Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.tiktok.com/@birdsofprey...tiktok.comAn extra reel for Oropherion’s friends💙💙💙 Oropherion is free to decide what he wants to do, fly high, fly far & still.. Due to the bond we have, he always wants to come back to me & be close What an a...TikTok video by Nathalie Denolf 000
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026(The original: www.tiktok.com/@birdsofprey...)tiktok.com🦅🍂🍁Autumn is coming & Oropherion is already moving indoors at night! As the nights here in Germany become colder & more damp, Oropherion, our magnificent African Martial Eagle, is already spending his...TikTok video by Nathalie Denolf 000
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.tiktok.com/@birdsofprey...tiktok.comOropherion has made one thing very clear: he is not a people person!🐉🦅 With me? Calm, trusting & completely at ease. Someone else gets a little too close? DRAGON MODE ACTIVATED! Wings up. Beak open. S...TikTok video by Nathalie Denolf 100
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.tiktok.com/@birdsofprey...tiktok.comLittle things, BIG impact. 🌍🦅🐝🦋 Helping wildlife doesn’t always mean donating thousands, travelling across the world or dedicating your life to conservation. Sometimes, it’s the tiny choices we make e...TikTok video by Nathalie Denolf 100
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.tiktok.com/@birdsofprey...tiktok.com“SET HIM FREE!” 🦅💙 It’s probably one of the easiest comments to write under a video of Oropherion, my Martial eagle. But where exactly would you like me to set him free? Into a wild where raptors are ...TikTok video by Nathalie Denolf 100
Reposted by Mark CookMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 02/09/2026I am very skeptical. I mean with this error rate it makes most of this useless! 3336689
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"BattleTech: Universe" makes an excellent primer, and then you can jump into the current era with Trial of Birthright. I love the older books, but some of them are very much products of their time. 010
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This is already better than my finished products. Where is the mini from? 100
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This is the same thought I had about AC Black Flag, except you *can* play it on current consoles. 010
Reposted by Mark Cookghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10/07/2026we do the ha-ha clueless thing but the truth imo is that it is culturally possible to grow up male-- and this is not intended as self-flagellation, just as descriptive-- without really internalizing that women also have sexual agency, which means you miss when they're exercising it at you 762016175
Reposted by Mark CookMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 10/07/2026THAT SAID, I hate doing the wave in stadiums to I feel for that guy 1701
Reposted by Mark CookMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 10/07/2026So… as a medievalist it was a combination 1138443
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 06/07/2026So they want an eighth of the planet to play a game on Windows or XBox (or a game that hooks into a Microsoft account on another platform) every day? That seems like a *wildly* implausible goal for a leisure activity. 000
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Saw Supergirl last night and I really liked it. Cast was excellent, especially Milly Alcock. It felt a lot more obvious that it's True Grit in space where John Wayne is a blonde woman with a cape as a movie than when it was only a comic book (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow). 000
Reposted by Mark CookMel Stefaniuk @melstefaniuk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026You either die recruiting Carl Reiner at a sporting event or you live long enough to become Carl Reiner at a sporting event 414646768
Reposted by Mark CookMichael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...advocate.comThe New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis findsA new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality. 141805654
Reposted by Mark CookComics in the Spooky Age 🧛♂️🧟♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Today is the birthday of cartoonist & illustrator Rose O'Neill (June 25, 1874-April 6, 1944). She created the Kewpie in her comic strips in 1909, which would become the most popular cartoon character before Mickey Mouse. 426381
Reposted by Mark Cooksilverwuffamute @wuffaf.at · 02/06/2026Ironically, Young Jr is the oldest Young in this photo. 844395530
Reposted by Mark CookTwo Strike Noise @twostrikenoise.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I get it already, I'm old. 181589222
Reposted by Mark CookThe_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 24/05/2026A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. 9989194353
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Good news, this is a real book (one I enjoyed, FWIW) 050
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The bulldog triceratops looks like you *could* make a good version of it, the others all range from "hideous" to "regular dog designed by a person who has never seen a dog" 030
Reposted by Mark CookParis Marx @parismarx.com · 08/05/2026OpenAI was found to have violated Canadian privacy laws. But don’t worry: it won’t face any consequences because the commissioner says the company has changed its ways. 🫠theglobeandmail.comOpenAI violated Canadian privacy laws in developing first ChatGPT model, probe findsCompany collected personal information without adequate safeguards and valid consent, but has since addressed major concerns, watchdogs say 13252102
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026WTF is "ages ever well with time"? I can't imagine a human writing that but it feels *too* clunky to be AI. Maybe the position of ScreenRant's headline writer pays so poorly they can't hire someone who's fluent in English? 000
Reposted by Mark CookMelissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026“When a bill, budget or otherwise, rewrites how people, journalists & elected officials can access information, it deserves full scrutiny: public hearings, clause-by-clause review & the chance to amend it." Too bad that's not how Doug Ford's government sees it. #DeclineOfDemocracybuff.lyOntario to bypass public hearings on FOI overhaul that will hide premier’s phone logs | Globalnews.caWeeks after tabling the budget, the government has decided to speed its central financial plan and two other pieces of legislation past the traditional process. 11310
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I considered very light green and blue, but while planning the Marauder and Locust seemed to have bigger sections that lacked printed color entirely. I thought using only metallic silver for them would make them too dark overall, so I used pale grey for panels and silver on joints and no-color guns. 000
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I think it could use some purple. When I made my attempt at it as a fairly new painter, I used Periwinkle Purple Speedpaint, which is their “Purplish Blue” - I am still happy with my colour matching choices, although I would treat the cockpits differently if I did it today. 100
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The wheel looks like it comes from Legacy Bulkhead or Breakdown. 111
Reposted by Mark CookThomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it 8748142123
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 05/02/2026The basics are that FASA seems to have made a good faith effort to use the anime designs in Battletech legally and acquired a license for them prior to releasing the game; a decade later, they learned the company they got the license from may not have had those rights, and then things get messy. 121
Reposted by Mark CookJess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Look. I'm NOT a conspiracy theorist. I'm not. But when I look at uncomfortable realities, it's difficult to refrain from drawing conclusions that sound like a crazy conspiracy. #1) The Host of Valinor that marched on Angband supposedly consisted of a lot of elves, a lot of dwarfs, & a lot of men. 58914
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I found it a little tricky to get up to speed with the gameplay loop, but once I got there I was obsessed. Without DLC the game felt a bit thin; Heroes of the Inner Sphere and Solaris Showdown are the two that help the most there (but are also the least lore-related). 011
Reposted by Mark CookTango! @pikeshorse.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Worf in dad jeans and a shark shirt directing DS9 is the timeline cleanse you didn’t know you needed 🖖 131164348
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 16/12/2025I've seen some Battletech suggestions here but I think the best primer is MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries with all the expansions. Reading the briefings for campaigns and high reward quests do a great job of illustrating who the factions really are, and the in-game News gives you the big events 110
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Shameless is a little much: FASA, who made BattleTech, had licensed art & designs in '84. A decade later, it turned out it may not have been a valid license, but that seems more like fault is largely on the licensor who sold them the rights (IIRC never officially determined, but probably not valid). 100
Reposted by Mark CookCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/12/2025We all know this is a lie, but can we stop valorizing this shit? Sleeping this little actually really fucks you up and you make bad decisions. It makes you irritable. It fucks up your memory. It reduces your ability to react calmly and rationally. 26576124
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 05/12/2025An Ace Darwin story is what I look forward to the most in any issue of Shrapnel, and they've never let me down. Thank you. 110
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 05/12/2025If I'm playing old PC music with my 'mechs, it's from the MechWarrior 2 soundtracks. (It helps that they're Redbook audio so you can stick 'em in a CD player and skip over track 1 - although these days that really just means they're easy to rip) 110
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Nothing illustrates the current state of anti-trust laws better than Netflix buying WB almost certainly being the best option between the three frontrunners, what with the other two being Paramount and Comcast. 040
Reposted by Mark Cooksarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...apmreports.orgHow a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readersFor decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno... 34767042093
Reposted by Mark CookDefector @defector.com · 03/11/2025Toronto will never get over this: defector.com/toronto-will...defector.comToronto Will Never Get Over This | DefectorBaseball makes you feel bad. I don’t mean that in a literate sense ripping off Bart Giamatti’s lede, the sense of dreading a sullen winter spent longing for the sensory pleasures of the game. I mean… 15312
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Can anyone tell me why the Lorax was a popular costume this year? Or was it some weird local coincidence? #halloween #trickortreat #drseuss 020
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 30/10/2025As an intro? Honestly, it wouldn't be terrible given that it's about Dr Davendra Ellstone learning about the ilKhan Alaric Ward and how his new Star League will run Earth, so you learn setting details with her. (She and Alaric do plenty of other stuff, of course: it's a PG-13ish romance novel) 020
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I like the Mustang better, because it was bad enough at high altitudes that RAF Fighter Command didn't use them... until they put a Rolls Royce Spitfire engine in it, and then it was one of the best. 010
Mark Cook @capemonkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2025So did Sony just give Lorne Michaels a big bag of money? #SNL 010
