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Mark 🐀

@lunaephemera.bsky.social
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He/Him | Low Level Bureaucrat, High Level Wizard | Urbanism and Public Transit Die-Hard | I'll die in Albuquerque, that's a threat and a promise.

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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Video games are so cool and neat. Has anyone ever thought this before?? I think I may be the first to notice.
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Typically looking at federal transportation policy is staring into the void, but recently its been less the void and more an interdimensional portal to the layer of hell where everything is stupid
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@glassninja.bsky.social Us frfr
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BearhAHHH!!t @fussybabybit.ch · 28/09/2026
You catch that big video essay last night?
coworkers deviously luring you over to the water cooler
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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cover of U.S. Department of Commerce report "Selected impacts of railroad mergers." A simple illustration shows railroad tracks split around title and converging below.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.
There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it. There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it. There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it. A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.
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Grant Tosterud @granttosterud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
⚠️ Albuquerque is now included in today’s Moderate Risk for excessive rainfall. The risk expands across much of New Mexico Tuesday, when the most widespread heavy rain and flash flooding is expected. Life-threatening flash flooding is possible. #NMwx
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The more radical the politics and the more standoffish the barista, the better the coffee, frankly. In ABQ, Slow Burn has the best coffee in the city and all the baristas know they're better than you. Just how it goes
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The New Yorker magazine September 25, 1954 🎨Abe Birnbaum
Magazine cover depicting a bunch of youngsters inside a soda fountain, with four bicycles parked outside on the sidewalk in the foreground.
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The human mind is a terrible thing to waste
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wish park and ride would die. Just put some housing there and then you *ACTUALLY* create demand for your transit line! Maddening
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Grant Tosterud @granttosterud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Rio Grande is full from bank to bank in Albuquerque! All the recent rain has revived the river after it ran dry through the city for most of the summer. What an incredible turnaround in just over a week! #NMwx
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Calling a different form of car "missing" in any US context is absurd.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping.
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JRUrbaneNetwork @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Qinghai-Tibet railway exists over 4,500 m above sea level. It crosses many areas with permafrost which thaws and freezes constantly, causing foundation issues for anything built on top. The railway has radiator sticks that cool the soil under so it is always frozen and stable.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026
yep www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...
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Private Schools Are Bad for Society
The starting point for any honest discussion.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for
Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."
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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The mfs what made Twix figured some shit out
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/09/2026
Gavin Nuisance
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“transplant” discourse is great because you get to see how easily people can swaddle their insular, reactionary beliefs with left-coded language
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Forget the dumb transplant discourse, this is far more pressing as an issue!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
desperately want to break the hold that slim, tapered, low rise pants have on my generational cohort
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I keep putting money into the police machine and all it's spitting out is state violence wtf Better keep putting money into it and not think about it much harder
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's honestly so ridiculous Intercity travel is so cash expensive via flight and time expensive via driving. Even worse is the flying still takes so much time for security and layovers. You know what doesn't have those problems? Trains
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Alvarado Transit Center in ABQ has to be my pick. It doesn't feature as many defining features of Pueblo/Adobe style, but it still seamlessly blends into the wider southwest style. Bonus points for a clock tower and more bonus points for Spanish tiles. Triple points for being a transit building.
Picture of the Alvarado Transit building in ABQ from First and Central. Prominently viewable is the clock tower on the corner. An overhead view of the Greyhound area of the Alvarado Transit Center. It has a big plaza and the building is helpfully labeled "Albuquerque." Lots of arches and Spanish tiles.
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Dale Bowman @bowmanoutside.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One of my favorite prairie flowers, maybe my favorite of the fall, sawtooth sunflowers in their full blooming glory yesterday morning as we gathered seed at Rock Creek Wildflower and Pollinator Area. It's one of the joys of volunteering.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
These people are so deeply unserious, and yet here we are, staring down the barrel of secession and a federalized country that barely learned from the failures of the HRE.
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Texas legislature to hold hearings on annexing New Mexico counties - NMreports.org
A proposal by two New Mexico legislators to allow three counties along the Texas border to secede from the Land of Enchantment was dead on arrival in Santa Fe earlier this year, but across the border ...
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough
Supermarket aisle sign with items listed top to bottom: Can Fish, Microwave, Soup.
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Logging on
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I just got into mailing post cards to people and have been wanting to write letters and mail them, only to have the lamest people in the world decide to try and hollow that out too.
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They clocked my ass good
Map of the US color coded to show my strongest preference to regional dialects. Most like me are New Mexico followed by San Francisco and then LA with a brighter-than-I'd-like spot in Florida. Least similar is in the far north in Wisconsin and Minnesota, with a dark spot in Louisiana.
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You're the dean of a public health department and *this* is the first time you've thought about America's built environment? www.forbes.com/sites/bernad...
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The transportation profession used to be cool
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Centrist Dems and repubs want him to lose. For the Dems, they can say that running progressives loses and that they need to run right. If a centrist loses, its because they didn't run right enough. Its exhausting and makes being anyone except a conservative or conservative-lite nearly impossible
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lots of ABQ roads impacted as well!
Map highlighting roads that are part of the National Highway System in Albuquerque, NM.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Same, son
little league kid says dream job is retirement
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🎨Seong Ryul
Painting of a girl riding a bicycle on a street. There's a body of water behind her. The sky is blue but there's a big white cloud forming on the horizon.
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Nothing says, "we've been doing this right forever" like telling everyone your parents went to work sick and then died????????
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sinigangs @sinigangss.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
not gonna exaggerate and act like the US hasn’t devolved into a fascist surveillance state but living in New Mexico is so based. Free college tuition, free universal child care, free ABQ Rapid Transit, sanctuary state, and Bernalillo county has decided to end all flock contracts
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Mark 🐀 @lunaephemera.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Transportation is one of those issues that once your eyes are opened its truly a black hole of never-ending observations and lamentations about how things could be better. I have a friend who now cannot stop remarking about how much parking there is everywhere. Welcome!
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Photos via Instagram riverreachconstruction, which has turned into a cat account.
There are four men in the photo, one of which is wearing a safety vest. The man in a safety vest is holding a small kitten, who is wearing a tiny hard hat. The kitten in a safety vest.The kitten in a safety vest and tiny hard hat.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP DOLLEY - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELETEN GAZING INTO DA FUTURE THINKING ABOUT "WHEN IT WILL HAPPEN" FOR ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE - "THE WRONG PEOPLE KEEP DYING, CAUSE THERE BUILDING A GANG IN DA AFTER LIFE FOR WHEN THE RIGHT PEOPLE SHOW UP - U KNOW WHO, I RESPECT TERMS OF SERVICE " - NO AFTER LIFE FOR ME IM GONNA BE STUCK IN SAMSARA FOR A WHILE "CANT STOP PARTAKING IN DA SUFFERING" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"If you see someone without a smile today, give 'em yours." #RIPDollyParton
Photo of Dolly Parton wearing a flowing dress astride a bicycle.
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