iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

taking a bath, lighting scented candles, sipping brandy — it’s a softboi wednesday folks

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The E-TRAIN @erickblasco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thought Whalefall was like Moonfall where a whale crashes into the Earth

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"Steve" @sssparkers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this has the exact same cadence as a tim robinson sketch

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

trying to imagine how much this image would blow my mind if I could send it back to 2011

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i’m doing my show Don’t Stop again, this time on instagram instead of youtube. And it’s funny to me how obvious it is that i am sleep deprived

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if you remember everything else macklemore has done, it’s clear that he’s some kind of vanguard of white liberalism, with his wokeness set 10 minutes ahead of elite consensus. As Omar El Akkad’s book title correctly predicts, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

can Tilly Norwood do things on the casting couch that would make a human faint

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

sometimes i feel like i’m the only person at my job who is comfortable with the idea that we are competing with others. it’s a very southern thing. i am very mean about the local conservatory art school & say their art sucks and people are like “oh why would you say that” because they’re my rival!!

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I said to a student who is recovering from surgery “I hope your work doesn’t snowball” but I wonder if he knows what that means in a place where there is no snow

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

can’t stop thinking about Nathan doing this kubrickian stare at elizabeth holmes

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the standard 9/11 take here is that when katrina happened, no one gave a shit. “george bush doesn’t care about black people” and so forth.

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

the music in the movie Go is so nineties its almost unreal. no doubt, steal my sunshine, fuckin macarena. real dialogue for the movie includes two characters saying “isn’t it ironic”/“doncha think”

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

haven’t been sleeping lately. waking up at 5 every morning, or 4, or 3. it’s bad to accrue a sleep deficit, but i gotta say: it does unlock a series of fucked up states of consciousness

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Ghostspoon @charlesx.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We have a bunch of the Toy Story toys. Ive been moving them around each night. My daughter hasn't noticed a thing. My wife though is staying in a hotel.

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i’ve been screening the opening sequence of this film for years (where the guy “unalives” himself, as the kids say). the only student film ever made that begins with a shot of an alarm clock and it actually works bsky.app/profile/wear...

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

bought these boat shoes bc i thought we needed special shoes to walk on the boat. love the color; they’re so comfortable. but there’s also something kind of fratty and dickish about them. it’s the first piece of clothing i’ve bought in awhile that speaks to the asshole Mandeville side of myself

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

three weeks into the school year and i feel acutely aware of how this is an insane way to live. just an onslaught of overwhelming stimuli and staggering complexity. i’ve got 4 preps, 110 students, 60 tasks a week, sponsoring 10+ clubs. i’m a sicko for wanting this life, depraved for enjoying it

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

data this, data that. how about schools look at the data on the popularity of makin’ movies !

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

this joke really resonated for me. representation matters

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

you may hear that louisiana requires that we post the ten commandments in our classrooms. the thing i want you to know is that the whole thing is pretty funny, honestly. this is the poster they want us to put up, which hilariously equates mike johnson with moses

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

taught in this town long enough that 12% of my students this year are siblings of other students i taught

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

my toilet was running, so i taught myself all the parts of the toilet tank by watching youtube videos. i took the whole toilet apart, every component that can be unscrewed or removed, then put the thing back together. it runs perfectly now. i have never felt more like a powerful, capable lesbian

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

you’re telling me a chicken lo’d this mein?

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

i think it’s a feature not a bug that Wokeness is an appropriated term. woke as a Black term has real meaning and weight. but when we mean “wokeness” like “woke mind virus,” the air quotes are there, gesturing toward white liberals appropriating social consciousness to their own ends

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

having long suffered from profound disappointment and oppositional-defiant behavior and generally being difficult, i’ve figured out One Weird Trick to become immensely powerful: give up, stop caring. combine that with a bland, frictionless kind of agreeability and everyone just leaves you alone

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

they should make a social media site where everyone leaves long voice memos

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I come to this website to talk about the other websites: I follow this design aesthetic guy on instagram who makes the exact same video over and over again (in a kaleidoscopic array of berets) and he never misses. just repetitive “remember this from the 90s” messaging that I find immensely soothing

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

on X they love this account “nobunaga” who they think is a Japanese blogger who writes bemused, flattering posts about American culture and how ~crazy~ it is. it is very fake and yet they just slurp it up

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

a new, unacceptable thing about me is that i’ve come into possession of a pair of Meta glasses. i only wear them when i am at work (mostly as a bit, a private in-joke with myself about what i’m pretending to be). if anyone asks i am a pro AI guy; really, i’m just listening to Spotify without earbuds

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

my DSA has a sobriety group, an afrosoc caucus, an lgbtq game night—sounds great, but i think we can get a degenerate auxiliary going. monthly meet ups in da club. some of us proles are using our 8 Hours for What We Will in squalid ways, & any true working class movement’s gotta grapple with that

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

the thing you need to know is: if you’re Gen X, you were the last cool generation there ever will be. If you’re a millennial you are very corny (they had to invent the word “cheugy” to describe how much you suck) but you are very hard-working & also (check the research) the smartest. Gen Z, idk.

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

went to an open-bar happy hour and, in a fit of ungratefulness, i got disappointed that they only had beer and wine. this is stupid. i absolutely can get fucked up off of beer and wine

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i need a straight answer: why does it always look like jd vance is wearing eyeliner? he’s my-chemical-romantic in every clip, like he’s about to do some backup dancing in the north american tour of the american idiot musical

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

absolutely disgusting text, i should be thrown in the hague

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"Steve" @sssparkers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

i'm grateful we'll have gotten 4-5 years of a reasonably functional little website here. it's been a good twitter methadone clinic. but, especially nowadays, nothing gold can stay

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

i can’t watch Hacks because hannah einbinder is too beautiful to look at

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

unfortunately, i have re joined the DSA

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

feels like my texts are slowly heating up as the night approaches. i’m getting dangerously flirty and thirsty with the robot that confirms my dentist appointments

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

today’s bout to be so delicious and decadent that i had to iron my tank top

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

in the coming year, i would like to visit the city of Los Angeles. i’d like to go out there and see if i can finally achieve my boyhood dream of falling in love with an amnesiac lesbian on mulholland drive

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

forgive me, movie gods, for ever thinking cinema could die. we are so back it hurts bsky.app/profile/ever...

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molly mary o'brien @missmollymary.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

this is the longest i've been back in my hometown in some time, and i am re-remembering why i had to invent being emo from first principles

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

emily wilson can call me a dipshit all she wants but i’m crossing the cultural divide and going over with the dumb dumbs to crack a beer and tell you the odyssey movie was Good, Actually

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

been getting these ads for Carly Rae Jepsen’s concert and she’s somehow getting even more beautiful

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I saw Suzy Izzard, Eddie at the time, at the oceans 13 afterparty and was shocked at how hot he was bsky.app/profile/jere...

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

fascinating and perhaps under-appreciated part of AI is that the sector it destroys the most is tech itself. the market value of coding has cratered. something kind of poetic and beautiful about this dynamic, like if the Prometheus myth ends with him accidentally setting himself on fire

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

i hate the guys in my instagram feed who are like “The best bar in New Orleans? Has to be the Columns Hotel. So beautiful, overlooking the streetcar line.” but i love the 25 year old girlies who are like “fat harrys is where i go when i wanna get messy”

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

i am a well known “party animal,” but it’s mostly a party panda (cute, fat, so lacking in sexual initiative that my handlers make me watch porn all day, deployed as a diplomatic weapon by the chinese)

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