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
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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.
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February 10, 2026 at 4:27 AM
devil crept in eden wood
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Uh, maybe we should keep AI-driven surgical tools OUT OF PEOPLE’S FUCKING HEADS?!?
“Since AI was added to the device the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions & adverse events…Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads”
February 10, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Uh, maybe we should keep AI-driven surgical tools OUT OF PEOPLE’S FUCKING HEADS?!?
I really would love to see something replace Discord. It’s the clunkiest, most difficult to navigate platform, but unfortunately so many communities I would live to be part of use it for their primary communications. I have tried. It is just awful and painful.
February 10, 2026 at 1:21 AM
I really would love to see something replace Discord. It’s the clunkiest, most difficult to navigate platform, but unfortunately so many communities I would live to be part of use it for their primary communications. I have tried. It is just awful and painful.
Ah, Tulski Gabbardanova is back in the news. Whatever could she be up to now?
February 10, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Ah, Tulski Gabbardanova is back in the news. Whatever could she be up to now?
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What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent.
This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
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This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...
x.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:42 PM
What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent.
This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...
This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...
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When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
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Analysis: we fired all our arts and culture writers
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Analysis: we fired all our arts and culture writers
Post a banger that isn't in English.
February 9, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Post a banger that isn't in English.
But HATE is what we want! It's who we are! You will take our hate when you pry it from our cold, dead, white hands!
February 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM
But HATE is what we want! It's who we are! You will take our hate when you pry it from our cold, dead, white hands!
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“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.”
A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.
A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 PM
“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.”
A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.
A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.
So wait, do the new MAHA nutrition guidelines recommend not just an abundance of meat, but also ferments and human ears? Sorry, had the volume muted when Mike Tyson was talking in the commercial.
February 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
So wait, do the new MAHA nutrition guidelines recommend not just an abundance of meat, but also ferments and human ears? Sorry, had the volume muted when Mike Tyson was talking in the commercial.
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.