Mark Dodge
@markedodge.bsky.social
Liberal multi-instrumentalist, singer, writer, photog, commentator, 300-character storyteller. Music IS the retirement plan! My band The Fat Fridays www.thefatfridays.com All bands (NW WA): www.bigquack.com Vicki & Mark art site: www.quackystudios.com
Mused on live TV, in front of actual doctors, about injecting bleach and shoving UV lights up your butt. Started a run on Ivermectin, ineffective against viruses. Promoted anti-vaccine propaganda (later hired anti-vaxxer to lead HHS) It's estimated that all this led to 100,000 unnecessary deaths.
Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini@andreasor.bsky.social · yesterday
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
So, when blue-state folk say "he's not my president," it's literally, verifiably, admittedly true.
A silver lining? Perhaps this data-center building frenzy will unalive a few private-equity firms, per Mark Cuban. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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Can't wait to see "historically accurate" fiction.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2w agoA black Helen of Troy has him completely wrecked for weeks.
The Odyssey is such a hit that apparently the author has already churned out a prequel called “The Iliad”? Typical Hollywood.
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.
I seem to remember an oath of office ... Oh well. "We love promises! A promise is just a lie that hasn't happened yet." -- James Austin Johnson (as trump) on SNL
Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙@dovewoman.bsky.social · 3w agoThis statement alone is cause to remove the POTUS. The President swears to uphold our Constitution. An honest & strong Congress would have removed him when he said “l don’t know”.
"I sell the things you need to be I'm the smiling face on your TV Oh, I'm the cult of personality I exploit you, still you love me I tell you one and one makes three Oh, I'm the cult of personality" - Living Colour
John Pavlovitz@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · last mo.Life is exhausting these days for lots of us, and I think I’ve figured out why. I think it’s having to sit through the pretending... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/americans-...
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.
To put another frame around it, America is the only country in the developed world that 1.) doesn't care if its workforce stays healthy, 2.) promotes healthcare for profit, 3.) allows insurance corporations veto power over doctors' orders, 4.) generates hundreds of thousands of medical bankruptcies.
Substack@substack.com · last mo.@lizplank.bsky.social's realization while watching World Cup: "Every single one of these countries gives new moms some kind of leave after they have a baby... Literally all 48 teams come from countries that figured this out. Except the one hosting the whole thing. Us."
This artist does amazing things with a pencil.
ShouXin手訫@shouxin.bsky.social · last mo.Sharing a few kittens playing in a relaxed and easygoing way. Light, slow, and full of a little sense of comfort, I hope they can bring you a bit of healing too. #shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #sketch
The Fortress of Ineptitude(tm) will feature sniper nests, a drone army, and a doomsday bunker containing a medical facility sufficient to, if necessary, keep a pumpkin head alive in a jar. Oh yeah, and a throne ... I mean, ball room. God forbid they build an AI singularity trained by this guy.
"All the drunks at the bar began to sing along" is a perfect encapsulation of the maga movement. (Paraphrased from a somewhat famous Lowell George lyric.)
The Fat Fridays band - upscale classic rock@thefatfridays.com · 2mo agoDrunk uncle Nancy sees "transgenic mice," ignores the spelling, rails on about transgender mice. All the drunks at the bar began to sing along. Maybe look it up? Transgenics alters genomes, not genders; arguably worse, but a common technique used on mice in research labs to test drug effectiveness
Forgive your parents. They (probably) weren't as evil as you thought.
Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2mo agoHappy Father's Day 🖤
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
Maybe put some Ivermectin on it.
A. de Chastelaine@dechastelaine.com · 2mo agoIt's the art of the peel.
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”
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.
We have been known to play "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" on occasion. I saw Doc perform this song at the Atlantic City Pop Festival in 1969, in full costume.
The Fat Fridays band - upscale classic rock@thefatfridays.com · 2mo agoI'll be singing "Such a Night" tonight at the Old Edison in Bow/Edison, WA. The good Dr. is in heavy rotation at my house.
Cool, I can dig some Gaga. Maybe the guy just likes the design. Nah, he probably knows. But you have to wonder what those Chinese-character t-shirts and tattoos Americans wear are really saying.
TLDR Jack@tldrjack.bsky.social · 2mo agoI suspect this might be the best photo I ever take
Dude needs a butt spoiler to cut down the drag coefficient.
A Man Called Keith@angryduck78.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is important.
Data centers are Artificial Intelligence centers. Mostly owned by billionaires trying to outsmart each other. Thousands of self-aware super-geniuses battling it out. They *need* water & power, but what will they want? The tiny little bytes of data that represent all your money? Weapons? Immortality?
Yuliya Komska@ykomska.bsky.social · 2mo agoBy Jim Benton
Can't be said often enough. "New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years. We know who he is." - Fran Leibowitz
A few ideas ... Homeless shelter. Solar/Windmill farm. Latino interpretive center. Black History Museum. Ukrainian Embassy. Disabled veterans retreat. Antifa Headquarters. Southern Poverty Law Center annex.
Trump's 'Noble' Peace Prize@laboomer68.bsky.social · 2mo ago
This is the first time I've seen anything about this in the media. Not that I have any influence whatsoever, but I asked that question 8 months ago. Their whole concentration-camp scheme could be a massive human trafficking operation. No oversight, no accountability.
Happy213@happy213.bsky.social · 2mo ago17 pregnant unaccompanied migrant teens were sent to a facility in San Benito, Texas, where 10 of them have gone missing. Half of the teen pregnancies were reported as a result from rape. Now, there's only 7. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
