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Ponder the Mike

@ageofmike.bsky.social
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He/Him / 30+ / Your everyday straight white cis man / Chicago / Let's try to make the world a little less bad / Socialist

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 15/10/2026
Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post.
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Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the Elite Media Outrage?
Unlike the raid on John Bolton, which was roundly condemned by corporate media, NYT, Washington Post, and WSJ are silent on Trump’s overstep with Omar.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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The Good Place: Jason Mendoza's Bad Place Realization
Alt: The Good Place: Jason Mendoza's Bad Place Realization
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ooooooof
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Appreciate it! My reading has really fallen off over the years and I need some material that’s consumable just to get myself back in the habit and this looks perfect
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Is this snippit from the Villains and Virtues series? I’m not familiar
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This phenomenon isn’t exclusive to the Left, it’s just an artifact of being on the internet. The Navy Seal copypasta is famous for a reason.
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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
we live in an era of mimics, doppelgängers, automata and inversions — an entire culture of dreadful, skinsuited parodies tyrants who speak of freedom, killers who brag of peace, thieves who promise plenty
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
they have no idea what they're doing. and it would be kind to say they do not care. they care a lot! they are spinning the cylinder and pulling that trigger and hoping with every fiber of their being that they blow the head off society. it's wild
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Honestly? I forgot the Pacers were even a team
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Indiana basketball? What does that even mean? The Hoosiers?
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We were just taking about this!
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is basically proof for me that as bad as he is, Trump is a symptom, not the problem. Until the underlying rot is addressed, reactionaries are going to keep winning
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
😡
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whoops, excuse me. oh man, my bad. @whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'im not gonna write you a love song, cuz you asked for it or need one, but because im gonna have my AI do it while im busy with murder'
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A pretty good summary of me
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m always irritated with Europeans who think they’re better than Americans. Yall are just a couple of years behind us!
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Karim Zidan @karimzidan.com · 15/09/2026
NFL owners, led by Robert Kraft, banded together to blackball Macklemore over a “Free Palestine’ chant. Meanwhile, raging antisemite and Hitler lover Kanye West is touring the same stadiums. This was never about antisemitism www.sportspolitika.news/p/macklemore...
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Macklemore, the NFL and the politics of a free Palestine
Led by Patriots owner & Israel supporter Robert Kraft, NFL owners reportedly banded together to blacklist the American rapper over a “Free Palestine’ chant.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
im still an "adult liberal" who has made peace with all manner of the horrid contradictions that undergird american life. im not into purity tests. but this is also a crucial moment. ive got kids who have to live here and for whom these are critical issues. i deserve to have expectations
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i don't think that's unreasonable. i don't think that's "turning on" anyone or anything else. might he also "have to" support israel's genocide in order to get committee assignments? if we are not just openly standing on our basic convictions it's right to then ask what we are standing on
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i don't believe talarico is a bigot. im pretty sure he isnt. but if he apparently "has to" answer bad faith questions in a way that appears to compromise on the rights of one group of people being repressed to get elected, it's fair to ask what else he will "have to" do once he's in office
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Gourd (pumpkin) @gourdisin.space · 11/09/2026
Calvins dad with his bike doing the sickos meme
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Also the only people who think leftist organizers are cool are people who haven’t met leftist organizers. Love my people but come on lol
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You will never stop me from complaining 😤
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
when the world has gotten so chaotic its reassuring that bluesky is sticking to traditional values: letting antisocial crybullies in their 40s dictate all standards and framing of social interactions
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I cannot tell if these people are true believers or just getting paid. Like, it’s so ridiculous that I think they believe it but also, everything is grift and shame is a thing of the past so maybe for the money?
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I keep thinking Zionists can’t get MORE insane and stupid and yet
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
we genuinely need creative ways to punish corporations for this sort of low-stakes acquiescence
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way?
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Put on the dunce cap
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We are ruled by the whiniest, most pathetic people on the planet
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/08/2026
every day, every hour, brings us images that are totally beyond the powers of parody
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🗣️🗣️🗣️
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When you’re right, you’re right
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
go -- and I mean this sincerely -- od. just, good. the malign actor in all of this is the united states. can't be trusted to handle waterways or nuclear policy within its own borders let alone globally
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A post from “kavishj9611” that reads: 

“All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?”

Panel 2:
And Orange Guy and a Pink Guy are standing in a room that has two pipes in it. Both pipes are pumping raw sewage into the room. The characters are waist deep in it.
Orange Guy says smugly “Ok Mr “I don’t want to be in a room that’s filling up with raw sewage” let me ask you this”

Panel 3:
The sewage has reached their chests. Pink Guy is gagging. Orange Guy smugly continues “If all this sewage disappeared right now, could you get through the day without it?”

Panel 4:
The sewage is almost up to their eyeballs. Orange Guys says “Look at that shit floating past your face. Are you willing to give that up?”
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wilf @friendlykitties.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
jimothies everywhere for those with eyes to see #jimothy
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
INCEL PODCAST: If you're not at least 6'3" with zero bodyfat and making $250,000 a year you're FUCKED AVERAGE WOMAN ONLINE: George Costanza could lowkey get it
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this
Bob Hoskins with Roger Rabbit
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It’s good! Does a lot right with the classic Harvest Moon formula.
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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
shifting into the domo mindset
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Ponder the Mike @ageofmike.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Vote blue no matter who 💙
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/07/2026
This is an interesting and disturbing look at what's been going on inside Heritage and the New Right. This jumped out at me most: "Debates over World War II became popular at Heritage, with a lot of “rehashing and going through who was the bad guy and who were the good guys.”"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/07/2026
look I'm pretty sure "saying rude things about john fetterman" is going to play a bit differently with the dem primary electorate than a lot of these folks seem to think it will
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Butchered Quant For Dinner @bloodlessquant.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Sooooo turns out you get banned forever if you do. Not blocked, because Willy doesn't understand that function, but account deleted forever.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Me 20 years ago: Freud is reductive psuedo science. Everything isn't penis Me now: everyday we explore new frontiers in penis
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