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Mark A. Schmidt
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Hubby, Dad, Grampa, cook/homemaker, writer (not author), gamer, inactive gamemaster, SF&F fan, eclectic, ADHD, curmudgeon, honorary cat, technically but not effectively retired, poly, cancer survivor, he/him. NNITO. Not to scale. YMMV. YNCFT. Fnord.
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · Oct 10
My main feed is now @[email protected].

My #earworm posts are at @[email protected].

My very minimal gaming content goes to @[email protected].

I am also minimally on Discord and Reddit. I still have FB Messenger.

Watching the Internet gradually get Musked.
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 11h
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 2d
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 3d
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 4d
He hasn't been this happy since Kissinger.
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 4d
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two kittens are playing on a couch and one is scratching the other 's back .
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 4d
As a rule, I don't wish death on anyone, but I don't regret evil people who stop doing evil.
Death grabbing someone with a claw machine. "Oh, fuck yeah! Dick Cheney!"
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 5d
As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.

The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 5d
@oakborn.bsky.social
Image of rough-looking sheep. "It's a known fact that sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies."
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 5d
Plot Twist: AU "Twister", but not about tornadoes. Like Battleship and Clue it's about the *game*.

#PlotTwist
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 5d
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a small white dog is running on a wooden floor next to a blue refrigerator
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 6d
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 7d
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two kittens are playing with each other on a bed .
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 8d
#BookSky

Whoops. Didn't post updates for a while. Read chapter 5 Thursday, 6-8 yesterday, and 9-10 today.

Getting into the flow again. SO different from the other two series in my rotation, but it only took me half of book 5 to settle in.

On to book 6 to finish up the series.
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 8d
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Also: #Mood
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 9d
A gray bunny dressed in a cape sits inside a pumpkin. Beside it is a carved, glowing jack-o'-lantern, surrounded by small white and orange pumpkins.
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 9d
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a panda bear is sitting on a wooden platform with toys
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 10d
#BookSky

Finished chapter 4 of Return of the King (book 5/6). Rohan arrives!

Things are picking up steam now. Still a slower read than some.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 10d
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 10d
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two monkeys are playing with each other on a blanket
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 11d
She still advocated against it then accepted it when offered.

Still a hypocrite, just like her faux-libertarian neophytes.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11d
When you're right, you're right.
3 panel cartoon of a figure demanding of a 2nd figure that they must move toward a nazi to win the center. in the third panel, the 1st figure moves to the right of the Nazi, and as he passes says "on your right." the first figure, who has not moved, looks back to see that he is standing the the right of the sign that says 'the center" with an arrow pointing off panel to the left.
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 11d
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a woman in a black shirt and black pants stands in a kitchen
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 12d
#BookSky

Finished chapter 3 of Return of the King (book 5/6).

Finally getting into the flow of the novel. The previous two novels I read flowed more easily. Pushing to finish this faster the The Two Towers... I don't want to stall again.
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Mark A. Schmidt @aravine.bsky.social · 12d
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a picture of a goat with its tongue sticking out and the words for real yay
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