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Michael Kasper
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I have roughly 5 interests and you’re going to hear about all of them whether you like it or not
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pettylobster.bsky.social
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar. She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights. Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards. Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'. @fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
itsmichaelkasper.bsky.social
Pour one out boys
January 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
itsmichaelkasper.bsky.social
At some point we’ll have to reckon with how an algorithm driven “for you” internet forces us all to equate engagement with endorsement. It’s very difficult to engage with something and decide it isn’t for you. Seeing something to the end is read as an act of approval inherently.
January 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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hcohen.bsky.social
In memory of David Lynch, my favorite exchange of dialogue from Twin Peaks that lives rent free in my head and heart.
A scene from season Two of Twin Peaks. In the first scene, Windom Earle is holding up Major Garland Briggs in a threatening manner and asks him, “Garland, what do you fear most in the world?” The second scene is a close up shot of Briggs saying “the possibility that love is not enough”
January 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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jamellebouie.net
one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
January 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
itsmichaelkasper.bsky.social
How you’ll be finding me in 2025
January 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
itsmichaelkasper.bsky.social
I do think I’d body like a rolling stone at karaoke
December 28, 2024 at 6:58 PM
itsmichaelkasper.bsky.social
My family has gone from only playing Christmas music to only playing Bon Dylan
December 28, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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williambibbiani.bsky.social
FUCK OFF, DISNEY
popcrave.com Pop Crave @popcrave.com · Dec 17
Disney removes transgender storyline from Pixar’s animated series ‘Win Or Lose,’ @THR reports:

“When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline.”
December 17, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
The most chilling short story I’ve ever read.
December 8, 2024 at 2:29 PM
itsmichaelkasper.bsky.social
Is this a safe space to say that wicked was mid?
December 3, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
there will be more articles written next week about the threat of “cancel culture” than there will be about this
bobbyallyn.bsky.social Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · Dec 1
Kash Patel: We will prosecute journalists www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/p...
December 1, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Isn’t it funny how the U.S. media is suddenly posting stories about the improving inflation picture now that the election is over? 🧐
November 26, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.
Post by Charlotte Clymer: Every transphobic argument can basically be boiled down to: "I actually don't know the science at all or have a good argument here, but trans people challenge my long held view of the world and it's very uncomfortable and everyone should be expected to move around my discomfort."
November 21, 2024 at 12:47 PM
itsmichaelkasper.bsky.social
Strongly considering becoming a guy who has a blog nobody reads
November 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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coelasquid.bsky.social
This hit my weak point for massive damage
don _hertzfeldt Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn't the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you're hunting, to feel like you're living your life. I'm going to the movies, I'm going to this show. What streaming has done-it's very convenient, but it's taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we're all just being fed. We're all farm animals that are just being fed, and we're being fed content. You can just stay home. Just stay home. We'll just feed it to you. No wonder everyone's depressed.
November 22, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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sasquatch.bsky.social
It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety
November 21, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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jerrylevine.com
The guest essay that everyone is talking about:

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The New Lork Cimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/donald-trump-women- girls.html GUEST ESSAY I'm 16. On Nov. 5 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft. Nov. 16, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET By Naomi Beinart Ms. Beinart is a 16-year-old high school junior. On the morning after the election, I walked up the staircase of my school. A preteen was crying into the shoulders of her braces-clad peer. Her friend was rubbing circles on her back. I continued up the stairs to the lounge, where upperclassmen linger before classes. There I saw two tables: One was filled with my girlfriends, many of them with hollows under their eyes. There was a blanket of despair over the young women in the room. I looked over to the other table of teenage boys and saw Minecraft on their computers. While we were gasping for a breath, it seemed they were breathing freely. We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I haven't fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday. What made my skin burn most wasn't that over 75 million people voted for Donald Trump. It was that this election didn't seem to measurably change anything for the boys around me, whether their parents supported Mr. Trump or not. Many of them didn't seem to share our rage, our fear, our despair. We don't even share the same future. I am scared that the Trump administration will take away or restrict birth control and Plan B - the same way they did abortion. I am scared that the boys I know will see in a triumphant, boastful Mr. Trump the epitome of a manly man and model themselves after him. I was 8 years old the first time he was elected. Now I am 16. I am still unable to vote, but I am so much more aware of what I have to lose. Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. Get it sent to your inbox. I have seen the ways in which many of the boys in my generation can be different from their fathers. The #MeToo movement went mainstream when they were still wearing Superman pajamas. On Tuesdays in health class, they learn about the dangers of inebriated consent. They don't pretend to gag when a girl mentions her period or a tampon falls out of her backpack. They don't find sexist jokes all that funny and don't often make them in public. I've heard they even use new language in the locker room about getting rejected by a girl, one where no means no and don't try again. I love and care for many of these boys and have always felt they were on my side. I'm grateful to my school for taking gender equality as seriously as it does trigonometry. But most of the guys I saw that Wednesday appeared nonchalant. A smiling student shook his friend's hand and said sarcastically, "Good election" in the same hallway where I saw a female teacher clutching a damp tissue. Why did it seem these boys were so unperturbed? I worried that my guy friends might only care about women until it conflicts with other, more pressing, priorities. That morning, I spoke with a male classmate. He asked if I was OK. I nearly melted with relief. See, I knew not all guys were ignorant! Then, before I responded, he continued. Why, he wondered, are so many girls crying? I stared. I swallowed that familiar lump. And I had one thought: I pray that my older brother never asks that question. How could my classmate not know why girls in his grade were biting their nails and doing breathing exercises in the bathroom? It seemed like our future was sliding down the sides of our faces, and he asked me why we were crying? I have never felt that disconnected from men. I have never felt more like a girl. Eight years ago, I was too young to feel the full force of Hillary Clinton's loss. Now at 16, I've had the wind knocked out of me. On Wednesday, I was flush with anger - but it was diluted by an even stronger feeling: defeat. I saw it in the eyes of women in my subway car that morning. I saw it in the barista at the coffee shop on the corner, the female security guard at my school and in the face of my history teacher. In a terrible way, I've never felt more part of a sisterhood or more certain that pain is shared within that family. I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that day. I wish they could breathe in what the women and girls I know have been inhaling since Nov. 5. I can't predict how well I'm going to do on an English test tomorrow and I definitely can't predict the future for me and my fellow young women. For now, all I can do is tell you how I feel. Naomi Beinart is a 16-year-old girl and a junior in high school.
November 17, 2024 at 2:34 PM