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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was wrong. It’s happening

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All else aside, still wild that I bought and read Drexler's Engines of Destruction (pioneer nanotech work) in 1985 and ALMOST pivoted to a life in academic tech policy (visited progs at Cornell, Penn, and GW) based on nanotech concerns. But I just went and did city stuff instead. Now here we are.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Google providing the sort of deep insight they'll never tell you about in college

because he is a former tennis player who knows how to control a room's tempo, he handles this book's pacing with absolute precision. Publishers are highly optimistic

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/09/2026

i am not going to listen to the fucking polyphonic spree man

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The pseudonymous account Rev. Howard Arson accused Saeed Ismail of being a fake, AI-generated person. After I wrote about how Saeed is real, Arson is now creating AI videos of Saeed and his blanket. I don’t know Arson’s goal with all of this, but it strikes me as incredibly cruel.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social: [AI-generated image of a man with glasses draped in a blanket alongside some kind of green mannequin head]

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of my strongest inconsequential opinions. Inline wired earbud mics are fine. Clothing clipped tiny mics are fine. If you are holding a tiny mic with finger and thumb, however, you are committing a crime against humanity.

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't have a dog in this game, but if the damn ball moves ten yards forward thanks solely to the movement of the QB's arm . . . that's a PRETTY GOOD SIGN that said QB's hand was moving forward on impact. This one wasn't that complicated.

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You should not anthropomorphize Twitter users.

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the early 90s down on ye olde Redwood Street in downtown Baltimore, I worked with a fellow-20-something office manager who enjoyed being extremely transparent about her personal life. "We were REALLY ready to go Saturday night but my guy was out of Trojans. So we used Saran Wrap. Is that cool?"☠️

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"It nipped my bud when I happened to fall Into a spot Where no ink or an ink-blot Was on a scroll I just wrote me a new mot But now it's gone..."

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Joan Jett is also, of course, the world’s greatest living Orioles fan.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is Maeve. She may be the sweetest, most good natured, most trusting dog I have ever met. She was abandoned in DC last week, and since I’m not able to adopt a dog now, I had to turn her over to the Brandywine Animal Shelter. I want to make sure this absolute delight of a dog finds a good home.

An adorable female Rottweiler named Maeve

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Notable voice transcription of a message from my eye doc’s office today. (the call origin is legit; I haven’t had the heart to actually listen yet)

Screen shot of voicemail message thst begins: “this is crissy from my eye doctor. I love to come.. We have you on your schedule…”

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My top 5 albums when I turned 18? This would have morphed radically by age 21, but whilst still in high school: - Sandinista, The Clash - Thick as a Brick, Jethro Tull - Moving Pictures, RUSH - Speaking in Tongues, Talking Heads - Abbey Road, Beatles

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 21/09/2026

FOLKS SOMETHING HUGE IS COMING I HAVE PRODUCED A "SOUNDTRACK" ALBUM FOR @beckbook.com, OF NEW MUSIC BY AMAZING ARTISTS I GAVE THEM ADVANCE COPIES OF THE BOOK; THEY GAVE ME BANGER TRACKS "𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐄𝐒" DROPS OCT. 6, BUT YOU CAN PREORDER NOW — AND STREAM @lustytirefire.bsky.social's "ℙ𝔸ℝ𝔸𝕄𝕆𝕌ℝ"!!!

afewgoodrecords.bandcamp.com

Loser Babies: Music Inspired by Josephine Riesman's "The Last Temptation of Beck", by A Few Good Records

11 track album

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Rock Island locks are rubble. The loose meat in the Moline Maid Rite is no long steamed but flash-fried into charcoal bits. Palmer's campus backbone in Davenport is broken. Bettendorf, as yet, remains untouched. As yet.

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

LSU is far more diverse in its student body than Ole Miss. It's way closer to my personal ideal of the large state school. That being said, in the football dimension: Suck it all night long, Lane.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death"

The "secretary of war" wearing a shirt that says "THIS IS WAR" while PTing in a stadium in Texas, which is not war

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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whoever wrote this succeeded in composing a post that even I, online as I am, cannot make sense of. At all. And I do not want to.

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Emily saw something about a Sankey something something and thought better of it.

Two kitties, one sleeping under a chair, on looking up, mildly alarmed.

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The wild thing about the current extinction discourse is that at age 21 in 1986 I read Eric Drexler's first major book on nanotech and it legitimately fucked me up deeply. I almost pursued doctoral work in tech policy with an eye towards mitigating nanotech problems. But then I just did other stuff.

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

THIS is the stuff. NOT the stuff that made it all to way to Aella. The real stuff. From one of the two or three best live bands I ever saw.

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a lovely piece. It's interesting, though, that in framing things relative to the departure of John Lombardo after The Wishing Chair, it backgrounds what to me was the most notable -- and to me, saddest -- aspects of 10K's journey to full-blown AltPopularity. ...

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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

me: should i chronicle history or document current events? funk soul brother: write about now

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tangentially, for a very long time, I railed against the false use of "out of context" defenses by saying that a REAL context misunderstanding would be hearing someone hatefully saying that "killing an Arab is the cure" when they were really clarifying that "Killing An Arab is The Cure."

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today I’m lighting a candle for Bretagne, the last 9/11 search and rescue dog to pass away in 2016. She was suffering from advanced kidney failure. 9/11 was her first assignment. She worked ground zero for 10 days.

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Insisting on authorial intent as canonical with respect to the pronunciation of GIF over and above vast common usage is anti-Post Structuralist reactionary error.

Norman Rockwell earnest man standing up in a meeting image.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 09/09/2026

Looking for full-time, remote senior/staff or tech lead level work. TypeScript is my strongest suit, but I'm a flexible polyglot. Boosts for visibility appreciated!

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is why the internet was invented... #LifuX #Dogs #Dogsofbluesky

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hey @ens0.me, have you seen the news?! Aeri Force One is gonna be relocated! Not saying where yet, but it will live on!

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

10 bands I've seen live as support acts (teenage dirtbag/indie flannel boi combo edition): Molly Hatchet Rory Gallagher INXS Too Much Joy Uncle Tupelo Eleventh Dream Day Flaming Lips Sebadoh Lois The Beths Bonus Edition: Superchunk Living Color Small Factory Pulsars (!!!) Polvo Broken Social Scene

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

He’s going to force an AI voice update on the “Lake Ontario” cameo in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitgerald.

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm old-ish. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." 25-inch Zenith black-and-white tv, on the living room floor on my stomach, chin in hands, totally transfixed. Almost certainly watched 60 Minutes a few hours later, but I've no specific recollection of that on that day.

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

For decades now, I've said I wanted to write a companion book to Alinsky called Means for Moderates. This skeet just reminded me.

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sexy Beast. Kinsley and McShane are gods, but this just didn't work for me.

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

*cake doing play-by-play of a football game* hes torn his meniscus

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

2005. Bucks County. Trying to triangulate between friends whose marriage had imploded. I juked right and it missed but man did that thing shatter.

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Organized supercells" in MPLS? And people say Antifa isn't real.

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

ok but two things: 1. the bar isn't "helpful", its "truthful"; offering a bunch of lies with a smile isn't actually the goal here 2. people are pissed because the WH press insists on defending an ally of American fascism, not because they think you were lying about her being helpful

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Mark Tough @marktough.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Not feeling great about the second-hand Orioles vibes on here right now.

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