Mikel Strom

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Terrible at bios. He/him/his

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Also, if trolls are trying to pit different marginalized groups against each other on this platform, let’s work together to root those fuckers out. I have to believe that at the end of the day we all chose to use this app because we want better for ourselves and each other.

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time to dust this one off. amen.

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

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Love that they released the first trailer for the new Alien movie on physical VHS tapes, so the only quality it's currently viewable in is digitized-from-VHS. Refreshing to be able to see *just enough,* which happens to be exactly what made the original film so scary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_As...

Alien: Romulus - Official Comic Con 2024 VHS Trailer (2024) Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Mercedwww.youtube.com To announce the film's panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, 20th Century Studios sent a VHS videotape to select media outlets, including IGN, featuring new foo...

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This whole excerpt tells you multitudes about our current political moment.

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who is the voter who’s going to think “damn i hate donald trump but he survived getting grazed on the ear by a bullet, i gotta vote for him” — and continue to think it, regardless of anything else, until they vote in four months. who is that person

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Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

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Remember: here's the breaking news handbook. All of these are good rules to stand by at the moment.

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This right here. Take a few minutes and read this.

Okay here it is

The Leftist Case for Voting—Yes, Even for Bidenslate.com We need to think about this election differently. Just look at France.

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The Supreme Court's conservative majority rejects science, history and reality itself. Editorial from Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... 🧪

The Supreme Court’s Contempt for Facts Is a Betrayal of Justicewww.scientificamerican.com The Supreme Court majority’s recent decisions about homelessness, public health and regulatory power, among others, undermine the role of evidence, expertise and honesty in American democracy

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Dear America, I don't know how 80 million+ of you aren't going to bother to have an opinion about this in November, but I'm sure you'll fucking manage.

One example: Senator Biden wouldn’t have made the changes President Biden’s made on student loan and medical debt, junk fees, or rescheduling marijuana. Advocacy moved him on those issues. There’s tons we have to fight for, we’re better of fighting a guy who’ll listen and might change than a fascist

Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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Totes appropes

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The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.

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Excited to introduce a project I've been working on for a long time: a thorough comparison of Biden and Trump on the issues. "The stakes, not the odds," to borrow from Jay Rosen. The initial version has 6 topics, but I'll be adding more, as well as updating with new statements/policies. Gift link:

Where Joe Biden and Donald Trump Stand on the Issueswww.nytimes.com Here’s what President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medicare.

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I was asked, at great length, a question yesterday that I tried to read as other than "I get that nonbinary people want to use their pronouns of choice, but do the rest of us have to honor that?" And I couldn't. So: Yes. The rest of us do.

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YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, JAWS, was released OTD 49 years ago.

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happy solstice!

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If you care about an issue and your response to new reporting or writing on that issue is “we already knew this,” I’m confused about your strategy. It’s GOOD to deepen what we know about big problems, to further that understanding and to have that understanding further disseminated.

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Yeah, this seems worth avoiding.

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taxes

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Related: aggressive driving - slamming the accelerator, then slamming the brakes, weaving- is so so pointless and unsafe even if you aren't speeding

My contribution to the speeding discourse is: most speeding aside from long trip highway speeding saves people negligible time on their trips.

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Just a little over two months until the paperback release of INFESTED! Buy a couple for the weirdo kids in your life that can use a lesson or two about colorism, gentrification, and the German cockroach. bookshop.org/p/books/infe...

Infested a book by Angel Luis Colónbookshop.org "A thrilling, I-can't-stop-reading page-turner. If Infested doesn't make your skin crawl, check your pulse." --Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of...

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

I’m fairly gobsmacked by how many streaming services make it nearly impossible to just look at their whole library. Not just that it’s huge, but that there’s specifically no option to even scroll through everything labeled as belonging to a genre, much less the whole library.

Streaming services should have fewer things to choose from Barring that, a much better ux

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This is good headline writing, don't you think? futurism.com/elon-musk-le...

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Leash your dog. Yes, you. Yes, your sweet dog. Leash your dog. Not only because of the harm it could do, but because you have no right to put other people through the stress of not knowing what it will do. EVEN IF you can predict your dog (you can’t), other people shouldn’t have to rely on it.

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Leo: In an unexpected turn of events you will be elevated to the position of Cult Leader today. You will also, coincidentally, be elevated to the position of Cult Sole Survivor.