Michael M. Hughes
@michaelmhughes.bsky.social
Author, speaker, game designer, magical thinker, satirist. Copy editor @The Baltimore Banner. Opinions 💯 mine. http://theartofmagicalliving.com and http://michaelmhughes.com. And coming to Kickstarter March 2025: http://rockersandrollersgame.com
Pinned
The first print run of Magic for the Resistance has sold out already! I am delighted that it is having renewed life at such an important time.
I was shocked when a coworker said she scrolls TikTok videos on her phone while watching TV and then I learned that LOTS of people do that.
We are doomed.
We are doomed.
February 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I was shocked when a coworker said she scrolls TikTok videos on her phone while watching TV and then I learned that LOTS of people do that.
We are doomed.
We are doomed.
Yo man, can you stop by 7-11 on your way over to watch the game tonight and grab a couple bags of ferments?
February 8, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Yo man, can you stop by 7-11 on your way over to watch the game tonight and grab a couple bags of ferments?
Allow me to pile on: FUCK this fucking garbage slop, fire it into the hottest plasma in the center of the sun.
fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Allow me to pile on: FUCK this fucking garbage slop, fire it into the hottest plasma in the center of the sun.
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“Touchdown! Hey, bro, pass me the bowl of ferments. No, not that one, the other one, next to the unpasteurized kefir and the raw pork.”
RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."
February 8, 2026 at 5:43 PM
“Touchdown! Hey, bro, pass me the bowl of ferments. No, not that one, the other one, next to the unpasteurized kefir and the raw pork.”
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Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cellmate claims to have evidence that the Trump administration wanted the disgraced financier dead and left him unprotected “on purpose,” according to a document obtained by the Daily Beast. www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-cell...
Epstein Cellmate Claims Trump Administration Wanted Pervert Powerbroker ‘Dead’
Man who shared a cell with Epstein made the explosive claim in a pardon plea obtained by the Daily Beast.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cellmate claims to have evidence that the Trump administration wanted the disgraced financier dead and left him unprotected “on purpose,” according to a document obtained by the Daily Beast. www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-cell...
Imagination, which is not fantasy, is a quasi-divine faculty which perceives right away, without recourse to philosophical methods, the intimate and secret relations between things, their correspondences and analogies.
—Baudelaire, Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe
—Baudelaire, Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe
February 7, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Imagination, which is not fantasy, is a quasi-divine faculty which perceives right away, without recourse to philosophical methods, the intimate and secret relations between things, their correspondences and analogies.
—Baudelaire, Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe
—Baudelaire, Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe
I was watching “The Devil’s Nightmare” (1971) and had no idea Stephen Miller was in it. He hasn’t changed a bit!
February 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
I was watching “The Devil’s Nightmare” (1971) and had no idea Stephen Miller was in it. He hasn’t changed a bit!
If you are a child snatcher, you are evil. Full stop. I learned that when I was a kid watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and nothing has changed since then.
a man in a top hat stands in front of a group of men on horses
ALT: a man in a top hat stands in front of a group of men on horses
media.tenor.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
If you are a child snatcher, you are evil. Full stop. I learned that when I was a kid watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and nothing has changed since then.
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The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
February 6, 2026 at 12:08 AM
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Nothing can equal those days for endlessness
When in the winter's blizzardy caress
Indifference expanding to Ennui
Takes on the feel of immortality.
—Baudelaire, LXXIX. Spleen.
When in the winter's blizzardy caress
Indifference expanding to Ennui
Takes on the feel of immortality.
—Baudelaire, LXXIX. Spleen.
February 6, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Nothing can equal those days for endlessness
When in the winter's blizzardy caress
Indifference expanding to Ennui
Takes on the feel of immortality.
—Baudelaire, LXXIX. Spleen.
When in the winter's blizzardy caress
Indifference expanding to Ennui
Takes on the feel of immortality.
—Baudelaire, LXXIX. Spleen.
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Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE
Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.
sahanjournal.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
These are truly execrable humans.
“In 2017, Attia appears to have spent time with Epstein in New York—rebuffing his wife’s pleas for him to return home to California—while his infant son was having a medical emergency.”
The Longevity Influencer Who Went Into ‘Withdrawal’ Without Jeffrey Epstein
Peter Attia is all over the Epstein files.
www.theatlantic.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
These are truly execrable humans.
Remember in the days after Jan. 6, when we thought we dodged a bullet? That an attempted insurrection failed?
It didn’t. The takeover just took longer to unfold.
And now we’re collectively lying in the street and there’s a masked goon holding a gun barrel against our head.
It didn’t. The takeover just took longer to unfold.
And now we’re collectively lying in the street and there’s a masked goon holding a gun barrel against our head.
February 3, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Remember in the days after Jan. 6, when we thought we dodged a bullet? That an attempted insurrection failed?
It didn’t. The takeover just took longer to unfold.
And now we’re collectively lying in the street and there’s a masked goon holding a gun barrel against our head.
It didn’t. The takeover just took longer to unfold.
And now we’re collectively lying in the street and there’s a masked goon holding a gun barrel against our head.
And speaking of Buddhism:
"Groundhog Day" (movie) is the best stealth teaching of the Buddhist concept of Right Livelihood disguised as a romcom ever made.
Seriously, you do an entire course on Buddhism 101 with just this movie.
"Groundhog Day" (movie) is the best stealth teaching of the Buddhist concept of Right Livelihood disguised as a romcom ever made.
Seriously, you do an entire course on Buddhism 101 with just this movie.
a close up of a man 's face with a newspaper in front of his face .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a newspaper in front of his face .
media.tenor.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM
And speaking of Buddhism:
"Groundhog Day" (movie) is the best stealth teaching of the Buddhist concept of Right Livelihood disguised as a romcom ever made.
Seriously, you do an entire course on Buddhism 101 with just this movie.
"Groundhog Day" (movie) is the best stealth teaching of the Buddhist concept of Right Livelihood disguised as a romcom ever made.
Seriously, you do an entire course on Buddhism 101 with just this movie.
1/3. ALWAYS do your due diligence before joining any mediation or spirituality-focused group. I started dropping in to some meditation classes at a local Buddhist center. Seemed pretty decent—meditating, dharma talk, tasty vegetarian lunch. So I started reading a book by their founder/guru ...
February 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
1/3. ALWAYS do your due diligence before joining any mediation or spirituality-focused group. I started dropping in to some meditation classes at a local Buddhist center. Seemed pretty decent—meditating, dharma talk, tasty vegetarian lunch. So I started reading a book by their founder/guru ...
Boy does this hit the nail on the head. All the conspiracist knuckleheads I monitor, who cried “FASCISM!” about COVID lockdowns, have gone completely silent about actual jackbooted government thugs kidnapping and killing people in the streets.
Almost like they were cryptofascists the whole time.
Almost like they were cryptofascists the whole time.
The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it
January 31, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Boy does this hit the nail on the head. All the conspiracist knuckleheads I monitor, who cried “FASCISM!” about COVID lockdowns, have gone completely silent about actual jackbooted government thugs kidnapping and killing people in the streets.
Almost like they were cryptofascists the whole time.
Almost like they were cryptofascists the whole time.
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Maria Santay, a U.S. citizen and community observer, live-streamed masked ICE agents detaining her after they boxed in her car from all sides and smashed her window. Local police showed up and did nothing.
She was denied access to a restroom, and forced to pee in the parking lot while handcuffed.
She was denied access to a restroom, and forced to pee in the parking lot while handcuffed.
January 31, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Maria Santay, a U.S. citizen and community observer, live-streamed masked ICE agents detaining her after they boxed in her car from all sides and smashed her window. Local police showed up and did nothing.
She was denied access to a restroom, and forced to pee in the parking lot while handcuffed.
She was denied access to a restroom, and forced to pee in the parking lot while handcuffed.
86 matches for Trump in this document from the Epstein files. Warning: Horrific stuff.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
January 30, 2026 at 5:29 PM
86 matches for Trump in this document from the Epstein files. Warning: Horrific stuff.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Sigils are burning
January 30, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Sigils are burning
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Hey folks with a Substack, any word what they’re doing over there
Medium gives employees Friday off to participate in national strike protesting ICE
Medium gives employees Friday off to participate in national strike protesting ICE | TechCrunch
Activists behind the general strike are calling for "no work, no school, and no shopping" amid a push to defund ICE, which has escalated raids in U.S. cities, killing several people, including two U.S. citizens earlier this month in Minneapolis.
techcrunch.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Hey folks with a Substack, any word what they’re doing over there
You know what to do.
January 29, 2026 at 11:24 PM
You know what to do.
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Source: ICE to begin using empty Melania theaters as temporary detention facilities.
January 29, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Source: ICE to begin using empty Melania theaters as temporary detention facilities.
I wonder if Kristi Noem is humming "The Wheels on the Bus."
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I wonder if Kristi Noem is humming "The Wheels on the Bus."
Tom Homan is a real-life Chuck Jones villain.
January 29, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Tom Homan is a real-life Chuck Jones villain.