Mike Freeman
@mfreeman.bsky.social
Rhode Island. Author of Neither Mountain Nor River (Riddle Brook) and Drifting: Two Weeks on the Hudson
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Imagine what it does to morale in the military to see the defense secretary hang an admiral out to dry to avoid responsibility for war crimes.
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Imagine what it does to morale in the military to see the defense secretary hang an admiral out to dry to avoid responsibility for war crimes.
Late season oyster shelf. Saunderstown, RI.
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Late season oyster shelf. Saunderstown, RI.
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(david attenborough voice)
butterflies can fart the alphabet
December 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
(david attenborough voice)
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Does anyone here do freelance indexing, or know someone who does? I've got a manuscript that needs an experienced indexer with a relatively quick turnaround. Message me here and we can talk details.
December 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Does anyone here do freelance indexing, or know someone who does? I've got a manuscript that needs an experienced indexer with a relatively quick turnaround. Message me here and we can talk details.
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This is, of course, why reactionary movements of all stripes seek so diligently to destroy social trust. An atmosphere of corrosive cynicism is conducive to authoritarianism. "I can't trust anyone, better just find protection from the biggest guy on the block."
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is, of course, why reactionary movements of all stripes seek so diligently to destroy social trust. An atmosphere of corrosive cynicism is conducive to authoritarianism. "I can't trust anyone, better just find protection from the biggest guy on the block."
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this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
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the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis.
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis.
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
They coined the term “useless eaters”.
They tested the gas chambers on us.
They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives.
That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous.
We’re not expendable
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December 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
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Risible cowardice and failure from US elites, everywhere you look.
November 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Risible cowardice and failure from US elites, everywhere you look.
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Looking for recommendations for fiction, essays, and memoirs for a social history of health: gender and wellness seminar. (So far am decided on Audre Lorde, Cancer Journals; Eula Biss On Immunity, and Todd Haynes’ Safe).
November 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Looking for recommendations for fiction, essays, and memoirs for a social history of health: gender and wellness seminar. (So far am decided on Audre Lorde, Cancer Journals; Eula Biss On Immunity, and Todd Haynes’ Safe).
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Talentless frauds close to the White House are making billions by crashing the American economy and selling out America’s allies. Here’s why democratic socialism is unthinkable.
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Talentless frauds close to the White House are making billions by crashing the American economy and selling out America’s allies. Here’s why democratic socialism is unthinkable.
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Adam Smith himself wrote about how the rich and powerful have no interest in helping the country, their interest in politics and policy is solely about enriching themselves to the detriment of everyone else.
www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/ad...
www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/ad...
Who would have guessed that David Sacks would be doing unethical shit in the White House? Not a single guy in that cohort who’s not a raging sociopath www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Adam Smith himself wrote about how the rich and powerful have no interest in helping the country, their interest in politics and policy is solely about enriching themselves to the detriment of everyone else.
www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/ad...
www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/ad...
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Made a Bluesky feed to keep up on all things #25DaysofFishmas this year! The more fishmas-es, the merrier - just use #25DaysofFishmas hashtag to be included! bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Made a Bluesky feed to keep up on all things #25DaysofFishmas this year! The more fishmas-es, the merrier - just use #25DaysofFishmas hashtag to be included! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Russia is far too poor to make America as a whole substantially richer. But it’s definitely got enough to make the president and his friends richer.
“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Russia is far too poor to make America as a whole substantially richer. But it’s definitely got enough to make the president and his friends richer.
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Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
Welp, here goes. I’m going to akshually David Lynch. “Actually, David, we desperately want life to make sense. It doesn’t, so we scour art and religion, the pair Annie Dillard called the only grammar we have to make sense of what doesn’t. So, you know, put Dillard in your pipe and smoke it.”
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Welp, here goes. I’m going to akshually David Lynch. “Actually, David, we desperately want life to make sense. It doesn’t, so we scour art and religion, the pair Annie Dillard called the only grammar we have to make sense of what doesn’t. So, you know, put Dillard in your pipe and smoke it.”
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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Nostalgic for the 1970s? Have an immersive simulation by watching the snooker on a 20 inch black and white TV with half a dozen neighbours, everyone chain smoking and eating liver paste sandwiches on white bread.
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Nostalgic for the 1970s? Have an immersive simulation by watching the snooker on a 20 inch black and white TV with half a dozen neighbours, everyone chain smoking and eating liver paste sandwiches on white bread.
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Dear Miss Perkins is on sale for twenty dollars www.amazon.com/Dear-Miss-Pe...
November 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Dear Miss Perkins is on sale for twenty dollars www.amazon.com/Dear-Miss-Pe...
This is really well said, and remarkably difficult to do:
I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is really well said, and remarkably difficult to do:
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I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime