Mark Mulder

@nikora.bsky.social

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Liverpool FC. Music lover. Music maker. Museum professional. Enjoyer of fancy nonsense. Collector of warm shadows. Mostly just re-share stuff from The Onion. He/him

A residential street at night with a foggy looking smoke around the street light and heavy rain hitting the ground
lindamc: I’m a Common Sense Dem at the end of my tether. I split my time between DC, with an incoming socialist mayor, and Ann Arbor MI, where socialists are seeking to unseat the local government that has (as noted in a recent mailbag) finally started building here. Everyone knows about the Senate race 😩. Many/most youngs I know are self-described socialists with little/no understanding of what that means in historic terms, and the overwhelming majority of my fellow olds are Heather Cox Richardsonians. Virtually every social gathering I attend features someone making a glib, ignorant complaint about data centers. A “swing dancing in the park” event I attended a few days ago started out with pronouns and cultural appropriation and never made it to demonstrating actual dance steps. Things seem to somehow get worse and worse. How do you cope with this? Despite fighting hard against it, I feel something like actual despair a lot of the time.
Photo of the display in my car showing 101 degrees Fahrenheit
A screenshot from a Tweet that says "BREAKING NYT: Government documents raise new doubts about Trump's unsubstantiated claim that "vandals" sabotaged the Reflecting Pool. There's no indication the peeling blue coating and algae blooms were caused intentionally - and the Trump admin knew that."
A photo of some of the questions in the questionnaire. One reads “do you believe it is appropriate for the military to promote Diversify, Equity, and Inclusion over combat effectiveness?”
Meme of a preacher and the text says “Jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and I want that for me”
A hanging sign in a convention hall that says “Puppy Park”
A screenshot of a passage from Small Gods by Terry Pratchett that says: “Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time...”
Photo from the USA network app that says Chelsea vs. Manchester City but shows the logos of Chelsea and Tottenham
A graphic that features Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler that says “Ryan Coogler’s ‘X-Files’ reboot casts Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler as its new leads”
A screenshot from a weather app that shows Sunday’s weather in Detroit to have a 75% chance of snow but a high of 60 degrees Fahrenheit
A tweet from representative Randy Fine that says “We need more Islamophobia, not less. Fear of Islam is rational.
A Bluesky post that says "Corizo breakfast burrito... You were my brother. Why... Why would you do this to me?" followed by a toilet emoji
A three panel comic. The first panel is a woman seeing a bear creature at a restaurant with a person and she says “oh my gosh, the mutant bear from Annihilation” The second panel she approaches the bear and says “What was working with Natalie Portman like?” In panel 3 the mutant bear says “um, I’m kinda with a friend” and she holds her hands up and says “ah! Sorry!”
A screenshot of a post from Tade Thompson that says: It's World Book Day. Thank you to everyone who ever bought or read a book of mine, even if you hated it. If you've never read a book of mine, but you've read A book, thank you too. A rising tide raises all ships. You're still enabling me 😁 The most important thing is: read more books!
A post by fightclub that says “my three favorite things are the Oxford comma, irony, and missed opportunities” with a response that says “this is the most infuriatingly meta grammar comment I’ve ever seen and j hate how much it inspires me”
A meme of Boromir that says “One does not simply decide to get sushi on Valentine’s Day on a whim”
The meme of the evangelist saying "Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me"
A screenshot of an article from the Cut with the headline "Apparently You Can't Skate to minions Music at the Olympics"
A photo of my car display showing 6 degrees Fahrenheit
A photo of the snowy road outside of my house with a huge pile of salt from a salt truck
A screenshot from an SB Nation article with the headline "Every NFL General Manager Fired in 2026"
A meme that says “Sam Allardyce has now been appointed as the President of Venezuela until the end of the season” with a photo of Maduro with Allardyce’s face
Screenshot from Merriam-Webster saying my 2026 word is “besotted”
Screen shot of an ad from TikTok selling a titanium necklace with a swastika pendant
A screenshot from Netflix. The title is Hitler’s Riches but the description is “Tim Conway hosts this family friendly, laugh-out-loud program featuring stand-up routines by five of the wittiest quipsters on the comedy scene”
A post by Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle that says “Ignoring our own needs is 100% one of the most destructively selfish things we can do. Over time it practically guarantees we're going to flame out & be unable to support any person or pet we love. You're not The Exception who can run on empty indefinitely. The bill comes due.”
Photo of a back of a pickup with a decal on the back of an American flag with a Nazi looking lighting bolt
Photo of chenille bath rugs by the brand Aston Vaillia
A post by The Volatile Mermaid aka @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social, a quote post specifically, that says "We’re talking about the present. Not sure why you’re talking about the past. Also it’s interesting how you’re not concerned with protecting anyone except the genocide victims in Palestine. You are aware of trans people, immigrants, POC etc etc etc that this administration is intent on destroying?"
A basic geometric tile pattern where, if you wanted, you could find swastikas in the grout patterns
Screenshot of the last 4 Detroit City FC matches showing 1-0 losses to Loudoun United FC, Louisville City FC, and Lexington SC (with a 2-0 win against North Carolina FC mixed in)
A photo of part of a poster for a film festival called “Halaloween” a Muslim horror film festival