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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Meanwhile, in Dallas, TX water fountains look like this

Dog water has a blocked drain and algae growing in it. Evidence of leak around base of fountain.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This is an elected sitting President, who is a a racist, wearing black face.

Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson, of the elected president in black face

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

And then when you go to cancel they try and capture you by reducing it by half for two months, which doesn’t make up for most of the rest of the year. Fuck all this shit “saving $14 off a 24.1% increase is still a 16.5% increase from base.

Confirm cancellation window for ending Apple TV services with an option to “get 54% off your next two months, $5.99/ month vs $12.99 a month.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

24.1% increase on Apple TV, which I’ve only been subscribing to for a handful of shows. Non-essential expenses are all being cut to survive the fascist totalitarian world that Tim Cook & every other CEO that cozies up to fascism has created, y’all can suck my ass. #apple #pricehike

Screenshot of email from Apple TV Services notification of Subscription Price Increase. With overlay of response from customer. “ Time to teach companies that casual 24.1% price increases for their non-essential services are a no go when you’re a business that facilitates fascism. Fuck everything, burn it all down.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Isn’t this stuff important in using the scientific method? How does stuff like this jump to mainstream bad science interpretation, so quickly?

Highlighted quote from article”It lacked a control arm consisting of similar young adults who were not long-distance runners, he noted, and the family histories of colon cancer among the marathoners were not entirely known.

“It’s possible exercising didn’t cause the problem but was in fact the reason they became long-distance runners; because someone dear to them had cancer,” Dr. Rubin suggested.”

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I’m one of these average persons, but this is how my conservative parents read about it over at the Wall Street Journal. “Some enrollees could be hit with increases of more than 20% because of federal changes & higher health expenses” Republicans voted for this with cuts to Medicare & Medicad & SNAP

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Obamacare Insurers Seek Double-Digit Premium Hikes Next Year: Some enrollees could be hit with increases of more than 20% because of federal changes and higher health expenses.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Required Reading for Citizenry of The United State of America. Should be longer, I can envision many volumes. Will make you laugh, cry, delight, get angry and also sustain hope. #booksky #reading #nonfiction #government #bythepeopleforthepeople #michaellewis

Book cover: Grey Background with gold backing of untied state map shape tie pin—, title: Who is government? ed. Michael Lewis; essays by Michael Lewis, Casey CEP, Dave Eggers, John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Vowell, and W. Kamau Bell

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

For anyone that wants to read an engrossing novel about what kind of future this is we’re possible living and moving towards, check out @lailalalami.com ‘s Dream Hotel. Then get offline, maybe forever…

Book over for Laila Lalami’s novel ‘The Dream Hotel’, which is a matte Violet rectangle superimposed over another rectangle that fades quickly from tomato red to reddish brown-black and features a miniaturized human figure silhouette and its shadow projected into the fading rectangle.

This particular cover also has a “Signed First Edition” gold metallic sticker superimposed in the top right of the cover and a subscript that proclaims ‘Pulitzer Prize Finalist’. But Percival Everette won that for James.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Here’s a snippet from one of my favorites, hard to pick just one.

Fr. Every Forest, Every Film

When I still lived in the city, I worked as a film critic for a poorly distributed, religiously read magazine and had gained a reputation for being overly critical. Hating everything was my entire personality, another reviewer wrote on their blog. I lived in a one-room apartment where for a design reason that remained unclear the toilet was in the middle of the living room. When a guest used it, I'd step onto the fire escape and listen to cars zing by. New York was thrilling and expensive and I spent most of every day feeling successful for staying alive.
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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Short stories have saved me so many times. Y’all pick this up, anxiously hilarious and poignant. Support writers and creatives. #booksky #shortstories #fiction #marie-helenebertino #enddbookbans

Book cover. Title: Exit Zero}stories by Marie-Helene Bertino } author of Beautyland. Black cover with a spy glass circle of a side cutaway of a view of a hill and forest slopping up and to the right center.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The Emergency is Here (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

Opinion Video from Ezra Klein and the New York Times called The Emergency is Here

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Post a movie from the year you turned 18

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Meditations in Mendocino. Wait for the raven.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Time to retreat from the noise for a bit. Virgin reading of George Eliot’s Middlesex. Shout out to @catherinelacey.bsky.social (again) for yet another book rec. and @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social Deluxe Edition (that’s already breaking from the binding–eh hem)

Book cover photo:Middlesex by George Eliot Foreword by Rebecca Mead, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; teal background, Good Serif cursive adjacent hand painted feel text style-White Hand with what one assumes are key places in the book (clockwise);Lowick gate on thumb (top center);the green dragon on index;the tankard on palm near pinky; the Garth’s house towards wrist,center palm; and the white hart towards center and index finger area of palm

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Thanks #Canada 🍁 for printing this excellent collection of some of the best stories from @newyorker.com and thanks to Deborah Treisman for all of her editorial work and the podcast conversations as well.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Fucking sad day when I agree with Bret Stephens www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...

Screenshot of New York Times Op-Ed by Bret Stephens—America’s Most Shameful Vote Ever at the UN with a shot of the UN assembly and vote tickers on the left and right above the Dias and member with the seal of the UN floating in golden light.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

So much illuminated in the characters and scene setting by @catherinelacey.bsky.social…another roaring episode of laughter from this reader, such a perfect distillation of so much of contemporary art scene culture & particular ways #biographyofx

He was one of those male artists obsessed with the void. All the male artists were making art about the void, and, you know, it sold quite well. But this one— he'd become frustrated with some of his sculptures—they weren't void enough, he said — so he'd burned them and I had agreed to exhibit the ash.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Even when the @nytimes.com finally comes out and says he’s lying they do so in the most sugar coated lack luster manner. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u... “Unfettered about truth” dude is the fucking sociopath of liars.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Despite craziness, squeeze joy reading or jotting down thoughts or talk to friends (imaginary writer friends); be grateful to @catherinelacey.bsky.social for another good belly laugh at this note re “more depressing than the Bell Jar” which, feels also like a review of teenage years. #biographyofx

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Bob, I’d happily buy you a beer. IPA from Manhattan Project Brewing here in Dallas, TX where not everyone is supporting a fascist right wing turd nugget.. I’ve touch firewood and grass today and drink plenty of tap water. Try some empathy and stop taking your angst out on others.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Literally you are disingenuous and ill-informed . Top of her page.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Trump lies vs Falsely Says (Red-Alert!–no pun intended, but wtf are we seriously supporting a notoriously-villainous-murderous-dictator-Putin? Dude is former KGBG…anyone read any history about the USSR in this administration?) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Of course Sen. John Cornyn is a leader in this realm.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

She knows what she’s talking about. She recommended these books and they are 😳 🤯 As are her works.

Book covers, one green apple, held overlapping the other, one mustard yellow, with a left thumb and three partial fingers cradling the bottom left spine. Books visible: On The Calculation of Volume 1 and On the Calculation of Volume 2 by Solvej Balle; Translated (from Danish)by Barbara Haveland, hovering over remnants of mail—brown cardboard box edge and whitish envelope edge

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Gah, every story. @legroff.bsky.social Thanks for coming to North Texas last week. Bright spot of this dreadful month.

Book cover-Leopard like multi-colored-forest-earth tones of feathers pointed downwards. The book: Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Pretty stoked about @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social ‘s new novel. Signed thoughtfully to to “Waynerd”, arrived today. Have to finish up @legroff.bsky.social’s Delicate Edible Birds and re-read Acceptance first because it’s been awhile Jeff. #absolution #jeffvandermeer #southernreach

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

It’s a good metaphor and goal, but Cicero had a hell of a means to get there …

Excerpt from ‘FREEDMEN OF CICERO’
By SUSAN TREGGIARI summarizing how he used his servants, aka slaves

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