Mark Mitchell
@trusttheroad-24.bsky.social
Retired from service in the chips and cola wars. Motorcycle enthusiast. Just want to take pictures now, birds and landscapes. Central Florida based. Critters and landscapes don't lie. Photos taken by myself unless noted otherwise.
Pinned
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Back from another incredible seven days on the Disney Treasure! Love this ship 😭
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Back from another incredible seven days on the Disney Treasure! Love this ship 😭
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#PearlHarborDay
A DAY TO HONOR THEIR IMMENSE SACRIFICE
FDR stated
"A Day Which Will Live in Infamy "
It didn't break the American Spirit...There are only a few Pearl Harbor Survivors still with us all centenarians and as they watch us fight fascism once again here against our own fascist regime
A DAY TO HONOR THEIR IMMENSE SACRIFICE
FDR stated
"A Day Which Will Live in Infamy "
It didn't break the American Spirit...There are only a few Pearl Harbor Survivors still with us all centenarians and as they watch us fight fascism once again here against our own fascist regime
December 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#PearlHarborDay
A DAY TO HONOR THEIR IMMENSE SACRIFICE
FDR stated
"A Day Which Will Live in Infamy "
It didn't break the American Spirit...There are only a few Pearl Harbor Survivors still with us all centenarians and as they watch us fight fascism once again here against our own fascist regime
A DAY TO HONOR THEIR IMMENSE SACRIFICE
FDR stated
"A Day Which Will Live in Infamy "
It didn't break the American Spirit...There are only a few Pearl Harbor Survivors still with us all centenarians and as they watch us fight fascism once again here against our own fascist regime
You don't get to kill alleged drug smugglers and pardon a convicted drug runner. Karma will cash this check.
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
You don't get to kill alleged drug smugglers and pardon a convicted drug runner. Karma will cash this check.
Timeline cleanse.
Just four favorites.
Two shots, just off in timing, love them still, herons are hard to get in motion. A dragonfly, love its color. Another heron, mouth agape like "whuuutt"
Just four favorites.
Two shots, just off in timing, love them still, herons are hard to get in motion. A dragonfly, love its color. Another heron, mouth agape like "whuuutt"
November 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Timeline cleanse.
Just four favorites.
Two shots, just off in timing, love them still, herons are hard to get in motion. A dragonfly, love its color. Another heron, mouth agape like "whuuutt"
Just four favorites.
Two shots, just off in timing, love them still, herons are hard to get in motion. A dragonfly, love its color. Another heron, mouth agape like "whuuutt"
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #HeadShots and the alternative birds are #Swans.
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate 🫶🍂🍁🍂
#Birds #birding #photography #closeup #scape #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin
#florida
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate 🫶🍂🍁🍂
#Birds #birding #photography #closeup #scape #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin
#florida
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #HeadShots and the alternative birds are #Swans.
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate 🫶🍂🍁🍂
#Birds #birding #photography #closeup #scape #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin
#florida
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate 🫶🍂🍁🍂
#Birds #birding #photography #closeup #scape #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin
#florida
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Happy Turkey Day everyone! 🦃
a man in a pilgrim hat says it is 30 straight hours and it 's called turkey day
Alt: Joel says "It's 30 straight hours and it's called turkey day" with crow dressed as a turkey and tom servo dressed as a pilgrim from MST3K
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Happy Turkey Day everyone! 🦃
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Happy to report that Wake Up Dead Man AKA Knives Out 3 is incredible! Check your local theaters!
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Happy to report that Wake Up Dead Man AKA Knives Out 3 is incredible! Check your local theaters!
When the Christmas Cactus goes all "game on" for the holidays.
#macro
#ChristmasCactus
#photographersofbluesky
#macro
#ChristmasCactus
#photographersofbluesky
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
When the Christmas Cactus goes all "game on" for the holidays.
#macro
#ChristmasCactus
#photographersofbluesky
#macro
#ChristmasCactus
#photographersofbluesky
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Rare agreement from both sides of the divide.
The Trump admin wants to open offshore drilling along the CA and FL coasts, and both Newsom & DeSantis are calling it out as a threat to the environment, tourism and coastal communities.
If these two are sounding the alarm together, you know it’s bad.
The Trump admin wants to open offshore drilling along the CA and FL coasts, and both Newsom & DeSantis are calling it out as a threat to the environment, tourism and coastal communities.
If these two are sounding the alarm together, you know it’s bad.
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Rare agreement from both sides of the divide.
The Trump admin wants to open offshore drilling along the CA and FL coasts, and both Newsom & DeSantis are calling it out as a threat to the environment, tourism and coastal communities.
If these two are sounding the alarm together, you know it’s bad.
The Trump admin wants to open offshore drilling along the CA and FL coasts, and both Newsom & DeSantis are calling it out as a threat to the environment, tourism and coastal communities.
If these two are sounding the alarm together, you know it’s bad.
Goodnight moon.
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Goodnight moon.
Current mood. Full vulture, top of tree, every day. Looking for that one bit of positive news, but getting this rapid descent to a bottom that has no bottom.
#photographersofbluesky
#vulture
#photographersofbluesky
#vulture
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Current mood. Full vulture, top of tree, every day. Looking for that one bit of positive news, but getting this rapid descent to a bottom that has no bottom.
#photographersofbluesky
#vulture
#photographersofbluesky
#vulture
The little left arm, just up, allowing for excellent shadow-play. Almost saying "you did this..."
#bright
#small
#invertebrates
#walkingstick
#BlueSkyArtShow
#photographersofbluesky
#bright
#small
#invertebrates
#walkingstick
#BlueSkyArtShow
#photographersofbluesky
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The little left arm, just up, allowing for excellent shadow-play. Almost saying "you did this..."
#bright
#small
#invertebrates
#walkingstick
#BlueSkyArtShow
#photographersofbluesky
#bright
#small
#invertebrates
#walkingstick
#BlueSkyArtShow
#photographersofbluesky
Walkabout Friday (should be a thing?)
Personal 1st sighting of a Loggerhead Shrike, and a lucky shot of a Tricolor Heron gulping down a minnow. Got to spend quality time watching a Green Heron browsing for lunch also.
#GreenHeron
#TricolorHeron
#Osprey
#LoggerheadShrike
#PhotographersOfBluesky
Personal 1st sighting of a Loggerhead Shrike, and a lucky shot of a Tricolor Heron gulping down a minnow. Got to spend quality time watching a Green Heron browsing for lunch also.
#GreenHeron
#TricolorHeron
#Osprey
#LoggerheadShrike
#PhotographersOfBluesky
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Walkabout Friday (should be a thing?)
Personal 1st sighting of a Loggerhead Shrike, and a lucky shot of a Tricolor Heron gulping down a minnow. Got to spend quality time watching a Green Heron browsing for lunch also.
#GreenHeron
#TricolorHeron
#Osprey
#LoggerheadShrike
#PhotographersOfBluesky
Personal 1st sighting of a Loggerhead Shrike, and a lucky shot of a Tricolor Heron gulping down a minnow. Got to spend quality time watching a Green Heron browsing for lunch also.
#GreenHeron
#TricolorHeron
#Osprey
#LoggerheadShrike
#PhotographersOfBluesky
Taken a few years ago on a trip to Seaside Or. Was lucky enough to catch the setting sun lighting up this starling with wonderful golden highlights. Wish my hair was that cool.
#starling
#bird
#photographersofbluesky
#starling
#bird
#photographersofbluesky
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Taken a few years ago on a trip to Seaside Or. Was lucky enough to catch the setting sun lighting up this starling with wonderful golden highlights. Wish my hair was that cool.
#starling
#bird
#photographersofbluesky
#starling
#bird
#photographersofbluesky
Squirrel shots for sweet dreams.
Maybe my yard-buddies will keep the thoughts brought by our current predicament away tonight.
Probably gonna need more squirrel for best results.
#squirrel
#eastern
#photographersofbluesky
Maybe my yard-buddies will keep the thoughts brought by our current predicament away tonight.
Probably gonna need more squirrel for best results.
#squirrel
#eastern
#photographersofbluesky
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Squirrel shots for sweet dreams.
Maybe my yard-buddies will keep the thoughts brought by our current predicament away tonight.
Probably gonna need more squirrel for best results.
#squirrel
#eastern
#photographersofbluesky
Maybe my yard-buddies will keep the thoughts brought by our current predicament away tonight.
Probably gonna need more squirrel for best results.
#squirrel
#eastern
#photographersofbluesky
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Casually wondering where this timelines' Ellsberg is. We need circumvention and transparency, being certain that endless fuckery of the facts continues. Take the leap, look into the dark!
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Casually wondering where this timelines' Ellsberg is. We need circumvention and transparency, being certain that endless fuckery of the facts continues. Take the leap, look into the dark!
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There is a corresponding article in the NYT if you can get by the paywall.
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
There is a corresponding article in the NYT if you can get by the paywall.
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We're now able to track monarch butterflies...
"The breakthrough is the result of a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200. Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarchs this year and are now following their journeys on a cellphone app..."
"The breakthrough is the result of a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200. Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarchs this year and are now following their journeys on a cellphone app..."
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
We're now able to track monarch butterflies...
"The breakthrough is the result of a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200. Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarchs this year and are now following their journeys on a cellphone app..."
"The breakthrough is the result of a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200. Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarchs this year and are now following their journeys on a cellphone app..."
That time in Grand Teton NP a few years back. Gotta go again!
November 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
That time in Grand Teton NP a few years back. Gotta go again!
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At long last, a piece I've been working on since summer is ready. A dive into the work and influence of Glen Morgan and James Wong, from The X-Files, to Space:Above and Beyond, and Millennium. Come with me as I argue that modern television owes them an unpayable debt. ericsipple.com/the-writers-...
The Writers Who Invented Modern Television
Let’s pick a fight right out of the gate: Modern television began on September 24, 1995. Like all beginnings, it went unnoticed, misattributed to other moments, and lost under the shadows of more visi...
ericsipple.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
At long last, a piece I've been working on since summer is ready. A dive into the work and influence of Glen Morgan and James Wong, from The X-Files, to Space:Above and Beyond, and Millennium. Come with me as I argue that modern television owes them an unpayable debt. ericsipple.com/the-writers-...
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The Epstein coverup will go down as one of the greatest scandals and miscarriages of justice in U.S. history.
Everyone involved with Epstein’s victims or with the coverup needs to be prosecuted and go down in shame.
It does not matter if they are GOP or Dems!
Repost if you agree.
#BlueCrew
Everyone involved with Epstein’s victims or with the coverup needs to be prosecuted and go down in shame.
It does not matter if they are GOP or Dems!
Repost if you agree.
#BlueCrew
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The Epstein coverup will go down as one of the greatest scandals and miscarriages of justice in U.S. history.
Everyone involved with Epstein’s victims or with the coverup needs to be prosecuted and go down in shame.
It does not matter if they are GOP or Dems!
Repost if you agree.
#BlueCrew
Everyone involved with Epstein’s victims or with the coverup needs to be prosecuted and go down in shame.
It does not matter if they are GOP or Dems!
Repost if you agree.
#BlueCrew
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Here's the thing, companies are not going to take prices all the way back down to what they were before the tariffs. The tariffs changed the marketplace and we will continue to pay higher prices just like after the pandemic as inflation cooled, prices did not go down to prepandemic levels.
November 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Here's the thing, companies are not going to take prices all the way back down to what they were before the tariffs. The tariffs changed the marketplace and we will continue to pay higher prices just like after the pandemic as inflation cooled, prices did not go down to prepandemic levels.
Deflection. Distraction. Seems that the steps of the Desperation Samba are playing out soon (apologies to Jimmy Buffett).
Release the files, no matter the party affiliations, crime is crime. Do not start another needless war in an effort to change the subject.
'Merica is watching, closely.
Release the files, no matter the party affiliations, crime is crime. Do not start another needless war in an effort to change the subject.
'Merica is watching, closely.
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Deflection. Distraction. Seems that the steps of the Desperation Samba are playing out soon (apologies to Jimmy Buffett).
Release the files, no matter the party affiliations, crime is crime. Do not start another needless war in an effort to change the subject.
'Merica is watching, closely.
Release the files, no matter the party affiliations, crime is crime. Do not start another needless war in an effort to change the subject.
'Merica is watching, closely.