Michael Laser
@mlaser54.bsky.social
• Writer of novels (Eulogy; 6-321; Old Buddy Old Pal; My Impending Death; etc.) and other things (The Word-Lover’s Lexicon).
• https://michaellaser.com/
• https://michaellaser.com/
Who does this? Who stacks human beings like lumber? The villains of dystopian scifi, that’s who. But this being done on the orders of our president, with our tax dollars. And most of these men haven’t been convicted of a crime. It’s a show of brute force—and it's monstrous.
@vanhollen.senate.gov
@vanhollen.senate.gov
April 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Who does this? Who stacks human beings like lumber? The villains of dystopian scifi, that’s who. But this being done on the orders of our president, with our tax dollars. And most of these men haven’t been convicted of a crime. It’s a show of brute force—and it's monstrous.
@vanhollen.senate.gov
@vanhollen.senate.gov
Nice juxtaposition here.
March 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Nice juxtaposition here.
Couldn't sleep. Nightmarish visions. Maybe this will help.
January 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Couldn't sleep. Nightmarish visions. Maybe this will help.
Is there room over here for the sort of infantile/hilarious memes that were so common at the Other Place? It's the one thing I miss. I hope some of that nonsense will show up here soon.
December 29, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Is there room over here for the sort of infantile/hilarious memes that were so common at the Other Place? It's the one thing I miss. I hope some of that nonsense will show up here soon.
Philosophical question: Can 2 opposite things both be true?
December 17, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Philosophical question: Can 2 opposite things both be true?
In Colum McCann’s novel Apeirogon, two fathers (one Israeli, one Palestinian) have lost their young daughters to violence: one killed by a suicide bomber, the other by a soldier’s rubber bullet.
A passage in the center of the book deserves to be more widely read. See the thread of excerpts below.
A passage in the center of the book deserves to be more widely read. See the thread of excerpts below.
December 2, 2024 at 5:36 PM
In Colum McCann’s novel Apeirogon, two fathers (one Israeli, one Palestinian) have lost their young daughters to violence: one killed by a suicide bomber, the other by a soldier’s rubber bullet.
A passage in the center of the book deserves to be more widely read. See the thread of excerpts below.
A passage in the center of the book deserves to be more widely read. See the thread of excerpts below.
Replace innocent dinosaur with our next Secretary of the Interior.
November 22, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Replace innocent dinosaur with our next Secretary of the Interior.