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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Kamala Harris was prepared to overturn capitalism and Tom Morello was opposed to that." I'm never logging off of this site

Their band is called "Rage Against The Machine," not "Overturn The Machine." Tom Morello's entire wealth depends on The Machine continuing. Harris, with an economics degree and plans to help the working class, was a threat to The Machine. And a threat to The Machine is a threat to Tom Morello.

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Surely they could have found an image of her that looks more menacing than this right

A picture of children's television host Ms. Rachel with her hands to her heart. The look on her face is one of unjudgemental love and acceptance. One who sees your pain and understands it. Fox news would have you believe she is hostis humani generis.

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

liberals when presented with a series of events beginning with the SC declaring Bush president by fiat and ending in the SC declaring that Trump is a god-king immune to the laws of men

Westworld screenshot of the character Bernard revealed to be a robot by his inability to process text that goes against his programming

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Currently about 40 percent through The Republic of Memory by @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social. I believe i heard somebody call it the Arab Spring... in SPACE! Good read so far, set on a mid-journey generation ship which I don't think I've seen before. I'm rooting for the communists personally

The cover of a Republic of memory by Mahmud el sayed showing futuristic levels of a city with a suggestion of space outside.

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Special guest appearance from a slimy salamander, the 2026 USA cave animal of the year. Congratulations slimy salamander!

A small black salamander clinging to a rock wall

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

They apparently used that big room as a speakeasy back in the day. There is however like a 15-20 foot climb down which I can't imagine trying to do after a few glasses of hooch. This ladder would not have been there.

A metal ladder leading up a rocky surface with sunlight peaking out the top

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy national caves and karst day to all who celebrate. Check out this big chamber I was in today (those are people in the distance).

A large underground chamber with an uneven floor. There's lights from headlamps in the distance.

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Check out this salamander I saw in a cave today

A long adult cave salamander with light red skin and black dots stretched out across a rough rock.

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Declaring an author dead and turning off replies and quote skeets to allow for guilt-free media consumption is really peak NPR brain, I almost have to respect it.

Peter Sagal with some bullshit:

"I've said it before, and I've said it again: the Harry Potter books are terrific, especially when read aloud. They appeal to any child who is told they are special, and great things are expected of them, and yet they have no idea how to live up to that.

I heard the author died. Not sure. Too bad."

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

He claims he hates us now but how can he explain taking photos with us right years ago while looking the most uncomfortable a human being has ever been

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Alabama's Democratic candidate for governor @dougjones.bsky.social saying DSA is as bad as the fascists. Great work sir I'm sure throwing us under the bus will convince the moderate racists in Cullman to go your way

He continued, "Now, some won because they're in a gerrymandered congressional district. And that's another whole issue when you talk about gerrymandering. But I don't think it's as much as ideology, because we have these far-right candidates that are just, in my opinion, just as bad as the DSA campaign. So I think what we're seeing here is a change, a change election. They're going to say, 'Oh, my God, we need to build a 30-foot wall around Alabama because of all the socialists and communists coming in; it's baloney.  It is a change election."

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Check out this sweet tablecloth our @demsocialists.bsky.social Immigration Working Group made today for our @ndlon.bsky.social Adopt A Day Labor Corner table. ¡Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo!

A red tablecloth with the logos for Birmingham DSA and NDLON, reading: TRABAJADORES! SUMINISTROS GRATIS

Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo supporting Hoover day laborers

Five people gathered around a table painting words on to a tablecloth

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Normally I try to get books from independent outfits but 2nd and Charles had their penny a page sale yesterday and I couldn't resist. I'm not sure it was actually worth the insane line but you know, sunk cost fallacy.

A stack of books, descending: The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal, Wild by Amy Jeffs, The Ottomans by Marc David Baer, The Gnome Manuscript by Wilmar Taar, Twilight Cities by Katherine Pangonis, Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant, Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard and Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Important news: the sidesword I ordered back in January with tax refund money finally arrived. Should probably go back to actually studying those manuals now

A Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) sidesword (straight one handed sword with a semi-complex hilt), this one does not have a sharp blade)with a green handle displayed blade-up on a shelf with a post for the 2017 democratic socialists of America (DSA) convention on the wall behind it

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Broke: Escaping Anatolia to avoid your enemies by hiding in a food cart Woke: Escaping Anatolia to avoid your enemies by hiding in a coffin with a rotting chicken

A passage from Thomas Asbridge's the crusades describing how one Bohemond of Taranto allegedly escaped Byzantine agents by faking his death and traveling in a coffin with a dead chicken

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Lmao blocked in seconds. How will I ever learn about the secret government employee resistance to the trump regime

A screenshot courtesy of Brenda of altNOAA cosplayer taking a shot at islamophobic reddit atheism: "magic sky daddy doesn't want to see her hair"

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

He's the platonic ideal! All other Atlantic writers are but shadows cast on the wall by his light

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

People talk about elitist leftists and faculty room talk or whatever but nobody can manage sneering contempt for the American electorate quite like Atlantic writers

Tom Nichols saying Haley Stevens' shitty position on Israel wouldn't have hurt her in the general because people "can't find Gaza on a map" and when someone pointed out that isn't true he responds "It's all the rage in college towns across America, but you're still talking about an electorate that goes 50/50 on naming all three branches of government"

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's interesting how the group of supposed Harris dead-enders have become the most openly racist faction of the Democratic party and it's not particularly close

Racist post from starship Judy talking about Islamic imperialism

Post from starship duty: When she mentioned how Islam is not simply just a religion, it is a political vehicle? as well. Inextricably linked.

The way we think of our culture, we value kindness, inclusivity, compassion, multiculturalism, and the thought that so many people will simply not see

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Instead of being On Here all night last night I went to an NSS meeting where we had a presentation from the local paleontological society and afterwards I bought a 30 million year old piece of blue sheen amber. But I'm sure doomscrolling was fun too

A picture of a rough piece of amber with a small paper below it with the text: Rough blue sheen Sumatran amber fossilized tree resin formation: sinamar formation age: Lower Ologocene Epoch locality: kura bungo regent jambi province Sumatra Indonesia

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

we're doing some high-grade socialism in the Magic City, y'all

Flyer with the cast iron statue of Vulcan that Birmingham, Alabama is famous for, with the text :Birmingham DSA has reached 400 members. Birmingham was built by working people, and its future should be shaped by them too. Ready to get involved? Join Birmingham DSA and make your voice heard.

Visit our website to join DSA today
www.bhamdsa.org

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Socialists! We got socialists over here!"

A scene from Jurassic Park with the character Dennis Nedly loudly calling attention to someone trying to be incognito to show that no one cares.

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

why, to stop takeover from undemocratic authoritarians, Dems must simply purge all self-identifying DSA members from their ranks.

Open letters aren’t enough. If the Democrats want to root out the party within their party, they will need to stop indulging the DSA’s constant, passive-aggressive attempts to undermine them. This would require prohibiting DSA members from joining their party and throwing out the DSA members already honeycombed within it. Four decades ago, Labour’s Neil Kinnock expelled the extremist faction burrowing within his beloved party. If Democrats want to rescue their party, they may need to do the same.

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is the thing that really drives them up the wall, it's not that the Dems are being hijacked by extremists with ideas everyone hates - it's that our platform is broadly popular with the Democratic base, it's just loathed by the kind of washed-up neocons the Atlantic likes to employ.

"Today, Democratic leaders find themselves in a quandary much like Kinnock’s. The DSA’s agenda is alien to mainstream Democrats—or at least it should be. The organization’s draft platform calls for “fully abolishing the police and prison system,” drafting a “new constitution,” extending voting rights to noncitizens, and creating a “democratic socialist republic.” The group holds the U.S. and NATO responsible for Russia’s war against Ukraine, defends the Communist dictatorship in Cuba, and pledges to shut down the Department of Defense and all overseas American military bases."

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I dunno man I feel like there might be some important differences between somebody whose parents were born in another country and somebody who's great 4X grandpappy came here during the potato famine.

"The lack of depiction of Jewish neighbourhoods, as well as Irish and Italian ones, has drawn criticism from local community members."

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Bad news: I accidentally ordered my dwarves to breach the river, flooding my planned tree farm rooms and lowering the river level near the waterfall enough that numerous dwarves became convinced they could cross the river. The death toll is catastrophic. But the survivors are GREAT swimmers.

a screenshot of the game dwarf fortress, showing two large rooms completely flooded by a river breached by one of the rooms.

Another dwarf fortress screenshot, showing a number of piles corpses at the bottom of a waterfall.

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"... apologizing for not being clairvoyant..." Everyone who predicted the blackwater mercenary with a nazi tattoo was bad:

Thufir Hawat (apparently?) a character from the Dune movie

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Should probably make more HEMA posts if I ever want my timeline to improve. Finally got back out with a sword in my hand after several weeks off due to work, other obligations etc. Played around with rapier and sidesword with a friebd. Heat is awful though, gotta find an indoor place to practice

Two men wearing fencing gear and masks, each with a rapier. The background is a park in daylight.

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Breaking news: A Megatherium Woman has joined my fort.

Screenshot of the game Dwarf Fortress showing a Megatherium Woman named Dukxong Asubospe, 57 years old, female, adequate animal caretaker among other things.

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Mark🌹 ⚔️ @markidactyl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Dang I really thought it would get a couple of likes at some point. A bot, somebody misclicking, something

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