Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is the most adorable Yakuza scene I have ever watched 001
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Overheard convo in coffee shop: “Been reading about them LGBTs” “Yeah, about how they're all spying on us.” “They come installed with secret software that uses your network…” Me: well I know more than a few queer people who are good with software but… My brain rewinds a bit. He had said “LG TVs” 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026NYC and adjacent friends, I sincerely can’t recommend this show enough. Manual Cinema is brilliant in general and this show is no exception. You have almost certainly never seen a show like this. manualcinema.com/work/the-4th...manualcinema.comThe 4th Witch | Manual CinemaManual Cinema’s The 4th Witch is a fantastic new tale, inspired by elements of Shakespeare’s Macbeth , in which a girl escapes war and flees into a dark… 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I had tickets to George Carlin at the Rosemont and I got stuck in bad traffic and then got completely lost trying to find how to actually get into the Rosemont and got so angry and frustrated I gave up and drove home, thinking "I'll see him next time", but there was never a next time 020
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“She speaks with the might of a hundred soldiers!” Indeed. Go, Dolly.youtu.beThe Orville - 9 to 5 sceneYouTube video by Ganymede23 010
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026We know in Star Trek the Federation developed synthahol, allegedly alcohol without “negative effects, so does that also imply the existence of synthabbis? Synthstacy? Synthal meth? 311
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Discworld. I have never been asked an easier question. 020
Reposted by Mike SpharMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12/08/2026woke 1youtu.beLead Belly - "Scottsboro Boys"YouTube video by SmithsonianFolkwaysRecordings 18320
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Ever since I learned of the german-inspired term "hobbyless behavior" I can't not see it in all the hateful horseshit some people engage in 111
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I’m one of those high income tech workers and I haven’t set foot in a datacenter in over 5 years, and even years before that it had become only occasionally. DC crews are mostly electrical/hvac, security, shipping/receiving, and smallish crew of entry-level folks as remote hands. Good jobs but few. 110
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026“Okay but our think tank still needs a name.” “I’d like something that suggests a third-tier antagonist on a CW show.” “Way ahead of you!” 100
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026“The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.” I don’t think I could love film commentary more than this. 010
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Flight attendant on my flight today knew my name. Turned out she used to work at the coffee shop by my house 010
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Leslie Jones. Just viciously roasting every moment without mercy until my last breath 030
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Of all the ways to get explosive diarrhea, are there any less worth it than iceberg lettuce? 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Turned out to be more than I would have thought Joe Abercrombie Peter V. Brett James S. A. Corey (I know, it's two guys) Stephen Graham Jones Martha Wells Cherie Priest Gail Carriger Jim Butcher Piers Anthony (Ugh, I know, I was young...also turns out still alive) 121
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 05/07/2026MLB games today are on peacock. The white sox game is delayed, but the stream is just live shot of the ball park, with no audio but barely-audible sounds of stadium's announcements, otherwise dead air. Out of nowhere a woman's voice says "baseball" and that's it. Back to nearly dead air after that. 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 03/07/2026To add to the list, I highly recommend folks watch Stray Dog by Akira Kurosawa. I've never before or since sat in an air conditioned theater feeling such an unconscious urge to keep wiping sweat from my face that wasn't there. (Also it's a great movie with an excellent and young Toshiro Mifune) 010
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026In the interest of full disclosure I must confess that while I am not a young squirt I am a Punkin-Lily and 1/4 Jane Dandy on my mother's side. And proud of it! 031
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Me, painting a badass mural on my VW Bus and putting a waterbed and disco ball inside: "Germany couldn't build a car like this" 010
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Worth remembering today that the original birthright citizenship ruling, US vs Wong Kim Ark, was a 6-2 decision (one justice hadn’t been a member of the court during arguments so didn’t participate) 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026To paraphrase a line from Home Movies: One of the things I'm most proud of is I have never celebrated a person's death. But I'm willing to be proud of something else today. 010
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026re the last repost: I barely knew my father, hadn't seen him much since my early childhood and a rancorous divorce. Not long ago I stumbled across his obituary from earlier this year. Like Paul, my dad was who he was and did his best, by all accounts he was a good father to later children. 110
Reposted by Mike SpharPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/06/2026My dad was who he was & he did the best he could with the tools he had. I wish we could have been closer. I will always be aware that it was up to me to build that bridge and that I couldn't bring myself to do it. 15777
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Someone let the Scots and Irish know they all have the same culture as the English and film it so I can watch 020
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Something that struck me about Widows Bay is it's like the old meme of "make a movie with all Muppets and one human" except instead of Muppets its "every brilliant character actor you can find" and Matthew Rhys 010
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 07/06/2026If people are wondering how we will remember Trump when he's gone, may I suggest two vast and trunkless legs of stone? 110
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 30/05/2026This may be the best assessment of the state of the AI market and financials I've read. (Granting I am not at all a financials expert.) It's even-handed about the legitimate utility of LLMs in specific contexts, but paints a bleak picture of the financials nooneshappy.com/article/the-...nooneshappy.comThe AI Bubble — No One's HappyThe AI buildout is the largest capital expenditure in the history of the technology industry. The financial structure holding it together has a name. 100
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I won't pretend to know whether all this is good political strategy or not but I can confirm if nothing else it is funny as hell. 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Chicagoans, nodding along: "Wait...wtf did they say about hot dogs?" 100
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: Oingo Boingo Webb Wilder Kool & The Gang Great Big Sea Drive-By Truckers Neko Case The Decemberists John Prine Nick Lowe Robbie Fulks Technically I saw Miami Sound Machine & OMD & Flock of Seagulls live but I'm not counting free theme park shows 020
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Yeah but she didn’t encourage us to be assholes about it. Being kind is woke obviously. Cruelty is strength. 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 04/05/2026<me quickly writing a joke about Gorgan the Friendly Angel> <almost hits send> <pauses> <thinks> “Oh shit…that was Melvin Belli” <backspaces frantically> 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— MST3K Reservation Dogs Barney Miller Schitt's Creek The Good Place Firefly Deadwood Carnivale Venture Brothers Home Movies What We Do In The Shadows The Muppet Show 30 Rock Derry Girls Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast (Sorry, Rome, you'd have been 16) 010
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Border Collies everywhere just sitting quietly with an infuriating smug expression 152
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Listening to the Artemis II livestream today there were multiple points where the only voices I heard were from three different women. The moon mission passed the Bechdel test with extra credit. 030
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I love Terry Pratchett more than any author that ever lived but if he was actively doing what Rowling is doing I would burn every book. I would be heartbroken and angry but the smoke would reach the heavens regardless 160
Reposted by Mike SpharInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside 280181835
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones. 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 20/03/2026The hardest working quotes you’ll see today are these quotes around “feedback” arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...arstechnica.comHP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good supportHP rescinds European support call strategy due to "feedback." 001
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026This is such a great under appreciated point of “cancel culture”. I don’t think someone who does something like Biss did should be in prison, or jobless and homeless, but there must be SOME consequences, and “you have to work regular schmuck jobs like the rest of us” is such a minimal consequence 130
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Over the course of 10 years at one job I had three coworkers who later killed or were killed by their spouse. 100
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 05/03/2026With slop bowl restaurants so popular, you'd think someone would catch on that stew is just a hot wet slop bowl 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 05/03/20261. Tailgunner, Lumberjack, Janitor, Draftsman, General Contractor 2. Volunteer Firefighter (I'm sure he had other actual jobs but I never knew what) Me: I tappy-tap on a keyboard with ample coffee supplies and grumble when the office is chilly 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026If I was a governor I would be asking myself what Trump would do if Federal law required him to proclaim Obama Day 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Interesting to me because I was a very picky eater when I was younger, and I mean well into my 20s. Up to then my score would be 29. Now 30ish years later my score is maybe 4-5 depending on how strongly we mean NOT. I could eat any of them if pressed, but 4 or 5 I strongly prefer not to. 000
Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 01/02/2026I think a lot of people would be surprised to learn how many small towns are politically dominated by their wealthiest resident, who owns a car dealership or fast food franchise or meat processing plant or whatever. America has been sowing oligarchs for a very long time. 020
