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Mark W

@bezoar.bsky.social

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“A majestic forest king.” I make things and tell stories. I solve puzzles for a living. He/they. linktr.ee/mwpdx

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There’s an AI plugin now that generates comic books. I fed it the last few lines from The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe as a test

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Achievement unlocked: won yet another election. By some fluke I’m near the middle of page 91 here

Multnomah County PCP Results card for Precinct 4804, Democratic Party (Vote for 33), from the May 19, 2026 primary election. Unofficial results as of Update #6, May 22, 2026. Seven candidates elected, listed by vote count: Marcia Schneider (361 votes, 14.66%), Anntoinette Kahl (356, 14.45%), Ann Berryhill Witte (339, 13.76%), Michael E Simpson (331, 13.44%), River Scholl (329, 13.36%), Sam B Kahl (320, 12.99%), and Mark Welch (320, 12.99%), with Mark Welch’s row highlighted. Note: all 7 candidates elected since the precinct had 33 open seats and only 7 filed candidates. Source: Multnomah County Elections Division, PCP results PDF page 91 of 116.

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A re-rendering of the recent post by Trump depicting him as Jesus healing a sick person. This one shows Trump pulling the patient's wallet out from under the patient's gown with his right hand, flipping the bird at the viewer with his left hand, and the nurse to the right is screaming instead of softly crying.

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Post by user personality_of_colt:
“””
Told my wife to have dinner ready by 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization.

So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.
“””

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Post by user “andhumanslovedstories”:

I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought "why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff, so l stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It's alright if you can't because apparently I fuckin couldn't either

Cutting something out of your life because you think you don't need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let's say public heath and the social safety net and vaccines

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Raspberry Pis would get a lot more interesting if you could induce selected emotions with specific EM frequencies. Hook it up to a MIDI keyboard and you could become an unholy terror at parties

A diagram called "Scale of Some Emotions With Different Energies". There is a stack of sine waves with increasing wavelength (high frequency at the top, low frequency at the bottom), stacked atop each other and taking the bulk of the diagram.

Along each side, there are words characterizing the various sine waves. The right side associates specific feelings with each sine wave.

Along the left from high to low frequency: Elevated Emotions, Faster Frequency, Greater Energy (at top), and Slower Frequency, Greater Density/Matter, and Survival Emotions (at bottom).

Along the right side from high to low frequency: Bliss, Freedom, Love, Joy, Appreciation, Gratitude, Will, Power, Control, Anger, Fear, Guilt, Shame, Suffering, Victimization, Pain, Lust

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A row of portapotties on fire, with the supertitle “If 2025 were a scented candle”

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Corpse/voodoo lilies are blooming near our house. It will smell like meat for a few days, because that's how these flowers attract pollinators. But we get to look at them in the meantime.

A voodoo lily, likely Dracunculus vulgaris but I haven't confirmed, blooming.

There is a prominent, deep purple-to-rust colored dragon tail-shaped petal complex leaning off to the left, opened upward. The petals are opened up like a long thin book, with pages on either side sticking up from a spine. The petals extend up and back around 30cm to one side from the trunk of the plant.

Sticking straight up from the root of the flower, embraced by the petals on either side, is a thin, black spathe. The spathe is about 20cm tall, maybe 1cm around at the base, with a small rounded tip maybe 4mm across.

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Happy Bicycle Day to all who celebrate

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness

Bruce Campbell as Ash in "Army of Darkness" (1992), wearing tattered clothing, with a chainsaw attached to his right arm, wielding a short-barrel shotgun above his head with his left arm. A castle sits atop a cliff in the background.

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

A vertical stack of four panels.

Top panel: Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde giving a sermon, presumably the one from this week where she exhorted Donald Trump to show mercy to immigrants and other marginalized people.

Second panel: Crowley (angel) and Aziraphale (demon) from Good Omens. Aziraphale asks Crowley "What was it she said that got everyone so upset?"

Third panel: Crowley responds "Be kind to each other."

Fourth panel: Aziraphale says "Oh yeah. That'll do it."

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

He started on that a while ago

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A winged, armored warrior stands on a mountaintop. Across the image reads the following poem:

“””
And now I lay
me down to sleep

I pray the gods
my soul to keep

And if I die
before I wake

At least I got
some fucking sleep
“””

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A human arm rests on a table, pointing left, in front of a spinning table saw. The caption reads Climate goals explained”.

There are red lines extending in front of the saw blade at various angles. The one to the left of the hand reads 0.5C. Red lines across the fingers are labeled 1.0C, 1.5C, 2.0C, and 2.5C crosses the knuckles. 3.0C crosses just below the wrist, 3.5C crosses just above the wrist, and 4.0C cuts halfway up the forearm.

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Mastodon post by @Digital_Archivist@aus.social from 2 years ago, containing a photo of Grand Central Station with sunlight casting wide beams of light through smoky air onto the floor in the terminal. The supertitle reads: "Grand Central Station's controversial death rays, designed to ease rush-hour congestion. New York, 1920 #newyork"

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Found this today, source unknown

A happy woman in a field, waving her arms. The caption reads "If the situation was hopeless their propaganda would be unnecessary"

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Someone posted this, and it got me thinking. I think I know what I would say to Ben Franklin. x.com/YesYoureRaci...

Post by @YesYoureRacist on Twitter: "Imagine explaining to Benjamin Franklin that the hawk tuah girl ran a fraudulent crypto scheme but nobody cared because they were too busy talking about the sexy dude who murdered the CEO of an insurance company that used AI to auto-deny claims and then escaped on a bikeshare"

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

A page from a drawing book with the title "Existentialist Connect the Dot". There is a single dot on the page labeled "1".

Instructions just under the title: "Connect the dot to reveal the truth of existsnce. (Draw in your own dot and connect it to create the illusion of meaning.)"

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Bluesky won't let me find the original post, this is by @vonaether.bsky.social from last year

Post by @vonaether.bsky.social: "If Batman was a Santa, would he wear his hat like this, or like this"

On the left: Batman with a Santa hat atop his head; the hat has a single white ball at the end like most Santa hats.

On the right: Batman with two tiny Santa hats, one placed on top of each of the pointed ears on his head cover.

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

At the top, a supertitle "HUMANITY WITH THE INTERNET"

Below that, two panes stacked vertically. In the top pane, Elmo (the Muppet) is looking at two things on a table in front of him. The item on the left side of the table is an apple, a pear, and some bananas, with the label "THE SUM OF ALL KNOWLEDGE" appearing over them. On the right side of the table is a pile of white powder, with the label "FASCISM AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES" appearing over it.

Elmo is looking intently at the white powder.

The bottom pane is the same scene as the top pane, but this time Elmo has fallen over onto the table, planting his nose deeply into the pile of white powder on the right.

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Source unknown

Scene between Kylo Ren and the ghost of Anakin Skywalker from one of the Star Wars movies.

Kylo: "Capitalism/greed is human nature"

Ghost of Anakin: "If you see an elephant juggling in a circus, do you assume that juggling is an elephant's nature?"

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

There is no conspiracy.
There is no cosmic mystery
There's no "both sides".

Every problem on earth makes sense once you accept that...

1) We built a society where everyone is run and ruled by money
2) Those with the most money can never have enough money.
3) These people are totally fine with anything bad that might occur as a result of pursuing more money - up to and including mass death, disability, destruction and the eradication of any race, any country and species... Even their own.

That's it. That's the secret.
No one is coming to help.
Holding out for a hero is purely self-indulgent laziness.
History is occurring with or without us — every second.
We are the people we need to fix this.

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Found this floating around today

A street is flooded by 1-2 meters of water. In the foreground, part of a street sign sticks up out of the water. The text on the top of the sign says "BUT THE PRICE OF EGGS".

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

From the excellent book by Timothy Snyder, "On Tyranny" (timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny)

A quote from "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder (https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny):

"1. Do not obey in advance. ... Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do."

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Is YCR using an AI to crank these out nowadays? These memes were really sparse for a while, and now they're cranking out 2-3 new titles every day. Something changed over there.

A ca. 17th century musical ensemble is playing. A man dressed in black in the upper left plays a flute. A man playing an antique string instrument is standing in the back on the right. A man sits in the lower right, dressed in red, playing a cello. In the lower left is a well-dressed European lady is playing harpsichord with sheet music nearby.

It's the cover of a children's book by Your Childhood Ruined, called "Songs That Make Your Naughty Bits Juggle"

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Mark W @bezoar.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

The Great Robot Spam Flood of 2024 starts tomorrow night.

"The word 'pornography' implies the existence of a pornograph, which I imagine to be a brass, Victorian, steam-powered contraption pumping hot filth into the universe"

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