Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026@gruber.foo Your post on the Pixel II HiLight and @joannastern.bsky.social fond memories of the BlackBerry blinking light reminds me of the thrilling day you excerpted my pseudonymous tumblr way back in 2010. daringfireball.net/linked/2010/...daringfireball.netWad City: ‘Why I Miss the Blinking Red Light’Link to: http://wadcity.tumblr.com/post/904745882/why-i-miss-the-blinking-red-light 001
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026It’s just math: every 830,000 button pushes is the same as murdering an infant. 000
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026What?!! I’ve looked for these the last few years whenever I was pulling together a cheese board or whatever. It never once crossed my mind they stopped making them. 010
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026We also published the tool for analysis and visualization as an R package on GitHub (github.com/cdcgov/ifsac...).github.comGitHub - CDCgov/ifsac.trendrContribute to CDCgov/ifsac.trendr development by creating an account on GitHub. 031
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026So now the AI Sloplords are not just creating fake bands but dropping slop songs into real bands pages so they get auto-plopped onto Release Radar playlists… awesome. 100
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026@bobfreelander.bsky.social are you still doing the director t shirts? went looking but couldn’t find again. 010
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Digging the new tune from Ned Collette. Like so many of his songs, it urges you to stop what you’re doing and really listen.youtu.beNed Collette - Curious ThingYouTube video by It Records Melbourne 000
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Wow, near the very end of the most recent ep of The B-Side podcast, John Sayles says he was working on a script with Joe Dante for a sequel to the classic ant movie “Them!” Give it to me nowwwwww! #filmsky pod.link/520164968pod.linkThe Film Stage PresentsListen to The Film Stage Presents wherever you get your podcasts! 000
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Today’s a good day to listen to Silver Jews and Purple Mountains and think about who and what we’ve lost. 000
Reposted by Mike BatzDavid Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Oh, oh, oh, I'm lightning Oh, oh, oh, I'm rain Oh, oh, oh, it's frightening I'm not the same I'm not the same I'm not the same 041
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026This is a few years before my time but damn did I spend a lot of time in this place as a kid. Wonderland lasted 60 years, from 1965-2024. 000
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Really interesting paper that looks at the agglomeration of influence at the intersection of science and international policy across a bunch of domains. 011
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026bran wisps are a straight edge band with 3 guitarists and two vocalists and their longest song lasts 43 seconds 000
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Not a day goes by in 2026 that I don’t think about quitting my job to open a mini-golf course full of holes like this 000
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 05/07/2025No matter what religion you have No matter what part of the world you come from to here This piece of dirt under our feet Doesn't belong to just one person The person with the most lawyers doesn't own all of it It belongs to everybodyyoutu.beThis Land is Your LandYouTube video by Mojo Nixon - Topic 030
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 03/06/2025The internet is really useful for self-diagnosis. Like just now I thought I was having a mental break but then came here to learn I wasn’t hallucinating the NYT Spelling Bee completely resetting to a new set of letters mid-morning. 091
Reposted by Mike BatzOrcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 03/05/2025YOU MUST TOUCH SOMETHING SOFT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES. 0253
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025PSA: this album absolutely rips. So excited for their upcoming US tour. 041
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025One of the little things I miss about living in DC is hearing the go go beat everywhere. I was lucky enough to catch Chuck Brown a couple of times and I’m so glad his legacy continues to grow. Also, I want that shirt! 120
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Watched “The American Friend” last night and “The Brutalist” today. What should I watch tomorrow to keep this bleak “Americans using and degrading Europeans” run going? 📽️ 040
Reposted by Mike BatzDr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 19/01/2025With today’s high of -21°C (-6°F), this seems like a good day to mention one of my favourite words: Apricity (n.): the warmth of the Sun in winter. Here’s Logan, enjoying some. 1120923
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 04/03/2024First it was a poppy seed bagel covered in tiny ticks and now it’s a bat that looks like a doughnut. 030
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 16/02/2024Some days I feel pretty normal and then I remember that my favorite candy are black licorice “salty herrings.” 010
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 08/02/2024That’s right, this outbreak is older than your fourth grader. WGS has utterly transformed our ability to solve these kinds of outbreaks caused by dispersed, repeated contamination. 064
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 21/11/2023I find myself suddenly, randomly, and painfully nostalgic about See/Hear, the rad zine/book store in the East Village that I loved to visit in the 90s and very early 00s whenever I made my way to the city. Made a mark on me, that place.vassifer.blogs.comBack to See/HearIt's been closed now for a decade, but since it's been gone, it seems almost inconceivable that such a place even ever existed, ... much like the neighborhood it once called home. See/Hear was an inde... 000
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 21/11/2023I’m apparently a Millennial at work: 45% Millennial 35% Gen Z 20% Gen X 0% Boomer As a late Gen Xer I don’t know if I should be embarrassed in a how-do-you-do-fellow-kids kind of way or happy that I’m capable of change. Probably both.washingtonpost.comDo you talk more like a millennial or a boomer at work? Take this quiz to find out.What your communication habits at work say about you and how that might differ from your boss and colleagues. 000
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 20/11/2023It’s not a food safety snowglobe but it’s not not a food safety snowglobe #foodsafety dementedpenguins.com/products/mad... 000
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 05/11/2023It’s not worth $35 but…cognitive-surplus.comA Prayer For Useful Data Cocktail CandleYou’ve tried everything else, you’ve begged, bargained and pleaded with the gods of good data, so here’s a candle to light when you just need one good data set. What harm could it do? This candl... 031
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 01/11/2023There’s also a three minute video with Grady Hendrix waxing poetic about it in an open-collared polyester shirt and furry tiger-print blazer. Glorious! 101
Reposted by Mike BatzMaladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 22/10/2023This is. Incredibly kind. 352896685
Reposted by Mike BatzBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 21/10/2023I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comToxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobsWomen feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life... 12321118
Mike Batz @mikebatz.bsky.social · 12/10/2023Vitreous humor was the name of the comic I did for my high school newspaper. Still think it’s a cool term. 020
