Mark
@arkmashton.bsky.social
"[O]f all the emotions – and indifference, too, because even indifference is an emotion of a sort – only love sees the unveiled truth."
– Gene Wolfe, Return to the Whorl
https://prayercards.online
– Gene Wolfe, Return to the Whorl
https://prayercards.online
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Mark
@arkmashton.bsky.social
· Feb 28
Evil is a form of stupidity
I like Costco a lot but I don’t think they should make me run a gauntlet of third-party salespeople to leave the store
February 11, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I like Costco a lot but I don’t think they should make me run a gauntlet of third-party salespeople to leave the store
Reposted by Mark
just found out about ‘context’. seems like it would be very convenient to ignore it..
February 11, 2026 at 6:35 PM
just found out about ‘context’. seems like it would be very convenient to ignore it..
OMG Evelyn Custom Text joined Bluesky!
February 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
OMG Evelyn Custom Text joined Bluesky!
I think you have to do it wrong many times to start to get the hang of it. True both in terms of developing skills over time and also just completing a specific project. I’ve been taught this lesson so many times but it’s a hard one to internalize.
Whenever I do work I’m proud of, I’m struck by how much stuff I throw out. Not talking “kill your darlings” here, rather false starts, restarts, just completely trashing and reworking large pieces.
February 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I think you have to do it wrong many times to start to get the hang of it. True both in terms of developing skills over time and also just completing a specific project. I’ve been taught this lesson so many times but it’s a hard one to internalize.
The kind of person you know has a hidden agenda all the time (genuinely desiring the highest good for everyone they meet)
February 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM
The kind of person you know has a hidden agenda all the time (genuinely desiring the highest good for everyone they meet)
The teenage-appropriate discord experience sounds great to me, sign me up
February 11, 2026 at 3:52 PM
The teenage-appropriate discord experience sounds great to me, sign me up
I fear the answer is: MAGA has not seen enough and wants more, and everyone else has seen enough and will be content to have it hidden from sight.
I hope not!
I hope not!
The Trump administration is constructing a network of concentration camps on U.S. soil. Have the American people seen enough?
@regmunch.bsky.social: 'The Cruelty Inside'
www.commonwealmagazine.org/munch-trump-...
@regmunch.bsky.social: 'The Cruelty Inside'
www.commonwealmagazine.org/munch-trump-...
The Cruelty Inside
The Trump administration is constructing a network of concentration camps on U.S. soil. Have the American people seen enough?
www.commonwealmagazine.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I fear the answer is: MAGA has not seen enough and wants more, and everyone else has seen enough and will be content to have it hidden from sight.
I hope not!
I hope not!
here's a real good song for your wednesday
open.spotify.com/track/7aRdZm...
open.spotify.com/track/7aRdZm...
Leave The Light On
open.spotify.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:04 PM
here's a real good song for your wednesday
open.spotify.com/track/7aRdZm...
open.spotify.com/track/7aRdZm...
Whenever I do work I’m proud of, I’m struck by how much stuff I throw out. Not talking “kill your darlings” here, rather false starts, restarts, just completely trashing and reworking large pieces.
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Whenever I do work I’m proud of, I’m struck by how much stuff I throw out. Not talking “kill your darlings” here, rather false starts, restarts, just completely trashing and reworking large pieces.
I’ve been doing NYT games lately and they all seem to get very easy very fast, except for Spelling Bee, which I find unaccountably frustrating. Finally got a genius score yesterday but it is very slow going.
February 10, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I’ve been doing NYT games lately and they all seem to get very easy very fast, except for Spelling Bee, which I find unaccountably frustrating. Finally got a genius score yesterday but it is very slow going.
Aauuuuuuugh I bought a car too early
February 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Aauuuuuuugh I bought a car too early
Mystery slow period in the early afternoon after my enormous lunch
February 10, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Mystery slow period in the early afternoon after my enormous lunch
Here is where I’m starting to lean with LLMs: a tool is useful if it helps a human overcome a limitation. It’s a truism that our problem now isn’t too little information, it’s too much. LLMs can read, process, and summarize far more than a person can, and they never get tired of answering questions.
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Here is where I’m starting to lean with LLMs: a tool is useful if it helps a human overcome a limitation. It’s a truism that our problem now isn’t too little information, it’s too much. LLMs can read, process, and summarize far more than a person can, and they never get tired of answering questions.
I’m going on record as saying I think Punxsutawney Phil was wrong this year. Spring’s coming.
February 9, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I’m going on record as saying I think Punxsutawney Phil was wrong this year. Spring’s coming.
My account is not significant enough to appear, so I’d say this is right on
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 9, 2026 at 2:34 PM
My account is not significant enough to appear, so I’d say this is right on
Reposted by Mark
liking all of the anti-polymarket tweets as cover, while i go all in on 'ronald mcdonald scandalous affair with flo from progressive +2900' in another tab
February 8, 2026 at 7:08 PM
liking all of the anti-polymarket tweets as cover, while i go all in on 'ronald mcdonald scandalous affair with flo from progressive +2900' in another tab
Today is the Super Bowl for football fans
February 8, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Today is the Super Bowl for football fans
People say that Macs are too expensive, but you can get a low-end MacBook Air, possibly the best laptop ever made, with more than enough computing power for everything people commonly do, for $999
February 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM
People say that Macs are too expensive, but you can get a low-end MacBook Air, possibly the best laptop ever made, with more than enough computing power for everything people commonly do, for $999
“At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.” – St. John of the Cross
February 6, 2026 at 8:53 PM
“At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.” – St. John of the Cross
just hit cmd-tilde in my browser and discovered to my horror an entire browser window full of tabs I'd entirely lost track of since I don't know when
February 6, 2026 at 8:07 PM
just hit cmd-tilde in my browser and discovered to my horror an entire browser window full of tabs I'd entirely lost track of since I don't know when
It's probably just my circles, but I haven't seen anyone talk about it: what's the immediate use case for humanoid robots?
February 6, 2026 at 5:19 PM
It's probably just my circles, but I haven't seen anyone talk about it: what's the immediate use case for humanoid robots?
this is so wild I had to double-check myself. It's true
Donald Trump is withholding billions of dollars in New York infrastructure unless he gets Penn Station and Dulles Airport named after him.
This is not only brazenly corrupt. It is sick, twisted and egomaniacal. The time is long overdue for sane Republicans to stand up to Trump.
This is not only brazenly corrupt. It is sick, twisted and egomaniacal. The time is long overdue for sane Republicans to stand up to Trump.
February 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
this is so wild I had to double-check myself. It's true