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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Every full moon in New Orleans we let all the pent up anger and crazy out by howling loudly at the full moon.

image of a Raven in front of a full moon. title how loud. February 1 at 6:00 p.m. monthly at the full moon at Bayou St John meet at 6:00 p.m. at the blue Bridge.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Minneapolis is up. The United States is up. Tottering and about to fall into facism. Unless we tip it the other way.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Now I have to go clean up the coffee I spit our laughing.

an imaginary newspaper called breaking news with a headline quote president Trump expected to rename the San Andreas fault to Joe biden's fault uclose quote

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Sound level 5:30am off Florida boulevard in West Navarre inn New Orleans NOLA 200 ft from the i-610. LaDOT says they measures and we don't qualify for a sound wall. bullshit. this would be worse if a crotch rocket or custom exhaust had gone screaming past like they do at night.

saved recording of sound level at my house just off Florida boulevard and West Navarre 200 ft from i-610 at 5:30 a.m. the reading says 67 decibels with a peak of 74 in an average of 64.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Reading from the poetry anthology Hurricanes Katrina and Rita at 20 at the Baton Rouge Gallery featuring poets from New Orleans and around the Louisiana coast.

image of the cover of the poetry anthology hurricanes Katrina and Rita at 20 and anthology of Louisiana poetry with art edited by Mona Lisa salon and John Warner Smith former poets Lawrence of louisiana. the image on the cover is of a crowd at a second line in New orleans. an announcement follows there will be a reading from the poetry anthology on Sunday November 2nd at baton rouge galleries Sundays at 4:00 featuring Charles de gravel's Nicole Eden malaika favorite Mark fols Carolyn Henry Valentine Pierce Brad Richard and Andy Young

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Me posing for this picture the sports editor wanted to run beside his column about the then also very sad New Orleans Saints.

photograph of a man and a flannel shirt at a typewriter wearing a bag on his head. The bag says 1-13 has a 😞 and the man holds a cigarette through the mouth hole cut in the bag. This was commentary on a very bad New Orleans Saints season decades ago

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

wellbottomblues.com/2025/10/18/s...

a screenshot of the homepage excerpt of a blog post: shinrin yoku Forest bathing 10 years ago just his medication was beginning to rain in my outrageous and dangerous bipolar mania I quit a job that almost broke me and fled into the park.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

He died today, 89 years ago. His full name was Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca. He bared his heart– thorns, roses and all–and died for their sins.

lines from " the Fable and round of three friends close quote from poet New York by Federico Garcia. then I realized I had been murdered. did they looked for me in cafes, cemeteries and churches ellipses but they did not find me. they never found me? no. they never found me.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

In New Orleans: Did the ICEtapo take him?

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

if you left/ lost your bocce ball in City Park, it's on this bench and the right hand fork of the sidewalk that starts at Sherwood Forest. #nolasky #nolatwitter #bocce

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

A #poem I won't be reading at today's Hurricane Katrina/Federal Flood memorial at the #poetry Buffet. #nolasky #nolabluesky #FederalFlood #HurricaneKatrina

a poem by Mark foles titled look away look away it opens with an epigraph quoting Jimmy Reese in the Wall Street Journal on September 2005 New Orleans will come back in quote I completely different way: demographically, geographically and politically quote or he and other white Civic leaders would not return.
the bricks laid carefully by Creole Craftsman demolished replaced with Mac historical stick and Tyvek by Latino refugees. less than half as many homes built to make the federal flood diaspora permanent, disaster engineering the post Katrina demographic demanded by men supplied by their offshore helicopters on unflooded Audubon place, the oil soaked God's sons of God

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Screw sidewalks. Seek the shade, mindful of what we kids will Lake Vista called the mushies. Follow the inner mystic compass that tells you how to pass around, beneath and between the trees. #nolasky #nolabluesky #citypark

a map of my squiggly path through City Park as described in the text

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I created this for my Wet Bank Guide blog. Copyleft 2007. Share and use freely but no commercial use. Credit: Wet Bank Guy #katrina #federalflood #nolasky

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

#nolasky Tired of seeing Phillies baseball posts because of that cat nola? here's a quick video to show you how to make them go away

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The New Orleans City Park Improvement Association allows contractors to operate heavy equipment on the trails in Couterie Forests with a reckless disregard for the damage they do. This is apparently their idea of "improvement." #nolasky

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Ed Branley (aka yatpundit and nolahistoryguy) still brining the class and charms to NOLA social media. #nolasky

insulting reply from Ed Branley to a post. He disc how's it going dime bad. you should charge me rent for the space I occupy in your head, laugh-emoji, no reply necessary, the block here is solid

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I swear I am about to go all Edward Abbey on the contractors hired by City Park. #nolasky

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Nope. The box values are Lakeview proper. the other two blue at the top are Navarre, the neighborhood between 610 and City Park Avenue. This once again demonstrates the other worthlessness of the New York Times as a source of information.

this is a chart of presidential voting results in the last presidential election for the neighborhood of Lakeview in New Orleans louisiana. rather than read it all to you please check the Secretary of State site or direct message me here and I'll share it the underlying document

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Ah, it's a build Your own bubble feature from The Goog.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

This is it a disturbing development in what physicist and philosopher of consciousness Sir Richard Penrose calls "Artificial Cleverness." I think I'm going to have to click these buttons to see what's behind them.

a search engine Brave internet browser in which it's embedded artificial "intelligence" system took the keyword news and offered a button for news from the political left and news from the political right.

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I walking to my office room and see on my tablet not the last thing I viewed but this. Is it a kink invitation to licking? Or a warning?

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

It's Hot Commie Summer in New York!

$screenshot of a partial article in which New York hedge fund billionaire Daniel Loeb posted to Twitter\X that it's "hot commies summer"in New York following Mamdani's's win in the Democratic primary$

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markfolse @mark504.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I hate the use of the term generative about large language models. They do not generate anything. They assemble existing knowledge from stolen sources the way English assembles a language stolen from other sources. It's about as generative as a Hollywood remake.

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