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Martin

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Martin

@marsniv.bsky.social

will this curse finally be broken?

April 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM

Martin

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i have upgraded to double screens. will i ever go back?

two screens at my desk provided by my work laptop and my recently supplied work monitor

March 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM

Martin

@marsniv.bsky.social

jaegeon kim played by daniel dae kim

February 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM

Martin

@marsniv.bsky.social

loading this one up again

tweet from oct 2016: “
Well, I'd like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
*Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,”

February 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM

Martin

@marsniv.bsky.social

even in the disaster scenario everything is still just a movie. after the runtime things are gonna go back to biden or something

a post from feb 5, 2025:
“It's starting to feel like the opening scene of a Hollywood disaster film — the part where you scoff and think,
'Nah, that'd never happen.' But for the sake of entertainment, you suspend disbelief for the next 90 minutes.
Except this time, the runtime is four years... horribly surreal.l

February 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM

Martin

@marsniv.bsky.social

Mao was reading Spinoza, Kant and Hegel while living in the caves during the war ‼️

Picture from Snow “Red Star Over China”. page 95
“1: Soviet Strong Man / 95
of the ancient Greeks, of Spinoza, Kant, Goethe, Hegel, Rousseau, and others.
I often wondered about Mao's own sense of responsibility over the question of force, violence, and the "necessity of killing." He had in his youth had strongly liberal and humanistic tendencies, and the transition from idealism to realism evidently had first been made philosophically. Although he was peasant-born, he did not as a youth personally suffer much from oppression of the landlords, as did many Reds, and, although Marxism was the core of his thought, I deduced that class hatred was for him probably an intellectually acquired mechanism in the bulwark of his philosophy, rather than an instinctive impulse to action.
There seemed to be nothing in him that might be called religious feeling. He was a humanist in a fundamental sense; he believed in man's ability to solve man's problems. I thought he had probably on the whole been a moderating influence in the Communist movement where life and death were concerned.
Mao worked thirteen or fourteen hours a day, often until very ite at night, frequently retiring at two or three. He seemed to have an iron constitution. That he traced to a youth spent in hard work on his father's farm, and to an austere period in his schooldays when he had formed a kind of Spartan club with some comrades. They used to fast, go on long hikes in the wooded hills of South China, swim in the coldest weather. walk shitless in the rain and sleet-to toughen themselves. They intrively knew that the years ahead in China tould demand the capacity for with. standing great hardship and suffering.
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January 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM

Martin

@marsniv.bsky.social

have you considered this perspective?

January 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM

Martin

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what the fucking hell

picture of my cat with a pillow of my cats face (but she looks stupid)

January 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM

Martin

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squidward yelling into a megaphone at a fish

January 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM

Martin

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8/14

a can of beeps beer: it’s got to be BEEPS

December 12, 2024 at 11:20 PM

Martin

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whats her problem ?

my cat looking up at the camera from the bed

December 12, 2024 at 2:43 PM

Martin

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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

tiktok screen shot of nasty looking sandwich with caption “this sandwich sucked i dont know what i was thinking”

December 12, 2024 at 3:37 AM

Martin

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thrift store find today :)

Two books: The age of revolution and reaction by charles breunig and the age of nationalism and reform by norman rich

December 8, 2024 at 12:31 AM

Martin

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just a little embarrassing

December 4, 2024 at 3:15 PM

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Tweet saying: “just read the “south korea” wikipedia page for 15 minutes. i’m ready to post

December 3, 2024 at 9:03 PM

Martin

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hard at work 🫡

November 26, 2024 at 3:50 PM

Martin

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Stay warm and happy :)

November 23, 2024 at 4:16 AM

Martin

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i am very pleased to have been able to take this photo which i am fond of

my cat and i making the same grumpy face

November 21, 2024 at 10:19 PM

Martin

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this is a picture from yesterday. i consider me yesterday as an inhabitant of a completely different epoch: a freak. the lesson is that i am a river, constantly changing.

November 20, 2024 at 4:57 PM

Martin

@marsniv.bsky.social

I remember reading and re-reading the section on Kant in high school and being stunned at how deep and satisfying philosophy could be. im still stunned today!