Reposted by Michael Fantasmdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 4750831209
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula. My then-girlfriend, now wife, made the hilarious observation that maybe vampires wore a lot of leather because they need clothing that lasts. 010
Reposted by Michael FantasmMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026oh shit it's october? 120412
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Periodic reminder that literally everything with a stitch on it was made by a human. We have yet to make a robot that can sew even with a sewing machine. 211
Reposted by Michael FantasmCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11470912039
Reposted by Michael Fantasmc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him. 2847481597
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The two major rivers in China are named "Yellow River" and "Long River". Shanghai means "On the Sea". Beijing means "North Capital". 1234
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Given how much fighting there's been over a high school being moved to a brand new building 2.5 miles away and adding one poorer, browner elementary to the cluster, yes, there'd be actual blood in the streets here. 020
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm a combination of face blind and really bad memory for names and I'm bluffing all the time. People with good social memories have a super power as far as I'm concerned. 000
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Brought my toddler daughter to Jaleo. She was super well-behaved, sits happily in the booster seat. Servers set the table and she takes both hands and slides the plate right off the table and breaks it. 010
Reposted by Michael Fantasmvictoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 17/09/2026shoutout to this king who discovered a new kind of cat and thought "i think bro need some top ramen' 222347
Reposted by Michael FantasmNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140516471
Reposted by Michael Fantasmcorndoggylol.bsky.social @corndoggylol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Scorigami!!! 05412
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I was walking to class and a car was parked on the street, with its windows down, blasting the radio so we heard the news. When I got to the fiction about science class (not science fiction), my prof announced he had just won an Emmy and class was canceled. I saw the video in the student union. 001
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Tethus can also get things wrong, so maybe double check his work if it's important to get right. 010
Reposted by Michael FantasmBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026would you let Tethus, Lord of the Lower Air, advise you on your relationship with your spouse? no, but he can sort your books (pdfs) for you. 1471166
Reposted by Michael FantasmBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026my personal view is that you should treat AI as if you were a magician attempting to command a spirit that is inhuman, potentially useful, and invested in attempting to convince you it is something other than it is. you know, rationally. 281074130
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Holding it together until the kids leave for college. Supporting them in their hobbies and activities, going to experiences with them as a family. After they leave, I fully expect to have my midlife crisis hit hard, but currently in a holding pattern. 010
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I use my phone for reminders, so I added a reminder to my calendar using voice recognition and it dutifully added an event called "Sign up for Marzipan Sale". Which is a wholly different, albeit more delicious event. 000
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 09/09/20266 of them have "Chevy Chase" in their name: Chevy Chase, Chevy Chase View, North Chevy Chase, Chevy Chase Village, Village of Chevy Chase: Section 3, Village of Chevy Chase: Section 5. Add in Martin's Addition and over a third of the incorporated entities in MoCo are some flavor of Chevy Chase. 000
Reposted by Michael FantasmDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026To all the political scientists at APSA: here’s the Emmy Blotnick Sephora bit that slayed me. youtube.com/shorts/OusLI...youtube.comI have elite status by accident. | Emmy Blotnick | Stand Up ComedyYouTube video by Emmy Blotnick 3529
Reposted by Michael FantasmAmanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread. 19571821173
Reposted by Michael FantasmCapital Weather @capitalweather.com · 08/09/2026🍂 Ready for real fall weather? Not yet. The next 10 days still look pretty warm around DC. But forecast models signal a notable pattern change around Sept. 19-20. Here’s when fall may finally arrive: www.capitalweather.com/when-will-dc...capitalweather.comWhen will DC get its first real taste of fall? Models offer a clueSummerlike warmth may hold on another 10 to 14 days before a pattern change delivers cooler Canadian air. 14812
Reposted by Michael Fantasmc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"Juvenile European lobsters (Homarus gammarus) are pipetted into separate hatchery pods to prevent them from eating each other." 😀 97711
Reposted by Michael Fantasmでんか @k-hermit.com · 03/07/2025Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish! You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧 10874072772
Reposted by Michael Fantasmalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026this is perhaps the best piece of journalism i have ever been involved with 421179183
Reposted by Michael FantasmPile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this: 10869471793
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I am "tilt my head to the side and get a really satisfying crack" old now. 000
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Already tripped over the first one. "Ma-Ca-Bre" 100
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026They used the Parks and Rec theme! Dang, they're good at this. 000
Reposted by Michael FantasmAlbasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection 205245845891
Reposted by Michael Fantasm🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026fuckin god damn! it worked!!! 🔭 no digital compositing just one tenaciously stupid asshole with an hour’s worth of four and a half minute timers and a large format camera 591883370
Reposted by Michael FantasmVirginiaM - owlet @virginiam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026For your enjoymentpopularmechanics.com43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes.It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem. 16344131
Reposted by Michael FantasmRachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶 17086861984
Reposted by Michael FantasmClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People" 12398514
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Is this how I find out my wife is a pro-gamer? She's 100% completed the game. 000
Reposted by Michael FantasmRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Me every time I go to a party via @catsynthspace.bsky.social 633039
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I'm glad I watched the Materialists before I read this piece. (I have a fascination about matchmaking) 110
Reposted by Michael FantasmPile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 17/08/2026How to win at most all things: 93102923420
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Stock market is still at all time highs. If the AI bubble pops, watch out below. 001
Reposted by Michael Fantasmworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026the little legs kicking 16664851712
Reposted by Michael FantasmMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 17/08/2026anyway I did eventually make it to the National Museum of Asian Art, and this was so incredible I’m going to try and go back at least once more before it closes: asia.si.edu/whats-on/exh...asia.si.eduVishnu's Cosmic Ocean - National Museum of Asian ArtFor the first time in centuries, experience this bronze sculpture’s full scale. 227733
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026lol, of course I cursed myself and the minivan I rented in Seattle had a non-functional infotainment system. Having the wife read directions off the phone re-confirmed that our lives are much less stressful when she doesn't need to navigate. Otherwise, minivan was actually really nice, so roomy. 100
Reposted by Michael FantasmKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“She forged a trailblazing career… In the early 2000s, she was credited as the first researcher to show definitively that the human papillomavirus, or HPV — the most common sexually transmitted infection — caused so-called oropharyngeal cancers of the throat, tonsils and base of the tongues”nytimes.comDr. Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61She challenged the conventional view that a majority of head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption. 7944324
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I don't know how to properly dispose of them. The regular trash seems wrong. 000
Reposted by Michael FantasmEssonnianDragon @essonniandragon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026OH MY FUCK THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT 5446341384
Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I'm writing a gay romance about two rival menswear designers. It's called Pleated Rivalry. @dieworkwear.bsky.social 030
