Michael Pierry
@mahleriavictim.bsky.social
Public librarian, musician, podcaster, dog and cat dad, husband. He/him. To the left of Marx.
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i trust zeta’s words on the situation in venezuela more than most of the voices on this website so i suggest you also read what they said
January 3, 2026 at 9:08 PM
i trust zeta’s words on the situation in venezuela more than most of the voices on this website so i suggest you also read what they said
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joining the great machine consciousness
December 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
joining the great machine consciousness
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i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
My son Poe is devilishly handsome.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
My son Poe is devilishly handsome.
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Today I told my co-worker I was sad about D’Angelo dying and she said, “Who is D’Angelo?” Then a breeze caught my withered husk and I blew away into the night sky, never to be seen again.
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Today I told my co-worker I was sad about D’Angelo dying and she said, “Who is D’Angelo?” Then a breeze caught my withered husk and I blew away into the night sky, never to be seen again.
I miss a lot of people I’ve never met.
October 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I miss a lot of people I’ve never met.
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🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2
October 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2
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Los Angelians: you have a responsibility, today on Indigenous Peoples Day, to shine light on the typhoon that just ravaged Alaskan villages & rally to provide care, support, & coverage of the devastation.
The world showed up for us when we had the fires. We were lucky to have FEMA-Biden. Speak up!
The world showed up for us when we had the fires. We were lucky to have FEMA-Biden. Speak up!
October 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Los Angelians: you have a responsibility, today on Indigenous Peoples Day, to shine light on the typhoon that just ravaged Alaskan villages & rally to provide care, support, & coverage of the devastation.
The world showed up for us when we had the fires. We were lucky to have FEMA-Biden. Speak up!
The world showed up for us when we had the fires. We were lucky to have FEMA-Biden. Speak up!
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I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.
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"It’s now abundantly clear that nothing we do is ever going to be enough. It’s always the same story. No good deed goes unpunished, and no sock full of quarters to the kidney goes unprotested."
Asking Me to Stop Beating You with This Sock Full of Quarters Will Only Further Divide Our Nation
The social bonds that hold us together are fraying, and sadly, many of our citizens no longer trust the institutions that govern us. Right now, the...
buff.ly
September 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"It’s now abundantly clear that nothing we do is ever going to be enough. It’s always the same story. No good deed goes unpunished, and no sock full of quarters to the kidney goes unprotested."
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Republicans out here defunding the police. It is backwards decade.
Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
October 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Republicans out here defunding the police. It is backwards decade.
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VERY BAD that this site has banned two prominent trans women for wishing ill on JK Rowling!!!
August 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
VERY BAD that this site has banned two prominent trans women for wishing ill on JK Rowling!!!
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How does the saying go? If you wanna make an omelette, you've gotta break some eggs and also put some sodium bromine on it?
August 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
How does the saying go? If you wanna make an omelette, you've gotta break some eggs and also put some sodium bromine on it?
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Ok, I don’t know who signed me up for emails from the Daily Wire but thanks for the laughs, whoever you are! My favorite part is that they don’t just have headlines for each story, they have a jpg with the host of each show making a goofy “serious” face staring straight into the camera. Unreal.
July 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Ok, I don’t know who signed me up for emails from the Daily Wire but thanks for the laughs, whoever you are! My favorite part is that they don’t just have headlines for each story, they have a jpg with the host of each show making a goofy “serious” face staring straight into the camera. Unreal.
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“Oh no, not Bill Clinton” I say as I ready the trebuchet I specifically built to launch Bill Clinton into an active volcano.
"What if Democrats are on the list?"
I'm sure some are, and are the ones who should be purged and cast into the lake of fire.
I'm sure some are, and are the ones who should be purged and cast into the lake of fire.
July 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
“Oh no, not Bill Clinton” I say as I ready the trebuchet I specifically built to launch Bill Clinton into an active volcano.
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
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I hate having to do this but I've launched a GFM. My beloved cat Emily needs expensive surgery to remove malignant tumors and simultaneously my (vital) car needs expensive work done. I'm in the hole. Any help - even sharing this around - would be much appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-cure-...
Donate to Help cure Emily of her cancer, organised by James Graham
Hi, I'm Jack Graham - the British guy on the podcast I Don't Speak German - and I'm asking … James Graham needs your support for Help cure Emily of her cancer
www.gofundme.com
June 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I hate having to do this but I've launched a GFM. My beloved cat Emily needs expensive surgery to remove malignant tumors and simultaneously my (vital) car needs expensive work done. I'm in the hole. Any help - even sharing this around - would be much appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-cure-...
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i’m learning a lot about the trade war
April 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
i’m learning a lot about the trade war
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"Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage"
"Even if you think you're done with COVID, COVID might not be done with you"
"There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence," says long COVID researcher, David Putrino
Source: archive.md/pwmdd
"Even if you think you're done with COVID, COVID might not be done with you"
"There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence," says long COVID researcher, David Putrino
Source: archive.md/pwmdd
March 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage"
"Even if you think you're done with COVID, COVID might not be done with you"
"There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence," says long COVID researcher, David Putrino
Source: archive.md/pwmdd
"Even if you think you're done with COVID, COVID might not be done with you"
"There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence," says long COVID researcher, David Putrino
Source: archive.md/pwmdd
This is as good a time as any to say that disabled people are people, they matter. Their rights matter. 1/3
March 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is as good a time as any to say that disabled people are people, they matter. Their rights matter. 1/3
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The National Jewish Book Award winning author of HOW TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM is now DEFENDING NAZI SALUTES
I FUCKING CANNOT
I FUCKING CANNOT
February 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The National Jewish Book Award winning author of HOW TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM is now DEFENDING NAZI SALUTES
I FUCKING CANNOT
I FUCKING CANNOT