Mark Coffin
@markcoffin.bsky.social
🎶 Acoustic Guitarist
🎧 Podcast Producer
💡 Creative Organizer
One from a family of eight billion+
Halifax, NS, 🇨🇦, 🌎, ✨
🎧 Podcast Producer
💡 Creative Organizer
One from a family of eight billion+
Halifax, NS, 🇨🇦, 🌎, ✨
Some thoughts on Zionism, ethnonatiinalism, and living as one.
August 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Some thoughts on Zionism, ethnonatiinalism, and living as one.
"The Wildfire on Pipeline Road"
You can't make this stuff up.
You can't make this stuff up.
July 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"The Wildfire on Pipeline Road"
You can't make this stuff up.
You can't make this stuff up.
If you boil your eggs with cinnamon sticks, your home will smell like cinnamon and not eggs.
May 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you boil your eggs with cinnamon sticks, your home will smell like cinnamon and not eggs.
The Truth and The Lie take a bath
May 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Truth and The Lie take a bath
Birds in North End Halifax
Captured yesterday.
Captured yesterday.
April 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Birds in North End Halifax
Captured yesterday.
Captured yesterday.
On a Halifax sidewalk today.
April 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
On a Halifax sidewalk today.
Poor cyclops tree lost some skin.
April 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Poor cyclops tree lost some skin.
Oil is the product of centuries of decomposing organic matter. I asked chatgpt to generate a visual timeline to capture the millions of years involved in generating the resources we're now extracting.
March 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Oil is the product of centuries of decomposing organic matter. I asked chatgpt to generate a visual timeline to capture the millions of years involved in generating the resources we're now extracting.
Since Maggie's death in September 2024, *at least* seven other women have been killed by their partners.
March 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Since Maggie's death in September 2024, *at least* seven other women have been killed by their partners.
This one is also great. More accessible than the Hitler book, while still capturing it's wisdom.
March 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This one is also great. More accessible than the Hitler book, while still capturing it's wisdom.
This one isn't so much about the external political events that precede authoritarianism, but rather, the nature of the human mind, and how such destructive political ideologies originate in the human ego.
March 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This one isn't so much about the external political events that precede authoritarianism, but rather, the nature of the human mind, and how such destructive political ideologies originate in the human ego.
Here are some suggestions
March 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Here are some suggestions
Brilliant move by whatever PR person / team thought this up
I presume this is meant to counter the way public figures comments are taken out of context.
Put the metadata right there in the shot, so whoever cuts into their own content can't so easily decontextualize it.
I presume this is meant to counter the way public figures comments are taken out of context.
Put the metadata right there in the shot, so whoever cuts into their own content can't so easily decontextualize it.
March 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Brilliant move by whatever PR person / team thought this up
I presume this is meant to counter the way public figures comments are taken out of context.
Put the metadata right there in the shot, so whoever cuts into their own content can't so easily decontextualize it.
I presume this is meant to counter the way public figures comments are taken out of context.
Put the metadata right there in the shot, so whoever cuts into their own content can't so easily decontextualize it.
In the deep future our descendents will look on those trying to resist Trump et al as having failed for the same reasons parents that yell at the child having a tantrum fail.
Political ideology is a developmental stage, not a choice.
Most people aren't beyond blue (authoritarian/fundamentalist)
Political ideology is a developmental stage, not a choice.
Most people aren't beyond blue (authoritarian/fundamentalist)
March 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
In the deep future our descendents will look on those trying to resist Trump et al as having failed for the same reasons parents that yell at the child having a tantrum fail.
Political ideology is a developmental stage, not a choice.
Most people aren't beyond blue (authoritarian/fundamentalist)
Political ideology is a developmental stage, not a choice.
Most people aren't beyond blue (authoritarian/fundamentalist)
This is the definition of evil according to theologian James Carse:
“Evil does exist: it is when an infinite game is absorbed utterly in a finite game. All evil is an attempt to eliminate evil.”
“Evil does exist: it is when an infinite game is absorbed utterly in a finite game. All evil is an attempt to eliminate evil.”
March 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This is the definition of evil according to theologian James Carse:
“Evil does exist: it is when an infinite game is absorbed utterly in a finite game. All evil is an attempt to eliminate evil.”
“Evil does exist: it is when an infinite game is absorbed utterly in a finite game. All evil is an attempt to eliminate evil.”
The trade war is here.
The way Canada responds matters.
We need a clean break.
🧵
Here's a thread on what that means and how we start...
The way Canada responds matters.
We need a clean break.
🧵
Here's a thread on what that means and how we start...
March 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The trade war is here.
The way Canada responds matters.
We need a clean break.
🧵
Here's a thread on what that means and how we start...
The way Canada responds matters.
We need a clean break.
🧵
Here's a thread on what that means and how we start...
This week I've been revisiting the national anthem.
I love learning old songs.
Learning any song that's as old as this one is a journey.
"There's a blaze of light in every word" - also, Leonard Cohen
I love learning old songs.
Learning any song that's as old as this one is a journey.
"There's a blaze of light in every word" - also, Leonard Cohen
February 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This week I've been revisiting the national anthem.
I love learning old songs.
Learning any song that's as old as this one is a journey.
"There's a blaze of light in every word" - also, Leonard Cohen
I love learning old songs.
Learning any song that's as old as this one is a journey.
"There's a blaze of light in every word" - also, Leonard Cohen
I've been thinking about the US/Canada conflict,
and how it is inviting us into a conversation
about Canadian identity.
A thread 🧵
and how it is inviting us into a conversation
about Canadian identity.
A thread 🧵
February 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I've been thinking about the US/Canada conflict,
and how it is inviting us into a conversation
about Canadian identity.
A thread 🧵
and how it is inviting us into a conversation
about Canadian identity.
A thread 🧵
Here's the thing: virtually everything can be described in holarchies. Including consciousness!
There is a hierarchy of consciousness, and the spiral is the best model I've come across for mapping how one's story of self and world evolve across the developmental spiral.
There is a hierarchy of consciousness, and the spiral is the best model I've come across for mapping how one's story of self and world evolve across the developmental spiral.
February 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Here's the thing: virtually everything can be described in holarchies. Including consciousness!
There is a hierarchy of consciousness, and the spiral is the best model I've come across for mapping how one's story of self and world evolve across the developmental spiral.
There is a hierarchy of consciousness, and the spiral is the best model I've come across for mapping how one's story of self and world evolve across the developmental spiral.
And we continue, ok...
So the spiral represents a series of integrateable worldviews.
Each leap between worldview stages represents a new layer of complexity in your understanding of self and the world around you.
So the spiral represents a series of integrateable worldviews.
Each leap between worldview stages represents a new layer of complexity in your understanding of self and the world around you.
February 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
And we continue, ok...
So the spiral represents a series of integrateable worldviews.
Each leap between worldview stages represents a new layer of complexity in your understanding of self and the world around you.
So the spiral represents a series of integrateable worldviews.
Each leap between worldview stages represents a new layer of complexity in your understanding of self and the world around you.
The position "My country is the greatest country on Earth" is the red stage of development.
This is where we find Trump and Putin, or most any of us when our childhood wounds are stepped on or triggered.
This is where we find Trump and Putin, or most any of us when our childhood wounds are stepped on or triggered.
February 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The position "My country is the greatest country on Earth" is the red stage of development.
This is where we find Trump and Putin, or most any of us when our childhood wounds are stepped on or triggered.
This is where we find Trump and Putin, or most any of us when our childhood wounds are stepped on or triggered.
Okay, so time for a good news break...
First bad news: Ideology is not a position you can convince someone out of. That's why you never win arguments about ideology.
Political ideology is a manifestation of a worldview/psychology which exists on a spectrum of human development.
We will discuss.
First bad news: Ideology is not a position you can convince someone out of. That's why you never win arguments about ideology.
Political ideology is a manifestation of a worldview/psychology which exists on a spectrum of human development.
We will discuss.
February 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Okay, so time for a good news break...
First bad news: Ideology is not a position you can convince someone out of. That's why you never win arguments about ideology.
Political ideology is a manifestation of a worldview/psychology which exists on a spectrum of human development.
We will discuss.
First bad news: Ideology is not a position you can convince someone out of. That's why you never win arguments about ideology.
Political ideology is a manifestation of a worldview/psychology which exists on a spectrum of human development.
We will discuss.
Ecstacy comes from the Greek word ekstasis meaning to "stand outside of yourself."
People captured by their position in an argument think they will die if they suspend their beliefs to consider their enemy's position from their enemy's perspective.
But, it's an ecstatic experience.
People captured by their position in an argument think they will die if they suspend their beliefs to consider their enemy's position from their enemy's perspective.
But, it's an ecstatic experience.
February 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Ecstacy comes from the Greek word ekstasis meaning to "stand outside of yourself."
People captured by their position in an argument think they will die if they suspend their beliefs to consider their enemy's position from their enemy's perspective.
But, it's an ecstatic experience.
People captured by their position in an argument think they will die if they suspend their beliefs to consider their enemy's position from their enemy's perspective.
But, it's an ecstatic experience.