Mark Hatlestad
mhatlest.bsky.social
Mark Hatlestad
@mhatlest.bsky.social
Musician, violist, educator, social democrat, cat enthusiast
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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jimmy fallon has a knack for embracing scams
December 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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everyone needs to start pirating movies and TV shows again NOW
Netflix Wins the Warner Bros. Discovery Bidding War, Enters Exclusive Deal Talks (Netflix offering $30 a share and a $5 billion break-up fee) www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”

Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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December 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Has this been posted yet
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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This was a real Turning Point USA meme and Goth Miss Frizzle had the perfect response to it
November 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Well that was fucking incredible. He cast a charm spell on the most odious man alive.
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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MAGA: Trump is going to strip Mamdani of his citizenship!

Trump: I’d like to see Mamdani strip
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Bluesky rn
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Baseball, like everything else in the US, would be way more boring without any foreign-born people.
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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i don't understand why they're called the toronto blue jays and not the toronto baseballs. i'll never understand it. same with the dodgers, they should be called the baseballs too. more people should be like me and speak out when they see that something is wrong
October 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I wrote a short poem reflecting on the current state of this country.
I hope we can once again strive for the universalist principals that made our country great.
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM