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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 7h

ayyyyy excuse me I am walking here, so sorry (urban living midwest edition)

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molly mary o'brien @missmollymary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i wrote a lot about KATSEYE, the girl group (/reality television stars, offspring of music industry royal wedding, slime ad agency) i can't stop thinking about therumpus.net/2026/10/08/k...

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KATSEYE: Girl Group Abstraction - The Rumpus

KATSEYE turned into six shades of Glossier lip oil; KATSEYE turned into six different kinds of Lush soap; KATSEYE turned into a special flavor of fried chicken at Jollibee.

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

you can love an artform, but you can’t love an industry. jobs will only break your heart

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

awesome to hear it’s still alive, thank you for this

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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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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

only bring your ten year old boyfriend

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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

one phrase my students don’t understand is “phone it in” as in “your performance in this scene is uncommitted; it’s like you’re phoning it in.” i said that once and the whole class thought i literally meant it sounded like the actor was talking on the phone

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

it’s sad that he defrauded those women and didn’t just keep the bit going out of the love of the game. the nfl part of the fraud was so funny

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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

there was a fest called something like Bad Student Movies and that was my favorite named trope

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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 · 02/09/2026

20 year anniversary bluray when

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

don’t you dare get my hopes up like that

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

the movie that bravely asks “what if dear evan hansen was good”

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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

im staying alive in this world just to taste my next one

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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 · 25/08/2026

i think bonuses should be more fortuitous. like you can’t say “an added stroke of luck”

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

the haydens and their goddam SOUPS

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mike cavalier @mikecavalier.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

noooo that’s so bad & embarrassing. i was friends with his wife (never met him) and am sad to see this debased performance

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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

civil disobedience but for partying. let’s pour one out for a real one

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

i think with frats it’s a “trust but verify” situation because the first thing to do is narrow your eyes and say “did you get kicked off because of a funny crime, or a violent crime?”

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

that’s the only way for a frat to win the game of frat

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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

zenlike calm is more evil than i expected

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

can’t post takes like this on bluesky. my swag too different, my bitch too bad, they’ll kill me

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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 · 15/08/2026

several people i dislike tried to talk to me today and i was blandly agreeable and they walked away believing they got a win. the people i truly hate, i just ignore them/pretend they don’t exist, which is particularly effective. no more energy wasted on annoyances. all of it invested in what i love

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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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