Michael Kates
themichaelkates.bsky.social
Michael Kates
@themichaelkates.bsky.social
½ of The Baal Shem Tones
Musical Alchemist, Peradam Productions
Keyboards 🎹 The Decos, Laughing Matters
Producer for Johnny Gelt
In case anyone missed this revelation yesterday
May 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I’ve been dyeing to post this but I keep forgetting.
@nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Answer: Grow the fuck up
March 7, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Good morning, BlueSky.
Good morning, @nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Good night, BlueSky
Good night, @nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
How it begins
March 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
THIS is the guy who tells the president of Ukraine how to dress properly.
March 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
First attempt at AI vid: “Baby gorilla playing a guitar in the jungle.” Note neatly sawed-off limb, 7 bridge pins, 6 strings at the bridge, 5 strings on the neck, and 4 tuning pegs.

AI is incapable of understanding.
March 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The @nytimes.com actually responds to having #SpellingBee omissions pointed out, but only if you’re famous.

Meanwhile, here’s a cat.
February 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This one goes back years. I admit it’s not often that people talk about ocean sunfish, but when they do, this is one of its common names. The other being “ocean sunfish.”
#SpellingBee
@nytimes.com
@montereyaq.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Dated, but valid
February 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Four repeat offenders
@nytimes.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I’m just the messenger
@nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I know in my heart that they love me.
nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A real one this time
@nytimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Incredible that @nytimes.com doesn’t know the past tense of hairdo.
February 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A few from this past week.
#SpellingBee
February 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
There’s a short word for that… “broad claims without proof…” um… lays? Lees? Wies? Mies?

Help me out here, @nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
He—and his staff—thinks “no one” is a compound word, like “anyone,” “everyone,” “nobody” etc.
February 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Herman’s Hermits, not Wagner, will be the soundtrack this time.
February 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
February 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Can someone please explain to me because I still don't understand... how were these top officials at Treasury and U.S.A.I.D. "pushed aside?" Physically? Who pushed them?

How did the little Nazis get as far as they did with such ease, and how are they still there? Did they have a warrant?
February 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Smbfkgh cfehe phfgh, gddmit!
@nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:33 AM
From a few days ago.
@nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The first vaccine was approved August 2021. Trump believed (probably still does) that approval for the vaccine was deliberately held up so that Biden would get credit. This insane belief led to 3 years of relentless anti-vax propaganda and the death of thousands of Americans.

Remember that?
February 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM