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Michael Flatt

@flatt.bsky.social
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Poet, publisher of Threadsuns, book designer. Pain Olympics champion.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2026
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
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Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My new favorite thing is watching people who are saying really smart things about foreign policy or AI or whatever pause in the middle of a sentence for a tiny burp/heartburn moment. #acidrefluxsolidarity
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I really love when Instagram bots designed to lure me to OnlyFans accounts engage with my post about my son starting kindergarten. It really fills me with hope that his future will be stable, recognizable, and fulfilling.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Did you know anytime you do anything, you sign up for an email list?
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Cool job available in Satan's asshole!
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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@justbuffalolit.bsky.social Poem of the Week: Excerpt from "Homeric Epic" by Kazim Ali from his new collection The Man in 119 (Copper Canyon Press). www.justbuffalo.org/kazim-ali-20...
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Excerpt from Homeric Epic by Kazim Ali - Just Buffalo Literary Center | Buffalo, NY
Read an excerpt from "Homeric Epic" by Kazim Ali - part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As the FDA adds jalepenos to the list of recalled foods, @nytimes.com has a thoughtful recipe recommendation:
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Academic enshitification. One of the most reputable poetry centers in the world, producing an endless string of brilliant writers and innovative thinkers, attracting hyper-talented, super-active grad students... Creeley, Olson, McCaffery, Howe, Bernstein, Kim... But yeah. Fuck it, I guess.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
About to sit through a full Catholic mass wedding ceremony. Good reminder that hell does exist.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Not the Pillsbury Rolls
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General Mills recalls 736,000 Pillsbury rolls over glass contamination fears
FDA notice warns of ‘potential foreign material’ as recall covers two types of frozen bread roll dough
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Fun epistemological question brought to you by the early stages of ecocatastrophe: Is smoke weather?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/04/2026
“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what an Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. (Published Dec. 2025)
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Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Good time to remember that rich people are okay with this in exchange for tax cuts
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Events & Pogroms
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Poetry is a last resort.
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knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
THIS TUESDAY 6-8PM #Rochester #threeheadsbrewing Hear/see MICHAEL FLATT read @senecareview.bsky.social www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p171/M... & @asterismbooks.bsky.social asterismbooks.com/product/i-ca...
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Always good to be with friends.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."
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Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"
The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 08/10/2025
we, @cumediastudies.bsky.social, are still recruiting new grad students to begin fall 2026! We are also hoping to see apps for our PhD program from individuals with a secondary interest in obtaining training in digital humanities #dh. details here and pls share---> docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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MDST Graduate Programs Recruitment
University of Colorado Boulder Media Studies Department Recruiting Graduate Students for Fall 2026! The Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder is now accepting applications fo...
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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
AI data centers are sending power bills soaring throughout America. Bloomberg analyzed consumption rates across the US and found that wholesale electricity rates had risen as much as 267%over the past five years in areas adjacent to AI data centers.
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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
So Hegseth was definitely going for the "Patton" thing here, right?
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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The pure products of America/ go crazy-- (William Carlos Williams, Spring and All, 1923)
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The year is 2059, and the word "definitely" is marked "archaic" by the Oxford Dictionary as it has long been subsumed by the dominant spelling, "defiantly."
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
One fun thing about working with older people is they talk into the phone like it's the world's first telephone.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Mannequin Pussy has the edge that Wet Leg pretends to have.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
All of a sudden, people seem to be saying "Overton window" a lot.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Local news is like, "Five cute new breweries in your area and also a toddler fell fifty feet off a bridge into the river that runs behind your house. Please look for his blue jacket on your way to the Boozy Floozy."
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
@loriemerson.net youtube.com/shorts/9wWsn...
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Video game console ASMR & sounds 77 - 01
YouTube video by Xtr3m3z
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
They keep making shirts stretchier and stretchier like we all just want to be Mr. Fantastic or some shit.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The Mission: Impossible marketing campaign is all about how Tom Cruise does his own crazy, death-defying stunts. Where that loses me is having to care whether or not Tom Cruise dies. #missionimpossible
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2025
the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Artists, come visit my city. The Visual Studies Workshop does amazing work in the avant space, and lives around the corner from my workplace. We could have lunches! vsw.submittable.com/submit?goal=...
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Visual Studies Workshop Submission Manager
Visual Studies Workshop nurtures experimental and expansive approaches to photography and media arts, and builds community among artists and the public through exhibitions, publications and residencie...
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Someone tell Chet Holmgren his haircut isn't helping him not look like the failed experiment from The Fly.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Robert Francis Prevost names himself Pope Leo XIV. Could have been Pope Bob I.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I'm so glad social media is over. Now we can all get some sleep.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Easter is a great reminder that there's nothing worse than peeling hardboiled eggs.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
credit where it's due, it's great to see them adopt thoughtful and sustainable practices. a lot of restaurants that serve xenomorph throw all the glands and organs straight in the garbage. not these folks
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Evan Washburn must be stopped.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
We don't need the Musk pegging video because we've already pictured it in our minds. Welcome to philosophy, nerds.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Apparently, as a man gains wealth, he loses security in his masculinity. If you walk up to a gazillionaire and tell him to do a push-up, the laws of economic gender-physics compel him to make an earnest attempt.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 09/03/2025
the biggest strength of the global far right is the utter timidity and fecklessness of the small-l liberal establishment in almost every country
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
True friendship is sending your buddy 25 reels in an hour and then saying, "You're lucky I have to go to work."
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Donald Trump really seems to love the idea of having hair.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Lip-synching is like, it's bad enough I have to watch a musical number, but now I'm not even watching a person sing?
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hey, I started making t-shirts and stickers. Here's the first design.
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Death to Kings by fightsongs
Resist autocratic attitudes with a wink and a smile.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Can we call that melting sensation you get when you're cold and put your hand over a heat source a "warmgasm"?
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Love completing a task and closing the 14,000 tabs I had open to do it.
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