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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 22/08/2026

The Natalie Harp story is so interesting. It took an account of her personal actions for people to understand the gravity of something that has been published in photos for a decade. If a picture is worth a thousand words, maybe that 1000 is too overwhelming to believe.

A group of people gather around a Trump in a blue suit and red tie, laying hands on his shoulders and back in a prayer circle.

The backdrop displays repeated ‘Turning Point Action’ branding. Several onlookers hold up phones to photograph the moment.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 07/07/2026

Yeah, and that’s his “Work” focus mode. You **definitely** don’t want to see his other Trump wallpapers, in order: - Festival 🕺🏼🤡 - Personal 🥵🤡 - Late Night 🌶️🤡

iOS focus modes:
Do Not Disturb
Personal
Work
Sleep
Late Night
Reduce Interruptions
Festival

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 30/04/2026

What happened to “What are your thoughts?”

Screenshot showing this post is an exact copy of another’s from 14 hours earlier, but left out the original engagement farming comment “what are your thoughts?”

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 16/04/2026

Clearly he hasn’t seen the movie Independence Day.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 14/04/2026

Definitely made me lol once: Trio of self described Satanists outside yelling: “Take us to your personal hell… Thank you for being our dark lord.”

A trio of self-described “satanists” dressed in black costumes with goth makeup walked up and down the line of attenders carrying a goblet of red liquid with a small plastic replica of a bone. “Will you bring our dark lord Peter Thiel this baby’s blood?” they asked. Then they performed what they called a “dark ritual”, dancing slowly in a circle to Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, which ended with them writhing on the city sidewalk, and yelling: “Take us to your personal hell … Thank you for being our dark lord.”

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 05/04/2026

I freakin love those boxes. They are so damn cheap and **perfect** if you have the right expectations. My wife hates them because they’re “too flimsy” but 4 cases later I haven’t broken a single one. Conversely, I’ve broken 12/12 other rigid, heavy duty $15/ea containers 🤷🏻‍♂️

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 05/04/2026

Well, let me just point out… 😉😂 jussttt kidding I swear!

Screenshot of asking Claude if the post it true…

There’s a real point here, but it’s more nuanced than a blanket rule.
Where she’s right: Posting a chatbot response as if it’s authoritative evidence is weak argumentation. LLMs can confidently generate plausible-sounding text for virtually any position…

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 31/03/2026

Yeah I know the feeling. My WhatsApp friend groups is probably over 5k, and I turned off the email counter. Work stress has been killing my social life for the last couple years 😔

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 25/03/2026

Oh really? How does Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows, and Dan Scavino feel about that?

The House January 6th Committee subpoenaed Jim Jordan to appear for a deposition regarding his knowledge of Trump's role in the Capitol insurrection, as the committee considered him a "significant player" in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Jordan defied the subpoena and refused to cooperate, and he was subsequently referred to the house ethics committee.
The January 6th Committee's final report in December 2022 referred Jordan to the Ethics Committee for appropriate punishment, concluding that his defiance undermined Congress's investigative power and suggested that members of Congress could disregard legal obligations that apply to ordinary citizens. No meaningful consequences resulted from the referral.

The original subpoenas:

The January 6th Committee issued over 90 subpoenas during its investigation. In May 2022, it subpoenaed five sitting House Republicans
- Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Mo Brooks, Scott Perry, and Andy Biggs — for testimony about their knowledge of events surrounding the Capitol attack.

Who defied them:
Four key Trump advisors refused to comply: Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, and Peter Navarro.
The House voted to hold each in contempt of Congress. Bannon and Navarro were actually criminally prosecuted - Bannon was convicted and sentenced to four months in prison, Navarro served four months as well.
Meadows and Scavino were referred to the
DOJ but never charged. Jordan, McCarthy, Perry, Brooks, and Biggs also refused to comply with their subpoenas but were never held in contempt.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 24/03/2026

That’s quite the summary you’ve extracted from page 432. In the section titled “Office of Land and Emergengy Management (OLEM)” Facts matter.

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise
• Expand and fully stand up the Office of Mountains, Deserts and Plains to support innovative approaches to the cleaning up of abandoned mines.
• Develop and execute a 10-year cleanup plan to address lead at all existing cleanup sites that includes benchmarks and milestones that allow for congressional and public oversight of the schedule.
RCRA. To streamline waste management, the following changes are needed in
the Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR):
• Create an RCRA post-closure care permit that is tailored only to post-closure obligations.
• Modify regulations that impede resource efficiency, recycling, and reuse by providing clearly that these materials are not waste. This can be done by promulgating a rule that provides an alternative pathway to hazardous waste regulation to allow the transport of material to legitimate recyclers or back to manufacturers to support the recycling and reuse of material.
• Change the electronic manifest (e-manifest) regulations to a 100 percent electronic system and eliminate all paper manifests and manual filing and data input. This system should operate from a range of common handheld devices and could be expanded to accommodate solid waste and materials for reuse and recycling.
• Reassign regulation and enforcement of air emission standards under the authority of RCRA Section 300437 to OAR and revise and modernize the regulations to comport and integrate with CAA rules.
Risk Management Program. If a new Risk Management Program (RMP) rule is finalized by the Biden Administration, it should be revised to reflect the amendments finalized in 2019 to protect sensitive information.
Personnel
The following organizational changes could create resource efficiencies to focus
on the highest-value opportunities:
• Eliminate or consolidate the regional laboratories and allow OLEM to use
EPA, other government, or private labs based on expertise and cost.
- 432ー

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 22/03/2026

Wait, we’re talking about this group of fascists, right?

Elon Musk beams onstage while brandishing a red chainsaw, with text quoting him: “Empathy is a fundamental weakness of Western civilization.”

Because apparently the real threat to civilization was caring about other people.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 18/03/2026

lol, uh… sad I missed it?

Always reassured my blocks are the right ones.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 18/03/2026

It’s almost as gripping as A Time To Kill

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 18/03/2026

I would have been 😭 by the end if I were Rosenblum. Guy is a freshman likely in need of good mentoring and has a complete shit show instead. Gets really real on the last 2 pages… “your bosses are incompetent and hung you out to dry”

THE COURT: I'm going to put out a text order. By the way, it is not my custom to shoot the messenger. You came down here for this. I threw you this lifeline, and you did
not accept it and they left you here. Okay? They left you here by yourself. Nobody filed a notice of appearance to stand next to you. Mr. Coyne didn't file a notice of appearance to stand next to you. I'm telling you that I'm going to have hearings in the next week. You may want to let your colleagues know, get ready. They're not going to be able to just walk into this courtroom and say, We just want to proceed.

If there's a constitutional issue where a defendant might be spending an extra day in prison that he shouldn't be because he's looking at time served, then I'm willing to have to have that issue overcome this unlawful conduct that you guys keep perpetrating in your office. But I'm telling you, you have lost the confidence and the trust of this Court. You have lost the confidence and the trust of the New Jersey legal community, and you are losing the trust and confidence of the public.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 09/03/2026

Not a proven Project 2025 + Tech Fash grand conspiracy, but absolutely a visible strategic alignment of interests: war shock, oil shock, executive consolidation, fossil-energy nationalism, and surveillance/defense tech all reinforce one another.

On Project 2025, the through-line is fairly clear: expand U.S. fossil-fuel production, restore “energy dominance,” use energy as an instrument of foreign policy, speed exports, and take a much harder line on Iran while strengthening Israel and Gulf-aligned regional blocs. That does not amount to a demand-reduction strategy; it is much more about maintaining fossil-energy primacy and geopolitical leverage.

Is there a long-term alignment between:
1. a more authoritarian or surveillance-friendly tech politics,
2. Project 2025-style executive centralization and fossil-energy nationalism, and
3. a regional war that drives oil shocks and destabilizes economies,

Yes, there is a coherent alignment of incentives. High external threat, war footing, and energy shocks tend to strengthen arguments for centralized executive power, industrial policy, domestic energy expansion, border/internal surveillance, and tighter state-corporate cooperation in tech and defense. That is an analytic inference, but it fits the documented policy direction.

The tech piece is where the pattern gets more concrete. Recent reporting shows the administration pushing a strongly state-directed AI posture: building federal AI infrastructure, loosening rules to accelerate AI dominance and exports, pressuring firms over acceptable defense/surveillance uses, and expanding the role of defense-tech contractors. Reuters also reports Palantir’s government-driven growth and its centrality to Pentagon AI systems, while the Pentagon’s clash with Anthropic explicitly turned on military uses including mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.

The evidence supports a mutually reinforcing ecosystem: war increases fear and energy scarcity; fear and scarcity make authoritarian governance and surveillance easier to sell; and those conditions also reward defense-tech firms, domestic fossil-fuel producers, and an administration committed to executive-heavy “dominance” politics.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 25/02/2026

Wish I could credit this appropriately but…

Two-panel cartoon meme.

Top: “Dinners in 2024” shows a gloomy family in a kitchen. A exasperated dad in a MAGA hat groans, “I paid $40 for this! Thanks Biden for ruining dinner.” Everyone has massive steaks. The dad enjoys a frothy beer, the mom sips a martini, and the kids have juice boxes. In the background, there’s fresh fruit and vegetables on the counter, and the top of the refrigerator is stocked with snack and cereal boxes.

Bottom: “Dinners in 2025” shows the same family ecstatic over dinner. The dad says, “I paid $40 for this! Thanks Trump for making dinner great again!” The family shares a much smaller meatloaf and drinks water. The kitchen is sparse—no snacks, no fruit.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 16/02/2026

A friendly hello from a distant cousin 😺

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 13/01/2026

Every day is #Caturday here. Even when Frizzy is doing her BulldogCat cosplay and judging my life choices.

A fluffy brown Maine Coon-like cat named Frizzball sits upright on a hardwood floor with her front paws braced, looking bulky like a bulldog.

Close-up of the same fluffy cat… or is it? Sitting on the hardwood floor, round and plush with bright green eyes and a stern, bulldog…. wait. Is that a BulldogCat?

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 10/01/2026

I was curious about the adverb and how it would hold up legally. In case anyone else had the same question, forcibly does apply to all of the verbs:

In that construction, “forcibly” grammatically applies to the whole verb series — i.e., forcibly assaults, (forcibly) resists, (forcibly) opposes, (forcibly) impedes, (forcibly) intimidates, or (forcibly) interferes. That’s the normal “fronted adverb + coordinated verbs” pattern, and § 111 only says “forcibly” once.

Courts have also read it that way explicitly (not just as a grammar point). For example, Long v. United States states that the adverb “forcibly” was intended to modify each verb that follows it. And the Eighth Circuit has similarly described it as “grade-school grammar” that “forcibly” modifies each listed verb.

(Separate from pure grammar: what counts as “forcibly” can get litigated—e.g., whether threats or intimidation satisfy the “force” element in a given fact pattern—but as written, the modifier isn’t limited to “assault.”)

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 04/01/2026

Order in the court! Judge Jeanine is back to clarify that “checks and balances” means “check the oil, balance the coup,” and yes, the President can do a little kidnapping and regime change as a treat! As long as the barrels keep flowing and someone says “national security” with a straight face.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 04/01/2026

It’s too cold to protest, so you’ll probably be waiting till May-June at least.

No Kings website talking about what’s next: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 02/01/2026

Oops - must not have posted my investigation… looks very intentional from other angles.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 16/12/2025

Let’s not forget Kash’s love for writing children’s propaganda stories. If this is your idea of evidence, you shouldn’t be anywhere near an agency that investigates crimes in the real world.

Screenshot of Goodreads showing two Kash Patel books from 2022: “The Plot Against the King” (2.29 stars, 212 ratings) and “The Plot Against the King: 2000 Mules” (1.64 stars, 50 ratings).

The blurb pitches a “for kids!” fantasy retelling of “Hillary’s horrible plot against Trump,” complete with “keeper Comey’s spying slugs” and “Kash the Distinguished Discoverer” saving the day.

If your children’s-book résumé highlight is teaching conspiracy lore with cartoon villains, maybe you should run a Scholastic book fair—not the FBI.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 18/11/2025

Lol annnnnd I still had to look it up 😬 To which I got the reply “Mark, you’re just illiterate” I’m going to defer to my usual “I grew up in Nebraska where we didnt have ____ “ excuse. However - term is very fitting!!

“Come-uppance” is common, but the feel of it varies a bit by generation and context.

Here’s the breakdown:

How common?
• It’s widely understood across the U.S., U.K., and much of the English-speaking world.
• You’ll see it in books, articles, movies, and especially storytelling or commentary.

Generational?
• Older generations (Boomers, Gen X, older Millennials) use it more naturally.
• Younger Millennials and Gen Z understand it, but don’t often say it — they’ll usually use:
• “karma”
• “got what they deserved”
• “that’s on them”
• “L”
• “consequences found him”

So it’s not outdated, but it’s more literary or tongue-in-cheek in modern use.

Regional?
• Not strongly regional.
• Used in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia.
• Slightly more common in British English writing, but still very normal in American English.

Tone
• Mildly humorous
• Story-like, as if narrating a little moral lesson

Example of tone:

“He finally got his come-uppance”
Sounds like someone recounting a plot twist — not something you’d hear in a serious legal context.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 07/11/2025

It was a Dept of Transportation rule that the Trump admin reversed course on.

• Under the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) during the Joe Biden administration, a final rule issued April 24 2024 required airlines and ticket agents to provide automatic cash refunds when flights are cancelled or significantly changed, baggage is significantly delayed, or paid-services (like WiFi or seat selection) are not delivered.
• The same period rule also required disclosure of ancillary fees (e.g., checked bags, carry-on bags, reservation changes) at time of booking or ticket purchase to increase transparency.
• Later, in 2025, the DOT under Trump’s administration announced it would abandon a proposed rule emerging from the Biden period that would have required cash compensation for airline‐caused flight disruptions (delays or cancellations) beyond refunds.
• Also, a court in January 2025 blocked the Biden‐era rule on upfront fee disclosure: a U.S. appeals court found procedural problems with the rule and remanded it to the DOT.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 03/11/2025

Thank for this. I don’t know much about Tolkien/LOTR but your comments sparked curiosity. The background was super fascinating.

1) Elon Musk commentary about Lord of the Rings and immigration

Recently (late 2024-2025), Musk made public comments implying that The Lord of the Rings can be interpreted as a warning about modern immigration, connecting the idea of "defending civilization" with opposition to demographic change in the West.

His critics argue this frames immigrants as an invading evil force — which they see as a racist or xenophobic framing.

The posts here are mocking that interpretation.

2) Tolkien's actual documented views
Tolkien was very anti-Nazi.

He explicitly rejected Nazi racial ideology — for example, in a 1938 letter responding to a German publisher wanting proof of "Aryan ancestry," he blasted Nazi race theories as
"wholly pernicious and unscientific."

However:
• Tolkien was a conservative English Catholic
• He loved Anglo-Saxon myth and heritage
• He held many traditionalist views of his time
• He disliked industrialization (hence the "anti-technocratic, anti-environmentalist genocide" joke — which refers to Saruman destroying nature for machinery and power)

So the second post exaggerates for humor:
Tolkien critiques power, industrialization, and domination — not immigration.

3) Were LOTR villains "about the Nazis"?
It's more complicated:
• Tolkien fought in World War I, not WWII, and much of LOTR draws from that trauma.
• He started developing the mythology well before the rise of Hitler.
• He denied LOTR was literally an allegory for WWII.
• BUT... he hated fascism and totalitarianism, and his dislike absolutely influenced the tone.
So the claim "the bad guys were literally Nazis" is tongue-in-cheek.

A truer statement is:
Tolkien's themes oppose domination, dehumanization, industrial militarism, and racial supremacy — and Nazis exemplified those traits.

But LOTR wasn't written as a Nazi allegory.

What the posts are really saying

They are:
• Mocking Nazi and white-nationalist readings of LOTR
• Suggesting Tolkien's work is about power, corruption, and industrialized evil
• Making fun of Musk for turning fantasy literature into anti-immigration rhetoric
• Punching at modern far-right ideology using Tolkien as a cultural battleground

It's satire of contemporary politics using
Tolkien as ammo.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 03/11/2025

And I give you the director of the world most respected investigative agency. Dinesh. What a fuckin douche canoe.

Book Overview
Kash Patel tells the fantastical story of how two inquisitive minds, Dinesh and Debbie, search for the truth and uncover evidence of a terrible scheme to elect Sleepy Joe instead of King Donald on Choosing Day. Included in the book is a special message from

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 27/10/2025

Tried removing the LitterRobot in #Lightroom and accidentally opened a portal to the uncanny valley. Side note, LMK where I can find this nightmare #halloween #caturday pillow.

Two gray cats lounge on a fuzzy blanket; one real, and one nightmare hallucinated by Lightroom’s object removal algorithm. It’s a cozy domestic scene reimagined by a deranged AI with a thriving side hustle in cursed cat-head décor.

The original: A gray cat lounging on a fuzzy pillow on a couch in a cozy living room. LitterRobot and some clutter in the background.

A gray cat lounges comfortably on a fuzzy dark pillow on a couch in a warmly lit living room, looking directly at the camera. The background shows tidy furniture, plants, soft ambient light, and no other-worldly nightmares.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 19/10/2025

Yeah, should be aware of the AT protocol “firehose”

In Bluesky and the AT Protocol (atproto) ecosystem, “the firehose” refers to the real-time global data stream of all public events — posts, likes, follows, deletes, etc. — that occur across the network.

Here’s a detailed breakdown:

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🔧 Definition

The Firehose is an API endpoint (technically a relay stream) that delivers every public record published on the network in real time.
It’s meant primarily for:
• Developers building analytics, search, or custom feed services
• Moderation systems that need to process or filter large volumes of content
• Researchers studying social behavior or content trends

Essentially, it’s “the public pulse” of Bluesky.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 13/10/2025

No no, what we need is a device you can just put them all in… Like… like a… yeah! Like a juke box! We could call it THE MEGACHANGER! 🙃

A towering monument to 2008 optimism — the Sony BD Mega Changer, for people who thought owning 400 Blu-rays would be a lifelong flex instead of a digital cry for help.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 08/09/2025

My go-to is iced tea. Must specify not sweet as I live in the pseudo-southern US. However, I was in Manchester 2 weeks ago and my mate took us to afternoon tea at the Midland. OMG. The Brits can do tea! I had no idea hot tea that delicious existed.

Afternoon tea at The Midland Hotel in Manchester, featuring a white porcelain teapot, a cup of black tea, a glass of champagne, and a tiered tray with finger sandwiches, scones, and colorful pastries set against elegant bay windows with natural light.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 04/09/2025

lol flashbacks… I was a program manager for 15 years. One team I took over was having 3 hour weekly status calls 🤦🏻‍♂️ Which brings me to my favorite ‘Trains Planes and Automobiles’ movie quotes: You know, when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea:

It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 04/09/2025

Hopefully the FBIs (former) legacy of “integrity first” will protect the originals. MS Office and Google docs etc have pretty robust archival functionality with immutable retention policies, but Federal record keeping is a whole different ballgame. Here’s some info, full text in the ALT

1. Federal Recordkeeping vs. Commercial SaaS
• Commercial SaaS (365, Google) has compliance features (retention, immutability, audit logs) designed for governance and regulatory frameworks like SOX, FINRA, HIPAA.
• Federal agencies like the FBI are governed by the Federal Records Act (FRA), DOJ/FBI internal record management policies, and NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) requirements.
• Instead of relying on SaaS defaults, agencies use specialized recordkeeping systems that are certified as FERMI/NARA-compliant, meaning they must ensure immutability, chain of custody, and audit trails that can withstand legal scrutiny.

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2. FBI & DOJ Documentation Systems
• The FBI uses systems like Sentinel (case management), UNICORN (financial), and other classified platforms. These systems are designed so that records can be:
• Declared as official records
• Stored in immutable archives
• Tagged for legal hold
• Audited for every access/change
• These systems are not just Office 365 with retention turned on—they are custom-built or certified recordkeeping tools where a simple “find & replace” is not possible without leaving evidence in audit logs.
• Any action that alters or attempts to purge records is itself a federal offense

3. Safeguards Against Abuse
• Audit trails: Every search, access, or change is logged.
• Immutable storage: Records are stored on systems that enforce WORM (Write Once, Read Many) principles.
• Oversight: Inspector Generals, Congressional committees, and courts can subpoena audit logs, not just the content of records.
• Whistleblower protection: If someone tried to systematically alter records, internal whistleblowers and IG audits are a check.

That said, administrative access always carries risk. A sufficiently high-ranking or corrupt actor might attempt to manipulate searches, but unlike in a corporate IT setup, government record systems are designed with multiple redundant checks to prevent undetectable tampering.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 02/09/2025

Don’t forget to recycle!! ♻️

A massive black cauldron sits outdoors, overflowing with molten gold. Inside, ornate golden furniture and objects, including armchairs, a bathtub, a grandfather clock, and a solid gold toilet, are melting and dripping liquid gold down the sides. A cheering crowd watches in the background, with the White House visible behind them at sunset.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 02/09/2025

That’s not true though, even being *inside*. Furthermore, a garden implies outside which adds a significant additional risk. And I’m saying this as a person who has been naked in all of the provided spaces except a town square.

Yes — in many jurisdictions, a person can be charged with indecent exposure even if they're inside their own home, if they're knowingly visible to the public (like through a window facing a street, sidewalk, or neighbors).

The key elements usually boil down to:

• Intent or recklessness: Did the person deliberately expose themselves where they knew, or should have reasonably known, that others could see?

• Public visibility: If the exposure can be seen by people outside (e.g., passersby, neighbors), courts often treat it as if it happened "in public."

• Context: There's usually a difference between accidentally leaving the curtains open while changing versus deliberately standing nude in front of a window.

So, "being at home" doesn't automatically protect someone from indecent exposure laws. The determining factor is whether the exposure was willful and viewable by the public.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 06/08/2025

This is honestly PERFECT. www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

Here’s a list of five particularly timeless tips from the “Simple Sabotage Field Manual”:

Telephone: At the office, hotel, or local telephone switchboards, delay putting calls through, give out wrong numbers, cut people off “accidentally,” or forget to disconnect them so that the line cannot be used again.

Movie Theater Patrons: To ruin everyone’s time at the movies (without a cell phone, that is) bring in a paper bag filled with two or three dozen large moths. Open the bag and set it in an empty section of the theater. “The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.”

Managers and Supervisors: To lower morale and production, think of the worst boss you’ve had and act like that. Be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work. When possible, refer all matters to committees for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large and bureaucratic as possible.

Employees: Be forgetful. Clumsy. Work slowly. Think of ways to increase the number of movements needed to do your job: use a light hammer instead of a heavy one; try to make a small wrench do instead of a big one.

Transportation: Make train or air travel as inconvenient as possible. One particularly effective trick: issue two tickets for the same seat on a train in order to set up an “interesting” argument.

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 12/07/2025

I really like where you’re going with this post, I had to elaborate on it. Might have to make it into an infographic

Trump 10 Lie Constructions with misinformation types and explanations

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marktacular @mark.tacular.social · 12/07/2025

Apple does already. And of course there’s the hard lock quint-click 5x) on the lock button to disable Face ID (require password). As in, always quint-click the lock button as you’re handing it to authorities.

A screw of the “Recently Deleted” folder on iOS requires Face ID to view the album.

The hard lock on an iPhone is a security feature that instantly disables biometric access (Face ID or Touch ID) and requires your passcode to unlock the device. It also prevents unauthorized Face ID unlocking (like forcing your face in front of the phone). This is especially useful if you’re concerned about privacy or law enforcement access.

iPhone Hard Lock Procedure (Emergency Lock / Security Lockout)

For iPhones with Face ID (iPhone X and newer):
1. Press the Side Button 5 times rapidly.
• This will bring up the Emergency SOS screen.
2. Do not slide to power off or call emergency services.
• Instead, press the Side Button once again or tap the screen to exit.

At this point:
• Face ID is disabled.
• You’ll be required to enter your passcode to unlock the device.

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