Mark

@arkmashton

"[O]f all the emotions – and indifference, too, because even indifference is an emotion of a sort – only love sees the unveiled truth." – Gene Wolfe, Return to the Whorl

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Mark@arkmashton· 3d

Saved myself some embarrassment with a simple search

A Bluesky search field containing the text “tolkienmaxxing”

Mark@arkmashton· 29d

Downtown Chicago smells like a bbq pit

A photo of downtown buildings with the Chicago river in the foreground. Smoke from Canadian wildfires is prevalent.

Mark@arkmashton· Jul 13

I’ve never visited Western Springs before, so I was surprised by this lovely old water tower downtown. Originally it housed the police department and city offices below the water tank. Now it’s a historical museum.

A 19th century water tower. The first three floors are stone and the area above is made of brick with decorative recesseses

Mark@arkmashton· Jun 29

Gas fire pits are a terrible compromise and a nice wood fire is always much better

Norman Rockwell’s painting “Freedom of Speech” showing a blue collar working man standing up to address a meeting, while men in suits look up at him admiringly

Mark@arkmashton· Jun 29

This is my kind of guy

"Usually an X plane is kind of bare-bones-'cobble it together from a bunch of parts from other airplanes and just demonstrate one thing," said Jim "Clue" Less, a NASA test pilot and aerospace engineer, in an

Mark@arkmashton· Jun 26

Yay

Mark@arkmashton· Jun 23

Screenshot from Wikipedia. “Did you know…” followed by a picture of beans on toast captioned “Beans on toast”

Mark@arkmashton· Jun 15

Edited text from a wikipedia article: "Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s), also known as "Joey Baloney," was a French violinist, conductor, composer and soldier of African descent. Moreover, he demonstrated"

Mark@arkmashton· May 29

This is a Cambridge-educated spy, I mean, come ON

Upon his arrival in Moscow in January 1963, Philby discovered that he was not a colonel in the KGB, as he had been led to believe. He was paid 500 roubles a

Mark@arkmashton· May 15

I’m a simple man and all I want is to work in this environment

50s-era power plant control center with banks of pale green cabinets full of analog buttons, dials, gauges, and lights

Mark@arkmashton· May 1

Happy Friday

A can of Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter

Mark@arkmashton· Apr 24

Won’t somebody PLEASE think about the weapons!

New York Times headline: “War in Iran Has
Drained U.S. Supplies of Critical, Costly Weapons”

Mark@arkmashton· Apr 16

Every time I see RFK Jr I think of this guy

A strange bloated orange character with bulging eyes from Case of the Golden Idol

Mark@arkmashton· Feb 17

I will never complain about Hollywood remaking a movie again

A headline from Google News: “The 32 Best (and Worst) Wuthering Heights
Adaptations”

Mark@arkmashton· Feb 14

A freebie for all the fellas on Valentine’s Day. Send this screenshot to your special lady and tell her apparently the NYT doesn’t know about her

A screenshot of the New York Times spelling bee game showing “MEGABABE” as “Not in word list”

Mark@arkmashton· Feb 11

Users who aren't verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won't be able to speak in Discord's livestream-like "stage" channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

Mark@arkmashton· Feb 10

Oh. Right.

Screen shot of a definition from m-w.com.

baraboo noun
bara boo bara bü
plural -S
: a disinterred monadnock

Mark@arkmashton· Feb 10

You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/u...

Mark@arkmashton· Jan 31

Oh it was Great St. James

Island with a sign reading “GREAT ST. JAMES ISLAND FOR SALE”

Mark@arkmashton· Jan 26

Belch

Kyle Monangai showed Bears he can do this one thing thunderously if called upon

Mark@arkmashton· Jan 26

I love this

Lotito holds the record for the
"strangest diet" in the Guinness Book of Records. He was awarded a plaque, made of brass, by the publishers to commemorate his abilities. He ate his award.

Mark@arkmashton· Jan 25

“As there is with any officer-involved shooting, there will be a complete and comprehensive investigation …”

Mark@arkmashton· Jan 23

Huh. ok

A warning message from a website: "The username 'FeralDonkey' is too similar to the following username:
* Feraldonkey
Please choose another username."

Mark@arkmashton· Jan 22

Results of a warhammer 40k personality test. 90% orks, 80% Tau, 75% Eldar, 65% Tyranids, 50% Necrons, 20% chaos, 15% imperium and 15% dark eldar

Mark@arkmashton· Jan 15

I just finished This is How You Lose the Time War. I am trying to avoid talking too much about things I dislike, but I found this review useful.

Aaron's review
...
*
Jan 26, 2020
Me: No one could ever make a story about two genetically engineered super soldiers fighting a time-travel war boring.
El-Mohtar and Gladstone: Hold our pretentious beverage

Mark@arkmashton· Jan 6

A graph from YouGov showing the results of a poll: Would you support or oppose the U.S. using military force to take control of Greenland? 7% support, 72% oppose, 21% aren't sure.

Mark@arkmashton· Jan 3

Posing with a legend

Me in front of an OA-10 Catalina at the National Museum of the US Air Force

Mark@arkmashton· Jan 1

Carthusian monk. First of the 40 martyrs of England. He and his brothers made every possible concession to Henry VIII’s laws, but could not take the oath of supremacy naming him head of the English church. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered with two other Carthusian priors.

Screenshot from a saint’s name generator, displaying St. John Houston as my saint of the year.

Mark@arkmashton· Dec 27

My face when a mutual independently discovers Case of the Golden Idol

A horrible grinning mask from Case of the Golden Idol

Mark@arkmashton· Dec 18

Gave up on that Aquinas I was trying to read