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Posts by Mark Stroup

As an old guitarist, it is important to not use guilt or shame to get yourself to play guitar. This backfires. You have to enjoy it. Just fuck around on it. Serious practice should happen occasionally but most of the time when you pick up the guitar it should make you happy.

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You guys, we have Rick Moranis out there doing press for a new film. What a beautiful thing. Do we deserve that, as a society? Probably not, so let’s not take it for granted.

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Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.

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Poem - 'How do I know when a poem is finished?' by Naomi Shihab Nye

Poem - 'How do I know when a poem is finished?' by Naomi Shihab Nye

This Ars Poetica addresses a great poetic conundrum – when is a poem finished?

Paul Valéry suggests ‘Poems aren’t finished, they are abandoned’. The full quote (in the comments) is much more interesting

Sometimes editing can be unnecessarily reductive

#Poetry
#Poemoftheday
#Nationalpoetrymonth

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Madness In Chump's Case,Is A
Chemical Brain Disease,Dementia !

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Schiff: What more will happen? You know, really, the sky’s the limit. We have to anticipate they could create some provocation at a polling place to create a pretext to call on the military or to seize ballot boxes. And we’re going to be prepared for whatever they throw our way…

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A group of 6 wear SBWU shirts and celebrate their union victory.

A group of 6 wear SBWU shirts and celebrate their union victory.

While Starbucks is dumping loads of money into Coachella influencers and ChatGPT partnerships, baristas are organizing unions ✊

CONGRATULATIONS to workers in Johnson City, Tennessee. They just won their union election! 🔥

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Slava Ukraini!

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I want to be able to get on a train from Georgia to any other state in the country.

Why don’t people run on trains? Doesn’t everybody want trains?

Lowkey the best vehicle.

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It's reverse Robin Hood.

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Treasury is holding thousands of Epstein‑related financial records — including overseas payments from Epstein routed through Russian banks

Treasury refuses to release them to Congress

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Accidentally called the bike shop instead of susan collins. Portland Gear Hub actually answers the phone, unlike SOME people

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On January 6 2021 a violent mob of people, motivated and directed by the then sitting president, attempted to prevent our elected representatives from carrying out their constitutional duty to certify a democratically conducted election. In other words they attempted an insurrection - treason. >>>>

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Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich

Well, today we're taxing the rich...

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Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.

Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.

This is what corporate greed looks like.

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I will be really, REALLY happy when John Fetterman leaves the Senate.

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🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸

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makes you think

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Wouldn't it be nice if you could say goodbye to TurboTax and file your taxes for free, online, and directly with the IRS?

I have a bill to get that done.

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Stuff you need to know: the Freedom of Information Act
Stuff you need to know: the Freedom of Information Act YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer

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I think it’s cool that real-life Nick Offerman is just all the good and likable parts of Ron Swanson.

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A retired journo I know SMS'd me before and reckoned the first thing that should be grounded are the private planes of the rich and famous.

"They can catch an interstate train/plane like the rest of us. That fuel is now needed for the whole of society, not rich pricks' private jets," he said.

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Honestly shocked at how quickly the online-a-verse started pushing Becerra. He's not a fighter. He's advocated *against* criminal justice reforms, and he's bland as warm milk. We need someone with a clear agenda and the will to fight.

Steyer has a much more progressive platform.

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This is great news for KDKA, WPXI and WTAE, who were facing the horrors of having to actually report news rather than just getting video from police and fire calls

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Where’s Pam Bondi?

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The only ppl who don’t know how money works is Republicans.

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Hungary has chosen Europe.

Europe has always chosen Hungary.

A country reclaims its European path.

The Union grows stronger.

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Good morning!

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lang, RAITT, WEYMOUTH and HARRIS, and PETERSON performing PRETTY WOMAN.wmv
lang, RAITT, WEYMOUTH and HARRIS, and PETERSON performing PRETTY WOMAN.wmv YouTube video by Dennis the Mental

Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.

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