Mark G
@markedward17.bsky.social
Sommelier, artist & essayist.
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Mark G
@markedward17.bsky.social
· Apr 28
Before and After:
“Just slap a cross and a blond wig on it. I hear Pete’s makeup guy is good…”
“Just slap a cross and a blond wig on it. I hear Pete’s makeup guy is good…”
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“As a result, we are not getting much closer to the truth about many of the fundamental facts of how Epstein ran his sex-trafficking ring, spun his favors and kept some of the most powerful men on the planet in his orbit.”
The truth from @mollyjongfast.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
The truth from @mollyjongfast.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
Opinion | The Epstein Files Should Not Have Been Released This Way
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“As a result, we are not getting much closer to the truth about many of the fundamental facts of how Epstein ran his sex-trafficking ring, spun his favors and kept some of the most powerful men on the planet in his orbit.”
The truth from @mollyjongfast.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
The truth from @mollyjongfast.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
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If you work at CBS and have thoughts on Bari Weiss’ lectures, please reach out. aperez.03 on signal.
thanks and happy holidays 🙏
thanks and happy holidays 🙏
December 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you work at CBS and have thoughts on Bari Weiss’ lectures, please reach out. aperez.03 on signal.
thanks and happy holidays 🙏
thanks and happy holidays 🙏
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a nice message to all of your beleaguered employees reminding them that the only person who's good at their job is the boss, so stop questioning her decisions
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
a nice message to all of your beleaguered employees reminding them that the only person who's good at their job is the boss, so stop questioning her decisions
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Anyone want to absolutely make my Christmas Eve and pick up something from me shop?
Some jerk hit my car and drove off when I was in a store getting xmas gifts ;; the damage isn't too bad but it's still going to be a chunk of $$$ to fix so if anyone needs a gift or treat for themselves, please share and check out my shop ♡
Placecalledbliss.bigcartel.com
Placecalledbliss.bigcartel.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Anyone want to absolutely make my Christmas Eve and pick up something from me shop?
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Sometimes I wish you had a nemesis more worthy of you. One of the insults of our age is that weak minds like this guy’s get elevated to such heights that we really do have an obligation to take them seriously.
December 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Sometimes I wish you had a nemesis more worthy of you. One of the insults of our age is that weak minds like this guy’s get elevated to such heights that we really do have an obligation to take them seriously.
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I have recently been made aware that Slash performed on Letterman with Carole King. It's a good thing there's video because people would say we made the 1990s up.
December 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I have recently been made aware that Slash performed on Letterman with Carole King. It's a good thing there's video because people would say we made the 1990s up.
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The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
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Did you know that Pee Wee's Christmas special is available to watch on YouTube any time you want?? youtu.be/NRvtOGLzpvE?...
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special: FULL Episode in 1080 HD!
YouTube video by Pee-wee Herman
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Did you know that Pee Wee's Christmas special is available to watch on YouTube any time you want?? youtu.be/NRvtOGLzpvE?...
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ahem.
December 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
ahem.
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lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
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Everyone says "impeccable" but no one uses peccable. I'm going to make this happen, especially on this app with how people be carrying on here.
December 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Everyone says "impeccable" but no one uses peccable. I'm going to make this happen, especially on this app with how people be carrying on here.
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Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
There’s like a dozen things that are wrong about this statement.
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
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Honestly Bari Weiss being named as the editor in chief of CBS gives me a weird sense of peace. She’s a propagandist to be sure but she’s also an incredibly lazy charlatan and I don’t think her new owners nor her understand just how incompetent she is nor how badly this will end
December 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
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This is so very very ding dang sweet. I may/may not have cried. Love - you know? It's a whole thing!
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...
youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...
I Talked To 50 Dads at the Taylor Swift Eras Tour
YouTube video by DARK WEB | Paul Scheer & Rob Huebel
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This is so very very ding dang sweet. I may/may not have cried. Love - you know? It's a whole thing!
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Essentially the entirety of the US corporate, media and tech world bent the knee to the biggest crop of idiot losers ever to run the government
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Essentially the entirety of the US corporate, media and tech world bent the knee to the biggest crop of idiot losers ever to run the government
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I'm sorry for sounding like a broken record. Truly. It's just that it is going to take two generations, maybe more, to undo much of the utterly avoidable damage that the US administration is doing right now, and for hundreds of thousands of people killed by USAID cuts it is already far too late.
December 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I'm sorry for sounding like a broken record. Truly. It's just that it is going to take two generations, maybe more, to undo much of the utterly avoidable damage that the US administration is doing right now, and for hundreds of thousands of people killed by USAID cuts it is already far too late.
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Of course
In our deep dive into Stephen Miller, we report that Miller praised Coolidge's 1924 restrictions even though an unpublished history of Miller's ancestry authored by his grandmother explicitly talked about how it closed the door on people like Miller's relatives:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Of course
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Northern Lights #2 - 2025
8x10" acrylic abstract original
placecalledbliss.bigcartel.com/product/northern-lights-2
#blueskynightmarket #painting
8x10" acrylic abstract original
placecalledbliss.bigcartel.com/product/northern-lights-2
#blueskynightmarket #painting
December 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Northern Lights #2 - 2025
8x10" acrylic abstract original
placecalledbliss.bigcartel.com/product/northern-lights-2
#blueskynightmarket #painting
8x10" acrylic abstract original
placecalledbliss.bigcartel.com/product/northern-lights-2
#blueskynightmarket #painting
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
An effort to make American media “look silly?!?” We don’t need the help!
From the Atlantic attempt to justify Bari Weiss' decision. What's Canadian for "perfidious Albion?"
December 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
An effort to make American media “look silly?!?” We don’t need the help!
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I am going to need someone to explain why I should give David Brook’ opinion more weight than some rando at the grocery store’s.
Seriously, how did anyone pick this guy to matter?
Seriously, how did anyone pick this guy to matter?
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I am going to need someone to explain why I should give David Brook’ opinion more weight than some rando at the grocery store’s.
Seriously, how did anyone pick this guy to matter?
Seriously, how did anyone pick this guy to matter?
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he was roughly my age. we grew up less than 10 miles away from one another. and yet his life was so drastically different from mine because of structural forces that say some Chicagoans' lives are worth more than others. that is what we must all be fighting against every day. he was not disposable.
March 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
he was roughly my age. we grew up less than 10 miles away from one another. and yet his life was so drastically different from mine because of structural forces that say some Chicagoans' lives are worth more than others. that is what we must all be fighting against every day. he was not disposable.
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the reason I am annoying about Rahm Emanuel is that the murder of Laquan McDonald and subsequent cover up was the single most radicalizing event of my life. I stopped watching the videos after that because the rage from what happened to Laquan McDonald will fuel me for the rest of my life.
March 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
the reason I am annoying about Rahm Emanuel is that the murder of Laquan McDonald and subsequent cover up was the single most radicalizing event of my life. I stopped watching the videos after that because the rage from what happened to Laquan McDonald will fuel me for the rest of my life.
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After months of trying to conduct oversight of Broadview Processing Center, I finally gained access.
The conditions are inhumane.
We must hold DHS and Secretary Noem accountable for the pain and terror they are inflicting in our communities.
The conditions are inhumane.
We must hold DHS and Secretary Noem accountable for the pain and terror they are inflicting in our communities.
December 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
After months of trying to conduct oversight of Broadview Processing Center, I finally gained access.
The conditions are inhumane.
We must hold DHS and Secretary Noem accountable for the pain and terror they are inflicting in our communities.
The conditions are inhumane.
We must hold DHS and Secretary Noem accountable for the pain and terror they are inflicting in our communities.