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Marko Kloos

@markokloos.bsky.social
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I tell lies for fun and profit. Author of the Frontlines and Palladium Wars SF series, Wild Cards writer, contributor to Love Death + Robots.

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 12h
Plus electrolytes. It‘s got what plants crave!
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Too Lazy to Fail @toolazytofail.bsky.social · 13h
Did you know that Heavy Dew is just Mountain Dew but with deuterium instead of hydrogen?
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazed at the absolute hubris of these knuckle-dragging GOP goobers trying to ambush a seasoned and meticulous prosecutor with a public "gotcha" moment for the cameras.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Witcher 3: Remastered is out this morning. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Major free update for the original game on all platforms, and you get the expansions for free if you don't own them yet.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever a previously loved franchise goes to shit, the answer is almost always "because of private equity".
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For me, canvassing--knocking on doors--is absolutely the most nerve-racking part of being a candidate, but I've had some really enjoyable conversations with folks. People appreciate being asked about their concerns, and the more I'm out there talking to them, the better I feel about November.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Willing to bet every cent I own that the hard drives of this gallery of weirdos are worth a combined one million years in prison.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't want to get too optimistic because I still have a campaign to run as if we're 20 points behind, but the polls are so very bad for Team Red, and they keep getting worse every day. That blue wave is starting to look like the one on the water planet in Interstellar. "Those aren't mountains."
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We don't need government regulations! The industry will regulate itself just fine because dead customers are bad for business!"
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The main problem with my glasses breaking is that I can't look at them to figure out how to fix them without my glasses on. Middle age macular degeneration is so awesome.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Such a weird coincidence that all his big vanity projects end up being national security objects so the taxpayers have to foot the bill.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If the legal and moral standard for war crimes is "it's not a war crime when WE do it", then there are no legal or moral standards for war crimes.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well, this didn't take a whole lot of predictive ability, did it?
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When you hear people say that AI is going to create jobs, remember that every large-scale institutional use of AI has "shrinking the payroll" as either the main goal or a major side benefit.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He's going to bulldoze the Kennedy Center before the midterms, isn't he?
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
C'mon, bro. Give us another chance. Just two more years, bro. It's all gonna be great, you'll see. There'll be cheap gas and big fat checks for everyone, for real. Right after the election, swear. Bro. BRO.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If the FBI director under a Democratic President had gone in front of Congress to defend the hiring of people who fucked animals, the shrieking from the FOX News people and megachurch pastors would be so loud and long that it would make all the world’s dogs bleed from the ears.
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Too Lazy to Fail @toolazytofail.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you're going to be a single issue voter, Concentration Camps is a better hill than most.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The accelerationist billionaires like Musk and Thiel are stoked about the idea of societal collapse because they think they'll climb out of their luxury bunkers to be the rulers of the new world instead of skeletal ornaments on the hood of some post-apocalyptic warlord's battle rig.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Piss Chimp of potato chips.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Drone shows are way cooler than fireworks, and they're ever so much easier on pets, combat vets with PTSD, the environment, and public cleanup crews.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It should be abundantly clear at this point to anyone with more than three functioning brain cells that nothing out of Musk, Trump, or the rest of the MAGA power brokers is said or done in good faith.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The new foldable iPhone is not for me. My tech OCD won't let me be at peace with a screen that has a detectable crease in the middle.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The coolest part of the job is how we only get 10-30% of the money whenever someone buys our books. The second coolest part of the job is how diligent we have to be to not get fucked out of any extra pittances that may come in every now and then.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
That's how I'm going to go out, isn't it? Head-on crash with some dick in a Benz who's watching The Odyssey in IMAX format on the dash of his luxo barge.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I love how so many of the financial advice bros on social media give advice like, "How not to be poor: just sock away three million in a high-yield account and live off the interest, duh."
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Absolute brilliance. If I cut off my household's trade with the grocery store and the gas station, I'll save sooooo much money!
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The sea is a harsh environment, and seawater makes steel rust. The USS Lincoln looks like any warship is going to look after eight straight months at sea. The rust is not an issue. What matters is the supply situation, and the fact that the crew had to go eight months without a port call.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our genre is a small one. Most of the writers in it know each other, and we talk. If you pull a stunt like this, word will get around very quickly. You do not want to be known as That Person. Do the work. Be kind. Make friends. Build relationships. Do not treat people as a means to an end.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026
it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I read someone else's take that "Meta glasses are just Flock cameras you wear on your face", and that's just dead on. With the "fuck ethics, money is everything" ethos of Meta, you can be sure that they're recording whatever the fuck they want even when you think you're not recording.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
His posts are like sci-fi novel MadLibs at this point.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Yes, please. Make sure the midterms are entirely a referendum on your "accomplishments". Dooo eeet.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's pretty puzzling that some people are apparently only now finding out that Paul Newman was a very handsome man.
A young Paul Newman in a suit, sitting behind the dash of a wooden speedboat. He's in profile, with one wrist resting on his knee, a gold chain on his wrist, and a week-old beard on his face. He looks ridiculously handsome.
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Marko Kloos @marko4nh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'll be attending Bristol's Old Home Day tomorrow. Come see me at the Bristol Democrats tent at booth location #15! I'll be there from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Ask questions, talk about issues and policy concerns, and maybe pick up a yard sign. #nhdems
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Marko Kloos @marko4nh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Primary Day is Tuesday, Sept. 8! This is a great time to do four very important things: 1. Register to vote - www.sos.nh.gov/elections/vo... 2. Double check your voter registration - app.sos.nh.gov/voterinforma...
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That's one of the things the Republicans did in a very disciplined fashion in both 2022 and 2024. Every time they were asked about the latest Trump outrage, they all did the quick pivot to the same two talking points: inflation and the price of groceries. Every. Single. Time.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
--No school has litter boxes in classrooms for students. --No school performs gender transitions. --Proof of citizenship is already required when you register to vote. --Undocumented immigrants do not get welfare, Medicaid, or social security. --Charlie Brown did not have hoes. That isn't true.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In order to be a Trumpian, you have to believe that airplanes can successfully dispense behavior-altering chemicals via aerosols from 40,000 feet, but that the world burning 9 billion tons of coal every year has zero effect on the climate.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
C’mon, rule of threes!
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Tennessee has lost the closest thing to a patron saint they'll ever have.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine believing in a god who's big enough to create a universe with 2 trillion galaxies, but small and petty enough to get really upset when two men on one of the 700 quintillion planets in those galaxies kiss each other.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Potash is salt with water-soluble potassium. It's an essential fertilizer component. Guess the world's top producer of potash, where the US gets 90% of its supply? (Hint: it's the same country where we get 60% of our aluminum and 84% of our softwood lumber.)
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"AI creator" is an oxymoron.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There is no Democratic office holder or candidate, at any level of state or federal government, whose platform includes anything that comes even close to communism.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
At this point, It should be obvious to all but the very dimmest bulbs that these people don't have the slightest fucking clue what they're talking about.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I know this is borderline heresy coming from a fountain pen guy, but the basic BIC Cristal ballpoint with the bold tip is an excellent everyday pen, and cheap as chips. A box of 12 is like $3.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We only have the season finale of Person of Interest to go, and I am about to enter the grief stage that happens when you get to the end of a really, really good show. How did I miss this gem when it ran?
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It blows the mind to have to say this, but do not take any health or food safety advice from the guy with no medical education who puts his bare feet on airport carpet and cuts the genitalia off roadkill.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Proof of Trump's service in the First Golf War.
President Trump, photographed at a distance mid-swing on the golf course. Behind him is a mobile surface-to-air missile battery mounted on a desert tan Humvee military utility vehicle. The launchers are raised into the sky in a defensive posture. The mobile installation is surrounded by concertina wire.
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