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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 15h

SLO

MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know if anyone gets this, but it's me. Really me. Taking Sylvie out. But it could also be hard to follow, I know. So,

#FWIW
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Thoughts on the Road

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 3d

World's End I read the summer of '93 here in SF. it was deeply affecting. Especially in terms of using English to say some things.

MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 3d

If anything, I see you as the sort-of follow-up to Bowles, whom I had read in college, smoking brave little French cigarettes (Gauloise, I think) who picked up the understanding we endure of exactly how much trouble we're in.

The Pool is so great, man.

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 3d

MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 7d

Meanwhile, @tcboyle.com the ongoing slaughter of the bull kelp by anemones off our coast - a direct result of warming oceans - tosses up casualties of war that sometimes look like bound souls. mtk

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 11d

We all know what we want to ultimately see though ...

MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 11d

Chat GPT Prompt: "generate an image of the head of the Xenomorph creature from the Alien movie franchise, in profile with teeth bared and the inner mouth and jaws extended, but one eyelid on the side is open and inside the eyeball octopus creature from Alien Earth, t. ocellus, with red tentacles."

MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 11d

Trypanohyncha Ocellus, successfully implanted in the xenomorph #Alien #AlienEarth #octopuseyeball #themidge

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 16d

studio view
late 2568be

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 20d

" ... triumphal because the shadow had tested us and passed on."

is jusr so great.

and the end reminded me of a favorite thing of mine in many of your stories:

this delicious creacendoing thing
lifting to some wondrous place of I don't know what.

MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 20d

@tcboyle.com just finished The Pool in this week's New Yorker.

Soooo good.

Thank you

mtk bows
🙏🏾

MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 23d

The Giants Baseball Corner Monday Morning Report 09152025
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@sfgiants.com #BeatLA

GBCvl Monday Morning Report 09152025

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 24d

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The Billionaire Bums Are Better Than the Giants, But a Wildcard’s Still Possible; Dodgers 10, Giants 2

The Giants fought hard to win game one of this series on Friday night. It took extra innings, a little help from a bad call and a grand slam swing by one of our weakest bats, but we won. By contras…

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 25d

Still a long way to go in this one

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 26d

Willy Adames has one walk-off homer in his career. Patrick Bailey has an inside-the-park walk-off and a grand slam walk-off this season.

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 26d

2600 games against each other and so it comes to this ... @sfgiants.com

giantsbaseballcorner.com/2025/09/12/s...

Seven Games to Play for All the Marbles, a Giants Dodgers Rivalry Record on the Line

2600 games. The Giants lead by eight overall, seven in the regular season. and we trail them by eight games in the division: so it comes to this … Tonight we start the first of our last seven…

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 26d

Ham Vee One
mtk
#Shakespeare #Hamlet #Playsky #Booksky

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 29d

I've wanted to stay in Tangier - because of Bowles - for decades.

I will be 60 when this goes down over the rock of Gibraltar, and over ancient sites of North Africa, Egypt and Sudan.

I'm thinking an apartment in Tangier like Paul.

#squadgoals

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · Sep 9

flora, Bali

MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · Sep 7

"root thoughts emerge ...

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root thoughts emerge ...

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · Sep 5

Three Views of Mount Agung
mtk July 2568be

a collage of three images of a volcanic mountain, from a distance, from the sea, and from a plane overhead

MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · Sep 4

@sfgiants.com

The wildcard chase is on.

giantsbaseballcorner.com/2025/09/03/g...

Giants Complete Sweep of Rox as Bums, Reds, Mets and Pads All Lose: Wildcard Chase is On

The Giants are getting hot at the right time, and have hit a home run in 17 consecutive games. At 71 – 69, the Giants are third in the NL West, seven and a half back of the Bums with seven to…

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MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · Sep 2

Also,

Casual Carpool 's back!

MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · Sep 2

In the nether spacetime of crossing the dateline, I wrote a post with clips posted just before, and while over the Pacific, and upon arrival.

I had 15 more hours of an "August 1st" than you.

tried to capture that and my first couple of weeks on Bali, but was impaired

mtkarthik.org/2025/08/01/b...

Bali July, Part One: July 1 – 15

I just spent July on Bali and Nusa Penida. There’s an ancient connection between the people living in Tamil Nadu, in India, where I was born, and the island of Bali where I now sit, in the fo…

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