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Michael J Wilson

@wilsonmj.bsky.social

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Aging queer millennial. Writer of A Labyrinth and If Any Gods Lived. Constantly anxious about everything but in a laughing awkwardly kind of way. Work at Meow Wolf. Doing labor rights and trying to write a much as I can in the time I have.

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · Nov 27

Thanks to @jordanrothacker.bsky.social and Statorec for the great interview. Check it out at the link! I talk about my novel A Labyrinth and how Daedalus would have been a tech bro.

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“Daedalus would have been into AI” | ®┊STAT®REC

Interview with poet Michael J. Wilson on a long prose poem called “A Labyrinth" about the wild and hauntingly disturbing story of Pasiphaë and Daedalus.

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 11h

The current version doesn't use live action, but this amazing The Sims style animation...

A cgi man hangs from a shelving unit. He is very concerned.

A cgi man raises an eyebrow while wearing a denim jacket.

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 11h

OSHA training is important and good... BUT... the fact that you have to sit for a very specific amount of time before moving on actually makes retention worse.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 15h

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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 19h

"Anyone who knows what she stands for knows there’s nothing remotely peaceful about her politics."

CODEPINK's Latin America campaigner Michelle Ellner explains the problem with this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Read her full article at buff.ly/rN8GzUt

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 16h

Nobel """Peace""" Prize

Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 18h

It's day 2 of OSHA training and I'm learning about silica dust.

Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 18h

It's such a good tool.

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Red Lori Bright Eyes Pissed Off American @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social · Mar 15

Everything that is wrong with the GOP can be explained in these 4 charts

The principles of Abuse

The failures of racism

The Special Snowflake chart

The Virtue/Abuse Quadrant chart

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A chart of an asshole - each pucker of the rose represents another spoke on the wheel of abuse - it includes things like abuse, exploitation, transphobia, misogyny, sexual assault

n The inability to tolerate discomfort
n No self awareness
n A lack of a strong internal sense of self that isn’t rooted in hate
n Which creates a lack of selfactualization outside of racist tropes

n Not being able to selfsoothe
n An inability to sort out general information using a basic logic familiarity
n No distinction between external fears & internal biases
n A difficulty in changing perspective which translates into being trapped

n Which all creates
a self identify rooted in the persecution
of others
n Internally understanding
these actions as wrong means that they will always doubledown because to do otherwise
would dismantle
their entire self

Repeating this process is unsustainable.
Come away from racism. Work on all of these faults
within yourself. Learn how to change your brain.

1. Always distort the truth to make you seem favorable and frame the target of abuse as unfavorable.
2. Always misrepresent your motives to be beneficial while hiding the principles of abuse that are being used in whatever action is taken.
3. Frame any call to responsibility or consequences as invalid, and deny, deflect, distract, and attack the source of those calls.
4. Always promise what the targets of manipulation want, frame what you are doing as delivering what they ask for, and then do whatever you want anyway.
5. Undermine any circumstances that stand in your way for example if a wilderness area you want to exploit is pristine, get in and make an oil spill then there is nothing left to protect; or if you want to destroy public education install an abuser, destroy the agency, point at it as a failure of government and then implement your private education plan for profit.
6. Isolate the targets of abuse by dismantling support systems, cutting off access to resources, and opposing anything that could bolster the targets of abuse.
7. Always take the best and leave the least possible for the targets of abuse such as funneling PPE dollars to military contractors while heath care workers use trash bags for protection.
8. Always use unfavorable circumstances to your advantage and if possible, turn circumstances against the targets of abuse such as allowing COVID to ravage blue states while funneling dollars to red states.
9. Always blame the victim for anything bad that happens to them or anything that you do to them.
10. Always pretend to be the victim in any situation, co-opt any symbols or methods your targets use for selfdefense.
11. Never allow scrutiny of your actions and always reject any investigations.
12. Use high control, propaganda, fear, threats, and manipulation to manage the victims of abuse.
13. Never admit to any wrong.
14. Whatever you want to do is the only thing that is important and any suffering you cause along the way is inconsequential or ev…

A quadrant chart is a type of data visualization that divides a scatter plot into four quadrants, often used to identify trends, patterns, and relationships between two variables.
THIS chart drafts the intersections of virtue and abuse - showing the most and least of each. The republican government exists in the most abuse and least virtue of the chart

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 1d

This too

Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 1d

Shakespeare is at is best when you mostly ignore the metre in favor of just doing the thing.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 1d

Drama.

Photo of the sky. It's a dark blue with sweeping clouds in gray, peach, and white reaching out across it. There are trees below that are turning yellow with the season change.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 1d

We are witnessing the most lawless behavior by a leader in American history, just daily, extraordinary abuses of power. National Democrats must speak out in a loud and clear voice against Trump's escalating authoritarianism. It is time now.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian reports that Letitia James has been indicted

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 1d

Hard hats and harder truths.

Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 1d

I have to take a 10-hour OSHA training today. Thought they defunded this?

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 1d

Fandoms are all pretty terrible. It's the worst.

Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 1d

I know that one simply does not have to engage with reddit, but wow, the Critical Role fan community on there is full of angry manosphere dudes. Seems weird.

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 2d

#Comics folks, I need you to pull up to this one.

The world sucks right now, and we have the opportunity to do a little bit of good for a displaced and marginalized member of our community. Please join me in supporting this KS campaign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/den...

If you're somebody who values supporting marginalized voices in comics, here's your chance to put your money where your values are!

The writer of this RINGO NOM’D INDIE COMIC (and a very dear friend of mine) is a Syrian Refugee who has been through more continuous hardships than I have space to list here; constantly navigating visa applications, unstable living conditions, predatory landlords (limited options as a refugee).

Anas just wants to make comics and live a normal life like what so many of us take for granted. Backing this campaign will help Anas to take the next step toward freedom and autonomy, helping to fund a move to another country with more stable employment options. This is truly one of the most important comics purchases you will ever make.

Middle Eastern and North African comics creators are some of the most underrepresented in the comics industry of the western world. Anas isn’t running a GoFundMe to support this move, and is not asking for charity. Simply, Anas is using their talent for storytelling, along with Dennis’ gorgeous art, to offer you a beautiful experience in the comics medium, that also goes toward funding a better life for Anas.

I’m so proud of Anas, and humbled by their experiences and perseverance. I would like to see Anas’ Dream realized, and I’d love to see this community help to make that happen. Please join me in pledging to the Etheres Kickstarter campaign! (link below).

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 2d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 2d

Hold up... the Palisades fire was started by a Florida Man?

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 2d

It's telling that he stopped talking to you when you were just talking about basic human rights and decency. I continue to believe that police depts are essentially cults.

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 2d

Every single one.

Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 2d

I'm taking the night off from spooky movies. Back on it tomorrow.

Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 2d

This is what "Defund The Police" was and is about btw.

Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 20d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

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Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 2d

The voting age should be lowered too.

Michael J Wilson @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 2d

It's the first morning where it's very noticeable that it's not as light out when my alarm goes off.