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Mike Manzer
@nevtelen.bsky.social
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SFF (and sometimes horror) reader. Occasional writer. I play TTRPGs and video games. Mountain biker. Adjunct teaching ESL. #Sounders and #Gonzaga bball fan American and Hungarian.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 1d
Wait... Are *you* the Girlfriend of the founder of Antifa?!
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 1d
Wow! As someone who has Alzheimer's run in the family, that's actually somewhat heartening to hear.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 1d
Hopefully there will be fewer horrific headlines from Gaza once this current horror slows to a stop, but the need for support as millions of people need to put their lives back together will still be there.
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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d
“Stay with Gaza even after the war ends.”

Palestinian journalist Saleh Al-Jaafarawi sends a heartfelt message of thanks to everyone who supported, stood by, and protested for Gaza and the Palestinian cause.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 1d
Honestly, I'm doing more and more things on paper these days, which kinda sucks in some ways, but it just helps my students learn better without all the electronic "help."
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 1d
Bronze Age gold theft? Gotta be the Sea Peoples at it again. smh Will they never be found?
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 2d
So many great choices! I'm going to sort of cheat and say I'd love to go to Çatalhöyük. It wasn't a city, but I think most people would say it was maybe a proto-city, so I'm counting it.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 3d
Yup. 100% co-signed.

Also, the stories in the comments rock.
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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 3d
As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps
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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 3d
Fuck Wells Fargo.
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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 4d
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 3d
Damn, I thought this would end with him having a private salt-water pond stocked with halibut that was guarded by guard-geese against the canny coyotes who tried to go fishing. You know, plus more Greek expletives. Great thread, anyway!
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 3d
No lies detected.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 4d
It would be interesting to see how he does vs MLS defenders. Hope it happens.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 4d
The best book-mail is the stuff that takes you unawares. Totally forgot I preordered this, but I'm soooo happy with Past Me rn.
The cover of Premee Mohamed's The First Thousand Trees, which I am extremely psyched to read
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 4d
This was on my timeline and now it's on yours. You're welcome!

Somehow, this takes the original and makes it even awesomer. Which is realistically never something you can really ever say about Waterson's work.
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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 4d
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 5d
I'm sorry, but this is not funny. Jacket breast pockets only do this when they're in extreme distress.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 5d
I could see that. I've only had Trader Joe's harissa, but it's not terribly dissimilar.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 5d
I eat erős pista with a coffee spoon sometimes.

(Fyi, for those who don't know what that is:

Erős Pista - Wikipedia share.google/m5i5Ch77wbrg...
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 6d
After I finish The Late Breakfasters, I'm planning to shift over to dark fantasy and dive into Kerstin Hall's Asunder.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 6d
So many! Gotta say, though, that @sgj.bsky.social just writes horror that is on another level. I'm extremely excited to dig into The Buffalo Hunter Hunter later this month.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 6d
I just bought this and didn't include it here for this month for exactly this reason - I've heard so much about it, I figured I'd want to process every story a bit.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 6d
I just finished a space opera and am sliding into a bit of weird fiction, both solidly in my normal wheelhouse.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 6d
Game of Thrones.

I always thought I should read the books first, so I never watched the show, but then I'm not all that into epic fantasy and they're really long, so... yeah.
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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 6d
breaking bad

not because i'm so cool or anything, i just thought i can't be arsed to invest so much time into something like that
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 6d
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 7d
I started The Late Breakfasters. I love Aickman, but so far this is seeming a bit different that his short fiction. Still waiting for the weird to hit.
The cover of Valancourt Book's edition of The Late Breakfasters by Robert Aickman.
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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 9d
1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.

I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9d
1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters
Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 9d
It's probably about double what I normally read in a month, but to be fair I only have about 50 pages left in The Salvage Crew since I started that last week, so that barely counts.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 10d
The asteroid quite possibly set off the Deccan Traps into overdrive. They were active before it hit, but not in the way they were after. It's a current theory, anyway. Not sure how it could ever be proven.
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