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Mike X. Nichols

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Fought the void but the void won 🌀 Healthcare worker/writer 🩺 ✍️

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · Feb 20

here’s my business card

Mike X. Nichols. Genius.

Have brain. Will travel.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 16m

i had a diet coke with grenadine in it and i think it rewired it my brain

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · Aug 16

King of the Hill. Boomhauer. “It’s the dang ol’ weekend, man.”

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2h

Taron Egerton was great in the role, but it’s interesting to imagine Tom Hardy as Elton John.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2h

when i’ve been banned from the establishment’s touchtunes

One Battle After Another. Benicio del Toro as Sergio St. Carlos. He is standing with his hands behind his head as the authorities approach him. He’s been pulled over for having a few small beers.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 4h

to me, this doesn’t look like Christopher Nolan talking to Tom Hardy, the actor, but instead the character Bane talking to Christopher Nolan

A behind-the-scenes photo from The Dark Knight Rises. Director Christopher Nolan is standing with actor Tom Hardy, who is in costume as Bane. Hardy has both of his hands on Nolan’s shoulders and appears to be saying something to him.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 4h

before i left Hard Drive, they made us do this kind of stuff and it was a lot of me going into meetings like "uh well i guess i spent 2 hours today....thinking about Master Chief"

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 10h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 5h

“I am Portland Frog.”

The “I am Spartacus” scene from Spartacus (1960).

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 6h

thinking about them

Halloween Ends (2022). An edited photo of Michael Meyers and Corey Cunningham riding together on a motorcycle.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 7h

people are saying that evil dies tonight

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 7h

How it started: Sisyphus rolling a boulder.
How it’s going: Sisyphus rolling a boulder.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 20h

War. War never changes.

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nobody @granddad.bsky.social · 1d

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d

my depression? worse. my anxiety? also, worse. my IBS? believe it or not, also worse.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d

everyone else is making engagement or pregnancy announcements and I’m just like, “I saw One Battle After Another in IMAX 70mm.”

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d

That’s right.

Locked in meme with a frame of the river of hills sequence from One Battle After Another.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d

to no one’s surprise, I didn’t find love at a screening of the Marc Maron documentary

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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · Jun 25

Bluesky post:
Most people's points of confusion are based in the idea that everyone is acting in good faith. Almost no one is acting in good faith. It's self interest and bullshit from top to bottom.

Follow tags for Brianna Wu, JD Vance, Jonathan Chait, Matthew Stoller, Matt Yglesias

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2d

i don’t go to a comedy show to laugh. i go to nod in approval and applaud when i hear things with which i agree.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2d

This was the vibe for healthcare workers during the pandemic

28 Years Later (2025). Ralph Fiennes as Dr Ian Kelson. He’s lounging in a chair and sipping from a cup. His skin has been doused with a povidone-iodine cleansing solution. He’s wearing an apron and gloves.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2d

me clocking in for my shift at the good posts factory

Looney Tunes. Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog clocking in before beginning their quarrel.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2d

After Hours (1985) in three frames.

Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) is in a diner late at night. He looks down toward the table.

Close-up of a handwritten note on a restaurant receipt in a diner, “Help! I hate this job!!”

Paul reacts to the note.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

Not to be whiny, but I would really like for something good to happen. On a personal level. On a national level. On a global level. One of all three.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 3d

a remake of Eyes Wide Shut with everything the same except that Tom Cruise’s character is replaced with Ernest

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday!