Mark Feltskog

Hello esteemed Bluesky users. If you follow me in order to steer me towards pictures of you in various states of undress, I will block your account. I am not interested, so don't bother. I am also uninterested in pictures of you at the gym. Also, as above, I IGNORE DMS.

"And so I quit the police department, and got myself a steady job..."

At a picnic table in front of Sharlene's, Flatbush Avenue, Downtown Brooklyn, 22 October 2026. Man, I love this place.

#Putin reportedly proposes three-way summit with #Trump and Xi on #Ukraine war — without #Zelenskyy www.cnbc.com/2026/10... Historian here. Hmm, let's see: Attending: Aggressor √ Appeaser√ Enabler √ Excluded: Country forced to surrender territory This sounds familiar

‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem’ Review: A Renaissance of Their Own The Black luminaries who turned 1920s Harlem into a hub of artistic expression gathered decades later to reminisce. It was a house party for the ages. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/m...

“Harlan County USA at 50," a new audio special from WKMS and the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, is now available online! Listen to learn more about Barbara Kopple's transformative documentary "Harlan County USA" and its lasting impacts on Kentuckians, artists and labor movements.

"You could see that Pierre did truly love the Mademoiselle..." Chuck Berry

Hey Gang, The Harvey Awards Happened At NYCC Last Night... Was Harvey Funny? Yes, From What Weve Heard. Talented? Yes, From What Weve Seen. Was Harvey Inspirational? Of Course. But Lets Step Into Reality. MAD Would Have Been Dead & Buried Long Ago Under Harveys One Track Mind, Perfectionism, & Spite

Bowery and Bleecker, Manhattan, New York City.

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Your Governor: Do Not Opt-in to the Federal Voucher Program.. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Public transit is one of America’s smartest investments. It creates jobs and keeps the economy moving. The Continuing Resolution cuts the investment to keep public transit and passenger rail in good repair. Restore the funding to keep America moving > apta.com/transitimpact #ThatsTransit #aptaEXPO

'Mark Anthony Neal joined OFFICE HOURS with Marc Lamont Hill to discuss his new book on fatherhood. Dr. Neal opens up to Marc about his relationship with his father and what exploring that relationship taught him about his mother and raising his daughters.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfqL...

"Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt." Bob Dylan "Brownsville Girl"

"Adela" says, "Here's my work table where I prepare raspberry boxes. I keep my boxes and new baskets ready for when I finish filling the raspberry containers. Then I prepare the baskets and place them in the boxes. Each box holds 6-18 baskets depending on the order." #WeFeedYou

so important that this one escaped looting: artefacts in situ provide us with the crucial hard evidence on the Etruscan culture

Now here's something I think remarkable. Look very carefully. This isn't a high quality monochrome photo of a bygone street scene. It's a pencil drawing! By the artist Stuart Walton, born in Dewsbury in 1933. I love it!

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I WANNA DESTROY YOU  Live at the Basement East 

Arthur's, Perry Street, West Village, Manhattan, New York City, Tuesday 8 September 2026, 7:10 PM.

Must be nice to rewarded with a super yacht after defrauding Medicare.

New #newsletter, and this one is PACKED with stuff for you to read, check out, watch, etc., incl. my new #podcast with #DashShaw, a 2025 interview I gave with #HunterProsper, and a LOT more, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...

A Network for Solutions to a Crisis | Jennifer Porter Gore HBCU Morgan State University in Baltimore Is Building Black Research Power to Help Resolve the Maternal Health Crisis wordinblack.com/2026/08/a-ne...

Requiescat in pace Cassandra Wilson.

Listening to a feat on the news on fashion trends in Silicon Valley. Phew! Hard-hitting stuff NPR!

What a nice weekend surprise from the @nytimes.com ! 🎶 Thank you! 🎶

LONDON! My new book “Stranded In The Future” is amazingly available for purchase in a shop - namely Rough Trade East. For all your reading needs…

The Struggle to Govern Ourselves: State Takeovers and the Fight to Save our Schools One of the many incredible panels we will have at our 2026 conference. For more info visit our website or scan the QR code networkforpubliceduc... Public Schools Build Democracy!

Self Promotion Sunday - Surreality. I revisited this tune that was the title track from an album of mine 20 years prior. Ended up with a spooky minimalist version of it that creates a mood. Didn’t plan on playing a combined solo with organ, it just naturally happened. #jazzsky youtu.be/uWcLFyeX3Js

New #newsletter! We've got this week's #podcast, some good links and sad obits, BIRDY!, my Detroit-trip, & more, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

More than anything, I am exhausted and disgusted by the mendacity, vulgarity, racism, lawlessness, warmongering, corruption, and pure, unalloyed stupidity. (And I didn't even mention the president's grotesque family.)

Saudi Arabian justice for anyone who dogears pages in library books.

Tune of the day…Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian - Eighty-one. This just hits all the right spots. 3 great voices interacting on Ron’s open blues. I could listen to them play this tune all day. Each had played with one another but this is the 1st time together. #jazzsky youtu.be/gwzm5AZGKe8

RIP #JohnCrowley. Go read LITTLE, BIG, the AEGYPT cycle, KA, ENGINE SUMMER, and more. One of the most amazing, inventive writer I ever recorded with. Our talks: 2013 - chimeraobscura.com/vm/podcast-r... 2017 - chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-2... 2022 - chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-4...

"A crowd came in and sat down And then a man began to yell About savin' souls to heaven And for the sinner there was hell Well later on that night In a motel room down the road He kept his meeting for a cat-o-nine beating From a leather-clad man named Moe" Stan Ridgway, "The Last Honest Man"

"It might have been Geneva in a darkened discotheque And though I met Sophia I still got it in the neck A journalist he spied on me like I always knew they would He wrote me off like a business trip I felt deeply misunderstood" T-Bone Burnett, "Euromad"

ICE out of Inwood. ICE out of every neighborhood. People are dying in ICE custody. Children separated from parents. Communities are shut out of vital services. We won't give up—and we know our rights: advocate.nyc.gov/blog/resources-to-protect-and-defend-immigrant-communities 📷 Cristobal Vivar

New #podcast! @hommestead.bsky.social / #HalsteadYork kicks off my new series, THE HAMPSHIRE TAPES, where we'll hear stories from grads, professors, staff, & other folks connected to my soon-to-be-departed alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social! GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...

Many thanks to @gidcoe.bsky.social for spinning not one but two whole tracks from my fab new album ‘The Confuser’ on @bbc6.bsky.social over the past few days. Love on ya, Gid! Y’all can find The Confuser on my website; in record stores from August 21st. Yaysville!

When Quinn the Eskimo gets here, them pigeons'll go to him.

good news: African American Cultural #Heritage Action Fund Awards $3M in Grants to 27 Historic Sites | National Trust for Historic #Preservation

Tom Kean Jr. is a poster child for the failed culture of Washington corruption. He's still trading stocks despite his promise to put all of his assets into a blind trust. l've divested all of my individual stocks because there should never be a question about who I am running to serve.

NPE report #DoomedToFail - An Analysis of Charter School Closures from 1998 to 2022. Charter school closures, often chaotic & abrupt, take parents by surprise. 1 million kids stranded shows that risk is far from negligible. networkforpubliceduc...

Nina Simone singing "Ooh Child." If Heaven really exists, I must assume this is on the playlist there.

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

Haiti is lawless. Gangs control many parts of country. Why are we sending hard-working Haitians to a country wracked by massacres, murders, rape? l.smartnews.com/p-81VfotgJ/6...

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