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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If the dems don't take control, he'll finish the Epstein Ballroom(tm) and squat on his Throne of Tweens(tm) until they code his lizard brain into AI and he'll never die in a subterranean fascist data center doomsday bunker.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Corrupt to the core. Don't vote for any of them, not a city councilman, senator, or dogcatcher. If they haven't left the republican party by now, what the hell is wrong with them?

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's a lovely dystopian day in the neighborhood. Four in a row in the news scroll.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Creep-tosporidosis, n. A "creepy" sensation in the pit of the stomach, first diagnosed the morning after the 2016 election; persists for a fucking decade. See: electile dysfunction

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

So, when blue-state folk say "he's not my president," it's literally, verifiably, admittedly true.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just think of Lyin' Donnie as "opposites day" made flesh. On the SAVE act: "The only reason you wouldn’t do it <we're doing it> is you <we> want to cheat because y<our> policies are so bad and y<our> candidates are so pathetic that you <we> can’t get elected in any other way." Works every time.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I've been steeped in the "Ian Fleming universe" and somehow the meaning behind the acronym for the evil SPECTRE administra ... I mean, organization from the Dr. No movie* was tucked into a corner of my brain. May have been triggered by something. *First introduced in the Thunderball book, per Wiki.

Screenshot image of a listing on villains.fandom.com about the Ian Fleming fictional SPECTRRE organization: "SPECTRE | Villains Wiki | Fandom
The Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, better known in the abbreviation as SPECTRE, are the main antagonists of the James Bond franchise. It is a global criminal organization with aspirations of world domination and profit that was created and led by the criminal ..." it trails off.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Nobody trusts that these clowns can get anything right. He had some competent advisors 1st time - covid mismanagement notwithstanding - but this time he's surrounded by news reader-bots, we are already at war, and clowns have access to megalomaniacal artificial intelligence. Answer: laughing stock

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Paul Sonne and Nataliya Vasilyeva said of Ukraine's attack on Moscow, "the objective was to bring the war home" Now Russian hardliners want to "strike the enemy mercilessly” “How much further Russia, which has the world’s largest nuclear stockpile, can go with its conventional arsenal is unclear”

Photo of a plume of black smoke rising from a Moscow oil refinery after a Ukrainian drone attack.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Smells like bribes. Even if they were actually going to use them, they paid over market for abandoned warehouses. Now they'll sell them at a discount, which amounts to giant government-funded windfalls for -- and millstones removed from the necks of -- the corporations that owned them.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The Economist, one month before the 2024 election.

Image of the October 2025 cover of The Economist magazine, displaying the headline "The Envy of the World; America's Economy.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Putting them all in <Utah/the ocean/the desert> wouldn't work either. This is a map of proposed data centers worldwide. There are 9000 of them already.

A 2025 world map of proposed data centers

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Can't be said often enough. "New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years. We know who he is." - Fran Leibowitz

Photo of Fran Leibowitz with the quotation: "Everyone says he's crazy ... which maybe he is ... but the scarier thing about him is that he's stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don't."

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It would be hilarious if every band put out a statement like this, whether they were invited or not.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Imagine the pain and suffering of the poor saps who have to find bands to book for maga events.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thanks, mom, for 2 years of piano lessons that I HATED at 8 years old. But music has always been where I go when things are bad. Or good. Now that I'm seventy something, I get to play with great musicians. And -- yes, there is a correlation -- I'm pretty good at math. Give your kids music lessons.

Cartoon showing "Big Al's Banjo, Bagpipe, and Accordion Palace" with a sign in the window that reads "Closed due to Geneva Convention."

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

30 faux news stiffs in the administration; pardons sold to felons; citizenships sold to donors; slush fund for services of the proud boys and their J6 ilk; white "refugees" from South Africa. All bound to Lyin' Donnie who can throw them out if he wants, and they know it. Rewards, bribes, extortion

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A stunningly beautiful hand-made carved cross memorial, found on a blink-and-you'll-miss-it roadside on Hawaii's Big Island. This photograph won a couple of awards.

A hand-carved wooden cross with the names of the deceased, on a roadside on Hawaii's Big Island.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

From the Quantum Mechanic's Cookbook

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Can't call 'em "Benjamins." How about "Pedos?"

The 100 dollar bill with Lyin' Donnie's face on it instead of Benjamin Franklin's, and labeled a "Federal Victory Note."

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I just realized that you have to tell BlueSky if you want to see someone's posts; it doesn't just happen. Following doesn't do it. Click the little Bell icon on the person's Profile page. (I also wish they had "hover labels" on controls. I hesitate to click blindly.) Added to the BlueSky wish list

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Greenland has 5X more hospitals per capita than the US. They should send hospital ships to America. Round-ish numbers: US population: 342,000,000 Number of US hospitals: 6093 = One US hospital per ~57,000 people Greenland population: ~57,000 (I shit you not) Number of Greenland hospitals: 5

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

It's Another Superb Owl Sunday

A fledgling Great Horned Owl sitting on a stump in a Western Montana forest. Photo by Mark Dodge.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

We were supposed to get her weeks ago, but for reasons ... she's a Christmas Kitty! Zelda arrived on Christmas Eve.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

TONIGHT ... escape with the blues! "Mary Ellen Lykins is one of those vocalists who give you goosebumps! Add to that the tight arrangements and hot saxophone and it's amazing all around." - C.A. Clayton, Telluride Jazz Fest "One of my favorite bands!" -Janice Cleven Gage, Washington Blues Society

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

We had to say goodbye to our dear friend Senta today. She was only with us for 6 years or so, poor girl. Sweet sweet kitty.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Our wedding, 44 years ago today.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The musical dream sequence in the movie SINNERS is one of the greatest pieces of film -- and film scoring -- ever made! The whole soundtrack is really good, but the music behind that few minutes of film deserves an Oscar all by itself. Genius.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Corrupt Tom Homan says he's saving children from exploitation. Or was it "for" exploitation?

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Today we open the show for Randy. Break out the paisley Nehru shirt.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This is going to be fun! It's been a long time since we played The Old Edison. Mary Ellen is a vocal force-of-nature, CC burns on guitar, Keith Stone scorches on sax, and I get to play bass with the award-winning Chris Leighton on drums. Come and rock your blues away! Also, try the chowder.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This is a post with snow geese. Several posts, actually.

Thousands of snow geese on the ground and in the air over a grassy field in Western Washington.

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

If you've been waiting on the weather to pull out your street-dancin' shoes, well ... Beat your Feet in the Street at Last at Blast from the Past!

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