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Mark Patten

@markpatten

dad, entrpeneur & executive, tech & ai, history, sports, golf, electronics, travel, photography, bulldogs, sports, classical liberal, @lehighu alum & parent

 Philadelphia, PA
Joined January 2008
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Gustavia’s harbor at sunset
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St. Barth above St. Jean
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Excalibur (1981) The best version of Arthur. There are some other great ones, but this is the standard.
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With his 7-yard touchdown run, Luke Yoder has become Lehigh’s all-time leading rusher, surpassing Dom Bragalone’s mark of 4,324! #TheNest
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You Don’t Have to Like Elon Musk to Value What He Builds

You Don’t Have to Like Elon Musk to Value What He Builds

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paige 🎃@CincyPJoleneOct 30
Halloween (1978) is the most perfect Halloween movie
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Philly Mag@phillymagOct 29
A safe, clean, competitive city that welcomes businesses and makes it easy to get things done gives people concrete reasons to choose a city, writes Allan Domb. bit.ly/4zhixMR
Allan Domb: The Six Pillars of a Successful City

Allan Domb: The Six Pillars of a Successful City

A safe, clean, competitive city that welcomes businesses and makes it easy to get things done gives people concrete reasons to choose a city.

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Oen of my favorite movies!
Jon Gabriel (@exjon) profile pictureJon Gabriel
@exjonOct 29
Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, and Liam Neeson in “Excalibur” (1981).
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Tolkien World
@TolkienWorldGOct 29
Happy 88th Birthday to Ralph Bakshi! 🎂
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Incredible
As Found (@AsFoundX) profile pictureAs Found
@AsFoundXOct 29
🚨 Neuralink just delivered one of its most emotional breakthroughs yet Terry, diagnosed with ALS in 2024, is now speaking again using only his thoughts. The implant translates brain signals into words, with Grok Voice restoring his own natural voice. Watching him hear himself speak again is incredibly powerful. This is what restoring human connection looks like. Truly life-changing. As found.
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Very excited 🤓
The Lord of the Rings (@TheRingsofPower) profile pictureThe Lord of the Rings
@TheRingsofPowerOct 28
Two weeks until we return to Middle-earth.
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🎃 IT’S OFFICIALLY HALLOWEEN WEEK 🎃
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The Wall Street Journal
@WSJOct 27
It’s an ungodly amount of reading and no easy A. So why are freshmen lining up to get into Humanities 10? on.wsj.com/4iIxhOF
The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take

The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take

It’s an ungodly amount of reading and no easy A. So why are freshmen lining up to get into Humanities 10?

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Lower rates and no PMI sound great until the defaults hit and Philly taxpayers are on the hook. Same playbook that blew up in 2008, just local.
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker (@PhillyMayor) profile pictureMayor Cherelle L. Parker@PhillyMayorOct 27
Philadelphia is preparing to become the first city in the nation to offer this mortgage model, with lower interest rates, no private mortgage insurance, and credit scores as low as 620.
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He would have to be proud of what has become of "his" land - warts and all.
Brett Mandel (@brettmandel) profile pictureBrett Mandel@brettmandelOct 27
Philadelphia, founded on this date in 1682!
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Putin offering Zelenskyy “security guarantees” in Moscow is basically the diplomatic version of “come on over, the window’s open.
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@PolymarketOct 27
BREAKING: Putin invites Zelenskyy to Moscow for direct peace talks, with the Kremlin promising “all necessary conditions will be ensured, including in terms of security.”
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What’s the next basic thing we already had the tech for in the ’80s that still hasn’t shipped?
Polymarket (@Polymarket) profile picturePolymarket
@PolymarketOct 27
JUST IN: Cheerios announces the first-ever resealable cereal bag, partnering with Ziploc to keep cereal fresh longer.
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How many of these guys never really talked about any of it once they got home? Amazing photo.
Voices of WW2 (@VoicesofWW2) profile pictureVoices of WW2
@VoicesofWW2Oct 24
Richard Winters and Easy Company at the Eagle's Nest in the Bavarian Alps, 1945.
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Sat through enough of these to know the graph rarely cares how many times we walked the deck.
Boring_Business (@BoringBiz_) profile pictureBoring_Business
@BoringBiz_Oct 24
Private equity firms when EBITDA doesn't go up 20% just because that’s what the Excel model said
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Anyone else first catch this on a free HBO weekend after everyone else was asleep? 🎃👻🗡️
HalloweenVerse (@HalloweenVerse) profile pictureHalloweenVerse
@HalloweenVerseOct 25
Happy 48th Anniversary to John Carpenter’s Halloween 🎃 Released October 25, 1978
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