Michael 🌲🏴

Can't have a revolution if you don't talk to your neighbors, sorry.

The Sticker Mule guy is running for office, because of course he is www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

yes. conservatives looked at the american experiment in mass, high quality education over the course of the 20th century and concluded that it was a failure that threatened to overturn existing hierarchies of status.

If you want to give a mouse a cookie, you must first create the universe.

Status: punkin’

@jacksonglidden.bsky.social media when you called out the urban planning Houston or NYC guy on CityCast this morning:

Chat, is this bad www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I keep telling people about how the Christian "Left Behind" books, literal fantasies about the apocalypse, were super, super popular in the late 90s/ early 2000s. I used to read them. Major disasters, while terrible, were also framed by evangelical churches as titillating...sexy almost.

Guys: all nuances and logic aside, you give an inch they take a mile. You know that right? Don’t be stupid. If you can’t be tough on the little things, how do u expect to do anything when the chips are Really down. Act accordingly

btw everyone doing this was also homophobic until that suddenly became gauche in like 2013

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

Posting my work on Meta platforms again to appease the content gremlins but I'll share here too since I like y'all better anyway. Here we have a little watercolor sketch of Cricket Cafe, which is the first place Kaytee and I went to eat the week we moved to Portland.

Journaling the other day.

Sunday Scaries Monday Morbids Tuesday Terrifieds Wednesday Worries Thursday Thoughts (bad ones) Friday Fearfuls Saturday Sadnesses

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

I recommend it

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

I like this one

the "funny" thing is, many figured that this was already the case, and the great thing about US privacy laws is that they're based on a "reasonable expectation of privacy" which means that every shift in public perception of privacy erodes our actual rights

The Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness despite there being explicit statutory authority for Biden to do it and allowed the Iran War despite an explicit Constitutional prohibition on anyone besides Congress declaring a war.

Google Maps has changed the name of "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" for U.S. users

Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying

men will be like, “let’s harness the psychedelic nature of some of the most powerful drugs on earth so I can experience ego death while grooming a teenager”

Newsom said absolutely nothing when his own state troopers shot a journalist at a protest or when the LAPD routinely attacked reporters and photographers He is a world-class hypocrite

Dissociating at the grocery store while listening to grouper’s iconic 2008 album Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox Now I have diarrhea

It’s my birthday so you should send me a selfie

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

if we had to sell this no one would buy it so unfortunately we have to trick you into buying it

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

really getting the feeling that if employers stopped understaffing & underpaying, and people had more leisure time and better healthcare, this whole ai thing would be a fuckin blip

People wonder why progressives/leftists keep talking about class warfare, and it’s because the rich keep waging war on us. JFC, the C-suite thinks you should be slaves so they can buy a 7th yacht or cum on the moon or whatever.

just looked up where this Le Guin quote came from, and got a truly fantastic reveal

Your bad art is better than AI slop.

Absolutely wild. isaiprofitable.com

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

In what I can only describe as the most personally devastating voicemail transcript I’ve ever seen, this is the call I just got from my physical therapist’s office, “Whole Body Health Physical Therapy”

This is my drag name