Mark Feltskog
@markstextterminal.bsky.social
Public school educator, Hampshire College alumni, friend to stray cats everywhere, blogger, citizen, freelance humanist, lifelong reader, inveterate urban dweller, and grateful to live in the beautiful borough of Brooklyn, New York. DMs will be ignored.
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Hello esteemed Bluesky users. If you follow me in order to steer me towards pictures of you in various states of undress, I will block your account. I am not interested, so don't bother. I am also uninterested in pictures of you at the gym.
Can't stop watching this:
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Leon Russell - Stranger in a Strange Land (Wim Wenders Road Movies)
YouTube video by The Trailer Project
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December 31, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Can't stop watching this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9T0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9T0...
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I'm putting The Virtual Memories Show on hiatus, so this is my last #podcast for a while! I talk about that decision and wrap up 2025; GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
Episode 669 – Indefinite Hiatus
Virtual Memories Show 669: Indefinite Hiatus For his 2025 year-end wrap-up, Gil’s putting The Virtual Memories Show podcast & newsletter on hiatus (!): talk about your crazy New Year̵…
chimeraobscura.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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There is no Charter School “million-student waitlist.”
There are empty classrooms, declining enrollment, and schools closing mid-year. #CharterMythBusted
Stop the waste. Start the reckoning.
Read our report #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
There are empty classrooms, declining enrollment, and schools closing mid-year. #CharterMythBusted
Stop the waste. Start the reckoning.
Read our report #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment and Cost - Network For Public Education
Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, Charter School Reckoning, presents sobering findings on the stagnation, retrenchment, and accelerating closures plaguing the charter school sector as it enters its fourth decade.
networkforpubliceducation.org
December 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
There is no Charter School “million-student waitlist.”
There are empty classrooms, declining enrollment, and schools closing mid-year. #CharterMythBusted
Stop the waste. Start the reckoning.
Read our report #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
There are empty classrooms, declining enrollment, and schools closing mid-year. #CharterMythBusted
Stop the waste. Start the reckoning.
Read our report #CharterSchoolReckoning to learn more networkforpubliceduc...
Downtown Brooklyn from Atlantic and Third Avenues, 4:27 PM, 29 December 2025.
December 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Downtown Brooklyn from Atlantic and Third Avenues, 4:27 PM, 29 December 2025.
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Archives are out of style in the humanities? WTAF
Not for historians!
(and NB the most time I ever spent in archives was in literary archives)
Since 2017, @historians.org has issued multiple statements of concern regarding threats to the preservation of the national history in archives
Not for historians!
(and NB the most time I ever spent in archives was in literary archives)
Since 2017, @historians.org has issued multiple statements of concern regarding threats to the preservation of the national history in archives
I know archives are suddenly out of style in the humanities again, but when you think about media preservation as a wing of memory research, all of the fine logistics take on more urgency and import.
December 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Archives are out of style in the humanities? WTAF
Not for historians!
(and NB the most time I ever spent in archives was in literary archives)
Since 2017, @historians.org has issued multiple statements of concern regarding threats to the preservation of the national history in archives
Not for historians!
(and NB the most time I ever spent in archives was in literary archives)
Since 2017, @historians.org has issued multiple statements of concern regarding threats to the preservation of the national history in archives
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Self Promotion Sunday…Motian. Trio Eclectic was inspired by the Paul Motian Trio. It has since evolved into something uniquely ours. Jazz isn’t about copying the greats, rather being inspired by them, then finding your own voice. But this is my tribute to Paul Motian. #jazzsky youtu.be/UTFcZgXtwe8
Motian
YouTube video by Trio Eclectic - Topic
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December 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Self Promotion Sunday…Motian. Trio Eclectic was inspired by the Paul Motian Trio. It has since evolved into something uniquely ours. Jazz isn’t about copying the greats, rather being inspired by them, then finding your own voice. But this is my tribute to Paul Motian. #jazzsky youtu.be/UTFcZgXtwe8
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Looking for #books to read during the New Year's break or as 2026 aspirations? Look no further! The annual Guest List episode of my #podcast features a TON of faves from this year's pod-guests, so GET LISTENING/READING! chimeraobscura.com/vm/the-guest...
The Guest List 2025
We asked the past year’s podcast-guests for the favorite books they read in 2025 and the books they hope to read in 2026 for our special year-end Guest List episode! Twenty-six guests partici…
chimeraobscura.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Looking for #books to read during the New Year's break or as 2026 aspirations? Look no further! The annual Guest List episode of my #podcast features a TON of faves from this year's pod-guests, so GET LISTENING/READING! chimeraobscura.com/vm/the-guest...
Few things in the world are more devastating than the ridicule, generously delivered, of Daffy Duck.
December 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Few things in the world are more devastating than the ridicule, generously delivered, of Daffy Duck.
“The boys of the NYPD Choir were singing ‘Galway Bay’”
The Pogues with Kirsty Mccoll
The Pogues with Kirsty Mccoll
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“The boys of the NYPD Choir were singing ‘Galway Bay’”
The Pogues with Kirsty Mccoll
The Pogues with Kirsty Mccoll
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Tune in on Friday. You won’t be sorry.
December 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Tune in on Friday. You won’t be sorry.
Warm holiday season greetings to all my confreres on Bluesky. While I realize what it says about the state of my life, I'd like to thank everyone for the respite they provide here.
December 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Warm holiday season greetings to all my confreres on Bluesky. While I realize what it says about the state of my life, I'd like to thank everyone for the respite they provide here.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Self Promotion Sunday…Dark Sketch. We decided to do this Duane Allen original as a vignette. It’s the only time I’ve done overdubs on an album as I heard a 2nd voice interacting with the melody. Come to think about it, I think that gives me partial composition credit. #jazzsky youtu.be/r21VM41R8ms
Dark Sketch
YouTube video by The Dave Goldberg/ Duane Allen Quartet - Topic
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Self Promotion Sunday…Dark Sketch. We decided to do this Duane Allen original as a vignette. It’s the only time I’ve done overdubs on an album as I heard a 2nd voice interacting with the melody. Come to think about it, I think that gives me partial composition credit. #jazzsky youtu.be/r21VM41R8ms
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Birdy loves the new @tomtomorrow.bsky.social collection! (At least, she hasn't chewed on it or anything.)
December 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Birdy loves the new @tomtomorrow.bsky.social collection! (At least, she hasn't chewed on it or anything.)
"Christy Brown, a clown around town
Now a man of renown, from Dingle to Down
I can type with me toes, suck stout through me nose
And where it's gonna end, God only knows
Down all the days
The tap-tap-tapping of the typewriter pays
The gentle rattling of the drays
Down all the days"
The Pogues
Now a man of renown, from Dingle to Down
I can type with me toes, suck stout through me nose
And where it's gonna end, God only knows
Down all the days
The tap-tap-tapping of the typewriter pays
The gentle rattling of the drays
Down all the days"
The Pogues
December 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"Christy Brown, a clown around town
Now a man of renown, from Dingle to Down
I can type with me toes, suck stout through me nose
And where it's gonna end, God only knows
Down all the days
The tap-tap-tapping of the typewriter pays
The gentle rattling of the drays
Down all the days"
The Pogues
Now a man of renown, from Dingle to Down
I can type with me toes, suck stout through me nose
And where it's gonna end, God only knows
Down all the days
The tap-tap-tapping of the typewriter pays
The gentle rattling of the drays
Down all the days"
The Pogues
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Killer whales and dolphins may be helping each other hunt of B.C. coast: new report #BritishColumbia
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/12/11/k...
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/12/11/k...
Killer whales and dolphins may be helping each other hunt of B.C. coast: new report
HALIFAX — Scientists have found evidence that two unlikely collaborators — killer whales and dolphins — may be helping each other find and feast on salmon off the coast of British Columbia. Sarah Fort...
halifax.citynews.ca
December 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Killer whales and dolphins may be helping each other hunt of B.C. coast: new report #BritishColumbia
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/12/11/k...
halifax.citynews.ca/2025/12/11/k...
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Beaumont, Texas Street mural
artist: Candy Kuo
#StreetArt #StreetMural #art #murals #artist #UrbanArt
Dear #artists - get out there and beautify urban areas with powerful images of beauty with a strong message.
artist: Candy Kuo
#StreetArt #StreetMural #art #murals #artist #UrbanArt
Dear #artists - get out there and beautify urban areas with powerful images of beauty with a strong message.
December 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Beaumont, Texas Street mural
artist: Candy Kuo
#StreetArt #StreetMural #art #murals #artist #UrbanArt
Dear #artists - get out there and beautify urban areas with powerful images of beauty with a strong message.
artist: Candy Kuo
#StreetArt #StreetMural #art #murals #artist #UrbanArt
Dear #artists - get out there and beautify urban areas with powerful images of beauty with a strong message.
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My latest artwork — a portrait of my beloved Frida.
December 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My latest artwork — a portrait of my beloved Frida.
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Congratulations to Richa Singhal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Center, and her collaborators in the Division of Gastroenterology, on their recent publication in Scientific Reports.
December 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Congratulations to Richa Singhal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Center, and her collaborators in the Division of Gastroenterology, on their recent publication in Scientific Reports.
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"All-American Alien Boy" (with, for some reason, Jaco Pastorious on bass and David Sanborn on alto) by Ian Hunter just shuffled up. Highly, highly recommended...dude.
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"All-American Alien Boy" (with, for some reason, Jaco Pastorious on bass and David Sanborn on alto) by Ian Hunter just shuffled up. Highly, highly recommended...dude.
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The Year In MAD Magazine • 2014
👉🏻Tap Here For More MADness👇🏻
👉🏻Tap Here For More MADness👇🏻
December 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Year In MAD Magazine • 2014
👉🏻Tap Here For More MADness👇🏻
👉🏻Tap Here For More MADness👇🏻
"Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further" by Allen Toussaint and Elvis Costello just shuffled up. You got anything better? I doubt it.
December 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further" by Allen Toussaint and Elvis Costello just shuffled up. You got anything better? I doubt it.
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Physical therapy is no longer "professional," according to a man whose professional peak was firing people.
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Physical therapy is no longer "professional," according to a man whose professional peak was firing people.
"So I said 'Wait a minute Dinsdale, my name's not Clement.' Then he lost his temper."
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"So I said 'Wait a minute Dinsdale, my name's not Clement.' Then he lost his temper."