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He/Him | ↙↙↙ 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏻 Lead singer of Anthemic Indie Rock band MESSMAKER linktr.ee/messmaker Music photography enthusiast Are you happy with the way things are? Or are you paying attention?

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 22/06/2026
Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Just go to therapy, bro.
DAVID JIANG, COFOUNDER and CEO of smart glasses company Viture, tells me about how he used to yell at his kid.

His 10-year-old son played tennis. During tournaments, Jiang says he had a habit of shouting and criticizing his son’s mistakes as he played. He wanted to apply pressure to make him succeed—it was the way he’d been taught to raise kids, after all. It made sense.

But then, unprompted, his smart glasses sent him a message. The AI assistant in his company’s newest wearable had picked up on what he was doing, recognized that his behavior wasn’t helpful, and messaged him about what he should do differently. Stop shouting. Stop criticizing. Just be there, be present, and show that you support your son. That worked, Jiang says, and being called out like that has supposedly made him a better father and improved the relationship with his kid, all thanks to his yet-to-be-released Vonder AI glasses.
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
wake up babe, new cat just dropped
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
god this is good
flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine. 

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."
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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 13/09/2026
I put my pants on like everyone else: hanging them from a basketball hoop and asking my friend Giant Jonathan to dunk me.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
imagine being a menswear writer and having to go back to writing about this fall’s best socks after reading anthropic employees say AI might destroy humanity in a few years
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
National Day of Mourning immediately
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 25/08/2026
it should have been illegal for dolly parton to die
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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is a winning platform. It’s also a moral one. And about as American [aspirational] as it gets.
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
All around me are familiar faces…
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two raccoons are sitting at a table with a bunch of podcast recording equipment. Raccoon one says into the microphone, “you gotta cut the negativity out of your life.” Panel 2: raccoon replies, “facts” Panel 3: raccoon 1 continues with his hands clasped together to capture the sincerity of his monologue, “that way you have more time to eat garbage.” Raccoon 2 contributes, “that’s facts”
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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Spidyssey" was RIGHT THERE
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Cleveland Sirens is hard AF as the name. Logo could be a little better, but the name is killer. See y'all in the stands! #ClevelandSirens #WNBA #ClevelandRocks www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRb2...
youtube.com
We are the Cleveland Sirens.
YouTube video by Cleveland Sirens
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/07/2026
say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the magician and the serpent
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That is then covered by Tom Waits scatting
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junie sylvia 🌸 @juniperplexed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
convincing the right to give a shit about global warming by telling them the wildfire smoke is actually the mexico movie filter crossing the border illegally
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
hold up, is "foosball" an americanism? because "football table" sounds absolutely unhinged to me
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*
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ceej @ceej.online · 30/08/2025
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/07/2026
Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.
Megan Rapinoe
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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 05/07/2026
A suspiciously favorable administrative decision means we're a real soccer country now.
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I fully expect some quality malicious compliance
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oak blanco @abomination.computer · 30/03/2025
‘I bought this before he went crazy’ sticker on a 1938 VW Beetle
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This isn’t a post, it’s a common AI linguistic pattern. And that distinction MATTERS.
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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
They've created a product that's too expensive to use on trivial things, but not good enough to use on important things. Oh no.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 23/06/2026
this is literally the kind of crap people put in children’s stories to illustrate how despicable an emperor is. “then they brought a poor child before him, and the emperor said this was not enough to deserve gold. and so they brought more sick and sad children and the emperor demanded they dance.”
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Pretty sure DR CONGO was a Venture Bros villain
Screenshot of promo text for a world cup match: PORTUGAL vs DR CONGO
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
was scrolling my own replies like ya do, and thought it worth mentioning that this is in fact a true story, but I was actually 12 years old and you couldn’t buy the game in the us yet (older bro brought it back from some german exchange dealy, then took it to college)
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
[taking the deepest possible breath] the Dutch East India Company was established in 1602,
headline that says “why is trump hosting a cage fight at the White House” with photo of same
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
a worker on the scaffolding turns around and a spotlight finds him. it's lin-manuel miranda! he begins to rap about john f kennedy. we've been had
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Dave Conrad @dconrad.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The year is 2028. The scaffolding is so dense, it's opaque. No one knows if the Kennedy Center is still inside there or not.
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Soccer dudes rock.
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💀 skeletori amos 💀 @rivalconga.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.
A photo of Tony Head with a fan, standing in a barn near a horse. Tumblr post from dracofidus: If you EVER think Anthony Head is anything less than an angel then you'd best remember that I have always been a huge fan of his and we've always had a little contact over the years and he heard I'd come out as Trans and was having a hard time and that I was kind of sad that the photos I had from conventions with him were of me with long hair and no binder and they were all signed to "Sarah" and so he invited me to spend the day with him at his farm and he picked me up from the station and we just hung out and had lunch and he insisted on paying and look loads of photos and had them printed on photo paper the same day so he could sign them to Jay, along with other photos of him as Giles and Utger and he literally spent five hours chatting with me and got all the pronoun stuff right every time and then he dropped me off at the station, gave me a massive hug. Waved me through the ticket barrier and insisted I message him when I got home so he knew I was back safe.
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Welp there’s no unseeing this
Colorful play gym for infants featuring foxes and bunnies, two criss-crossing archs stand over a square matUFC cage being built on the White House launch, criss-crossing arches strongly resembling the baby play gym
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
NEWSCASTER: Up next, they’re calling it Walter White-ing. How the dangerous teen trend could have pizza hitting YOUR roof this summer
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/05/2026
BREAKING: Janice, last surviving member of rock group Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem, disavows any connections to 250th anniversary concert promoted by WH 👇
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're in an older earth looking home with some antiquey lamps in the background and a bookcase. From the center, sitting with hands on lamp looking wistfully down as if lost and thought is Dr Beverly Crusher. She's in her blue uniform which here looks teal but we know. It's blue. There's another standing near her but mostly off camera. Closed caption reads, "Nana always kept it lit."
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
the emotional ups and downs as I read each segment: an 81-year-old grandma 💜 streaming 🙂 minecraft 🧐 to pay for grandson's 💕 cancer treatment 🤬 has been swatted 😨
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The stonks meme but the caption says deals instead. The meme man looks very similar to the Deal Man in the quoted skeet.
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I don’t care if it’s 90 degrees in my office. #ARSENAL TAKES THE LEAGUE! #COYG!
A white man with a Mohawk looking a bit warm, wearing an Arsenal jersey and soccer scarf
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Lancelot @newneo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I’m not quite sure what to do with this, The Arsenal are champions!
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Arsenal FC @arsenalfc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
COYG!!!!
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I have found it. The best IMDB entry.
Tony Rigatoni
Actor
Tony Rigatoni is known for Yoink Sploink..
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
today in, "words for which I knew the meaning but had never before heard spoken aloud and was taken aback by the pronunciation": synecdoche
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McMESSMAKER @michaelmcfarland.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Given what’s happened with Geese’s reputation, this seems apt
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