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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm happy to start referring to it as "SI" if I can make it stand for "Stupid Intelligence"

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amazing. This guy just created Kermitneutics.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New on my analog travel blog: El Pípila!

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Was thinking about this recently, seems to me that marketing/ad strategies have shifted overall from "You are lacking something, and I can sell you something to fill the lack" to "You are perfect, I can sell you something to celebrate your perfection"

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some Democrats, like Tammy Duckworth, want fascism, because it's the only way they can keep capitalism.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If we had anything close to a functioning democracy, our best physicians and engineering assistants would be at this very moment locking the President away in a Moriarty Cube where he can endlessly post and golf and build ballrooms without endangering the safety of the real world.

A screen shot from the Star Trek: TNG episode "Ship in a Bottle" where Doctor Crusher and Lieutenant Barclay display the cube containing the holographic program in which they have trapped the nefarious holodeck character Moriarty.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I continue blogging in spite of the horrors:

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At least one old war criminal died this week...

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Telling me to 'look no further' makes it certain that I will, indeed, look further.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Whether your staff are wording your posts to sound like bland PR or actually using AI to write them, the pattern is the same: this slop structure that wrings any urgency and authenticity out of your message.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'm getting The Analog Nomad travel blog going - here's post Number One!

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

its been said many times but it is absolutely insane to watch the Rebel Alliance blaster themselves in the foot by hopping on this anti-Death Star train. a massive generational L awaits.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Is Oskar Schindler running this factory?

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Because we pretended that rot didn't exist, we never cleaned it out" could legit replace "E Pluribus Unum" on the seal of the United States

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Santa Monica on film - on a visit to Los Angeles, I took my #nikonfm loaded with #kodakgold200 to Santa Monica Pier one morning. These are the highlights. Developed and scanned by Englewood Camera, CO, minor color correction and cropping by me. #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #35mm #filmphotography

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ugh. Amazon doesn't 'serve' NYC. Amazon extracts profits from NYC to enrich its shareholders. One of the ways it does this is by exploiting the workers who deliver its packages. Another way it does this is when New Yorkers buy stuff on Amazon.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The most noticeable and probably most consequential shift I’ve noticed in my lifetime is from the news being about things that happened to the news being about things someone said.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"People who need status to survive have no power to resist" debuting at the top of the Sentences That Help Make Sense Of All This charts

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

So the withdrawing of the fucks is the Abdication? Spoiler alert? Southern Reach series is great, so I'm still gonna read it, even though I now know exactly what the entire plot of this last one is.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Here's a solution that contains solutions to plenty of other problems: an Apollo-moonshot-like program to reduce our fossil-fuel use by 95%. If we don't burn much oil, the Strait doesn't matter to us.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Imagine having a national platform and $15 million to spend fighting a political problem, and you don't pick fascism, transphobia, racism, climate change, OR people who park their cars in bike lanes.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Holy shit, I agree with Bret Stephens about something!

A screenshot of the headline of a Bret Stephens column: "I'm begging you: Never Write with AI"

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In the US, bullshit is more profitable than truth.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A few film snaps along @amtrak.com Coast Starlight from Oakland to San Francisco. I made these with the Kodak Ektar H35 half-frame point-and-shoot on Kodak Gold 200, and I’m learning a lot from the little camera. 1/ #35mm #travelphotography #travelbytrain #photography #filmphotography #ishootfilm

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Initially read this as '@RonaldReagan senility conference' and thought 'yeah that tracks'

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In 2020 I gave money to Bernie and a couple progressive Dems local to me. In return I've had six years of this. I will never give money to a political candidate again unless this stops.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

They are scary if, like many establishment Dems, you value capital above freedom.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/07/2026

i see it as an expression of the calvinism lodged deep in the american psyche.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Nice to see Diana DeGette's campaign PR team landed on their feet.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I saw Canadian Wildfire Smoke open for Diarrhea Lettuce at Riotfest in 2008

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Wall Street Journal and the police both have the same basic function in the US - to protect the interests of capital. That is why you get headlines like this, not because some editor hasn't looked in the mirror.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Electoral politics alone won't save us, but AOC/Ossoff 2028 sure would be a nice addition to the ole' anti-fascist toolbox

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026

“What I loved about Senator Lindsey Graham is that we belonged to the same social class”

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

After a decade of kid-gloving this fascist bigot, you'll forgive me if I don't have a whole lot of pity for the @nytimes.com getting its turn on the rack.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Every Trump speech is basically him making an unboxing video of a teleprompter

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My Creative Writing 101 prof would have docked me points if I wrote a character who committed fraud and named him "Chadwick Banken" - which is clearly long for "Chad Bank".

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

In other words: centrist dems are choosing capital instead of democracy. The people are being very clear that they want leaders who will choose democracy instead of capital. Centrist dems want to choose capital instead of democracy and they hate the people for not letting them.

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

straight to the top 10 on the 'greatest metaphors for America' charts

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J. Mark Tebben @jmarktebben.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

All Democrats have gotten this message. Some are going to choose capital over democracy regardless.

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