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I’m in.

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Hey! It's @robsarwark.bsky.social -- author of this great book. If you're dragon-inclined, check it out: amzn.to/3EOWqG6

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OMG - CitiWalki pulls sweet YouTube videos that let you walk, drive, or fly through 128 cities around the globe. In Bangkok, I could taste the street food! www.citywalki.com/rome?type=dr...

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"Project 2025? That's just some plan a bunch of people have come with. Trump even says he's got nothing to do with that!" The Project 2025 Observer shows 35% of the plan has been implemented. Of 295 projects, 84 are done. 41 others are now in progress. www.project2025.observer

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I confess I’m guilty of this sin. I’m not going to repent, though. www.desiringgod.org/articles/the...

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Seriously, what’s the deal with the White Lotus Season 3 theme!?!?! Season 1 and 2 themes still make me flail around the room in a frenzy. Season 3? A lullaby, maybe?

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Historian Heather Cox Richardson is promoting an economic blackout as a form of protest on February 28. I'm in. How about you? #EconomicBlackout #BuyNothing #TurnOffTheEconomy

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I feel like the Death Star has parked in orbit around our planet and law makers and the media arguing over whether or not it’s a moon.

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My icicle peppers are about ready for pickin’

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#Musk and #Trump and #MAGA want to erase #LGBTQ+ people from history and from public life. Fight it. Keep pronouns in your email signatures. Talk openly and proudly about your LGBTQ+ friends and relatives and their journeys. Support LGBTQ+ artists and their work. Help others be who they are.

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Now would be a particularly good time for Kobo to update the Kobo Elipsa.

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Lotsa irony in people who are ripping out DEI programs in favor of "merit based systems" ... ... being too young and too inexperienced to understand how the Social Security database stores dates. What "merit" qualifies THEM for THEIR jobs? www.politifact.com/article/2025...

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Oh, Atlanta. Even in the fog, you make my heart leap.

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Clyde just ordered grits on a cruise ship. Made by a chef who isn’t Southern. Who might have just been seen pulling out a packet with the word “Instant” on the label. Man the lifeboats!

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A proud day to #BeUMC No word on whether the Global Methodists are joining in. 🤪 www.umnews.org/en/news/unit...

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#Apple launched a new collaboration feature today! By resuming their advertising on X, they’re collaborating with the enemy. #BadApple #WeWontForget

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Stop funding these goons. Leave #Gmail for #Fastmail. Stop Googling and start using #Kagi ($5 a month, no ads, great results). Leave #GoogleMaps (and the #GulfOfAmerica) and use #AppleMaps. Don't support the companies who are complying in advance with efforts to erase #LGBTQ+ people.

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Other #PKM apps ( #Capacities, #Logseq, #Heptabase, #Tana) come and go from my stack, but for me, all roads eventually lead back to #Obsidian

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Just realized that, because I’m now #selfpublishing and own all my own rights, I can publish my new #novel chapter by chapter, as Dickens used to do, on my own website. If I did, maybe folks would like to read along.

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I’m 1/20th of the way done with the new novel. Just sayin’. #author #novelist #optimist

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Musk: “If the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have?” An unelected billionaire who is illegally dismantling structures of state to shield his businesses from scrutiny & enrich himself is lecturing people on democracy. A plague on all those who aided this.

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The pages that are set to be revived include information for patients about HIV testing and HIV prevention medication, guidance on contraceptives and data on adolescent and youth mental health.

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Something about writing in the cruise ship library feels insanely romantic. #writer #author #todaysoffice

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Extraordinary that these people are saying these things as one voice: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

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Some days, the words flow hard and fast, and all I can do is hang on tight and transcribe them.

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No eruptions today, but the caldera was simmering like crazy at Volcanoes National Park!

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Catchin some rays.

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My approach to BlueSky is different than my approach to any social media platform ever. I just post what interests me or makes me happy. If the goal is to be an influencer with a massive follower base, it’s not a good strategy. For being a happy human? It’s a good approach so far.

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To be someone who says he isn't very beachy, I admit I look pretty happy here. Can you tell I've got on an inch-thick coating of sun block?

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Here are photos of the bizarre and beautiful sights you'll see under water at the Molokai Crater. The third one is the rare Irish albino whale.

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While we've seen whales in Alaska and elsewhere, we've never been around them during the mating season. Whales were everywhere today: leaping out of the water, slapping their tails one, two, three, four times in a row, spouting and turning, often in groups of five or more. Incredible.

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Our first time to ever go snorkeling? The Galapagos. Our second time ever? Molokai Crater. We're so luck -- especially since we get to take these adventures together! Deeply grateful. Mark

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I don’t think most people have thought enough about the dangers of allowing a government to define or approve your identity as a person.

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Tell me again how the dominant religion in our nation, a fanatical branch of which now controls the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government, is somehow “under attack” and needs a special new office to defend it.

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All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government.

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In what will come as a shock to no one, one of Elon’s DOGE henchmen had to resign because somebody dug up an old Twitter account where he advocated for racism & “eugenic immigration policy.” www.forbes.com/sites/mollyb...

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This is actually exactly accurate:

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I will never understand how some people I love — people of good character — think a man who lies and lies and lies and lies can somehow be “good for America.”

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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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