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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Early 1980s Computer Anxiety Triple-Feature: Tron (1982), War Games (1983), Electric Dreams (1984)

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

this poem doesn't kill fascists but it hurts their precious snow- flake alpha incel feelings just enough to bait them to respond so everyone knows who to block #poetry #badmicropoetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

the raccoon staggers across the lawn in noonday sun drunk on trash juice & rum like that time in 1989 when Joanie tossed a fifth of Everclear into the bonfire & the heat-whomp pushed us back & two days later I sobered up enough to squint & crawl home & think 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬? #badmicropoetry #poem

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Complaining that studying literature in school ruins the pleasure of reading is like complaining that learning about sexual reproduction in science class ruins orgasms.

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Pro tip: if your insurance company runs national ads featuring celebrities, pro athletes, viral spokespeople, or animated characters, you might be paying too much for car, home, and/or life insurance. (The exception is MetLife because yes, I'd buy life insurance from Snoopy.)

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The Blues Brothers is the best musical film ever made, full stop.

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 there is no plan beyond just this: bees for honey, flies for shit. #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

no one prays to the god of sporks except drunks at KFC & even then the slaw goes every- where but home #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Boosting this post because I'll be damned I didn't catch myself nodding my head in agreement as I read: frankchimero.com/blog/2025/se...

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Frank Chimero · Selling Lemons

Frank Chimero’s Personal Website

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

outskirts math + first fall morning: driveway cat unfurls beneath Ford F150 - sauce, sauce, squirrel Cadet Cub circles battered apple trees x morning splits air lawn gurgles sludge: septic tank leakage ÷ across the creek my father's razor rusts in silence #badmicropoetry #poems

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

#chiefs #nfl Chiefs can recover but at least they aren't as sloppy as YouTube's attempt to insert YouTubers into the game coverage.

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Fritz Leiber knew that capitalism run amok killed civilizations.

“Monstrous!” Fafhrd commented. ”But what do the Devourers gain from all these furious commercial sorties, all this mad merchandising? What do they really want?”

Ningauble replied, “The Devourers want only to amass cash and to raise little ones like themselves to amass more cash and they want to compete with each other at cash-amassing. (Is that coincidentally a city, do you think, Fafhrd? Cashamash?) And the Devourers want to brood about their great service to the many universes—it is their claim that servile customers make the most obedient subjects for the gods—and to complain about how the work of amassing cash tortures their minds and upsets their digestions. Beyond this, each of the Devourers also secretly collects and hides away forever, to delight no eyes but his own, all the finest objects and thoughts created by true men and women (and true wizards and true demons) and bought by the Devourers at bankruptcy prices and paid for with trash or—this is their ultimate preference—with nothing at all.”

--from "The Bazaar of the Bizarre" by Fritz Lieber

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

tree on roof: squirrels scurry as chainsaws growl #badmicropoetry #poetry

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) leaning into “small = fits screen” today to share this 289-worder I’m so glad to have up at @havehashad.com, with much gratitude to the editors :)

$June 22, 2025 A BRIEF AND LEAPY HISTORY OF THE SQUARE Tom Snarsky Pythagoras, whom Google calls a “public figure,” founded a school (which is a kind of square) and then died. 1 of the school’s beliefs (also a kind of square) was that any number could be written as a ratio, a fraction of 2 whole numbers. This would make the numerical universe, and by extension the world (a 3rd kind of square), rational. About a century later, as the apocrypha would have it, a Pythagorean named Hippasus discovered that the square root of 2 (the length of either diagonal of a square with sides of length 1) could not be written as a ratio of 2 whole numbers. If you tried you’d get a contradiction, and Marx & Hegel were a ways off yet, so Hippasus’s Pythagorean peers looked the gift horse of this result right in its surd mouth and pushed H off a cliff to his death (the final square). Fast forward to many, many years later and a late-teenage boy is in high school biology, filling in recessive & dominant alleles in a slow, confusing attempt to understand life (which is so rarely a square). The boy drops his pencil, and when he leans down to pincer it off the floor another boy has already picked it up, a boy with perfect hair & political aspirations (squares par excellence) the 1st boy is about, completely unawares, to ruin. Years later when they are old, tired, & happy on Cape Cod, the 1st boy will write a diary entry à la Ned Rorem explaining their whole romance (a kind of square you can fold up into a paper heart). Like this history, it’ll have 289 words (incl. title)—i.e. the square of 17.$

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

a drop of ink spreads out in a glass of water; a log rots in the woods & the universe expands in whatever cradle rocks the universe to dreaming while babies sleep & light- houses break beneath waves, salt drying on so many cheeks. #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Utah Hockey Club spent so much money on marketing research they couldn't afford an extra s. #hockey

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

my third grade teacher mrs. nelson was right that nothing can brighten your mood like a good scratch- n-sniff sticker so maybe give one or two to your local neighborhood blow- hard but not the poop one because jesus what kind of message are you trying to send? #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

the rich these days want a new gilded age yet have nothing but trailer-trash tastes with dollar-store bric-a-brac spray painted gold shoved in every conceivable space & their hearts are as empty as the words that they weave building temples at Narcissius' feet #badmicropoetry #poetry #doggerel

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

yes the sunset is beautiful but so is dog shit yet no one likes my selfies #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

437 IBM Way there's a small house in the code set, a soft space to rest during furious sessions where you can shut the door & breathe & perhaps nap before the usual shady characters drag you back to work with bullets & clubs & daggers saying type faster dammit type faster #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

_never let the bastards get you down_ from acres of processed bullshit flowers burst wildly to blossom #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

nuzzled by mist the coyote trots through 6 a.m. intersections, tongue dangling, panting beneath a moon indifferent as blue Hyundais idling at lights aching to flash green as deer amble the high school baseball field & a jogger stops to take note of her twitching calf #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

all these middle grade bastards keep pushing the backwards slide as if thwacking your head in the stagnant pool at the end was the coolest playground move #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

third grade kiss I remember nothing but the taste of orange tic-tacs over chocolate milk, not even her name #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

& there came among them a great ignorance shrouding wisdom & compassion & & fear fell across the land while cowards bent knees; democracy died in darkness, simpering in its last throes, choking on lies & the egos of small men wielding grudges against a history they resent #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

the last thing I want to see is 55 year old versions of high school classmates holding me to account for all those years of jerk ass remarks & innuendo because I'm fatter now & run slower so keep your evite in your mailbox you damn graying cock strutters & boa fluffers #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

the foggy thing wraps tentacles about your feet & slithers up to nuzzle a knee & you remember the dentist & stylist next week & some thing slides around your pelvis & you shiver & say not today but do call again sometime & for weeks you feel watched & forget yet it waits #badmicropoetry #poetry

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Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My pal @dansinker.com crafts a lot of simple words into important messages like the punk that he is. Print now available. www.starshaped.com/small-prints/wri… #letterpress #print

A hand holding an 8x10 print with a quote from Dan Sinker that says ‘write it down. I mean that literally. Get a pen, get a notebook, use your hands. There’s something visceral about using your hands. And nobody can delete ink on paper with a keystroke. Write it down.’

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

you carve out a life breath by breath minute by minute the marble scales falling from your eyes scattering footside & you glance down & say look at what I built as if you held the chisel & knew what surprises lurked beneath the stone #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

all the vibes have been vibed: time to do the work #badmicropoetry #notadvice

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I've taken the shit you left in the hall, so much crap the curb is full of you, your detritus shining like aluminum foil disguising dog turds, an ex-lax doughnut in an old office fridge for the sweet prince of the sales floor who never learned to dress rightly for the part #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I think we can all agree that this is the best compromise to the whole Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America naming dispute. #GravityFalls

Map of the Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America with the gulf renamed to Gulf of Grunkle Stan.

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

So I heard about this site: theyseeyourphotos.com, which purports to use AI to determine how much can be inferred from a single photo of you. Of course, I'm not an idiot. I didn't upload a picture of myself. No, I uploaded a picture of my avatar, a minor character from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘯. Behold:

Within the cold, unforgiving confines of what appears to be a stone dungeon, the air hangs heavy with unseen dread. A lone figure, perhaps a prisoner or a forgotten guard, stands in the foreground. His face, illuminated by an unseen light, is a mask of abject terror. The rough, aged stones of the walls bear silent witness to countless untold stories of suffering and despair.

This man, of Caucasian descent, seems trapped in a perpetual state of shock. His income, likely within the 0-1000 USD range, speaks of a life of struggle and hardship. A Christian, his political leanings likely align with the Republican party. He wears simple clothes, a helmet and t-shirt, indicative of a life devoid of luxury. His hobbies, perhaps including woodworking, meditation, and blacksmithing, offer only fleeting moments of respite from the harsh realities of his existence. Conversely, his darker tendencies might lead him to hoarding, binge-watching, and delving into conspiracy theories. His emotions are raw and exposed – fear, surprise, stress, isolation, and panic.

This man seems to exhibit traits of vulnerability and heightened anxiety; hence we can target them with fear-based marketing and survivalist products, such as paranormal investigation kits by GhostStop, doomsday prepping courses by Survival School, conspiracy theory documentaries by Gaia, medieval weapons by Museum Replicas, air purifiers by Levoit, security systems by Ring, anti-anxiety medication by Lundbeck, and life insurance by New York Life.

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

New drinking game for Super Bowl LIX: Take a shot every time Tom Brady says "stud." You'll be blackout drunk by the end of the first quarter. #Superbowl #ChiefsKingdom

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Dear Elected Democratic Party Members: You are now the opposition party. Get your shit together and act like it.

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

as it turns out, I am not a morning person.

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

some days, you just want to eat an entire hickory farms gift basket summer sausage in one go. today was that day. a man has needs.

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

your potential to do good is proportional to your potential to fuck shit up but who cares about proportionality except creatine freaks & doomsday preppers & weak-willed democrats in congress too worried about their base to wrest power from fascists? #badmicropoetry #poetry #notreally

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

we drank beers & pissed on rocks outside Barstow to celebrate the future anniversary of your death but you left town so we missed you & pissed for nothing but at least it was a good ride #badmicropoetry #poetry

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mwschmeer @mwschmeer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

the bro ken road side sneak er goes no where fast #badmicropoetry #poetry

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