Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Don't know anything about owners of that lot. Story time? 110
Reposted by Mark BlacknellFeargal McKay @cycologies.com · 06/10/2026We're in that part of the year where we're doing that Seinfeld 'Master of My Domain' episode, only with turning the heating on. Like if you're still Lord of the Manor, RT if you're already out. 022
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I would show you just how bad things are, but I don't post feet pics on the internet. Not for free, at least. 010
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Hey Siri, turn on my office heater." <- a thing I really resent having said today. 100
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Do 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 · 30/09/2026USPS 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 · 21/09/2026[Looks up Michelle Rhee, for no reason in particular] 050
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 · 15/09/2026"Save the trees!" "No, not those trees, MY trees!" FOH. 010
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 · 15/09/2026Mark Sept 15 as the first time I turned my office space heater on. 010
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 · 12/09/2026Cheese and bread for the easy opener on that. And vegetables for the most part (K. did think that I'd eaten half her blueberries when I have her a 100g carton, tho). There were a few things where I was surprised at how much more it was (example failing me right now). Overall? So much more for less 110
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 · 11/09/2026And if you look back and said "Oh, we were so united for a while!" - you were and are part of the problem. 000
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
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My 12 year old has embraced it wholeheartedly. Really expanded his world. 010
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Absolutely. NPR has done at least as much damage to this country as Fox News, soothing away any idea of what is actually happening. 010
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
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I did my first 50 States ride in either 2006 or 2007. They routed us *on* Connecticut for miles, near the end. I did it on a full suspension MTB and was dusted. Pulled over and sat on the curb on Connecticut. Apparently looked so bad that a woman in a car *pulled over* to ask me if I was ok. 130
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
Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026static.klipy.comLowered ExpectationsALT: Lowered Expectations 010
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 · 04/09/2026Who the fuck wants to live in 1950s West Germany? 1960s? 1970s? (keep going . . . ) 010
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. 251742270
