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Mike Ward
@mikeward.bsky.social
(he/him) @sthmtnmike from the bad place. Artist, illustrator, book reader, mandolin & guitar picker, Lego sorter & curator.
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Me: "It cannot be stated often enough or vociferously enough: the Trump Administration is helping Russia to conquer Ukraine. The United States of America has taken the side of an aggressor against its innocent victim. We are helping our actual enemies" www.aei.org/foreign-and-...
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Exactly. I’ve been saying this since I started the tracker last year, and it’s why I don’t call them deportations. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...
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We used to have little house parties and play Heroes III taking turns in the hot seat. The even host named his dog Solmyr! Looking forward to reading this interview…
I am going to shoutout my husband, @dattm18.bsky.social really quick this morning. This was a great read (and edit) - this Gamescom interview with the CD on the Heroes of Might and Magic III remake is a really vulnerable approach to game dev where they have put the community first in a unique way.
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"Yes, yes, I hear the carbon monoxide alarm going off, but I still need to stay here because this is where my knitting community is, you see. Also, the only place I can get news about the Premier League. I have no choice. I'll be OK."
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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My latest @npr.org story: A whistleblower report says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting that could “derail” the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. Key parts of USPS' plan are currently blocked by a court order
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Replying to @sanho.bsky.social
🚨Vindicated at last!🚨 I’ve been yelling about this for nearly a year. Washington Post now confirms that a massive secret bunker/command center hardened against WMDs already exists under the White House. It was built in 2010 & completely undercuts Trump’s excuse for his ballroom/bunker! [gift link]
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“This war has involved one cover-up, after cover-up, after cover-up by Team Trump. Within the first 72 hours of the conflict, the administration was…trying to cover-up the true nature of U.S. troop casualties – a suppression of information…that persists to this day. And… zeteo.com/p/scoop-trum...
Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
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if you're buying weed from any of these companies you're directly donating to Trump www.fec.gov/data/committ...
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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
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“Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder. No one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the mpls police dept. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over.“
A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.
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Begging you fucking people to realize that criticism in the form of quote-dunking is just engagement. I absolutely share the dislike of where the Atlantic has gone editorially, so the best response is starving it of oxygen.
Serious Q: Given that progs on here constantly write long, detailed, searching threads on Atlantic pieces, w/ links and screen caps, why would its editors spend a second reconsidering their editorial conduct? All criticism is seen as proof that the writer is "provocative" and "gets talked about."
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Summary of The Banjo, Narrated by Alison Brown, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @250to250.bsky.social @HCRHQ youtu.be/iYIfotONCpg?... Full carousel on Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DbA27tgFry... #WeAreAmerica250 #HeatherCoxRichardson
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