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Mike X. Nichols

@mikexnichols.bsky.social

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Fought the void but the void won 🌀 Healthcare worker/writer 🩺 ✍️

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · Feb 20

here’s my business card

Mike X. Nichols. Genius.

Have brain. Will travel.

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everyone else is making engagement or pregnancy announcements and I’m just like, “I saw One Battle After Another in IMAX 70mm.”

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1h

That’s right.

Locked in meme with a frame of the river of hills sequence from One Battle After Another.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 15h

to no one’s surprise, I didn’t find love at a screening of the Marc Maron documentary

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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · Jun 25

Bluesky post:
Most people's points of confusion are based in the idea that everyone is acting in good faith. Almost no one is acting in good faith. It's self interest and bullshit from top to bottom.

Follow tags for Brianna Wu, JD Vance, Jonathan Chait, Matthew Stoller, Matt Yglesias

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 21h

i don’t go to a comedy show to laugh. i go to nod in approval and applaud when i hear things with which i agree.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 23h

This was the vibe for healthcare workers during the pandemic

28 Years Later (2025). Ralph Fiennes as Dr Ian Kelson. He’s lounging in a chair and sipping from a cup. His skin has been doused with a povidone-iodine cleansing solution. He’s wearing an apron and gloves.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d

me clocking in for my shift at the good posts factory

Looney Tunes. Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog clocking in before beginning their quarrel.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d

After Hours (1985) in three frames.

Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) is in a diner late at night. He looks down toward the table.

Close-up of a handwritten note on a restaurant receipt in a diner, “Help! I hate this job!!”

Paul reacts to the note.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be whiny, but I would really like for something good to happen. On a personal level. On a national level. On a global level. One of all three.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d

a remake of Eyes Wide Shut with everything the same except that Tom Cruise’s character is replaced with Ernest

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday!

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 2d

Many silicon valley guys, including Theil and Musk and Andreesen have all explained this.

They believe AI is a magic god that can solve every problem without requiring any sort of sacrifice or consideration that would create inherent material and political conflict.

In other words they're idiots.

Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 2d

This 'AI making energy 100 times cheaper' statement by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman to Trevor Noah on the What Now Podcast doesn't make any sense.

AI increases "energy" (electricity) demand, increasing electricity prices. Economics 101.

More:
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AI making energy cheaper is bollocks

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2d

Ernest Goes to Space

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · Apr 21

two of the most evil people to have ever lived

Ronald Reagan and Scrappy Doo. They’re shaking hands.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2d

the two genders

A temporary tattoo vending machine. One side has “dragon tattoos” and the other side has “Girl’s Club tattoos.”

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2d

Bobcat Goldthwait is a national treasure

Reddit AMA.

underdabridge • 13y
Why did you light that chair on fire?

Bob_Goldthwait OP • 13y
It was very cold in the Tonight Show studio.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 3d

“Ok the DMCA is good in this one specific use case”

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Tenebrad - My name is always scary MY CULTURE IS NOT A COSTUME @bradislove.bsky.social · 2d

The radical left want you to believe that this is a peacefully protesting frog, but I know a Battletoad when I see one

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2d

I mean this with affection. Portlandia was a documentary.

Portland. A person in a frog costume versus a group of fascists.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2d

I mean this with affection. Portlandia was a documentary.

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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 4d

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That’s right

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · Mar 27

six words every dude wants to hear

From Writer/Director Paul Thomas Anderson

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about Paul Thomas Anderson and Adam Sandler’s late-night snack haul

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · Feb 16

it’s a great time to be alive if you’re dumb and evil

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