Dr. Mark Gasser
@mtgassr.bsky.social
Life and runs along the Patapsco River.
Microbial Systems | Symbiosis
Only strikes at Mid-World Lanes. #BooksMark
Terps. Orioles. Liverpool. Ferrari.
Microbial Systems | Symbiosis
Only strikes at Mid-World Lanes. #BooksMark
Terps. Orioles. Liverpool. Ferrari.
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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🌳Gardener/garden educator job at the Cylburn Arboretum in Baltimore 🌳https://cylburn.org/we-are-hiring/?mc_cid=83592697b9&mc_eid=98ed40981c
We Are Hiring! - Cylburn Arboretum Friends
Cylburn Arboretum Friends is looking for a Garden Educator to join our team. This position offers a unique blend of hands-on horticultural work and public engagement, caring for gardens while inspirin...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
🌳Gardener/garden educator job at the Cylburn Arboretum in Baltimore 🌳https://cylburn.org/we-are-hiring/?mc_cid=83592697b9&mc_eid=98ed40981c
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
I can’t stop laughing thinking about a new coach coming in and immediately blowing a half century opener win streak. Simultaneously meaningless and vibe extinguishing
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I can’t stop laughing thinking about a new coach coming in and immediately blowing a half century opener win streak. Simultaneously meaningless and vibe extinguishing
You don’t have to watch Maryland Men’s basketball this year
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
You don’t have to watch Maryland Men’s basketball this year
Oh they put a bow on this gift
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Oh they put a bow on this gift
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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When we were on Twitter the line was “Twitter isn’t real life” and now that Twitter is deliberately stirring up bigotry it’s “Bluesky is a bubble you have to be on Twitter” and I think that is a pretty clear statement of value.
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
When we were on Twitter the line was “Twitter isn’t real life” and now that Twitter is deliberately stirring up bigotry it’s “Bluesky is a bubble you have to be on Twitter” and I think that is a pretty clear statement of value.
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Hey yo here’s some blue meat from me on yesterday’s election results.
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
I have terrible, terrible news for red America
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the 2025 elections.
www.sfgate.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Hey yo here’s some blue meat from me on yesterday’s election results.
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are more of us than there are of them.
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Sam Corcos, who entered government with DOGE earlier this year, decided to kill DirectFile after one meeting with with tax software lobbyists.
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Sam Corcos, who entered government with DOGE earlier this year, decided to kill DirectFile after one meeting with with tax software lobbyists.
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
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worth noting that Mamdani did *not* take the bait
November 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
worth noting that Mamdani did *not* take the bait
I thought Maryland may be tempted to look elsewhere if they lose out, but their hands may be tied with these openings
Current college football head coaching vacancies:
◻️ LSU
◻️ Penn State
◻️ Florida
◻️ Arkansas
◻️ UCLA
◻️ Oklahoma State
◻️ Auburn
Amongst others…
◻️ LSU
◻️ Penn State
◻️ Florida
◻️ Arkansas
◻️ UCLA
◻️ Oklahoma State
◻️ Auburn
Amongst others…
November 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I thought Maryland may be tempted to look elsewhere if they lose out, but their hands may be tied with these openings
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Last week, the Trump admin purged senior leadership at ICE ERO, which leads internal immigration enforcement. Gregory Bovino and the Border Patrol are now increasingly in charge. As former ICE Chief of Staff Jason Houser writes, what we're getting now is theater, not serious law enforcement.
Opinion | The White House's sweeping overhaul of ICE is creating a Frankenstein force
The recent wave of ICE senior official reassignments has a clear motive.
www.msnbc.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Last week, the Trump admin purged senior leadership at ICE ERO, which leads internal immigration enforcement. Gregory Bovino and the Border Patrol are now increasingly in charge. As former ICE Chief of Staff Jason Houser writes, what we're getting now is theater, not serious law enforcement.
I know Maryland has been bad for a long time, but it’s still crazy that they’ve managed to become the most irrelevant power conference football program in the country
FINAL:
No. 2 Indiana 55
Maryland 10
Mendoza 14-21, 201, TD, INT
Washington 16-31, 242, TD, 2INT, FUM
5 UMD TOs
Terps outgained on the ground 367 to 37 as Indiana settled in after its first two series.
Terps now 0-11 after byes and 0-17 against ranked B1G under Mike Locksley.
No. 2 Indiana 55
Maryland 10
Mendoza 14-21, 201, TD, INT
Washington 16-31, 242, TD, 2INT, FUM
5 UMD TOs
Terps outgained on the ground 367 to 37 as Indiana settled in after its first two series.
Terps now 0-11 after byes and 0-17 against ranked B1G under Mike Locksley.
November 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I know Maryland has been bad for a long time, but it’s still crazy that they’ve managed to become the most irrelevant power conference football program in the country
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3 times in the past 2 weeks, a WashPost editorial "has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's editorial line landed in sync with its owner's interests"
Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
3 times in the past 2 weeks, a WashPost editorial "has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's editorial line landed in sync with its owner's interests"
Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
I have no idea where this will all go, but I still can’t believe defenders were/are so confident, that between a future with Collins, Planter or someone else, they’d find more moral common ground with the views and decisions of the one who got and kept an SS tattoo
The more evidence mounts that Platner is lying, the more convinced I become that he is lying not only about his past but also about his current views.
CNN confirms that multiple sources suggest Graham Platner knew his tattoo was a Nazi symbol years prior to launching his campaign — and is now blatantly lying about it.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
October 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I have no idea where this will all go, but I still can’t believe defenders were/are so confident, that between a future with Collins, Planter or someone else, they’d find more moral common ground with the views and decisions of the one who got and kept an SS tattoo
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
As a Terp, I always knew UVA was the worst. Absolutely cackling that they would do this to themselves
This is the statement the Department of Justice in the Trump administration released in regards to the University of Virginia's capitulation to authoritarianism.
October 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
As a Terp, I always knew UVA was the worst. Absolutely cackling that they would do this to themselves
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Never expected for Gakpo to volunteer to be the next Nunez
October 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Never expected for Gakpo to volunteer to be the next Nunez
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Maryland should fire Locksley because we're going to be dealing with levels of apathy around this program that are hard to comprehend even by Maryland standards. And that's a shame, because he's done a lot for the program and has accumulated some real talent. But you can't overcome nobody caring
Maryland is 21-5 in September under Mike Locksley and 7-16 in October.
A 4-0 start this year has become 4-3. It's happening again.
A 4-0 start this year has become 4-3. It's happening again.
October 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Maryland should fire Locksley because we're going to be dealing with levels of apathy around this program that are hard to comprehend even by Maryland standards. And that's a shame, because he's done a lot for the program and has accumulated some real talent. But you can't overcome nobody caring