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mierk.bsky.social
Dad. Sun Devil. DMB and Hamilton fan. Very imperfect human. Resident Eeyore. Thanks for noticing me.
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A friend sent me a funny video from Twitter that I wanted to share, not I can't find it anywhere but there. I like bluesky and I appreciate the people I follow, but man I need to crank the politics dial way down and add a lot more just silly fun here. Ragebait gets exhausting.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Ants isn't even one of my favorite songs but damn if it isn't great to hear it with a fiddle again. 🎻

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

K, here's my thing about heroes vs. villains. Being good/a hero (and by that I mean, making the best choices one can to help others, do no harm and make shit better) is hard as hell in a world that is often cruel and rewards selfish behavior. "Good" is a choice you have to make over and over...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 4 days ago • 1065 comments

it was bad when the worst poster on my favorite website bought that website and made it terrible but it has been worse having that person also buy my country that i live in

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Couldn't be clearer that Democrats aren't a party in the way that Republicans are a party. The GOP has an ideological project. They build power to accomplish specific things. The project of the Democratic Party is getting Democrats reelected. 80-90+% of Congress is, so it doesn't take much effort.

submitted 6 days ago • 98 comments

I really want to post something melodramatic and mopey but I'm doing my best to restrain myself, stay locked in for the continued absence of good content™️

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Between the Bove/Sassoon/Adams contretemps and Attorney General Bondi’s preposterous letters to Apple and Google, Thursday was about as bad a day for the Department of Justice’s credibility as we’ve seen in generations. Me, via “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/124-the-th...

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

You know, pretty relatable tbh not gonna lie

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

A moment for petty resistance: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. Click on the 3 little dots to the right of "Gulf of America" 3. "Send Feedback" 4. Click on "Gulf Of America" text 5. Select "Inaccurate content" 6. Select "Incorrect" & type "The rest of the world calls it Gulf of Mexico" or what I wrote👇

submitted 11 days ago • 124 comments

I don’t have a fancy lesson I delivered about the #SuperBowlHalftimeShow Before I showed it, I instructed my students to write down three words and document when they noticed them: •imagery •symbolism •message We watched once all the way through, then we broke down where my students noted. +

submitted 12 days ago • 38 comments

Happy Black History Month

submitted 13 days ago • 55 comments

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually

submitted 13 days ago • 119 comments

Costs $0.00 to repost my small black owned business during black history month plz & thank you ❤️

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do

submitted 14 days ago • 460 comments

I realize that folks with big followings put up with a lot of nonsense on social media, but there are people whose work and collect l content I enjoy whose boundaries/attitude is such that I would be afraid of interacting with them cause I could say something seemingly innocuous and get dunked on.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I have not been politically aware/active for all that long, but I'm hard pressed to think of a someone I voted for that I soured on faster than @gallego.senate.gov

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

My dog is like "You seem tense. Have you tried napping all day, with occasional readjustments?"

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

@sepinwall.bsky.social were you aware of this??? 🤔

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Continuing the streak of anyone using the term "sportsball" unironically and derisively being automatically blockworthy, it's one of the most reliable tells on bluesky

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

submitted 18 days ago • 586 comments