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Mark Tate
@markstate.bsky.social
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Inspired by: Michelle Obama Muhammad Ali Kamala AOC Ms Crockett numerous writers including Toni Morrison Basho Merwin. See www.markstephentate.com Walking Scarecrow (poems) won BLP Book of the Year (2023) ©️ posted poems. No DMs
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · Aug 26
I took this pic a few years ago but I’d like to dedicate it to my lovely wife of twenty plus years
A pic taken a few years ago dedicated to my lovely wife of twenty plus years
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 3h
The long and winding road
Beatles
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Cornelius von DeadDuck III, Jr. @cornduck3.bsky.social · 1d
#MusicChallenge
#LookAndSee (Day 218)
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 11h
What the actual fuck.
If you're not outraged yet, you aren't paying attention.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 12h
WHAT THE F*CK‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Chicago’s Reverend David Black of First Presbyterian has been assaulted multiple times by ICE agents during peaceful protest in the city‼️They shot a some kind of non lethal bullet at his head‼️
#PepperBall
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 3h
Afta you done usin it can I try submitting to Bsky as my face verification
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Bonnie Metcalf 215 pioneer @bonnie215.bsky.social · 6h
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 3h
B good and take care Hug Jazzy boy
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pm gibbs @pmgibbs.bsky.social · 4h
Rest well far coast friend, it’s raining here, my book is calling and Jazzy boy is leaping from one place to another! We have another nor’easter this weekend too. No owl lullabies tonight just the singing wind.
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 4h
spectacular
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 6h
Waning Gibbous Moon. 2029UT 8 October 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
The Moon at waning gibbous phase on a dark background.
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 4h
Long live Kas from Canada!
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SAMK @samk52.bsky.social · 4h
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 4h
hard to beat walkin by a river
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 5h
The one man crime spree, 34 times convicted felon and adjudicated rapist said what now? 🤷‍♀️
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h
Trump: Everything we're doing is very lawful and what they're doing is not lawful.

And what the governor and mayor, as an example, you can say of Portland and certainly of Chicago, it's not lawful what they're doing. They have to be very careful.
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 4h
Bad to the Bone
George Thorogood
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 6h
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 4h
Bullitt

[but a quick side note: watch the VW placement; and count the hubcaps]

The Blues Brothers
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 11h
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 4h
Windows on Wednesday
Windows on Wednesday
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h
The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 4h
Great whiskers
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J Bo @jbo9504.bsky.social · 4h
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Herr Carroll Elmer-Henry-David Reimer-Schmidt @vaygar-el1954.bsky.social · 7h
Now, to enforce this...
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独居老人 @qrzqrpp.bsky.social · 5h
おはようございます
台風は列島から離れて行きそうですが
東京諸島の被害が心配ですね

アンドレア・ポッツァ イタリアのピアニスト
スタンダードカバーのアルバム
曲はコルトレーンとジョニー・ハートマンで有名
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpb-...
#jazz
良い一日を・・・・・・・・
My One and Only Love
YouTube video by Andrea Pozza - Topic
www.youtube.com
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Bonnie Metcalf 215 pioneer @bonnie215.bsky.social · 6h
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pm gibbs @pmgibbs.bsky.social · 7h
#WindowsonWednesday
#EastCoastKin
The old
pushed into the mudbank
vandalized & rotting
The river
flows day in day out
vandalized & surviving
The pedestrian
floating in a small craft
observing & recording
what the old & river
have known for ages
Some last a set time
Others get forever
Dilapidated house on an old railroad barge pushed into the banks of the Hudson River
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 5h
Autumn. Dawn chilly and crisp
Raven ‘knocks’ from a high branch-
Yes, Ezra, “make it new”
In the post a letter from Li Po:
“Dear Friend, missing our river view walks.”
I print my afternoon response:
*To you raising a cup of wine*
(signed) Tu Fu
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 5h
Si a hug back
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 6h
Absolutely now we’re talking
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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 7h
The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 6h
morning walk
a man raking leaves
smoking a pipe
sound of radio
Cannonball Adderley

(tanka)
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Mark Tate @markstate.bsky.social · 6h
Three Graces
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