Jason Mark
@jasondovemark.bsky.social
Former EIC of Sierra; former editor of Earth Island Journal. Author of Satellites in the High Country, currently working on a book about shifting baseline syndrome. Lily's Dad. Gardener + Hiker. Posts = ill-considered opinions.
What’s missing in these pictures from North Central Phoenix? Solar arrays! How is it possible that there are only a handful in a city that gets 300 days of sun a year?
Hint: the AZ Public Utilities Commission has long been captured by the incumbent utilities of SRP and APS
Hint: the AZ Public Utilities Commission has long been captured by the incumbent utilities of SRP and APS
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
What’s missing in these pictures from North Central Phoenix? Solar arrays! How is it possible that there are only a handful in a city that gets 300 days of sun a year?
Hint: the AZ Public Utilities Commission has long been captured by the incumbent utilities of SRP and APS
Hint: the AZ Public Utilities Commission has long been captured by the incumbent utilities of SRP and APS
It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It turns out that the folks at Anthropic used two of my books to train their Large Language Models. I've gone and submitted my claim via the class action settlement. If you're an author whose work has been stolen, you should too
A visitor. Owl perched on the spine of the roof.
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
A visitor. Owl perched on the spine of the roof.
Maybe they should market it as Bagged Wine? 🧐
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Maybe they should market it as Bagged Wine? 🧐
On New Years Eve 2015-16, some friends and family created a time capsule. Ten years later, it’s time to dig it up and … we can’t find it.
Have you seen the movie Holes? Feels like that.
Have you seen the movie Holes? Feels like that.
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
On New Years Eve 2015-16, some friends and family created a time capsule. Ten years later, it’s time to dig it up and … we can’t find it.
Have you seen the movie Holes? Feels like that.
Have you seen the movie Holes? Feels like that.
At the start of the Big Dark, made a fire as a small act of resistance
November 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
At the start of the Big Dark, made a fire as a small act of resistance
As night follows day…
October 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
As night follows day…
And still rocking fall cabbage and broccoli and Brussels sprouts
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 AM
And still rocking fall cabbage and broccoli and Brussels sprouts
Garlic planted today. Cover crop nicely established. Garden pretty much tucked in for the year.
October 31, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Garlic planted today. Cover crop nicely established. Garden pretty much tucked in for the year.
Late October, and we’re still eating almost entirely out of the garden when it comes to fruit and vegetables.
October 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Late October, and we’re still eating almost entirely out of the garden when it comes to fruit and vegetables.
Thank you, Mike Johnson, for convincing US progressives to finally reclaim the American flag.
#DissentIsPatriotic
#NoKings
#DissentIsPatriotic
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thank you, Mike Johnson, for convincing US progressives to finally reclaim the American flag.
#DissentIsPatriotic
#NoKings
#DissentIsPatriotic
#NoKings
![Does this ass [trump] make my country look small?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2jtvxblroeu2twmjcfjvnq7b/bafkreicmvkvjeurn3hpqkrvrbq64kkr4jj7pul33upc4ggqrsvwbw3wd5y@jpeg)
A community that presses cider together fights authoritarianism together. (I’m only sorta joking. Civil society, networks of mutual aid, and grassroots cooperation are antidotes to fascism)
October 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A community that presses cider together fights authoritarianism together. (I’m only sorta joking. Civil society, networks of mutual aid, and grassroots cooperation are antidotes to fascism)
I'm indebted to @wudan.bsky.social for her top notch fact checking for my forthcoming book and saving me from my own unforced errors. She is also the book's first reviewer! "Beautiful and heart-stopping ... writing"
Thank you for the kind words and the amazing fact checking
Thank you for the kind words and the amazing fact checking
October 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I'm indebted to @wudan.bsky.social for her top notch fact checking for my forthcoming book and saving me from my own unforced errors. She is also the book's first reviewer! "Beautiful and heart-stopping ... writing"
Thank you for the kind words and the amazing fact checking
Thank you for the kind words and the amazing fact checking
Sometimes progress moves fast. Just 15 years ago, as the editor of @earthislandjournal.bsky.social, I published a special issue all about the fight against "King Coal." Today, coal has been knocked from its throne. In a recent US govt mining auction, coal sold for only 1/10 of a penny per ton
October 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Sometimes progress moves fast. Just 15 years ago, as the editor of @earthislandjournal.bsky.social, I published a special issue all about the fight against "King Coal." Today, coal has been knocked from its throne. In a recent US govt mining auction, coal sold for only 1/10 of a penny per ton
I’m glad to see the folks at my local Forest Service office know how to communicate the shutdown in neutral language: “The office will reopen once Congress restores funding.”
(Plus a glamour shot of Mt Baker)
(Plus a glamour shot of Mt Baker)
October 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I’m glad to see the folks at my local Forest Service office know how to communicate the shutdown in neutral language: “The office will reopen once Congress restores funding.”
(Plus a glamour shot of Mt Baker)
(Plus a glamour shot of Mt Baker)
Saw this yesterday on some errands. We need more roadside resistance messages like this.
October 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Saw this yesterday on some errands. We need more roadside resistance messages like this.
Just finished the second volume of Rick Atkinson’s Tolstoyan saga of the Revolutionary War and am distraught to see that five years passed btwn vol 1 and vol 2. I can’t wait this long to see how the war ends!
September 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Just finished the second volume of Rick Atkinson’s Tolstoyan saga of the Revolutionary War and am distraught to see that five years passed btwn vol 1 and vol 2. I can’t wait this long to see how the war ends!
This section of the Chilliwack Valley in the North Cascades burned three years ago. That carpet of green? It’s a lawn of baby conifer trees.
Fire is renewal.
Fire is renewal.
September 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This section of the Chilliwack Valley in the North Cascades burned three years ago. That carpet of green? It’s a lawn of baby conifer trees.
Fire is renewal.
Fire is renewal.
As I say this time every year: Fall is the best season to visit the North Cascades. Great weather, no bugs and you can eat your weight in wild blueberries
September 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
As I say this time every year: Fall is the best season to visit the North Cascades. Great weather, no bugs and you can eat your weight in wild blueberries