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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula

A tuxedo cat in a black cape sits looking at a white cabinet. The cape is edged in red, and has a turned up red collar.

The cat has turned his head to the camera, his face blurred by the sudden movement. He appears to be grimacing terribly.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“drones, plus snipers” giving off some real supervillain lair vibes

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's just tiring to see "I almost got run down by a cyclist!" immediately devolve into "Cyclists must behave as if they were cars" without any particular introspection. Like, maybe follow this reasoning a little bit farther:

"If cars ran those lights at even one tenth the rate of cyclists, witnessing a pedestrian dying would be a weekly occurrence for me."

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

To be loved is to be changed

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

When Death comes for a Senator and it isn't you.

Close up of Mitch McConnell, grinning goofily.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

“He had tapped into a level of consciousness that most people never will.”

screen cap of a young man addressing a camera. he has tousled hair, a very pronounced jawline and a deranged leer.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

ok great! now do the war in iran.

this advanced visualization tool tell me that I, an average adult, pay $19.30 per year in “state” “hidden beer tax”.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

the sum of my knowledge about republican tactics:

"And how will you advance on La Granja if that bridge is blown?"
"We go forward prepared to repair it after we have stormed the pass. It is a very complicated and beautiful operation. As complicated and as beautiful as always. The plan has been manufactured in Madrid. It is another of Vicente Rojo, the unsuccessful professor's, masterpieces. I make the attack and I make it, as always, not in sufficient force. It is a very possible operation, in spite of that. I am much happier about it than usual. It can be successful with that bridge eliminated.We can take Segovia. Look, I show you how it goes. You see? It is not the top of the pass where we attack. We hold that. It is much beyond. Look— Here— Like this-"
"I would rather not know," Robert Jordan said.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I guess I don’t care enough about this to find out what a “narrative of self-victimization” is, but it sounds exactly the kind of thing Pete Hegseth would be contemptuous of. Ah well.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Someone called “Just War Doctrine” checkmate peaceniks

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

the only “butter croissant” this account will acknowledge.

a photo looks down at a croissant colored cat, lying on his side on a field of denim colored fabric, curled into a crescent shape and trying to sleep. He is pretty chonky to begin with and this position does him no favors.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

it starts with one or more of these boneheads showing up in, e.g., these. These belong to Sean Duffy, who may or may not be “Monsieur Size 7”.

a man’s legs from the shin down, in medium blue suit pants, at the end of which are the ugliest tan shoes in the world.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I think about Matewan a lot these days.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Also I'm not 100% sure why he's going for this look.

Image of a mustachioed actor in a WW2 movie. (OK it's Shia Lebeouf, of all people)

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Logan Circle, DC. There's just the garage. I've left cars parked on the street for scale.

An aerial photograph of a building with a really small footprint.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

you certainly have go wonder how it came up with that term.

a tshirt design featuring the spacex launch tower, which was first publicly dubbed “mechazilla” by that company’s owner.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If he wanted to send 2000 ships even as far as the Moon, he would have to launch at least 10000 ships, perfectly, to supply them with fuel. So that would be 13 flights per day, every day, for two years. Assuming no boil off in orbit. So I’m skeptical.

The first flight to Mars would carry a simulated crew consisting of one or more robots of the Tesla-built humanoid Optimus design, with the first human crews following in the second or third landings. Musk said he envisioned eventually launching 1,000 to 2,000 ships to Mars every two years to quickly establish a self-sustaining permanent human settlement.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The post isn’t incorrect, but every fucking morning the first thing I see on bsky begins with some variant of “This is absolutely terrible news.” And then a lot of what follows is much the same. I need some space, man.

a post about how we won’t be getting a combined COVID/flu vaccine because the manufacturer withdrew the application. it begins with “This is absolutely terrible news.”

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The Man Who Wasn’t There

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I am kind of mad and jealous that an Icelandic news story is the clearest, most BS-free explanation of the impossibility of this setup.

He also said in the same interview that the Mammoth capture plant was not designed with energy efficiency in mind, but only how much CO2 it could capture. This means that for every 1,000 tons of CO2 captured, 5 to 6 million kilowatt-hours of energy would be required. To put Climeworks' energy needs in perspective, it would take up to 72 terawatts to fully offset Iceland's carbon footprint each year, with the country's total emissions of 12.4 million tons of CO2 in 2024. This is equivalent to almost four times Iceland's electricity production, which is about 20 terawatts per year.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

there’s a chapter in there that I keep going back to just because I love the writing. it involves s death. I should connect it to this, from the article.

Adam Becker: Kurzweil tries to get around this by saying that you're not going to be immortal, but you can live as long as you want to. Sure, that gets around some of it. But Kurzweil also thinks that we're going to find a way around the second law of thermodynamics, which we re not. [highlighted by poster] I do think that fear of death is at the root of a lot of this, if not all of it.[end highlight] I don't know if I would go as far as to say that death is what gives life meaning. I would say that the human experience is defined by the limitations that death imposes, the fact that our time is limited. If you remove that constraint, that would fundamentally alter the human condition in ways that very well might not be pleasant.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I really never will understand how so many facets of our democracy could have failed the last election so spectacularly.

delegates to the 2024 republican national convention hold up preprinted signs demanding immediate mass deportations.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

the timeline is funny sometimes

screenshot of the post I’m responding to (about Stephen Miller) followed by a Catbus post featuring a funny photo of Nosferatu.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Mine was the 1984 626 ($500, jack, heater fan, struts & brakes). Manual tx, last year it was carbureted. Played the saddest song in the world when you left the keys in the ignition. Looked just like this.

A boxy 41 year old midsized Japanese 4 door sedan, gunmetal gray, with a rich burgundy velour interior

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

he is still drawing a paycheck to work on “special projects” because you don’t kick to the curb a guy who would s*** on Jackie Robinson for you; eventually you’re going to find a use for him.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

He’s getting promoted.

he is “iexpected to take another role within the Defense Department working on ‘special projects,’”

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

this amazed me because 1) it accepted the guess as a word 2) the bot did not tell me that the guess was “unlikely to be the answer).

a wordle bot analysis of a board that includes a guess of SHART

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Just to be clear, an unelected person who has taken zero oaths to uphold the constitution, sits in cabinet meetings and insists that it would be better to have *empty chairs* in air traffic control centers than minorities.

Mr. Duffy said there were not any names, because he had stopped them from being fired. At another point, Mr. Musk insisted that people hired under diversity, equity and inclusion programs were working in control towers. Mr. Duffy pushed back and Mr. Musk did not add details, but said during the longer back and forth that Mr. Duffy had his phone number and should call him if he had any issues to raise.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

can’t wish enough good things for this gentleman who is just totally gobsmacked that his *conservative* federal employee constituents are getting “demonized.”

The last two weeks, we've probably tripled our efforts just to communicate with the major federal employment offices in my district," he said. "I know I have a very unique district. It's a very strongly conservative district, but also a federal workforce district, and right now, those two are at odds because federal workers are kind of getting demonized out there in the social media sphere.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

yeah great idea this. www.ncesc.com/why-do-air-t...

The primary reason behind the retirement age of 56 for air traffic controllers is the critical nature of their job. Air traffic control is a high-stress occupation that requires quick decision-making and extreme focus. As controllers age, their visual acuity, hearing, and cognitive abilities may naturally decline. These physiological changes can affect their ability to perform the complex tasks required to ensure the safety of air traffic. By setting a retirement age of 56, regulatory authorities aim to mitigate the potential risks associated with age-related decline in performance.

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Mark @mutable.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

on Friday night I found this small girl alone in the park, almost certainly abandoned there in the cold and dark. We took her home, fed her, warmed her up, cuddled with her, had her examined. Now she’s in her new home with a friend and we’re very happy and also sad.

a small calico cat, tail drooping approaches across some asphalt. a floodlight casts her shadow in front of her.

now inside, the same calico, obviously a kitten of around 6 months, perches on the viewer’s chest and peers down at the camera. you can see by her eyes that she is relaxed enough to consider a nap.

the kitten considers the viewer from a padded ledge in front of a sunny window. she is curled in a ball, chin on paws.

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