Michael Cusac
mlcusac.bsky.social
Michael Cusac
@mlcusac.bsky.social
i'm a people-person and a hermit
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I don't have any energy to give to a new Mozilla CEO announcement so I'm just gonna point you here, which still holds true.
The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy
Mozilla's new strategy document confirms their position, and the end of their stewardship of the open web.
taggart-tech.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Ten years ago, I got so tired of conservatives virtue-signalling by telling me they wished he wouldn't do the mean tweets that I started saying, "Well, I reckon he only does it because he's a mean-spirited piece of shit and he knows that won't stop you from from voting for him."
December 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Documentarian Martin Shore captured a fascinating conversation between George Porter, Jr., Cyril Neville, and Ivan Neville about their resilience in the face of Mardi Gras brutality from cops, rent-a-cops, and citizens back in the day. #nolasky
IN THE STUDIO PART 2 - "Knockin'" - GRAMMY Winner Ledisi, Ivan Neville, Ian Neville II TMTTR NOLA
YouTube video by TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
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December 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Happy birthday to @chris-stamey.bsky.social and Peter Buck.
December 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I don't often feel like I gotta hand it to the Democrats, but they do know how to put together a team to prevent the POTUS' naps from being televised.
December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
insert a movie into another movie:

Godzilla Kramer vs. Kramer Mechagodzilla
Insert a movie into another movie:

The Inception According To Garp
Twelve Angry Men Who Stare at Goats
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
@travisview.bsky.social interviews Thomas Kelly, who's recently introduced a lot of cognitive dissonance about cognitive dissonance into the world.

soundcloud.com/qanonanonymo...
When “When Prophecy Fails” Fails (E350)
The 1956 book When Prophecy Fails describes one of the most famous case studies in social psychology. The researchers Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter covertly joined a small, apoc
soundcloud.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Excellent!
Happy PUB DAY to Carla Kaplan!

We discuss her new book about a legendary anti-fascist and social-justice advocate, Jessica Mitford.

#booksky

open.spotify.com/episode/7khp...
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The best skeet-sized answer to 'why doesn't/can't/won't ________ resist totalitarianism?' may be 'because ________ is being run as a business.'
September 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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An immediate corollary to the policy against saying anything which could "potentially endanger" the physical safety of staff is that no one can say anything which might piss off a klansman.
Here's the entire letter to Karent Attiah from Warren Connell of the Wash Post as shared by @oliverdarcy.bsky.social in @status.news:
September 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Thinking of making this a Kyle Roussel fan account.

youtu.be/VvHzmlpPgb4?...
Kyle Roussel: Booker Piano - 1/9/2025 - Maple Leaf Bar Live
YouTube video by Maple Leaf Bar
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September 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Then they came for trans folk, but very smart, highly paid consultants said that voicing an opinion would be bad messaging, so I played possum.
September 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Yes, but it would also be virtually impossible to create so many imaginary coins to trade and imaginary people to chat with.
September 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Make a band singular

Styk
Make a band singular

Stevie Ray Vaughn and Trouble
Make a band singular

A Special
September 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
1.E.M.
September 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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September 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"mass slaughter, mayonnaise, and missionary position"
September 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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While I haven't seen any evidence Tyler Robinson was a groyper, I have been getting a lot of questions bc I write about Nick Fuentes. Here is a thread of some of my work about Fuentes and/or his followers.
September 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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the fact that this kid did a gopnik meme doesn't mean he was far right or a groyper or anything but it does mean he was the kind of Online who could have been exposed to those communities
September 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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September 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
E.R. Eddison, non-Decca Mitford sisters.
Here’s a question: who is the artist with politics you disagree strongly with, whose politics *do* (in your view) influence their art, that you still think is talented and whose work you enjoy?
August 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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🔊Soul Power @wwozneworleans.bsky.social Playlist 06/14/2025 with Soul Sister, 8-10pm CT.
🎶 Listen via the Two Week Archive at wwoz.org.
📝 Hour 1 dedicated to my favorite Sly Stone recordings.
June 16, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Before all of this, RWNJs boycotted Target because they were letting people use their bathrooms. It had little or no effect.
Target blames backlash to DEI cancellation, Trump’s tariffs, and falling consumer confidence for sluggish sales and plunging stock prices. Target stock has dropped 28% since Trump took office in January.
May 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM