Michael
@bandnameguy.bsky.social
Just Some Guy Who Won’t Post Much
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"I'm also happy to announce that as of Q1 2026 our Parental Leave Packages will expand to include incubi, gestational darkspawn, and all xenoforms and barnacle-encrusted fetus-bullets!" - Human Resources Giger
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"I'm also happy to announce that as of Q1 2026 our Parental Leave Packages will expand to include incubi, gestational darkspawn, and all xenoforms and barnacle-encrusted fetus-bullets!" - Human Resources Giger
I mean… I can’t subscribe twice so I’m going to need someone else to step up.
I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I mean… I can’t subscribe twice so I’m going to need someone else to step up.
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Kramer vs. Godzilla (1979)
December 31, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Kramer vs. Godzilla (1979)
That made me legitimately laugh and I don’t even like The Fall
*mark e smith voice*
“STATUARY!
Marbuhl-uh”
“STATUARY!
Marbuhl-uh”
October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
That made me legitimately laugh and I don’t even like The Fall
This drove me crazy at the time and I hate being reminded of it
I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.
It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This drove me crazy at the time and I hate being reminded of it
As a clinically anxious person, this explains why I have trouble really connecting with Mitski’s music.
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
As a clinically anxious person, this explains why I have trouble really connecting with Mitski’s music.
My buddy Gabe has some cool print-on-demand designs that support Gender/Justice
We're payin' homage to all the brave frogs out there puttin' their froggy bodies on the line with the latest, Mexican Loteria inspired Genre Grinder cares T-shirt and sticker! All profits are still going to charity!
New Genre Grinder Cares Merch Drop!
Just in time for the October No Kings protests...well, late in the afternoon of the protests, too late, really, but sometimes it's the thought that counts (and then you'll have to wait for shipping) –...
www.genregrinder.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My buddy Gabe has some cool print-on-demand designs that support Gender/Justice
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The inflatables have made it to Broadview.
October 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The inflatables have made it to Broadview.
Had a blast at PupStock! Beautiful, moving, amazing. I had a big dumb smile on my face all night. Thanks for opening up the show @ekkoastral.bsky.social. I wish Phoenix had given you a bigger Wall Of Coming Together.
October 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Had a blast at PupStock! Beautiful, moving, amazing. I had a big dumb smile on my face all night. Thanks for opening up the show @ekkoastral.bsky.social. I wish Phoenix had given you a bigger Wall Of Coming Together.
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Our shared trauma is not imaginary. The Trump regime's cruelty is affecting all of us — but there's hope.
The bruise on America's soul: Moral injury in the age of Trump - Salon.com
Our shared trauma is not imaginary. The Trump regime's cruelty is affecting all of us — but there's hope
www.salon.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Our shared trauma is not imaginary. The Trump regime's cruelty is affecting all of us — but there's hope.
Consummate V’s
September 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Consummate V’s
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Some killings you're allowed to joke about.
Vance on Trump's strikes on boats: "I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world."
September 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Some killings you're allowed to joke about.
This, combined with @dansheehan.bsky.social’s newlsletter today should be enough to make all of us leave social media.
REPORTER: What do you make of the governor of Utah's message of nonviolence?
TRUMP: I agree with it but most of the violence is on the left
REPORTER: He says social media is a cancer
TRUMP: Well it's not a cancer in all respects. In some respects it's great
TRUMP: I agree with it but most of the violence is on the left
REPORTER: He says social media is a cancer
TRUMP: Well it's not a cancer in all respects. In some respects it's great
September 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This, combined with @dansheehan.bsky.social’s newlsletter today should be enough to make all of us leave social media.
Overeating
So like how are y'all dealing with the fear?
September 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Overeating
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Jay, you all owe an explanation of how it came to be that the exact list of users blamed by The Federalist were banned even if they did not break the ToS, and were not unsuspended until more than a day later.
September 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Jay, you all owe an explanation of how it came to be that the exact list of users blamed by The Federalist were banned even if they did not break the ToS, and were not unsuspended until more than a day later.
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I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Same for the grocery store where Gabby Giffords was shot
A random thought I'm reminded of: George Wallace was shot in the parking lot of my grocery store, which I think of every time I go there. There's no historical marker or any other indication that's where it happened.
September 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Same for the grocery store where Gabby Giffords was shot
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September 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I just reread @themountaingoats.bsky.social 33 1/3 book on Master of Reality and it destroys me every time. I don’t even like Black Sabbath that much! But it is 112 pages of raw emotion that brings all my grief to the surface and makes me mourn all our younger selves.
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I just reread @themountaingoats.bsky.social 33 1/3 book on Master of Reality and it destroys me every time. I don’t even like Black Sabbath that much! But it is 112 pages of raw emotion that brings all my grief to the surface and makes me mourn all our younger selves.
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It's not the mere fact that this is happening that bothers me so much; it's that there's all this money floating around that could be organized and deployed to solve real problems instead. Half a trillion US dollars being spent in a collective program would eliminate any problem you could think of.
September 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It's not the mere fact that this is happening that bothers me so much; it's that there's all this money floating around that could be organized and deployed to solve real problems instead. Half a trillion US dollars being spent in a collective program would eliminate any problem you could think of.
I extend that to “if you show up being a dick in someone else’s mentions, I will block you”
Yes, I think it's fair to say that "Blueskyism" is at least in part: "if you show up in someone's mentions being a dick, they will block you."
September 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I extend that to “if you show up being a dick in someone else’s mentions, I will block you”
“…despite local opposition”
BREAKING: President Donald Trump said he will order federal law enforcement intervention in Chicago and Baltimore, despite local opposition.
Trump says he will order federal intervention in Chicago and Baltimore despite local opposition
President Donald Trump says he plans to direct federal law enforcement intervention in Chicago and Baltimore. Local officials in both cities oppose such moves.
bit.ly
September 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
“…despite local opposition”
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I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
August 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
Hell yes, friend! I was going to repost the Walter Schreifels = a god one but Cleave really is a good album.
Therapy? Haven't released a bad album but Cleave is their best one
August 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Hell yes, friend! I was going to repost the Walter Schreifels = a god one but Cleave really is a good album.