michael5mackay
@michael5mackay.bsky.social
Eclectic Curmudgeon
Bookstores and libraries are my happy places.
On the internet, no one knows you're a Canadian.
Bookstores and libraries are my happy places.
On the internet, no one knows you're a Canadian.
You know what word we don't use often enough to describe Trump?
Pathetic. The dude is pathetic, as in "pitifully inferior or inadequate" or "absurd, laughable".
Pathetic. The dude is pathetic, as in "pitifully inferior or inadequate" or "absurd, laughable".
November 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
You know what word we don't use often enough to describe Trump?
Pathetic. The dude is pathetic, as in "pitifully inferior or inadequate" or "absurd, laughable".
Pathetic. The dude is pathetic, as in "pitifully inferior or inadequate" or "absurd, laughable".
The powers that be have determined that the male equivalent of a "Karen" is a "Donald"
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
October 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The powers that be have determined that the male equivalent of a "Karen" is a "Donald"
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I envy dogs. They remain blissfully unaware of Trump and all that that entails.
October 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I envy dogs. They remain blissfully unaware of Trump and all that that entails.
Comparison of the day:
Bad Bunny, the NFL's choice for the Super Bowl halftime show has 80,545,123 monthly Spotify listeners.
Republican Mike Johnson's choice, Lee Greenwood, has 422,949. 🤣🤣🤣
Bad Bunny, the NFL's choice for the Super Bowl halftime show has 80,545,123 monthly Spotify listeners.
Republican Mike Johnson's choice, Lee Greenwood, has 422,949. 🤣🤣🤣
October 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Comparison of the day:
Bad Bunny, the NFL's choice for the Super Bowl halftime show has 80,545,123 monthly Spotify listeners.
Republican Mike Johnson's choice, Lee Greenwood, has 422,949. 🤣🤣🤣
Bad Bunny, the NFL's choice for the Super Bowl halftime show has 80,545,123 monthly Spotify listeners.
Republican Mike Johnson's choice, Lee Greenwood, has 422,949. 🤣🤣🤣
Hey folks, I never heard about Jessica Chastain's new show The Savant, set to premiere *this* Friday, until today when I read that AppleTV is quietly shelving it. Two points:
First, AppleTV+ needs better publicists.
Secondly, AppleTV+ needs executives with courage.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2730...
First, AppleTV+ needs better publicists.
Secondly, AppleTV+ needs executives with courage.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2730...
The Savant (TV Series 2025– ) | Action, Crime
| TV-MA
www.imdb.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Hey folks, I never heard about Jessica Chastain's new show The Savant, set to premiere *this* Friday, until today when I read that AppleTV is quietly shelving it. Two points:
First, AppleTV+ needs better publicists.
Secondly, AppleTV+ needs executives with courage.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2730...
First, AppleTV+ needs better publicists.
Secondly, AppleTV+ needs executives with courage.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2730...
The outrageous mistreatment of Jimmy Kimmel has today taught me a new word: the verb "jawboning", which seems to be a form of the rhetorical *ad baculum* trick performed by one with the actual power to make good the threat. IOW, extortion.
H/T @jenmercieca.bsky.social, whom everyone should follow.
H/T @jenmercieca.bsky.social, whom everyone should follow.
September 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The outrageous mistreatment of Jimmy Kimmel has today taught me a new word: the verb "jawboning", which seems to be a form of the rhetorical *ad baculum* trick performed by one with the actual power to make good the threat. IOW, extortion.
H/T @jenmercieca.bsky.social, whom everyone should follow.
H/T @jenmercieca.bsky.social, whom everyone should follow.
Literary Historians have just discovered a lost passage from Pastor Martin Niemöller's "First They Came":
"First they came for the late night talk show hosts ..."
"First they came for the late night talk show hosts ..."
September 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Literary Historians have just discovered a lost passage from Pastor Martin Niemöller's "First They Came":
"First they came for the late night talk show hosts ..."
"First they came for the late night talk show hosts ..."
Charlie Kirk's murder got me thinking about the 19 children who were murdered at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde TX as law enforcement loitered outside, which brought to mind Randall Jarrell's famous, unsettling poem "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57860/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57860/...
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters....
www.poetryfoundation.org
September 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Charlie Kirk's murder got me thinking about the 19 children who were murdered at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde TX as law enforcement loitered outside, which brought to mind Randall Jarrell's famous, unsettling poem "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57860/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57860/...
Nazis never signed the social contract.
September 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Nazis never signed the social contract.
If there is a more useless senator than Susan Collins, I can't imagine who it might be. This guy might be the one to knock her off her pedestal.
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
newrepublic.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:25 AM
If there is a more useless senator than Susan Collins, I can't imagine who it might be. This guy might be the one to knock her off her pedestal.
Circular Reasoning (this is why there's no need to follow The News)
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Cartoon: Distractions
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August 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Circular Reasoning (this is why there's no need to follow The News)
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Reposted by michael5mackay
"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship."
It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
July 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship."
It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
I wised up to what you were doing, Wordle:
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July 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I wised up to what you were doing, Wordle:
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When the time comes, America could eliminate its national debt simply by burying Trump under a port-a-potty.
July 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
When the time comes, America could eliminate its national debt simply by burying Trump under a port-a-potty.
When you're hot, you're hot.
Should have gone with the less common word in line 3. 🤷♂️
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Should have gone with the less common word in line 3. 🤷♂️
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June 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
When you're hot, you're hot.
Should have gone with the less common word in line 3. 🤷♂️
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I expect a lot of outrage over today's Wordle.
I followed the strategy of 2 completely different words for my first 2 guesses:
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June 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I expect a lot of outrage over today's Wordle.
I followed the strategy of 2 completely different words for my first 2 guesses:
Wordle 1,447 3/6
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Sometimes my strategy pays off
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June 1, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Sometimes my strategy pays off
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Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem @secnoem.govpeeps.us is so stupid she thought habeas corpus was one of Harry Potter's unforgivable curses
May 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem @secnoem.govpeeps.us is so stupid she thought habeas corpus was one of Harry Potter's unforgivable curses
Sometimes my strategy pays off very well
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May 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Sometimes my strategy pays off very well
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Sheesh!
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April 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Sheesh!
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It's April 11, 2025, and I just want to remind everyone that the President of the United States is criminal -- a twice-impeached convicted felon and golf cheat who owes E. Jean Carroll $91 million dollars for sexually assaulting and defaming her.
tl;dr Donald Trump is a ☮️ of 💩
tl;dr Donald Trump is a ☮️ of 💩
April 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It's April 11, 2025, and I just want to remind everyone that the President of the United States is criminal -- a twice-impeached convicted felon and golf cheat who owes E. Jean Carroll $91 million dollars for sexually assaulting and defaming her.
tl;dr Donald Trump is a ☮️ of 💩
tl;dr Donald Trump is a ☮️ of 💩
With today's whiplash on tariffs, Donald Trump has now officially gone full Kurtz
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SbL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SbL...
Are My Methods Unsound?
YouTube video by sox box
www.youtube.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
With today's whiplash on tariffs, Donald Trump has now officially gone full Kurtz
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SbL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SbL...
This is very cool:
www.vet.cornell.edu/about-us/new...
www.vet.cornell.edu/about-us/new...
French bulldog puppy spontaneously regrows jaw
A puppy’s jaw spontaneously regrew after Cornell veterinarians removed a majority of his lower left mandible due to cancer. Although this phenomenon has been documented in children, this is the first ...
www.vet.cornell.edu
April 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is very cool:
www.vet.cornell.edu/about-us/new...
www.vet.cornell.edu/about-us/new...
Does anyone else think that perhaps letting a convicted rapist become a gynecologist is a bad idea?
Glad to see the sentence is under appeal.
www.brusselstimes.com/1518910/leuv...
Glad to see the sentence is under appeal.
www.brusselstimes.com/1518910/leuv...
Leuven Public Prosecutor appeals verdict of medical student rape case
Despite acknowledging the defendant's guilt, the court decided against a prison sentence due to his young age, clean criminal record, and career potential.
www.brusselstimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Does anyone else think that perhaps letting a convicted rapist become a gynecologist is a bad idea?
Glad to see the sentence is under appeal.
www.brusselstimes.com/1518910/leuv...
Glad to see the sentence is under appeal.
www.brusselstimes.com/1518910/leuv...