Michelle M
@michelle-manichean.bsky.social
I read, I ride the bus, I go to libraries, I work in the woods. I ride my bike.
Philly, come out to demand that our sheriff keep ICE away from the courthouse. This Thursday at noon!
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Philly, come out to demand that our sheriff keep ICE away from the courthouse. This Thursday at noon!
Page 25 of the most recent issue of the New Yorker.
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Page 25 of the most recent issue of the New Yorker.
Passage of time in three pictures.
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Passage of time in three pictures.
If anyone wants a chuckle, I highly recommend looking at a free sample of Louis CK’s laughably bad first (hopefully last) novel Ingram, on your ereader of choice. Here’s screen shots from Libby:
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
If anyone wants a chuckle, I highly recommend looking at a free sample of Louis CK’s laughably bad first (hopefully last) novel Ingram, on your ereader of choice. Here’s screen shots from Libby:
Crap pictures of an amazing place, Dead King bakery on Umbria Ave, near the Ivy Ridge Septa station. You can buy amazing baked goods, get a great espresso, and browse various lefty
Books, zines , etc. And sit out by the fire to eat your tomato pie. Pretty sure I was the
Oldest person!
Books, zines , etc. And sit out by the fire to eat your tomato pie. Pretty sure I was the
Oldest person!
October 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Crap pictures of an amazing place, Dead King bakery on Umbria Ave, near the Ivy Ridge Septa station. You can buy amazing baked goods, get a great espresso, and browse various lefty
Books, zines , etc. And sit out by the fire to eat your tomato pie. Pretty sure I was the
Oldest person!
Books, zines , etc. And sit out by the fire to eat your tomato pie. Pretty sure I was the
Oldest person!
Cat heating pad.
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Cat heating pad.
I’m pretty sure this is a stupid headline. All the shortlisted novels have exactly the same status: shortlisted.
September 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I’m pretty sure this is a stupid headline. All the shortlisted novels have exactly the same status: shortlisted.
Publication day. And also Covid vaccine day for me!
September 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Publication day. And also Covid vaccine day for me!
And of Philly. Mine (Audrey) and my mother’s (Tutosi).
September 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
And of Philly. Mine (Audrey) and my mother’s (Tutosi).
I have been told I don’t post enough cat pictures. Fair, given how much brain space they take up. Here you have: the cats of Utrecht.
September 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I have been told I don’t post enough cat pictures. Fair, given how much brain space they take up. Here you have: the cats of Utrecht.
Picked this up at Caliban Books in Pittsburgh. Kerstin Ekman is well known in Sweden but I had never read her! From 1974, set in the last decades of the 19c in a village transformed by its new train station. It gets real about working class lives and feet and the impact of shoes that don’t fit. #WIT
August 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Picked this up at Caliban Books in Pittsburgh. Kerstin Ekman is well known in Sweden but I had never read her! From 1974, set in the last decades of the 19c in a village transformed by its new train station. It gets real about working class lives and feet and the impact of shoes that don’t fit. #WIT
Trump wasn’t celebrating the founding, because that was something not even his narcissistic megalomania could let him claim responsibility for. He was celebrating his ability to make all this happen now.
June 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Trump wasn’t celebrating the founding, because that was something not even his narcissistic megalomania could let him claim responsibility for. He was celebrating his ability to make all this happen now.
Lazy cat welcomed me home for post-protest nap.
June 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Lazy cat welcomed me home for post-protest nap.
I only took one photo. One sign made me choke up: a quote from Anne Frank’s diary. Good to be one of the hundred thousand who turned out in Philly.
June 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I only took one photo. One sign made me choke up: a quote from Anne Frank’s diary. Good to be one of the hundred thousand who turned out in Philly.
It’s not just democracy. The dictator is also set to wreck clichés, metaphors, and my weekly pinochle game.
April 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
It’s not just democracy. The dictator is also set to wreck clichés, metaphors, and my weekly pinochle game.
My sign for hands off Philly!
April 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My sign for hands off Philly!
Off to City Hall in Philly. I’m responsible for the Declaration signs. (Yes, I’m that person whose side deck has way too many words)
April 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Off to City Hall in Philly. I’m responsible for the Declaration signs. (Yes, I’m that person whose side deck has way too many words)
I take terrible protest photos, but take my word for it, Philly is iconic!
February 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I take terrible protest photos, but take my word for it, Philly is iconic!
Philadelphia! No
Kings on Presidents Day.
Kings on Presidents Day.
February 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Philadelphia! No
Kings on Presidents Day.
Kings on Presidents Day.
It’s not his government. It’s his administration. The government is ours — of, by and for us.
January 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It’s not his government. It’s his administration. The government is ours — of, by and for us.
My biggest accomplishment of fall 2024 was bringing this cat into my world. (It’s my mom’s cat, but I was the procuress.)
January 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My biggest accomplishment of fall 2024 was bringing this cat into my world. (It’s my mom’s cat, but I was the procuress.)