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Mark Bjorge

@markbjorge.bsky.social
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DC to the ESVA, and X to Bluesky. I block accounts that follow me if I can’t get a sense of them. My apologies, but 👎🏼 to sockpuppets and AI bots.

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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
fwiw I’m in va02 and my drivers were anti-Kiggans and anti Trump. I figure warner (and spanberger and kain tho not on ballet) don’t need my help in this environment. Also, I’m still salty about the half-hearted redistricting attempt. Redistricting polled higher than spanberger!
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Outside 😭:
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sunday dinner.
Pizza
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not Trump.Original at ap news site
Photo of a person AP ID’s as Denise Taylor taking a photo of a storm.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Storm+full moon at high tide = big flooding. I’ve never had water quite this high in my yard. The only road to my place is under a foot of salt water. Glad for my jeep! #cwshare
Flooding in my backyard showing my boat still tied securely.Flooding in my neighbors backyard showing his truck with water up past the door  sills.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😊
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#VA02 Stormy weather and flooded roads won’t stop early voting!
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My neighbor keeps bees and brought this over. Raw local honey. Supposedly helps with seasonal pollen allergies.
A plastic squeeze bottle half filled with local raw honey.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m going to eat this whole pan with honey somebody stop me.
A half pan of cornbread.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It doesn’t need to be getting dark this early.
A photo of the sun going down.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can’t find my old favorite cornbread recipe so I’m using one from #blueplatemayo and it smells delish. I am hopeful!
Cart iron pan with cornbread cooking inside oven.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pesto rubbed chicken on foccacia, and whiskey in a glass.
Dinner tray on the deck with food and drink
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Another day on The Bay.
Photo of sailboat anchored at the end of a long, winding sandbar.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Half Moon Island, Va. Love late summer.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Solo beach day.
Photo of small sailboat anchored off in IslandPhoto of shelter set inup on Island with small sailboat and backgroundPhoto of legs in foreground and beach and water further out.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Even with the egg it still looks like lunch.
Home made pizza in a plate.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lunch and dinner. 14” pizza with potato and roast chicken, and pesto and ricotta. It’s good, but next time I think I’ll mix some lemon zest in with the ricotta. Or maybe finish with a basil-lemon oil. There’s a lot of rich and earthy flavors going on, and some bright notes would elevate the pie.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Woah 🤯 7 inches of rain in one week! 6.3” in one day!!!
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My youngest child is now a high school senior!
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Another take using a longer (24 hour) ferment in a Le Creuset braiser.
Focaccia with asiago and romano cheese, sopressada, oil cured olives, and garden tomato’s and herbs.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Further focaccia foolery
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Still playing with the @kingarthurbaking.bsky.social focaccia recipe. This time imagined as a rustic pizza with wild/volunteer tomatoes and herbs, and Asiago, Romano, and oil cured olives and sopressada. I’d not tried this sort of bake in an iron pan before.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Good night to all.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The corporations running these labs should be under strict government control. If these technologies will be truly transformational, why leave them in private hands? Treat them as we did nuclear power or the Internet- both of which come out of government labs. Transparency and oversight.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
There are quotes within the article that either of us could cherry-pick to support this or that position. It would become tedious. On balance, however, the analysis downplay the technical proficiency of that AI and focuses on garden variety engineering error, and how it was hyped.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
She likes sleeping half on half off. Always has.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Been working on this recipe for a while: #ESVA crab, corn, & chorizo pizza with a spiced cotija-mozerella white sauce. Finished with cilantro and chorizo oil.
Crab, corn, & chorizo pizza photo.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
VA Eastern Shore crab and Mexican street corn pizza.
Photo of pizza slices with Mexican street corn and Virginia crabcake as toppings
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Today I learned I have garage crabs.
Photo of female fiddler Crabb taken in my garage
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Wind and rain. Much of the eastern shore is under flood watch today. It’s not only that the land is low, and the water table is high, but sustained winds from the west tend to push water in the bay to the bayside land of the eastern shore where it floods. It will remain stormy all day.
Aenometer reading showing winds at 8 1/2 mph peeking at 36 1/2 mphRain gauge reading showing 4 1/3 inches of rain so far in the storm event with 3 inches of that so far today
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
They racialized the photo too. Sure, it could be just chance, but it’s been a constant thread of falsehoods since Reagan and his welfare queens.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Me filling up my diesel pickup this morning on the conservative eastern shore of va. Lots of ag, truck transport, shipping, fishing, &etc here. All runs on diesel.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
#ESVA street corn and crab pizza. #DinnerAtHome
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I would not have guessed this.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Pretty little green tree frog.
Green tree frog perched on my handGreen tree frog perched on a post
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A day.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Patagonia’s IP attorneys are way out of line. They sued a tiny retail outlet on the Maryland Eastern shore for selling a tribute version of their logo with the tagline: “eastern shore pretty much flat as a pancake“. They hate their fans. They probably would’ve sued Andy Warhol were he alive today
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A three hour tour. Wind from the S-SSW at 8-15kn. Sailed out of Deep Creek my usual- Half Moon Island. It’s a pretty wild place- just sandy beach and grasses. No people- only wind, water, and birds. I brought a tent, blanket, and book, but decided to practice sailing. Motored back into the wind.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Thank you. Should be fun!
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This is the only way forward that doesn’t leave democracy looking like the guy laying on his back in my state flag. And my Dem leaders better get on it and stop talking about 2028 and 2030!
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Surge? I’ve been paying +60% for months now.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Took a little outing to a local island this afternoon. Sailed there, anchored off, walked around trying not to trouble the nesting birds, and motored home to my little ramp at sunset.
Photos of sailing with islands in the distance.Photo of sailing with the sun coming through the main sail and shining on the mizzen. Photo of my boat anchored off the island with the mizzen set and sheeted in tight so it points into the wind. Pretty reflection in the water off the sand bottomPhoto from the island of the boat anchored and a seagull flying overhead.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
A tank of fuel in my jeep today.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Ignore it, like Republicans Ohio ignored their own state Supreme Court in 2022 on the exact same issue. Look, I don’t like this either. But being a member of the only team that plays by the rules is beginning to sound a lot like being a member of the team that will always lose.
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Mark Bjorge @markbjorge.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Meanwhile, in Louisiana and Republican states around the country which don’t bother to consult their voters.
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