Mike Karpa
@mikekarpa.bsky.social
Gay writer of genre-challenged novels with queer casts including Kirkus Best of 2022 thriller “Criminals”.
I saw this headline: “The Dow Surged Past 50,000. How Caterpillar and These Other Stocks Got It There.” Genocide, right?
February 7, 2026 at 1:27 AM
I saw this headline: “The Dow Surged Past 50,000. How Caterpillar and These Other Stocks Got It There.” Genocide, right?
I logged into a newsite and the headline was about the Democrats. Are they still around?
January 30, 2026 at 2:12 AM
I logged into a newsite and the headline was about the Democrats. Are they still around?
And Samwise Altman to deploy the all-seeing eye.
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
January 27, 2026 at 4:23 PM
And Samwise Altman to deploy the all-seeing eye.
Having retired as a teacher of Japanese>Eng #translation, I am clearing out #dictionaries. At this point, they are just decorations. Scary thing: I am keeping 29 (29!) for sentimental reasons.
January 23, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Having retired as a teacher of Japanese>Eng #translation, I am clearing out #dictionaries. At this point, they are just decorations. Scary thing: I am keeping 29 (29!) for sentimental reasons.
Everything now seems to be “after another.” It’s one “after another” after another “after another.”
January 23, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Everything now seems to be “after another.” It’s one “after another” after another “after another.”
I signed the petition for the billionaires tax in CA. Peter Thiel, Davis Sacks, Sergei Brin and Larry Page have threatened to leave the state if it passes. As the saying goes, don’t threaten me with a good time.
January 21, 2026 at 11:59 PM
I signed the petition for the billionaires tax in CA. Peter Thiel, Davis Sacks, Sergei Brin and Larry Page have threatened to leave the state if it passes. As the saying goes, don’t threaten me with a good time.
Ah, sweet.
Estoy acabando de traducir un libro sobre la historia del color y me he encontrado esto en las últimas páginas. Me ha hecho gracia que la autora se acuerde de quien la va a traducir, que alguien se acuerde de nuestra existencia, para variar.
January 18, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Ah, sweet.
This sums it up nicely.
Gov. Walz to MS NOW:
"Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.
"The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."
"Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.
"The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."
January 17, 2026 at 1:47 AM
This sums it up nicely.
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
I had a daydream that I arrived at the pearly gates and St Peter said “What’s your password?” I couldn’t remember so I had to go to hell.
January 10, 2026 at 2:57 AM
I had a daydream that I arrived at the pearly gates and St Peter said “What’s your password?” I couldn’t remember so I had to go to hell.
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It's your birthday, Duane.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's your birthday, Duane.
Well said.
Refuse. Refuse. Refuse.
Fuck you; make me.
Fuck you; make me.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Well said.
@karidru.bsky.social I’m very curious who and what this is about. I’m grappling with similar issues.
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
@karidru.bsky.social I’m very curious who and what this is about. I’m grappling with similar issues.
This interview was fun.
#Booksky Review from Mountain Democrat: "River of Light" shines bright
#WendySchultz "takes readers on [Fresno Bakersfield's] journey through [the turmoil of] her formative years to young adulthood." More at mumblerspress dot com
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSXL5KRL
#WendySchultz "takes readers on [Fresno Bakersfield's] journey through [the turmoil of] her formative years to young adulthood." More at mumblerspress dot com
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSXL5KRL
December 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This interview was fun.
This should have a big audience.
#Booksky
"Librarians seeking rural settings, stories of friendships and enemies, and lives alongside animals will relish the dovetailing of perspectives. Readers seeking stories about mustering one’s courage will love how Cass steps up."
D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review
www.amazon.com/dp/1963221095
"Librarians seeking rural settings, stories of friendships and enemies, and lives alongside animals will relish the dovetailing of perspectives. Readers seeking stories about mustering one’s courage will love how Cass steps up."
D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review
www.amazon.com/dp/1963221095
Becoming Felicity
Becoming Felicity [Stites, Jan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Becoming Felicity
www.amazon.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This should have a big audience.
Great interview.
#Booksky #MixedRace #AfricanAmericanHistory
Cíara Emmanuel interviews Alison Hart.
“It's a way for me to almost build a cosmology.” Starry-eyed and visionary, Alison Hart still keeps both feet on the ground. Read the interview here
tinyurl.com/4873zy9v
Buy book here
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3QXP6XT
Cíara Emmanuel interviews Alison Hart.
“It's a way for me to almost build a cosmology.” Starry-eyed and visionary, Alison Hart still keeps both feet on the ground. Read the interview here
tinyurl.com/4873zy9v
Buy book here
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3QXP6XT
African American Irish Diaspora Network
aaidnet.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Great interview.
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#Booksky #JoanOfArc PW review of Lombardi's #JehanneDarc: "Readers of historical fiction that captures not just what happened in the past but how it felt to live it will relish this exploration of the well-known story.” PW's comps: #NicolaGriffith Hild, #HilaryMantel.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVH5GM65
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVH5GM65
Jehanne Darc, Book One: From Domrémy to Orléans
Amazon.com: Jehanne Darc, Book One: From Domrémy to Orléans eBook : Lombardi, Chris: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
#Booksky #JoanOfArc PW review of Lombardi's #JehanneDarc: "Readers of historical fiction that captures not just what happened in the past but how it felt to live it will relish this exploration of the well-known story.” PW's comps: #NicolaGriffith Hild, #HilaryMantel.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVH5GM65
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVH5GM65
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“When they are defending their liberal democracy, they are in fact defending ours as well.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
December 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“When they are defending their liberal democracy, they are in fact defending ours as well.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”
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this is the government literally telling you that you don't have the right to choose your own fucking underwear
December 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
this is the government literally telling you that you don't have the right to choose your own fucking underwear
Yep.
You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Yep.
Love that cover.
#booksky #womensfiction Mumblers is thrilled: our first ever review from Foreword: "A woman gathers her courage to invite a bestselling author to visit her struggling town in Jan Stites’s gentle novel Becoming Felicity....Cass is an endearing heroine with deep emotions."
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBKP6L24
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBKP6L24
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Love that cover.
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DOGE was a failure if the goal was saving money. It was a huge success if the goal was giving a bunch of techbro adjacent people unfettered access to govt data in ways that, thus far, are evading the Privacy Act.
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
DOGE was a failure if the goal was saving money. It was a huge success if the goal was giving a bunch of techbro adjacent people unfettered access to govt data in ways that, thus far, are evading the Privacy Act.
It’s absolutely insane.
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It’s absolutely insane.
“Trump on Tuesday defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of …Jamal Khashoggi, saying “things happen” and that he did not hold the Saudi leader responsible for the 2018 murder despite a U.S. intelligence report assessing the opposite.”-It’s a crimes against humanity summit.
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“Trump on Tuesday defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of …Jamal Khashoggi, saying “things happen” and that he did not hold the Saudi leader responsible for the 2018 murder despite a U.S. intelligence report assessing the opposite.”-It’s a crimes against humanity summit.
This all rings true.
"The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse"
"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
The Grift Bubble
A Political Theory of American Collapse
snyder.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This all rings true.