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"[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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Latest posts by arkmashton.bsky.social on Bluesky

Churchill is such a neat concept

04.11.2025 03:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What, you want me to create and return a function-local variable like some kind of plebe?!

03.11.2025 22:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ok, a balk is when

03.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bears-Bengals might have been the craziest football game I’ve ever seen

02.11.2025 21:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How is it possible that sports writers still write “untracked” when they mean “on track”

02.11.2025 12:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Alejandro Kirk is why baseball is still the best

02.11.2025 01:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I like that Ohtani tips his cap to the ump before every at bat

02.11.2025 00:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Link from Tears of the kingdom, skydiving

Link from Tears of the kingdom, skydiving

Computer, what’s that? Zoom … enhance … hm thought so

02.11.2025 00:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe you could live on the streets of Mackinac island

01.11.2025 21:13 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Big shoutout to all the members of the church triumphant, today’s your day

01.11.2025 19:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now that is a cute puppy

01.11.2025 18:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This week and next penn state has the chance to do the funniest thing ever 🤞

01.11.2025 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Watching college football with the local radio announcers is the way to go. So much better than the tv audio

01.11.2025 17:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

11am on Saturday, time to watch 3.5 hours of gambling ads

01.11.2025 16:06 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe there is a real backlash, because the mainstream opinion of religion does seem to be that it’s an entirely private matter that must not ever affect our relations with others in any manner

01.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A New York Times headline: “Vance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash”

A New York Times headline: “Vance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash”

An actual backlash, or a handful of terminally online people and we’re reporting on it to stoke controversy?

01.11.2025 15:59 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🤮

01.11.2025 15:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Kim Kardashian presidency is going to be wild

01.11.2025 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He’s been a known quantity for a long time

01.11.2025 14:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Candy before beer, in the clear.
Beer before candy, Hurricane Sandy.

31.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of a Bluesky timeline. Oak Blanco says “seriously scaring some children tonight by showing them what a lifetime of computer use does to a mf” followed by a post from Weird Christmas consisting of a black and white photo of a person wearing a horrifyingly deformed homemade Halloween mask.

Screenshot of a Bluesky timeline. Oak Blanco says “seriously scaring some children tonight by showing them what a lifetime of computer use does to a mf” followed by a post from Weird Christmas consisting of a black and white photo of a person wearing a horrifyingly deformed homemade Halloween mask.

#synchronicity

31.10.2025 20:48 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Vance becomes president, issues an executive order requiring his wife and children to love him

31.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sounds about right!

31.10.2025 13:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I guess since their most expensive contract has expired they’ll be lowering monthly rates right

31.10.2025 03:45 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very interesting and a little alarming

30.10.2025 21:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Chanticleer probably also a good guess

30.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tallis Scholars!

30.10.2025 18:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I'll take incongruous phrases for $1000

30.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"The rock stars of Renaissance vocal music"

-- New York Times

30.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Will have to check this out when it posts! Are you aware of St. Stephen's cemetery in Wheaton? Dates to ~1850, access was cut off by the Great Western railway, and it's only accessible from the bike path now. A favorite odd place near me. maps.app.goo.gl/FX3Tju9ucnkd...

30.10.2025 16:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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