mark zero
@artifex.bsky.social
History & mystery; food/film/photos; speculative fiction; tinkering.
Introvert. I'm a nerd, not a geek.
Was @markzero on twitter for 18 years
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Introvert. I'm a nerd, not a geek.
Was @markzero on twitter for 18 years
public pronouns: he/him/they
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mark zero
@artifex.bsky.social
· Dec 18
Sometimes SMH is better parsed not as "shake my head," but "so much hate."
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Dallas-based cafe loses workers over a first-responder discount and its policy toward ICE agents.
Dallas Cafe Workers Quit Jobs in Dispute About Serving ICE Agents
Dallas-based cafe loses workers over a first-responder discount and its policy toward ICE agents.
www.dallasobserver.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Dallas-based cafe loses workers over a first-responder discount and its policy toward ICE agents.
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Where to seek overnight shelter in Fort Worth ahead of cold weather this weekend
Where to seek overnight shelter in Fort Worth ahead of cold weather this weekend
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fortworthreport.org
January 23, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Where to seek overnight shelter in Fort Worth ahead of cold weather this weekend
reshared from their quiz:
"From dial-up days to now, travel through Wikipedia's history." wikipedia25.org/en/which-wik...
"From dial-up days to now, travel through Wikipedia's history." wikipedia25.org/en/which-wik...
25 years of Wikipedia
wikipedia25.org
January 17, 2026 at 10:21 AM
reshared from their quiz:
"From dial-up days to now, travel through Wikipedia's history." wikipedia25.org/en/which-wik...
"From dial-up days to now, travel through Wikipedia's history." wikipedia25.org/en/which-wik...
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GoFundMe is allowing a fundraising campaign tied to the potential legal defense of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good, to remain online despite what appears to be a breach of the platform’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.
GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.
www.wired.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:10 PM
GoFundMe is allowing a fundraising campaign tied to the potential legal defense of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good, to remain online despite what appears to be a breach of the platform’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.
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In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
January 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
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Can’t breathe? It’s peak cedar fever season in Tarrant. Here’s what to know
Can’t breathe? It’s peak cedar fever season in Tarrant. Here’s what to know
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fortworthreport.org
January 8, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Can’t breathe? It’s peak cedar fever season in Tarrant. Here’s what to know
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Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
This is the year I'm finally going to migrate my personal domains off Google Workspace. Hopefully.
January 1, 2026 at 10:55 PM
This is the year I'm finally going to migrate my personal domains off Google Workspace. Hopefully.
I have to admit one of the reasons I want a localhost version of Home Assistant is so I can use a custom wake word.
"Aziz, light!" is just too tempting.
"Aziz, light!" is just too tempting.
a man with gray hair and a beard is screaming with the word light behind him
Alt: clip from the movie "The Fifth Element": a man with gray hair and a beard yells "Aziz! Light!" and a boy who was dozing with a giant reflector outside the entranceway to a tunnel in a pyramid wakes up and struggles to move it back into position.
media.tenor.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM
I have to admit one of the reasons I want a localhost version of Home Assistant is so I can use a custom wake word.
"Aziz, light!" is just too tempting.
"Aziz, light!" is just too tempting.
Alexa+ gave me a projected wind forecast with *degrees* as the unit of measurement. When I asked if it meant MPH, it basically said oops.
I can't trust what it says; it clearly didn't just copy the info from NOAA Weather.
It's still just spicy autocomplete, and I'm losing my taste for it rapidly.
I can't trust what it says; it clearly didn't just copy the info from NOAA Weather.
It's still just spicy autocomplete, and I'm losing my taste for it rapidly.
January 1, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Alexa+ gave me a projected wind forecast with *degrees* as the unit of measurement. When I asked if it meant MPH, it basically said oops.
I can't trust what it says; it clearly didn't just copy the info from NOAA Weather.
It's still just spicy autocomplete, and I'm losing my taste for it rapidly.
I can't trust what it says; it clearly didn't just copy the info from NOAA Weather.
It's still just spicy autocomplete, and I'm losing my taste for it rapidly.
When I look back at 2025, this is the sort of thing I'm going to remember.
From @npr: www.instagram.com/reel/DGq1xYY...
From @npr: www.instagram.com/reel/DGq1xYY...
NPR on Instagram: "The upheaval of U.S. foreign aid is impacting a company in Rhode Island that makes a product called Plumpy’Nut that helps treat 5 million malnourished children each year.
Plumpy'Nu...
27K likes, 880 comments - npr on March 1, 2025: "The upheaval of U.S. foreign aid is impacting a company in Rhode Island that makes a product called Plumpy’Nut that helps treat 5 million malnourished ...
www.instagram.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
When I look back at 2025, this is the sort of thing I'm going to remember.
From @npr: www.instagram.com/reel/DGq1xYY...
From @npr: www.instagram.com/reel/DGq1xYY...
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CANDY FLIP - Strawberry Fields Forever
YouTube video by X060X
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!
December 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!
One of mine was 'no problems' but last date was 2023; one was 'problems,' also 2023, no follow up inspection, and one had a couple big bad warning letters, but nothing since the warning letter in 2022 :(
For decades, the FDA made it impossible to know which factory your prescription drugs were manufactured in.
ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how we did it.
ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how we did it.
How We Created a Tool That Tells You Where Your Generic Drugs Were Made
For decades, the FDA made it nearly impossible to know which factories were manufacturing your generic medications. ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how we did it.
www.propublica.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
One of mine was 'no problems' but last date was 2023; one was 'problems,' also 2023, no follow up inspection, and one had a couple big bad warning letters, but nothing since the warning letter in 2022 :(
I just realized, while looking up Sweeney Todd videos on Youtube, that Johnny Depp kinda got to play Edward Scissorhands twice. Not sure if that's good or bad.
December 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I just realized, while looking up Sweeney Todd videos on Youtube, that Johnny Depp kinda got to play Edward Scissorhands twice. Not sure if that's good or bad.
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Brian hopes that today, somebody put an arm around you and told you that you are good.
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Brian hopes that today, somebody put an arm around you and told you that you are good.
Sometimes SMH is better parsed not as "shake my head," but "so much hate."
December 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Sometimes SMH is better parsed not as "shake my head," but "so much hate."
ugh, synced Zen to my Firefox account and apparently it deleted the synced multi-containers data, so now even on Firefox it's lost the saved data for a lot of sites that were under containers that no longer exist :(
December 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
ugh, synced Zen to my Firefox account and apparently it deleted the synced multi-containers data, so now even on Firefox it's lost the saved data for a lot of sites that were under containers that no longer exist :(
Just went to download the Zen browser beta to give it a whirl, and the website threw confetti to celebrate.
I like these people already.
I like these people already.
December 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Just went to download the Zen browser beta to give it a whirl, and the website threw confetti to celebrate.
I like these people already.
I like these people already.
December 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Had healthy food today (curry salmon bowl) and my stomach rebelled, so tomorrow I think I'd better get pizza to heal it. Or something with ketchup. Anything with lycopene in liquid suspension will probably do the trick.
December 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Had healthy food today (curry salmon bowl) and my stomach rebelled, so tomorrow I think I'd better get pizza to heal it. Or something with ketchup. Anything with lycopene in liquid suspension will probably do the trick.
Warning about Google's AI infestation having spread to GMail:
I'm in Gmail on my phone, deleting all mail that has "Atlassian" in it. I get to the bottom of the page, it resets and shows me more, so I start deleting those.
I'm in Gmail on my phone, deleting all mail that has "Atlassian" in it. I get to the bottom of the page, it resets and shows me more, so I start deleting those.
December 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Warning about Google's AI infestation having spread to GMail:
I'm in Gmail on my phone, deleting all mail that has "Atlassian" in it. I get to the bottom of the page, it resets and shows me more, so I start deleting those.
I'm in Gmail on my phone, deleting all mail that has "Atlassian" in it. I get to the bottom of the page, it resets and shows me more, so I start deleting those.
I lived in Portland a while back. Thinking of the people and places I knew in Oregon and in Washington, hoping everyone is okay.
abcnews.go.com/US/record-fl...
abcnews.go.com/US/record-fl...
'Extremely serious': Washington declares statewide emergency amid potential flooding
An atmospheric river event that's been slamming the Pacific Northwest with rain is now focused on western Washington.
abcnews.go.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I lived in Portland a while back. Thinking of the people and places I knew in Oregon and in Washington, hoping everyone is okay.
abcnews.go.com/US/record-fl...
abcnews.go.com/US/record-fl...