Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 1hCompanies no longer compete to please consumers. They take the attitude that they decide what they want to do, and we fall in line. You have to be willing to stop giving them your money until they change the things you don't like. They'll change them. They care more about money than principle. 000
Reposted by Michael ApgarAkilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you want your mail-in ballot counted it might be best to put it in a dropbox instead of a USPS mailbox. 12512
Reposted by Michael ApgarSaikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The poorest billionaire in California will make about $300 million this year. If we pass the CA wealth tax, he will only make $235 million. In exchange, millions of the poorest Californians will get health insurance. That's the tradeoff billionaires are not willing to make. 418975
Reposted by Michael ApgarBrennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I am thrilled and proud beyond measure to support the amazing workers who create and design the games I and my loved ones have spent a lifetime playing. I implore everybody to sign the petition and signal boost the campaign as far and wide as we can! 282821667
Reposted by Michael ApgarScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Bari Weiss-ification of CBS News continues. Dennis Hastert was convicted of the sexual abuse of high school students under his supervision as a high school wrestling coach. Banking rules violations were his transfers of hush money payments which he misdescribed and which allowed 10396150
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There's gonna be a lot of Digger discourse. And I want to say I hate rich people. I hate global warming. Nothing in the ads suggests the film says anything I haven't been shouting about for a decade. I don't want to watch films about how funny my anxieties are. I want to watch two men kiss. 020
Reposted by Michael ApgarBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 308122322244
Reposted by Michael ApgarGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Madlibs World 51029
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The most lasting damage Reagan did was convincing selfish people that they are some sort of natural resource rather than a drain on society. 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The sheer number of anti Prop 40 ads is solid evidence the people who would be taxed have plenty of disposable income. 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's a genuine miracle that none of the Masked Singers have turned out to be Lindsay Lohan yet.... Unless they have. I don't know. I don't watch that show. 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Admire Peacock's dedication to being the least user-friendly streaming platform. 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Mamdani made opera cool. There is no end to his power. 000
Reposted by Michael ApgarPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.statesman.comAttorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash deliveryA Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody. 25376663462
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Oh no, I didn't click that suggested post, and now it is simply gone forever and will have to spend eternity wondering about its clickbaity title whose answer definitely wouldn't have satisfied me. 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Because her actual job is to get people to stop watching the news so they won't learn what's happening. If they stick around for the propaganda that's a bonus. 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026When Katie Dippold won her Emmy, the announcer noted she wrote the pilot for Widow's Bay 18 years ago. We should talk about that. There's so much gold already in writers' hard drives, going unmined because they're being forced to do a 10-person bake-off to adapt the Slinky. 121
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Gonna see so many Babdooks at non-dress up Halloween party this year. 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026People are so nostalgic for the 90s but they forget that it was a rare condition in that day and age to read any good news on the newspaper page 120
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I've now seen two separate commercials for products bragging that their services use real people rather than AI. A predictable step in this, but noteworthy nonetheless. 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.static.klipy.comCharlie Brown Walking in CartoonsAlt: Charlie Brown Walking while toy arrows are shot around him 100
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026There's a Hinge prompt that says "Dating me is like...." and it's actively insane how many men write "a roller coaster" This is you selling yourself?! 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I want a gay Hallmark with year-round movies exclusively about Halloween. 200
Reposted by Michael ApgarErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Wowwwwww AI opening up whole new ways to do racism 5514112
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The phrase "caught between a rock and a hard place" feels like a first draft no one ever bothered to do an alt pass on. 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Everyone keeps saying death is coming for the wrong people. If you were Death, who would you rather hang out with? The ones who keep ducking it... You think Death wants to kick it with them... for ETERNITY?!? 000
Reposted by Michael ApgarNash @radiodeadair.com · 03/09/2026What a weird coincidence, surely these seemingly independent companies couldn't have a single point of failure caused by incestuously sharing the identical infrastructure. 19374118
Reposted by Michael ApgarSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So there’s this X-Men villain called Arcade, and 1731554
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Since Dolly died, I have not stopped thinking about the Imagination Library. There's such a fundamental difference between a person who thinks 'I have so much; I'll make sure children can read' And a millionaire who's like, 'Let me start a gin brand as a side hustle.' Wealth is revealing. 000
Reposted by Michael ApgarTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Big news this morning is a whistleblower files a complaint that USPS has been illegally preparing to implement Trump’s executive order against mail voting in defiance of court orders: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...nytimes.comWhistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before MidtermsA report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections. 19629259
Reposted by Michael ApgarChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.goelect.txelections.civixapps.comIvisMvpUi 7835172754
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Here's a fantastic and heartbreaking podcast episode about the 1993 E. Coli outbreak in which 700 people were poisoned, and 4 children died due to improperly prepared beef. thisiscriminal.com/episode-363-...thisiscriminal.comEpisode 363: Poisoned (5.1.2026)In January 1993, a lot of children started showing up at Seattle Children’s Hospital with the same unusual symptoms. Doctors didn't know what was going on – until they realized that most of the childr... 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This hasn't stopped, by the way. The media is just covering it less. 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I feel like a lot of rich people from the Midwest confuse being from the Midwest with being Middle Class. 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I predict we're going to pivot towards the aughts Apple clear-ish aesthetic for glasses as people increasingly feel the need to signal they're not wearing the pervert glasses. 000
Reposted by Michael ApgarOn the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“When a third of the stock market is vaporized and takes the savings of everyday people with it, when the S&P 500 loses a third of its value overnight, it's going to make 2008 look like a walk in the park,” @doctorow.pluralistic.net said. 416188
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Notice how no one is on here saying, 'be polite; don't say mean shit about Dolly.' That's because she lived her life with kindness. That's because she was a good person. 030
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Love that someone made an IMDB page for Homer www.imdb.com/name/nm03929...imdb.com 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Insane to step in as Hoult is fleeing. It's like these actors are sprinting into a field of rakes. 020
Reposted by Michael Apgarᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/202616 months ago: Never forget how it started. 7572693494
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Tarzan listening to Crash Test Dummies' "Superman's Song"static.klipy.comNene Leakes: Now Why Am I In It?Alt: Nene Leakes: Now Why Am I In It? 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Very much this. I think about the Into the Woods line "You're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice." all the time. People have a real issue understanding that a person's willingness to act chummy with you specifically is completely divorced from whether they are an asshole. 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026How long until Kalshi starts taking bets on what food product will be recalled next? 000
Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I just keep thinking about how gen AI bros could've employed people to just draw a metric shit ton of art specifically to train their algorithms. Or maybe created some sort of residuals system where you get paid if your art is used to influence a generation? And how different the convo would be 100