Michael Kwan
@mkwan.bsky.social
Reader (fiction, science fiction, occasional fantasy, history) / Gamer (TTRPGs, boardgames) / Fountain Pen user & collector / Roller Derby NSO @ Angel City Derby.
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
- Lemony Snicket.
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
- Lemony Snicket.
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Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
November 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again now:
Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.
Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again now:
Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.
Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.
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Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...
October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...
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Hey, @jay.bsky.team.
As a disabled person, it's disheartening to see one of the foundational pushers of alt text, a Black STEM voice, a queer advocate, and a huge voice for the disabled community gone over a poor taste joke.
Having Link here is good for so many people.
Please reconsider?
As a disabled person, it's disheartening to see one of the foundational pushers of alt text, a Black STEM voice, a queer advocate, and a huge voice for the disabled community gone over a poor taste joke.
Having Link here is good for so many people.
Please reconsider?
October 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Hey, @jay.bsky.team.
As a disabled person, it's disheartening to see one of the foundational pushers of alt text, a Black STEM voice, a queer advocate, and a huge voice for the disabled community gone over a poor taste joke.
Having Link here is good for so many people.
Please reconsider?
As a disabled person, it's disheartening to see one of the foundational pushers of alt text, a Black STEM voice, a queer advocate, and a huge voice for the disabled community gone over a poor taste joke.
Having Link here is good for so many people.
Please reconsider?
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Love this. Humour with a historical sentiment.
September 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Love this. Humour with a historical sentiment.
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However you define political violence, the right is responsible for much more of it.
The Anti-Defamation League (hardly a left-wing org!) found that all “domestic extremist-related killings” in 2022 were done by right-wing extremists, the vast majority (84%) white supremacists. trib.al/ycZNDE1
The Anti-Defamation League (hardly a left-wing org!) found that all “domestic extremist-related killings” in 2022 were done by right-wing extremists, the vast majority (84%) white supremacists. trib.al/ycZNDE1
It’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence
In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term in troublingly narrow ways.
trib.al
September 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
However you define political violence, the right is responsible for much more of it.
The Anti-Defamation League (hardly a left-wing org!) found that all “domestic extremist-related killings” in 2022 were done by right-wing extremists, the vast majority (84%) white supremacists. trib.al/ycZNDE1
The Anti-Defamation League (hardly a left-wing org!) found that all “domestic extremist-related killings” in 2022 were done by right-wing extremists, the vast majority (84%) white supremacists. trib.al/ycZNDE1
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
September 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?
September 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?
What you get when you order your Bond Villain and Henchpeople from Temu or Wish.
Oil tanker magnate, John Fredriksen, has left the UK for the UAE so he can pay even less tax on his £13.7 billon fortune. Good, fuck off.
June 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
What you get when you order your Bond Villain and Henchpeople from Temu or Wish.
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Real talk, the only reason people expect Muslim leaders to immediately enact sharia law when they take office is because thats what Christians do.
June 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Real talk, the only reason people expect Muslim leaders to immediately enact sharia law when they take office is because thats what Christians do.
BREAKING: Attorney Leland Palmer endorses Andrew Cuomo for Mayor.
June 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
BREAKING: Attorney Leland Palmer endorses Andrew Cuomo for Mayor.
BREAKING: Former FBI Agent Windom Earle endorses Andrew Cuomo.
June 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
BREAKING: Former FBI Agent Windom Earle endorses Andrew Cuomo.
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BREAKING: Dr. Peter Kavanagh endorses Andrew Cuomo
June 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
BREAKING: Dr. Peter Kavanagh endorses Andrew Cuomo
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
June 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
If Southern California is a vast battlefield of contending protesters, rioters, police, Feds, National Guard, and Marines, why am I still going to my office job today? Employers should be sending people home for safety, right?
June 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If Southern California is a vast battlefield of contending protesters, rioters, police, Feds, National Guard, and Marines, why am I still going to my office job today? Employers should be sending people home for safety, right?
Current state of affairs here in Los Angeles:
Under the ruins of a walled city
Crumbling towers and beams of yellow lights
No flags of truce, no cries of pity
The siege guns have been pounding through the nights (1/2)
Under the ruins of a walled city
Crumbling towers and beams of yellow lights
No flags of truce, no cries of pity
The siege guns have been pounding through the nights (1/2)
June 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Current state of affairs here in Los Angeles:
Under the ruins of a walled city
Crumbling towers and beams of yellow lights
No flags of truce, no cries of pity
The siege guns have been pounding through the nights (1/2)
Under the ruins of a walled city
Crumbling towers and beams of yellow lights
No flags of truce, no cries of pity
The siege guns have been pounding through the nights (1/2)
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David Graeber said this in 2012 about protests in New York City.
Though this is increasingly what is happening this week in Los Angeles.
davidgraeber.org/articles/con...
Though this is increasingly what is happening this week in Los Angeles.
davidgraeber.org/articles/con...
June 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
David Graeber said this in 2012 about protests in New York City.
Though this is increasingly what is happening this week in Los Angeles.
davidgraeber.org/articles/con...
Though this is increasingly what is happening this week in Los Angeles.
davidgraeber.org/articles/con...
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" I also believe that those of us who are older, whiter, safer from the threats of state violence do not have the moral ground to lecture the younger, browner and blacker, more directly impacted demographic on what they should and should not do." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
" I also believe that those of us who are older, whiter, safer from the threats of state violence do not have the moral ground to lecture the younger, browner and blacker, more directly impacted demographic on what they should and should not do." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
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I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.
June 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.
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for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle
June 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle
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“The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence.”
June 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence.”
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On the protests in Los Angeles: publiccomment.blog/p/los-angele...
June 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
On the protests in Los Angeles: publiccomment.blog/p/los-angele...
"Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
- Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.
- Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.
You remind me of something posted by a BLM protester in Portland. The cops escalated in response to every step protesters took to keep themselves safe, yet the cops kept accusing the protesters of escalating things.
![We came out here dressed in t-shirts
and using hula hoops and stuff.
They started GASSING US.
So we came back with respirators,
They started SHOOTING US.
So we came back with vests.
They started AIMING FOR THE HEAD.
So we started wearing helmets.
And now they call us TERRORISTS.
[Drawing of a bearded black man dressed in black pants, t-shirt, and gloves with a black backpack on his back. He's holding a microphone. On his head is a pink head covering with black dots.]
Who's escalating this?
IT'S NOT US.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wugwgnw2oeijyylmkj7t5d2b/bafkreigql2rixgsecmrwpsbmrlgiuddqsviopgq3x2vikc3vddqefkwuom@jpeg)
June 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
- Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.
- Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.
No new Musk/Trump tweets? Did their respective assistants hide their phones?
June 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
No new Musk/Trump tweets? Did their respective assistants hide their phones?