Mike Draco ex Machina
@digitaldraco.bsky.social
Californian, leftish politics, psychology, photography, folklore, science, nerd stuff… [he/him]
Creator of the Blueskywalkers feed for Star Wars fans: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7npnzio6e63coxgttadiyo34/feed/aaaeo2vyrtmoa
Creator of the Blueskywalkers feed for Star Wars fans: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7npnzio6e63coxgttadiyo34/feed/aaaeo2vyrtmoa
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Star Wars "fans": STAR WARS SUCKS STAR WARS BAD LOL
Me:
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February 19, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Star Wars "fans": STAR WARS SUCKS STAR WARS BAD LOL
Me:
Me:
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If you’ve felt exhausted, anxious, or numb in the face of nonstop political turmoil, you’re not imagining it and you're definitely not alone.
@sarahsloat.bsky.social looks at the research on the psychological and physical toll of polycrisis.
@sarahsloat.bsky.social looks at the research on the psychological and physical toll of polycrisis.
How Political Chaos Is Affecting Americans’ Mental Health - Dame Magazine
As political instability rises, so do anxiety, depression, and disengagement. New research shows how national turmoil is reshaping Americans’ mental health.
www.damemagazine.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:04 PM
If you’ve felt exhausted, anxious, or numb in the face of nonstop political turmoil, you’re not imagining it and you're definitely not alone.
@sarahsloat.bsky.social looks at the research on the psychological and physical toll of polycrisis.
@sarahsloat.bsky.social looks at the research on the psychological and physical toll of polycrisis.
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Also dudes who love Soderbergh.
Why wouldn’t you let him make you a billion-dollar movie?
Why wouldn’t you let him make you a billion-dollar movie?
This guy blocked me on my other account for pointing out that female Star Wars fans exist and have an interest in this movie.
February 19, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Also dudes who love Soderbergh.
Why wouldn’t you let him make you a billion-dollar movie?
Why wouldn’t you let him make you a billion-dollar movie?
Aaaand I’m blocked for pointing out women like Star Wars, too. lol 🤦🏼♂️
Kay. Neat. Me, too.
“Nobody.” tells me you exist in a bubble and assume everyone thinks exactly like you. Because lots of fans, especially women, absolutely do want this.
“Nobody.” tells me you exist in a bubble and assume everyone thinks exactly like you. Because lots of fans, especially women, absolutely do want this.
February 19, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Aaaand I’m blocked for pointing out women like Star Wars, too. lol 🤦🏼♂️
When you have absolutely no valid response and have to try to rally people with bigger accounts than your rando anonymous loser ass to do your work for you because all you can do is mindlessly vomit talking points about STAR WARS BAD YOU STUPID.
February 19, 2026 at 1:56 AM
When you have absolutely no valid response and have to try to rally people with bigger accounts than your rando anonymous loser ass to do your work for you because all you can do is mindlessly vomit talking points about STAR WARS BAD YOU STUPID.
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The first thing you should know, actually, is that Star Wars fans do not universally hate Star Wars or act this cranky and derisive about it.
This is actually an extremely limited and apparently incredibly self-serving view of the fandom.
#StarWars
This is actually an extremely limited and apparently incredibly self-serving view of the fandom.
#StarWars
the first thing you have to know is that star wars fans hate star wars
specifically, we hate most of the actual content of star wars, because it's crap - the amount of Actually Good star wars is extremely limited and there's an argument that only Andor is great
but the idea of star wars, we love
specifically, we hate most of the actual content of star wars, because it's crap - the amount of Actually Good star wars is extremely limited and there's an argument that only Andor is great
but the idea of star wars, we love
February 18, 2026 at 9:31 PM
The first thing you should know, actually, is that Star Wars fans do not universally hate Star Wars or act this cranky and derisive about it.
This is actually an extremely limited and apparently incredibly self-serving view of the fandom.
#StarWars
This is actually an extremely limited and apparently incredibly self-serving view of the fandom.
#StarWars
The first thing you should know, actually, is that Star Wars fans do not universally hate Star Wars or act this cranky and derisive about it.
This is actually an extremely limited and apparently incredibly self-serving view of the fandom.
#StarWars
This is actually an extremely limited and apparently incredibly self-serving view of the fandom.
#StarWars
the first thing you have to know is that star wars fans hate star wars
specifically, we hate most of the actual content of star wars, because it's crap - the amount of Actually Good star wars is extremely limited and there's an argument that only Andor is great
but the idea of star wars, we love
specifically, we hate most of the actual content of star wars, because it's crap - the amount of Actually Good star wars is extremely limited and there's an argument that only Andor is great
but the idea of star wars, we love
February 18, 2026 at 9:31 PM
The first thing you should know, actually, is that Star Wars fans do not universally hate Star Wars or act this cranky and derisive about it.
This is actually an extremely limited and apparently incredibly self-serving view of the fandom.
#StarWars
This is actually an extremely limited and apparently incredibly self-serving view of the fandom.
#StarWars
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Anyone want to know the name of Martin Scorsese's character In The Mandalorian and Grogu?
It's here on the sign above his food truck.
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It's Hugo!
#StarWars #MandalorianAndGrogu
It's here on the sign above his food truck.
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It's Hugo!
#StarWars #MandalorianAndGrogu
February 18, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Anyone want to know the name of Martin Scorsese's character In The Mandalorian and Grogu?
It's here on the sign above his food truck.
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It's Hugo!
#StarWars #MandalorianAndGrogu
It's here on the sign above his food truck.
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It's Hugo!
#StarWars #MandalorianAndGrogu
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Meanwhile the regime that most of the authors of this allegedly exciting technology—that I’m missing out on—cheerfully support is destroying our capacity to produce many of the technologies I am very excited about, like solar power and trains and mRNA vaccines that literally fucking cure cancer
February 18, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Meanwhile the regime that most of the authors of this allegedly exciting technology—that I’m missing out on—cheerfully support is destroying our capacity to produce many of the technologies I am very excited about, like solar power and trains and mRNA vaccines that literally fucking cure cancer
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It’s making people insane, stupid, violent against themselves and others. It’s eroding any remaining broad social consensus about empirical reality. It’s weakening already wobbly democracies. It’s poisoning people. It’s impoverishing people. It’s traumatizing people. It’s dehumanizing people
February 18, 2026 at 5:26 AM
It’s making people insane, stupid, violent against themselves and others. It’s eroding any remaining broad social consensus about empirical reality. It’s weakening already wobbly democracies. It’s poisoning people. It’s impoverishing people. It’s traumatizing people. It’s dehumanizing people
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So many others have already said this, but: The list of technologies I’m currently excited about is lengthy and varied, and my level of excitement for them is high
Generative AI happens to not be on that list, mostly because I am not excited by something that seems on balance unjustifiably bad
Generative AI happens to not be on that list, mostly because I am not excited by something that seems on balance unjustifiably bad
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 5:23 AM
So many others have already said this, but: The list of technologies I’m currently excited about is lengthy and varied, and my level of excitement for them is high
Generative AI happens to not be on that list, mostly because I am not excited by something that seems on balance unjustifiably bad
Generative AI happens to not be on that list, mostly because I am not excited by something that seems on balance unjustifiably bad
Anyone want to know the name of Martin Scorsese's character In The Mandalorian and Grogu?
It's here on the sign above his food truck.
Spoiler space...
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It's Hugo!
#StarWars #MandalorianAndGrogu
It's here on the sign above his food truck.
Spoiler space...
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It's Hugo!
#StarWars #MandalorianAndGrogu
February 18, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Anyone want to know the name of Martin Scorsese's character In The Mandalorian and Grogu?
It's here on the sign above his food truck.
Spoiler space...
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It's Hugo!
#StarWars #MandalorianAndGrogu
It's here on the sign above his food truck.
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It's Hugo!
#StarWars #MandalorianAndGrogu
Sorry not sorry but if we're talking **signature** song, everyone answering anything other than Dare To Be Stupid is just wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
you are all fools the REAL music question that will cause intergenerational warfare on bluesky is actually: what is weird al's signature song?
February 18, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Sorry not sorry but if we're talking **signature** song, everyone answering anything other than Dare To Be Stupid is just wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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“In 2024, Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields shared that he had not fully recovered four years after first being infected, and that he was still experiencing neurological issues that left the notoriously prolific musician unable to finish writing any new songs.”
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...
These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times
While most of the music industry has “moved on,” COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders.
thesicktimes.org
February 18, 2026 at 12:57 AM
“In 2024, Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields shared that he had not fully recovered four years after first being infected, and that he was still experiencing neurological issues that left the notoriously prolific musician unable to finish writing any new songs.”
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...
thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...
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TFW someone you respected who has a huge following posts a Hasan frickin Piker video as an example to follow.
a bald man in a plaid shirt and vest is sitting in a crowd with his hands on his hips .
ALT: a bald man in a plaid shirt and vest is sitting in a crowd with his hands on his hips .
media.tenor.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:47 AM
TFW someone you respected who has a huge following posts a Hasan frickin Piker video as an example to follow.
TFW someone you respected who has a huge following posts a Hasan frickin Piker video as an example to follow.
a bald man in a plaid shirt and vest is sitting in a crowd with his hands on his hips .
ALT: a bald man in a plaid shirt and vest is sitting in a crowd with his hands on his hips .
media.tenor.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:47 AM
TFW someone you respected who has a huge following posts a Hasan frickin Piker video as an example to follow.
It's happening on Threads, too, and this is good advice.
That people are already staking out strong takes on voting in the 2028 primary on this website is simply further evidence that people need to get out more and do literally anything. Even laying in a field and looking at clouds is more productive
February 17, 2026 at 12:26 AM
It's happening on Threads, too, and this is good advice.
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Gang.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Gang.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
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This is totally non-standard for any publication. Every pub everywhere pretty much cleans up uhms, uhm, and vocal tics like that, which EVERYONE DOES.
This is extremely intentional.
If I was writing this I’d probably do the quote “this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States”
This is extremely intentional.
If I was writing this I’d probably do the quote “this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States”
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
This is totally non-standard for any publication. Every pub everywhere pretty much cleans up uhms, uhm, and vocal tics like that, which EVERYONE DOES.
This is extremely intentional.
If I was writing this I’d probably do the quote “this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States”
This is extremely intentional.
If I was writing this I’d probably do the quote “this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States”
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A lot of people know William Shatner appeared in The Twilight Zone as a passenger who sees a monster on the wing of the airplane.
But how many people know that 3 years before #StarTrek aired, Shatner was in The Outer Limits as an astronaut planning a mission to Mars as part of... "Project Vulcan"?
But how many people know that 3 years before #StarTrek aired, Shatner was in The Outer Limits as an astronaut planning a mission to Mars as part of... "Project Vulcan"?
February 14, 2026 at 6:39 AM
A lot of people know William Shatner appeared in The Twilight Zone as a passenger who sees a monster on the wing of the airplane.
But how many people know that 3 years before #StarTrek aired, Shatner was in The Outer Limits as an astronaut planning a mission to Mars as part of... "Project Vulcan"?
But how many people know that 3 years before #StarTrek aired, Shatner was in The Outer Limits as an astronaut planning a mission to Mars as part of... "Project Vulcan"?
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Can’t believe we are still doing this
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Can’t believe we are still doing this
GenAI generated some BS? Again?
Color me shocked. SHOCKED.
Well, not that shocked.
Color me shocked. SHOCKED.
Well, not that shocked.
"Nnedi Okorafor credits Le Guin with proving fantasy heroes didn't have to be white."
WRONG.
AI is just out here flat out lying about me. I never said this. No disrespect the Great LeGuin but no one ever needed to "prove" such a thing. Mschew. Anyone who knows me knows I don't speak like that.
WRONG.
AI is just out here flat out lying about me. I never said this. No disrespect the Great LeGuin but no one ever needed to "prove" such a thing. Mschew. Anyone who knows me knows I don't speak like that.
February 15, 2026 at 4:39 PM
GenAI generated some BS? Again?
Color me shocked. SHOCKED.
Well, not that shocked.
Color me shocked. SHOCKED.
Well, not that shocked.
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The Republicans made your health insurance premiums skyrocket to pay for this.
When we get chided for cheering Trump's death, remind them of their uncaring, bald-faced lies about the deaths of Porter, Goode, Pretti and now Torres.
And all the others dead in their prison camps.
When we get chided for cheering Trump's death, remind them of their uncaring, bald-faced lies about the deaths of Porter, Goode, Pretti and now Torres.
And all the others dead in their prison camps.
Our story @chicagotribune.com: Chicago teen Ofelia Torres, whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer, dies. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 AM
The Republicans made your health insurance premiums skyrocket to pay for this.
When we get chided for cheering Trump's death, remind them of their uncaring, bald-faced lies about the deaths of Porter, Goode, Pretti and now Torres.
And all the others dead in their prison camps.
When we get chided for cheering Trump's death, remind them of their uncaring, bald-faced lies about the deaths of Porter, Goode, Pretti and now Torres.
And all the others dead in their prison camps.
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I really do hate that people who are geological illiterate keep pointing to records compiled by paleoclimatologists to downplay climate change because, if anything, the lessons of deep time only emphasize how extraordinary and unprecedented the rate of modern warming is.
February 14, 2026 at 8:34 PM
I really do hate that people who are geological illiterate keep pointing to records compiled by paleoclimatologists to downplay climate change because, if anything, the lessons of deep time only emphasize how extraordinary and unprecedented the rate of modern warming is.
Extra relevant today...
"Happy" Singles Awareness Day, to those who "celebrate".
"Happy" Singles Awareness Day, to those who "celebrate".
February 15, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Extra relevant today...
"Happy" Singles Awareness Day, to those who "celebrate".
"Happy" Singles Awareness Day, to those who "celebrate".