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Mike

@mikeatx.bsky.social
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40s, Scorpio, Queer He/Him Austin, TX

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 05/08/2026
The Senate Commerce Committee is about to vote on four bills that could put much of the Internet behind privacy-invasive age gates. We need your help to stop them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote this week on several censorious and privacy invasive bills: KOSA, the SCREEN Act, Youth AI Privacy Act, and CHATBOT Act. While we appreciate that the Committee
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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mikeridesatx on Instagram: "The University of Texas is planning to implement a bicycle drop zone through the center of campus, effectively blocking students, c…"
The University of Texas is planning to implement a bicycle drop zone through the center of campus, effectively blocking students, commuters, and others from several safe routes! Speedway was closed for bike and pedestrian traffic years ago! They waited until summer break to plan and implement these changes so students don’t have a chance to voice their concerns! Please spread the word! Contact UT Leadership, City Council, and media contacts!
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The electorate is a two party election system, nobody outside those two parties is ever getting 270 electoral votes. Everything else on your ballot is by popular vote. We need a democratic socialist to win the DNC primary! Bernie would have been our president in 2016 if the DNC didn’t fuck us!
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I’m a leftist but I fully understand how the electorate works. Millions spoke out about Israel but I still went to the polls, there were like 60 people to vote for in my district and I still voted for Kamala because there were no viable alternatives.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Tell that to the people that believe and sky daddy and prey on children to spread their sick delusions
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We can tax them and still maintain separation of church and state; they are separate amendments. Tax exempt status is a law that respects the establishment of religion; it’s a first amendment violation to give them any respect under the law.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Make the churches adults only and criminalize exposing children to religion; well supported by our first amendment. Protect minors religious liberty from religious people! We are all born atheist and should remain that way until adulthood!
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The KKK is a terrorist organization; they should be raided any imprisoned for terrorism anytime the roaches are found.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Ban the churches!
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Why would a terrorist organization have any tax exempt status? What is a confederate organization that isn’t an enemy of the state and on the FBI most wanted list? How can criminals operate freely at all? They should be under constant threat of arrest.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Trump is responsible for over 25% of our total debt, out of 50 years his 6 are responsible for a quarter of it. By the time he’s done it could be half.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I hope we bring back a fire squad for his entire MAGA terrorist organization
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Corporate welfare, they probably won’t deliver anything for our military either; just board members filling their bank accounts.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
We should cut most military spending, we can’t afford to kill children abroad
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I really don’t think that’s what they were suggesting. When it said what’s right or wrong, I’m assuming they mean in like a team meeting or project plan not morally or ethically right or wrong. The post is about being a better listener, nobody should bother listening to racists or bigots at all.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Conversion therapy is torture and usually ran by completely unqualified perverts and pedofile! Anyone that sends a kid to conversion therapy should be arrested for extreme child abuse.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court just gutted conversion therapy bans across America 8 to 1. The court just gave the green light to a practice the United Nations calls torture.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Why do we keep bombing innocent civilians and school children? Does Trump want to force them to retaliate on american soil? If someone bombed our schools, we would respond with an extreme use of force; probably nukes. This is the sort of response Trump appears to want here.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
That we can agree on; I prefer the term Uniparty of “both sides” since both parties are right of center and they severed the left half of our democracy may decades ago. I try not to associate with liberals and I don’t actually know any MAGA freaks that aren’t family I blocked a few years ago.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
But neither of them have any sort of cult following like the MAGA sickos.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Literally nobody likes the Clintons; Bill balanced the budget and gave us a pretty awesome recovery from Bush but he sucked. We all wanted Bernie over Hillary but the DNC doesn’t care about the will of the people just like the GOP. People like AOC and Bernie because they behave like real humans.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Democrats are generally very critical of their politicians; we generally only have the option of voting for a lesser evil. Even when I get the very rare ideal, democratic socialist candidate nobody is fanatical about it. The Trump/MAGA fandom is a unique and freakish thing.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Do those even exist? Most people who voted for Clinton did so because it was the obvious lesser evil; never really ran into democrats that were fans of any politician. Most of us expect more than the DNC has ever offered. The only candidate I’ve ever seen democrats really like was Bernie
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
What is center-right today? Average democrats or anti-maga leaning conservatives?
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
In my experience, nearly all protests are organized by local communists and socialist groups. Just because they’ve been aggressively removed from our democracy for 70 years hasn’t prevented them from doing the work that gave us things like the Civil Rights Movement.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I played Cyberpunk 2077 when it first came out and for a second play though more recently. The first time it seemed like an awesome game, the second time it felt like our very near future. Flock Corpos are literally our law enforcement now.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Texas > White Sands > Flagstaff > Sedona > Grand Canyon > Zion > Page > Mesa Verde > Carson National Forest > Texas Finally back home!
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Sedona
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Soon to be replaced with the Next Generation VLA, prototype pictured.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Toured the NRAO Very Large Array today!
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Overnight star trails near Cloudcroft, NM
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Anyone for that matter, public surveillance is a clear 4th amendment violation
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The VLA!
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Lincoln National Forest to White Sands National Park
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Driving though rural Texas and seeing a Flock camera on the highway surprisingly often. Figured the red state would leave red counties alone. Gonna be interesting to see how that plays out. #dystopian
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Apple AirTag saved me tonight! Someone stole my bag but I was able to find it, my keys, wallet, cards, IDs, etc. Lost some cash but recovered everything else!
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
So would this kid
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
When you elect violent criminals like Trump this is what you get.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We literally did and everyone is very well aware Americans are THAT stupid. The founding fathers gave us a representative government and the Electoral College because Americans were absolutely morons back then too. We have the first amendment because Christian’s wouldn’t stop killing each other.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Our modern missile systems, mission planning, and targeting are extremely precise. We bombed schools and hospitals because the goal is to encourage retaliation in the form of terrorist attacks on the American people. Same old playbook that resulted in 9/11 and a shift towards fascism.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Yay, more Trumpflation to destroy our economy. We’ve been at it for 10 years now
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/03/2026
The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.
Yellow and white text: This is our country and we will show up for it. Take to the streets Saturday, March 28 at a protest near you. ACLU." Black and white photo of someone holding up a sign that says "ICE OUT OF OUR CITY." Black background.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
We had a brief stint of pretending to be the good guys during WW2 but that’s it
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
There is no world in which the US has been the good guys for the last 70 years
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
That was 10 years ago; when is his lethal injection scheduled for?
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
My diet is basically based on Leonid Kim’s recommendation for gut health, heart disease, and diabetes. I was on high blood pressure medication for 2 years and now have normal blood pressure without them.
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Mike @mikeatx.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The DNC should impeach every AIPAC funded politician for corruption and treason and hold emergency elections to replace them with democrats who are loyal to the American people.
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