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Marco Rogers
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Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know.
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This is dope. I want to highly light this part. This is what government is for. Wealth redistribution. Take money from companies who are hoarding it. Use that money to help ease the burden on everyone else. The details matter, but it's not more complicated than that.
Quote: "Slightly larger in area than the United Kingdom, with only 2.1 million people, the state will fund universal child care — estimated to cost $600 million annually — largely with interest from its Early Childhood Education and Care Fund. The fund has grown to around $10 billion primarily from oil and gas taxes since it was set up in 2020. The sector generates about half of total state revenue."
November 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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It's alive! First try!
October 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Forgot the photos.
Photo of the inside of a PC case. Many components have been installed. A medium sized GPU card, a fancy-looking pump on top of the CPU, RAM sticks, etc. A second photo of the PC case. Wider shit that shows the 3 large cooling fans. The sides and top of the case are still bare. Not quite complete.
October 19, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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First PC build. Wish us luck.
A photo of a large table. There is an empty PC case standing up on the table. And there are PC parts and instruction manuals strewn all across the table.
October 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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A short tale, in 3 parts.
Screenshot of a reply on bluesky to an unidentified person. "Asking you to make a statement about white people the same way you made a statement about Black people is whataboutism? Daniel I want you to think real hard about what your goal is here." A screenshot of reply to an unidentified person. Second in a series. "Ah, you're one of those 'I will subdue people with my superior logic' folks. No thanks Daniel. Let's leave it here." Final screenshot of a reply to an unidentified person on bluesky. Third in a series. It simply says "Good for you. Take care Daniel." Above it, the original message is gone and it says "Post blocked", indicating that the recipient has chosen to block me.
October 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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A screenshot of my phone. It says "The Smart One".
October 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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This is what it looks like for me now.
Screenshot of a post by Mina Markham. It shows her post "I'm on Black Sky's PDS and use my same custom domain." Her handle is the custom domain minamarkh.am. Underneath her profile photo is a label that says "blacksky.app".
October 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Ever since I started taking stimulants for ADHD, I can't drink coffee anymore. The stimulants do the job, and drinking more caffeine makes me jittery and keeps me up at night. But I miss my morning coffee ritual.
A coffee cup and a glazed donut sitting on a small table outside in the sunshine.
August 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I know it's giving 2000s Ed Hardy, but I promise it's not. Who recognizes it?
Mirror selfie of me. I'm wearing jeans and a cream-colored shirt. The shirt has a large illustration on it. It looks like a large steampunk structure.
July 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I've been talking about this for a long time. I'm tired.
Screenshot of a tweet by me. I'm responding to a post that says capital punishment seems to be the solution for those truly unrepentant of their actions. My tweet says the following: "This never works. The problem with every form of punitive punishment is that we have no way of ensuring that only the reasonable people are allowed to decide. The evil people themselves will always end up wielding it at some point. We have to let it go." The post is dated Oct 2020.
July 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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the old me vs the new me
Keanu Reeves in John Wick. Battered and bruised, holding a gun in his signature style, pointed towards the camera. Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Clean shaven, meticulous suit, every hair in place. Wearing a look of naivete and innocence.
June 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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lol. How pathetic.
June 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Counterpoint. If you do this then you don't get to spend $400 on a dope ass keyboard.
Photo of the keyboard tray on my desk. On top is a split keyboard with rainbow lights underneath the keys. It's got an unusual design with big buttons sticking out where the spacebar usually sits. Sitting under the keyboard is a long rectangle device that is hard to identify. (It's my mouse. Ask me about it.)
May 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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From the article:
Interviewer: So some people have described CECOT as basically a black hole. Is that accurate? Dada: I think it is a good description. No one can enter this prison. Relatives of the prisoners cannot visit them. They are not allowed to receive anything from outside. According to President Bukele, they don’t see the light of the sun ever.
April 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Post a movie from the year you turned 18
Gif of a scene from the movie Deep Blue Sea. Samuel L Jackson is giving a rallying speech when he is suddenly and violently grabbed by a shark and pulled into the water.
April 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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A few thoughts I've had in the past about how hard it must be to give up white supremacy.
Screenshot of a tweet by me: "This was a revelation for me as well, so I don't mean to be condescending here. But we all need to educate ourselves on how white supremacy works. It's not magic. It is a concrete ideology. It is a promise to white people of how they will prosper. It is *compelling*." Screenshot of a tweet by me: "I've talked about this before. I have some sympathy for the journey of white people who are trying to find some sense of self. Watching people who look like you willfully destroy everything, exactly like history has shown. And you've spent your whole life denying. Sounds hard."
April 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I would say this is my most comfortable style. Just solid color patterns. But I've been raising my accessory game up and it makes a big difference. Nice watch, chain, and sunglasses make you look like money.
Photo of me taking a mirror selfie. I'm wearing dark jeans and a long sleeve turquoise shirt. Accessorized with a nice silver and gold watch, gold-rimmed sunglasses and a silver chain.
March 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This is new. I haven't worn it yet, but I really like it. My wife picked out the shirt. I'm not sure I would have picked it up on my own. But the Levi's denim jacket really set it off. The jacket is pricey, but I got it on sale. The shirt was $12. Mixing nice pieces with cheaper things works well.
Photo of me taking a mirror selfie. I'm wearing dark jeans and a bright patterned shirt. Purples, blues and greens in watercolor type splotches on white. Photo of me taking a mirror selfie. I'm wearing dark jeans and a bright patterned shirt. Purples, blues and greens in watercolor type splotches on white. Dark demin jacket over the shirt.
March 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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This is what I'm wearing today. I've been having a hard time understanding how to make patterned shirts look good on me. I think this is working though.
Photo of me taking a mirror selfie. I'm wearing olive green slacks and a patterned shirt with blues and browns. Brown walking shoes gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses.
March 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I've talked about this a lot in the past. This reminded me of a particular moment of clarity that I had in 2020.
Screenshot of 2 tweets by me: "The people we are battling right now are not unique. Their ideas are not new. The depths of their evil and violence is not an unknown. This has all happened before. In this same way. In this same place. This is history in an unbroken line that we can actually see with our eyes. Now I’m not saying that everybody should already know this. Learning history is hard. And we know that America is dedicated to not teaching it. We all have to be educated. But the difference between me and Nate is that the education is visited upon my body. I cannot deny it."
March 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Y’all think I’m playing? It’s weird to have twitter as a living record of my own evolution. I can watch my understanding of who Musk is change over time.
Tweet by me. Dated August of 2013. “I’m not gonna lie. I wanna buy a Tesla car more now, just to help Elon Musk continue his crazy disruption experiments.” Screenshot of a tweet by me. Dated February of 2017. “I used to be a fan of Elon Musk. I bought into the hero story about the genius entrepreneur and his amazing technological advancements.” Screenshot of a tweet by me. Dated June. Of 2017. “I’m open to the idea that Musk learned a lot and now understands why it was a bad idea. But I’d like to hear him talk about it.” Screenshot of a tweet reply by me. Dated July of 2018. “Sure Jan. Either way. This isn’t an argument. I don’t need you in my mentions telling me you don’t agree. I don’t give a shit. Even if Musk did put us on Mars, I would still call him a shithead.”
February 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I know this is making me sound like a conspiracy theorist to some people. But we actually know this. We learned about their texting backchannels when it was all made public in the Twitter v Musk lawsuit.
Screenshot of a tweet by me. It paraphrases a text conversation between Elon Musk and Larry Ellison that was made public during the Twitter v Musk trial. Musk asking other billionaires to help fund the twitter takeover.
February 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Reached the last page on my primary notebook today. For personal reasons that I can't share, the timing of it feels very poignant and sad.
A photo I took of my notebook. It's opened, and on the left is the last lined page. On the right is a blank page with no lines. And I've written on it "The End".
February 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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This is one of the things I was saying back when Juneteenth became an official holiday. It's nice to have a record of these things.
Screenshot of a tweet from me: "I want to put this together with my previous thread. What's the difference between surface level and "substantive" change? For me it's this. As long as people who clearly seek to maintain white supremacy get to wield power, we didn't change anything."
January 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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From my inbox.

I find that it's helpful to replace DEI with "caring about underrepresented people" in your head when you read coverage. It gives the right perspective on how to understand what's happening.
Screenshot of an email from the New York Times. The subject reads "For You: D.E.I. Will Not Be Missed".
January 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM