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Mark Corbett Wilson
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A retired high-tech glassblower, lifelong learner and critical digital humanist, I glean meaning from experiences and tell stories.
Born in Hollywood the year […]

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@creating #tdc5110
Frankenstein Poetry
This is Frankenstein’s monster.
#wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate
January 10, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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"Well, when the president does it … that means that it is not illegal."
President Richard M. Nixon in interview with David Frost 1977.
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110331/documents/HMKP-116-JU00-20191211-SD408.pdf
January 3, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Happy Hogmanay!
January 1, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.benpettis.ninja/@bpettis/115765729291567605

Apparently the 60 Minutes segment titled "Inside CECOT", reported by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, was abruptly pulled from the show's lineup just hours before its scheduled broadcast on December 21, 2025. It focused on El […]
December 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Good News! The Trump administration didn't do for Solstice what they did for Hanukkah!
December 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Feliz Solsticix!

Sunrise by Jean Beaufort CC0
December 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Some passages from an excellent Rebecca Solnit essay on the relationship between feminism and the significance of exposing Epstein and Trump and others. https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-versus-trump-and-epstein/
Feminism has been a long campaign to give women equal rights, to make us equal in society, under the law, and in access to power. It has radically changed the social landscape and of course it has also not yet changed it nearly enough. Undoing something so embedded in this culture for so long - not centuries but millennia - is not a failure if it has not finished the job in a matter of decades. People who do not think feminism has done much forget how different things were before that wave washed over everything. The very language to identify sexual harrassment and marital rape had yet to be coined, and marital rape was not a crime (likewise, domestic violence was a more neutral term for what was then called wife-beating, and feminists delegitimized it and invented the domestic violence shelter). Women were largely banned by law and custom from almost all positions of power. The justification was our supposed physical, intellectual, and moral inferiority and our lesser value. Which meant that women were not believed about rape, were blamed for rape, were shamed for rape, were terrorized and punished and ostracized for speaking up, and were often told that they were attempting to ruin a man's life rather than that he should face consequences for violating theirs, because his life mattered more than hers. That inferiority extended to the only recently partially dismantled idea that women are somehow more unreliable, subjective, delusional, vindictive than men, and therefore less to be believed when the subject is rape or related gender violence. There is no other crime in which the victim is so routinely treated as the guilty person to be put on trial. All this was a form of silencing that protected perpetrators and made women and children more vulnerable to violence and abuse. The Epstein case is a prime example.
December 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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markiswrit.ing
Planning a visit to the USA just so somebody has to read my posts
December 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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@creating #tdc5074
Find A Map
I spent a lot of time hawking "Skittles" on Gaming Hill at the original Renaissance Pleasure Faire in the years after this map was made.
#wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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@creating #tdc5073
Unlikely Meetups on a Bookshelf
Avalokiteśvara and Kokopelli
#wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate
December 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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@creating #tdc5064
Photogram it
Make a digital photogram without the need for special paper or chemicals.
I desaturated a cross section of a nautilus shell.
#wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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@creating #tdc5060
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
At a low point in my life I was dreaming I caught a ride in a pickup truck at night and a bobcat appeared to protect me. I don’t particularly believe in ‘spirit’ animals, but who knows?
#wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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JFK In 1961, after learning Patrice Lamumba was assassinated by the US.
The negatives of the family photographer were stored beneath WTC Tower 5 and destroyed on 9-11-2001.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography-blog/2013/sep/27/john-f-kennedy-jacques-lowe-photography
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/115579063281565177

I had forgotten: "In 2016 Saudi Arabia banned Jamal Khashoggi, a longtime editor, journalist and royal adviser from writing. His crime? He published an op-ed warning about the rise of Trump in 2016."
mastodon.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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@creating #tdc5059
Cool down our planet. Show us the “Life Star” that comes to cool down our planet and save life on Earth.
“My Son” by SurFeRGiRL30 on Flickr, used under CC BY 2.0 / Remixed by me
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Red haired child in blue shirt and shorts stands barefoot on sandy beach, facing ocean. Large footprints lead from water's foamy edge to child, under a clear, gray sky.
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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#tdc5056 My latest music discovery.
In an Open Networked Learning course #onl252 offered by Karlstad University, Sweden, I met David Stackenäs, a music professor and jazz guitarist. He performs with the composer Mattias Risbergs in his group Mining. I love […]

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November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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@creating #tdc5055 ASCII Art
A 60s portrait remixed with a 60s technology!
#wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@dcdeejay/115556076884644458

It was also his 95th birthday. It took 4 hours to assess his threat level.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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@creating #tdc5053
Make a Van Gogh
Recycling one from #western106
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November 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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@creating #tdc5052 ♟ You’re turning into a chess piece. Which one will you become?
I’m just a pawn on the chessboard of life. At least I have my own chessboard!
#wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Cloverdale, a tiny town in Sonoma County, California, is being invaded by secretive investors who want to build a new "town."

Of course, the backers of "Esmeralda" have very deep ties to the Network State cult and Peter Thiel.

My notes:

www.thenerdreich.com/esmeralda-ne...
Esmeralda: Network State comes for Cloverdale
The questions no one is asking about strange new California ‘town’
www.thenerdreich.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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@creating #tdc5051
Write a message to the boss of #ds106 (whoever that might be!) to tell them five things that you did last week.
Last week I:
a) Made Daily Creates
b) Remixed early Daily Shoots from 2009
c) Gathered DS106ers on combobulating.net for the Reclaim Open 2025 conference
d) […]
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November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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@creating #tdc5050 Find 3 things you feel hopeful about and write them down.
An old friend has become the chair of my graduate institute's board of trustees.
I’m working with several educators to transform distance education in MIT’s U-Lab Presencing Institute and the Open Networked Learning 252 […]
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November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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@creating #tdc5049 Yourself As A Classic TV Star I always wanted to be the Beaver in Leave It To Beaver. There were no TV shows a decade or two before I was born. ; )
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November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@Geri/115521093306717252

The chief executive of BBC News Deborah Turness has also resigned.
https://news.sky.com/story/tim-davie-resigns-as-bbcs-director-general-13467527
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November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM