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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is an incredible result, hopefully more patients can get access to this therapy as rapidly as possible

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He makes a good point.

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

However, I tried their platonic ideal of an apple and came away unimpressed

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have simply had to lean in to their dismal ranking of my favorite apple from my childhood, I'm just allowing my nostalgia to take precedence

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't understand what the problem is with this hurricane, did the president lose his sharpie or something?

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We finish with a dollop of cream and eat it with good bread

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our default is a variation on this NYTimes recipe, but the scarlet runners are too sweet so they tend to turn into baked beans. Our "beans in broth" is just pre-soaked beans cooked in a pressure cooker in homemade chicken or veggie stock with some thyme, bay, and salt

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Beans and Garlic Toast in Broth (Published 2020)

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We love orca beans and flageolets. Lately we've been getting these purple beans with beautiful black spots. I think they're maybe scarlet runners beans? They're really sweet so you have to use them more carefully than our standard preparation.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is no shortcut. There is no one neat trick. Orchestras have been around for hundreds of years, and if there was a sustainability silver bullet, we would have found it by now. Sustainability is found in never, ever taking your foot off the gas, either artistically or financially.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ve been called up to the big leagues again, playing Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and Elgar in a few weeks!

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also clearly just doesn't know how anything works at all, I'm surprised he can operate a ballpoint pen

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also, just insufferable vanity

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Most of us would probably look less than eloquent if you transcribed our worst moments without smoothing out a few inelegant stumbles, but this guy takes incoherence to a new level

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even if it were true, I fail to see how Jack Smith attending a basketball game in a city where other people live would constitute a conspiracy

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Real lives are being destroyed and snuffed out every day that this policy is allowed to continue and the people who devised it are not in jail. I know we all know this, but I feel like it's important to say it from time to time.

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wait till that a-hole realizes he was overlooked by the MacArthur awards _again_

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I propose a new masculine influencer, Avuncular, who is friendly and supportive and full of dad jokes

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Both sides acknowledged that the city’s Flock camera data was illegally accessed more than 1.6 million times in 2024 and 2025, with lots of those searches reaching out-of-state agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement."

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hurting the president’s feelings isn’t a national security threat Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know what season it is.

A barn space with a cement floor. There are gourds piled everywhere.

Looking out of a barn full of gourds onto a greenhouse full of mums

The front of a farm market. There is a set of shelving running the full length. Four shelves full of gourds

A close up of an old wagon full of big and small and twisty gourds with some pumpkins on the ground. They are lit up in the sun.

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We didn't get any free beer though

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My family and I have been very lucky to have stayed in that building on two occasions while my wife did research at the University of Copenhagen

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Carlsberg created a neighborhood on the site of its former brewery in Copenhagen. On a street (named for Neils Bohr) in that neighborhood is an apartment building that is reserved for visiting researchers, who can live in furnished apartments at reasonable prices in an otherwise very expensive city.

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

EnHarmony is a dating site created by Bone Thugs

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm disgusted every day that we're constantly having a national debate over the Stop Specifically Emily From North High From Playing JV Volleyball Act

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Still healing up from an injury earlier this year but did a 8’37” pace 10K which is not great compared to my half marathon this time last year but it’s a strong sign of improvement at long last

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 17/09/2026

The Trump admin has decimated American science budgets, taking away life saving opportunities, and the potential for groundbreaking discoveries. This is how you destroy American innovation. apnews.com/article/trum...

apnews.com

Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows

An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026

stone cold classic

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean they're doing great, but it's challenging stuff!

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm still bouncing from last night's rehearsal of the second suite from Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, it's not one of those pieces that you hear every day but it's some of the most sumptuous orchestral music you'll ever hear

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“There’s an old saying in Schelling—I know it’s in Hayek, probably in Schelling—that people acting independently can produce outcomes that nobody intended. The first time as tragedy; the second time as… as… it’s funny if it happens again.”

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Mark Tomko @xbsharp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I can't tell if that's Steve or Alan

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