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Michael Zapata
@michaelzapata.bsky.social
Author of the novel THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU. Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago & Northwestern University. Descended from Andean farmers, poets, and union organizers.

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Beautiful, smart and aloof but not so aloof you still don’t kill it at work. Surely the @nypost.com knows these three things are what every New Yorker aspires for? Lol.
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to the Democrats.

*Cool fact, unfavorable is 5% HIGHER than the anti-constitutional fascist GOP party!

Anyway, let’s go Mamdani!
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
They should put THIS photo in the Louvre.
October 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
10,000 points to the first paper to call it “apartheid.”
October 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I remember the last time I volunteered for ICE watch in Chicago was under your presidency. Anyway,
October 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
October 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The logic of fascism will always lead to this.
October 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Thb there might be nothing to do but get off all major socials.
October 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
All this nations know is war, so war eventually comes home.
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Even when we have an actual right wing autocrat with Neo-Nazi staff, American liberals will find a way to blame communists.
September 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
My grandfather, who fought Nazis, once told me that the “Don’t Tread on Me” folks really just cared about the “me” part.
September 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
September 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
September 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The goal is permanent apartheid.
September 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is rather mind-blowing :)
August 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Famously, punk rock, hip hop, and the counterculture didn't involve any humans and never took place irl.
August 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Millionaires say the darndest things.
July 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I had more people packed into my backyard on my 17th birthday for a punk show.
June 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Stoked to destroy the kids at Mario Kart. Happy Switch 2 Day!
June 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Nihilism enters stage right.
May 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Art on my block in Chicago.
May 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I would never use a calculator that worked 21% of the time.

"When running another test called SimpleQA, which asks more general questions, the hallucination rates for o3 and o4-mini were 51 percent and 79 percent. The previous system, o1, hallucinated 44 percent of the time."
May 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Me and my friends tho.
May 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Anyway…
May 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, Simón Bolívar:
April 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM