Mike & The Mistakes
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This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
“I walk around Portland, and I go, ‘Fuck you, assholes. Portland is fine.’” - John Darnielle, @themountaingoats.bsky.social. We're proud to claim you as a Portlander, sir.
The Mountain Goats Ascend to Revolution Hall
Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle discusses musicals, his new album, and why he keeps coming home to Portland.
www.wweek.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
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Today we’re talking about the 2000 Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Family” with @ianxcarlos.bsky.social of @slayerfestx98.bsky.social.
Plus: Amy’s unique connection to SMG, the non-evil version of The Secret, and plumbing the depths of UPN lore.
🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Plus: Amy’s unique connection to SMG, the non-evil version of The Secret, and plumbing the depths of UPN lore.
🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Today we’re talking about the 2000 Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Family” with @ianxcarlos.bsky.social of @slayerfestx98.bsky.social.
Plus: Amy’s unique connection to SMG, the non-evil version of The Secret, and plumbing the depths of UPN lore.
🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Plus: Amy’s unique connection to SMG, the non-evil version of The Secret, and plumbing the depths of UPN lore.
🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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i like that this administration is committed to inflicting as much pain on as many americans as possible.
The U.S. Transportation Department is threatening to shut down thousands of truck driving schools, part of the Trump administration's widening crackdown on industry.
Thousands of U.S. trucking schools could lose accreditation under DOT crackdown
The U.S. Transportation Department is threatening to shut down thousands of truck driving schools, part of the Trump administration's widening crackdown on industry.
n.pr
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
i like that this administration is committed to inflicting as much pain on as many americans as possible.
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Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
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How was Udo Kier never a Bond villain?
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
How was Udo Kier never a Bond villain?
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This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.
Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
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Well, I guess the Coast Guard doesn't want to be associated with Nazis
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Well, I guess the Coast Guard doesn't want to be associated with Nazis
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This is funny when other people post it, but kind of annoying when you post it, Democrats, as you treated Mamdani worse than you do Republicans
Trump on whether he’d feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration:
“Yeah, I would. I really would.”
“Yeah, I would. I really would.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is funny when other people post it, but kind of annoying when you post it, Democrats, as you treated Mamdani worse than you do Republicans
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The Mystery Business is for sale at Pax Unplugged! Check it out @ipr.bsky.social !
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The Mystery Business is for sale at Pax Unplugged! Check it out @ipr.bsky.social !
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
3D Printers really just make fidget toys
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM
3D Printers really just make fidget toys
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Neither rain nor sleet nor ICE
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Neither rain nor sleet nor ICE
As I am still catching up on the @screendrafts.bsky.social backlog, always delightful when there's a @louispeitzman.bsky.social episode
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
As I am still catching up on the @screendrafts.bsky.social backlog, always delightful when there's a @louispeitzman.bsky.social episode
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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I am boarding my flight as we speak—but i can still use a bit of help making sure I deal with incidentals (especially since some portion of this journey includes A TRAIN now!)
Thank you all so much for your help so far! Don’t hesitate to say hi if you’ll be at PAXU!
Thank you all so much for your help so far! Don’t hesitate to say hi if you’ll be at PAXU!
PAX Unplugged is coming soon! I'll be around running demos of GRAYSHADE but I also want to chat with other designers abt their work!
But also: as this trip is kinda scuffed, I can use some help handling incidentals as I travel! Any assistance is appreciated!
Thank you so much for your support!
But also: as this trip is kinda scuffed, I can use some help handling incidentals as I travel! Any assistance is appreciated!
Thank you so much for your support!
Support Brandon O'Brien
Support Brandon O'Brien
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November 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I am boarding my flight as we speak—but i can still use a bit of help making sure I deal with incidentals (especially since some portion of this journey includes A TRAIN now!)
Thank you all so much for your help so far! Don’t hesitate to say hi if you’ll be at PAXU!
Thank you all so much for your help so far! Don’t hesitate to say hi if you’ll be at PAXU!
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IF YOU READ NO OTHER PORTION OF THE EPSTEIN FILES TRANSPARENCY ACT, read this one.
EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation.
And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.
EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation.
And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
IF YOU READ NO OTHER PORTION OF THE EPSTEIN FILES TRANSPARENCY ACT, read this one.
EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation.
And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.
EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation.
And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.
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hi friends, i'm still unemployed after 2 months living in boston. if you can spare a few dollars to help me out with groceries & bills or give this a lil repost, i would be so thankful 🖤
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November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
hi friends, i'm still unemployed after 2 months living in boston. if you can spare a few dollars to help me out with groceries & bills or give this a lil repost, i would be so thankful 🖤
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Doesn’t This Fall Under Obstruction Of Justice?!?
HUGE BREAKING: Trump lawyer Paul Ingrassia reportedly obstructed justice into a DHS sex trafficking investigation of Andrew Tate by demanding Tate gets his phone back from DHS – by orders of Trump's WHITE HOUSE. 😳 These people are sick.
HUGE BREAKING: Trump lawyer Paul Ingrassia reportedly obstructed justice into a DHS sex trafficking investigation of Andrew Tate by demanding Tate gets his phone back from DHS – by orders of Trump's WHITE HOUSE. 😳 These people are sick.
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Doesn’t This Fall Under Obstruction Of Justice?!?
HUGE BREAKING: Trump lawyer Paul Ingrassia reportedly obstructed justice into a DHS sex trafficking investigation of Andrew Tate by demanding Tate gets his phone back from DHS – by orders of Trump's WHITE HOUSE. 😳 These people are sick.
HUGE BREAKING: Trump lawyer Paul Ingrassia reportedly obstructed justice into a DHS sex trafficking investigation of Andrew Tate by demanding Tate gets his phone back from DHS – by orders of Trump's WHITE HOUSE. 😳 These people are sick.