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
"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
"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
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
More undercutting the middle / professional class, a war that has been going on for 50 years. And which we are losing might add. 😡😳
Already deported to Egypt with his parents? 😄😳🤪
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Already deported to Egypt with his parents? 😄😳🤪
Exit strategy? What’s that? 😄🤪🙄
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Exit strategy? What’s that? 😄🤪🙄
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.”
“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
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.”
“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.”
😳😢😡
“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).
“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
😳😢😡
“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).
“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).
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
‘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
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
‘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
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
‘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
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
‘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
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”
“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
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”
“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”
Or as I’ve heard: “Plains apes with nucs.”
November 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Or as I’ve heard: “Plains apes with nucs.”
What 60 Minutes chose not to share. I wonder why?🤪😡
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
What 60 Minutes chose not to share. I wonder why?🤪😡
His own people have spoken.
October 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
His own people have spoken.
We’re going about this wrong.
Fear bypasses rationally. It leads to chaos. The universal tool of despotism.
But the love that flows between those open to it is the strongest power in the universe.
Let those of like mind connect with one another and create this Movement of Restoration. Help me.
Fear bypasses rationally. It leads to chaos. The universal tool of despotism.
But the love that flows between those open to it is the strongest power in the universe.
Let those of like mind connect with one another and create this Movement of Restoration. Help me.
October 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
We’re going about this wrong.
Fear bypasses rationally. It leads to chaos. The universal tool of despotism.
But the love that flows between those open to it is the strongest power in the universe.
Let those of like mind connect with one another and create this Movement of Restoration. Help me.
Fear bypasses rationally. It leads to chaos. The universal tool of despotism.
But the love that flows between those open to it is the strongest power in the universe.
Let those of like mind connect with one another and create this Movement of Restoration. Help me.
‘And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted." The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
September 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
‘And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted." The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
Because hey, why not? 😳
September 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Because hey, why not? 😳
The irony here is that it was probably his choice to do the right thing and call out Trump on the release of the Epstein files that got Charlie Kirk killed. 😳😢
September 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The irony here is that it was probably his choice to do the right thing and call out Trump on the release of the Epstein files that got Charlie Kirk killed. 😳😢
Well, there you have it!
September 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Well, there you have it!
Good on CA for their response to the petty childishness of the orange goblin.
September 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Good on CA for their response to the petty childishness of the orange goblin.
In case you couldn’t get to it:
August 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In case you couldn’t get to it:
An amble in the woods.
August 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
An amble in the woods.