Mikey Says Hey!
@erlking.bsky.social
writer, composer, ersatz humanities scholar, amateur bodybuilder, very very gay
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When I was a kid if there was a machine that made child porn and talked unwell teens into suicide it would get the dungeons and dragons satanic panic news magazine treatment 24/7 for five years, Oprah would be on the floor of congress firing a gun in the air and NO “FAMILY VALUES” PEOPLE GIVE A SHIT
January 30, 2026 at 11:10 PM
When I was a kid if there was a machine that made child porn and talked unwell teens into suicide it would get the dungeons and dragons satanic panic news magazine treatment 24/7 for five years, Oprah would be on the floor of congress firing a gun in the air and NO “FAMILY VALUES” PEOPLE GIVE A SHIT
The triple whammy of “epic” “FTW” and “good sir” in just over three lines of prose has stun-locked me like a video game boss. I am on the floor and my eyes are spirals.
January 30, 2026 at 11:15 PM
The triple whammy of “epic” “FTW” and “good sir” in just over three lines of prose has stun-locked me like a video game boss. I am on the floor and my eyes are spirals.
Finally playing Silksong, after not having regular access to my gaming PC for the better part of a year (long story). So far I’m really enjoying it! Each of the bosses has taken 2-6 tries, which is the right pain point for me. I understand there is a difficulty spike later on that’s less fun.
January 30, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Finally playing Silksong, after not having regular access to my gaming PC for the better part of a year (long story). So far I’m really enjoying it! Each of the bosses has taken 2-6 tries, which is the right pain point for me. I understand there is a difficulty spike later on that’s less fun.
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Let me reiterate: THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO PERSECUTE LARGE NUMBERS OF DISSENTERS. What they are doing, instead, is using fear and paranoia as a force multiplier: they don’t have to persecute us if we keep ourselves home because someone told us we can’t walk in public without being terrified.
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Let me reiterate: THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO PERSECUTE LARGE NUMBERS OF DISSENTERS. What they are doing, instead, is using fear and paranoia as a force multiplier: they don’t have to persecute us if we keep ourselves home because someone told us we can’t walk in public without being terrified.
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I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?”
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
Online security theater posting made me really afraid about having my phone or showing my face before going to a no kings protest and then when I got there it was a great time and my mom was taking pictures of everything lol. I felt ridiculous because I almost didn’t go people made it sound so risky
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?”
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
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This week, Amazon has removed erotica and erotic romance and many romance titles from the Affiliate program, meaning that people can't make affiliate income off linking them.
One of the impacted books is Heated Rivalry. Please complain. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZZCSYXJ
#romancelandia #booksky #authors
One of the impacted books is Heated Rivalry. Please complain. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZZCSYXJ
#romancelandia #booksky #authors
January 30, 2026 at 4:37 PM
This week, Amazon has removed erotica and erotic romance and many romance titles from the Affiliate program, meaning that people can't make affiliate income off linking them.
One of the impacted books is Heated Rivalry. Please complain. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZZCSYXJ
#romancelandia #booksky #authors
One of the impacted books is Heated Rivalry. Please complain. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZZCSYXJ
#romancelandia #booksky #authors
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Minneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.
January 30, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Minneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.
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January 29, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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I feel very strongly that now is the time for NIMBY’s to shine. Every regulatory and procedural lever should be tested. Slow them down.
NEW: ICE has spent at least $172 million this month on warehouses that it plans to convert into immigration jails
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
W/ @sooophie.bsky.social
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US Spends Millions on Warehouses in Historic Expansion of ICE Detention
Plans for ‘mega centers’ and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:04 AM
I feel very strongly that now is the time for NIMBY’s to shine. Every regulatory and procedural lever should be tested. Slow them down.
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STFU Saruman…
January 29, 2026 at 10:04 PM
STFU Saruman…
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ICE guys: we killed 3 children today
Chuck Schumer: and with the passage of the ICE RINK Act, provided we can make it through the senate, we’ll provide 40 additional hours of training plus off site housing for all agents with no additional cost to the taxpayer
Chuck Schumer: and with the passage of the ICE RINK Act, provided we can make it through the senate, we’ll provide 40 additional hours of training plus off site housing for all agents with no additional cost to the taxpayer
January 29, 2026 at 4:56 PM
ICE guys: we killed 3 children today
Chuck Schumer: and with the passage of the ICE RINK Act, provided we can make it through the senate, we’ll provide 40 additional hours of training plus off site housing for all agents with no additional cost to the taxpayer
Chuck Schumer: and with the passage of the ICE RINK Act, provided we can make it through the senate, we’ll provide 40 additional hours of training plus off site housing for all agents with no additional cost to the taxpayer
I honestly hate Chuck Schumer most of all. What’s worse than a monster is someone who enables monsters / refuses to fight monsters.
January 30, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I honestly hate Chuck Schumer most of all. What’s worse than a monster is someone who enables monsters / refuses to fight monsters.
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This sounds great, what's the problem
If the EU created a social media platform, replies to your posts would take 20 working days to process. It would go offline after 5:30pm (CET), as well as on weekends, public holidays, and pretty much all of August.
First of all, the EU would not call this platform something as tidy as 'W'.
It would be called the European Erasmus Digital Citizen Plus (the EEDCP), and you can only tweet in the format of an European Citizens' Initiative.
It would be called the European Erasmus Digital Citizen Plus (the EEDCP), and you can only tweet in the format of an European Citizens' Initiative.
January 29, 2026 at 7:45 PM
This sounds great, what's the problem
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What AI produces (without an actual artist behind it) is a "boiled down" approximation of what human brains "expect" to see in art or in text. It is the mass production of cliché and kitsch. To use Colbert's expression, it creates "artiness" and "communicationness" on the model of "truthiness".
January 29, 2026 at 7:37 PM
What AI produces (without an actual artist behind it) is a "boiled down" approximation of what human brains "expect" to see in art or in text. It is the mass production of cliché and kitsch. To use Colbert's expression, it creates "artiness" and "communicationness" on the model of "truthiness".
I have a very strong “mind’s eye.” Kind of the opposite of aphantasia. When I’m bored I’ll doodle in the air with my brain, that sort of thing. Sometimes fully rendered images just flash into my mind’s eye, unbidden, unrelated to what I’m currently doing and thinking.
January 29, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I have a very strong “mind’s eye.” Kind of the opposite of aphantasia. When I’m bored I’ll doodle in the air with my brain, that sort of thing. Sometimes fully rendered images just flash into my mind’s eye, unbidden, unrelated to what I’m currently doing and thinking.
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I'm just gonna re-up this. It has some possible staying power if people give it a chance!
Perks:
- Has stories (like Insta)
- No algorithm for your feed
- Text / Photo / or Video posting options
- PRIVATE accounts!
- It's not Meta or TikTok owned!
Perks:
- Has stories (like Insta)
- No algorithm for your feed
- Text / Photo / or Video posting options
- PRIVATE accounts!
- It's not Meta or TikTok owned!
So this new site has vibes of Instagram without the meta mess… maybe it has staying power?
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January 29, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I'm just gonna re-up this. It has some possible staying power if people give it a chance!
Perks:
- Has stories (like Insta)
- No algorithm for your feed
- Text / Photo / or Video posting options
- PRIVATE accounts!
- It's not Meta or TikTok owned!
Perks:
- Has stories (like Insta)
- No algorithm for your feed
- Text / Photo / or Video posting options
- PRIVATE accounts!
- It's not Meta or TikTok owned!
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Trying to think of a thing that corporations tried to push harder than they've pushed AI. New Coke?
Converting everything to corn syrup was easy, just did it behind the scenes.
But this? They're pointing at the thing that doesn't work and trying to make it the star. Poochie hours.
Converting everything to corn syrup was easy, just did it behind the scenes.
But this? They're pointing at the thing that doesn't work and trying to make it the star. Poochie hours.
January 29, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Trying to think of a thing that corporations tried to push harder than they've pushed AI. New Coke?
Converting everything to corn syrup was easy, just did it behind the scenes.
But this? They're pointing at the thing that doesn't work and trying to make it the star. Poochie hours.
Converting everything to corn syrup was easy, just did it behind the scenes.
But this? They're pointing at the thing that doesn't work and trying to make it the star. Poochie hours.
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This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk
January 29, 2026 at 1:07 PM
This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk
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Fuck, I didn’t realize I needed to hear @ladygaga sing the theme song from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, but this fixed something in me. This envisions the world of kindness and empathy we must demand moving forward. Her vocal at 1:46. youtu.be/99v5YMn2J1E
Lady Gaga - “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” (SuperBowl ad)
YouTube video by The King Gaga
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Fuck, I didn’t realize I needed to hear @ladygaga sing the theme song from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, but this fixed something in me. This envisions the world of kindness and empathy we must demand moving forward. Her vocal at 1:46. youtu.be/99v5YMn2J1E
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conventional wisdom when I was in college was majoring in theater was "useless". It was the reason my parents made me double major (which I am glad for bc I did film and it was amazing).
After school I learned my theater degree meant any sales dept in any field would hire me, if I wanted the job
After school I learned my theater degree meant any sales dept in any field would hire me, if I wanted the job
Indeed, I think a core part of our problem right now is that people with humanities degrees and humanities jobs have felt obligated to constantly *apologize* for it for a long time now.
January 28, 2026 at 2:37 AM
conventional wisdom when I was in college was majoring in theater was "useless". It was the reason my parents made me double major (which I am glad for bc I did film and it was amazing).
After school I learned my theater degree meant any sales dept in any field would hire me, if I wanted the job
After school I learned my theater degree meant any sales dept in any field would hire me, if I wanted the job
We are live! Streaming the demo of @spacewerewolf.bsky.social ‘s game, 100 Rogues!
www.twitch.tv/megaphonicfm
www.twitch.tv/megaphonicfm
MegaphonicFM - Twitch
Fancy little podcasts (and friendly little livestreams). Crosswords, Jackbox and trivia, video games, kitchen parties, etc. More at megaphonic.fm
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January 29, 2026 at 12:30 AM
We are live! Streaming the demo of @spacewerewolf.bsky.social ‘s game, 100 Rogues!
www.twitch.tv/megaphonicfm
www.twitch.tv/megaphonicfm
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@erlking.bsky.social and @wordgarbler.bsky.social of Megaphonic FM will be streaming the game demo in 20 minutes! 7:30PM EST
Hope to see you there!
twitch.tv/megaphonicfm
Hope to see you there!
twitch.tv/megaphonicfm
Twitch
Twitch is the world
twitch.tv
January 29, 2026 at 12:11 AM
@erlking.bsky.social and @wordgarbler.bsky.social of Megaphonic FM will be streaming the game demo in 20 minutes! 7:30PM EST
Hope to see you there!
twitch.tv/megaphonicfm
Hope to see you there!
twitch.tv/megaphonicfm
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I'm begging you not to use apple products. This shit is devastating to creators like me
January 28, 2026 at 5:42 PM
I'm begging you not to use apple products. This shit is devastating to creators like me
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The cartoony romance covers might have gone too far
January 14, 2026 at 11:02 AM
The cartoony romance covers might have gone too far
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CNN aren't even trying with this one
January 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM
CNN aren't even trying with this one