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Mike Ely

@bluesky.taupehat.com
1.1K followers 1K following 2K posts

Fellow Micronian, amateur berationist, dog person (but cat-friendly), ally if you want one. As Californian as it gets. He/Him

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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 12h
My writing process is weird. Got over a massive roadblock to the tune of 2400 words, almost none of which I had in my mind before today. 100% going in a good direction but I never really know what that direction is until I get words written down. #amwriting #booksky
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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once again, political cartoonists tell the truth by keeping things simple.
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 17h
lol there he is in the seats
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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nikki muthafunka @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We talking defense??? This is what I love about basketball!! This is 04 Pistons type defensive domination.
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 29/09/2026
Simple reality of sharing blankets with someone: sometimes you're the burrito, sometimes you're the tostada.
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 29/09/2026
Simple reality of sharing blankets with someone: sometimes you're the burrito, sometimes you're the tostada.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/09/2026
None of these dudes look like they could bench press a Pokémon card
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 27/09/2026
The way the #SFGIANTS front office let the fans down this season was bad enough, but to leave one of the best broadcasters ever to sit behind a mic stuck announcing yet another pathetic loss for the final game of his career was unforgivable.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fetterman didn’t have a Freudian slip. He just finally got his party affiliation right.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 27/09/2026
No way this wasn't chaos. 250 people on horseback who may or may not have been used to being on horseback, for the entire duration of a feature film, and that film had many, many gunshots. Hang on, cowboy! Yeehaw!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
youtube.com
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Friend: (vomiting up all their trauma and fear and loneliness because they know they can trust me) Me: ".... So, am I allowed to put any of this in a book? Cause I'm going to try not to, but it'll probably happen."
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Truth 💥 🤣🎉
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 26/09/2026
Every time I try to talk about deaf cats, my phone corrects it to "dead." It's getting quite awkward. "Have you got any dead cats that need a home?" "Would you consider adopting a dead cat?" "He can't live with kids, he's dead"
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EthanObama @ethanobama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here is the headline. "Talarico suffers double poll blow as Texas undecided voters decide." Here is what they are basing that headline on. "James Talarico's poll lead over Ken Paxton in the crunch Texas Senate battle has fallen by one point according to two new opinion polls." ONE POINT!
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......
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SimonRead @simonread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's star has waned so far he's now satirical fodder for Private Eye cartoonists
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 25/09/2026
I have done this so many times now...
Back to school bingo card.

Row 1:
"Can you all hear me?"
PTA wants money
"This is my first time doing this "

Row 2:
PTA wants volunteers 
Mention of school mascot (free square) 
"I SPEAK REALLY LOUDLY"

Row 3:
Tepid applause (x50)
You're in the wrong classroom
Teacher pretends to know your kid
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 24/09/2026
It's a cult. Simple as that.
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 24/09/2026
When I follow the exact instructions in the ticket description:
A curb in Laramie, WY is being painted yellow by a city employee who is visible wearing high-visibility gear in the distance. The curb is painted yellow, along with significant portions of the sidewalk, street, gutter, a plant growing between the cracks in the pavement, the wheels of a couple bicycles locked up on the sidewalk, etc.
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Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi! Do you know anyone who works at State Department or embassy to Israel? (or used to?) Or who has interacted with Marco Rubio or Mike Huckabee in any capacity? Please text me on Signal premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be safe Even if you don't, please boost — because your followers might :)
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 23/09/2026
In case you were wondering to what extent the current government of Israel has alienated itself from the rest of the world...
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 23/09/2026
In case you were thinking of getting a smart fridge, don't. Think about the implications when a software update can accidentally shut your fridge off. news.sbs.co.kr/english/arti...
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 22/09/2026
Saw a suggestion for when you're stuck finishing a book you're writing, which is to re-read it and... that is EXCELLENT advice. Anyhow there's a part I wrote years ago with an actual Nazi bit character whose name I kind of randomly chose and... it's staying. His name is Claude. #amwriting
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
HELLO OUT THERE?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 20/09/2026
I have an idea for a paper that would totally win the #Ignobel prize but I'm too lazy to do it: a statistically rigorous study that sums up the amount of time saved across the world by people not having to rewind things anymore.
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 20/09/2026
I have an idea for a paper that would totally win the #Ignobel prize but I'm too lazy to do it: a statistically rigorous study that sums up the amount of time saved across the world by people not having to rewind things anymore.
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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Alan Ritchson is the best.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
😂🔥😂
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Mike Ely @bluesky.taupehat.com · 20/09/2026
If somebody were to take a bulldozer to every single brick-and-mortar chain shoe store that doesn't carry wide widths beyond pretty much just New Balance leather tennis shoes with velcro straps, it wouldn't make any difference whatsoever to my ability to find shoes to try on that actually fit.
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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You ever see your hospital or insurance company with a huge ad at an MLB stadium and think wow thats wild I wonder where they got all that money to spend on baseball
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Rick Gualtieri @rickgualtieri.com · 18/09/2026
My hope is that readers will always be willing to give new authors a chance. That said, I think these days it behooves them to be careful about it. A new author with a handful of books out is perfectly normal. But, if someone's been around for under 6 months, yet suddenly has dozens of books...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
but again, genuinely hilarious (derogatory) for a guy whose father was a klansman to say "the presence of nazis in the republican party is because black people wouldn't shut up." oh, is that why nazis immediately began organizing in the wake of donald trump's 2016 victory too?
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
The ultimate you had one job
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PANDA™ @pandanook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yep, that's pretty much the point.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 16/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
💚 HCR
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Rasta @rastasack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Voting isn't marriage. It's public transport. You're not waiting for "the one". You're getting on the bus. And if there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay home and sulk. You take the one that's going closest to where you want to be." #Vote for the Non-Felon #Voting #USPoli
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