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Michael Fenichel

@drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

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Social scientist, clinical psychologist, & observer of the ways people are thinking, acting, & communicating. Past life: music, audio engineering/recording, radio […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@drmike, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

One more from Praha... on the theme of bearing witness to history, in Prague's Wenceslas Square. flic.kr/p/FMgsc Prague is a beautiful city spared largely by nature, and surviving both Nazism & Communism, with music, art, puppetry and Pilsner. Look up above the beautiful #art & […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Door/Doorway in Prague Revisiting some lost-now-found images from over 20 years of digital, many lost to Google +, and many still online in my own 'self-walking tour' collection @ www.fenichel.com/prague Also in an "album" on Flickr, getting large. @ […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Photograph by Fenichel: Doorway in Prague

A carefully crafted wooden door is framed by wooden panels above and to the side, in darker toned wood. The door itself has a metal lock and curved carved lines. Above the door are some shapes in the wood, and a vertical bar between sides. Above that is anothercarving, with curved top to meet the stone above.
Framing the entire dooreway is stone/masonry formed in an arch above the door and woodwork. In the foreground is the stone sidewalk.

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

ICYMI.... Gone the way of the Gulf & Lake. > "South Park" is no more. Say hello to "South America." www.usatoday.com/story/entertainmen… > On Sept. 8, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone declared the show […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#Democracy #Justice #JackSmith vs. #TrumpVirus #sedition #coverup #TrumpEpsteinFiles #corruption & #madness ...All on display before our lyin' eyes, despite #media #sanewashing and timidity about seeing / reporting reality. "Cartoon" image / #truth by Goris

Post on X, from cartoonist @DennisGoris

What looks like a photo (in part or whole AI/Photoshop), a fit, svelte Jack Smith is standing casually, in black T shirt featuring Springsteen & E Street, "LAND OF HOPE & DREAMS", "NO KINGS", Smith is holding a mug of beer in one hand, and looking serious & intense here, says:

"Is that fascist criminal tyrant trying to intimidate me? Hold my beer."

1:26 PM - Oct 4, 2026 - 1,920 Views

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Apropos #Amazon #AI / #AR #glasses (a little) but mostly a virtual tour of a monolithic #robotics - intense 'factory'/warehouse / system. Shades of Ford's assembly line and automation. This is truly impressive. Hooray for human intelligence, creativity, #engineering - And #WeThePeople too.

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Interesting story & take on #AI, #Amazon, #robots & #SmartGlasses www.tomsguide.com/ai/amazons-delive… And the future is....

Amazon drivers are getting AI glasses — but what I found behind the scenes seems far worse

Amazon’s AI glasses may look futuristic, but they’re only one piece of a system already reshaping how warehouse workers and delivery drivers operate.

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

RE: toad.social/@krystyna/1173799404503… #Truth - The Kryptonite of #TrumpVirus #Democracy #Constitution #Civility #law vs #corruption #nepotism #Kleptocracy #Treason #emoluments #WarCrimes Only WE can wash all the #evil away in a flood. The #cult is waking up on their own, but […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Umm, no.... Dang! This #TrumpVirus plague is oozing over everything - dark delusional #propaganda ads all across #television & other #media, all about how great things are because of G-d's gift to us , Donald J StableGenius.. Just got a text! Don't think […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Text Message from 202 (D.C.) area code

THIS IS PRESIDENT TRUMP

I need to ask Michael something personal.

Will you still stand with me if.... https://txt.opin.vote/[hash]

STOPtoEND.

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@alexf24/1173792840087… 🎯 Babbling, blithering #insanity, served with a side of #WordSalad a la #TrumpVirus

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Our beloved #bodega #cat - #NYC #Caturday

Gray cat sitting upright on a bodega floor - photo by Fenichel

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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins — ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/susan-co…

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Happy to finally have 30 years+ of photos back, after 2 weeks. Whew! Alive again… (digitally) Randomly skimming around, seeing my years of work is all intact... And ah, I do love Prague! I had a large Google+ Collection from Prague (poof!) and do still have […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Photo by Fenichel - A vintage scene in Prague, near Wenceslas Square, with the (in)famous "Duplex" disco, streetcars, and varied automobiles parked at a 45 degree angle.

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Cartoon by Paul Noth, The New Yorker #Existentialism #AI #efficiency #wish #programming #autonomy #rhetoric #SuperIntelligence #extinction #nihilism #ArtificialIntelligence #autonomous

Cartoon by Paul Noth (New Yorker)

Four business men are hunched over a conference table, looking at numerous iPads and documents.
Behind them is a full wall window, urban skyscrapers behind.

Says one of the men:
“Every A.I. company talks about human extinction, but how do we invest in the one that will actually deliver?”

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

By installing the tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to advisory roles in a Pentagon project about the future of warfare, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, bestowed extraordinary influence on two of Maga’s most significant campaign donors – and both men own companies that benefit […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A nice compendium/triple-play, posted by HUartsound #GQP #Senate sure got stuck in a sea of #Schmitt yesterday. He sure didn't know Jack! In any way. 3 takes... FYI - 2 out of 3 frames have errors. He had been so unknown til now! He is Missouri's SENATOR […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A nice compendium/triple-play, posted by HUartsound (Tnx!)

#GQP Senate sure got stuck in a sea of #Schmitt yesterday.

He sure didn't know Jack! In any way.

3 takes...

FYI - 2 out of 3 frames have errors. He had been so unknown til now!
He is Missouri's SENATOR (not Rep) and his name has two T's, not Schmidt.

Just think, BULL SCHMITT - 2 T's, pure BS

#GQP #TrumpVirus #madness vs #Truth

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Meanwhile, re the #EpsteinFiles and the starring role therein of Sir.... www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article… ICYMI - Given the avalanche of news, about Diddy, hijacking, rape, Schmitt & #GQP Senate clowns, and everything else imaginable - […]

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Robotistry @robotistry.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@drmike Octopus-inspired soft robotics has been an active research area for over a decade. Most of it's not applicable to bipedal humanoids, though, either physically or in abstraction. [The "bipedal robots falling over" problem is usually either a controller problem (can go straight fast and […]

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#giftArticle wapo.st/4rDE6UJ

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/11… Hopeful overall, but just the beginning clip of #JackSmith and the #truth about #criminal Donald #TrumpVirus - precious. #MakeAmericaSane (ish)/(er) ... Restore #democracy and end the #war, #corruption, #nepotism, #sanewashing by […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I don't know if I'll ever get over the images of #Zuckerberg & Sir #TrumpVirus giggling and making like two child sweethearts.... But of course, it's great business, "trust us".... Terrific people. #nepotism #protection #Crime #AI #regulation #emoluments […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Cartoon by Luckovich:

“TRUMP FAMILY”
A portrait of the Trump family, lined up behind a row of money bags:
Eric, Don Jr., very-orange Donald Trump, Melania, Jared & Ivanka, with Baron towering over them behind.

Says Sir Donald: “EVERYBODY RELAX ABOUT AI! SELF-POLICING WORKS!..”

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I'm not a physicist (nor TBH a fan of the huge Prevagen scam), but I do appreciate #Octopi and their 'cleverness' and skills. This is sort of deep into the #mechanics /#physics of some amazing #Octopus flexibility […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Oh well, that site stayed up one whole day!

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

#JonStewart graces us but once a week... But he's rested and ready for another week of #TrumpVirus #truth > Will Republicans Divorce Trump Over Xi Embrace? Probably Not | The Daily Show youtu.be/f31fBMgYfWY #DailyShow #Xi #China #SusanCollins #Trump #GQP > Jon Stewart examines the […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/politics/jac… The feel-good #truth buzz of the day, featuring the bigly fool(s) on the hill, gunning for #JackSmith in a "Grand Conspiracy" against innocent Sir #TrumpVirus - and #truth #EricSchmitt makes his name, or blows […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

#TrumpVirus - the gift that keeps "giving" #war #TrumpEpsteinFIles #coverup #WarCrimes #UnforcedErrors #Truth #corruption #nepotism #Jan6 #sedition #accountability #ballroom #treason #gas

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

A woman and daughter are in the street, with some belongings and a sign: "PLEASE GIVE".

Donald Trump, with long red tie, orange face, and tiny hands reacts:
"DONE. EXPECT A BALLROOM AND ARCH TO GO WITH YOUR WAR..."

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

All Major Social Networks Refusing to Promote Documentary That Made Elon Musk Mad futurism.com/future-society/social-… "They're circling the wagons". But why? Where? Surely Sir Elon of #Muskville is a fan of #truth ? "For the past few weeks, Elon #Musk […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

This is the way to crack the bubble of the #TrumpVirus #cult ✓ LeavingMAGA.com

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Lambert Heller @lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/117345… Commercial mega platform sucking up virtually all of human knowledge, deceiving the public about it, and bending the rules to their liking - I guess it's just a normal Monday morning in 2026? Have a nice week, everyone.

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/11… #TrumpVirus running wilder and madder

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Meanwhile... what should be the top of the #news every day until the end of the #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDsuoxktxT4 AG Blanche PANICS In NEW Filing As MY Lawsuit CLOSES IN On EPSTEIN FILES!! It took a few days, but finally: 1st-hand news of the hearing - […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

A different web cam - not for the birds KAMIKOCHI KAPPA-BASHI LIVE CAMERA www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv2VUE_UhRQ A random, accidental find, but quite a lovely view. Saw it yesterday, sunny and crowded. Today, raining hard, people with umbrellas. A tourist destination in Japan (would […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

#TrumpVirus #cogntive #corruption

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[incredibly depressing, satellites] As you look up and admire the beautiful moon over the next few nights, remember that a US-based company has clearance from the FCC to launch a satellite that will be about 4x brighter than the full moon, and moving across the sky at Starlink speeds. And they […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

"Soon, please." #TrumpVirus

Cartoon by George Riemann

A horned red Devil goes past flames, skulls and chains to answer the door.
He opens to open the door to his home, labeled "Hell".

Standing in the doorway, naked, with huge pink belly and orange head, is a confused looking Donald J. Trump.

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Happy autumn/spring weekend... (new week?) Time zones are funny. For fans of #Facebook / #Meta / #Socialmedia #Zuckerberg #media youtu.be/MfHEZw7Xw_c The ad on SNL teased: "Facebook won't like this" I don't know if or how much it is #truth based. It is said to be the postscript to […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

🎯 Dr. #MaryTrump, on #TrumpVirus open.substack.com/pub/marytrump/p/t… > Donald thinks he did a fantastic job at the #UN > Donald threatened to annihilate Iran. Not negotiate with Iran...Annihilate > He also called out the International Criminal Court New York […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Oh joy.... More #AI from #Facebook / #Meta Named.. #muse > Meta’s Muse AI is exploding in popularity—and already drawing heated backlash from another tech giant […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

For those who missed it (including me, most of the day, despite seeing a few " #DollyPartonDay " memes... Today is/was (an maybe will be) .... Check your calendars... NINE 25 . Nine Two Five. 9/25 vimeo.com/1137305387 So many gifts that keep on giving. 9/25 2026 RIP #DollyParton

Dolly Parton - 9 To 5 (Official Video)

This is "Dolly Parton - 9 To 5 (Official Video)" by Judy Adler on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

🎯 We know who the #madman is... Is that Kaitlan Collins as (#media) Person of the Year? #TrumpVirus / #TrumpEpsteinFiles vs. #FreePress #democracy #truth

Cartoon by Mike Schick:

Donald Trump, orange faced and looking enraged, is holding up a TIME Magazine, with a woman on the cover (Kaitlan Collins? Journalism?).

Sir rages about the TIME cover: "How the hell did we let this happen?"
A man in gray suit holds up another magazine, this one MAD Magazine, with a depiction of Trump with big ears, saying "WHAT, ME WORRY?"...

Says the man with the MAD Magazine, to Trump:
"At least you made this one, sir."

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Score one for #Mamdani & #NYC popular.info/p/doordash-admits-it-s… Delivery workers win huge settlement, w/safeguards for the future, with big money (still) trying to avoid regulation of "final mile" delivery contractors. A case of bigly greed/illegality plus #Doordash […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Sir #TrumpVIrus sure does love his #AI #slop - and bigly loves his #fiction writer and protector / #Truth inventor, #NatalieHarp www.comicsands.com/trump-crowley-ha… 👉 Trump Dragged After Sharing Photo With MAGA Official's Face Seemingly Edited To Look Like Natalie Harp's […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@alexf24/1173317736689… #TrumpVirus #truth

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

#TrumpVirus #election #Truth A solution almost as perfect as Sir. Except that truth is Sir's _Kryptonite._ Perfectly despicable. Cartoon by #Luckovich ~~ #TrumpEpsteinFiles - #coverup still

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Donald Trump, with signature yellow hair and deep orange face, with sections of unsprayed gray neck, is sitting looking glum & or angry.

Standing over Trump, who is seated at a small desk, is smartly dressed Stephen Miller, gesturing as he suggests a strategy:

"SINCE YOU'RE SO DESPISED, AFTER YOUR MIDTERM DEFEAT, I'D SUGGEST YOU CLAIM IT WAS RIGGED BECAUSE YOU SHOULDA LOST EVEN BIGGER..."

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: mastodon.world/@verdantsquare/11732… *This* #TrumpVirus official? I'm awaiting news of his adventures today, in a court ordered appearance, 'in camera', WITH the missing FBI interview notes describing felon #Trump as having done some vile and felonious things, as hidden […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

www.vanityfair.com/photos/photograp… Accidental and uplifting find - for a jaded, lifelong Beatles fan, who has seen a lifetime of documentaries & now 'reels'. George was long a spiritual observer, a lone voice both by choice and exclusion, while 'living in […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

One last bit on the "Send in The Clowns" welcome for #Rubio et al (allegedly) An early X post, w/Video @ x.com/JamesTate121/status/210243002… Denmark's signing statement was brilliant, for sure. (The speech; and perhaps this pre-show music/choreography) Meanwhile... A […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@fsinn/117324503750054670 Vintage #TrumpVirus Wine, ad nauseam

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Hot off the #Press... Speaking of #FreePress, #democracy, #law, and #Constitution. CNN, MSNOW, Politico are back in the Whitehouse, judge orders www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2… Thin-sliced: the ban was done […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Hmm www.thebulwark.com/p/we-watched-six… #Mindfulness #ContextAndPerspective #TrumpVirus #war #TrumpEpsteinFiles

We’ll Tolerate Tyranny, But Not Rising Prices.

The problem with our potash potentate.

Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Hoping this travels 'here' ok from the bsky bsky.app/profile/drmikenyc.bsky.soc… A short take with Andrew Weissman and host, on #TrumpVirus re-framing the Arc d'Trump as a sniper nest. What's the prob? #TrumpEpsteinFiles #war #distraction