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Michele Tepper

@michelet.bsky.social

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Also known as Misha. UX design then (frog, CFPB, startups) and now (Salesforce Platform). Brooklyn native/cliché. A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 22d

This is basically our dynamic

A small brown dog with her mouth open faces the camera. A middle aged woman with a skeptical expression who needs a haircut is holding her

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 13h

Tourist achievement unlocked: someone asked me for directions

Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 14h

TIL that in Spanish-speaking countries, Wednesday Addams’s first name is Merlina

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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social · 17h

All brought to you by the same group that in a previous episode staged a riot inside the national capital to disrupt and prevent the legal transfer of power to their political rivals after losing an election

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s easy to get inured to this stuff but imagine a podcast ep where @mikeduncan.bsky.social is telling you about this happening in some other country at the same time that a crisis in parliament has shut down the national budget.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 1d

Borges is not buried in Buenos Aires, but his parents and other relatives are

A photo of the plaques marking the graves of the parents, sister, brother in law, and niece and nephew in law of Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires’s famous cemetery the name of which escapes me at the moment

Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 1d

I thought it was Slate but I can’t find it. He maybe finally got sick of having to mention his column where he said Dylan would never win

Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 2d

Dog also enjoying a break in her routine

(thanks again for the Eva’s hookup @jameshupp.bsky.social @lauraolin.bsky.social )

A small brown dog out in the country with other dogs. She looks happy

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I say this because: it's not fun to realise that you're living through a period of history where the institutions we used to rely on might be prevented from disseminating true information to people who need it. But, we have been here before and we can take inspiration and courage from the past.

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 3d

Mendoza, Argentina. Heading closer to the Andes today, and then to BA and then Patagonia

Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 4d

The skies were even clearer this morning

A picture of the Andes as seen from a hotel room in a vineyard

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 4d

The man got dinged for visiting his child’s grave. Intense pundit brain

Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 5d

For Argentina, it’s kind of northern! But yes.

Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 5d

Just a terrible view from this hotel room

Just a spectacular view of Malbec fields with little luxe cabins built in the fields. In the distance, the Andes

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 5d

He gets a songwriting credit so his estate’s getting paid either way

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Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · 5d

Every future Mayor & Council MUST have active plans to address strategic retreat.

My primary criticism of "City of Yes" is that it didn't center global warming & known environmental issues. We must build up on the high land and evacuate the low, while rebuilding a sanitation system.

LFG!

Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 5d

absolutely fascinating piece from @smaldo.bsky.social today:

They Live Below Sea Level in NYC. Now, the City Could Buy Out 'The Hole'

The low-lying neighborhood on the Brooklyn-Queens border will be the first place in New York where officials may buy properties proactively — instead of in response to a disaster.

www.thecity.nyc

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 5d

When I spoke at RISD over ten years ago, I got turned around and I sure enough ended accidentally walking up Crew Hill. Enjoy your frappe!

Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 6d

They are still boarding people so I probably would have been ok regardless but I’m really glad I didn’t risk it

Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 6d

Commuter trains in NY always leave a minute late, and once you know that, the trick is ruined for you

Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 6d

Ran across Terminal D in MIA but I made my flight. Now to let the adrenaline wear off enough to rest

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 6d

Here’s a comprehensive list of appropriate responses upon hearing that a man murdered worshippers at a synagogue:

1- this is fucked up, fuck that guy, fuck antisemitism, solidarity with the victims

2- see above

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 6d

A friend and I did a Tumblr when the movie of A NORMAL HEART was on HBO, because she’d been around queer kids who had no context for the story. Even having lived through it, there was a lot I’d forgotten, and it was useful to me as well as (I hope) to others!

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Aaron W. Gordon @agordon.me · 6d

Back when I did this kind of thing, the pitch for why more NYC newsrooms should have dedicated MTA reporters—not even "transportation" generally, just MTA—was that the MTA's annual budget was larger than that of 10 states.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 6d

You see this particularly in the crime discussion nationally, but folks outside of New York City (and often times in New York City) do not grasp the scale and scope of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Reinvent Albany @reinventalbany.bsky.social · 6d

NEW Report: States that voted for Trump got billions from MTA Spending

Companies in red states by U.S. Senate seats received more than $3.5 billion in MTA payments over 14 years. States that voted for Trump in 2024 received nearly $7 billion from the MTA over this period.

buff.ly/Yxt4KZ6

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Wojtek the Union Law Bear @wearyhobo.bsky.social · 7d

Mr Pope is my Father, call me Leo

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 7d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social · 7d

Not everyone in this household is fasting

A small brown dog really going to town on a French fry