michelle weber
@michelleinchief.com
Roman with a New Jersey core. Any dog is better than all people . Editor, formerly Longreads and Pipe Wrench. Late-breaking artist. "As demure as a brick to the head."
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michelle weber
@michelleinchief.com
· Nov 18
i shall begin as i mean to go on: derpily and dog-forward
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If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.
September 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.
free idea: an astrology column called "the schmaltz in our stars," you're welcome
July 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
free idea: an astrology column called "the schmaltz in our stars," you're welcome
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
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Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
June 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
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Reminder that I’m happy to help you move your Substack newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost newsletter that you fully own and control (and that scales more cheaply than Substack if you’re monetized.)
I see soooooooo many great writers putting so much of their time, effort, skill and money squarely in the lap of a really evil and untrustworthy company.
Morality questions aside: is it worth planting seeds in THIS soil, in this moment? Does it seem likely to pay off? So many alternatives!
Morality questions aside: is it worth planting seeds in THIS soil, in this moment? Does it seem likely to pay off? So many alternatives!
Substack Cofounder Defends Commercial Relationships with Nazis | TechPolicy.Press
Helping Nazis grow subscription newsletter businesses is ultimately best for the world, reasons Hamish McKenzie.
www.techpolicy.press
May 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reminder that I’m happy to help you move your Substack newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost newsletter that you fully own and control (and that scales more cheaply than Substack if you’re monetized.)
Molly Shah directed Waterworld.
Molly Shah caused the Chernobyl Disaster
May 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Molly Shah directed Waterworld.
no apologies for my choices / nessuna scusa per le mie scelte
May 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
no apologies for my choices / nessuna scusa per le mie scelte
“When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of style. I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.”
– Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
– Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
Fine. More semicolons for the rest of us.
Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.
May 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of style. I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.”
– Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
– Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
i love getting to write a strongly worded letter, but I like opening my door to not find my doormat not covered in an actual pile of feces EVEN MORE
so hard to please me, it is
so hard to please me, it is
May 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i love getting to write a strongly worded letter, but I like opening my door to not find my doormat not covered in an actual pile of feces EVEN MORE
so hard to please me, it is
so hard to please me, it is
you're a right thinking person. do it. totally worth it. no regrets.
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This Is Just To Say
They have elected
the pope
who does not like
MAGA
and who
Vance was probably
hoping
they would not
Not sorry,
he is Augustinian
part Black
and so woke
They have elected
the pope
who does not like
MAGA
and who
Vance was probably
hoping
they would not
Not sorry,
he is Augustinian
part Black
and so woke
May 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This Is Just To Say
They have elected
the pope
who does not like
MAGA
and who
Vance was probably
hoping
they would not
Not sorry,
he is Augustinian
part Black
and so woke
They have elected
the pope
who does not like
MAGA
and who
Vance was probably
hoping
they would not
Not sorry,
he is Augustinian
part Black
and so woke
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SCHISM JOKE IS BEST JOKE
UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!
May 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
SCHISM JOKE IS BEST JOKE
my dog is waiting on pins and needles
I assume a swiss guard will be at the door any minute now
I assume a swiss guard will be at the door any minute now
May 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
my dog is waiting on pins and needles
I assume a swiss guard will be at the door any minute now
I assume a swiss guard will be at the door any minute now
🧨
“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment
May 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🧨
a note for the cardinal electors, his name is pasticciotto, he is located in rome a scant 3km from the vatican, and there is no rule saying a dog can't be pope
May 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
a note for the cardinal electors, his name is pasticciotto, he is located in rome a scant 3km from the vatican, and there is no rule saying a dog can't be pope
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made an explainer for those unfamiliar with smoke-based conclave communication methods
April 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
made an explainer for those unfamiliar with smoke-based conclave communication methods
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April 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
good job, crabs
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
good job, crabs
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I don't know much about the papacy. But that's funny.
made an explainer for those unfamiliar with smoke-based conclave communication methods
April 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I don't know much about the papacy. But that's funny.
made an explainer for those unfamiliar with smoke-based conclave communication methods
April 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
made an explainer for those unfamiliar with smoke-based conclave communication methods
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I looked into the media hysteria around a trans woman allegedly competing in the Boston Marathon yesterday. What I found was that every single anti-trans headline about the issue could be traced to a single person. It's 2025 & media literacy is dead.
the boston marathon: a case study in an anti-trans media hysteria
or: how one group controlled an entire discourse
www.thefrankiedlc.news
April 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I looked into the media hysteria around a trans woman allegedly competing in the Boston Marathon yesterday. What I found was that every single anti-trans headline about the issue could be traced to a single person. It's 2025 & media literacy is dead.
this is pandering directly to me and I am, as the kids once said, here for it
lithub.com/what-if-the-...
lithub.com/what-if-the-...
April 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
this is pandering directly to me and I am, as the kids once said, here for it
lithub.com/what-if-the-...
lithub.com/what-if-the-...