Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 7hI'm watching on a bootleg German feed and I swear they said Schnelltdown at some point. 000
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 10hApologies for the real lives involved here, but how does this make any strategic sense? How will this do anything but lose GOPers votes, lose Michelle Tafoya votes? 440
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Is there any context to this at all? (honest question) 000
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Plant ID on photographs from Claude was incredible. The actual identification was great, but equally so picking up other clues in the photos and including the appropriate caveats. I realize this isn't exactly cutting edge tech, but it's actual useful and something I can using regularly. 100
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Genre Enthusiast doing the real work there. This is a tremendous video of something I haven't seen before. I've watched the nest cam ofShadow and Jackie (RIP) and they definitely got after waterfowl, but I just wasn't quite sure what that would look like in action. 130
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 12/10/2026They're currently doing an amazing job "maintaining" the thickets of buckthorn that are choking out 3/4 of the wooded areas of the parks. We're working on what's next. The upside of small town life is if you get like 10 people on your side then you win. 020
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 12/10/2026hell yeah! I run a local group that organizes volunteers to help neighbors rip invasives out of their yards and this fall/winter we're collecting native seeds and growing thousands of plants for the city's parks. Been doing this for awhile, guerrilla-style, but this year we're going legit. 120
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Collect the seeds of native plants and propagate them while it's still legal! I'm elbow deep in native seed collecting for a community-project and this is speaking my language. 120
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We have a tons of eagles here in NE Wisconsin so I see them in my town all the time but every single time it's like DAAAAAMN. Every single time is awesome. 1120
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s one of my top twenty albums by anybody and I still don’t know half the words. 040
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Especially after all the handwringing over Welbz leaving. 000
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdo-...youtube.comJohn Prine - In A Town This Size - In Spite of OurselvesYouTube video by John Prine 000
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I need to eke at least fifteen more years of this paid design stuff, but the prospects of that happening seem to be dwindling by the hour. I dunno... I know a shit ton about seeds and growing plants. Maybe that's my future gig? It's gonna get interesting. 130
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social I'm Luke's brother. Fancy running into you here. 110
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My first instinct was to share this on the socials, but as a graphic designer, this kind of thing indicates just how close we are to Game Over for my career as I've known it for 25 years. The fewer people that know how to squeeze decent design from an AI app, the better. 150
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm a Wisconsinite who was pumped to see Wikler take the reins at the national level. Ken Martin has been a disaster on a lot of fronts and the elections are still ahead of us, but it was almost impossible to imagine the Dems competing nationally as they are just six months ago. 000
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'd move Ayari up three or four spots, but this is a strong list. Astonishing that Yalcouye has gone from, what, 4th string holding midfielder to almost completely indispensable. Watch one of those "Welcome to Brighton" videos made two years , though—what we're seeing now is all there on show. 000
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I don't think he's a shitstain, but a shitstain that delivers Texas and keeps Paxton out of the Senate is alright in my book. The structure of the Senate is stacked dramatically against the Dems and the opportunity to salvage the country doesn't exist without Dem control, so... 100
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Great Senate candidates. We'll see how the votes fall but you couldn't ask for better polling right now. 010
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Not really what folks want to hear but Dems have picked truly excellent Senate candidates this cycle. 100
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026No biggie. Just 3% of the population of the US or whatever. 040
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026CBS News out here like he might have added a zero or two to his bookkeeping. 1360
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is great work, some of the best I’ve seen on the topic. Thanks for writing it. 000
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Paw tends to corrupt and absolute Paw corrupts absolutely 030
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Athletic is cranking out about ten of these a day and I'm here for every last one of 'em. And the comments. 020
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I aged out of pop music when I was like 23, but everybody does stuff differently. 000
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That is a grim photo of the equally grim county party HQ. 210
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026He's an idiot, and we're stuck with him until he decides to move on down life's highway. 070
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Northeast Wisconsin, including Green Bay and the surrounding counties. Ask me how I know... 020
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I live in Appleton, a purple town in a purple state, but Appleton and Green Bay are stuck in a congressional district that includes vast swathes of Northwoods forest and the legion of MAGA folk who inhabit it. This guy somehow has a safe seat, and it's utterly maddening. 040
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I appreciate getting these nudges for the Ramble here on Bluesky. 000
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not sure the blue wig and tiny crown are closing the deal for folks who are on the fence vis-à-vis guillotining everybody at the Onion. 010
Michael Gerwe @saintem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Does "the war" suggest an inevitability to it, like talking about "the weather"? 000
