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Bernard Meisler

@bernardmeisler.bsky.social
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Publisher of Sensitive Skin magazine. Author of the Neo-noir satire "THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO DIE." Retired computer programmer. Rootless cosmopolitan, psychopomp, & part-time trepannist. Trans rights are human rights!

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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Good news! Trump said today the US is taking in $2 billion a day from tariffs! At this rate, it will only take a little over 12 years to make up the $11 trillion lost in the stock market over the last 4 days! Huzzah!
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Are you better off now than you were 4 months ago?
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is an ad from a Marvel comic from 1968, and it explains a lot!
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The only thing that can stop the mad King now is impeachment or the 25th amendment. Where is Jamie Lannister now that we need him?
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
We need a Democratic version of the tea party so bad
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
IMPEACH TRUMP!
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Thank Shiva there’s finally a new episode of A History of Rick and Roll in 500 Songs! Part 3 of Never Learn Not to Love by The Beach Boys (via Charles Manson). My favorite podcast!
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
January 20: FAA director fired January 21: air traffic controller hiring frozen January 22: aviation safety advisory committee disbanded January 28: buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees January 29: first American mid-air collision in 16 years. January 30: Trump blames DEI.
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Jack Kirby created this cover a year before the US entered WWII - and received death threats for it.
Cover of Captain America 1, from 1941, showing Cap punching Hitler.
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I saw somewhere on the Internet, so it must be true, that there’s a Godwin’s 2nd Law: If someone uses the word “woke” pejoratively, there’s a 99% chance that person is an insufferable asshole. Is this a real thing, or if it isn’t, should it be? @mnemonic.bsky.social
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
One of the many reasons David Lynch was so great - no irony. He loved Americana, his coffee, apple pie & Bob’s Big Boy. I’m guessing 1 of his biggest influences was Douglas Sirk, who is high camp to modern eyes, but you can tell Sirk loved his mis en scene. Lynch’s films are love letters.
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John Merchant @johnmerchantmix.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Fantastic, insightful, depressing yet hopeful essay from @juliusgoat.bsky.social www.the-reframe.com/a-system-bui...
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A System Built to Eat People Never Stops Eating
A brief history of the systems we've inherited, and the story of two very different reactions to two murders, in a country founded on murder.
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Bruce Carlisle @rbcarlisle.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Who wore it best? #Luigi
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Of course I instantly block MAGAs - but I’ve also taken to blocking “Blue MAGA” - the left-leaning “influencers” who repost Trump’s Truth Social posts & say “OMG, can you believe this?” Don’t care, don’t want to see it. And now my BSKY barely updates…
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I forget,,what are extreme right Germans called again? It’s on the tip of my tongue… www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/w...
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Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election
It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
youtu.be/4sJY7BTIuPY
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Any man who must say I am the king is no true king. GoT3x10
YouTube video by Greg Nordlist
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Doechii is fantastic! Like an all-girl mashup of James Brown and De La Soul! youtu.be/-91vymvIH0c?...
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Doechii: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Attn Amazon shoppers: If you go to the site (or app) and enter “thank your driver” into the search field, they will receive a $5 tip, at no cost to you.
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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth - The Kinks youtu.be/uEzYnNXuHdI Dec. 1965 "Ready Steady Go" episode, featuring the Kinks performing a Christmas Carol "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth".
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All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth - The Kinks
YouTube video by Pelacanyes (David Panades)
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I’d be sending Thoughts and Prayers but unfortunately they’re out of network and require previous authorization. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Is Fatally Shot in New York City: Live Updates
The executive, Brian Thompson, was shot in what the police described as a “brazen targeted attack” outside a hotel where the company was holding an investor meeting. The assailant was last spotted in ...
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Siri is set to “learn” on every damn app on your phone unless you turn it off! Damn!
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
THE APPRENTICE, mini-review (no spoilers): Ha ha ha, we’re all so fucked! But I really feel bad for the cast & crew who had to spend time with Jeremy Strong while he was in character as Roy Cohn. ***/****
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Speaking as an ex-fuckup, I’m happy Biden pardoned his fuckup son.
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Public service announcement:TalkPal.ai is SO much better than DuoLingo! I’ve been on DuoLingo for almost a year - TalkPal pushed me harder re pronunciation in 1 day. Black Friday special still on for a few hours: $36/year!
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Great book, it’s punk af! #BookSky
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Check it out!
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Blocklists are a beautiful thing. Remember over at the Bad Place, where you had to block 5-10 people every time you visited, just to keep your sanity? Here you can blocks hundreds at a time! Far-right-wing nut jobs, TERFs, AI scrapers - Gotta block 'em all!
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Can you dig it?
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Is Steve McQueen the greatest current filmmaker? BLITZ is fantastic! Now if only someone could explain why Apple spends a fortune making movies & TV shows with top-tier actors and directors, but doesn’t advertise them…
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I just realized I REALLY need to organize my bookshelf! Neem Karoli Baba and Traci Lords should NOT be, er, on top of each other. Or maybe they should. I dunno - her book’s called “Underneath It All,” so maybe everything is perfect just the way it is.
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Sometimes the whole world feels like a cactus and I can’t sit down without getting stuck by a cactus. Oy! youtu.be/E05SSymMvdY
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Jacques Dutronc "Les cactus" 67's
YouTube video by La cave
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This wrecks me—every single time.
Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?

Don't fill up on bread
I say absent-mindedly
The servings here are huge

My son, whose hair may be
receding a bit, says
Did you really just
say that to me?

What he doesn't know
is that when we're walking
together, when we get
to the curb
I sometimes start to reach
for his hand

—Robert Hershon
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Important public announcement:
Flyer for a woman who buys used gravy.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The meme I didn't know I needed
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My family does Thanksgiving on Friday. If someone flies in, Thurs is cheap, airports r empty. Those working avoid the food shopping crowds on Wed, do it Thurs morning instead. While all the maniacs r at the mall, movies or restaurants, we’re having a feast, w roast chickens. Because turkey sucks.
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving to all, even the Far Left Radical Lunatics who are most of my friends!
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
An awesome feature of BlueSky is Starter Packs - you can use them to follow big groups of people all at once, but also to block en masse! Here’s a starter pack of AI tech bros who are scraping content here to “train” AI by stealing your content. You know what to do! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Can we just finally admit that turkey is kind of gross and almost nobody actually likes it? #TurkeySucks
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Sensitive Skin Magazine @sensitivemag.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As per tradition youtu.be/sLSveRGmpIE?...
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William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer
YouTube video by williamburroughsVEVO
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The Manson girls.
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Bliss is real!
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I have no idea what this is - is it a flying bed? What’s its range? What does it use for fuel? - but I’m pretty sure I need one. Thank goodness for Black Friday! Although now that it’s mostly online & lasts 2-3 weeks, I find myself missing the good ol days of riots at WalMart for $20 DVD players.
A picture of a flying bed.
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Fuck all transphobes. Trans rights are human rights.
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Bluesky pro-tip for some of my new followers: Use a profile pic, a banner, and a brief bio. Follow a few dozen people (easiest way to find good follows is to see who your friends are following), and make a half dozen posts - otherwise folks might think you’re a bot - or not know who you are!
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Sensitive Skin Magazine @sensitivemag.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
More great stuff, this time from the always awesome Bonny Finberg! @bonnyfberg.bsky.social Don’t forget to check out our ever-expanding Starter Pack! www.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/as-he-told-i...
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AS HE TOLD IT (In Kitchens) - Bonny Finberg - Stories - Sensitive Skin Magazine
A memoir by Bonny Finberg about the mythical half-truths she knew about her late father, a communist, a hobo, and a pool-hustler.
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Venn diagram of my life
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
More great shit at Sensitive Skin!
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”
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Bernard Meisler @bernardmeisler.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This is the good shit.
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