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Anti-racist anti-fascist anti-authoritarian Anti-social lol He/him And we're lost in the woods, somewhere in New Jersey, and we're not gonna make it to LA 🌉 bridged from ⁂ freeradical.zone/@johnmark, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
This graphic should scare the bejesus out of everyone. (h/t @pkrugman.bsky.social )
Chart showing wide divergence between tech spending and other investment over the last 12 quarters. The tech spending is largely fueled by the AI data center build out
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Yeah baby
View of the field from my seats
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
LOBINA! The largest outdoor bar in North America!! #lobina #mls #earthquakes
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
It's been a nonstop week. Time to reward myself;
Me at the ballpark ready to watch the quakes
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
I mean... What... In the fuck
Picture of "virtual office hours" booth at corgi cafe. Inside there's a sign that reads "which yc partner will you get?" With a microphone next to it
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Of course SF
Photo of a street sign in SF named claude
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
Latest running stats from last night - the numbers don't show it but I cracked 12' miles! The Fitbit is slightly annoying in that it pads time before I start and after I stop, which you can see from the pace numbers. I know I could do manual start and stops […] [Original post on freeradical.zone]
Stats from my run tracker. They show numbers hovering around 12' per mile for a 4.2 mile run. The 4th mile was recorded at 11:53 - my fastest thus far.
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025
Give it up for Portland OR y'all! Timbers army knows what's up.
Picture of Portland OR soccer stadium during MLS game. Fans hold a sign that says "without them there is no us" - a likely reference to recent state violence against immigrants
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025
Fuck you #bostonglobe - This does not "deepen the divide" it shows the length that authoritarian fascists will go to stifle dissent.
Screenshot from Boston globe headline about Senator Padilla being restrained and handcuffed in LA:

‘This is not a drill’: Padilla’s confrontation in LA deepens divide before mass nationwide protests

The already charged political climate shifted dramatically when Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, was restrained and removed from a press conference after confronting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration.

The visual of an elected official handcuffed after attempting to question a cabinet secretary ignited an immediate storm and poured fuel on an already smoldering national debate: Who has the right to dissent? And how far is the government willing to go to control it?
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025
Side note: the Germans clocked the Facebook threat long before anyone else.
Chapter: Auf Wiedersehen to All That

I'm determined to do better with the next foreign visitor the following week, the German minister of consumer protection. Most countries like Facebook. Germany's an outlier. The Germans disapprove of everything Facebook stands for.

It wasn't very long ago that Germans lived with networks of spies and informants in their country-the Stasi in East Germany and the Gestapo before that. As a result, they have a fundamental suspicion of anyone who wants to gather lots of personal information-which of course is Facebook's business model. Where others see a website that's good for wasting time, Germans see a comprehensive surveil-lance tool that needs muscular oversight. This instinctive and deeply held wariness of a technology company centralizing and processing vast amounts of personal information raises questions that Facebook has never had to answer, certainly not to a government. Germany, prescient because of its history, can see around corners. It's on the verge of passing laws and starting investigations into Facebook-one of the first countries to do so.
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025
lol lmao rotflmao
she's [Marne] relatively new to Facebook, having most recently worked at the White House under Larry Summers. At the end of listing her Harvard and government credentials, she concludes with, "And I'm Jewish."

The room is silent.

"I mean, I don't bring that up because of the Holocaust."

Absolute silence. As if every living thing in the meeting room has been frozen. I'm trapped in some terrible parody of diplomacy.

"It's just I figured you already knew," she continues. "We can discuss it if you wish?"

The tension in the room is unbearable. I picture leaving and walking back home. Leaving this whole Facebook thing behind me. "I think we could probably turn to the substantive part of the agenda we agreed on, now that we've covered introductions," I cut in, desperately.
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025
Just opened Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams and hoo boy does this front matter quote say so much about Our Times. The Great Gatsby has to be one of the most relevant works of literature right now.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, THE GREAT GATSBY
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2025
Please welcome our new treasury secretary, the reanimated corpse of Andrew Mellon. #uspol
Quote from Andrew Mellon, treasury secretary under Coolidge and Hoover: "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people."
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2025
I guess WaPo knows who their daddy is. An opinion piece on crypto investing by the robin hood guy and then another with a laughable headline saying "trump is popular abroad" - a statement so absurd I could never click on that bait. #crypto #fascism #oligarchy #broligarchy
Screenshot with links to 2 WaPo opinion pieces: 

"An investing revolution is coming" about crypto investing written by the Robin hood founder

Followed by "Trump is popular abroad, but will he destroy humanity"
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2025
How I deal with anxiety
A round loaf of 50% rye, freshly baked
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2025
Everyone who blamed this on Biden / the Dems can go F themselves
Screenshot from @raddagher.bsky.social post - "An update on the TikTok situation from our monitoring on Reddit. Now you get TOS'ed for saying negative comments about meta and Zuckerberg, left-wing politics get flagged as misinformation, and you can't tag #fucktrump #fuckelon or #fuckmeta but you CAN tag #fuckbiden and #fuckkamala"

Followed by screenshots from tiktok where warnings were issued for TOS violations: pro-Luigi comments, posting a "political" video, including the hashtag "#abortionrights", and criticizing Zuckerberg
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2025
dear @Google how do I get this gemini ish off my gmail #aislop #dontbeevil #google #thissuckschangeit #gemini
screenshot of the search bar in my android gmail app, with the gemini logo circled on the right
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John Mark :blobcatverified: ☑️ @johnmark.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2025
#wordle confirms what I always knew - I'm special!
Screenshot of the wordle bot's analysis of my word choices with the text "no one in our sample of 217,491 completed Wordles faced this scenario!"
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