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Seth D. Michaels 🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂
@sethdmichaels.bsky.social
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Bert of the Intellect, Ernie of the Will

Gene sun, Tina moon, Linda rising

DC based, comms at @ucs.org (all opinions mine), ambivalently Online, generally polite, still People Magazine's Seth D-est Man Alive. please don't argue in my notifications
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Tim Robinson unable to control his body as a guest on a game show in an "I Think You Should Leave" sketch
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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yes, let’s premise the entire economy and society on The Machine That Gaslights Kardashians
"They're always wrong," she said. "It has made me fail tests all the time. And then I'II get mad and I'll yell at it and be like, 'You made me fail! Why did you do this?' And it will talk back to me." Kardashian went on to explain that she attempts to guilt trip ChatGPT for its negative influence on her preparedness. "I will talk to it and say, 'Hey, you're gonna make me fail. How does that make you feel, that you need to really know these answers? I'm coming to you," she said. "And then it'I say back to me, 'This is just teaching you to trust your own instincts. You knew the answer all along.''
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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even now antifa is emboldened and arming themselves
a scene from “Michael Clayton” where actor Tom Wilkinson is carrying a large paper bad comically overstuffed with baguettes
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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excellent, infuriating reporting
the extent to which money Congress appropriated for public health in 2024 and 2025 has gone unspent because of the administration's disruptions is not yet known. "This is a sophisticated strategy to cause money to lapse and then say, 'If they can't spend it, they don't need it," said Robert Gordon, a public policy specialist at Georgetown University and a former assistant finance secretary at HHS. "No one thought this was possible or legal, but that is what's happening," he said. Details on how the administration has subverted health spending have received little attention because many changes have been made quietly - and people who rely on federal funds fear retribution. The Trump administration has defunded and threatened federal offices that hold the government accountable and fired whistleblowers. It has abruptly revoked funds for local governments and organizations. Before he was appointed to lead the White House's Office of Management and Budget this year, Vought outlined budgetary strategies the executive branch could deploy to wrest power from Congress and federal agencies in Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's conservative blueprint. Vought's tactics unfolded this year, often below the radar. They include abrupt grant cancellations, extraordinary constraints on how funds can be spent and excessive layers of review, agency officials say, at every step in the grantmaking process. Getting money out the door has been further complicated by layoffs that have gutted offices overseeing grants on chronic disease prevention, HIV, maternal mortality and more.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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cat break!
a tuxedo cat laying on a gray pillow in the middle of some green sheets. He’s on his back and his paws are up and he’s very cute
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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the absolute carnival of these times we live in!!
two Bluesky posts back to back - one by Carl Quintanilla quoting a story about a Trump appointee saying they’re going to launch an uncrewed Mars Mission; the other by Monica Carmean quoting a video of dipshit Sen. Tommy Tuberville saying Trump can invade Nigeria
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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sitting this week for my cat’s best frenemy (my ex’s dog)
a tuxedo cat sitting on a green carpet and a medium-sized black dog, both looking at the camera
October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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thrilled with this pumpkin
a shot of a carved jack-o-lantern with sharp teeth. A candle is lit inside a Jack-o-lantern with a lit candle inside. the lights are out so it glows, with a blue wall behind it and an orange reflection on the counter underneath it
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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A screen grab from the French film “Breathless”: a pretty woman (Jean Seberg) in a hat sits with her eyes closed and her head in her hands, holding a cigarette. The caption says “I’m shutting my eyes tight so everything goes black.”
October 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
Ted and Linda from the sitcom "Better Off Ted," standing next to each other in an office with their arms crossed
October 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre, right answers only
Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt in BURN AFTER READING, playing two gym instructors, wearing dyed blond hair and red polo shirts
October 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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really big crowd at the Chester County Courthouse, West Chester, PA #nokings
a person in an inflatable eagle costume holding an American flag and a pride flag a big crowd with people holding up signs that say “we the people demand change” and “I protest Trump’s abuse of power BECAUSE I love my country” a statue of Lincoln with a courthouse in the background and a sign that says “support democracy not autocracy” leaned up against it a big crowd of protestors including one holding a sign that says “restore research funding!”
October 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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the “I’m in this photo and I don’t like it” meme
October 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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a prompt from Google saying “generate your next big idea with Gemini” and offering as an example “help me write: thank you note to my child’s teacher for teacher appreciation week” Lawrence (Diedrich Bader) in the movie OFFICE SPACE saying “shit, no, man, I believe you’d get your ass kicked saying something like that.”
October 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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we now cut to a live feed of Gen Xers at the memorial service
crowd of Gen Xers dancing sadly in the “Homerpalooza” episode of the Simpsons
October 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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again, the simple refusal to understand that Trump is who he seems to be is crippling official DC’s ability to understand and deal with him www.politico.com/newsletters/...
screenshot from Politico, with the sentence “it’s a moment many believed would never come” highlighted But this is a momentous day for America - and not just because Comey is the first former FBI chief to be arraigned since Richard Nixon's fall guy L. Patrick Gray in 1978. (The charges against Gray were later dropped.) Today's proceedings matter because after years of threats, Trump is following through on something he has long vowed to do: criminally prosecute his political foes. It's a moment many believed would never come. An expert view: "The Comey case is hugely significant because it appears to be the culmination of a presidentially-directed personal vendetta," POLITICO's legal ace Josh Gerstein emails Playbook to say. "For the last half century, post-Watergate norms put insulation between presidents and the charging decisions of the Justice Department. Those aren't just being defied here, but brazenly so."
October 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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while everything is apparently bad back home, Italy is good
a shot from below of the front of the Duomo in Siena, a huge gothic-style cathedral, with towers reaching up into a blue sky St. Peter’s Basilica with a crowd of tourists filling the square the Laocoon, a famous classical statue depicting an old bearded man and his two sons being attacked by snakes a view from a boat of the Grand Canal in Venice, with two ornately decorated houses and a distant domed church
October 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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still thinking about her

(the Roman Empire)
a view of the Colosseum in Rome a big stone triumphal arch near the Roman forum three stone columns, the ruins of a Roman temple a view from above of the old city of Rome, with temples in the background
September 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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theonion.com/july-17-1963...
a fake front page from The Onion, ostensibly from July of 1963, with a headline saying “SINATRA WARNS RUSSKIES TO KNOCK IT OFF”
September 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Dave and I wish you and your whole team a happy birthday! I feel fortunate to know you and I hope you have a great day 💚💚
a close-up of a tuxedo cat sitting on my chest and staring at the camera
September 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
corporate consultant guy from an "I Think You Should Leave" sketch saying the words "the dreaded re-org"
September 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Tim Robinson from "I Think You Should Leave" looking incredulous and saying "I don't know if you're allowed to do that"
September 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
testimony from Dr. Monarez: "On the morning of August 25, Secretary Kennedy demanded two things of me that were inconsistent with my oath of office and the ethics required of a public official. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy, without cause. He said ifI was unwilling to do both, I should resign. I responded that I could not preapprove recommendations without reviewing the evidence, and I had no basis to fire scientific experts. He told me he had already spoken with the White House several times about having me removed."
September 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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the "sickos guy" from the Onion staring into a window and saying "yes...ha ha ha...YES!"
September 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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this is the thing. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/no-m...
Adding to my befuddlement is the fact that he’s every single stereotype of a loathsome shitheel from the last one hundred years of popular culture, all at once—the ignorant blowhard at the end of the bar, the entitled silver spoon trust fund asshole, the clueless boss who does nothing but create crises for his employees to clean up, the lecherous old man, the vapid self-important celebrity, the penny pinching miser who stiffs the honest working man, the oily corrupt politician, the cowardly bully, the draft-dodging faux-patriot, the scumbag crook who gets off on a technicality. He’s almost literally every repugnant trope from generations of literature, movies, and TV shows. This is the man— the clown, the ignoramous—who ends our Republic?
September 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM