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Mike Wyant Jr.

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Mike Wyant Jr., a former IT guy turned sci‑fi author and political essayist, I guess. This is my personal account with my personal opinions. mikewyantjr.com

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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 4h
anxiety is just parallel computing without a good heat sink
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit, Donald Trump, tries to take our voice and power away, what do we tell him? Keep your fucking hands off our vote.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026
Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do
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Tales From Between @talesfrombetween.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New short fiction by @disgruntledpeony.bsky.social up on talesfrombetween.com NOW! Go go go!
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 02/10/2026
They think that reading it and not understanding the content is expertise? If so, I’m open for interviews as a sci-fi author, ex-SysAdmin, a late-blooming mad scientist, and am a medical Marijuanna user. $100k obo
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 02/10/2026
I don’t post much over here because I’ve been going through some health issues that makes it hard for me to use my hands I guess I’ll try transcription…?
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Elmo Screw It
Alt: Elmo Screw It You know Elmo. 
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Renee Good's mom: "I am a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect citizens -- innocents like our family and the others here. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/09/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

More than two centuries ago, Father Hidalgo y Costilla’s church bell gave way to the cry of a people known as El Grito de Dolores — a call for freedom that would begin Mexico’s long struggle for independence. 

Today, that same spirit of self-determination lives in Mexican New Yorkers who have helped build this city for generations — from the zapateros of Corona to the banda musicians of Sunset Park. 

As we celebrate an independent Mexico, we also celebrate the Mexican New Yorkers who make our city great. And we recommit ourselves to defending their dignity and right to belong.

In moments of uncertainty and cruelty, New York City does not leave its own behind.

¡Viva México!
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 15/09/2026
I love that ship 🖖
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on an RNC attendee yelling that he should be shot: "Look, I'm a dad with two daughters. And I hope those daughters get to grow up and live with their dad."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
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September 11 Docs
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 08/09/2026
You can learn to live with anything and still feel it in your soul
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 03/09/2026
It’s all good. Debate and discussion is good. Hell, I still haven’t gotten around to checking that data they pointed out was missing
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 02/09/2026
Good point. It’s early for data to be fully applicable to a guy who has been in office for 8 months, but he’s managed to do a bunch of stuff I didn’t think could be done that quickly Maybe there’s something about the distribution of arrests? If I get there soon I’ll post back
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 02/09/2026
Defunding police means moving money for stuff that isn’t actually police action—mental health crises are a big one—and putting it back into the area it should be in if we want the right trained professionals working on the right issues. police go back to just policing with defund movement
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 01/09/2026
Catherine Cool last saw her husband, Eddie Reyes-Ochoa, at the Hancock County Jail. He wore the orange of an MDOC convict, she said, and his feet were shackled. He cried as they said goodbye, for now, still caught in the blur of sudden disruption. buff.ly/G90ZaKn
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ICE Detains Kiln Man, Leaving Pregnant Wife Alone: ‘We’ve Done What the Government Told Us’
Eddie Reyes-Ochoa, just weeks from earning his green card, was detained by ICE and taken to an immigration detention center in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 01/09/2026
Seems like she earned it
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 01/09/2026
Question: how do you account for establishing a Marxist communist system without introducing similar issues as we’ve seen with former communist nations? IF you could get to a Marxist communist system without also fundamentally establishing a cultural hierarchy of some sort, I could see an argument
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 01/09/2026
They did that in January, I believe
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This fucking ROCKS.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026
WELKER: Do you think democratic socialists have a place in the Democratic Party? VAN HOLLEN: Yes they do as part of the debate. I think that those in the Dem Party who are afraid of a healthy debate are missing the point, because Democratic voters do not want a return to the pre-Trump status quo
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 22/08/2026
right it definitely wasn’t that not at all
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 20/08/2026
Or two decent sized Etruscan bowls in good company?
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 20/08/2026
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Meryl Streep & Jennifer Lopez: Standing Ovation
ALT: Meryl Streep & Jennifer Lopez: Standing Ovation
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 20/08/2026
I need my heat pump testes bouncing or am i even using green heating and cooling?
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 19/08/2026
Same in the Middle Ages in the Middle East The work they did on mathematics alone still resonates today The line from civilizations that valued knowledge to today should not have been this bumpy 😕
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 18/08/2026
Oh good. That’s the most important guy to have
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 17/08/2026
Now you got me thinking about it, I wonder if Stravinsky’s biggest bitch wouldn’t be the idea of recording over musical interpretation. The Ballet Russe only have a couple short extant recordings, iirc Can’t recall if that’s purposeful or a result of the Russian Revolution atm
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 17/08/2026
If there are midi tracks, though, we could pretty quickly resolve the sound quality issue nowadays, so maybe that negates the concerns over time?
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 17/08/2026
Had to google Moog and real quick, but, honestly, that’s most of my own hesitation as well. Synthesizers were magic, but they still sound like a kazoo in a tin can most of the time
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 16/08/2026
Is it purposeful he’s riding a dark horse or nah?
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 16/08/2026
I’m listening to Firebird right now after Tomita’s and I think there’d be appreciation that Tomita nailed the impactful moments and gave them the same weight as the original.
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 16/08/2026
It was the first ballet I’d ever really sat and listened to openly. The soundtrack in the midst of what was happening in Russia in that decade just caught my attention and *held* it. Also, I lied: I *absolutely* know Tomita, but I’d forgotten their name! Thanks for the reintroduction!
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 16/08/2026
Hm. I hadn’t heard of the album. I’ll have to give it a listen. Been a long time since I’ve heard heard/seen Firebird. Haven’t seen it since my Birth of Modernism class either thinki
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Incredible stuff from Cards Against Humanity, who is now building a monument to interfere with SpaceX.
Why do you keep calling Elon Musk “a sad little bitch with no friends”?

Great question! (1) He is sad, (2) he is a bitch, and (3) he has no friends.

Did Elon Musk spend his 47th birthday alone, with no friends?

Yes.

Did Elon Musk beg Jeffrey Epstein for an invitation to his island, but get rejected?

Yes.

You’re saying that even the world’s most infamous pedophile didn’t want to be Elon Musk’s friend?

Yes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026
Mamdani: "If a New Yorker looks at what ICE is doing and wants to see more of it, they should vote for Bruce Blakeman, who has created his own militia in Nassau County. If they look at what ICE is doing and they are shocked by the inhumanity and cruelty, they should vote for Gov. Kathy Hochul."
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 14/08/2026
you’re going to be late dave
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 13/08/2026
It’d be really nice if we can agree on some base rules. We won’t all agree on some stuff—NONE of it human rights based—but some of that stuff has a lot of emotion behind it.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/08/2026
The ICE raids and cruelty we are seeing inflicted on children are unacceptable.

The federal government has stripped legal representation from hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children. Many will soon face an impossible choice: navigate our immigration system alone or risk detention and deportation.

Our city is stepping up. We've invested $16.9 million in immigration legal services for unaccompanied children, with another $32 million in this year's immigration legal services budget, including rapid-response legal advice and representation for people in detention.

If you need immigration legal support, we're here to help. Our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline is available in your preferred language, regardless of immigration status.
Call 1-800-354-0365
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 11/08/2026
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 10/08/2026
An update on my health issues, why I've seemingly disappeared in person, and why I wish we could get an extended warranty on the human body #ChronicPain #chronicillness #hypermobility #localgovernment blog.mikewyantjr.com/on-extended-...
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On Extended Warranties, Jacob’s Ladders, and Why I’ve Been Quiet Lately
If you’ve tried to reach me recently and wondered where I’ve disappeared to — whether on town business, non-profit logistics, or just…
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 08/08/2026
I’m not trying to be perfect I’m trying to be resilient
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Mike Wyant Jr. @mikewyantjr.com · 07/08/2026
Bet someone created electricity in 1348 or something and was burned for being a witch
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