Michelle McAdorey
@michm.bsky.social
Songwriter. Words & Melody. Singer. Flâneuse.
I like the wind in my hair and a pen in my pocket.
Here’s some songs:
https://michellemcadorey.bandcamp.com/album/into-her-future
I like the wind in my hair and a pen in my pocket.
Here’s some songs:
https://michellemcadorey.bandcamp.com/album/into-her-future
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Michelle McAdorey
@michm.bsky.social
· Feb 3
Times like this you need to write a song.🔥🔥❤️
2025: Hegemonic Suicide and Other Innovations
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
2025: Hegemonic Suicide and Other Innovations
Every generation, on reaching middle age, begins to see the world around them in decline in order to habituate themselves to their own decay.
open.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
2025: Hegemonic Suicide and Other Innovations
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
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I think it's sweet that the oldest surviving printed book in the world - the Diamond Sutra - is also the oldest creative work explicitly released into the public domain, with a colophon at the end that says it was created for universal free distribution.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...
Diamond Sutra - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I think it's sweet that the oldest surviving printed book in the world - the Diamond Sutra - is also the oldest creative work explicitly released into the public domain, with a colophon at the end that says it was created for universal free distribution.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...
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I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
It's Time for a Moratorium on Data Centers | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
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Water Lily Pond, Evening (right panel) - 1920/1926
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11316
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11316
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Water Lily Pond, Evening (right panel) - 1920/1926
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11316
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11316
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Enclosed Field behind Saint-Paul Hospital - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14548
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14548
December 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Enclosed Field behind Saint-Paul Hospital - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14548
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14548
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Sleep peacefully tonight.
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Sleep peacefully tonight.
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Lot's of hot tea, see you soon @torontomike.com . Looking forward to it.
December 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Lot's of hot tea, see you soon @torontomike.com . Looking forward to it.
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Michelle is under the weather, so we'll postpone her visit
Michelle McAdorey returns to Toronto Mike'd!
@torontomike.com what’s going on tomorrow?
December 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Michelle is under the weather, so we'll postpone her visit
Love love. Thank you @mariapopova.bsky.social for your continued and enduring offerings. We need them so much❤️
At the link, the best of The Marginalian this week in one place – poet John Keene's spell against despair, a tender illustrated meditation on what saves us, and Aldo Leopold on how to hear the song of life: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
December 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Love love. Thank you @mariapopova.bsky.social for your continued and enduring offerings. We need them so much❤️
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Sunset - 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11321
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11321
December 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Sunset - 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11321
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11321
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𝖯̶𝗈̶𝗉̶𝖾̶ ̶𝖫̶𝖾̶𝗈̶ ̶𝖷̶𝖨̶𝖵̶ The White Sox have the first pick of the 2026 MLB Draft 😂
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
𝖯̶𝗈̶𝗉̶𝖾̶ ̶𝖫̶𝖾̶𝗈̶ ̶𝖷̶𝖨̶𝖵̶ The White Sox have the first pick of the 2026 MLB Draft 😂
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Nick Cave on creativity as an instrument of self-forgiveness and what it really means to live with hope in a fragile world www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/16/n...
Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Necessity of Hope in a Fragile World
In praise of “the necessary and urgent need to love life and one another, despite the casual cruelty of the world.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Nick Cave on creativity as an instrument of self-forgiveness and what it really means to live with hope in a fragile world www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/16/n...
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"It is important to distinguish between the amount of information and the quality of that information."
— Carl Sagan
— Carl Sagan
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"It is important to distinguish between the amount of information and the quality of that information."
— Carl Sagan
— Carl Sagan
Oh Moon, how glowingly glorious thou are
Tonight’s waxing gibbous #Moon features the sunlit scarp of the lunar Jura Mountains on the west side of Sinus Iridum, the Bay of Rainbows, which can look like a detached piece of the #Moon. It is also known as the "Golden Handle." #astronomy
December 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Oh Moon, how glowingly glorious thou are
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On this day in 2023, @michm.bsky.social made her Toronto Mike'd debut. She'll be back very soon for round 2!
www.torontomike.com/2023/11/mich...
www.torontomike.com/2023/11/mich...
Michelle McAdorey: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1368
In this 1368th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with Michelle McAdorey about her appearance in the video for Blue Rodeo's Try, Crash Vegas, going solo and more. This episode is exactly 1:43:19. Y...
www.torontomike.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
On this day in 2023, @michm.bsky.social made her Toronto Mike'd debut. She'll be back very soon for round 2!
www.torontomike.com/2023/11/mich...
www.torontomike.com/2023/11/mich...
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I wrote about this too. Why isn’t Ontario hitting the barricades in rage? We’ve so little lake access. Entirely privatized shorelines. You could give the province away to oligarchs & people would be meh. Thx to Fatima for calling this early on.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I wrote about this too. Why isn’t Ontario hitting the barricades in rage? We’ve so little lake access. Entirely privatized shorelines. You could give the province away to oligarchs & people would be meh. Thx to Fatima for calling this early on.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Fall Songwriting Class starts next week! Wednesday, October 8th, for eight weeks. Come join me at U of T's School of Continuing Studies. Urgent songs for urgent times. Let's do it! learn.utoronto.ca/programs-cou...
October 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Fall Songwriting Class starts next week! Wednesday, October 8th, for eight weeks. Come join me at U of T's School of Continuing Studies. Urgent songs for urgent times. Let's do it! learn.utoronto.ca/programs-cou...
What's up? Toronto Blue Jays win AL East is what 💙. More Canadian 🇨🇦 coverage needed on BSKY.
THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS ARE AL EAST CHAMPIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2015! 🚨🥇
September 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
What's up? Toronto Blue Jays win AL East is what 💙. More Canadian 🇨🇦 coverage needed on BSKY.
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A Toronto Star/CBC investigation into Ticketmaster’s collusion with scalpers to resell hundreds of thousands of tickets to sports and music events at inflated prices forms the backbone of a new U.S. consumer-protection lawsuit against the world’s biggest ticketing company.
The Star went undercover to expose how Ticketmaster colludes with scalpers. The probe is now at the heart of a major FTC lawsuit
The joint Toronto Star/CBC investigation exposed Ticketmaster employees reassuring undercover scalper that they could use bots to gobble up box office tickets — in breach of both Ticketmaster’s terms ...
www.thestar.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A Toronto Star/CBC investigation into Ticketmaster’s collusion with scalpers to resell hundreds of thousands of tickets to sports and music events at inflated prices forms the backbone of a new U.S. consumer-protection lawsuit against the world’s biggest ticketing company.
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Toronto plans to repair and replace more than 125 public bathrooms across the city. It's long-overdue effort to tackle an essential civic problem, but do the new loos have to be ugly? by @alexbozikovic.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
Is Toronto’s public design in the toilet?
The city’s plan to repair and replace 125 public washrooms is a rushed, one-size-fits-all approach that misses an opportunity to showcase design
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Toronto plans to repair and replace more than 125 public bathrooms across the city. It's long-overdue effort to tackle an essential civic problem, but do the new loos have to be ugly? by @alexbozikovic.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
August 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
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Thank you so much to everyone who has got onboard The Big Summer Holiday #PostcardDrop2025! It’s wonderful to know postcards still matter. Also intrigued by the special location frank-marks and the need for an additional “envelope” in some cases. Total so far = 294! ☺️💌🎉
August 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Thank you so much to everyone who has got onboard The Big Summer Holiday #PostcardDrop2025! It’s wonderful to know postcards still matter. Also intrigued by the special location frank-marks and the need for an additional “envelope” in some cases. Total so far = 294! ☺️💌🎉
"Now, music is free and you get the news that you want to see. The web is an echo chamber of your own prejudices, so you only hear the music that it thinks you like. It’s a silo of the self. So I don’t think music can survive being the spine of the culture as it was"
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/a...
40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
"Now, music is free and you get the news that you want to see. The web is an echo chamber of your own prejudices, so you only hear the music that it thinks you like. It’s a silo of the self. So I don’t think music can survive being the spine of the culture as it was"
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/a...
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Poplars at Giverny - 1887 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10321
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10321
July 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Poplars at Giverny - 1887 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10321
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10321