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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This election cycle is my 11th. It's an exhausting and long day but always a rewarding experience. Just wish I had a company that treated it as volunteer days. You wonder why it is all old people running the polls? They are the ones who don't have to take off from work.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Garrit Imsieke - Schematron Batch Files (Late breaking) This is really cool. Can do fixes (to both XProc and XML using XSLT) automatically based on Schematron validation errors. I hope I can mess around with this a little. I'll have to look for the paper when he has it ready.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Balisage Day 3 #balisage2026 I had a contractor in the house today, as well as internet troubles (as usual) so I missed several of the sessions.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Docugami - DGML Annoucement This was a VERY fast overview of the new DGML format specification for making content more accessible and effective for ingestion to LLMs. And it is open sourced. github.com/dgml-io/dgml...

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GitHub - dgml-io/dgml-spec

Contribute to dgml-io/dgml-spec development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Open Mic I was intrigued by Andrew Sales ideas for enhancing SVRL. Making that output more clear would be a huge improvement. John Lumley's presentation of his XML player piano was incredible! Just fascinating what can be done with XML tools. How did he even think to try it out!?

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Michael Kay - XSLT/XPath/XQuery 4.0 Standards: a High-Level Perspective Michael runs us through a quick history of the standards committee and then dives into all the changes. So much to think about! blog.saxonica.com/mike/2026/05... qt4cg.org doi.org/10.4242/Bali...

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Balisage Day 2! #balisage2026 Yesterday was deep and intriguing. I expect today to be even moreso.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Julia Flanders and Ash Clark - Synthesis and Sustainability: The Evolution of Markup and Toolsets in the Women Writers Project This is a history of a thin slice of the Women Writer's Project. Is there an opportunity for someone(s) to do an oral history of the XML evolution? doi.org/10.4242/Bali...

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Amanda Galtman - XSpec for XProc, and XProc for XSLT I've enjoyed working with XSpec and to be able to extend it to XProc seems very useful. I'll have to look into how I would take advantage of this. doi.org/10.4242/Bali...

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Martin Kraetke - E-Book Backlists in, Accessibility out? He open sourced the tool he created to bring epubs into the new era. This is an interesting tool for increasing a11y in e-pubs. It sounds like it might make older e-pubs (won't open in current e-readers) readable! doi.org/10.4242/Bali...

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Between sessions...is like being back in my early days and just being glad to listen to my more experienced colleagues discuss the oddities of working in content.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Steven Pemberton - Designing a Notation Using iXML This is my yearly reminder that I should spend some more time looking at iXML. This session also reminds me that I learn best through doing. ;-) doi.org/10.4242/Bali... He also has some online tutorials - homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/ixml...

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Balisage: Designing a Notation Using ixml

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Tommie is talking about the experience / history of Balisage as the conference chair for 29 of 30 years. It's interesting to hear how SGML/XML/HTML/AI have brought out the irritation of many across the years.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

#balisage2026 Balisage: The Final Cut is starting! I'm going to split my comments by day into this thread...mostly for my own history and nostalgia in the future. If you are an XML geek I hope to see you there!

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If the snippets from this article don't make you want to tax the rich ... You are a special kind of stupid.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It was always a lie. The rich want company towns writ large.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I got a front row seat to this as a federal contractor. People I'd worked with for two years were losing it in meetings. My wife left federal service after spending her entire career there. The institutional knowledge lost is extreme. Take a look at Fed RFPs...they are replacing with contractors.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The book started with global cooperation around a climate crisis and ends with inter-planetary friendship and collaboration. With the only explosions being accidental and of the non-weapon varieties.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Did this guy read his most recent book? "For instance, as a lifelong Star Trek fan, it’s always bothered me that there is a presumed ‘responsibility’ within Star Trek shows to talk about social issues,” the writer added. “I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other."

gizmodo.com

Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His 'Star Trek' Pitch, Proceeds to Blast Modern 'Trek'

Given the 'Project Hail Mary' writer's past comments about his 'Star Trek' hopes, it's perhaps not hard to imagine why they were turned down.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The US made a huge mistake when allowing the Confederacy back into the Union with no repercussions. Oh and the failure that was Reconstruction....

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

My scam is going exactly the same. Love solar and electric. But I'm not getting bribes from the oil industry, so I'm probably not his target audience.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Radical extremist cleric issues angry new fatwa -->

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Excellent question! This would require them to do their actual job, not their social media work that seems to be all republican congress does these days.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2026

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Almost set your watch by bankruptcy being the end result of take over by private equity. we are being bled dry by these vultures.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Undocumented immigrants are taking our jobs, using all the welfare, AND causing huge unemployment numbers when they are deported (millions? LOL)? These numbers are going to be horrible and, since the current Administration lies about everything, they are actually much much worse.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

Sesame Street Instagram:
Big Bird snuggling a smaller bird.
Offering comfort in Scary Times:
After a violent event, children of different ages will have different needs. These age based strategies can help them feel safer and more secure.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Department of Homeland Security was a disaster that the military industrial complex pushed through after 9/11. We've been moving toward an surveillance state for longer than that DHS needs be broken apart and their budgets decimated.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Only days away from an article about a 'good' ICE asshole. Expose them all. Make sure this is top of their resume, their social media, and their dating apps. No one who supported this administration gets away with it.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

KIMMEL, to the UK: “.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.” @jimmykimmel.com

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Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

This is both interesting and depressing. I'd read it.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Pissing Out Cancer, my comedy special produced by and formerly exclusively on Dropout.tv is now available for free and in full on YouTube. Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5G...

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Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer | Full Comedy Special

YouTube video by Hank Green

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/12/2025

rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.

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Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Guarantee that Leavitt knows this is happening and knows why. Her brother is using these authoritarian tactics to remove his son's mother from his life. She was brought here as a child. This is her home. Make no mistake this administration has weaponized the government against us all.

bostonglobe.com

Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew detained by ICE in Revere; Brazil native came to US as a child - The Boston Globe

Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Look, I hate her too but, if this is why she is retiring on 1/5/26, even I'm surprised by her pettiness. Can we instead point out that she and other gov employees have the opportunity to get a pension at all? That is an outlier in the US now. The Fed system should be the model.

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Another step toward 'proving' the government can't be trusted. These sites vaccines.gov, covid.gov worked and helped countless people find the tools they needed to stay healthy. This administration is tearing down the point of government...to serve the people of this country.

notus.org

CDC Quietly Turned Off Its Vaccine Search Tool. It’s Not Clear When It’s Coming Back.

“I have heard that they are planning to ‘update it’ and shudder to think what that will mean,” Demetre Daskalakis, a former member of CDC leadership, told NOTUS.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts." www.wcvb.com/article/karo...

REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.

The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.

Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.

Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

We didn't recover from Slavery, the Civil War, Nixon, or Reagan. We've been shambling forward into the future since the beginning and just continue to make the same 'mistakes'. Could we stop making them? Yes. Will we?

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Charlotte's subsequent post made me reread the deferred pension aspect. She wouldn't get it until 62, 11 years away. But yes she would get it. BTW, this is what we all should be earning over our careers. That only certain industries and companies include this anymore is a travesty. #unions

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Mark Shellenberger @m-shellenberger.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

She is likely eligible for continued health insurance for the five years of service as you stated. However she doesn't appear to fit the requirements for the pension. Congressional pension - Wikipedia share.google/wB9iiMvG2hn1...

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Congressional pension - Wikipedia

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/11/2025

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

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