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michael lutz

@ztul.bsky.social
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he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. horror genre guy, writer and narrative designer. PRECOGNITION for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 14h
it'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
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 14h
We'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/...
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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 28/09/2026
You catch that big video essay last night?
coworkers deviously luring you over to the water cooler
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 15h
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 15h
the Toy Story Peoples is a collective name given by archeologists to the powerful 21st century civilizations most notable for producing Toy Stories
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Handcoded 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.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The 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
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Outfits That Flow Together

Wondering how to dress your group for beach photos? Learn to coordinate colors and styles that connect without matching.
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ME 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
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BoneQuest @bonequest.com · 28/09/2026
"IN EVERY WAY" bonequest.com/10056
pants: HALGHAULGHLAHG THIS IS A PERFECT USE OF FREE WILL BGHAULGHAULUHAG
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2014 correlatedcontents.com/misc/Patrick...
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Commonplace book entry from 2009
50. "Patrick" First person story about a Man who is constantly mistaken for Patrick. Perhaps include scene with obstetrician describing (fearfully) how all babies look alike.
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Harrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
by 2040 most adult minds will parse the riches of romantic-era piano music primarily as "royalty-free youtube bgm"
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John Rhys @lavnlvas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anti-hobbits are normally busy with adventures but this one is content to sit on his sky extrusion and be rude to passers-by
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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2009. you have no idea what it was like to be internet games famous in the before times
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On a cube in the sky there died an Anti-Hobbit.
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If 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!
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bloodborne NPC dialogue
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's unfortunate that my major... was the great canvas of Human Life Itself.... ah, well...
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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The 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.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i 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
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i 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
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i 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
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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!
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
got a euro coin in my change #americancenturyofhumiliation
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Even Smaller Mermaid
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Welcome 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!
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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
porn 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.
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Gumby Screens @gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Frame #7022 from E63 Flying Carpet
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026
Have 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”
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i am
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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 26/09/2026
I definitely wouldn't write them all down for everyone to share
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
sometimes 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
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
philosophoids stay being epically triggered
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
another ne'er-do-well thwarted by the might and bravery of our city's vigilante hero, the Human Murderer
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Avery 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,
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Control Resonant is WEIRD! I get why it was off-putting to some people.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Bending down to inspect what I think is a snake's burrow only to be blasted in the face by a spray of Pringles
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
episode 033
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Shayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 26/09/2026
I 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.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
very 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
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Manwë 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.
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Gumby Screens @gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Frame #5241 from 60sE28 goo for pokey
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
victims dog lead officers to its owners dismembered body

part 3
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the 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"
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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One 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
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Bob Heller @bobheller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If 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.
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