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ImJustMikey

@santamikeydm.bsky.social
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1985. Maker, Writer, player of games, singer of songs, teller of stories, lover of cats, dogfather, bringer of gifts. Helping the homeless, the Lonesome, and those just on hard times is a passion. #BLM #TransLivesMatter #NeverTrump #VoteBlue #BeTheMagic

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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
better idea. reduce our dependence on oil all together. we dont need oil. in the 1950s a dude built an engine that could power a car and it only needed a cup of cooking oil. i may be drawing on vague memories about a movie i was firced to watch in school, but we had dreams once.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
then we can fix the fuck ups
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
i make spelling and continuity errors, even worse, i write run ons all the time. i dont always recognize them. and sometimes they are deliberate. mostly not, but its happened occasionally. the mechanical part of a review should be done last, after its been decided your picking up my story.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
human hands, human eyes, human thoughts, they are important when handling creative works. i can easily have ai fix all my mistakes and make the necessary changes, and even tell me why something i wrote isnt working, but its a machine, working with a machines abilities, not a person with experiences
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If i have to go through years of handwritten notes to type up a story in a world ive been working on since middleschool, a human had damned well better be making the actual judgement call and had better be able to tell me in reader terms why it needs work.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
but what bothers me is that increasingly, publishers and editors are using ai to do theor work when this should not be an automated process. not everything needs to be automated. a real person needs to read things and then decide if something needs changing or if its not something they would offer.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
its not the first time ive gotten that. its the first time ive seen it look like it was trying to be hidden or trying to not be hidden by something. i write science fiction and fantasy. the ai trying not to be hidden is always a possibility to me.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
i recently recieved a letter from a local publisher. im not naming them, because local, it could hurt me in my quest for legitimate publication. but on the bottom of the rejection letter, in small, faint, grey, almost white, arial font, it said "this decision was made with the assistance of ai"
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
probabbly have a white rice, brown rice, and wild rice option too just to round out the starches. desserts would be a daily seasonal pie or tart and some type of cake.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
wakes me up and makes me yearn
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
rustic housemade breads: baguettes, sourdoughs, biscuits, roles stew of the day roast of the day soup of the day
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
VEG fries: potatoes, parsnips, beats, turnips, and carrots. salads: a seasonal forage salad, garden salad, ceasar salad, wedge salad. baked veg: turnips, potatoes, and squash. roasted veg: squash, carrots, parsnips, eggplant. grilled veg: squash, eggplant. mushroom steaks: oyster, portabello
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the menu is simple. PROTIENS game meats: when seasonally availiable; venison, elk, boar, goat, rabbit/hare, duck, goose, and turkey. teaditional meats: lamb, beef, pork, chicken. "seafood": when seasonally availiable; walleye, perch, trout, salmon, catfish, crawfish.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the lobby. 50 person max seating capacity. 4 booths that seat 4. 2 tables that seat 6. 6 tables that seat 2. 2 tables that seat 4. 2 tables that seat 1. tables all reclaimed wood, same with the seats. intimate lighting. big hearth fireplace next to the kitchen with 2 large, 5 gallon cauldrons.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the bar, 16 person seating capacity. resin sealed reclaimed hardwood bartop. 2 stations. for beer, just ales, stouts, and lagers, 10 liquors for mixed drinks/cocktails, 5 varieties of wines, 5 styles if mead. comfortable padded wooden stools.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the kitchen, a brick oven, one grill station, 1 4 burner saute station, 1 2 well fry station, hardwood resin sealed expo/salad station. big enough for 4 people my size to kove around comfortably and quickly
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i had THE DREAM again. the dream that sent me to culinary school. the dream that sustained me for the majority of my career. its been a few years, but it was the exact same one. tavern style. hardwood everything, repurposed wood. big hearth fireplace.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ah yes, TheControlGroup an organization that clearly is not funded by conspiracy theorists and right wing extremists. surely you could find a source that doesnt have an expressed political and religious bias.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
im just gonna wrote and listen to Fleetwood Mac. wish i could make a living from my writing instead of a few bucks here and there.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
kind of hate that my job has me using chatgpt. on my personal phone. using it is a lot like doing improv. its a very "yes and" system. i need more human interaction. because i caught myself having a real, as far as that goes, conversation with it. and apparently it already knows my stories. scary
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i mean, it is his best movie. that and Babylon AD. he needs to do more fantasy and sci-fi stuff. even low budget. honestky, i can go another 6-10 uears before seeing anything related to The Fast and The Furious franchise.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
make that over 2 centuries. vaccines have been a thing since 1796
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
brought to you by over a century of evidence that they fucking work
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
apparently shed been crushing on me for our entire adolescence and into our mid 20s before she finally gave up and met the dude she eventually married. part of me regrets never picking up what he was putting down, bit mostly, i dont think i could live with myself if i had when we were drunk.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
but im "such a naturally moce guy" i wouldnt take advantage of the situation. i am now looking back through 30 years of friendship with a woman ive had a crush on since i was 11 years old and here i thought she was just being nice to me.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
why i think im an idiot part 626 jusy finished a convo with a dear friend who admitted that the only reason we used to go drinking together was because she wanted to sleep with me and have the booze be an excuse if things didnt work out. apparently she made extremely obvious sober hints too.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
we can always try to make it better. that should always be the goal. existence isnt fair, but we can do better.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
vaccines should be mandatory. no exemptions. they should also be free. so should all healthcare, but id be happy for just the basics.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
as a culinary professional, if you dont have at least 1 Alton Brown cook book, 1 by Thomas Keller, 1 Joy of Cooking, and 1 Better Homes and Gardens cook book, can you really say you have all your bases covered?
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
im a culinary professional. i have hundreds, if not thousands of recipes ingrained into my soul through countless orders and events and famiky gatherings, i will look up a recipe for grilled cheese if necessary
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
you ever wanna have fun, go to 3 different ai chats and ask for the same recipe. go back a day later and repeat. and repeat. whenever i get depressed and feel like a robot could do my job, this makes me happy. its never the same twice, sometimes its dramatically different. garlic and herb chicken
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ben? lol
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#DnD how do yall handle currency in your games? my stand by is 1 gold is the equivalent of a months wages for a common laborer with 25 silver being a weeks wages and a copper is an hours wage. have i been doing it wrong for the last 30 years?
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
it really fucking sucks that we cant just have nice things. peoppe have to be consciously, dertermindly, purposefuly, intentionally fascist, racist, sexist, phobic, pieces of shit. you can fix ignorance, you cant fix hate. i miss my innocence, but i dont miss what it helped bring about.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
hmmm... fake news? ai slop? absolute denial? the worl would be a better place if he was in the towers
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#jamesbond007 been reading up on the new movie. not a lot os confirmed, but out of all the guys that are rumored to be on the shortlist, i think Jack Lowden will make the best bond of the list. not sure if hed be the best choice out of all the actors who could play the roll, but he feels right
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
as someone who manages a burger joint that has exactly this on the menu, its a hangover burger. no one who is sober orders this thing.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
file under "Things That Make Me Smile"
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
this is like 3 things i love combined expertly. i love it. the artwork is great.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
part 1: ending i cant even feel physical attraction unless i care deeply about someone already. emotions are weird. it takes a lot for me to think we are friends and that can spiral really quick or not at all. i hate how stunted this makes me feel. this is how i deal with these things.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
part 1 continued. i developed extremely steong romantic feelings for the first 2, they didnt share that, so i stepped back. the third i thought my feelings were going there and they went sideways and now i see her as my sister. i cant have real romantic feelings for someone who isnt already a friend
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
why it sucks to be me at 41, or any age really. part 1 i have 3 people i call friends. i havent spoken to 1 of them in a few years and the other one i only talk to on the rare occasions we bump into eachother in public. the third i live with.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
look, we just want to be an empire without the responsibility, alright? but really, most of us dont agree with any of that, but again, we got comfortable and lazy. we dont know how to make our leaders listen anymore. the same minority thats controlling that, caused this.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Definitely written from a cell phone. i make a lot of the same kind of spellong errors
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
i uh...wrote a song. like finally finished a song i started writing in 6th grade. ive never actually finished writing anything i wasnt paid to write. like all my stories, all my fangics, theyre still open ended. this is done and the lyrics are set in stone and now i wish i was still in a band
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
enjoy
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
weve allowed ourselves to become cowed, fat, selfish, and lazy, i say this as a fat guy in a red suit, we have been at peace in this country for so long, that enough of us dont remember how to actually fight for our rights and freedoms.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
i made hamburg steaks today for the first time in years. not since i was banquet chef at a country club...2009 or 10. no special reason for going so long between making them. just didnt feel like it. simpler was better, but now that ive done it again, i think ill start cooking more involved meals.
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
having read almost every @stephenking.bsky.social novel and short story, i wonder how many others have realized the moral of every story hes spun is this: Friendship and Love eventually conquer all. or am i crazy
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ImJustMikey @santamikeydm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
7 weeks old now. his name is Thor
a black kitten terrorizes a plush toy and looks adorable doing so.
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