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Mark Hodges

@mhodges.bsky.social

Guitars, bikes, skis, dogs, and football (Arsenal, Nottingham Forest, SportingKC) My pain tolerance in football is probably obvious

created November 12, 2024

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Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Carry on, Dr. Forbin.

3/9/2025, 5:03:19 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix) If you wanted to put together a cast that would grab me by the …well, let’s just say that they did.

29/8/2025, 5:21:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 3:06:33 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

Can’t decide who I want cast in the role of Ernst Röhm, mostly because the list is too damned long.

28/8/2025, 3:00:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

“Attention impresario” is a phrase I’m going to reuse on the regular.

28/8/2025, 12:48:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

But you can identify a hare-brained assgoblin from 50 meters, and Jr there is proof.

28/8/2025, 12:44:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Holmes (@annabookwriter.bsky.social) reposted

If you think you don’t have a qualifying condition to get the COVID shot, yes you do. You have the same conditions that I do, and I am happy to talk about our symptoms at length to better explain them to the pharmacist, who at the moment does not need to confirm these things on any record.

27/8/2025, 6:03:17 PM | 316 85 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Spoke too soon. 😀

27/8/2025, 1:13:57 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s still dry over here, for now. Plenty of thunder!

27/8/2025, 1:12:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These little doge fuckheads need to go though some things. Like prison gates.

26/8/2025, 7:02:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Fluffers first, star leads last.

26/8/2025, 6:52:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Totally possible.

26/8/2025, 2:04:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ve had 10 — they’re all qualified in this maneuver. 😀

26/8/2025, 4:48:16 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

I rescue huskies - the cats of dogs, so I’ll stipulate.

26/8/2025, 4:20:20 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Was a t-shirt I saw at Flatstock, SxSW in the before times. And it still hits. 🤣

26/8/2025, 4:18:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

In a world full of , be a Lisa Cook.

26/8/2025, 4:16:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture K Jumbe (@kjumbe.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Death is the least of things you should fear in a dictatorship. Imprisonment, torture, the targeting of friends and loved ones... there is a lot a dictatorship can take away from you before they get around to taking your life.

26/8/2025, 2:00:58 AM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

JB did the reading, it seems.

26/8/2025, 4:12:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/8/2025, 10:35:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

Maybe if miller wasn’t such an odious piece of shit, he’d feel less terrified in his life.

25/8/2025, 4:59:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

/11 In short, fuck these fascist shitbirds, fuck you if you voted for them, fuck you if you apologize for or countenance them.

25/8/2025, 4:05:10 PM | 1572 291 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rex Huppke (@rexhuppke.bsky.social) reposted

Correct. It’s insane that anyone is standing for this. We need people in the streets, campus protests, a general strike. Democrats should be holding rallies and press events constantly. The apathy in the face of all this is astounding.

22/8/2025, 6:52:42 PM | 1715 423 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, he’s dumb enough…

22/8/2025, 12:24:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

RIP Brent Hinds. Damn it!

21/8/2025, 5:43:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

“If done correctly”, which seems well beyond the reach of this administration.

21/8/2025, 12:48:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Seriously. Bring that lumpen circus peanut over; I’m happy to provide a counterexample.

20/8/2025, 3:07:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Guaranteed to end well, right?

20/8/2025, 3:04:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Same, really.

18/8/2025, 7:45:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

If someone, anyone, could shut this gibbering gobshite the fuck up, I would be eternally grateful.

18/8/2025, 7:17:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

I cannot string together enough profanities to describe how useless the dem caucus has proved to be.

18/8/2025, 6:31:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Because chickenshit?

15/8/2025, 4:09:06 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

What gif pops up when you type your name?

15/8/2025, 2:38:07 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Dunno. Maybe it was proposed after publication?

14/8/2025, 12:27:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Or, just spitballing, the reason they still put instructions on hand soap…

14/8/2025, 3:26:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

You are probably aware, but Elie Mystal proposes a rational expansion argument (and resolution) in “Bad Law”.

14/8/2025, 3:13:04 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Ugh. Another fight with autocorrect lost.

14/8/2025, 2:33:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

I hope every government-funded researcher working with/on mRNA vaccines sends every page of data to every researcher they know in Europe. USG doesn’t want it, so it must not be valuable, right?

14/8/2025, 2:32:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

The absolute fraidiest of frady cats. (iOS wants to sub “fraud” for “frady”, and I had to consider it)

14/8/2025, 2:25:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

Nicely done. If there’s a fundraiser to get the lasers back, I’m in.

11/8/2025, 11:53:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

But who am I kidding: I’ve never passed a bar, though I’ve occasionally regretted entering.

8/8/2025, 4:03:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

Home of the brave* *An apparent multitude of chickenshit gobshites to the contrary…

8/8/2025, 4:01:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Paxton makes me wonder if I could have passed the bar on the waning edge of a week long bender with Gary Busey.

8/8/2025, 3:58:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Same goes for making a handful of eventual cemetery plots pay-per-piss. Will totally hose my retirement.

8/8/2025, 3:56:24 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

“Broken sharply with the mainstream”, because “being full of shit” isn’t enough big words.

8/8/2025, 3:54:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Rosé, here. Absolutely no intention of ruining it with introspection, this evening. 😀

8/8/2025, 1:00:58 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

They were going to label this dog vicious, and euthanize her. So I rescued her. The only thing endangered by this dog is food, and maybe a sock that gets left out.

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8/8/2025, 12:58:42 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Have to tip the hat to the artist including smokestacks in the graphic — keeping it real.

8/8/2025, 12:52:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, it’s not like Leno was an actual comedian. Actual comedians are funny.

8/8/2025, 12:49:57 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Siri: show me someone in need of both makeup lessons and a swift kick in the crotch.

8/8/2025, 12:46:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Whatever get do? Come on, autocorrect! Whatever they do^

6/8/2025, 3:45:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m wrong (a lot!), but I think those existing beliefs are largely self-entrenching: if they get beat down they’re victims; if nobody notices them they’re victims. In between? Victims. And always chomping at the bit to make someone/anyone pay. Pathetic finds a way, it seems.

6/8/2025, 3:42:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s a fair point, and I expect there to be a lot of fallout. But I also think that whatever get do is what they were always going to do, this just moves the timeline forward a little.

6/8/2025, 3:42:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

Deep in a Paul Weller rabbit hole. And it is good.

6/8/2025, 3:36:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Definitely not. But fuck that guy, anyway. I’ll save my concern for people that aren’t helping trash it all.

6/8/2025, 3:35:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

It ain’t like she’s wrong…

5/8/2025, 3:39:43 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Participant in tech world here — can confirm.

5/8/2025, 3:37:00 AM | 71 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

So damned good!

5/8/2025, 3:24:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice work! Something to look forward to this weekend, I guess… 😀

4/8/2025, 11:43:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

This is exactly kind of thing I would “win”.

4/8/2025, 12:11:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

And all of them proclaiming, to a degree that exposes the lie, how tough and fearless they believe themselves to be. Useless craven cowards.

1/8/2025, 4:31:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

The map in my lightning app looked like I’d spilled cayenne pepper on it.

1/8/2025, 12:17:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Possums are awesome!

30/7/2025, 5:18:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s just a very simple salad, really.

30/7/2025, 12:57:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

This is wonderful.

28/7/2025, 3:45:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

“If they were a company”. They’re not, and maybe someone with access could take minute to write that on a shovel and hit this lump of shit in the head with it.

28/7/2025, 12:15:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

Fuck Columbia U. In the neck.

24/7/2025, 4:43:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

And, besides everyone, who could have predicted that serious questions would be raised about accountability at the highest levels? (Not taking the piss on Mr. Eisen, because I respect him. But honestly: we are past that point, I find)

24/7/2025, 4:03:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m going to redbubble and make “contemptible Vichy scum” t-shirts, because if there have ever been 3 words to capture the moment, those are the three.

24/7/2025, 4:00:42 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

When I was 9, I was the Man From UNCLE. And as dumb as that was, I envisioned better promo shot. These fucking people…

22/7/2025, 3:02:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Fizzy, and high water content. Well played.

18/7/2025, 12:47:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not one person asked for this. Not. One.

16/7/2025, 3:56:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social)

Vibe physics. These fucking people. There are (clearly) good reasons for continuing to put instructions on fucking hand soap.

16/7/2025, 3:47:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

“might” buying a lot of (unearned) grace there…

14/7/2025, 4:13:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

The notion that any person is undeserving of food is part of the fundamental rot in this society.

14/7/2025, 4:10:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Tummy again showing no concept of how shit works. Sad wee tummy.

14/7/2025, 4:02:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t snub anyone. But there are definitely people with whom I share no common values, and I let them live a life unburdened by my presence and/or voice.

14/7/2025, 3:59:21 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Mapsco was the only way in the DFW area.

14/7/2025, 3:56:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Behind D. On the daily. Still remember when the price went to 75 cents, and thought, “this is nuts — I gotta quit”.🤣

14/7/2025, 3:54:56 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Shitty vodka, to boot.

13/7/2025, 10:01:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I couldn’t possibly like BRMC any more than I alre… I stand corrected.

13/7/2025, 3:30:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard.bsky.social) reposted

Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.

13/7/2025, 12:04:35 AM | 6805 1139 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Honestly not sure where I was going with that. 🤷‍♂️

12/7/2025, 12:46:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Eh. Can’t dance better so seems fair.

12/7/2025, 4:37:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey, Sen. Fetterman! Fuck you. Endlessly.

12/7/2025, 4:35:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“…I mean, you don't see Elton John come out in his normal fucking pajamas. He puts on other pajamas." consequence.net/cover/ghost-...

11/7/2025, 4:56:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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AI is amazing. I spend more time saving myself from spellcheck than spellcheck saves me from typos. Case in point: it changed AI to AU, and I had to go back and change. Quite the goddamned assistant…

11/7/2025, 2:54:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) reposted

Very good work. Read it and act. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret...

9/7/2025, 11:07:57 AM | 1907 945 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Please allow me to gesture broadly at… well, everything.

9/7/2025, 3:17:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a Boise resident, I support this. Maybe it would lead to expanded bus service. 😀

8/7/2025, 2:35:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The chase for the title of Most Stupid Lump of Shit Ever continues apace.

8/7/2025, 2:26:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For the record, that’s not the plot of “The Perfect Couple”. But that only reinforces my position.

6/7/2025, 3:41:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If Liev Shreiber made a movie that was just him sitting there for 2 hours, I would watch that shit.

6/7/2025, 3:37:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Footie scran says: No Scran.

6/7/2025, 12:09:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just want to know where in this taxonomy the Crunch Wrap Supreme falls. Because I’m high AF, but I also don’t want to disappoint — it’s the Kansas Baptist in me.

5/7/2025, 4:16:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hodges (@mhodges.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s put his flaccid ass to work.

5/7/2025, 4:14:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted

It’s the 4th of July and every channel is showing ‘Independence Day’ on a loop when they should be showing ‘Idiocracy.’

4/7/2025, 7:11:59 PM | 9363 1429 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is… something. 😀

4/7/2025, 5:13:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I needed this, this morning.

4/7/2025, 3:37:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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u24.gov.ua

4/7/2025, 5:39:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just found out that I can park at meters in Boise for $10/year. A small perk among many for going electric. www.cityofboise.org/departments/...

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