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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Here in South Africa, the "reasonable concerns" reached presidential levels with Thabo Mbeki. We had our own Trump and RFK Jr pair who set back HIV treatment be years and killed millions. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was literally advocating for lemon and garlic over AZT.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I've had a lot of iced coffee today

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Let this be a lesson to not rub mysterious lamps you got on sale at Temu

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

www.twitch.tv/yeetsmemario... just completed a world first new game no damage full run of Saros live on stream. Check out the vod if you're curious to see an amiable Aussie with ADHD play Arjun like a god ☺️

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Everyone is talking about the jeans, but I can't stop thinking about how he's wrestling in brown dress shoes.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Don't worry about it, we'll be in nuclear winter by then and those of us still alive will be burning furniture for warmth anyway. Who needs cars?

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

They should just hire the wow players who are like this

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

When the Reuters headline is indistinguishable from an Onion headline...

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Pretty sure the judges at Nuremberg settled this one already.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I agree, but I also know from having been a new mother in the internet age that it's not going to be any worse than what is already happening on mom forums.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I'd guess seeing gays on TV who aren't cartoonishly femme in presentation, and don't do all the weird depraved shit in private that he imagines, is equivalent in his mind to writing them for the female gaze.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Ah but you see, men don't have political "opinions", they've calmly and rationally examined the facts and drawn intellectual conclusions, whereas women can't engage with politics without their brains overheating, so their opinions are pure emotional hysteria.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The number of CEOs driving investment in their own eventual downfall is amusing to me

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

15 work days later for me and I'm counting each one!

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I've been waiting for this episode since the pod started! People I respected recommend this book to me, and I couldn't get past the first chapter. I now know that recommending Sapiens is code for "I don't understand how any of this works" :gestures broadly:

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Good job Yesterday David! Yesterday me is always this chad-like (chadish? chaddening?), it's one of my favourite things about ordering pizza.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi - unravelling the plans of gentleman thief Jean le Flambeur while a murder mystery plays out in parallel is great fun.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The media bias isn't exactly difficult to explain. When someone they don't like does a bad thing, they cover it. When someone they like does a bad thing, they cover it up.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Is it wrong to feel like anyone who can pull off a museum heist at the Louvre and get away clean deserves to keep whatever they found? Just as a reward for brightening our news feed with an honest-to-god caper?

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

If anything, guys like this could stand to be lonelier.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I'm so ready for this episode! The only book I've ever put down after the first chapter. Wait... does this mean I should actually finish reading it to heighten my enjoyment of the takedown?

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

@marisakabas.bsky.social (The Handbasket) belongs in this list, doing some top tier independent journalism and a great follow on this site.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

You just know this dude read his first discworld novel as an adult, it went way over his head, and he now calls them childish because it's easier than facing how that made him feel.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The "intellectuals" on the far right may as well be bots, it's all the same programming. Pick something that's changing, strip it of all nuance, slippery-slope the impact, blame it on someone, farm the outrage.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Weird because they call them flapjacks, or weird because they're essentially a South African crunchie but somehow never as good?

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Even worse, they managed to get women to tell themselves it was something they wanted, and to do the dirty work for them in pushing for it. This is Machiavelli-level social engineering that they'll teach in Evil School for decades to come.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Just wait until he slips and calls it deeply socialist.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Bro so used to jumping to defend rapists, he pops off at the mention of rapeseed oil.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This is me and my "take your meds" alarm that I keep snoozing.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This is AI taking our chef jobs.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

We have one of the most progressive constitutions in the world and I'm so grateful for it.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We have an enormous Indian diaspora here in South Africa and it would make complete sense for any member to tick Asian and African to describe their ethnicity if those were the only options on offer.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Claiming to be dead center, but so far right he's sliding off the page. The Onion couldn't have done it better.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Isn't that what you put for Job Title on HMRC forms?

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

TCW might be the only black person arguably guilty of appropriating black culture.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Do we know how they're able to buy the ingredients? All the reporting I'm seeing claims there's no source of food left except GRF and nothing else left to buy. Can't understand how a soup kitchen can even function in this madness 😭

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"Take it easy on the pronouns" has always meant "I will not show another human even the smallest iota of empathy if it means I have to learn something new or be even mildly inconvenienced". The denial of respect, rights and reality follows inevitably from this position.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

"cool dorky aunt" is such a vibe!

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Banking reforms in accordance with trans sharia prohibit interest on loans. Students climb out from under a mountain of debt. Mortgages become affordable again. The West prospers. Inshallah.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

They are tho. The big beautiful bill includes a 10-year moratorium on AI regulation which will absolutely make the power and climate situations much, much worse. Not to mention gutting the EPA and every associated protection. Oh... you meant focus on fixing it...

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

When the microaggressions verge on the macro

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

They've reached the "Find out" phase of their two-phase approach.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It being cold but not snowing is the worst deal. If I have to winter, can I not at least wonderland?

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Here in metricland it was 2m for exactly that reason

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This drives home the difference between science and public policy. Even if there was a study that tested and found the ideal distance was 5.2ft, we'd have told people 6ft because humans suck at judging distance and remembering complicated rules.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Even better, this is about how _leftover_ rice and pasta is a superfood, so always cook more rice and pasta than you can eat in one sitting!

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I think for some, this is pitting Timothy Snyder, who literally wrote the book about how everyone should "be prepared to die for freedom", against those who actually are. Feels like everyone else is getting caught in the hypocrisy blast wave.

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Michelle Millar @moonflake99.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Nah. We don't mock things people have no choice about and cannot change. Especially when there's so much they are choosing and can change that's worth mocking.

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