mel thomas
@pagemelt.bsky.social
several possums in a trench coat and one of them learned how to read
they/them
https://pagemelt.zone/linktree/
they/them
https://pagemelt.zone/linktree/
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mel thomas
@pagemelt.bsky.social
· Jul 6
be your own algorithm
YouTube video by pagemelt
youtu.be
hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times?
youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI
youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI
well, it finally happened, they hit the pentagon (someone made an ilya edit set to "the boxer" by simon & garfunkel)
January 4, 2026 at 6:07 PM
well, it finally happened, they hit the pentagon (someone made an ilya edit set to "the boxer" by simon & garfunkel)
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A New Year's Toast from Patricia Highsmith (and me) 🥂🥂
December 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A New Year's Toast from Patricia Highsmith (and me) 🥂🥂
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Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.
December 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.
what's my most millennial trait, do u think? my aversion to low rise jeans? how I can't run an errand without getting an iced coffee? or is it how much I love The National??
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
what's my most millennial trait, do u think? my aversion to low rise jeans? how I can't run an errand without getting an iced coffee? or is it how much I love The National??
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the "I stubbed my toe 😠" ➡️ "I HeARD yOuR HEARtS DANCING!!!!😩👹👹🔪👹" pipeline
December 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
the "I stubbed my toe 😠" ➡️ "I HeARD yOuR HEARtS DANCING!!!!😩👹👹🔪👹" pipeline
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
had a nightmare that I made tini's mac and cheese for thanksgiving but I forgot to bloom the spices before I made the roux ❌😩
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
had a nightmare that I made tini's mac and cheese for thanksgiving but I forgot to bloom the spices before I made the roux ❌😩
oh hell yeah 🔥
Hidden cameras. Surveillance networks. Paranoid delusions.
My new video is about the feeling that you're being watched.
youtu.be/gStjfje6Mq4
My new video is about the feeling that you're being watched.
youtu.be/gStjfje6Mq4
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
oh hell yeah 🔥
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forgot the wifi password for my crude tunnel system
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
forgot the wifi password for my crude tunnel system
i'm sure there's a joke to make about how ryan lizza's newsletter has the same name as infamous ex-youtuber james somerton's fake crowdfunded production company, but it's been 8 hours of brainstorming and at this point i've gotta admit that i'm not gonna be the one to make it
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
i'm sure there's a joke to make about how ryan lizza's newsletter has the same name as infamous ex-youtuber james somerton's fake crowdfunded production company, but it's been 8 hours of brainstorming and at this point i've gotta admit that i'm not gonna be the one to make it
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what line from the book do you most want to hear in the show and why is it "okay mr. lots of sex"
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
what line from the book do you most want to hear in the show and why is it "okay mr. lots of sex"
official member of the pocket spiral notebook defense squad!!!!! 😤😤 i like em. i think they're cute
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
official member of the pocket spiral notebook defense squad!!!!! 😤😤 i like em. i think they're cute
me at the pinball bar 2nite
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
me at the pinball bar 2nite
I stopped scrolling before bed and started playing wordle and connections instead, and I think it's actually making me angrier
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I stopped scrolling before bed and started playing wordle and connections instead, and I think it's actually making me angrier
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cloudflare outages are a big turn-on for me
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
cloudflare outages are a big turn-on for me
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PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
There has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
me and ur girl this holiday season
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
me and ur girl this holiday season
enough productivity for today 🙅♂️🙅♂️. it's time to look up people i don't like to see if they've posted anything annoying recently
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
enough productivity for today 🙅♂️🙅♂️. it's time to look up people i don't like to see if they've posted anything annoying recently
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99% of memoirs should have been or remained essays. like what do you mean you're a 29-year-old brooklyn transplant and you wrote 70k words about your life. you better have been a war correspondent before you picked up that podcast mic. you better have been raised in a fundamentalist cult
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
99% of memoirs should have been or remained essays. like what do you mean you're a 29-year-old brooklyn transplant and you wrote 70k words about your life. you better have been a war correspondent before you picked up that podcast mic. you better have been raised in a fundamentalist cult
currently self-flagellating by reading substack articles called "the over-consumption of girlhood" and "joan didion (and other writers you've probably never heard of)" and "the proliferation of degeneracy in contemporary romance: a leftist analysis"
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
currently self-flagellating by reading substack articles called "the over-consumption of girlhood" and "joan didion (and other writers you've probably never heard of)" and "the proliferation of degeneracy in contemporary romance: a leftist analysis"
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[me, yesterday, watching the Arabic Zohran ad] dick cheney would die if he saw this
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
[me, yesterday, watching the Arabic Zohran ad] dick cheney would die if he saw this