Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
"bluesky is a bubble" "bluesky is dying" "bluesky is evil" WRONG. bluesky is simply a place to post matthau www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xggk...
TV writer (Have I Got News For You, Late Show, Tonight Show, Desus & Mero, Nightly Show, Smart Pipe, Sex House, ONN). Overburdened with mitochondrial challenges.
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"bluesky is a bubble" "bluesky is dying" "bluesky is evil" WRONG. bluesky is simply a place to post matthau www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xggk...
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reply parent
hard agree
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
i just flew in from the canned pasta section of the grocery store and boyardees arms tired
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reply parent
Damn. King.
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
People need to calm down with the conspiracy theories, here’s Trump today at his Virginia golf club with MAGA radio host John Fredericks
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
BREAKING: A white crow has appeared in the Rose Garden, it speaks with human tongue but in a language long forgotten, and all are laid low by the overwhelming smell of fetid carrion that seems to come from everywhere and nowhere.
Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack.bsky.social) reposted
Have I Got News For You returns next week and I'm worried we won't have anything to talk about.
Kath Barbadoro (@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social) reposted
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
I think it's cool to live in a country where guns outnumber atoms in the sun and roving gangs of masked goons hunt down dangerous helado carts and the entire economy is propped up by an unreliable calculator that tries to fuck children and makes everyone psychotic
Sean T. Collins (@seantcollins.com) reposted
I, Claudius is a stone-cold masterpiece you can watch in a week, but it can be hard to find online. Link unrelated archive.org/details/i-cl...
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
is my microwave horny? big tech and users grapple with one of the most unsettling questions of our times
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
same hand - the transformation begins
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Just got to the end of episode 5 of I, CLAUDIUS and can confidentially say it’s an all-timer
Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted
I'm not just saying this because I work here: Sex House is arguably the best work of art on YouTube.
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reply parent
finally a home for Shriekin' Joe (also congrats cannot wait to watch)
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reply parent
I actually did think i was doing hard hitting journalism when i pitched Andy Serkis in a ripoff of Bad Moms called Bitchy Giraffe
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Cinema tip: if you stop watching Sinners at the 1 hour 2 minute mark it is a nice movie about the opening of a juke joint where nothing bad happens.
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reply parent
it's a fantastic piece, thanks for writing it!
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
something @jilltwiss.bsky.social gets exactly right here is that topical late night jokes are a daily check-in on shared consensus reality, one of the many reasons fascists want it gone
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
1896: Oh no the train is coming right out of the screen! 2025: The train is capable of self-reflection and I do therapy with the train.
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reply parent
2003, dammit
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reply parent
Coming summer 2023... Laurence Fishburne IS Martian Manhunter
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reply parent
truly agonizing about which dumb freak shirt to get
leon (@leyawn.bsky.social) reposted
feels like one of the main divides in how people view ai is the reaction to its ingratiating servile tone. when ai is like "ouhhhh i'm so sorry i got that wrong sir, let my try again, you were right my liege" tech guys are like "i like this" instead of "what the fuck is wrong with you"
bort (@crushbort.bsky.social) reposted
music used to go so hard
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
2 minutes 16 seconds
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
"we will welcome robust debate within the twin pillars" is so funny
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Saw a TikTok about Easter eggs in Superman, anybody else catch this one
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reply parent
please pretend I posted this 3 months ago
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
most offensive thing about Gavin Newsom's podcast is that it's not called "Gabbin' Newsom"
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Josh!
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
honestly disrespectful to be talking this much about a strait during Pride www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/b...
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
man all this political rhetoric reminds me of that famous George Orwell book, "Whispered Encounters: An Erotic Rondelay"
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Wait Elon vs Trump is literally Alien vs. Predator.
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
He who seeks revenge digs two graves, cause he’s really good at revenge and actually did two revenges.
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
I don't think I've ever mentioned AI to my 12-year-old but yesterday she told me she'd deleted Duolingo (despite a months-long streak) because of this AI thing. Not just old people who find this ethos repellant.
Jordan Harper (@jordanharper.bsky.social) reposted
The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.
David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) reposted
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Shoutout to anyone calling out rank idiot bigotry with the clear-eyed assessment that the people who peddle it are fucking losers
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Excited to do more of this fun show. Thank you to the fine executives at Warner Bros. Discovery, the company we all love and agree with!
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
what is the greatest line in cinema
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Truly fucked
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reply parent
Meanwhile Josh Gottheimer’s deeply unpleasant ads feature AI images of him as a boxer fighting Trump. But you don’t need AI if you’re actually doing it.
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Ras Baraka the only NJ gubernatorial candidate to put themselves on the line like this. (Also the only NJ gubernatorial candidate to appear on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.) www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/u...
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
New pope is from Chicago? He probably, uh... [googles "Chicago"] derives his name from a French rendering of the indigenous Miami–Illinois name Šikaakonki, the locative form of the word šikaakwa which can mean both "skunk" and "ramps," a wild relative of onion known to botanists as Allium tricoccum.
Scott Frerichs (@kaiserneko.bsky.social) reposted
I'll bang this drum til I die.
Dave Kamper (@dskamper.bsky.social) reposted
Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Instead of 30 dolls your children can have one terrifying porcelain doll that moves when no one is looking
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Define cinema with an image
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Can my toothbrush have an acquaintance? Can my blender be exasperated? Is my tire pressure gauge mad at me?
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
most people don’t realize RFK actually stands for “Really Focused on Kum”
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
seeing this muted he looks like he's going "I got the horse right here, his name is Paul Revere"
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
AI is for stupid babies part one million
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
JD Vance please hang out with Donald Trump and shake hands with your friend Donald Trump
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Today's news reminds me of that Oscar nominated movie from last year, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
the Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) reposted
the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reply parent
(but if it didn't act like a person, it would be even more glaringly apparent what it is -- just a search engine that scrambles its results up enough so that it can claim plausible deniability about not citing sources)
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
strong belief i have is that chat gpt talking like a person (and people talking to it like a person in return) is extreme baby shit. like goo goo ga ga "look mommy da compooter is my fwend" embarrassing and should be treated as such.
Tim Carvell (@timcarvell.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Yeah, I get and appreciate the people saying "not all autistic people" because that's true and valid and 100% worth saying loudly, but also, even the kids he's directly describing don't deserve to be talked about the way he talks about them, or treated the way he's treating them.
lauren (@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com) reposted
the most appalling part of this political era is the physical harm they are inflicting on innocent people but secondary to that i find the constant smug lectures from this country's biggest collection of hypocrites, scammers, perverts, pedophiles, and overall bozos very distasteful
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
bill maher being like "actually mr. trump was nice to me" reminds me of this great todd barry bit that i think about all the time www.youtube.com/watch?v=weOC...
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social) reply parent
If you’ve got a thang, you didn’t spit on that.
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Unions
Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) reposted
I believe this and also think they should be saying shit like "we will investigate and prosecute insider trading and corruption to the fullest extent the law allows and nobody is immune"
Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser.bsky.social) reposted
three years ago the New York Times published an op-ed by a college student complaining about the chilling effect of feeling "disdain" from fellow students, because the New York Times wanted to convince America the real threat to free expression was something other than a looming right-wing autocracy
Punish the Villains (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted
I will quit my job and work for any candidate who promises to put the leadership of this administration in the same overseas gulag they've been shipping people to
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
With the last financial crisis there was a whole ecosystem of podcasts and books and movies that sprung up to explain what happened and it's funny that this time the explanation is really just "Trump is moron."
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
You guessed it........ Fhloston Paradise from The Fifth Element
Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) reposted
Upon learning that your own mistake sent an innocent father to a brutal prison where he’s likely to be tortured, anyone with a shred of decency would be overcome with shame and fight like hell to get him back. They think it’s funny. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Eoin Higgins (@eoinhiggins.bsky.social) reposted
Given the prevalence of child sexual abuse in the conservative movement this is particularly egregious
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
is that good
LateNighter (@latenightercom.bsky.social) reposted
The population of Greenland? You might be surprised. @hignfyus.bsky.social @roywoodjr.bsky.social @samjaycomic.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxcG...
Mike Pielocik (@mikepie.bsky.social)
Can't believe people have trouble with this. Our show is called "Now Is The Time For News So Here It Is (The News, I Mean)"
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
the constitution isn’t is a word game and the fact that you can abuse the language to produce an outcome does not mean the constitution allows that outcome. the 22nd amendment was ratified to restrict a president to two terms in office, period. that is what it does.
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Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack.bsky.social) reposted
Fact check: TRUE