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Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

@mikec415.bsky.social

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Not that other guy. iOS and Mac developer since 1984. Music (especially Wilco & the Grateful Dead), theater, cats, and life in San Francisco. he/him 🏳️‍🌈

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Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 3h

You don’t need to say who it is and everyone knows immediately.

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 5h

Happy whiskers Wednesday #cats

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Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 15h

If Oliver’s Army fought Seven Nation Army, who would win?

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 16h

Jolene youtu.be/L0eeSoU35wM?...

Dolly Parton - Jolene 19880110

To everyone wanting to know if this is a reference to "JoJo": No, the Japanese series was developed in 1986, but Dolly wrote and recorded "Jolene" in 1973. The audio/video quality is pretty good for…

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 22h

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 18h

The mayor of San Francisco promotes festivals and store openings and puts his name on public art while cutting Muni, giving special deals to AI companies and not fixing any real problems. Meanwhile conditions on the street are worse than they were a year ago and more people are suffering.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 1d

Happy tongue out tuxedo Tuesday #cats

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Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 1d

True

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 1d

Crazy Train - Barton Hills Choir youtu.be/pS5_KgetFjY?...

"Crazy Train" performed by the Barton Hills Choir - ACL Festival 2025

The Ozzy Osbourne classic performed by the 4th/5th grade Barton Hills Choir at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. October 4th, 2025

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 1d

Harvest Moon

Full moon

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 1d

My general rule is to always vote against anything that invokes the name of Howard Jarvis

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 2d

I hate this dystopia we’re living in.

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 2d

This app needs to be banned.

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2d

Please tell me that the Williams family will sue OpenAI out of existence.

An AI Sora video with Robin Williams

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2d

Please tell me that the Williams family will sue OpenAI out of existence.

An AI Sora video with Robin Williams

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 2d

We still haven’t repaired the damage Reagan caused.

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 2d

Good meowning #cats

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Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 2d

Hasa Diga Eebowai youtu.be/rKenjlRChFU?...

Lion King / Book Of Mormon musical Hasa Diga Eebowai

Timon explains to Simba about a new African philosophy...

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats to The Guardian on hiring Doctorow to explain enshittification to the non-tech masses.

#enshittification #CoryDoctorow

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and…

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Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday thought: America’s trauma
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Sunday thought: A national trauma

We need to talk about it openly

open.substack.com

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 3d

I wish that would happen

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 3d

Sleepy #cat Sunday

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Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 3d

Cutest dog ever

Cute poodle

Mike Cohen 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mikec415.bsky.social · 3d

Bird Song, dedicated to Janis Joplin, who left the planet on this day in 1970 youtu.be/Snz5k9PkXTk?...

Grateful Dead - Bird Song (New York, NY, 10/30/80)

"From Jerry's first solo album, released in 1972, Bird Song was an exploratory part of Grateful Dead live shows 1971-1973, after which it disappeared from the repertoire. To everyone's great…