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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yep. It's a "liberal bubble" because, at least until now, assholes aren't welcome.

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

This is why I pay for the World Wide Web. Because it delivers ART!

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Remember how hard the cable companies fought a la carte selections? Notice how much I'm paying for multiple streaming services to get history, science, cycling and anime without the golf, WWF and 700 club?

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

More importantly, they don't care what you think, they're going to force you to do it their way and pretend you asked for it.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Curious. When I *describe* the style of ttrpg I like to play, I often use the phrase "improv story telling" but when I *label* it I say "role playing game". So, I'm with you. I think they're watering down in a counterproductive way.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My wife and I have shifted back to Eastern Time sleep, so we're watching the Friday rebroadcast at noon. My eyes are averted. Carry on 😁

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

End executive pay in securities. Pay them cash from the balance. If they want stock they can buy it like anyone else.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

That took me 55 years and I'm still working on it. Nice work!

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I'm with George, despite not liking GoT at all. If you got a book when you paid for a book, his obligation to you is complete. He owes no one anything that's not in a contract and that doesn't include the readers.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Mrs McGovern was both behind and ahead of her time. She had a Continental model of teaching: French instead of Chinese or Japanese, but she had a very liberal arts view of early childhood education: a lot of repetition and memorization, but modern in that she used song and rhyme and group recitation

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Oh I wish we'd had one. I had preschool in the 60s with French immersion because Mrs McGovern thought all kids should learn another language

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Meh. Like what you like "good" has never had anything to do with it. "Quality" is how snobs boost their egos.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Stupid storm is trending too far north for me to get a good light show. The sound check is good though.

Dark skies as I sit under the canopy on my deck looking at lightning live maps an hope the storm turns just a bit south #iloveboomers

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

It's a complete coincidence that I'm wearing my AAAS tee shirt today

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I'm not really a doctor, but I play one in news sound bites.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

How about no more blank checks for black projects and arms development

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

CEOs who want to own stock should have to buy it. Require companies to pay officers in cash. No more funny money. You can only pay them with money you have. Incentivize officers for profits, not growth.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

It's a lot of work for them but I like the idea cr is doing of condensed eps edited down. Of course many others (like d20 ) are already curated and edited.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Is this a joke? It must... They wouldn't.... We live in different times.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I have come to consider, when interacting with -- Basically everyone, I try to remember that I have no idea what they are going through.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Yeah, in his case I might not have minded a bunch of masked unmarked cops wearing body armor

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

When you reach the point where your eldest child has a lifetime editing gig, you've made it

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Both are more aspirational than anything else.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I say no worries because I heard it all over eastern Australia when I was there on my honeymoon 32 years ago and liked it better than my "no problem"

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Same is true after the 2008 financial crisis.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Almost time for The Forgotten Door. And The Ghost of Dibble Hollow

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I'm always surprised people don't. I shocked a mortgage broker once by reading the entire document while we (my wife and I) discussed it with him and came back with 5 questions. Him: "Did you just read that whole thing?" Me: "Yeah. Doesn't everyone?" Him: .. I don't think I'm weird. Am I weird?

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Yep. He's there because this is what the American people want.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Isn't pride a celebration of being who you are, genuinely? Sounds like "uncle Jon" is pretty damn authentic to me.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Assuming I don't have a job by then (and maybe even then) I'll be on.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Clearly someone doesn't understand what "control of the means of production" means re "proletariat"

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Wtf? How does his election have any bearing whatever? Talk about thin logic

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

"It's for the children. That includes you. Grow up"

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

And I think that the majority of people, seeing a complete stranger in immediate distress, without other context, would try to help without asking "which side are you on". It's mostly only when framed with politics or clear tribal boundaries that the worst appears.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We do. We all do. I have to actively catch myself when I respond that way. I wish more people would try to recognize it in themselves and respond.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

That is really the difference between the philosophy of the two groups. But it's not universal. Part of why I am rather a less hopeful about elements of the future is from observing how people I otherwise respect respond to the personal misfortune of people on the other side.

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Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly @markllama.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It should be bonded up front before drilling can begin.

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