michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 14hit's just a self-evidently stupid idea that stay-at-home parents are enough of a voting bloc for a promise of universal child care to somehow earn their ire and the reason the internet broke society is people who write things like this know they are morons but don't like having to be told that 113415
Reposted by michael lutzRanged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 14hWe've got an episode on Colson Whitehead's HARLEM SHUFFLE up on the Patreon for FREE in order to improve your Tuesday! Join @ckunzelman.bsky.social and @kearse.bsky.social as they chat about the first book (and come back for the next two eps on the next two books!) www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/... 37923
Reposted by michael lutzBearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 28/09/2026You catch that big video essay last night? 262377732
Reposted by michael lutzmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 15hawoke this morning with a Vision 4982131504
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 15hthe Toy Story Peoples is a collective name given by archeologists to the powerful 21st century civilizations most notable for producing Toy Stories 39720
Reposted by michael lutzEverest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Handcoded in HTML, CSS and Javascript and running locally, Scrubjay is usable for research, collection, game-building, website construction or simply to hold little fragments of digital things, in the same way that you hold a pebble in your palm on a walk. 231978
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Farmhouse Mystery Kids wouldn't break curfew without good reason, thought everyone in town. Yet there they were, locked up in the new tower atop the county jail, built after Sheriff Dave befriended the fellow who busked as an organ grinder in the park. Meanwhile, the missing posters continued to 0314
Reposted by michael lutzRanged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ME BEFORE LORD OF THE YEAR: where the hell is my arkenstone! ME AFTER LORD OF THE YEAR: well yes obviously John 10:16 is about faeries. Oh my god hold on my arkenstone is missing again 424142
Reposted by michael lutzBoneQuest @bonequest.com · 28/09/2026"IN EVERY WAY" bonequest.com/10056 14218
Reposted by michael lutzHarrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026by 2040 most adult minds will parse the riches of romantic-era piano music primarily as "royalty-free youtube bgm" 07511
Reposted by michael lutzJohn Rhys @lavnlvas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Anti-hobbits are normally busy with adventures but this one is content to sit on his sky extrusion and be rude to passers-by 0344
Reposted by michael lutzLeigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 28/09/20262009. you have no idea what it was like to be internet games famous in the before times 1936047
Reposted by michael lutzRanged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On a cube in the sky there died an Anti-Hobbit. 414427
Reposted by michael lutzcmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student! 29481474
Reposted by michael lutzcmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Bloodborne NPC dialogue 319220
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it's unfortunate that my major... was the great canvas of Human Life Itself.... ah, well... 01126
Reposted by michael lutzMark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The perfect email signoff has been staring us in the face this whole time: simply combine the old standbys "Best" and "Take care": "Best take care" Vaguely intimidating but with plausible deniability. 0678
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i subscribe to a list that mutes anyone following more than 10k accounts and a funny consequence is i just got a warning about that on a quote-post, and when i clicked through to see it anyway... it was someone i had also personally muted within my first few months on here for being annoying 0420
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i love the rolling stone article that's pissily accusing people of pretending to have never heard a song, as if folks on social media are capable of diminishing the things they hate rather than driven to holler about them directly 51031
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i point this out not so much because i think it's surprising but more to underscore how there is a modern "intellectual tradition" in this country that provides the scaffolding for their ideas even if it's dumb as hell. it makes sense to people inside the machine and that's what matters to them 135345
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"it's good to be evil actually" is sophistry, obviously, but what you need to understand is that it is literally just ayn rand talking points rewritten. they keep doing this! 424018
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026got a euro coin in my change #americancenturyofhumiliation 0281
Reposted by michael lutzmichael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Welcome to AI Chat! You're chatting with Yoshi With A Gun. You: Hello Yoshi With A Gun: *idly twirling Desert Eagle by trigger guard* Yoshi! 4579106
Reposted by michael lutzMike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman. 149120731978
Reposted by michael lutzStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro” 552617592
Reposted by michael lutzbrendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 26/09/2026I definitely wouldn't write them all down for everyone to share 0141
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026sometimes fun to remember st. augustine's entire deal hinges on having constant terrifying sex dreams. like i dunno man. i'm not forging a whole theology over my nightmares about missing flights 1411
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026another ne'er-do-well thwarted by the might and bravery of our city's vigilante hero, the Human Murderer 38320
Reposted by michael lutzAvery Edison @averyedison.com · 26/09/2026“boston globe article”? you must have hit your head pretty hard back there, soldier. but pull yourself together, we’re about to launch another attack! now, when you get in there, she’s going to try to evade accountability by complaining about the bar’s finances, 118814
Reposted by michael lutzcmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Control Resonant is WEIRD! I get why it was off-putting to some people. 9694107
Reposted by michael lutzmichael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Bending down to inspect what I think is a snake's burrow only to be blasted in the face by a spray of Pringles 416440
Reposted by michael lutzGarfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026 31753134
Reposted by michael lutzShayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 26/09/2026I remember a clip of a Louis Theroux doc where he was with a vip at a casino and the guy got the red carpet treatment, all this free stuff, and in the end his play experience was sitting in a room, alone, just putting $100 bills into like half a dozen machines. Grim as hell. 1305
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026very very very common practice in the gambling industry, developed through casino loyalty rewards programs and seamlessly making the jump to digital gambling platforms in the past half-decade. vile stuff 312442
Reposted by michael lutzRanged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Manwë told me Melkor keeps harrying the Firstborn of Ilúvatar so I asked how many Elves he has and he said he just goes to Middle-Earth and invites more Elves on the Great Journey so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding the Quendi to Morgoth and then Nienna started crying. 1398100
Reposted by michael lutzmichael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the main reason i find fantasy lacking as a genre is that there is exactly one fantasy plot worth telling and we already got to it with Tolkien and it is "satan ran across the icy tundra, pursued by the giant spider who wanted to eat all his diamonds" 424550
Reposted by michael lutzviolet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One time there was a subskeet about dudes on here being creepy, and then two dudes in the comments were like "Creeps in Bluesky? Oh no!" and basically saying they were too scared of women to be sexist, and then the OP was like, "This post is literally about you two in particular." Completely ethered 728131
Reposted by michael lutzBob Heller @bobheller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024If you put a lasagna on top of another lasagna, it’s no longer two lasagnas. It’s one giant lasagna. THAT is the power of lasagna. 902222423