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Mike Manzer

@nevtelen.bsky.social
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SFF (and sometimes horror) reader. Occasional writer. I play TTRPGs and video games. Mountain biker. Adjunct teaching ESL. #Sounders and #Gonzaga bball fan American and Hungarian.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Physics for the fucking win!! #Sounders
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As a short story writer, I freaking love this thread.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is exactly why it makes me a little sick to see anything connected to DraftKings before MLS matches.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thinking about this today. Who knows how successful Magyar Péter and Hungary will ultimately be, but they are really pushing hard to get Hungary's money back. If only we could have that kind of fight in the US when it's our turn.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 22/09/2026
Seattle area people! Anybody got room to foster a mom and some wee little puppies?
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Repealing the Roadless Rule is insane. We need to stop it. Everybody really ought to read Crossings by Ben Goldfarb. It really gives you a feel for how roads affect the environment. We *need* roadless wilderness.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have bludgeoned several members of the the Issachari tribe to death with blunt instruments and taken their belongings to sell to the Machinimists in the Six Day Stilt. May the ground shake, but the Six Day Stilt never tumble!
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have taught international students for twenty years. I cannot express how big of a problem this will be for them - and frankly for US higher Ed.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As a language teacher, I'm not shocked, but it is pretty impressive how accurate this is.
A map of the US showing that my best dialect matches come from N Utah/SW Wyoming ( I grew up in SW Wyo) and the PNW (I live in the Seattle area.)
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
OMG, this is so true. 😂🤣
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If this was in the US, we'd already be mobilizing the whole country to do something about it instantly.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Holy shit! 🤯🤯🤯
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 21/08/2026
The administration has only given the public a short time to weigh in so we need to raise our voices now and share this news widely. Please join us right now in urging the U.S. Forest Service to keep roadless national forests protected ➡️ bit.ly/4goOc6L
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this!
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I remember when I used to go to Sounders games hoping to see a bit of magic. I was always confident of a win, even if it didn't happen. It was possible. Now for the last 2-3 years I've just found myself hoping we don't take a goal because who knows if we can score one. #Sounders
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. With that kind of budget, I could have someone genetically engineer the giant spiders and intelligent corvids instead of using CGI.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I don't typically mountain bike on dangerous trails, but somehow, today, on my birthday, I managed to break a finger. And then I had to ride out with one useable hand. 0/10 do not recommend. #mtb
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I think about this quote at least a few times a week. When the world seems overwhelming, it's a good one to remember.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The world is a little worse without John Crowley in it. Little, Big is a masterpiece.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Even though I love some of the books on the original tweet, I'll avoid doubling up. The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow The Actual Star by Monica Byrne The Night Ship by Alex Woodrow The Keeper's Six by Kate Elliott The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills And these are just reads from my last year.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Bookish checkpoint! Share your last, current, and next reads. Last: Kayak by Kristal Stittle Current: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow Next: The Hunger and the Dusk, Vol. 2 by G. Willow Wilson and Chris Wildgoose
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I signed up for @ellipsus.com today as an alternative. We'll see how I like it, but it definitely shows that different ways of doing things are not only possible, but already out there.
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
That's a total handball.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Goddamm we needed that #ebfg
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Mine are: beam weapon just-in-time PC/NPC social liberalism brewski
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Dark Crystal Skesis Confrontation
Alt: Two Skesis from the movie The Dark Crystal look at each other and nod.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Controversial opinion of the morning: I understand both downhill and XC, but enduro will always be real mountain bike racing to me. #MTB
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Um... Huh. There are bad ideas that only seem bad in hindsight... and then there is this. I mean... "Realbotix... [is] marking a pivot for the company from crypto to humanoid robots." What could go wrong?
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Tokens.com - The Liquidity Gateway
Helping consumers understand real-world and digital assets and connect them to regulated pathways for access, financing, and liquidity.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I'm getting the feeling that we are already out of ideas offensively.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
*sigh* I think when the announcer says we haven't gotten much from our 9s this year it's time to drink. Not b/c of a drinking game, just because it lessens the pain a little. #Sounders
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Well... There goes my job. We're going to have 0 new international students in September.
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Going to the World Cup today via Sounders' ticket lottery. The big question is who should I cheer for - Belgium or Egypt?
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Paraguay much better defending in the box after halftime.
Cartoon with a bear walking into a room saying. "They you guys guess who got yelled at!"
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
So in this time when the US is what it is. I'd like everyone to remember that a player born to Nigerian parents in a blue city is killing it out there for us.
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Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The community drabble for today is, "The Silicon Never Lies" by Michael Manzer. The theme was "omen." Find Michael Manzer at @nevtelen.bsky.social Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/DRBL #writingprompt #drabble
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Really fun to see Ray Nayler and Nicola Griffith at Eliott Bay books tonight. I'm looking forward to devouring Palaces of the Crow this weekend.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I'm not a "working writer" in the sense that I make a living from writing, but I do write. And I say this is the dumbest shit imaginable.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Omg. This is pure gold. 😂😂😂 He must have had his writers' room (and probably his whole team) working on this before his show ended.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Going for animation... His name is Bone... James Bone. (Probably fewer martinis in this version.)
A page from the Bone comics. It shows Bone, a small cartoonish quasi-human writing a very bad love poem and being surprised by large, hungry rat creatures. I mean, come on - love, action, comedy... Bone is a master of it all.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Slightly increase a band: Incandescent Chili Peppers
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Well, I guess this is why Canvas cut out in the middle of my students midterm essay... Fun times we live in.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
To Whom It May Concern: "Demographers and others" are right on this one. Signed, someone who left Wyoming decades ago for college and never went back
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Slightly diminish a book: The Baronet of the Rings: The One and a Half Towers
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I probably rented this VHS like 20 times as a kid.
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a man on a bike is doing a trick while another man on a skateboard looks on
Alt: Some dudes on BMX bikes jumping.
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Mike Manzer @nevtelen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I've done my taxes for years now and somehow have never leveled up. Otherwise, this seems like a good comparison.
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