Michelle Newcome
@michellenewcome.com
Publisher of How2Conquer / global security and crisis management consultant / member of the UN Committee for the protection of public places / avid photographer. michellenewcome.com
Elon Musk is overdue for a visit from three ghosts.
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Elon Musk is overdue for a visit from three ghosts.
Cutting SNAP is a helluva way to hit your dumb KPI.
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Cutting SNAP is a helluva way to hit your dumb KPI.
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When “the public decided they’ve had enough of experts”, they really were saying it’s time to let people who don’t know what they’re talking about order us around. And here we are, slowly drowning in it.
November 6, 2025 at 7:28 AM
When “the public decided they’ve had enough of experts”, they really were saying it’s time to let people who don’t know what they’re talking about order us around. And here we are, slowly drowning in it.
Ditto
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Ditto
"And make us a permanent minority" is speaking volumes. Johnson does not consider all Americans to be "us" he only includes himself as an us when it's about white people.
Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"
November 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"And make us a permanent minority" is speaking volumes. Johnson does not consider all Americans to be "us" he only includes himself as an us when it's about white people.
The Last Frontier = O Brother Where Art Thou meets ConAir.
Thank you, AppleTV, for providing laundry folding television with a tinge of AI uncanny valley plot and endless cgi overexuberance.
Thank you, AppleTV, for providing laundry folding television with a tinge of AI uncanny valley plot and endless cgi overexuberance.
October 31, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The Last Frontier = O Brother Where Art Thou meets ConAir.
Thank you, AppleTV, for providing laundry folding television with a tinge of AI uncanny valley plot and endless cgi overexuberance.
Thank you, AppleTV, for providing laundry folding television with a tinge of AI uncanny valley plot and endless cgi overexuberance.
I really do love the Great British Baking Show, but the showstoppers have become ludicrously over-complicated.
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I really do love the Great British Baking Show, but the showstoppers have become ludicrously over-complicated.
I feel this so hard.
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I feel this so hard.
Reposted by Michelle Newcome
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
AWS coming in hot with all proof I'll ever need that running a coms down tabletop exercise scenario is worth it.
October 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
AWS coming in hot with all proof I'll ever need that running a coms down tabletop exercise scenario is worth it.
It's a start and abandon online shopping carts kind of day.
October 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It's a start and abandon online shopping carts kind of day.
Reposted by Michelle Newcome
Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat
Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat
Business Continuity, IT/DR, Crisis Comms
Editor in chief, city editor, features editor
October 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Business Continuity, IT/DR, Crisis Comms
This really needs to be the strategy everywhere. Cartoon suitup to defeat authoritarianism.
Portland never stops being Portland.
wizard frog is insane
October 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This really needs to be the strategy everywhere. Cartoon suitup to defeat authoritarianism.
The biggest man baby to have ever disgraced the world stage.
oh my god lol -- Trump calls for UN workers to be arrested because his escalator didn't work yesterday
September 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The biggest man baby to have ever disgraced the world stage.
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
In a civil society, speaking your mind should not equate to a death sentence even if your views are abhorrent or troubling. In the immortal words of the great detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, either everyone matters or no one matters.
I'm very sorry for the wife and children of Charlie Kirk.
I'm very sorry for the wife and children of Charlie Kirk.
September 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
In a civil society, speaking your mind should not equate to a death sentence even if your views are abhorrent or troubling. In the immortal words of the great detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, either everyone matters or no one matters.
I'm very sorry for the wife and children of Charlie Kirk.
I'm very sorry for the wife and children of Charlie Kirk.
I spend an inordinate amount of time negotiating with southern good old boys who go by two first names (Harry Dean, Bobby Lee) who have a pile of reclaimed heart pine 3 inch reveal tongue and goove boards they seem loathe to part with even though they're listed on FB Marketplace. I mean HOURS!
August 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I spend an inordinate amount of time negotiating with southern good old boys who go by two first names (Harry Dean, Bobby Lee) who have a pile of reclaimed heart pine 3 inch reveal tongue and goove boards they seem loathe to part with even though they're listed on FB Marketplace. I mean HOURS!
I was sent to Paris as a crisis manager the day after the Bataclan attack. Paris was not itself with heavily armed soldiers everywhere. The atmosphere was tense, heavy, and oppressive even tho people were grateful for the pretense of safety.
Soldiers everywhere is not conducive to freedom.
Soldiers everywhere is not conducive to freedom.
August 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I was sent to Paris as a crisis manager the day after the Bataclan attack. Paris was not itself with heavily armed soldiers everywhere. The atmosphere was tense, heavy, and oppressive even tho people were grateful for the pretense of safety.
Soldiers everywhere is not conducive to freedom.
Soldiers everywhere is not conducive to freedom.
Rookie mistake today. I was wandering around the yard trying to be productive and stumbled into the garage where I picked up a sander and randomly began sanding a door I'm stripping.
All fine, except I didn't put on my respirator so now my lungs hate me.
All fine, except I didn't put on my respirator so now my lungs hate me.
August 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Rookie mistake today. I was wandering around the yard trying to be productive and stumbled into the garage where I picked up a sander and randomly began sanding a door I'm stripping.
All fine, except I didn't put on my respirator so now my lungs hate me.
All fine, except I didn't put on my respirator so now my lungs hate me.
FYI, when one rich white dude "steals" a young vulnerable woman from another rich white dude we call that human trafficking.
Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here.
Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?
Trump: I think so. He stole her.
Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?
Trump: I think so. He stole her.
July 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
FYI, when one rich white dude "steals" a young vulnerable woman from another rich white dude we call that human trafficking.
We're in the thick of a remodel and here's the thing about being in my no-fucks-given era - I could care less about designing for the nebulous "other" who might someday buy my house.
I'm all about whimsy now.
These scones are going to make me smile every day.
I'm all about whimsy now.
These scones are going to make me smile every day.
July 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
We're in the thick of a remodel and here's the thing about being in my no-fucks-given era - I could care less about designing for the nebulous "other" who might someday buy my house.
I'm all about whimsy now.
These scones are going to make me smile every day.
I'm all about whimsy now.
These scones are going to make me smile every day.
My Instacart order just arrived and carried with it the unmistakable whiff of pot.
In this day and age with the *waves hands* stuff going on, honestly, I can't be bothered to be irritated.
Godspeed to you random high delivery driver.
In this day and age with the *waves hands* stuff going on, honestly, I can't be bothered to be irritated.
Godspeed to you random high delivery driver.
July 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
My Instacart order just arrived and carried with it the unmistakable whiff of pot.
In this day and age with the *waves hands* stuff going on, honestly, I can't be bothered to be irritated.
Godspeed to you random high delivery driver.
In this day and age with the *waves hands* stuff going on, honestly, I can't be bothered to be irritated.
Godspeed to you random high delivery driver.
I kinda like how The Dead South's version of You Are My Sunshine is a threat.
July 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I kinda like how The Dead South's version of You Are My Sunshine is a threat.