Mark Blacknell

This summer, we signed up for a week of dive lessons. I’d never really learned how to use a diving board. It was an hour a day of throwing my body into the air and hoping I did it right. It was some of the most fun I’ve had in years, and I’m so glad we did it. (First in a series of Good Things)

It'll be interesting to see which countries dare offer the Trump family asylum, when the time comes.

Fuck 'em.

Will be suffering my absence in Bonaire, but I suspect this will be a grand time.

Right, now find out how you *pronounce* "Pall Mall."

Live skeeting the Brazilian election? Log off, Americans. Don't do this to yourselves.

Oh, look, it's the US Park Police. Again.

So, fuck SpaceX and the goblin that runs it, but also the DOD dummies that put the US in the position of relying so heavily on it. Just failure upon failure.

Britt McHenry now works for the Trump Admin? Tracks. (People hate you almost as much as they hate Advanced Towing, Britt.) www.tmz.com/2026/10/22/b...

This is deadly serious. Do it.

This man has my attention. Give him a little bit of yours?

Laughed pretty hard at this quote

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My strong advice is to go into a used bookstore or library and start reading older books. The industry is understandably biased towards what’s new and shiny, but you shouldn’t let that determine what you read next.

And he'll do the same to the US, during an Administration that doesn't give him what he wants. Either stand up competitors or nationalize Starlink.

I think one of the reasons Russia feels comfortable rattling its sabre at Europe is because it knows that the US will not only avoid its NATO obligations, but will actively side with Russia. Would not be surprised to see US troops deployed in favor of Russian interests at some point in next 2 years.

Still not ready to make nice.

And this reminds me - I am going to the Annapolis Boat Show tomorrow w my wife, and I am so very excited about that. I am neither an Annapolis person nor a boat buyer (for now), but I am so looking forward to being immersed in a completely different world for a while.

In 1992, I was hired at the Record Bar at Shannon Mall, near Atlanta. Two weeks later it closed, much to the surprise of everyone, including the manager.

The lines on this are always nuts. Which is a good thing, I think. But it makes me wonder if I should just go up to a car at the end of the line and ask if I can just dump my batteries and laptops in their backseat. No? Hmm.

It's Friday afternoon, and I am now marking the two week anniversary of me being able to hold off posting the best (@*@#( photo of me in years. It was a good run.

Mark is doing what we should all be doing in our professional lives - being direct about the institutions and elites in our fields, pointing out the failings and consequences.

Art.

Halloween was the one single holiday where kids were supposed to run around at night without adult supervision. Naturally, that had to be destroyed. A lot of people don't remember that the specific stated purpose of moving the return to standard time back one week, from...

this is like the Ark of the Covenant angels looking all happy and welcoming right before they turn the Nazi's flesh into melted goo

i dont think the tech bros understand a whole generation of us grew up with an icon telling us exactly how to handle technology gone rogue

I wrote about the feeble attempt by prominent tech punditry mainstays like John Gruber and Casey Newton to rationalize their continued use of Elon Musk's propaganda website.

Cannot emphasize enough how important is is for people like me (and probably you) to do this. Clown these dipshits.

This captures the entirety of the 2026 DOJ in one exchange. Trash on the level of DHS.

Livetweeting the NPS bullshit at Hains Point.

😂 There was an Epstein who ran locally, recently. And my *9 and 11* year old were like "Is it THAT Epstein?!" 😮

This is an excellent point. When pro-democracy, anti-corruption forces get power, they won't need elaborate new laws to start getting Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, and other tech oligarchs out of government. They've almost certainly committed fraud and other already existing crimes.

Hey, neighbors, get something good in your mailbox for once.

THIS.IS.HOW.YOU.DO.IT.

Except Bugs Bunny is a Floridian.

Fuuuuuuu . . . .

We'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.

"Hey Siri, turn on my office heater." <- a thing I really resent having said today.

Do 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.

USPS and Amazon outfitting its workforce with surveillance cameras? We are *rocketing* into our dystopian future. The Age of Consequences, indeed.

Get fucked, Jim Jordan & every other GOP member of the House.

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One 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.)