Michael Beck
@michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social
Mid-level university functionary. Views are my own.
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
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I am never more in my element than when talking about something absolutely nobody cares about.
October 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I am never more in my element than when talking about something absolutely nobody cares about.
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You never heard of this fucking guy six weeks ago. Six weeks! Just get another Guy!!
Look around. There's a Guy. Over there, another Guy. Now turn around...Guys. What do you think is around that corner? You guessed it: More Guys.
Look around. There's a Guy. Over there, another Guy. Now turn around...Guys. What do you think is around that corner? You guessed it: More Guys.
October 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
You never heard of this fucking guy six weeks ago. Six weeks! Just get another Guy!!
Look around. There's a Guy. Over there, another Guy. Now turn around...Guys. What do you think is around that corner? You guessed it: More Guys.
Look around. There's a Guy. Over there, another Guy. Now turn around...Guys. What do you think is around that corner? You guessed it: More Guys.
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“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy
September 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy
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[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit
September 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit
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we are in the Age of Enlightenment but for absolute dimwits
September 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
we are in the Age of Enlightenment but for absolute dimwits
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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i would prefer to not live in uppercase H History
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
i would prefer to not live in uppercase H History
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It's simple: we monetize crying
September 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It's simple: we monetize crying
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel.
September 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel.
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making college free as a means to harness educational polarization
Latinas might snap back to the Democrats. Particularly as more Latinas go to college. But working-class men without degrees are a staple of the modern right-wing coalition across the globe. Latino men are one of the groups least likely to have a college degree.
September 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
making college free as a means to harness educational polarization
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The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
August 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
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What a burden to be old enough to know who Dean Cain is
August 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
What a burden to be old enough to know who Dean Cain is
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ME, TENTING FINGERS ACROSS TBE TABLE: I am going to build a “Cracker Barrel of the mind”
MARC ANDREESSEN: Here is $50,000,000,000
MARC ANDREESSEN: Here is $50,000,000,000
August 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
ME, TENTING FINGERS ACROSS TBE TABLE: I am going to build a “Cracker Barrel of the mind”
MARC ANDREESSEN: Here is $50,000,000,000
MARC ANDREESSEN: Here is $50,000,000,000
“I gave my life to Christ in the Cracker Barrel parking lot!”
August 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
“I gave my life to Christ in the Cracker Barrel parking lot!”
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“The poor, they’re always with us, with their lackluster LinkedIns”
August 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“The poor, they’re always with us, with their lackluster LinkedIns”
Homesteading proceeds as expected
August 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Homesteading proceeds as expected
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[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
August 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
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whether this would work i don’t know but what’s more important is that it would make me personally feel good
August 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
whether this would work i don’t know but what’s more important is that it would make me personally feel good
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
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Now is the time of dipshits
August 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Now is the time of dipshits
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The old world is dying, and the new world is so fucking stupid dude
August 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The old world is dying, and the new world is so fucking stupid dude