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NYC Actor-Broadway, TV, Film. Author-Books 1-4 of The Peripherals series. Photographer, wildlife enthusiast, pizza lover. Red Sox fan.

[mark @MarktheGinger]

Trailer for my latest book, Beyond Darkness. Book 4 in The Peripherals urban fantasy series.

[mark @MarktheGinger]

@mrmikeMTL What’s a vacation?

[mark @MarktheGinger]

@EmmanuelMacron @Madlisa1967 It doesn’t feel very shared right now.

[mark @MarktheGinger]

@MrBillDaniels I’m playing John Adams at the @Ivorytonplayhou starting tomorrow. You have been an inspiration throughout my entire career. It is an honor to speak the words you spoke.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Mexico cuts workweek, bans after-hours contact, and guarantees no worker will take a pay cut in the most sweeping labor reform in a generation.
https://t.co/tEW6hFrKLP

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

If you want to push back against tech’s encroachment into every corner of our lives, you need to be reading books. They’re keen to create a world in which most people are illiterate & addicted to slop, a world without poetry, imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

[mark @MarktheGinger]

@Variety Wow. So multi-talented.

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

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[🐝 @beha_hun]

If they cut Social Security, I want every single penny they have taken from my paychecks since the very first day I ever started working.

[Brandon Avedikian @bavedikian]

Bought a $1,742.80 camera online from BestBuy.

The FedEx delivery driver stole it. FedEx admitted it.

But BestBuy won’t give a refund. They said we need to “work with local law enforcement.”

Thought everyone should know if you buy from @BestBuy and a @FedEx driver steals what you paid for, your money is gone. Neither company will make it right.

I’ve spent over $30K at BestBuy and will never spend another penny there.

[Dustin Nickerson @DustinNickerson]

It’s crazy that gas right now is the actual price they used to try and scare you with if you didn’t bring the rental car back full.

[María A. @zarandillo]

"If I were the minister of culture for the world, I would make every student wiser by requiring them to travel to five continents before the age of 18."

Marjane Satrapi.

[Aria Westcott @AriaWestcott]

Breaking: Your smart TV takes a screenshot of your screen twice every second and sells what it sees.

It is called ACR, and it has been running since you set the TV up.

Texas already sued over it. Here is how to turn it off in under 2 minutes:

[mark @MarktheGinger]

This. They make such a difference.

[Lee Hall @lhallwriter]

Reviews can be incredibly hard to find for authors and they help us in so many ways.

Remember to leave a review after your next read kind readers 👍

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

The 7-second cold wrist rinse was tested on 3,000 soldiers after combat simulations.

Cortisol dropped 52% within 90 seconds. Heart rate fell an average of 22 beats per minute. The Navy classified the protocol in 2009 and kept it secret until 2023.

The mechanism is radial artery cooling. Your inner wrists have the thinnest skin and the largest surface-to-volume ratio for blood vessels. 7 seconds of cold water cools the blood passing to your brain, which signals your hypothalamus to downregulate stress instantly

You've splashed cold water on your face. You've taken cold showers. Both work, but they're inconvenient.

The SEAL protocol takes 7 seconds, requires no undressing, and can be done at any sink. Soldiers used it before night missions to fall asleep fast.

The military classified this because a free 7-second stress fix would reduce demand for combat stress medication ($400M annually).

The 2023 declassification came after a FOIA lawsuit filed by a veteran.

The fix: run cold tap water over your inner wrists for 7 seconds. Both wrists. Do it when you feel a stress spike.

Within 90 seconds, your heart rate will drop. No shower, no ice.

Just 7 seconds.

[mark @MarktheGinger]

Interesting have yet to hear a single reader who was able to figure out the ending before they got to it. Were you able to figure it out?
My first murder mystery. I’m happy it’s keeping people guessing.

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Just a friendly reminder that libraries are free.

Not “free trial” free.
Not “free with ads” free.
Not “free if you give us all of your data” free.

But free free.

[Ayanokoji @layeee09]

Le vieux du quartier m’a dit : « N’oublie pas que la boussole a été inventée avant l’horloge parce que la direction est plus importante que le temps. »

[James Wester @jameswester]

I genuinely feel like we missed out on recreating one of the more enjoyable parts of the the bicentennial celebrations from 1976: painting fire hydrants.

[The World R🅰️nking @worldranking_]

Great initiative 👍🏻