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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭

@ajaanmark.bsky.social

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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

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

Durian!

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

a man in a suit and tie is sitting on a couch with his legs crossed talking to another man .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting on a couch with his legs crossed talking to another man .

media.tenor.com

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

Rebel rebel?

"Rabble rabble" makes no sense to me.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

They don't have flats right 🤣

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

Aha! Thanks 🙏

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 5h

Just imagine how great they'll be when they get down to 10%!

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 5h

The land was there before us
Was the land. Then things
Began happening fast. Because
The bombs us have always work
Sometimes it makes me think

- Lorenzo Thomas, "Inauguration"

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/10/2/us-has

Us has: Lorenzo Thomas' "Inauguration" — alina Ştefănescu

Inauguration The land was there before us Was the land. Then things Began happening fast. Because The bombs us have always work Sometimes it makes me think God must be one of us. Because Us has save...

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

Yes.

Anyway it's got me enthusiastic to watch more of the tournament. And I still think Pakistan have a lot of skills, but perhaps need more experience.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

Man, that's some weird shit

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

Same.

Weird to think someone coined it. I associate it with slightly pompous writing. I don't like it.*

*Not an argument against neologisms and language change

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah. Is it new-ish? I remember finding it quite jarring the first time I saw it.

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

They accounted for about a hundred runs in their partnership I think? And King isn't considered a batter!

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

I think maybe venerable. Maybe.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 1d

Keep seeing ‘storied institution’ and as a UK English speaker that’s such an odd-sounding thing.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

Perhaps!

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 5h

Watching Robert Redford do some intricate stuff with a rotary telephone he stole from a telephone worker I only vaguely understand and imagining this is how my grandkids will view dial-up Internet or something

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 5h

1/3 According to a Flemish folktale, bokkenrijders or buckriders, who were said to be thieves, ghosts, or sometimes even witches, and rode through the sky on the backs of goats in Flanders and the Netherlands, had stolen the Queen's laundry.

#WyrdWednesday

Art from Affiche: "De Bokkenrijder of het skelet." Opdrachtgever: Het Hollandsch Tooneel. Shows a buckrider riding through the sky. Castle in the far distance. Clouds.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

What are these things?

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 5h

1. Arrive in US from a South American country
2. Rouse some rabble
3. ????
4. In the ER somehow.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

Rabble backfired

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

The Mekong Review is most excellent and I'm grateful for the prompt to re-subscribe!

Mekong Review @mekongreview.com · 5h

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

Yup. Honestly I-ran and I-raq just suggests to me ignorant pseudo Texas cowboy types*

*May have one specific such person in mind

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

I stayed up chatting to a friend in The Philippines (3 hours time difference now because I'm in Sydney and daylight saving just started). Checked in and looks like Australia is close to bowling Pakistan out in quick order!

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5h

ih RAAN

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