Tommy Markland

News Reporter for the Martinsburg Journal | WVU Alumni | While you may be dead serious, I'm alive silly. | All opinions are my own

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Just left the silly goose convention, going back to the pond 😎

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Surely using AI-generated images to promote anti-data center petitions is defeating the point of the whole thing.

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Gov. Morrisey and RFK Jr. announced changes to WV's SNAP program during a conference at St. Joseph School this morning.

SNAP will not be able to be used to buy soda and work requirements to qualify will be raised.

Story soon at https://t.co/AHvFYZSpSg

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Ok hear me out: Presidential debate but with one of those competitive chess timers. Once one finishes an argument, they hit the timer and it's the other person's turn. goes back and forth until both are out of time.

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I started using 'y'all' a few years ago as a joke and now I use it in business emails.

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Man Has Been Meaning To Catch Up On Whole Of Human Artistic Endeavor https://t.co/HeMPhYF0b1

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Shout out to my 12-year-old camera for this one, auto-focus truly doing what it wants.

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D&D character that only answers to "the orb" (it's a magic 8-ball)

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My senator retweeted my article :)

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It’s an exciting weekend for Martinsburg with the 100-year anniversary of the Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport air show.

I hope you all enjoy this wonderful tradition! ✈️
https://t.co/88pw6SZ6YU

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With all the controversy about Jason Aldean's "Try That In A Small Town," has anyone considered that the song is really boring? An absolute snoozefest even?

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Which one made me tear-up a bit?

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This is what the degree is for

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Go read today's paper.

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Now I can post nonsense on a platform owned by a different mutli-billionaire.

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It's insane that I have to be an adult while simultaneously being excited for a new Detective Pikachu game.

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I'm writing an article tomorrow about Maryland legalizing recreational marijuana and what it means for West Virginians, and you'd better believe I'm trying to find a place for the term "joint statement"

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You can tell I wrote an article if the third paragraph is a quote. I can't stop doing it. It's such an easy format.

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I want to be more active on my work social media, but I just don't know where the line between being boring and tweeting out stories on the website and being "too silly/unprofessional for my own good" is.

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Was a pleasure covering Martinsburg Pride :)

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Wild, Proud, and Wonderful WV draws hundreds of supporters https://t.co/eDmIz9E1WG via @TheJournalWV

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The urge to leave an article at exactly 420 words because "it would be funny" is strong

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I meant to send this on my professional account @TomMarklandJRNL but this works just as well

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I try so hard to write funny headlines for stories that aren't serious, but the second one needs to be serious, I manage to leave in an accidentally silly rhyme or worse.