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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 · 06/10/2026
"She's not hot enough to get raped" is one hell of a take, especially from a woman who has been on the receiving end of workplace sexual harrasssment.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Even Liberace would be like, "Whoa there, hoss, maybe go a little easier on the bling."
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've said this on here before--when the AI bubble pops, it will be the loudest sound in history.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I forgot who said it, but I am 100% on board with it: Roy Kent needs to be the new James Bond. Not Brett Goldstein, the actor. Roy Fucking Kent, the character.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Getting my flu and COVID firmware updates tomorrow! #teamscience
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kind of offended that the facial recognition on this laptop recognizes me even while I'm chewing a big bite of food.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ideological clown says what?
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Plus electrolytes. It‘s got what plants crave!
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Too Lazy to Fail @toolazytofail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
I just want to know one thing from Anthropic: WHERE MY MONEY AT, BITCHES
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Panera Bread is a great example. It used to be a great Third Space. The food was good, and the place was always packed. Now it has all the coziness of a UPS store, the menu has shrunk, prices have gone way up, and the food is microwaved hospital cafeteria fare.
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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
(See also: Happy Fun Bike and its 250cc of unbridled fury.)
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes, the Opel-Daewoo-Pontiac!
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I thought a hard clam chowder is what happens when you undercook the non-clam ingredients.
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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
If it's Louisiana, I'm going to belly-laugh for days.
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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
In German, some AI tics are overuse of synonyms, Anglicisms that aren't common in technical/professional German, chains of adjectives, generic conjunctives in place of concrete statements, low variance of sentence lengths, English-style quotation marks, and lack of typical German abbreviations.
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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 · 22/09/2026
I loved [brief, genuine detail about the book]! That part was soooo good. Seriously, that's some weak shit. They can't even be bothered to proofread their three-paragraph AI vomit. Back in the day, the scammers put some elbow grease into it at least.
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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 · 20/09/2026
Nothing says "freedom" like a 300-foot-high sniper nest in the nation's capital.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
JOHN.
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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 I had known we would peak as a civilization in the second half of the 1990s, I would have lived it up a lot more.
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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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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"You there, bear fucker! Do you need assistance?"
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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 · 09/09/2026
”Common identity and heritage” = “DEY WUZ WHITE”
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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
"That's...not how it works. That's not how any of this works."
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'd do naughty things for one of those with a .303 British or 6.5 Swedish barrel.
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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Yes, I'd like a precision rifle I can fit into a small book bag, please."
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