Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭
@ajaanmark.bsky.social
From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
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😹🙊☠️ I literally burst out laughing.
“If the Earl of Changping was involved in tax embezzlement, his marriage alliance with him wouldn’t necessarily implicate him, but it would be like stepping in dog poop.”
#AmReading
“If the Earl of Changping was involved in tax embezzlement, his marriage alliance with him wouldn’t necessarily implicate him, but it would be like stepping in dog poop.”
#AmReading
February 8, 2026 at 4:22 PM
😹🙊☠️ I literally burst out laughing.
“If the Earl of Changping was involved in tax embezzlement, his marriage alliance with him wouldn’t necessarily implicate him, but it would be like stepping in dog poop.”
#AmReading
“If the Earl of Changping was involved in tax embezzlement, his marriage alliance with him wouldn’t necessarily implicate him, but it would be like stepping in dog poop.”
#AmReading
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The "Labour Illuminati" & the deep state will control the puppet strings of Rayner and install Streeting, says former prime minister Liz Truss, who also says Labour have nobody to compare to herself.
February 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The "Labour Illuminati" & the deep state will control the puppet strings of Rayner and install Streeting, says former prime minister Liz Truss, who also says Labour have nobody to compare to herself.
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If only the PM were a lawyer who understood this sort of distinction.
February 8, 2026 at 3:54 PM
If only the PM were a lawyer who understood this sort of distinction.
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Steeple
Syre, MN
Syre, MN
February 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Steeple
Syre, MN
Syre, MN
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British politics has lost a giant, a visionary.
Who else could have conceived a strategy of "Labour's route to power goes through middle England marginals and involves appearing economically credible"?
Who even believed it possible for a govt to alienate two thirds of its voters within 18 months?
Who else could have conceived a strategy of "Labour's route to power goes through middle England marginals and involves appearing economically credible"?
Who even believed it possible for a govt to alienate two thirds of its voters within 18 months?
February 8, 2026 at 3:53 PM
British politics has lost a giant, a visionary.
Who else could have conceived a strategy of "Labour's route to power goes through middle England marginals and involves appearing economically credible"?
Who even believed it possible for a govt to alienate two thirds of its voters within 18 months?
Who else could have conceived a strategy of "Labour's route to power goes through middle England marginals and involves appearing economically credible"?
Who even believed it possible for a govt to alienate two thirds of its voters within 18 months?
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Why are journalists obsessed with avocados? Does something bad involving avocados happen at journalism schools?
February 8, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Why are journalists obsessed with avocados? Does something bad involving avocados happen at journalism schools?
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Happy #SuperbOwlSunday!
Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me
#Archaeology
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Happy #SuperbOwlSunday!
Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me
#Archaeology
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*And* there's the chaser for tomorrow
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
*And* there's the chaser for tomorrow
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Now the King's Evil Counsellor is deposed we shall be govern'd well.
February 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Now the King's Evil Counsellor is deposed we shall be govern'd well.
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Hm, Morgan McSweeny has the same stress pattern as Eleanor Rigby.
February 8, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Hm, Morgan McSweeny has the same stress pattern as Eleanor Rigby.
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Weird picture of the day: 'Mysterious Stranger' by Gertrude Abercrombie.
#weird #weirdart #artsky #womensart #womenartists
#weird #weirdart #artsky #womensart #womenartists
February 8, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Weird picture of the day: 'Mysterious Stranger' by Gertrude Abercrombie.
#weird #weirdart #artsky #womensart #womenartists
#weird #weirdart #artsky #womensart #womenartists
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Right Prime Minister, this is an opportunity to dig us out of a hole for you appointing someone nicknamed "The Prince of Darkness", make it clear that you totally disavow McSweeney and blame him.
Gotcha.
How is Starmer so bad at this?
Gotcha.
How is Starmer so bad at this?
February 8, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Right Prime Minister, this is an opportunity to dig us out of a hole for you appointing someone nicknamed "The Prince of Darkness", make it clear that you totally disavow McSweeney and blame him.
Gotcha.
How is Starmer so bad at this?
Gotcha.
How is Starmer so bad at this?
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This is a fun variation on the Superb Owls.
This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
February 8, 2026 at 3:28 PM
This is a fun variation on the Superb Owls.
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McSweeney could never be as iconic as Cummings leaving Downing Street through the front door with his cunty box. What a queen.
February 8, 2026 at 3:24 PM
McSweeney could never be as iconic as Cummings leaving Downing Street through the front door with his cunty box. What a queen.
I thought most people go to the theatre for entertainment?
Director John Doyle has claimed content warnings "mollycoddle" audiences and said theatre should make people "uncomfortable".
Read more 👇
Read more 👇
John Doyle: Content warnings are mollycoddling audiences
Director John Doyle has claimed content warnings ‘mollycoddle’ audiences and said theatre should make people ‘uncomfortable’
www.thestage.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I thought most people go to the theatre for entertainment?
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The US economy.
"Nearly half the economic growth over the past year has come from the building of data centers. But that's a story about bricks, not about people."
February 8, 2026 at 3:24 PM
The US economy.
Prescient!
If Starmer lets him resign without firing him it will make him look incredibly weak
Morgan McSweeney is on the brink of resigning "on his own terms," according to the Sunday Times www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
February 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Prescient!
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You probably didn't know it's the Your Party Scotland founding conference right now.
I just tuned into a random piece of the recording to find someone accusing the EU of trying to subjugate Serbia and calling on the UK left to support "the struggle for Serbian sovereignty against the EU"
I just tuned into a random piece of the recording to find someone accusing the EU of trying to subjugate Serbia and calling on the UK left to support "the struggle for Serbian sovereignty against the EU"
February 7, 2026 at 1:28 PM
You probably didn't know it's the Your Party Scotland founding conference right now.
I just tuned into a random piece of the recording to find someone accusing the EU of trying to subjugate Serbia and calling on the UK left to support "the struggle for Serbian sovereignty against the EU"
I just tuned into a random piece of the recording to find someone accusing the EU of trying to subjugate Serbia and calling on the UK left to support "the struggle for Serbian sovereignty against the EU"
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Not promising for those pinning their hopes on a change of strategy.
Starmer said: "It’s been an honour working with Morgan McSweeney for many years."
Praises aide for turning Labour around "after one of its worst ever defeats and played a central role running our election campaign..
"Our party and I owe him a debt of gratitude, and I thank him for his service"
Praises aide for turning Labour around "after one of its worst ever defeats and played a central role running our election campaign..
"Our party and I owe him a debt of gratitude, and I thank him for his service"
February 8, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Not promising for those pinning their hopes on a change of strategy.
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Victim? VICTIM?!?
The Cork man at the heart of the UK Gov is the latest victim of the fallout from the Mandelson-Epstein scandals
Cork man Morgan McSweeney resigns as chief advisor to No. 10
Keir Starmer ally who 'masterminded' Labour landslide quits
www.corkbeo.ie
February 8, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Victim? VICTIM?!?
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As it's #SuperbOwlSunday - let's enjoy this lovely Red-Figure Kalpis, attributed to the 'Group of the Floral Nolans' at Athens, ca. 480-470 BC.
Truly, a Superb Owl. 😉
Image: J. Paul Getty Collection (86. AE.229). Link - getty.edu/art/collecti...
Truly, a Superb Owl. 😉
Image: J. Paul Getty Collection (86. AE.229). Link - getty.edu/art/collecti...
February 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
As it's #SuperbOwlSunday - let's enjoy this lovely Red-Figure Kalpis, attributed to the 'Group of the Floral Nolans' at Athens, ca. 480-470 BC.
Truly, a Superb Owl. 😉
Image: J. Paul Getty Collection (86. AE.229). Link - getty.edu/art/collecti...
Truly, a Superb Owl. 😉
Image: J. Paul Getty Collection (86. AE.229). Link - getty.edu/art/collecti...
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Look at Bangkok for the last four elections compared to this
A city that once was a royalist Democrat stronghold has become a blaring orange progressive bastion
I think that there's a really interesting story in there about Thai Millennials and Gen Z, economic development, and progressivism
A city that once was a royalist Democrat stronghold has become a blaring orange progressive bastion
I think that there's a really interesting story in there about Thai Millennials and Gen Z, economic development, and progressivism
February 8, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Look at Bangkok for the last four elections compared to this
A city that once was a royalist Democrat stronghold has become a blaring orange progressive bastion
I think that there's a really interesting story in there about Thai Millennials and Gen Z, economic development, and progressivism
A city that once was a royalist Democrat stronghold has become a blaring orange progressive bastion
I think that there's a really interesting story in there about Thai Millennials and Gen Z, economic development, and progressivism
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LDP about to beat its records in terms of seats gained (last set under PM Nakasone)
February 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
LDP about to beat its records in terms of seats gained (last set under PM Nakasone)