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Mike Giordano

@jcmmike.com
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Father, husband, reader, writer. He/him

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
Time for this classic again.
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 22h
@chuckwendig.bsky.social Calamities. 32%. What. The. F***. Did. I. Just. Read?
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🗽🗽🗽
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 07/09/2026
Bringing over from Facebook…
“I’m just tired of everything being political.”

So am I. I’m tired of whether a child gets lunch being political. Whether a sick person gets medicine being political. Whether a family gets to stay housed being political. Whether clean water is worth protecting being political. Maybe everything feels political because we turned basic human decency into something you have to vote for.
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 03/09/2026
Does anyone know how authors get paid from Amazon unlimited? If I download their book from there, do they get a cut? Is it comparable to if I buy the book outright?
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Eskart(Commissions open!!!) @eskart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Happy #SocialistSunday comrades ✊🏻
Four-panel political cartoon. An older white man in a suit warns two workers, one Black, one white, "Careful. That foreigner wants your cookie." While he distracts them, the workers wrestle the plate of cookies away from him and ultimately share them peacefully together.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START
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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
💙 @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 19/08/2026
It’s not that I don’t write a lot of skeets. It’s just that I overthink them all and delete 95% of them. If this one survives, it’s a miracle.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
They built a robot to replace Jacson Dart
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 13/08/2026
Just reread @seananmcguire.bsky.social ‘s Middlegame in prep for reading Inkpot Gods. I may never have read a book that has so much more to give in a second reading!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/08/2026
Important: Trump’s executive order is NOT legislation. Though the executive order promotes more misinformation about vaccines, nothing has changed about the availability of childhood vaccines. For evidence-based guidance, please follow and share American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations.
AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 16/07/2026
There’s a new group that aims to bring a safe space for creative kids in East Texas. There’s nothing like this in the area, and it could be a life changing support for kids who need a place to express themselves creatively. Please donate and/or boost if you can. givebutter.com/societyofwit...
givebutter.com
Open Our Doors
Because every kid deserves a space to build, mess up, and dream big.
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 11/07/2026
New achievement! Pizza in Naples!
Me holding up half a pizza in a cooking class in Naples
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 30/06/2026
Just finished Digital Divide by @kbspangler.com, and I can’t believe it took me so long to find this author! Diving into book two in 3…2…1…*
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.
Refugees

They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way

(now read from bottom to top)


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barbisblue @barbisblue.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Why is "lunch debt" a thing that exists?

It's food. They're kids. Just give it to them.
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Ian Boothby @ianboothby.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Jump on in and join our Patreon.com/mannequinonthemoon
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
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Firr @firr.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
If someone makes a thing that you don't want to see, the onus is on you to not look at it. It is not on them to stop making it. Sure, it's on them to make sure things are tagged/labeled properly. But even then if you find yourself seeing something you don't want to see: Just stop looking at it.
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 08/05/2026
Yes. This.
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Oh wow really
An article titled "Groundbreaking study finds no evidence that trans athletes are a threat to women's sports
Trans and cis women Show similar levels of p physical fitness in competition, according to the first neta-analysis of the published research"
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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
With alt text.
Listen to what your kids tell you about themselves.

My favourite is when transphobes say "I identified as a dinosaur when I was six, kids that age are too young to know they're trans!". 

Nah mate, you didn't identify as a dinosaur. You didn't cry yourself to sleep because you couldn't figure out why you had no tail. You didn't feel an inexplicable sense of shame at your lack of claws. When you saw yourself in a mirror in a dinosaur costume, you weren't upset about all the non- dinosaur bits you could still see. When others saw the costume, you weren't brought to tears by them treating you like a child-wearing-a-costume instead of a real dinosaur. 

You were playing make-believe. Kids do that. Kids also have genuine insight into themselves as no external observer can, and we should be helping them to explore that so that they can make better choices. If your child told you that they were hearing voices, you wouldn't care that they were too young to understand schizophrenia. If they said that they had a wrenching pain in their gut, you wouldn't rage about "liberal doctors brainwashing children". Yet if a kid says "It hurts when people say I'm a boy/girl." suddenly the idea of treating that symptom becomes a conservative bogeyman.
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kazzanmz.bsky.social @kazzanmz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
✌️🫶🕊️
I Believe
Black Lives Matter Science is Real
Love is Love
Women have the Right to Choose
Trans Rights are Diversity Makes Us
Small Acts Change
Human Rights
Stronger
the World
Kindness is everything
@executivefunctioningfirst
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 31/03/2026
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! I see you and value you!
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 16/03/2026
If you want to know how my day is going, the first thing I did today was set my full coffee cup on a table that wasn’t there.
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 07/01/2026
I would love to read a @brianjayjones.com biography of Freddie Mercury. Just sayin’
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 12/11/2025
This is an amazing series! Dark and intense with a protagonist who just can’t seem to fix things.
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 23/08/2025
@tkingfisher.com A layered dish was a *trifle* absurd? Please tell me you did that on purpose! Loving Hemlock and Silver!
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 24/06/2025
Two years cancer free!
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 11/06/2025
Fantastic series! Eric Carter is one of my favorite characters in urban fantasy.
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 10/05/2025
Finished @scalzi.com ‘s When the Moon Hits Your Eye. Great book with a silly, fun concept. The moon turns into cheese. Scalzi explores the political, economic, and social consequences of the change in a humorous but oh-so-true way. Definite recommend.
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 06/05/2025
Finished The Staircase in the Woods by @chuckwendig.bsky.social This is the second Wendig book I’ve read (after Black River Orchard) but certainly not the last. Wendig has got some serious story-telling chops, and knows how to stick the landing. Excellent book, definitely recommended.
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Muppet Wiki @muppetwiki.com · 19/02/2025
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Oh wow he was defrocked for this.
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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Something to keep in mind for 2025 Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
James Hannah.
 Depluralise a film.
I'll start.
Jaw.


@benjaminjudge
A Crow on the Orient Express
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
HRT - Harm Reduction Toolkit

A white first aid kit icon with a pastel pink cross, overlaid onto a pastel blue background. 

Distribute Aid Logo

Link to the fundraiser (available in the post text).
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Richard W. Morrison @swelleganza.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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premium goblin @sasscarpone.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
hey the ‘thank my driver’ thing is back at amazon, type that into your search bar on the app to give your last delivery driver a $5 tip
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Avery and I got an exceedingly helpful hashtag correction on the previous post so we’ve deleted and are reposting, and edited on Instagram as well. Sharing again for anyone who wants to spread these far and wide on socials! Current tally is over 3500 🎉
a call to action:
NOT IN OUR NAME
CISGENDER WOMEN AGAINST TRANS BATHROOM BANS
quick, easy, & urgent!
bit.ly/4eOWXUY
The Congressional GOP has proposed the "Protecting Women's Private Spaces" Act, a bill that threatens the safety and rights of trans and nonbinary people by restricting bathroom access in all federal buildings based on biological sex.

It would force trans people to use bathrooms designated for a gender with which they don't identify, and which they may not present as, which dramatically increases their risk of harassment and violence.This legislation not only endangers trans and nonbinary individuals, but also sets a dangerous precedent for the erosion of rights and increased violence/harassment towards all women and queer people.

Proponents of these bans-who had no issue supporting or electing rapists and sexual predators into our highest political offices-continually insist that they are vital for the protection of cisgender women and girls.This makes it incredibly important for cisgender women/girls to loudly stand up and refuse to be used as a shield for this bigotry.
Signing and sharing this petition will go a long way. We need cis women to be mobilizing not only for our own rights but for the rights of all women and nonbinary people, and to refuse to be weaponized in attacks against some of our most at-risk community members.
Learn more, sign, share, & find next steps here!
bit.ly/4eOWXUY
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I see a lot of you still sharing posts from the obviously fake Count Dracula account, so please be aware: - the real Count would never post during daylight hours in Romania - his full given name is Vlad, not Vladimir - he does not actually say “blah” and would never write it out in a post
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today’s poem is called ‘The Importance of the Oxford Comma’.
The Importance of the Oxford Comma
 
Owing to ambiguities caused by its omission,
the Oxford comma was the subject of a petition
raised by serious serialists keen to ensure
its mandatory use in lists of three things or more.
 
And what a response! From across every nation,
the signatures poured in beyond all expectation –
from the investment bankers, robbers and thieves,
to the politicians, self-servers and exponents of sleaze.
 
There were the Daily Mail readers, the clowns and deluded;
the climate change deniers, the daft and the stupid;
the morally bankrupt, Donald Trump and Piers Morgan;
Elon Musk, a Bond villain and a trafficker of organs;
 
plus the poets, the drug fiends and chronically poor –
all supported this change to grammatical law.
This formal petition was then presented in hope
to Sir David Attenborough, the King and the Pope.


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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I would like to speak up today for the trans community. You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
In my latest newsletter I wrote: "Concern over the existence and safety of trans people in public life had absolutely no impact on this election, and anyone saying otherwise is an asshole." I wanted to share a response I received (CW: anti-trans rhetoric) and how I replied. Zero tolerance policy.
I support the rights of people to be who they truly believe themselves to be and their right to live that life in public.

I do not support compromising the safety of biological females when they go to the bathroom or even to prison.

I do not support a grossly unlevel playing field or swimming pool when it comes to girls' and women's sports. We fought too fucking long and hard against the men to just get to play and now the boys who can't cut it competing against other boys decide to transition to a female appearance in order to win a race. Fuck that!

What are "trans rights" anyway? How is it right to ignore the rights of others in the self-interest of claiming these "trans rights"?

It'll be interesting to see just how many of these trans-girls are still living as trans-girls in 10, 20, or even 5 years.

At this time, we see the people who are being held up as role models of trans life and trans rights and they behave more like crossdressers playing a big joke on everyone. Yes, I know the difference.

Listening to my son who's lived in North Carolina for decades and is a dedicated Blue Dot in a red field explain why the Democrats lost from his neighbors perspective...

Tom Suozzi is absolutely right!

They say exactly the same thing.

For my part, I'm a lifelong Democratic moderate liberal. I've voted for all the losers going back to McGovern. I lived in Manhattan for 25+ years, San Francisco for 16 years, after growing up in Kentucky with a Democratic mother and a classic Republican father who both practiced tolerance, compassion, charity, level-headedness.Lydia- You are upset about a problem that simply does not exist. Teenagers aren't transitioning in order to get a leg up in sports; they're transitioning so they can exist as the most authentic version of themselves. Transitioning is a years-long, arduous process that is done with massive parental and medical involvement. And it is a process that saves lives.

Trans women are not attacking cisgender women in bathrooms, nor are they causing issues in prisons. If anything, they're the ones subject to constant attacks by ignorant people who don't take the time to understand. Cisgender men, however, are assaulting and murdering women every single day. Your problem should remain with them.

As for how long trans people remain trans, the regret level of transition surgery is infinitesimal compared to other surgeries, and many trans people report that the surgery saved them from dying by suicide. 

Supporting the rights of people to live publicly as their truest selves is not conditional. You either do or you don't. And if you don't support the rights of trans people to live safe and happy lives, this isn't the newsletter for you.
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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 04/11/2024
NYT tech workers are on strike for a fair contract. We are asking you to #BreakYourStreak on NYT games in solidarity. You can also support our strike fund to keep us going. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
washingtonpost.com
New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
The walkout, which began just after midnight Monday, could disrupt the New York Times’s election coverage.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/09/2024
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
Panel 1: Death, dressed as the Hogfather (the Discworld equivalent of Santa), has given a small girl a sword. The girl is running off with absolute glee. The girl’s mother is yelling “you can’t give her that! It’s not safe!”

Panel 2: Death: IT’S A SWORD. THEY’RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE. 

Panel 3: Albert, a former wizard and Death’s manservant: She’s a child!

Death: IT’S EDUCATIONAL 

Albert: “What if she cuts herself?”

Panel four, a close up of Death’s empty eye sockets: THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON. 

original source: https://adi-fitri.tumblr.com/post/105355206099/its-a-sword-its-not-meant-to-be-safe-my/amp
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
trans kids know exactly who they are. they deserve support & love from their parents, not doubt & prejudice. protect trans kids. 🏳️‍⚧️💖🏳️‍⚧️
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 17/08/2024
Just came back from my first escape room experience. It was awesome! Why did I wait so long???
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