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Mr. Steak

@mistersteak.bsky.social
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I'm Mike. I run a quietly anti-fascist/anti-capitalist bookmobile in a very red county in the Midwest. Talkin' punk rock/DIY, librarianship, books, records, baseball, heavy metal, guitars/amps, beer/bourbon. Band guy. Indiana but trying.

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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 17h
That's great! I'm having so much fun being in a band, developing ideas, writing songs with purpose again. Making stuff is cool! Art is cool, whether and/or even if it's mostly just for yourself! I hope people like it, but if they don't, I like it and that's good enough. Definitely keep doing it.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 17h
They're cool! I'm enjoying it.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The new Uncle Acid album, goddamn I said GODDAMN, this is gonna be ripping my eardrums apart the rest of the year huh
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Jean Is Dead" is always a gut punch for me (and a gut punch I love to be certain).
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negativehustle.bsky.social @negativehustle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our first show, happening tonight at the Melody Inn in Indianapolis. Afterglow and Phyllis are also rockin'. Starts at 7:30, we play last (supposedly at/around 9:30). $7, 21+. If you like rock 'n' roll in the vein of MC5, Ramones, Gluecifer, Zeke, and New Bomb Turks, ya might dig us. Come find out.
Negative Hustle flyer for show on September 3rd at the Melody Inn in Indianapolis.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Rad. Next show up is at State Street Pub on Friday, 10/30 with Idiot and Hell Is Here (Columbus, OH hardcore). Dave from the Mel tossed us on this bill to fill out the night so this is more or less a "soft launch of the hard jams" for us.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Annihilate next week! Self-promo always feels kinda awkward and scummy and I hate it, but conversely, I love this band and want people to hear it. Our first show is happening in Indy on Thursday night. I'm fuckin stoked at least.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm originally from Muncie and have had friends both OD or commit suicide that came from what I'd view as good/privileged circumstances. I have a complicated relationship/feelings about the town.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
While I dunno if anyone ever sees or stumbles across my occasional missives here, I've got a ripping new band, first show on 9/3 in Indy and a 7" record out in October (music posting soon). Give a follow to @negativehustle.bsky.social if you're into that kind of thing. #punkrock #rocknroll
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
You had your work on a bass drum head before? Now you have.
Black kick drum head sitting leaned up against a record collection with the Negative Hustle logo artwork on it which is a winged black panther with tortoise shell markings, a small crown, and tail wrapped around an Explorer-style guitar. Even if you aren't able to see the photo you know it kicks ass because Phineas X Jones designed it and his art is great. Hire him to do a project for you!
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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Here's a closer look at the design I made for Negative Hustle. I could also make a thing for you.
A prowling, fierce looking panther with tortoise shell markings including a lightning bolt shape on her forehead. She has large, white feathered wings and is holding an electric guitar with her surprisingly prehensile tail. And she has a gold, bejeweled crown on her head. Arcing above and below the panther in big slab serif lettering are the words 'Negative Hustle'Detail of the panther's face, front paws and some wing, all filled with stipple dots
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I've got a new band with some friends of mine and our first show is now upcoming. A self-titled 4-song 7" EP is in the hands of the pressing plant and should be ready for our second Indy show on 10/30, but for now: if you live in the Indy area and like rockin, maybe come check Negative Hustle out?
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Just spent 3 nights at a cabin a few miles outside Nelsonville and passed a site that already had a fracking rig set up and operating. Bleak.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I still spin my original pressing I bought after seeing "On A Rope" on 120 Minutes and being like "oh shit!" but saw this new splatter pressing on my IG timeline and started thinking "do I need another copy, maaaaaaybe"
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I saw the tribute/reunion in Asheville in December before the upcoming Midwest dates were announced. It was really, really great. Just in case it isn't already on your radar: lh-st.com/shows/08-28-...
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08-28-2026 Magnolia And Johnson Electric Co.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Unless you're looking for a specific pressing, you can get the anniversary edition for $28 plus shipping directly from Secretly Canadian: secretlystore.com/products/mag...
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Magnolia Electric Co. (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) - Songs: Ohia| Secretly Store
The hallmark of Jason Molina's career, Magnolia Electric Co., is both a confluence of all he would create and a line in the sand to mark a shift in his songwriting approach. It was the last statement ...
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
@blacktopkid.bsky.social Spending a little time in Louise Penny's Three Pines universe (aka Knowlton, QC) and what did I spy among the library's native French collection?
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
yeah i separate art from the artist. i put the harry potter books in the recycling and jk rowling in the trash.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 04/02/2026
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
we have got to start being meaner to people who are still fans of harry potter. i don't give a shit what you were going through when you read it. that is not your "comfort character" that is a wizard cop written by a mold-addled racist transphobe
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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 10/01/2026
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
George Wallace is one of our greatest Americans and whatnot.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Here's a clip of "The Dark Don't Hide It" I took last night with Jake Lenderman doing guest vocals and third guitar. One of those shows I'm glad I traveled to see.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
FWIW, he was out there for at least 7 songs and he absolutely did justice to the songs he sang lead vocals on, but Magnolia with Will is absolutely incredible on its own too. Such a cathartic, magical, special night.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
YES
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
fuckin' Bobby Hickman, the long con of upselling old Dodge Caravans he's painted seems like more trouble than it's worth
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
"No, honey, we don't need The Rock, we've got one at home." The one at home:
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I really really wish I'd said "steppin FRESH in the Fresh Step" but hindsight is 20/20
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I can't believe the Pads are going to be eliminated by a ginger @shaqapopolis.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Me on the toilet
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
It's called "fashion," look it up
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I've had so many moral/ethical/philosophical debates with myself about my continued following of the organization when it all feels so gross but goddammit, seeing Ozuna penciled in to the cleanup spot tonight (and really ever since his DUI and domestic issues) just takes the damn cake. Free AA.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
***guitars not included*** *slams down phone* "the deal is OFF!"
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
It must feel amazing to launch a dinger out of Truist Park. Sending a rocket through the front window of a 300-seat Bonefish Grill in the adjacent mall, all the Vineyard Vines dudes in there are so scared at the sound that they instantly jump into their Sorcerer-size SUVs and drive 55 minutes home.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I can't bring myself to pay for something twice.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Man I feel this so hard. Do I gotta download Soulseek again? C'mon man. I only buy vinyl but my car and lawnmower cause so many skips, it's not working.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The Cup of Coffee newsletter by @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social moved to Beehiiv to start 2024 and stunk, then migrated from there to Ghost and as a daily reader (usually just e-mail, not often a web site/commenter) I have no complaints with Ghost. Move on from those that profit off Nazi shit.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
It was eerie driving to work through it this morning at 7:30, clearly not fog.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Americans have really got to unlearn the propagandist indoctrination that socialism is bad. It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us. We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
FAFO is for trump voting farmers or roofing company ceos acting puzzled their workers are gone or maga influencers protesting their tariff bill for their podcast merch Not for dead kids or parents mourning dead kids Figure it out
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Boomers will get eaten by a shark just to prove a point
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Now, CSB and the Cocaine Wolves are just memories, and B-Dubs is proffering a pale imitation of what I'd quaff from my chalice on the rock throne. Instead I'll have an IPA in this IKEA chair tonight I guess.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Central State Brewing already made a keg of this radler using their gose (Garden) and Mountain Dew in 2019 for my last band's record release party. [Dropping in a shot of gin put it over the top in a surprisingly delicious way.]
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
yesterday, today, tomorrow, forever
A blue T-shirt with white screen print of a koala-lookin' cartoon bear in baseball shirt with "ACAB" on it waving a pennant that says "FUCK ICE" and we love the bear, his message, his spirit, we love him. Shirt designed and sold recently by Farewell Transmission with profits benefiting Border Kindness.
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I've never had a Spindrift I didn't think sucked balls. Short's Brewing's Thirst Mutilator sparkling hop water in grape is tight, too, but a little more expensive than just grabbing Waterloo from the store.
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rob cham! @robcham.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
DIY > AI
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Mr. Steak @mistersteak.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Rick Steves doesn't have to go as hard as he does, his legacy is already peerless, but damn do we love to see it again and again
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NUTS SACKED
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