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mikebarthel.bsky.social

Writer, critic, researcher. Fiction in a bunch of places. Writing a speculative novel and a book for DUP “Singles” about “Party in the USA.” Ex-Pew, Awl, blogs. mikebarthelauthor.com

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Tortoise / Oganesson (Saul Williams Remix) @intlanthem.bsky.social youtu.be/-XtyqrzHZTE?...

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This is, it feels like deliberately, echoing the old patriotic propaganda “The Man Without a Country.” (Also, he was arrested after they took away his dog, Miss Sassy Pants.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man...

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Fandom is great because when I saw PJ Harvey last year and she sang this, a song I have loved with all my heart for twenty years but never heard live, I could cry a little bit with happiness. youtu.be/py74Vbspc4M?...

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I finally like a Blood Orange song! He only had to put The Durutti Column on it! Everyone should put The Durutti Column on their songs!

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If you, like me, love “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” but haven’t heard much other Penderecki, you’re gonna flip for “Kanon.” open.spotify.com/track/5gLz8G...

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i wrote too many video game and D&D jokes so now when i try to tell people herbal tinctures and elixirs have really helped me with my severe anxiety and panic attacks they don't believe me.

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Kudos to Roland for making this deeply stupid thing I desperately want to buy. youtu.be/mcwUKJT4U6Q

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Extremely cross with Black Mirror for doing a beautifully sweet episode with Paul Giamatti and then not being able to come up with a poignant solo cello piece that’s actually played by a solo cello! That is at least two and maybe three cellos there, Black Mirror Guy!

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SimCity 40,000

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Today (6/25/25) marks the first day I heard someone discuss optimizing a website for AI and search by ChatGPT.

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Wondered why Sherman had the middle name “Tecumseh,” and ended up face to face with this horrifying factoid. CUMP?!

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Not a movie guy, but here’s my ballot of half-failed experiments.

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“Where is Iran? No one can say for sure. Some say it’s between Iraq and Afghanistan in the Middle East. Others say it’s in Germany, or Brazil. And one man, for some reason, thinks it’s in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.”

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“Where is Iran? No one can say for sure. Some say it’s between Iraq and Afghanistan in the Middle East. Others say it’s in Germany, or Brazil. And one man, for some reason, thinks it’s in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.”

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Bluesky should flag anyone posting from the eastern US right now as “likely very grumpy.”

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I helped my apartment building set up a smart thermostat for our boiler to be more energy efficient, and now I’m getting these increasingly unhinged emails from the company.

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Pulp - “Grown Ups” (2025)

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Was doing some writing about The Leftovers and this came on.

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No thanks, I only read vintage tube books.

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It is, unfortunately, a good moment for “Rock and Roll Evacuation.” youtu.be/vtH3DJ8Dyyg?...

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Was trying to get back together with a girl who dumped me and put on “Chuck and Buck,” Mike White’s painfully cringey drama about creepy romantic obsession. We did not get back together.

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Always funny when shuffle runs a track from an acclaimed experimental producer into Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are” and they sound more or less the same.

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