Josh Michtom
@rsgat.bsky.social
Dad, husband, lawyer for marginalized kids, former veteran public defender, Hartford City Councilman (one of five WFP-only electeds nationwide!), musician, artist, professor; opinions my own; "CT Dems aren't socialist enough for this clown."
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How did Company Flow never name an album "Werckmeister Harmonies"?
Breaking News: Bela Tarr, a Hungarian director whose long, grim films like “Werckmeister Harmonies” made him an art-house titan, died at 70.
Bela Tarr, Titan of Slow-Moving Cinema, Dies at 70
The master Hungarian filmmaker’s movies included “Satantango” and “Werckmeister Harmonies.”
nyti.ms
January 6, 2026 at 3:03 PM
How did Company Flow never name an album "Werckmeister Harmonies"?
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missing pernil
squidward and patrick from spongebob squarepants are looking out a window
ALT: squidward and patrick from spongebob squarepants are looking out a window
media.tenor.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
missing pernil
So are they kings or wise men? Because those are basically mutually exclusive categories.
January 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
So are they kings or wise men? Because those are basically mutually exclusive categories.
An hour and a half from home, taking my homeless child client to dinner so he can warm up and have a hot meal before he turns himself in on a warrant. It's bullshit that there's no heaven for Jews, because I'm putting in work out here.
January 6, 2026 at 3:44 AM
An hour and a half from home, taking my homeless child client to dinner so he can warm up and have a hot meal before he turns himself in on a warrant. It's bullshit that there's no heaven for Jews, because I'm putting in work out here.
Tired: narco-terrorist
Wired: Nark O'Terrorist
Wired: Nark O'Terrorist
January 6, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Tired: narco-terrorist
Wired: Nark O'Terrorist
Wired: Nark O'Terrorist
Drunk, walking to a party with crew in Manhattan, I saw a McDonald's cup sitting on top of a building standpipe. "Yo," I said, "check out my kung fu," and then, instead of kicking the cup as intended, I just kicked the pipe very hard and spent the rest of the night bleeding inside my shoe.
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
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January 6, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Drunk, walking to a party with crew in Manhattan, I saw a McDonald's cup sitting on top of a building standpipe. "Yo," I said, "check out my kung fu," and then, instead of kicking the cup as intended, I just kicked the pipe very hard and spent the rest of the night bleeding inside my shoe.
Just doing international relations like a game of Risk.
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 5, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Just doing international relations like a game of Risk.
If I had infinite money, I would commission a shot-for-shot remake of "Crash," but with the cast of "Crash."
This is like intending to watch "Crash" (1996, car crash kink) but watching "Crash" (2004, ham-handed race allegory).
January 5, 2026 at 9:56 PM
If I had infinite money, I would commission a shot-for-shot remake of "Crash," but with the cast of "Crash."
As a bilingual lawyer, this is my greatest pet peeve: interpreters, for many (often forgivable) reasons, don't render foreign language statements faithfully, and monolingual decision-makers (judge, prosecutor, jury) are deprived of important information.
January 5, 2026 at 8:14 PM
As a bilingual lawyer, this is my greatest pet peeve: interpreters, for many (often forgivable) reasons, don't render foreign language statements faithfully, and monolingual decision-makers (judge, prosecutor, jury) are deprived of important information.
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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here?
And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?
No money for Musk, ever, please.
And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?
No money for Musk, ever, please.
January 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here?
And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?
No money for Musk, ever, please.
And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?
No money for Musk, ever, please.
A thing I love is that the phrase "hincha pelotas," which means, literally, "ball-sweller" and, practically, someone who is annoying, didn't arise from the literal meaning of the words, even though that seems logical enough (parallel to how in English, people say "don't break my balls"). Instead...
January 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM
A thing I love is that the phrase "hincha pelotas," which means, literally, "ball-sweller" and, practically, someone who is annoying, didn't arise from the literal meaning of the words, even though that seems logical enough (parallel to how in English, people say "don't break my balls"). Instead...
@kendrawrites.com A song called "Mayonesa" has come to my attention.
Mayonesa - Chocolate (Video Oficial)
YouTube video by Montevideo Music Group
youtu.be
January 5, 2026 at 12:18 PM
@kendrawrites.com A song called "Mayonesa" has come to my attention.
Yesterday at dinner, the six-year-old said to me, earnestly, "Dad, how would you say 'Thank you' in Oregon?"
January 5, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Yesterday at dinner, the six-year-old said to me, earnestly, "Dad, how would you say 'Thank you' in Oregon?"
My six-year-old has developed the habit of running up and hugging us while pressing her face into our butts - it's where her face lands on us. It's loving but sometimes a little startling. We were trying to explain to her that a hug is OK but...
January 5, 2026 at 12:01 PM
My six-year-old has developed the habit of running up and hugging us while pressing her face into our butts - it's where her face lands on us. It's loving but sometimes a little startling. We were trying to explain to her that a hug is OK but...
I'm never giving a job to any Nobel Laureate, because they could have given their prizes to me instead of accepting them. AND I AM SO PEACEFUL. MUCH MORE PEACEFUL THAN THEM.
January 5, 2026 at 3:36 AM
I'm never giving a job to any Nobel Laureate, because they could have given their prizes to me instead of accepting them. AND I AM SO PEACEFUL. MUCH MORE PEACEFUL THAN THEM.
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So like, what if Maduro is somehow acquitted?
January 4, 2026 at 9:12 PM
So like, what if Maduro is somehow acquitted?
Whenever someone says "socialism is responsible for 100 million deaths in the 20th century," I'd like to tally all the folks who died unnecessarily in that period *not* from socialism - from preventable disease, starvation, violence, wars of conquest, and all the other stuff on capitalism's tab.
January 4, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Whenever someone says "socialism is responsible for 100 million deaths in the 20th century," I'd like to tally all the folks who died unnecessarily in that period *not* from socialism - from preventable disease, starvation, violence, wars of conquest, and all the other stuff on capitalism's tab.
Costco's greatest innovation is eschewing mid-grade gas.
January 3, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Costco's greatest innovation is eschewing mid-grade gas.
They made a stuffed animal out of rational basis review.
January 3, 2026 at 10:21 PM
They made a stuffed animal out of rational basis review.
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oh yeah? well, could a dying sex criminal do THIS? [bombs venezuela]
January 3, 2026 at 10:05 AM
oh yeah? well, could a dying sex criminal do THIS? [bombs venezuela]
Costco produce section going through it today.
January 3, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Costco produce section going through it today.
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Tired: "Is this legal?"
Wired: "Is this right?"
Wired: "Is this right?"
January 3, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Tired: "Is this legal?"
Wired: "Is this right?"
Wired: "Is this right?"
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okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."