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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 12h

Nah. Im not gonna let the clock beat you...

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And did Musk's recent comments about Jewish physiogonomy get mentioned in the article? (Reader they did not)

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My favorite factoid is that owen roberts, whose switch to uphold the new deal defanged the first court expansion push... BURNED ALL HIS PAPERS, so who's to say what he was thinking?

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In the Seven Samurai, its a plot point that the villagers are starving themselves eating millet to save rice to feed the Samurai and now Bobs is selling it as a health food... L O L

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I honestly cant comprehend this. What exactly about the last 22 years of US military action was worth it, generally, let alone giving up your health for... I dont want to get in a big fight, but... Wow.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Someone at little tikes heard the phrase "human centipede" and took it a different direction. . .

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You know speaking of South Korea, historically when a batty old leader started doing things like this...

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This describes 50 percent of all human communication.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

JESUS I just went back to finish this and I'm sorry, imagine writing this and feeling PROUD of yourself. "I went to an organization with an internal culture and heard new words, which I refuse to learn despite the fact that google exists, therefore these people are weird"

But three minutes into any exchange with a member, nagging fears about the organization going mainstream can feel moot. Conversations are marinated in a vocabulary that is insistently obtuse. Members talk about having disagreements in a “comradely” way, being a “multi-tendency organization,” building a “big tent” group that spans everyone from “Berniecrats” to “Marxist Leninists.”

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Ladies, Gents, and Others, i give you how the NEW YORK TIMES decided to write about DSA Caucuses in their *news coverage*

Quote from the times coverage: "Members of the D.S.A. sort themselves, Hogwarts style, into more than a dozen caucuses. There’s Bread and Roses, Marxist Unity Group, Red Star, Groundwork and Communist Caucus. Some, like Groundwork, are laser-focused on winning elections. Others, like Bread and Roses, devote their time to union organizing. And what members call the Commie Caucus is known to give out cigarettes at its parties."

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Not letting me quotepost but its not surprising. Its the same reason the NYT lets Matthew Walther write for them, but not any of the Chapo hosts who eviscerated him when he showed up to an interview with them drunk and ended up screaming hail marys at Frost... They agree w them more

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Eating these and I can hear Joe Biden and Donald Trump singing Yi Jian Mei

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Y'all ever have INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS?

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Well since he likes Graham so much, I have good news. Eventually, in the fullness of time, Schiff will see him again.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Every once in a while I wonder what'd be like to live in a normal fucking country

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

FEMALES. Boss Ross wants to talk about fuckin'.

Ross Douthat, in a subdued button down, asking Is It Time for a New Sexual Revolution

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Wife has helpfully placed all the foodstuffs I purchased and have not eaten over the last 3 years on the counter and I'm going to make a smoothie to spite her.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The mental gymnastics it takes to overlook the basic undeniable fact that Susan Collins is gonna vote for Thune to be speaker in 2027 is remarkable...

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Shit people still living off their parents' $$$ say in public...

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Someone good at computers please explain why Mary P's FB ad is captioned in what looks like Hindi and Vietnamese?

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Sorry that quote doesn't do it justice, bc he put it in free verse and capitalized the last line.

I repose in this quiet and secluded spot,
Not from any natural preference for solitude
But, finding other Cemeteries limited as to Race
by Charter Rules,
I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death
The Principles which I advocated through a long life:
EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thad the Chad got buried in a cemetary on the other side of town from where he lived because it was INTEGRATED, DAMN IT, and he put that shit on his headstone:

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Absolutely. Hell of a production. They were told to make it DTV, then halfway through were told to get it ready for the big screen. The fact that it's *watchable* is a minor miracle. But it reaches for more and delivers.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Good news! Most proposals for Medicare for All include expanding coverage to these areas and there is currently legislation pending to have Medicare as is cover them too!

Bernie wants dental plan, Lisa needs braces

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The Democrats have now officially adopted the dirt bag left tone that we were told a decade ago was completely unacceptable and destroying politics. Ok, good. I know I won't get an apology but fine. Now adopt our policies you corrupt shitbags! Medicare for All is right there!

Dems on Twitter call miller an ugly fuck

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I will always vote for the candidate who aligns closest politically with Scatman John

Everybody's born to compete as he chooses
But how can someone win if winning means that someone loses?
I sit and see and wonder what it's like to be in touch
No wonder all my brothers and my sisters need a crutch
I want to be a human being, not a human doing
I couldn't keep that pace up if I tried
The source of my intention really isn't crime prevention
My intention is prevention of the lie, yeah
Welcome to that Scatman's World
Babobeh-bopbopahdop-babababa
Babedi-babobeh-babopbedop-bababapi
Babedi-babobeh-popbopbedop-babobeh
Bopbopbedop-babobeh-popbopbedop-bababababehdi

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Breaking: businesses still not thrilled with the racists fucking w the money.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy shot down a proposal by the secretary of Homeland Security to screen international passengers at airports in sanctuary cities, which would force airlines to re-route flights.

“We have people from around the world and around the country that need to be able to fly into all different kinds of places,” Duffy said during a hearing before House lawmakers. “We shouldn’t shut down air travel in a state that doesn’t agree with our politics.”

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin floated the idea on Fox News last month, and according to an article in The Atlantic, pressed the idea earlier this month with airline executives, who were not receptive.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

They don't have room in their heads for empathy though. This is a known thing.

The greedy, profit-seeking exploiter cannot see beyond the end of his nose. He can see a chance for an “opening”; he is cunning enough to know what graft is and where it is, and how it can be secured, but vision he has none-not the slightest. He knows nothing of the great throbbing world that spreads out in all directions. He has no capacity for literature; no appreciation of art; no soul for beauty. That is the penalty the parasites pay for the violation of the laws of life.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

November and @marleywrites.bsky.social ... Thank you for this lesson, this gift. I will fight. God I wished I didn't have to. I will.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I had a thought about duplication of intellectual effort and how much of it happens.

Reading a T magazine travelogue on Buddhism in Asia and this author both name drops Pankaj Mishra's incredible "An end to suffering" and then seemingly earnestly asks how Buddhism has come to appeal to global elites....

MY BROTHER IN BUDDHA MISHRA ANSWERED THAT. A central point of Mishra's book is that Buddhism emerged out of a turbulent merchant society upending traditional certainties in a way that resembles modernity. So it's no surprise that elites seeking relief from all this upheaval turn to Buddhism just like their antecedents...

And this just raises an interesting question. Surely it would be more efficient to point to the original work. But taking 8000 words to say roughly the same thing gets your vacation paid for so you do it. How much intelligence is wasted in this way?

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What real world locations have you visited because of video games? Two that stand out for me are the Sea Lions at Fisherman's Wharf (Tony Hawk pro skater) and Watts Towers which I just visited 20 years after seeing them in GTA San Andreas...

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Got blocked for defending the term "bio break" using the worst of all possible techniques...humor.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Ok. And THEN what happened? (Balloon Bombs happened that's what. @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social )

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The links dead but I was able to buy it last year

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Deep sigh. This is the line my liberal Russian Emigré granddad passed down through my family and it is in fact true. It is also true that the liberal, democratic, provisional government was unable to end a war Russia was losing or defend itself against reaction. There's a lesson in that too.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Huh. Unrelated book recommendation below.

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

That's a hell of an act, what do you call it? THE GATEKEEPERS

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The F5 continues to be a powerful repudiation of us doctrine in that it's a simple analog fighter that looks like the design equivalent of copypasta and we use as a "trainer" and yet we put it against our next gen fighters starting w the f14 and this keeps happening...

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Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

THE F5 IS THE MOST UNDERRATED US FIGHTER EVER AND WE SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THE F20 SEND TWETE

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