Retired Mark
@marktheretired.bsky.social
Interested in Science, History, Fitness, Woodworking, Atheism, and much more.
If you have anything crypto, maga or "I love god" in your profile, I will not follow you. If you private msg me immediately after following, I will unfollow.
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"On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone." -Janis Joplin, singer-songwriter (19 Jan 1943-1970)
Happy Birthday Janis!
Gone too soon.
Happy Birthday Janis!
Gone too soon.
January 19, 2026 at 5:54 PM
"On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone." -Janis Joplin, singer-songwriter (19 Jan 1943-1970)
Happy Birthday Janis!
Gone too soon.
Happy Birthday Janis!
Gone too soon.
"If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman ... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French." -Montesquieu, philosopher, lawyer, and writer (18 Jan 1689-1755)
January 18, 2026 at 3:52 PM
"If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman ... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French." -Montesquieu, philosopher, lawyer, and writer (18 Jan 1689-1755)
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THOUSANDS of men and women have died for this country because they were told they were DEFENDING DEMOCRACY.
The GOP members of congress will not even risk their jobs to save our country. Think about that. They risk nothing more than have to find another job after the next election.
The GOP members of congress will not even risk their jobs to save our country. Think about that. They risk nothing more than have to find another job after the next election.
January 16, 2026 at 6:20 PM
THOUSANDS of men and women have died for this country because they were told they were DEFENDING DEMOCRACY.
The GOP members of congress will not even risk their jobs to save our country. Think about that. They risk nothing more than have to find another job after the next election.
The GOP members of congress will not even risk their jobs to save our country. Think about that. They risk nothing more than have to find another job after the next election.
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way." -Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (15 Jan 1929-1968)
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 PM
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way." -Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (15 Jan 1929-1968)
"Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors." -Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (8 Jan 1935-2024)
January 8, 2026 at 6:20 PM
"Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors." -Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (8 Jan 1935-2024)
"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers." -Charles Peguy, poet and essayist (7 Jan 1873-1914)
January 7, 2026 at 5:36 PM
"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers." -Charles Peguy, poet and essayist (7 Jan 1873-1914)
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"There is a cult of ignorance in the US. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Isaac Asimov, scientist (1920-1992)
January 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
"There is a cult of ignorance in the US. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Isaac Asimov, scientist (1920-1992)
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Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
"Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power." -Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower (b. 17 Dec 1987)
Happy Belated Birthday Chelsea! Sorry I missed it yesterday.
Happy Belated Birthday Chelsea! Sorry I missed it yesterday.
December 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power." -Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower (b. 17 Dec 1987)
Happy Belated Birthday Chelsea! Sorry I missed it yesterday.
Happy Belated Birthday Chelsea! Sorry I missed it yesterday.
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." -Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist (18 Dec 1946-1977)
December 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." -Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist (18 Dec 1946-1977)
"He who allows oppression, shares the crime." -Erasmus Darwin, physician, scientist, reformer, and poet; grandfather of Charles Darwin (12 Dec 1731-1802)
December 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"He who allows oppression, shares the crime." -Erasmus Darwin, physician, scientist, reformer, and poet; grandfather of Charles Darwin (12 Dec 1731-1802)
"Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1918-2008)
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1918-2008)
"Is there any religion whose followers can be pointed to as distinctly more amiable and trustworthy than those of any other? If so, this should be enough. I find the nicest and best people profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. -Sam Butler, (4 Dec 1835-1902)
December 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"Is there any religion whose followers can be pointed to as distinctly more amiable and trustworthy than those of any other? If so, this should be enough. I find the nicest and best people profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. -Sam Butler, (4 Dec 1835-1902)
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and the government when it deserves it." -Mark Twain, author and humorist (30 Nov 1835-1910)
Happy Birthday Mr. Twain!
Happy Birthday Mr. Twain!
November 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and the government when it deserves it." -Mark Twain, author and humorist (30 Nov 1835-1910)
Happy Birthday Mr. Twain!
Happy Birthday Mr. Twain!
This video by Liz Oyer, former DOJ pardon attorney, says all we need to know, and impeach, Trmp.
youtube.com/shorts/4tiT1...
youtube.com/shorts/4tiT1...
Trump pardons Honduran drug boss Juan Orlando Hernandez
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This video by Liz Oyer, former DOJ pardon attorney, says all we need to know, and impeach, Trmp.
youtube.com/shorts/4tiT1...
youtube.com/shorts/4tiT1...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead." -Arundhati Roy, writer and activist (b. 24 Nov 1961)
Happy Birthday Arundhati
Happy Birthday Arundhati
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead." -Arundhati Roy, writer and activist (b. 24 Nov 1961)
Happy Birthday Arundhati
Happy Birthday Arundhati
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