Howard Mittelmark
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Howard Mittelmark
@howardm.bsky.social
· Jan 18
Occupant was my father's name. Call me Current Resident.
This is very much worth reading.
4x Garbage Day byline today from me, @bumas.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, and @jlfeder.bsky.social.
Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it?
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it?
www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is very much worth reading.
It's really hard to say "Enlighten me" and not sound sarcastic.
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's really hard to say "Enlighten me" and not sound sarcastic.
This reads like exposition from a very bad novel by someone who has never met an artist or been to a cafe, and has only ever seen New York on TV.
From this profile.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/n...
From this profile.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/n...
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This reads like exposition from a very bad novel by someone who has never met an artist or been to a cafe, and has only ever seen New York on TV.
From this profile.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/n...
From this profile.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/n...
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❤️📡
“It really is a work of art, nailing the aesthetic of early-'90s TV and uncannily capturing a time and place in the way a song or a smell evokes a memory - in a way that feels almost personal.” — 9/10
“It really is a work of art, nailing the aesthetic of early-'90s TV and uncannily capturing a time and place in the way a song or a smell evokes a memory - in a way that feels almost personal.” — 9/10
Review: Blippo+ (Switch) - An Uncanny Channel-Surfing Sim That Perfectly Captures '90s TV.
Review: Blippo+ (Switch) - An Uncanny Channel-Surfing Sim That Perfectly Captures '90s TV
Surprise and Deee-Lite
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November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
❤️📡
“It really is a work of art, nailing the aesthetic of early-'90s TV and uncannily capturing a time and place in the way a song or a smell evokes a memory - in a way that feels almost personal.” — 9/10
“It really is a work of art, nailing the aesthetic of early-'90s TV and uncannily capturing a time and place in the way a song or a smell evokes a memory - in a way that feels almost personal.” — 9/10
Silence of the Lambs is almost the Platonic ideal of its kind, and Red Dragon was pretty good, too, but this is the first thing I've read that suggests we wouldn't all have been better off without Hannibal.
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Silence of the Lambs is almost the Platonic ideal of its kind, and Red Dragon was pretty good, too, but this is the first thing I've read that suggests we wouldn't all have been better off without Hannibal.
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Basically a series that centers around weird men yelling "actually let ME tell YOU why everything YOU KNOW is a lie" back and forth
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Basically a series that centers around weird men yelling "actually let ME tell YOU why everything YOU KNOW is a lie" back and forth
Ah, yes, Asimov's Foundation series, famous for all the Alien Xenomorphs and sexy space babes.
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Ah, yes, Asimov's Foundation series, famous for all the Alien Xenomorphs and sexy space babes.
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I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill.
#art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI
#art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill.
#art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI
#art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI
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Oh, and you should read my book.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Glass House
For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land*A New York Post Must-Read Book**A Newsweek Best New Book**One of The Week's 20 Books to Read i...
us.macmillan.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Oh, and you should read my book.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
[my funeral]
A bear emerges from the nearby woods, knocks the coffin over; it breaks open and my body flops out; the bear drags it away, but four eagles swoop in and fight the bear off, then fly away with most of my body, now in pieces.
My wife: It's what he would have wanted.
A bear emerges from the nearby woods, knocks the coffin over; it breaks open and my body flops out; the bear drags it away, but four eagles swoop in and fight the bear off, then fly away with most of my body, now in pieces.
My wife: It's what he would have wanted.
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
[my funeral]
A bear emerges from the nearby woods, knocks the coffin over; it breaks open and my body flops out; the bear drags it away, but four eagles swoop in and fight the bear off, then fly away with most of my body, now in pieces.
My wife: It's what he would have wanted.
A bear emerges from the nearby woods, knocks the coffin over; it breaks open and my body flops out; the bear drags it away, but four eagles swoop in and fight the bear off, then fly away with most of my body, now in pieces.
My wife: It's what he would have wanted.
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"The book is at once a subtle, outrageous, energetic and kaleidoscopic look at queerness, with Sycamore’s trademark energy and high literary style." Thank you for this gorgeous conversation in Xtra Magazine!!🌺🌺🌺
One of my favourite people has a book out today. To summarize this Q&A she did with Xtra: nostalgia, no; vulnerability, yes. xtramagazine.com/culture/matt...
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the link between the COVID-19 and AIDS crises | Xtra Magazine
Sycamore’s new novel “Terry Dactyl” shirks nostalgia, instead showing how queer history often repeats
xtramagazine.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"The book is at once a subtle, outrageous, energetic and kaleidoscopic look at queerness, with Sycamore’s trademark energy and high literary style." Thank you for this gorgeous conversation in Xtra Magazine!!🌺🌺🌺
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
They expect us to believe the Silver Surfer is a girl? It completely undermines the credibility of the Fantastic Four.
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
They expect us to believe the Silver Surfer is a girl? It completely undermines the credibility of the Fantastic Four.
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*renounces past writings whilst sitting on a throne built of his past writings*
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
*renounces past writings whilst sitting on a throne built of his past writings*
Me, being rounded up along with everyone else my age by a triumphant DSA: Wait! You don't understand! I followed menaker and cushbomb before they even started the podcast! NO! WAIT! WE WERE MUTUALS!
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Me, being rounded up along with everyone else my age by a triumphant DSA: Wait! You don't understand! I followed menaker and cushbomb before they even started the podcast! NO! WAIT! WE WERE MUTUALS!
The Republicans keep this up, we're going to have to put straw men on the endangered species list.
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Republicans keep this up, we're going to have to put straw men on the endangered species list.
Straw men organizing to protest their abuse by Republicans. "We are made out of straw! We can't take much more!"
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Straw men organizing to protest their abuse by Republicans. "We are made out of straw! We can't take much more!"
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Turns out the idea is the easy part.
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Turns out the idea is the easy part.
Everything they say is three straw men in an overcoat made out of more straw men.
Mike Johnson: "If you run as a socialist, you run on a big list false claims. You promise everything to everyone, and you can't deliver, and if you were able to deliver it would be to the great detriment of the people you lured in to vote for you."
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Everything they say is three straw men in an overcoat made out of more straw men.
Something everyone in your industry knows, but is news to everyone else: Nobody wants to steal your idea for a novel.
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Something everyone in your industry knows, but is news to everyone else: Nobody wants to steal your idea for a novel.
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God I hope so, or I have been putting in all this effort for nothing.
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
God I hope so, or I have been putting in all this effort for nothing.
Working on notes to distribute to friends, things I want them to say if they're interviewed after if I'm killed or arrested, but I don't want to push it so far they refuse, so I'm going with "He was okay" "Eh" and "Who?" on the one hand and "Yeah, sounds like him" "Figures" and "Who?" on the other.
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Working on notes to distribute to friends, things I want them to say if they're interviewed after if I'm killed or arrested, but I don't want to push it so far they refuse, so I'm going with "He was okay" "Eh" and "Who?" on the one hand and "Yeah, sounds like him" "Figures" and "Who?" on the other.
Trying to be more efficient, so I'm going to call all body parts "flaps."
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Trying to be more efficient, so I'm going to call all body parts "flaps."