Mick Jay
@darealmcj.bsky.social
Writer, scientist, musician, thinker . . .
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“He had a sharp, strong jawline from years of clenching it every time someone mentioned universal health care.”
Excerpts from a Red-Hot Right-Wing Romance Novel
“The moment I saw him charging the steps on January 6, I knew I wanted to rip off his Viking helmet and find out how quickly he could send my body ...
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March 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“He had a sharp, strong jawline from years of clenching it every time someone mentioned universal health care.”
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Stop at the record store. Buy some records. #johnsvinyl
March 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Stop at the record store. Buy some records. #johnsvinyl
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At listening posts around the world, U.S. intelligence intercepted and translated signals from the Soviets to advance American interests. @annneumann.bsky.social tells the story of one such base in our most recent issue.
Listening Devices | Ann Neumann
The veterans of Kagnew Station saw the early growth of the surveillance state. Has the passage of time given them a new understanding of their work?
thebaffler.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
At listening posts around the world, U.S. intelligence intercepted and translated signals from the Soviets to advance American interests. @annneumann.bsky.social tells the story of one such base in our most recent issue.
Just a reminder, folks. My shop has merch for those lovers of #russianlit #writers #graphicarts #indestrength www.indestrength.com/dostoevsky-t...
DOSTOEVSKY TURNING POINTS — INDESTRENGTH
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March 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Just a reminder, folks. My shop has merch for those lovers of #russianlit #writers #graphicarts #indestrength www.indestrength.com/dostoevsky-t...
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We already lost the dollar slice what will it take people? Thanks for having me again McSweeney's.
"Who will be the first victim in this tit for tat economic turf war? The auto industry? The energy sector? The Costco hotdog? One thing is true: Inflation will always come for the last bastion of dignity. If the hotdog falls, God help the rotisserie chicken."
Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the Last Two Weeks
The past fourteen days, like all epochs reduced to memes and cable news chyrons, have revealed the cyclical farce of power—a pantomime of bullies, ...
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March 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
We already lost the dollar slice what will it take people? Thanks for having me again McSweeney's.
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March 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Did some record shopping today. Picked up a Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet Voodoo. This was in it.
Sounds like a dude I wish I knew #jazzsky #rochester #lonhackett
Sounds like a dude I wish I knew #jazzsky #rochester #lonhackett
March 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Did some record shopping today. Picked up a Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet Voodoo. This was in it.
Sounds like a dude I wish I knew #jazzsky #rochester #lonhackett
Sounds like a dude I wish I knew #jazzsky #rochester #lonhackett
My version of "prepping." Buying #vinyl #cds and #books from #brickandmortar stores. #halfpricedbooks #decaturGA
March 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
My version of "prepping." Buying #vinyl #cds and #books from #brickandmortar stores. #halfpricedbooks #decaturGA
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Remembering the birthday of Ralph Ellison, I am seeking the ghosts of times past with respect and reverence.
I #amwriting to remember.
More: Ralph Waldo Ellison, award-winning American #writer - recipient - National Book Award (1953) www.read.gov/fiction/elli...
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#author #quote on #writing
I #amwriting to remember.
More: Ralph Waldo Ellison, award-winning American #writer - recipient - National Book Award (1953) www.read.gov/fiction/elli...
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#author #quote on #writing
March 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Remembering the birthday of Ralph Ellison, I am seeking the ghosts of times past with respect and reverence.
I #amwriting to remember.
More: Ralph Waldo Ellison, award-winning American #writer - recipient - National Book Award (1953) www.read.gov/fiction/elli...
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#author #quote on #writing
I #amwriting to remember.
More: Ralph Waldo Ellison, award-winning American #writer - recipient - National Book Award (1953) www.read.gov/fiction/elli...
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#author #quote on #writing
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Posting one comic issue a day...Day 116
A Cosmic Narrative: An extraterrestrial travel journal that asks the big questions by examining the small moments of life across the universe.
👽 #webcomic #webtoon #comic #writing #MicroFiction
A Cosmic Narrative: An extraterrestrial travel journal that asks the big questions by examining the small moments of life across the universe.
👽 #webcomic #webtoon #comic #writing #MicroFiction
February 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Posting one comic issue a day...Day 116
A Cosmic Narrative: An extraterrestrial travel journal that asks the big questions by examining the small moments of life across the universe.
👽 #webcomic #webtoon #comic #writing #MicroFiction
A Cosmic Narrative: An extraterrestrial travel journal that asks the big questions by examining the small moments of life across the universe.
👽 #webcomic #webtoon #comic #writing #MicroFiction
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Does your back ever hurt so badly that you wonder if a steamroller would be helpful? 😊
#amwriting #writingcommunity #amreading
#amwriting #writingcommunity #amreading
February 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Does your back ever hurt so badly that you wonder if a steamroller would be helpful? 😊
#amwriting #writingcommunity #amreading
#amwriting #writingcommunity #amreading
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🎧 What are you listening to? 🎧
Living Colour - Vivid (2023 Remaster) [listen]
Vivid is the debut studio album by American rock band Living Colour, released on May 2, 1988, by Epic Records. It was one of the most popular albums of 1988, peaking... (more)
#music#musicsky#nowplaying#LivingColour
Living Colour - Vivid (2023 Remaster) [listen]
Vivid is the debut studio album by American rock band Living Colour, released on May 2, 1988, by Epic Records. It was one of the most popular albums of 1988, peaking... (more)
#music#musicsky#nowplaying#LivingColour
February 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
🎧 What are you listening to? 🎧
Living Colour - Vivid (2023 Remaster) [listen]
Vivid is the debut studio album by American rock band Living Colour, released on May 2, 1988, by Epic Records. It was one of the most popular albums of 1988, peaking... (more)
#music#musicsky#nowplaying#LivingColour
Living Colour - Vivid (2023 Remaster) [listen]
Vivid is the debut studio album by American rock band Living Colour, released on May 2, 1988, by Epic Records. It was one of the most popular albums of 1988, peaking... (more)
#music#musicsky#nowplaying#LivingColour
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Ultrabomb 2/21/2025 featuring members of Husker DU, Soul Asylum, Social Distortion and Agent Orange.
#huskerdu #soulasylum #socialdistortion #agentorange #punkrock #livemusic #livemusicphotography #alternativerock #ultrabomb #musicphotography #indierock
#huskerdu #soulasylum #socialdistortion #agentorange #punkrock #livemusic #livemusicphotography #alternativerock #ultrabomb #musicphotography #indierock
February 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ultrabomb 2/21/2025 featuring members of Husker DU, Soul Asylum, Social Distortion and Agent Orange.
#huskerdu #soulasylum #socialdistortion #agentorange #punkrock #livemusic #livemusicphotography #alternativerock #ultrabomb #musicphotography #indierock
#huskerdu #soulasylum #socialdistortion #agentorange #punkrock #livemusic #livemusicphotography #alternativerock #ultrabomb #musicphotography #indierock
For me, it's not nineties rock. Like the 70s, most of it just seems/feels timeless.
Nostalgia is unfairly maligned. Until there's a future we should be able to listen to nineties rock guilt free
February 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
For me, it's not nineties rock. Like the 70s, most of it just seems/feels timeless.
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Descartes: You prefer to be complimented for your mind, not your body.
John Rawls: It takes you three hours to explain how to divide a group check.
John Stuart Mill: You once gave a highly intelligent defense of the right to own Truck Nutz.
John Rawls: It takes you three hours to explain how to divide a group check.
John Stuart Mill: You once gave a highly intelligent defense of the right to own Truck Nutz.
What Your Favorite Philosopher Says About You
Plato: You divide your dinner into three neat little piles of food on your plate. Then you point to the meat and announce, “This one’s The King!” H...
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February 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Descartes: You prefer to be complimented for your mind, not your body.
John Rawls: It takes you three hours to explain how to divide a group check.
John Stuart Mill: You once gave a highly intelligent defense of the right to own Truck Nutz.
John Rawls: It takes you three hours to explain how to divide a group check.
John Stuart Mill: You once gave a highly intelligent defense of the right to own Truck Nutz.
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When it’s bleak but true!
"You know what’s worse than robot overlords? Getting an email titled 'URGENT: Fix the font on Slide 14!' at 2 a.m. The Matrix might be a prison of the mind, but let’s be real: my mind was already in prison."
Why I Chose to Reenter the Matrix and Be a Living Battery for the Machines
Let’s cut the moral grandstanding. You think I sold out humanity by crawling back to the Machines? Please. I upgraded. While you’re out there doom-...
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February 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
When it’s bleak but true!
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"Tread on me, Megaboss. Roll your Cybertruck right over my previously untreadable body. I eagerly await the tire tracks of progress."
"I trust this guy. He’s not like the others. When the government tracks you, that’s tyranny. When a billionaire does it? That’s innovation."
Don’t Tread on Me—Unless You’re a Billionaire with a Ketamine Addiction, in Which Case I Enthusiastically Support It
Listen, I don’t know how to say this, but I think I’m finally okay with being trodden on. Just a little. Just enough to feel the reassuring weight ...
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February 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Tread on me, Megaboss. Roll your Cybertruck right over my previously untreadable body. I eagerly await the tire tracks of progress."
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What happens when you call the number on Stranger Things 5’s Eleven missing poster? nerdist.com/article/strange...
February 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What happens when you call the number on Stranger Things 5’s Eleven missing poster? nerdist.com/article/strange...
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"Pirate's Booty is a cheese-flavored puffed corn and rice snack. It is one of the four main Realistic Food Groups, along with Cheese Sticks/Wheels, Applesauce Pouches, and Nuggets."
FAQ: Is My Child Eating Enough Pirate’s Booty?
What is Pirate’s Booty? Pirate’s Booty is a cheese-flavored puffed corn and rice snack. It is one of the four main Realistic Food Groups, along wit...
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February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"Pirate's Booty is a cheese-flavored puffed corn and rice snack. It is one of the four main Realistic Food Groups, along with Cheese Sticks/Wheels, Applesauce Pouches, and Nuggets."
Folks, and I'm thinking hot - or not - chicks. If you try to follow me and your photos are of a scantily clad woman, I will not refollow. We're trying to keep this platform free of predators.
February 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Folks, and I'm thinking hot - or not - chicks. If you try to follow me and your photos are of a scantily clad woman, I will not refollow. We're trying to keep this platform free of predators.
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Feb 11th is International Women and Girls in Science Day!
Take a peek at the Every Rock Has A Story, 'Women in Geoscience Playlist'. Share these geoscientists' amazing stories and help girls to see themselves as scientists!⚒️ 🍎
#edusky #WomenInSTEM
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Feb 11th is International Women and Girls in Science Day!
Take a peek at the Every Rock Has A Story, 'Women in Geoscience Playlist'. Share these geoscientists' amazing stories and help girls to see themselves as scientists!⚒️ 🍎
#edusky #WomenInSTEM
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Women in Geoscience - Every Rock Has A Story Playlist #girlsinstem - YouTube
This playlist features all the episodes of "Every Rock Has A Story" that feature women geoscientists as co-hosts. From climate change, to volcanos, to life o...
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February 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Feb 11th is International Women and Girls in Science Day!
Take a peek at the Every Rock Has A Story, 'Women in Geoscience Playlist'. Share these geoscientists' amazing stories and help girls to see themselves as scientists!⚒️ 🍎
#edusky #WomenInSTEM
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Feb 11th is International Women and Girls in Science Day!
Take a peek at the Every Rock Has A Story, 'Women in Geoscience Playlist'. Share these geoscientists' amazing stories and help girls to see themselves as scientists!⚒️ 🍎
#edusky #WomenInSTEM
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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“After that, he has a protein bar for breakfast and typically goes for a six-mile run.”
“A health nut. Impressive.”
“Unless it’s raining, windy, too cold, or too hot.”
“So… on average… ballpark, would you say—”
“Roughly 1.5 times per month he runs.”
“A health nut. Impressive.”
“Unless it’s raining, windy, too cold, or too hot.”
“So… on average… ballpark, would you say—”
“Roughly 1.5 times per month he runs.”
If Crooks Were Studying My Every Move to Pull an Ocean’s 11–Style Heist on Me
“Good morning, boss.” “Mornin’, Sneaky Matt. They tell me you’re the one’s been tailing our mark for the last month, is that right?” “That’s right,...
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February 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“After that, he has a protein bar for breakfast and typically goes for a six-mile run.”
“A health nut. Impressive.”
“Unless it’s raining, windy, too cold, or too hot.”
“So… on average… ballpark, would you say—”
“Roughly 1.5 times per month he runs.”
“A health nut. Impressive.”
“Unless it’s raining, windy, too cold, or too hot.”
“So… on average… ballpark, would you say—”
“Roughly 1.5 times per month he runs.”
Saw him/them at the Filmore in San Fran years ago. Super rad. #mountaingoats
February 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Saw him/them at the Filmore in San Fran years ago. Super rad. #mountaingoats