mark 🎃
@gnostichippie.bsky.social
day shift nurse. recovering CVICU. go 🍁. staunchly anti-kidney. former Poster. war thunder forum leaker (arrested). he/him
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mark 🎃
@gnostichippie.bsky.social
· Oct 21
brief reintroduction thread:
hi, I'm Mark. I'm an ICU nurse. I used to be a very, very active poster on Twitter but 2020 ruined my ability to obsessively track daily news
hi, I'm Mark. I'm an ICU nurse. I used to be a very, very active poster on Twitter but 2020 ruined my ability to obsessively track daily news
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i spent some time today thinking about how one thing i like about wes anderson is he has a lot of love and appreciation for americana and has a fondness for 20th century american cultural products but the second he had the money he got the fuck out of texas to live wherever he could in europe
I moved from Texas to Maine two years ago. Last month I went back for four days. I won't go again.
medium.com/@randythetoo...
medium.com/@randythetoo...
You’re not supposed to live like this
This is a story about Texas.
medium.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
i spent some time today thinking about how one thing i like about wes anderson is he has a lot of love and appreciation for americana and has a fondness for 20th century american cultural products but the second he had the money he got the fuck out of texas to live wherever he could in europe
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The most 1980s-coded product possible:
Casio QL-10 (1981)
You’ve heard it a million times growing up; don’t play with matches. Well folks, the Calcu-Lighter ain’t no match.
You’ve heard it a million times growing up; don’t play with matches. Well folks, the Calcu-Lighter ain’t no match.
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The most 1980s-coded product possible:
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not now babe it's infishtructure week
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
not now babe it's infishtructure week
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one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
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there's a whole genre of youtube now where some guy will buy a decrepit bus, van, or boat and spends the next 18 months of his life living in the open wilderness, cutting a finger off, and contracting lyme disease trying to fix it up. they all just ignored the "instead of going to therapy" tweets
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
there's a whole genre of youtube now where some guy will buy a decrepit bus, van, or boat and spends the next 18 months of his life living in the open wilderness, cutting a finger off, and contracting lyme disease trying to fix it up. they all just ignored the "instead of going to therapy" tweets
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incredible quote lol
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
incredible quote lol
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OK, who narced?
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
OK, who narced?
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traditional color theory posits that red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors from which all other colors are derived. in global culinary theory, however, sauces tend to align around red, yellow, or green. this suggests that blue sauces, or the absence thereof, are the last creative frontier
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
traditional color theory posits that red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors from which all other colors are derived. in global culinary theory, however, sauces tend to align around red, yellow, or green. this suggests that blue sauces, or the absence thereof, are the last creative frontier
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I love it when a football broadcast crew goes around and shows us all the kindly elder camera operators with their mustaches and winter hats
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I love it when a football broadcast crew goes around and shows us all the kindly elder camera operators with their mustaches and winter hats
increasingly convinced management is a phantasm designed to stop me from actually doing work
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
increasingly convinced management is a phantasm designed to stop me from actually doing work
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One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
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Sets for Batman Returns were kept very cold for the comfort of the real-life penguins involved. This meant that cast/crew repeatedly got sick during filming. The real-life penguins though would often fall in love with their animatronic counterparts or feel so settled that they began mating.
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Sets for Batman Returns were kept very cold for the comfort of the real-life penguins involved. This meant that cast/crew repeatedly got sick during filming. The real-life penguins though would often fall in love with their animatronic counterparts or feel so settled that they began mating.
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It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."
checking a market opportunity
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM
checking a market opportunity
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trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
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you can always judge a country by the quality of its trash. my next door neighbor put out a flat screen tv with a sign that says “works!” and it’s been untouched for three days. I can only imagine the kind of gang warfare it would have caused in early 90s russia
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
you can always judge a country by the quality of its trash. my next door neighbor put out a flat screen tv with a sign that says “works!” and it’s been untouched for three days. I can only imagine the kind of gang warfare it would have caused in early 90s russia
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I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
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A friend of mine has early access to cutting edge corporate jargon, I heard the phrase "let's double-click on that" from him long before anywhere else. I asked him what's new these days and he says it's "the shark closest to your body" for the most urgent issue.
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A friend of mine has early access to cutting edge corporate jargon, I heard the phrase "let's double-click on that" from him long before anywhere else. I asked him what's new these days and he says it's "the shark closest to your body" for the most urgent issue.
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First Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published 40 years ago yesterday. 🐯 👦🏼
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
First Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published 40 years ago yesterday. 🐯 👦🏼
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today’s don’t build the torment nexus comes to us from the classic horror story don’t build the evil sentient toy
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
today’s don’t build the torment nexus comes to us from the classic horror story don’t build the evil sentient toy
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Part 142 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station designed by the architect Charles Henry Driver In the 1850s
Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station designed by the architect Charles Henry Driver In the 1850s
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Part 142 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station designed by the architect Charles Henry Driver In the 1850s
Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station designed by the architect Charles Henry Driver In the 1850s