Mark Bjorge
@markbjorge.bsky.social
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.
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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Of course, why read CNN when you can get the numbers directly from the source? election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
UF Election Lab: 2026 General Election Early Vote Statistics
Live national and state-by-state early voting statistics for the 2026 general election.
election.lab.ufl.edu
October 1, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Of course, why read CNN when you can get the numbers directly from the source? election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
@joshtpm.bsky.social seen this? Liberty U? Really? And Hillsdale seems maybe similar?
www.war.gov/News/Release...
www.war.gov/News/Release...
www.war.gov
October 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
@joshtpm.bsky.social seen this? Liberty U? Really? And Hillsdale seems maybe similar?
www.war.gov/News/Release...
www.war.gov/News/Release...
The pitch:
AI is a force majeure that will inevitably lead to loss and diminishment (income, security, utility, peace, existence) of all those who failed to invest in it yesterday!
Look on its works, ye mighty, and despair!
AI is a force majeure that will inevitably lead to loss and diminishment (income, security, utility, peace, existence) of all those who failed to invest in it yesterday!
Look on its works, ye mighty, and despair!
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
September 29, 2026 at 1:06 PM
The pitch:
AI is a force majeure that will inevitably lead to loss and diminishment (income, security, utility, peace, existence) of all those who failed to invest in it yesterday!
Look on its works, ye mighty, and despair!
AI is a force majeure that will inevitably lead to loss and diminishment (income, security, utility, peace, existence) of all those who failed to invest in it yesterday!
Look on its works, ye mighty, and despair!
Great 🧵 cc @markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov
1/ They sanctioned a sitting president's wife and son. They pardoned a man serving 45 years for drug trafficking two days before an election. They put $40B on the table, on camera, tied to a vote. Six countries. One toolkit. Here's how it works. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
September 28, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Great 🧵 cc @markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov
I need to see the sun.
Five days of rain and wind is enough.
Five days of rain and wind is enough.
September 27, 2026 at 11:52 PM
I need to see the sun.
Five days of rain and wind is enough.
Five days of rain and wind is enough.
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
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
September 26, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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
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
The Coolest Boat You’ve Never Heard Of
YouTube video by Lady K Sailing
youtu.be
September 26, 2026 at 12:47 AM
AI doom spiral. Get those IPOs in quick! Nvidia holders take note.
it's not enough that they stole all the web's content, they're also stealing all the web's traffic so that they can serve ads on what they stole and profit from it
September 23, 2026 at 1:42 AM
AI doom spiral. Get those IPOs in quick! Nvidia holders take note.
Schadenfreude is German for (cruel self indulgent) “pleasure at the misfortune of others”.
Not here for it.
Not here for it.
Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.
September 23, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Schadenfreude is German for (cruel self indulgent) “pleasure at the misfortune of others”.
Not here for it.
Not here for it.
This is a really good episode! 👍🏼👍🏼
When chatbots become our closest “friends,” what happens to our capacity to care? @samleecole.bsky.social speaks to Professor Sherry Turkle, a licensed clinical psychologist and the founding director of MIT's Initiative on Technology and Self.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqD...
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqD...
September 21, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This is a really good episode! 👍🏼👍🏼
It doesn’t need to be getting dark this early.
September 17, 2026 at 11:17 PM
It doesn’t need to be getting dark this early.
I can’t find my old favorite cornbread recipe so I’m using one from #blueplatemayo and it smells delish.
I am hopeful!
I am hopeful!
September 17, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I can’t find my old favorite cornbread recipe so I’m using one from #blueplatemayo and it smells delish.
I am hopeful!
I am hopeful!
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When does fall color typically peak in the DC area?
We've created a map which shows the average dates.
See our comprehensive guide to fall foliage in the DC area at capitalweather.com
We've created a map which shows the average dates.
See our comprehensive guide to fall foliage in the DC area at capitalweather.com
September 17, 2026 at 1:32 AM
When does fall color typically peak in the DC area?
We've created a map which shows the average dates.
See our comprehensive guide to fall foliage in the DC area at capitalweather.com
We've created a map which shows the average dates.
See our comprehensive guide to fall foliage in the DC area at capitalweather.com
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Warning: This is so disturbing. youtube.com/shorts/ev3Gd...
A Man Died After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI
YouTube video by 404 Media
youtube.com
September 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Warning: This is so disturbing. youtube.com/shorts/ev3Gd...
Reposted by Mark Bjorge
“Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteem’d,
But honesty once pawn’d, is ne’er redeem’d.”
~ Thomas Middleton, ‘A Trick to Catch the Old One’ (1608)
#Painting, Maurice Sand, 1860.
But honesty once pawn’d, is ne’er redeem’d.”
~ Thomas Middleton, ‘A Trick to Catch the Old One’ (1608)
#Painting, Maurice Sand, 1860.
September 16, 2026 at 1:17 PM
“Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteem’d,
But honesty once pawn’d, is ne’er redeem’d.”
~ Thomas Middleton, ‘A Trick to Catch the Old One’ (1608)
#Painting, Maurice Sand, 1860.
But honesty once pawn’d, is ne’er redeem’d.”
~ Thomas Middleton, ‘A Trick to Catch the Old One’ (1608)
#Painting, Maurice Sand, 1860.
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AI hyperscalers are not, and will not ever be profitable, at the massive level of investments they require. Their point is not to be profitable themselves. AI leaders are VALUE ENABLERS.
Which is to say, these companies are claiming that they are *so cool* that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics:
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
September 16, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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Where is Trump’s swiftboat veterans for truth?
"September 11th was 25 years ago" -- Ted Cruz defends Trump lying about his response to 9/11 but suggesting he might not remember because it was so long ago
September 9, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Where is Trump’s swiftboat veterans for truth?
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I'm a white-knuckle hater of the "both parties are the same/uniparty" blackpill, which really crumbles if you compare GOP state trifectas and Dem trifectas for 10 seconds.
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
heartlandsignal.com
September 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
I'm a white-knuckle hater of the "both parties are the same/uniparty" blackpill, which really crumbles if you compare GOP state trifectas and Dem trifectas for 10 seconds.
Great compendium. Very useful!
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
heartlandsignal.com
September 9, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Great compendium. Very useful!
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"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
September 7, 2026 at 10:33 PM
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
Isn’t this the same place his proposed new arch will lead to and frame?
Breaking news: The Trump administration has removed language criticizing a memorial to the Confederacy formerly located in Arlington National Cemetery, part of its ongoing effort to reshape portrayals of the Civil War.
Trump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorial
A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 7, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Isn’t this the same place his proposed new arch will lead to and frame?
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1/ If you feel exhausted, frozen, or unable to keep fighting, that does not mean you stopped caring.
Your nervous system may be responding exactly as prolonged, uncontrollable stress trains it to respond.
The way back begins smaller than you think.
#DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Your nervous system may be responding exactly as prolonged, uncontrollable stress trains it to respond.
The way back begins smaller than you think.
#DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
September 7, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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