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Michael Apgar

@mapgar.bsky.social
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1/3 Willow Rosenberg. 1/3 David Fisher. 1/3 Liz Lemon. (He/Him) Please enjoy the silly little TV/Film charts and graphs I make over @ bsky.app/profile/popculturecharts.b…

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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 10h
Companies 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.
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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you want your mail-in ballot counted it might be best to put it in a dropbox instead of a USPS mailbox.
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Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The 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.
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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I 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!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The 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
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There'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.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part 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.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Screenshot of Cady telling Erin "It's October 3rd" from Mean Girls edited to say "October 1st" and to add Halloween clip art around Cady
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Madlibs World
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The most lasting damage Reagan did was convincing selfish people that they are some sort of natural resource rather than a drain on society.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The sheer number of anti Prop 40 ads is solid evidence the people who would be taxed have plenty of disposable income.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NO! It’s still September. September!!!!!!!
A grocery store freezer full off eggnog and peppermint ice cream.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Open AI is Evermore Park.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Polls: Dems winning in Texas. My Brain:
Screenshot of Elizabeth Holmes from the Documentary "You Can See Everything."
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It'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.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Admire Peacock's dedication to being the least user-friendly streaming platform.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mamdani made opera cool. There is no end to his power.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
statesman.com
Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A 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.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh 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.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
+ Neagly 624
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Turns out this is just Food Network????
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Because 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.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There are a ton of really talented marketing people out there. Make something good and let them figure out how to market it. Stop reverse-engineering their metrics and telling writers to make it. It doesn't work. Audiences can always tell. And they're never interested.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm positive there are dozens and dozens of pilots ALREADY WRITTEN with the potential to be Emmy winners that no one is even thinking of considering making. For a show to be timely and innovative you have to let artists say the things they want to say. Not puppet them into making a commercial.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When 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.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Gonna see so many Babdooks at non-dress up Halloween party this year.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
People 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
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'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.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Also, why are we altering IP so significantly that it's only tonally the same as what we're adapting, instead of just making an original idea that is like a modern 'INSERT IP'
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And Linus would make a fantastic Samwise
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.
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Charlie Brown Walking in Cartoons
Alt: Charlie Brown Walking while toy arrows are shot around him
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There'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?!
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want a gay Hallmark with year-round movies exclusively about Halloween.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yup!
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Soup Weather
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wowwwwww AI opening up whole new ways to do racism
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The phrase "caught between a rock and a hard place" feels like a first draft no one ever bothered to do an alt pass on.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Everyone 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?!?
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 03/09/2026
What a weird coincidence, surely these seemingly independent companies couldn't have a single point of failure caused by incestuously sharing the identical infrastructure.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So there’s this X-Men villain called Arcade, and
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Since 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.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Big 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.com
Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms
A 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.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026
Texas 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.com
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Here'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.com
Episode 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...
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This hasn't stopped, by the way. The media is just covering it less.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I feel like a lot of rich people from the Midwest confuse being from the Midwest with being Middle Class.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I 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.
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On 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.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Notice 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.
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Michael Apgar @mapgar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly was the best of us. I truly believe that.
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