mike jolkovski
@mikejolk.bsky.social
Psychoanalyst, Woodwind player, bon vivant. If I’m following you, it’s probably because you said something clever.
I am vast, I contain platitudes. I have heard the modem scream.
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I am vast, I contain platitudes. I have heard the modem scream.
MikeJolk.39 on signal
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I am reminded today of this skit by Sarah Cooper.
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I am reminded today of this skit by Sarah Cooper.
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Away with them to prison
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Away with them to prison
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Remember when some guy killed a far right provocateur and every major right wing presence was calling for the Democratic Party to be labeled a terrorist organization and disbanded? If you are asking for less to be done to the party that doubles as a sex trafficking ring you are unequal to the moment
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Remember when some guy killed a far right provocateur and every major right wing presence was calling for the Democratic Party to be labeled a terrorist organization and disbanded? If you are asking for less to be done to the party that doubles as a sex trafficking ring you are unequal to the moment
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check it out: one million year mortgage
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM
check it out: one million year mortgage
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Happy anniversary of the capture of the Winter Palace to all who celebrate
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Happy anniversary of the capture of the Winter Palace to all who celebrate
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Mamdani is not a radical. He has run a tight, smart, fairly standard local campaign. He'll probably get 20 or 30 percent of his platform if he's lucky. The one radical thing he's done is told the Times to go to hell. He has campaigned every step of the way like he doesn't need them, and he's right.
November 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Mamdani is not a radical. He has run a tight, smart, fairly standard local campaign. He'll probably get 20 or 30 percent of his platform if he's lucky. The one radical thing he's done is told the Times to go to hell. He has campaigned every step of the way like he doesn't need them, and he's right.
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Please, remember to wear your red MAGA hats when you’re in line at your local food pantry.
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Please, remember to wear your red MAGA hats when you’re in line at your local food pantry.
BUGONIA has a couple of surprising moments.
November 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
BUGONIA has a couple of surprising moments.
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Thou marble-hearted fiend
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Thou marble-hearted fiend
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Yes & this has been going on in music for decades. The gridification of performances- using algorithms to make performances 'perfect'- teaches us to reject difference & unlearn how to move together in time, making democratic coordination much more difficult.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Yes & this has been going on in music for decades. The gridification of performances- using algorithms to make performances 'perfect'- teaches us to reject difference & unlearn how to move together in time, making democratic coordination much more difficult.
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
medium.com/the-riff/doe...
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i thought i was going insane turns out i’m just paying attention
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
i thought i was going insane turns out i’m just paying attention
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One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole
October 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole
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Care for us? True indeed! They ne’er car’d for us yet. Suffer us to famish, and their store-houses cramm’d with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act establish’d against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor.
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Care for us? True indeed! They ne’er car’d for us yet. Suffer us to famish, and their store-houses cramm’d with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act establish’d against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor.
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Dionysius is generally glossed as the God of Wine, but given the associations with revelry, theatre and madness, I sort of wonder if the more accurate descriptor isn't "The God of Altered States"
October 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Dionysius is generally glossed as the God of Wine, but given the associations with revelry, theatre and madness, I sort of wonder if the more accurate descriptor isn't "The God of Altered States"
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Here’s a little patriotic music from 1941 for y’all
October 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Here’s a little patriotic music from 1941 for y’all
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five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
www.kickstarter.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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this situation of mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
this situation of mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes
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I guess it's called the Magna Carta. I heard that and I said wow. But we're not going to have it anymore and we'll have something much better. And I think our royal subjects will be very happy
October 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I guess it's called the Magna Carta. I heard that and I said wow. But we're not going to have it anymore and we'll have something much better. And I think our royal subjects will be very happy
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It's remarkable how not ever having been President has aged me.
October 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
It's remarkable how not ever having been President has aged me.
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I can’t say I’m a fan of the new White House ballroom, but I do approve of the billboard they’re putting on its roof.
October 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I can’t say I’m a fan of the new White House ballroom, but I do approve of the billboard they’re putting on its roof.
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Having trouble locking down my DC book date Nov 5. Anyone on here happen to run a store/bar venue that could host a reading?
October 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Having trouble locking down my DC book date Nov 5. Anyone on here happen to run a store/bar venue that could host a reading?
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Revenge is a dish best served in a leaky styrofoam container
October 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Revenge is a dish best served in a leaky styrofoam container
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Minit-thread: Bears repeating daily at this point: There were no immigration laws at all until white people on the West Coat began to fear the dreaded Yellow Peril of Chinese immigration in the 1880s. That's right. While these people were building railroads across mountain and plain...
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Minit-thread: Bears repeating daily at this point: There were no immigration laws at all until white people on the West Coat began to fear the dreaded Yellow Peril of Chinese immigration in the 1880s. That's right. While these people were building railroads across mountain and plain...