Michael Good
@goodmp.bsky.social
writer, sociologist, data analyst from chapel hill, nc
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Michael Good
@goodmp.bsky.social
· Nov 20
If any new progression fantasy authors need a beta reader, feel free to hit me up
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Op-ed from a high school junior in @indyweek.bsky.social: “If Rep. Foushee refused to answer high schoolers’ questions, I wondered, who was she answering to?”
Op-Ed: Rep. Foushee is Not the Fighter NC-04 Needs
The co-chair of the Chapel Hill High School Young Democratic Socialists of America calls for a primary challenge in the upcoming congressional race.
indyweek.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Op-ed from a high school junior in @indyweek.bsky.social: “If Rep. Foushee refused to answer high schoolers’ questions, I wondered, who was she answering to?”
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December 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Something Awful had bans figured out over twenty years ago. Ban for everything, charge 10 bucks to reinstate your account. Handles content moderation, bans are funny, and it generates revenue.
Let me pay 10 bucks to change someone's profile picture and then we're really talking.
Let me pay 10 bucks to change someone's profile picture and then we're really talking.
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Something Awful had bans figured out over twenty years ago. Ban for everything, charge 10 bucks to reinstate your account. Handles content moderation, bans are funny, and it generates revenue.
Let me pay 10 bucks to change someone's profile picture and then we're really talking.
Let me pay 10 bucks to change someone's profile picture and then we're really talking.
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"That’s something Democrats have been slow to entertain: Picking big arguments designed to stoke conflict and controversy can jar low-information voters out of their algorithmic torpor and get them to take sides themselves."
YES
YES
SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.
newrepublic.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"That’s something Democrats have been slow to entertain: Picking big arguments designed to stoke conflict and controversy can jar low-information voters out of their algorithmic torpor and get them to take sides themselves."
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YES
This was, more or less, my argument in grad school. I was told it was unrealistic and encouraged to study entrepreneurs
Validation tastes bitter
Validation tastes bitter
I don’t often agree with Elon Musk, but I fear that he may be right when he says, “AI and robots will replace all jobs.”
So what happens to workers who have no jobs and no income?
AI & robotics must benefit all of humanity, not just billionaires.
So what happens to workers who have no jobs and no income?
AI & robotics must benefit all of humanity, not just billionaires.
October 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This was, more or less, my argument in grad school. I was told it was unrealistic and encouraged to study entrepreneurs
Validation tastes bitter
Validation tastes bitter
Apropos of nothing, I'm thinking about how laughably impossible it was to get funding to do anything at UNC. The phrase, "the cobbler's children have no shoes," was practically our motto.
yea but he can put 'em back at work drinks
October 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Apropos of nothing, I'm thinking about how laughably impossible it was to get funding to do anything at UNC. The phrase, "the cobbler's children have no shoes," was practically our motto.
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Apropos of nothing, I would like to point out that large companies whose business model is "serve words to the public" will typically pay between US $.10 and $3.00 per word. So when you give words to a company for free, you are in fact paying them a LOT of money.
October 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Apropos of nothing, I would like to point out that large companies whose business model is "serve words to the public" will typically pay between US $.10 and $3.00 per word. So when you give words to a company for free, you are in fact paying them a LOT of money.
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Wanna feel poor? Here's what the biweekly payments sent to a coach on a $10 million buyout really look like.
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Wanna feel poor? Here's what the biweekly payments sent to a coach on a $10 million buyout really look like.
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*siiiiiiigggghhhh*
September 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
*siiiiiiigggghhhh*
Grad school friends should take note and then not agree to that ToS.
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Grad school friends should take note and then not agree to that ToS.
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This is class solidarity.
In case you’re at all confused.
In case you’re at all confused.
September 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is class solidarity.
In case you’re at all confused.
In case you’re at all confused.
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My hot take: we as a society don’t challenge people enough on facts and it’s metastasized.
Political tension in the family? You’ll be told, “Oh, don’t let “politics” get in the way of relationships - avoid it!”
Sorry, no. Politics is personal. Speak up. Do it with humility, but insist on facts.
Political tension in the family? You’ll be told, “Oh, don’t let “politics” get in the way of relationships - avoid it!”
Sorry, no. Politics is personal. Speak up. Do it with humility, but insist on facts.
“It’s a post-factual world that Trump is looking for, & he’s got these sycophants working for him that don’t challenge him on facts,” said Barbara Comstock, a former Republican congresswoman…
firing the messenger, she said, will not make the economy any better. “The reality is the economy is worse”
firing the messenger, she said, will not make the economy any better. “The reality is the economy is worse”
Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook
www.nytimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
My hot take: we as a society don’t challenge people enough on facts and it’s metastasized.
Political tension in the family? You’ll be told, “Oh, don’t let “politics” get in the way of relationships - avoid it!”
Sorry, no. Politics is personal. Speak up. Do it with humility, but insist on facts.
Political tension in the family? You’ll be told, “Oh, don’t let “politics” get in the way of relationships - avoid it!”
Sorry, no. Politics is personal. Speak up. Do it with humility, but insist on facts.
i wanna try something. quote this post if you’re a man who hates the manosphere
August 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Alabama Governor Signs New ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Lowering State’s Age Of Consent
Alabama Governor Signs New ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Lowering State’s Age Of Consent
theonion.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Alabama Governor Signs New ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Lowering State’s Age Of Consent
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July 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
@foushee.house.gov this energy is appropriate given the circumstances and if you don’t think it is, please let someone else have your seat.
A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed
June 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
@foushee.house.gov this energy is appropriate given the circumstances and if you don’t think it is, please let someone else have your seat.
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Fiction. Art. More fiction. A dash of poetry.
the number one challenge for left media in the US isn’t “how do you get americans to listen to left ideas” but “how do you get americans to understand & accept that they’re part of society and responsible for how they treat other human beings” and I have absolutely no idea how to address that
June 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Fiction. Art. More fiction. A dash of poetry.
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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
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So all the 14s & 88s everywhere are just mysteries and coincidences but 86 is numerical warfare do I have that right
May 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
So all the 14s & 88s everywhere are just mysteries and coincidences but 86 is numerical warfare do I have that right
I am begging Meta to hire a sociologist — there are lots available these days
May 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I am begging Meta to hire a sociologist — there are lots available these days
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Meanwhile, in Canada…
May 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Meanwhile, in Canada…
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We need the best educated workforce in the world.
We need the best teachers in the world.
We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.
No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
We need the best teachers in the world.
We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.
No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
April 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We need the best educated workforce in the world.
We need the best teachers in the world.
We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.
No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
We need the best teachers in the world.
We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.
No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
I’m pretty disappointed in how many things are closed here at the Grand Canyon. Fuck Elon
April 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I’m pretty disappointed in how many things are closed here at the Grand Canyon. Fuck Elon
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ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
media.tenor.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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