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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An example of how employer provided healthcare is used to threaten and intimidate employees.

A picture of workers who are striking on a picket line out front of a hospital. The text reads Cleveland clinic Lutheran hospital strikers healthcare revoked. Cleveland 19 News.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey, News Outlets! How about just ignoring Donald Trump? It will drive him crazy. His parents never gave him enough attention, so he is still a thirsty brat who needs CONSTANT attention. Start the news with "Trump lied again today" and then move on to news about people/things that are interesting.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@bencarlson007.bsky.social @michaelbatnick.bsky.social andor: it is a slow burn with a lot of character establishment. I had to restart it twice and get to ep 5 or 6 and then I got it and was hooked. If you get to the episode where he's the pilot, it might hook ya. Best star wars stuff in years

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If anyone questioned the value of our tax dollar investment into some programs, look no further than all the things that are having issues without those programs in place, such as the screw worm outbreak, the food borne illness problem. That shows you the value of those investments by former admins

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@bencarlson007.bsky.social @michaelbatnick.bsky.social commercialization versus monetization. I think the word you are looking for in today's episode around weddings is the monetization, AKA effectively making money off of your wedding. Maybe that might fit more in what you guys were describing?

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pee Wee Herman & Dolly Parton singing a duet? Here ya go...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026

It would be nice to have a Secretary of State

Kushner: If Iran is willing to finish the deal that they've been discussing with us to give up their ability to create nuclear weapons then obviously he is willing to make a deal but right now they are not showing any interest in doing something that makes sense for us.

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JewInACanoe.bsky.social 🎗️ @jewinacanoe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Someone tell NASA that we found a short cut.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Watch both what someone says and what they do.. look for alignment.. look for congruence between them. Words and actions are important.. But mostly actions.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The news about an AI system accessing another company without permission tells me either they are incompetent or malicious. If they set it to task & couldn't contain it, they're incompetent. If they set it to task to do it on purpose, they're malicious. It may be marketing. Either way they look bad.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Someone came to my house to try and sell me on something having to do with energy and I had to "old man tap the sign" in my window that says very clearly "No Solicitation" They didn't understand.. so I had to explain to them what "soliciting" is and that they were "soliciting"

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So I see things are going well in Google Health

A screenshot of a search, looking for the word peas. Below it results saying food not found. At the bottom a typical keyboard from a phone interface.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory

TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEY'RE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU-
BUY NOW! HUMMUS AND A
WOW!!
EXTRA LARGE FALAFEL MEAL FOR 2!!!

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 13/06/2026

The richest part of this is that Trump was famously goaded into running by Obama’s WHCA speech which imagined a garish Trump-branded White House with a bunch of tacky additions, and that’s exactly what he did.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I will say that new twitter AKA X sounds terrible. Glad I left.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Pretty sure that the #spacex ipo is just another version of "privatize the gains, socialize the losses" of risk management but doing it by leveraging market rules around indexes. Changing the rules on how index funds bring companies in allows them to foist a money losing company onto retail market.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

@bencarlson007.bsky.social re: ATC comment about the rules. I don't mind them changing the rules per se. I mind them changing the rules under the circumstances, especially flimsy the S1 looks. Ask yourself, "Why change NOW?" Because they could have done it any other time.. It's a timing issue 1/

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

One thing people can do to have an impact is redirect their resources; shift time, focus, energy, dollars etc. away from people and institutions that they no longer want to support. For example, if you don't like what's happening at "60 minutes", stop giving CBS and their parent company anything

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/06/2026

how quaint. pipedreamdragon.tumblr.com/post/8183223...

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Earth, Wind, Water, Fire, Heart, The Combined Powers or the CP if you will

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

If data centers are so beneficial, people should be clamouring to have them built in their communities. If they are so desirable, when one community says they don't want it, another 10 should be lined up behind them, right? I wonder why that isn't the case? 🤔 /S

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@bencarlson007.bsky.social @michaelbatnick.bsky.social regarding the conversation around storage and memory stocks.. at what point do we start considering those like a commodity, because they're interwoven into our daily lives so much? Is that a reasonable way to think about these companies?

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 14/05/2026

wait where is Sewer Star

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Is the opposite of socialism selfish-ism? Maybe it should be a thing...

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Solar power inverts the typical energy system needs: usually we have stored power in coal or natural gas and we consume it for generation. Instead we have generation and we need to expand and establish storage. It makes sense that until storage comes online more that we'll be stressing some systems.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Voting against any candidate tomorrow who sent me unsolicited texts.

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Citizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

@bencarlson007.bsky.social @michaelbatnick.bsky.social re: we all go through the same shit.. sure we do, we all have the same general human experience of emotions etc. some people experience those with far less friction, because of their means, because of their capabilities, because of their context

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

@bencarlson007.bsky.social @michaelbatnick.bsky.social is investing supposed to be fun? Ask yourself, is owning a company fun? Because that's what's happening, and I would bet most people who own companies would tell you that it's a mixed bag... Just like investing.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

@bencarlson007.bsky.social @michaelbatnick.bsky.social re: hiring. Smart companies will figure out that it is in their best interest to create a talent pipeline, teach people their ways of working, & help them be employees who then know how to leverage the tools that use the way that they use them

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

@bencarlson007.bsky.social @michaelbatnick.bsky.social on fizzy water: Get a soda sense or the like. I used to bag on them til I wanted a non sugary fizzy drink & didn't wanna pay LaCroix prices. Seriously, worth the money & a bit of hassle to make it myself. Fizzy. Flavored right. When I want it.

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 07/04/2026

I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money. Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas. EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers. That's it. That's all you really need to know.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Just remember if you ever feel down: you get to use the same software the astronauts in space are using to document visiting the moon. If you wanna be a curmudgeon: even astronauts in space can't avoid having to use Outlook and Onenote as a part of their work. #nasa #artemisII #moon

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

@ricksteves.bsky.social thanks for speaking up today in support of the new law in WA. We need outspoken people talking about the value we get from such policies, and how they better our society, bringing us closer to the place we want to live being a reality.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Appealing to a higher power by in king statements like "God's hand" or "this is God's will" is an attempt to manipulate by both simultaneously lend credibility through divine providence, while diffusing or removing accountability and responsibility when things go wrong.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/03/2026

Even if rich people were no more prone to believe stupid shit than you or me, it would still be a problem. After all, I believe in my share of stupid shit (and if you think none of the shit you believe in is stupid, I'm afraid we've just identified at least one kind of stupid shit you believe). 1/

A king on a sumptuous, much elaborated throne; in one hand he holds a sceptre of office, in the other, the leashes for two fierce stone dogs that guard the throne. The king's head has been replaced with a character who was used as the basis for MAD Magazine's Alfred E Neumann. The new head sports a conical dunce cap. Behind the king is a large group of 1960s business men, seated and standing, in conservative suits. The background is the view from the 80th floor of World Trade Center 3. The floor has been carpeted in sumptuous tabriz from the Ottoman court.

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Mark Vasko @markvasko.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I keep coming back to the idea that people who behave badly in their current context didn't experience enough negative reinforcement feedback in the past to stop them from being assholes. Coupled with praise & positive reinforcement feedback from other shitty assholes in power makes for bad times.

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