Mark Tough

@marktough.bsky.social

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Doin' stuff at the nexus of tech, community development, and education. Geezer Xer. Iowa farm boy, 33-year Baltimore City rowhomie. Indie music, Patterson Park, pinball, disc golf, hiking, cat appreciating, econ/soc.

A bright chartreuse dining room in a Baltimore City rowhome. A cat is on the table.
Legs on a hassock shot from a first-person POV. A caramel cream cat sits on the hassock while a black littie sits on the couch to the right of the legs. On a laptop screen to the left, a mid-80s John Lydon looks shocked.
lots of lush container plants on a baltimore rowhome back kitchen deck
An old Sony portable radio sitting on an end table next to a paperback copy of Jennifer Ackerman’s What An Owl Knows.
60ish guy at a desk in gray tshirt pointing to a tree outside a window.
Blurry hyper-zoomed image of a cylindrical cat drinking fountain on the floor with a blue status light that nearly matches the blue tone of the glass and bottle in the OP photo.
End table with tonic water can, blue-tinted Bombay Saphire gin bottle, and blue-bottomed rocks glass filled with clear liquid and two icy spheroids.
A surly looking caramel-cream kitty in an orange "flower" health recovery collar (like a cone but better).
1st person POV of a raised middle finger in a car on a non-descript suburban road in the direction of a barely-visible suburban office building.
Six or seven folks on a Baltimore sidewalk watch and listen as the leader of Full Story Baltimore, blackclad and lantern toting next to a Speed Humps Ahead sign, talks about the radical history of Reservoir Hill.
Semi-oldish guy in coat and cap unde a receeding waffle-iron poured concrete subway station ceiling.
Selfy with haggard-looking semi-old guy in the foreground sharing a living room couch with a black cat and a caramel cream cat.
Bar chart with associated text showing that roughly 70-75% of Rs, Ds, and Is prefer trad (aka RETURN) civic architecture to modernist.
Bare leg with soap on it with toes resting on a shower ledge. Through a fogged window, an iPad Pro is showing a basketball game.
A hand holding a bottle of Tito's vodka in front of a black cat on a white leather couch with a kitchen in the background
Screen shot of a Giving Tuesday request pop-up from "AP's Exectutive [sic] Editor".
A black cat on a white leather couch and a caramel cream cat on a throw on top of a hassock, with a gray/black checkerboard kitchen floor in the background.
A caramel cream kitty on a white throw on a mattress on the floor, clad in a onesie holding a catheter and post-op drainage bag.
A caramel-cream adult short-haired kitty in a blue-gray onesie and a head cone standing in a corner on the wood floor peering pensively towards the camera.
A bunch of excellent protesters under a beautiful sky.
Older guy in a hat with a ballfield and the Iowa Stste Capitol behind him.
A beautiful black cat on a mod, retro tablecloth eagerly eying Fancy Feast Cod, Sole, and Shrimp Pate.
A black cat looking out a rowhouse window at a nearby tree.
The cover of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, with stark red text and a bleak black-and-white wintry Nebraska rural road.
A small rowhouse deck ringed with container plants weathering a rainstorm throughthe drops-flecked storm door of our kitchen.
A bearded man is beginning to carve a finely cooked dead and naked man surrounded by roasted vegetables. It is a late seen from The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Here Lover.
Snippet of a wine list that says, "if pinot noir is washington dc, gamay is baltimore."
A flyer attached to a pole beside a city street: "Participants needed for scientific study on human-worm hybrids. "Discover your inner quantum worm potential," says "Famouse Scienceman Murph Grorp." "Participants will receive one Amazon gift card."
Two 70s hipster-lookoing European men drag a hose desperately in front of an intensely burning two-story building.
The Game of Thrones character, Littlefinger aka Lord Baelish, side-eyes.
Screen shot: CNN hompeage: "Markets have best day in over 16 years after Trump pauses most new tariffs."
A 60-year old guy in a yellow fleece and jeans stands with his arms widespread signifying pride in the new deck posts, rails, and balusters in the foreground.
The "the worst person in the world just made a great point" meme guy.
An image from the movie Midsommmar, in which the protagonist young woman is crying while surrounded by other young women crying to "support" her.
In semi-cartoon form, a bearded white guy behind a podium is presenting a new trail plan to an audience of five, none of whom are black.
Young brown-haired woman with glasses wearing multiple left/inclusivr-supporting buttons standing in front of the Iowa state capitol.
Screen shot shoeing that asking the question when the words On and Road see capitalized returns the sought-after result.
Convex great circle route map frm San Francisco to Houston.
Bleak black and white photo of a desolate concrete high school football grandstand with about 12 rows and a pillbox grandstand.
Oldish guy holding an i:ad 12 mini, sitting in front of an old map.
Google Map showing 15ish places to get sushu in and around Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Google Street View of a warehousey, non-descript one-story brick building with a large straight truck in the parking lot.
A caramel cream kitty cat looking wistfully upwards from her perch on a blanket spread on an ottoman in a Baltimore rowhome's living room adjacent its colorful kitchen.
A caramel-cream kitty cat staring wistfully upward while lounging on an Ottoman in a Baltimore rowhome.
A list of November 20, 1976Top 10 singles, including Muskrat Love, Beth, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Disco Duck, and more.