Michael Bazemore is just fucking over it.
@deepwatermike.bsky.social
Technical trainer and occasional historian. Erstwhile medievalist. Now practicing the Wudang 108 form of Taijiquan and delivering sizzling takes. Walking the elements and holding the gates in North Carolina.
One of the coolest days I had as an adjunct was walking into Meredith College and seeing this picture of Darwin in place of my own on the faculty board. Most of the other profs had "joke images" and I had earned mine by writing this for #DarwinDay.
Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-e...
Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-e...
On Darwin Day, embracing the marvel of our existence
Tomorrow, thousands of people in hundreds of locations across the world will gather to celebrate the birth in 1809 of the naturalist Charles Darwin. Most will be unofficial gatherings, though in a few...
www.newsobserver.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:50 PM
One of the coolest days I had as an adjunct was walking into Meredith College and seeing this picture of Darwin in place of my own on the faculty board. Most of the other profs had "joke images" and I had earned mine by writing this for #DarwinDay.
Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-e...
Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-e...
Michael Vick, of football and (goddammit) dogfighting fame.
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Michael Vick, of football and (goddammit) dogfighting fame.
This is some crazy-pants shit.
I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid.
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
February 12, 2026 at 3:49 AM
This is some crazy-pants shit.
I spent a good while at a con chatting with Howard Chaykin about, inter alia, the Bob Howard biopic "The Whole Wide World."
(It's good. #HATM should do it, @herberthistory.bsky.social)
(It's good. #HATM should do it, @herberthistory.bsky.social)
What is YOUR most mundane celebrity encounter?
Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
February 11, 2026 at 11:00 PM
I spent a good while at a con chatting with Howard Chaykin about, inter alia, the Bob Howard biopic "The Whole Wide World."
(It's good. #HATM should do it, @herberthistory.bsky.social)
(It's good. #HATM should do it, @herberthistory.bsky.social)
Y'all have seen me talk about the Question. At least the two of you who pay attention. It's got its problems (not least Denny O'Neil orientalism) but it's still great comics.
“Q is for…”
The Question by Dennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan
This is a run that is great for the first half but tapers out imo, but honestly still worth a look!
It’s either this or Quantum & Woody and I’ve never read it so—this book, with that cool Lady Shiva, is the go to 😌 it’s classic
The Question by Dennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan
This is a run that is great for the first half but tapers out imo, but honestly still worth a look!
It’s either this or Quantum & Woody and I’ve never read it so—this book, with that cool Lady Shiva, is the go to 😌 it’s classic
February 11, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Y'all have seen me talk about the Question. At least the two of you who pay attention. It's got its problems (not least Denny O'Neil orientalism) but it's still great comics.
Fire, Walk with Me
Bubba Hotep
Big Trouble in Little China
Flash Gordon?
Dune (1984)?
Bubba Hotep
Big Trouble in Little China
Flash Gordon?
Dune (1984)?
Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
February 11, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Fire, Walk with Me
Bubba Hotep
Big Trouble in Little China
Flash Gordon?
Dune (1984)?
Bubba Hotep
Big Trouble in Little China
Flash Gordon?
Dune (1984)?
Can anyone recommend a primer (if such exists) on medieval manuscript production? IKIK...some medievalist. All I can say is that I left the PhD before this would become useful 😐 #MedievalSky
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February 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Can anyone recommend a primer (if such exists) on medieval manuscript production? IKIK...some medievalist. All I can say is that I left the PhD before this would become useful 😐 #MedievalSky
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Astro City is the absolute best. A love letter to superhero comics. You'll fall in love with them, too. Or fall in love with them again.
A is for…
Astro City by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross, Brent Anderson & a legion of collaborators.
Love comics? Love timeless tropes? Love genre mashups? Love crossovers? If you said yes to ALL of these then why aren’t reading Astro City? Welcome to the place where ALL your comic book loves come together
Astro City by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross, Brent Anderson & a legion of collaborators.
Love comics? Love timeless tropes? Love genre mashups? Love crossovers? If you said yes to ALL of these then why aren’t reading Astro City? Welcome to the place where ALL your comic book loves come together
February 11, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Astro City is the absolute best. A love letter to superhero comics. You'll fall in love with them, too. Or fall in love with them again.
Cato, Bill Kristol, the Lincoln Project chuds...allies m of convenience, I keep reminding myself.
How am I supposed to live in a world with Cato sounds entirely reasonable now?
Hertiage went fill Nazis should be heard out and Cato went, "Um, we should pull back and be more evenhanded with our analyses but still remain conservative in nature."
www.cato.org/blog/biden-d...
Hertiage went fill Nazis should be heard out and Cato went, "Um, we should pull back and be more evenhanded with our analyses but still remain conservative in nature."
www.cato.org/blog/biden-d...
Biden Didn’t Cause the Border Crisis, Part 1: Summary
From his administration’s first day in January 2021, Biden actually increased border enforcement—arrests, detentions, and removals of border crossers all increased. The prevailing narrative that blame...
www.cato.org
February 11, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Cato, Bill Kristol, the Lincoln Project chuds...allies m of convenience, I keep reminding myself.
Ready for lift-off. Now spinning...
February 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Ready for lift-off. Now spinning...
Are you a panican or a panican't?
February 10, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Are you a panican or a panican't?
You should read Gabino's stuff, even if only to spite the likes of Trump.
(Though it's REALLY good)
(Though it's REALLY good)
Ah, Bad Bunny left you with questions about power outages, storms, and our hatred of colonialism? Don’t worry, I got you. I’ll show you the aftermath of a storm, take you to the beach, show you what hides under the waves. I’ll show you our magia…
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
February 10, 2026 at 1:23 AM
You should read Gabino's stuff, even if only to spite the likes of Trump.
(Though it's REALLY good)
(Though it's REALLY good)
For a hot minute I was a libertarian. Far before (almost) anyone I know here knew me. This entire thread tracks.
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
February 10, 2026 at 1:20 AM
For a hot minute I was a libertarian. Far before (almost) anyone I know here knew me. This entire thread tracks.
I've said it a million times. Conservatives love America but hate Americans.
To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
February 9, 2026 at 3:21 AM
I've said it a million times. Conservatives love America but hate Americans.
This is just a reminder that "Kid Rock" is older than I am and I haven't been a "kid" in a hella long time.
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 AM
This is just a reminder that "Kid Rock" is older than I am and I haven't been a "kid" in a hella long time.
This is why I think @profmsinha.bsky.social's framing around the Second American Republic (read the book, ok) is so important. If we're lucky, we'll soon begin a third Reconstruction and Fourth (by my reckoning) republic.
I feel like the illusion of continuity through the civil war, reconstruction, jim crow, and the civil rights struggle is a weird kind of American exceptionalism. we are *not* in many deep and fundamental ways, the nation of the founders bsky.app/profile/amun...
We’re overdue for another Republic
February 9, 2026 at 12:51 AM
This is why I think @profmsinha.bsky.social's framing around the Second American Republic (read the book, ok) is so important. If we're lucky, we'll soon begin a third Reconstruction and Fourth (by my reckoning) republic.
From your lips to [insert cosmic forces name here]'s ear.
I'm calling it now -- during the second song of Bad Bunny's halftime performance, It Will Finally Happen.
February 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
From your lips to [insert cosmic forces name here]'s ear.
I am increasingly convinced that of all the sci-fi visions of the future I've read that Jonathan Lethem's "Gun With Occasional Music" is the most prophetic.
There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?
February 8, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I am increasingly convinced that of all the sci-fi visions of the future I've read that Jonathan Lethem's "Gun With Occasional Music" is the most prophetic.
Maryland. Hands-down.
Massholes about to sweep this event until we’ve poured enough money into Boston transit that nobody in the city is allowed to own a car
coming up with a new idea called "driving like shit olympics". no more bland, unprovable statements like "california drivers are the WORST" allowed. whichever state wins every 4 years gets a moonshot-sized public transit investment to get those fuckers off the road
February 7, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Maryland. Hands-down.
Reposted by Michael Bazemore is just fucking over it.
Gonna continue this train and talk about another black creator that means a lot to me.
Dwayne McDuffie.
One of the founders of Milestone comics which was the first comic book universe that featured black and POC characters and of course Static Shock.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_...
Dwayne McDuffie.
One of the founders of Milestone comics which was the first comic book universe that featured black and POC characters and of course Static Shock.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_...
February 7, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Gonna continue this train and talk about another black creator that means a lot to me.
Dwayne McDuffie.
One of the founders of Milestone comics which was the first comic book universe that featured black and POC characters and of course Static Shock.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_...
Dwayne McDuffie.
One of the founders of Milestone comics which was the first comic book universe that featured black and POC characters and of course Static Shock.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_...
Do NOT threaten me with a good time.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Do NOT threaten me with a good time.
His Majesty's two best property lawyers secretly pine for each other.
Escheated Rivalry
Escheated Rivalry
The two best whiskey distillers in the country secretly pine for each other.
Peated Rivalry.
Peated Rivalry.
The two best soccer players in the country secretly pine for each other.
Cleated Rivalry
Cleated Rivalry
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
His Majesty's two best property lawyers secretly pine for each other.
Escheated Rivalry
Escheated Rivalry
Islam came to British America, and the United States, on slave ships. He the Congresscritter should show some damn respect. Muslims helped win our independence. They helped build the damn country.
This kind of blatant Islamophobia from members of Congress is so normalized that it barely attracts notice. It should not be acceptable to any of us.
February 5, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Islam came to British America, and the United States, on slave ships. He the Congresscritter should show some damn respect. Muslims helped win our independence. They helped build the damn country.
Reposted by Michael Bazemore is just fucking over it.
#MedievalSky 🗃️
I'm writing a thing centering on the 1022 execution of a group of Heretics in Orleans, an event I've been low-key obsessed with since my first class in graduate school.
One of the characters is a cleric who fell into heresy and, according to one account, inadvertently led to... 1/
I'm writing a thing centering on the 1022 execution of a group of Heretics in Orleans, an event I've been low-key obsessed with since my first class in graduate school.
One of the characters is a cleric who fell into heresy and, according to one account, inadvertently led to... 1/
February 4, 2026 at 4:09 AM
#MedievalSky 🗃️
I'm writing a thing centering on the 1022 execution of a group of Heretics in Orleans, an event I've been low-key obsessed with since my first class in graduate school.
One of the characters is a cleric who fell into heresy and, according to one account, inadvertently led to... 1/
I'm writing a thing centering on the 1022 execution of a group of Heretics in Orleans, an event I've been low-key obsessed with since my first class in graduate school.
One of the characters is a cleric who fell into heresy and, according to one account, inadvertently led to... 1/