its wrapper can be folded (or stuffed) back into place.
Springdale General shopping venue in east Austin. The venue has a large yellow entrance frame over its entry and exit lanes for vehicles.
One side of the sign I carried today at the No Kings protest in Round Rock, Texas.
This is a can of June Shine Hard Kombucha. Hinto sen banka de alkoholli caypul gluxey fal Sisayum Mesili Brila.
Bumblebee at pink flower.
A portion of a BlueSky comment in my Notifications showing that the app treated it as a reply to me.
Texas River Cooter, a kind of turtle, mostly submerged, Fern Bluff Greenbelt.
Protestors today along Kelly Lane, Pflugerville, Texas.
White blossoms on a tree branch, attended by a few honeybees, along the Brushy Creek Hike & Bike Trail, Williamson County, Texas.
Vultures on a light pole under a partly cloudy daytime sky.
Gracie doesn’t notice a doll without clothes, left by an unknown person on a big rock alongside the main walkway of the Fern Bluff greenbelt.
Gracie the dog, not noticing the white shorebird wading in the pond.
A wrapped cake of ripe pu’er tea.
Sign at protest: “If your Spidey senses aren’t tingling you’re not paying attention.” Texas state capitol with scaffolding in background.
Gracie sniffing the grassy ground near where a concrete ramp meets a concrete sidewalk.
Author Tom Robbins, from the back cover of *skinny legs and all*.
“You can’t go anywhere for professional help, can you? Somebody’s twigged that you doubled, and a lot of pros died, out there. So you’re hiring shitheads with funny haircuts. The pros have all heard you’ve got Hosaka after your ass, haven’t they, Connie? And they all know what you did.” — William Gibson, *Count Zero*
WeChat QR code for adding me as a friend on that platform. I’m Custone on BlueSky. My name is Mark L. Vines.
Standing in my front yard, I attempt to say “Happy New Year!” in 普通话.
Dice Labs d120.
The Last Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison, prepared for publication by J. Michael Straczynski.
A d120 from Dice Labs.
120-sided die from DiceLabs.
A thin layer of snow covers my front yard in the predawn darkness.
The sinkhole across O’Connor from the end of the Fern Bluff greenbelt.
Dog looks through the locked gate of a fence that keeps people out of an overflow drainage trench near a cave-sinkhole system.
Three shelf mushrooms on a fallen oak branch.
Classes of near-Earth asteroids, from Wikipedia.
Etymologies of some English words for non-primary colors.
from The Five Gospels, by Funk, Hoover, and the Jesus Seminar.
Polostan, by Neal Stephenson.
Greenbelt sign.
Puffy seed balls.
Time to Orbit: Unknown, by Derin Edala.
Fallen rock in the hollow of a tree stump.
Trees and plants by a small waterfall.
Christmas tree lights
Green leaves, blue sky.
bicycle
Trees beside a pond.
dog
my dog and me
cat
Stryder, a cat of mine
Vision, by Shankar, Garbarek, and Mikkelburg
Amawal Lexicon Tamaziɣt-English, by Yasmine Tetah
a dedication at some length
Control, by William Goldman
dog by a rock
The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett
Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany