mike
@iheartliterati.bsky.social
i collect esoterica & flim-flam recreationally. erstwhile brain scientist • deputy chief ontologist, comet inc • aloof megafauna • pulitzer-prize winning calumnist
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i think i better understand hunter thompson's burning contempt for richard nixon and the political movement that enabled him every single day
January 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
i think i better understand hunter thompson's burning contempt for richard nixon and the political movement that enabled him every single day
one of the early birch pamphlets on this was titled 'fluoridation and truth decay'
In the 1960s the nutty far right decided fluoride in America’s drinking water was a communist plot, and in Omaha a big backer of banning it was our across-the-street neighbor Marge Lamp, mother of Ginni Lamp, future far-right nut Mrs. Clarence Thomas. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/u...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says Trump Will Seek to Remove Fluoride From Drinking Water
Donald J. Trump has said he would give Mr. Kennedy, a former rival who has long promoted unproven medical theories, a prominent health role if he wins.
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2024 at 4:54 AM
one of the early birch pamphlets on this was titled 'fluoridation and truth decay'
On a minor rabbit hole of "people looking unreasonably old," this man was a 32-year-old professional football player (and future hall of famer) when this photo was taken
October 31, 2024 at 3:23 PM
On a minor rabbit hole of "people looking unreasonably old," this man was a 32-year-old professional football player (and future hall of famer) when this photo was taken
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"The humans caught in this ghostly loop cannot escape the past."
Elizabeth Friend has a GREAT story on North Carolina's version of the "vanishing hitchhiker" legend for Longreads, going deep on "Lydia's Bridge" and the true story behind it. Highly recommended Halloween reading:
Elizabeth Friend has a GREAT story on North Carolina's version of the "vanishing hitchhiker" legend for Longreads, going deep on "Lydia's Bridge" and the true story behind it. Highly recommended Halloween reading:
The Lessons of Lore - Longreads
Ghost stories reveal our collective anxieties amid times of change.
longreads.com
October 30, 2024 at 6:06 PM
"The humans caught in this ghostly loop cannot escape the past."
Elizabeth Friend has a GREAT story on North Carolina's version of the "vanishing hitchhiker" legend for Longreads, going deep on "Lydia's Bridge" and the true story behind it. Highly recommended Halloween reading:
Elizabeth Friend has a GREAT story on North Carolina's version of the "vanishing hitchhiker" legend for Longreads, going deep on "Lydia's Bridge" and the true story behind it. Highly recommended Halloween reading:
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Tom Baker narrating a documentary about rave culture. Assume this must have been sampled somewhere
October 24, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Tom Baker narrating a documentary about rave culture. Assume this must have been sampled somewhere
Reading a bigfoot book from the 1970s and I am going to attach this to the beginning of everything I write from now on. A new life awaits you in the goblin universe.
October 23, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Reading a bigfoot book from the 1970s and I am going to attach this to the beginning of everything I write from now on. A new life awaits you in the goblin universe.
Often find myself craving mexican food ... and pizza
October 22, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Often find myself craving mexican food ... and pizza
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Obsessed with this old London Underground poster that makes it look like it launches you straight to hell
October 21, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Obsessed with this old London Underground poster that makes it look like it launches you straight to hell
daddy needs his medicine (diet coke)
October 9, 2024 at 4:49 PM
daddy needs his medicine (diet coke)
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you are LOVED
you are WORTHY
that hiker did NOT get a clear photograph of you
your existence REMAINS unverified
you are WORTHY
that hiker did NOT get a clear photograph of you
your existence REMAINS unverified
September 27, 2024 at 4:38 AM
you are LOVED
you are WORTHY
that hiker did NOT get a clear photograph of you
your existence REMAINS unverified
you are WORTHY
that hiker did NOT get a clear photograph of you
your existence REMAINS unverified
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obsessed with the fact that the triple jump was invented out of whole cloth for the modern olympics, bc ancient greek records report 15 meter jumps, and rather than assume *the greeks* were exaggerating for rhetorical effect, they figured that must be a cumulative effort & invented the triple jump
September 16, 2024 at 5:33 PM
obsessed with the fact that the triple jump was invented out of whole cloth for the modern olympics, bc ancient greek records report 15 meter jumps, and rather than assume *the greeks* were exaggerating for rhetorical effect, they figured that must be a cumulative effort & invented the triple jump
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absolutely pained to see all these items which were once accessible and in fact could be used by members of the public in the Living Computers Museum being auctioned off to the highest bidders
Computer history for sale: Christie's revealed more than 150 items to be auctioned from the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's collection, including historic computers and artifacts from the closed Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle. #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputer #TWiT #tech
Key artifacts from Microsoft and Apple history to be sold by Christie’s from Paul Allen’s collection
An Apple-1 from the desk of Steve Jobs will be auctioned as part of a broader sale from the collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
www.geekwire.com
August 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM
absolutely pained to see all these items which were once accessible and in fact could be used by members of the public in the Living Computers Museum being auctioned off to the highest bidders
assassination squad kanban board
if i was a project manager at operation treadstone it wouldnt have gone down like that
August 15, 2024 at 8:45 PM
assassination squad kanban board
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amnesty, acid, and abortion except it's good now
August 6, 2024 at 1:48 PM
amnesty, acid, and abortion except it's good now
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me: i am fundamentally opposed to private military venture. mercenaries are just war criminals with contracts for banditry
my therapist: that's fair
me: but i love watching a misfit band of plucky swords-for-hire flout the strictures of established statehood
my therapist: who doesn't
my therapist: that's fair
me: but i love watching a misfit band of plucky swords-for-hire flout the strictures of established statehood
my therapist: who doesn't
April 28, 2024 at 10:16 PM
me: i am fundamentally opposed to private military venture. mercenaries are just war criminals with contracts for banditry
my therapist: that's fair
me: but i love watching a misfit band of plucky swords-for-hire flout the strictures of established statehood
my therapist: who doesn't
my therapist: that's fair
me: but i love watching a misfit band of plucky swords-for-hire flout the strictures of established statehood
my therapist: who doesn't
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i have been busy developing an Artificial Moron
July 25, 2024 at 8:09 PM
i have been busy developing an Artificial Moron
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is this your homework, larry?
March 21, 2024 at 8:21 PM
is this your homework, larry?
I am going to steal that enormous 7-up sign and put it on top of my house, and no one can stop me
7-up bottling company, overall diagonal view, ne 14 & sandy boulevard, portland, oregon, 1976
April 2, 2024 at 5:18 PM
I am going to steal that enormous 7-up sign and put it on top of my house, and no one can stop me
Neil Peart couldn't drum his way out of a paper bag
RIP, Joe Flaherty, one of the best to ever do it in sketch, on SCTV, and then so funny as Mr. Weir on Freaks and Geeks, you could see Linda Cardellini & John Francis Daley struggling to stay in character on what must have been the most usable takes. (Imagine how hard they laughed in the others.) 1/2
April 2, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Neil Peart couldn't drum his way out of a paper bag
getting very into the history of the 'swoon hypothesis', the name for a broad class of proposals that jesus did not die on the cross, but merely rendered unconscious en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_h...
March 29, 2024 at 6:23 PM
getting very into the history of the 'swoon hypothesis', the name for a broad class of proposals that jesus did not die on the cross, but merely rendered unconscious en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_h...