Mark M PDX
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Mark M PDX
@mrbadger42.bsky.social
I am a writer. I dream for my world. Retired SW/FW eng. Agile and Open Source Advocate. Tech PM. Portland OR. Progressive views are my own. 😄
#beekeeping #pacificcresttrail #3Dprinting #writing #SciFi #fantasy #SpeculativeFiction #chess
❤️ Agreed 100%. We can reach for the societal stars… or we can sink back and disappear into the primal shame of failed civilizations. I believe there is no longer any middle road.

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America Isn’t a Democracy—And Only Cross-Racial Solidarity Can Change That
The Princeton Study, Haiti’s example, and 250 years of history all point to the same truth: oligarchies fall only when the people refuse to be divided.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased [the rest lost to character restrictions]..." ~ Sam Adams
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
More undercutting the middle / professional class, a war that has been going on for 50 years. And which we are losing might add. 😡😳
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Already deported to Egypt with his parents? 😄😳🤪
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Just saw Nuremberg.

It’s not just them. It is all of humanity.

It seems to me that humanity is really two species, trying to figure out which is which.

People who love power seem to be able to find each other. Why can’t those of Goodwill also find one another?
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Nuremberg (2025 film) - Wikipedia
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November 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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It looks like Lindsey Halligan misled a grand jury, prosecutorial conduct equivalent to committing perjury, in order to manufacture an indictment against James Comey for…

wait for it…

perjury.
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
“When someone tells you who they are, believe them.” This IS who he is! 😳😡

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Really American (@reallyamerican)
Every woman needs to see this - montage of 19 clips showing Trump insulting, berating and attacking female reporters just for doing their jobs. This is how he treats women. Share this - make it go v...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Exit strategy? What’s that? 😄🤪🙄
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
To have free will, consciousness, love we must be made from something larger that has those properties - my definition of “God”.

“In a … holistic universe, the parts … must contain the essence of the whole, cannot be separated from it, the whole must still be capable of influencing the parts.”
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
In the name of progress, man is transforming the world into a fetid and poisonous place…it is legitimate to ask whether, in a 100 years, it will still be possible to live on Earth (Erich Fromm, Anatomy of Human Destructiveness).

Quoted in: “Irreducible” by Federico Faggin
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 AM
😳😢😡

“In the name of progress, man is transforming the world into a fetid and poisonous place…to the point that it is legitimate to ask whether, in a hundred years, it will still be possible to live on Earth” (Erich Fromm, Anatomy of Human Destructiveness).
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
We’ll see.

‘Massie warned his colleagues: “By 2030, [Trump’s] not gonna be the president, and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don’t vote to release those files. The record of this vote will last longer than Donald Trump’s presidency.”’

www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/resistance...
Trump Faces Rejection In North Carolina, Rebellion In Congress, and Looming Defeat On Epstein Transparency—The Resistance Has Momentum
A big win is within reach
www.dworkinsubstack.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I have to remind myself of this every day. It is a privilege to be “In the game” no matter how things seem.

‘When you wake up in the morning, remember what a precious privilege it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to feel joy, and to love.’ — Marcus Aurelius
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 AM
From Substack:

‘BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein survivors just released this incredibly touching Public Service Announcement.

Make it go viral!

Trump is so disgusting for covering us up.’

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Krassenstein (@krassenstein)
BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein survivors just released this incredibly touching Public Service Announcement. Make it go viral! Trump is so disgusting for covering us up.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
‘We tell ourselves the bad parts of history “ended.” They didn’t. They migrated upstream into intelligence, privatized into blackmail networks, and now sit at the top of global capital. This is the Boss Level map — the continuity they buried.’

commonsenserebel.substack.com/p/a-century-...
A Century-Old Nazi Operation Became the Financial Elite
What Survived 1945 Now Sits at the Top of Global Capital.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The most remarkable enigma is the mind which can contemplate it.

‘Certainly, the greatest and most extraordinary enigma, even more than the universe, is our mind, of which we still know very little, much less than what it has understood of the universe.’

- "Irreducible" by Federico Faggin
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Love it!
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Trump just told reporters on Air Force One that he hasn’t ruled out a pardon for Ghislane Maxwell
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
We are indeed fearfully and wonderfully made!

“The most important lesson that AI has taught us is to appreciate and recognize for the first time the enormous power and subtlety of the human mind.”

- "Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature" by Federico Faggin”
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
They traded liberty for (supposed) safety. They will get neither.

substack.com/@thedangerou...
The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones)
This is BRILLIANT. Watch the whole thing. 🔥
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November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Gautama Buddha said: “When you find out who you are, you will laugh at what you thought you were…”

(A good read for those who are fascinated by the intersection of QFT, GR, & the Meaning of Life, the Universe, & Everything.)

😄 Right? Except I’m not joking.

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Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature|Paperback
Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which ...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM