Mike Kadow
@hurrikadow.bsky.social
mostly chatting about tv & taylor swift; also interested in pop culture, gender/labor/disability history, basketball, & tennis. He/him.
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Mike Kadow
@hurrikadow.bsky.social
· Oct 30
treating bluesky like an ancient social media where i just tweet banal things like “what i would give to no longer look at my email inbox this monday morning”
losing years off my life (as always) watching uconn men’s basketball. what an ugly win
December 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
losing years off my life (as always) watching uconn men’s basketball. what an ugly win
*i climb out onto my balcony and proclaim to the woman who sometimes sits in the alley and deathscreams* i LOVED both hamnet & sentimental value!!
(& frankly feel like we’ve already reached the point in this awards cycle where the criticism of both is reaching batshit levels of cynical & bad-faith)
(& frankly feel like we’ve already reached the point in this awards cycle where the criticism of both is reaching batshit levels of cynical & bad-faith)
December 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
*i climb out onto my balcony and proclaim to the woman who sometimes sits in the alley and deathscreams* i LOVED both hamnet & sentimental value!!
(& frankly feel like we’ve already reached the point in this awards cycle where the criticism of both is reaching batshit levels of cynical & bad-faith)
(& frankly feel like we’ve already reached the point in this awards cycle where the criticism of both is reaching batshit levels of cynical & bad-faith)
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Hamnet is a superb film that shouldn't need defending, but apparently it does, so I'll just say that I can't count the number of Oscar seasons in which a movie labeled as "soft" or "manipulative" is attacked bc it putatively threatens the chances of a NOT-soft film that is at least as manipulative.
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Hamnet is a superb film that shouldn't need defending, but apparently it does, so I'll just say that I can't count the number of Oscar seasons in which a movie labeled as "soft" or "manipulative" is attacked bc it putatively threatens the chances of a NOT-soft film that is at least as manipulative.
saying our daily prayers (lord give me a new clip of cam or pat spencer talking shit on a basketball court everyday, it’s what we deserve).
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
saying our daily prayers (lord give me a new clip of cam or pat spencer talking shit on a basketball court everyday, it’s what we deserve).
the year of sam fender
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
the year of sam fender
nothing like a stressful uconn men’s game to rile up the adrenaline just before bed (great second half & win! i’ll miss seeing karaban cruise direct them out of tight situations next year)
December 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
nothing like a stressful uconn men’s game to rile up the adrenaline just before bed (great second half & win! i’ll miss seeing karaban cruise direct them out of tight situations next year)
slightly wine drunk, cleaning my kitchen, listening to london grammar. a farewell to this year’s thanksgiving.
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
slightly wine drunk, cleaning my kitchen, listening to london grammar. a farewell to this year’s thanksgiving.
some of us have endured great hardships (have sat through the song sung blue trailer before other movies at least 6 times)
November 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
some of us have endured great hardships (have sat through the song sung blue trailer before other movies at least 6 times)
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Sentimental Value…that’s a performance
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Sentimental Value…that’s a performance
everyone (2 people) texting me about the goo goo dolls tiny desk (great, loved it, felt crippling nostalgia, my fav emotional state, truly ty for sharing). that said, real ones know the day i lose all composure is when it’s matchbox twenty.
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
everyone (2 people) texting me about the goo goo dolls tiny desk (great, loved it, felt crippling nostalgia, my fav emotional state, truly ty for sharing). that said, real ones know the day i lose all composure is when it’s matchbox twenty.
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god it's hard to even get past "Like all men but more so"
It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
god it's hard to even get past "Like all men but more so"
Yes, I too had to wash my tear stricken face in the bathroom after Hamnet (pretty sure the entire theater was in the same state). Loved it!
November 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Yes, I too had to wash my tear stricken face in the bathroom after Hamnet (pretty sure the entire theater was in the same state). Loved it!
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)
making me watch cspan on a sunday night, jesus christ.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
making me watch cspan on a sunday night, jesus christ.
it’s i’m on fire saturday, im yearning (constant, edgy) AND it feels like a freight train ran through the middle of my head (contingent, dulling)
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
it’s i’m on fire saturday, im yearning (constant, edgy) AND it feels like a freight train ran through the middle of my head (contingent, dulling)
something so important to my life is laying on the floor listening to phoebe bridgers i know the end about 20 times in a row after i shut my laptop for the day.
November 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
something so important to my life is laying on the floor listening to phoebe bridgers i know the end about 20 times in a row after i shut my laptop for the day.
zohran acceptance speech an all timer, im losing it
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
zohran acceptance speech an all timer, im losing it
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devastated at katie cashman losing. fuck
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
devastated at katie cashman losing. fuck
feeling very sad to lose katie cashman as my city council rep
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
feeling very sad to lose katie cashman as my city council rep
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mostly stuff to celebrate tonight but i’m very very bummed about katie cashman. it sucks that just being good and smart and doing the work cannot always triumph over immense piles of cash :/
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
mostly stuff to celebrate tonight but i’m very very bummed about katie cashman. it sucks that just being good and smart and doing the work cannot always triumph over immense piles of cash :/
the darkness outside has brought me back to my roots (listening to 20 straight hours of london grammar)
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
the darkness outside has brought me back to my roots (listening to 20 straight hours of london grammar)
5:40 pm and it’s so dark out that i’m contemplating crawling into bed with a book and not emerging until the sun returns.
November 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
5:40 pm and it’s so dark out that i’m contemplating crawling into bed with a book and not emerging until the sun returns.
the human body is not built to watch this world series game 7
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
the human body is not built to watch this world series game 7