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Posts by Mark Bessen

TBQ print issue being shipped

TBQ print issue being shipped

Shipped the last of the TBQ sampler issues into the world! We are sold out of our first ever print run! Gained lots of new information and leveled up in lit mag making experience! Onward to TBQ8!

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Thank you so much for reading it!! 💕

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Thank you so much!!! 😍 Really appreciate your reading it!!!

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"For six years, Leeanner was a fixture of the neighborhood. Only when she was dying did she become real."

From "Neighborly," a new original essay by @markbessen.bsky.social.

Read the full piece now at buff.ly/AsNudwv

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Stood up by my therapist, call that a psych out

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"Wuthering Heights" | Official Teaser
"Wuthering Heights" | Official Teaser YouTube video by Warner Bros.

Perfect trailer. Might even forgive her for Saltburn if this goes right

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What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

This is a very important study

www.media.mit.edu/publications...

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It's genuinely insane that this isn't a bigger news story.

Where the fuck are they
Where the FUCK are they

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I found it. The billboard I hate most in the world.

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Yes?

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It slaps so hard ngl

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The Way Things Were - The Gay & Lesbian Review

Amid the mourning for Redford, a friend found this essay by Andrew Holleran on the gay origin story to The Way We Were. glreview.org/article/the-...

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Porqué no los dos?

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I miss writer gossip social media.

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Arguing about out who has to bottom tonight but we're referring to split screen Mario Kart

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Doing some night writing and these three guys showed up 🥹

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I like to read "must read" as a command. you MUST read these books.

Or else.

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“Toni Morrison,” a Prose Poem by Nikki Giovanni “Toni Morrison” I wish I owned a restaurant then I could run Specials: Today Toni Morrison stew. An exotic mix of tears and sympathy. Nothing grows except The Bluest eyes and a special shot of Peco…

Read “Toni Morrison,” a prose poem by Nikki Giovanni from the collection The New Book.

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you guys are being a real bummer about the collapse of a society

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Denmark Makes History: Your Face and Voice Are Now Your Intellectual Property Europe's First Digital Identity Protection Law Tackles the Deepfake Crisis Denmark is poised to become the first European nation to grant citizens copyright control over their own faces, voices, and ...

www.myprivacy.blog/denmark-make...

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- ¿Si eres comunista por qué tienes un iPhone?
- Y tú ¿Si eres capitalista por qué tienes derechos laborales?

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would

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A pika sits on a mossy rock.

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

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Spending some time today with Deborah Eisenberg's short story "Recalculating," about a young man who goes from Iowa to London to attend his late gay uncle's funeral, where he learns he greatly resembles the uncle he never knew. www.nybooks.com/articles/201...

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Photograph of a blond twink on the beach in see-through briefs

Photograph of a blond twink on the beach in see-through briefs

It's Mel Roberts's birthday, so may as well share some of the twink thirst traps he took so many of that they made him an enemy of the state.

(Photo of Gordon O'Brien, 1968)

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"Paddington"
"Paddington 2"
"Paddington in Peru"
"Paddington 4: The Legend of Curly's Gold"
"Pad 5"
"Paddin6ton"
"Paddington VII: The Voyage Home"
"Paddington vs. Jason"

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