Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 2hDo it. Right now. The UK and EU both have a number of real challenges. All of them are made worse by the UK being outside of the EU. All of them. 120
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 2hUSPS and Amazon outfitting its workforce with surveillance cameras? We are *rocketing* into our dystopian future. The Age of Consequences, indeed. 000
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Get fucked, Jim Jordan & every other GOP member of the House. 040
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026One thing I absolutely miss about Twitter is how my TL would be filled right now with cycling folks on their way to Montréal for this. (Otoh, loving all the random texts/reconnections by friends headed there. Leaving on Wed, myself.) 020
Reposted by Mark BlacknellBen Harris @benharris1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For over a year now, scenes like this are what District residents have been subjected to daily. The capital of the nation is under an illegal occupation simply to satisfy the deranged whims of the president. 03213
Reposted by Mark BlacknellCongressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 15/09/2026For the families of the 67 lives lost on Flight 5342 and aboard PAT 25, the painful truth is that this tragedy was preventable. We owe these families more than words. We owe them action, and that means passing aviation safety reforms to keep our skies safe and prevent another tragedy like this.youtube.comDon Beyer Calls for Aviation Safety Reform After Deadly Collision at DCAYouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer 0436
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This book needs a constantly updated online appendix that names and presents evidence on everyone from the President down to the GS-12 in the National Park Service that ordered the trees at Hains Point to be cut down in violation of a court order. 000
Reposted by Mark Blacknellelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 15/09/2026it’s a good piece but the basic takeaway is: class solidarity. wealthy liberals running elite institutions realized standing up to trump would cost them $ and make their boards mad at them and they cared much more about that than whatever they pretended to care about during the first term 329350
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Went to a presentation last night re: admissions to a high school around here, and the person on stage was emphasizing "That you show that you really understand what it means to be a collaborator" in the admissions process, and all I could think was . . . 031
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I need a jacket to go for a walk, and I really resent that. That is all. 250
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Went to Sardinia this summer, and went straight from the airport to the grocery store, to lay in supplies. Left that store with amazing food and a not-small-amount of anger over how much we pay in the US for garbage, in comparison. 151
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm more of a 9/12 kind of poster than a 9/11 guy, but this is very much my view. We had a chance to do something good with it. We did [gestures at everything] *this* instead. 130
Reposted by Mark BlacknellFine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Unless what they were paying for was the collapse of the regime of global US hegemony to allow its replacement by regional dominant states, in which case maybe they’re getting exactly what they paid for. 261
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm a fan, but expectations are tempered. That said, I cannot wait to put the Bowser years behind us. What a waste. 060
Reposted by Mark BlacknellJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2026He is sufficiently prolific that TBH I’m more concerned about being replaced with Cory Doctorow than with AI. 6486
Reposted by Mark BlacknellGoseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Speeding drivers terrorize entire neighborhoods from going outside, they are not a vulnerable class being preyed on, they are the favored class doing the preying. Don't take my word for it, go look at any neighborhood with high speed streets and ask where all the people are. 171
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Using government subsidies to destroy a government in the name of destroying government subsidies. (Honestly surprised it took them this long to grab and use lowest unit charge as a weapon. The people who keep going on about reinstating the fairness doctrine should take a lesson here.) 130
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The absolute best thing that could happen to this world right now would be for him to pitch over, live on television, in front of millions. The end. 040
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Been doing this for 20+ years. Extremely effective in managing spam, and (occasionally) extremely interesting in identifying people/orgs that cannot be trusted. 2394
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is a William Gibson major plot device, right here. 040
Reposted by Mark BlacknellRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/09/2026the best thing a new administration could do to cut Big Tech down to size is offer a bounty and immunity to employees who provide evidence of crimes committed by their bosses. 251744270
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Can confirm! Can’t recall anything like this around here, lightning-wise. (And good luck to all on power. And everything else, I guess.) 0100
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is a great example of why this admin is trying to destroy the monitoring infrastructure here and globally. 010
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026OF is also trying to sponsor athletes/comps (think RedBull style stuff). An interesting expansion. I do wonder if they're just trying to use it as way to not get regulated out of existence in this current environment. 020
Reposted by Mark BlacknellBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026knowing what the Supreme Court is doing and how the Court really works is a pre-req for holding the Court accountable John Roberts literally wants justices to take that knowledge to their graves so that he can bury the prospect of accountability along with them ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...ballsandstrikes.orgSupreme Court Justices Are Afraid of Accountability Even After Their DeathsThe papers of Supreme Court justices can help the public understand how the Court actually works. For John Roberts, that’s a real problem. 16325102
Reposted by Mark BlacknellBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026it's strange, given that the media is obsessed with the media, that it writes so little (with honorable exceptions like Perry below or Jim Fallows) about the actual organizational and social processes of power and influence inside the media. actually wait that's not strange. 537726
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Look, this is the one week I get with the pool open and the kids back in school and . . . 150
Reposted by Mark BlacknellThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026🔥 @MapQuest ftw 🙌🏽 477134892955
Reposted by Mark BlacknellAnil Dash @anildash.com · 27/08/2026Well, how else were they gonna have it as output, if they didn't have it as input? 915151
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Super interesting. (And also happens to explain why all of my grandmother's family eventually left Grimsby/Cleethorpes.) 000
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026luv 2 be lectured about helmet use by people who constantly text and drive. 011
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Well go on then and get the fuck out of Virginia with your trash-assed health hazard central station. 110
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Turns out the Second Amendment can't be stretched quiiiiite that far. 000
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Sure, it’s a grift and promotes all sorts of nonsense. Still better than expected. 010
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Behold 2026, where we can still find new and unexpected ways to fail as a parent. 010
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Hey, @mrose.ink, how does this work, again? : D 100
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 24/08/202615 year old me in the street with my friends trying to match Treach's flow when this dropped. We had no business! 😂 010
