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Michael vs. 2025

@thepmann.bsky.social

Boy from Oklahoma, now in New England. Writer of fantasy. (#amquerying) Nerd. Neurodivergent. Anti-fascism. Friend to dogs. He/him. I say "fuck" a lot.

created September 12, 2023

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Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

They’ve invented a computer that can’t do math.

2/9/2025, 12:14:02 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future.

2/9/2025, 12:03:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Man on the Moon

1/9/2025, 11:11:21 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

If Rahm Emmanuel ever comes to my house, I’m beating his ass with my Complete Pogo volumes.

1/9/2025, 10:53:17 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, now Walt Kelly needs to come back from the dead and beat his ass.

1/9/2025, 10:50:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Everyone relax, Trump is just having a clandestine affair with Shelly Miscavige.

1/9/2025, 10:32:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Except on top of his head.

1/9/2025, 8:43:04 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dane 🔜 DragonCon Comic and Pop Artist Alley A11 (@monkeyminion.com) reposted

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”
1/9/2025, 6:01:24 PM | 24453 6338 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

1/9/2025, 5:09:36 PM | 1114 375 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

I dunno, Chief, I’ll ask Keiko. It’s her name on the work order.

1/9/2025, 3:53:46 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

... People sat through two-and-a-half hours of an Oz movie just last year. I was one of them. Are executives just this mayfly-brained?

1/9/2025, 2:44:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, yes, the same story where Donna Troy's dead baby was zombified and she had to crush its skull.

1/9/2025, 2:28:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dag. (@3fecta.bsky.social) reposted

Miles O'Brien fan club assemble.

The image features Chief Miles O'Brien, a character from the Star Trek universe, specifically Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The quote,
1/9/2025, 1:48:17 PM | 860 218 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

I just want ten minutes alone with the guy who designed the Rubicant fight in Final Fantasy IV.

1/9/2025, 12:17:14 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

"Tomorrow is another day, motherfucker!" BLAM BLAM BLAM

1/9/2025, 12:00:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max the comics guy who does comics about comics (@waitingforthetrade.bsky.social) reposted

Jigsaw: Hello Doctor Banner. Let’s play a game. For years you have wait what the shit OH FUCK

31/8/2025, 8:39:12 PM | 189 50 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

OK, hear me out...A LORD OF THE RINGS remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

30/8/2025, 11:00:36 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

For decades it was the writers’ go-to option for introducing a minor plot complication to stretch the story out longer.

30/8/2025, 8:42:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Blue Beetle.

30/8/2025, 8:20:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Idie_Ok...

30/8/2025, 6:27:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Temper, formerly Oya, and I don’t think so, no.

30/8/2025, 4:53:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Not yet, but he really does look like one bad fall could do it.

30/8/2025, 4:49:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Tell me when Trump starts flashing quicker and quicker and his attack pattern changes.

30/8/2025, 4:08:04 PM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

"A Burrito for Christmas"

30/8/2025, 3:38:00 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Worth remembering that any time I refer to “it happening,” I’m talking about Steven Page playing with Barenaked Ladies again.

30/8/2025, 3:30:00 PM | 7 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Vonnegut was doing this in the ‘60s.

30/8/2025, 2:13:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Show about a cabbage and a jar of mayo solving crime; call it Slaw & Order

30/8/2025, 11:51:08 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Happy birthday!

30/8/2025, 10:47:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Worth remembering that any time I say “it’s happening” I mean Peter and MJ getting back together

30/8/2025, 10:45:39 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elric (@elric-mtl.bsky.social) reposted

Next level rice cooker.

29/8/2025, 9:13:58 PM | 1862 505 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

I’ve been calling it The Age of Bullshit for a while now.

30/8/2025, 10:30:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

She's more racist by 9 AM than most people are all day.

30/8/2025, 12:10:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck THAT.

30/8/2025, 12:09:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

(My kid’s been binging these for the last two weeks, my having takes was inescapable.)

29/8/2025, 11:21:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Zombies: “Fuck segregation” Zombies 2: “Fuck assimilation” Zombies 3: “Fuck nativism” Zombies 4: “Fuck ethnonationalism”

29/8/2025, 11:20:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

My only contribution to the “kid lit vs. adult lit” discourse is that someone once recommended [series name redacted to protect the innocent] to me with “It’s like Harry Potter if it was for adults”, and the smarmy way they said it instantly turned me off checking the series out.

29/8/2025, 11:11:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jake Staines (@sanakism.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Last week: "Adult media" means porn Yesterday: "Adult media" means porn Today: "Adult media" means complex and refined productions of serious literary/cultural merit that we put on a pedestal purely to use as a contrast to things we instinctively don't like Tomorrow: "Adult media" means porn

29/8/2025, 5:10:35 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Fundamentally, tech bros don't believe other people are people.

29/8/2025, 8:22:41 PM | 156 49 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

This is your savior?

29/8/2025, 8:22:04 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nothings Monstered (@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social) reposted

"How are we supposed to beat the Nazis when you're running around speaking up for communists, socialists, trade unionists, and Jews? Lots of people dislike those groups. Once we ditch all of them, the five of us who are left will beat Hitler easily." 🤔

17/8/2025, 2:49:49 PM | 138 42 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire.bsky.social) reposted

There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.

28/8/2025, 8:54:41 PM | 2516 1186 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture optiMSTie (@optimstie.bsky.social) reposted

Wait a minute... August 29th, 1997? That's the day that Skynet becomes self-aware... ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AMELIE LEADS THE HUMAN RESISTANCE AGAINST THE TERMINATORS

29/8/2025, 2:01:15 PM | 142 47 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Amelie 2: Judgment Day

29/8/2025, 2:06:41 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

1000-year stare?

29/8/2025, 2:04:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

“You gotta be one of the good guys, son, ‘cause there’s way too many of the bad.”

29/8/2025, 12:34:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Owwwwww

29/8/2025, 10:58:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Is the reckoning in the room with us right now?

28/8/2025, 11:12:52 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Happy birthday! (It’s my mom’s birthday too!)

28/8/2025, 10:50:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture La Firuláis ΘΔ (@thegonzalez.bsky.social) reposted

Getting laid off this week, pals. If you, or someone you know need someone with eight years of working with kids in a museum setting, and hell of clerical experience, let me know.

28/8/2025, 9:51:36 PM | 98 56 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/vfx-arti...

28/8/2025, 8:01:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

James Cameron is such a cunt.

28/8/2025, 8:00:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture andy™ (@andylevy.net) reposted

hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today

28/8/2025, 7:13:12 PM | 3491 754 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Yes.

28/8/2025, 7:10:24 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

I created six characters in DA: O to try out each origin.

28/8/2025, 6:49:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Good mornin', good lookin' This is the killer speakin' Good mornin', angel This is the killer on the line

28/8/2025, 6:43:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Lean in and have him play Booster Gold.

28/8/2025, 6:32:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Follman (@markfollman.bsky.social) reposted

Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns

27/8/2025, 9:07:11 PM | 2211 733 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@lookitup.baby) reposted reply parent

the entire infrastructure of modern civilization is held together with duct tape, string, and cat girls in programmer socks

28/8/2025, 5:49:52 PM | 378 54 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin Elliott (@kjephd.bsky.social) reposted

Extremely helpful from @pkrugman.bsky.social about why markets' reaction to Trump's attempts to abolish the foundations of American prosperity have been so muted, even as he's gone after Fed independence: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-... It's even got a political epistemology angle.

Why not? Do financial markets doubt that Trump will get his way? Or do they reject mainstream economics and the clear examples of countries like Turkey and Argentina? Neither. My read of economic and financial history is that market pricing almost never takes into account the possibility of huge, disruptive events, even when the strong possibility of such events should be obvious. The usual pattern, instead, is one of market complacency until the last possible moment. That is, markets act as if everything is normal until it’s blindingly obvious that it isn’t. The inimitable Nathan Tankus summarizes this by saying that the market is not, as stylized economic models would have us believe, a mechanism that pools the knowledge and informed judgment of millions of investors. It is, instead, a “conventional wisdom processor.” That is, it reflects views that seem safe to hold because many other people hold them — and the crowd only abandons those views when they become blatantly unsustainable.
28/8/2025, 12:02:48 PM | 420 140 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Courtney Milan (@courtneymilan.com) reposted reply parent

I mean this: kill civility with fire.

28/8/2025, 3:08:55 PM | 216 46 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

I hate that so much of getting, having, and keeping a job is treated like a game. I don't want to play. I don't want to hustle. I want to be.

28/8/2025, 3:07:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

As someone who's been on SSRIs since childhood and never shot anybody, this man needs to fuck himself all the way out of this plane of reality.

28/8/2025, 2:57:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 12:04:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kurt Busiek (@kurtbusiek.bsky.social) reposted

From a ten-year-old Facebook post: The thing people tend to misunderstand about Spider-Man’s credo is that it’s scalable. With any power comes concomitant responsibility. Peter Parker didn’t need spider-powers to trip the burglar at the TV station. Almost anyone could have done it.

27/8/2025, 7:22:54 PM | 226 57 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

I saw a postings a while back for the team for some GI Joe game. Wonder if this is that or something else.

28/8/2025, 10:43:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Call me a Negative Nancy, but I don’t think Congress should have needed to specify not to conduct any fascist coups in foreign countries

28/8/2025, 2:50:04 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry, is there another Susan Collins I'm not familiar with?

28/8/2025, 1:38:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Blue sky nice guy (@rajandelman.bsky.social) reposted

Yakko Warner signing a song while using a wooden pointer on a big diagram of all the ways fascism has arrived in America

27/8/2025, 3:07:30 PM | 226 57 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

“Jinx! Double jinx!”

28/8/2025, 12:09:34 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Great, now the suicidal teens can get murdered by cops

27/8/2025, 10:52:19 PM | 59 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Boomtown Rats announce they’re changing the name of the song to “I Don’t Like Days”.

27/8/2025, 9:52:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted

I hate raising my children in a country where "someone opened fire on a bunch of kids" is just a normal thing that happens

27/8/2025, 9:43:01 PM | 2270 299 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title Tom Clancy’s Love in the Time of Cholera

27/8/2025, 8:30:45 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Christ almighty.

27/8/2025, 7:01:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And now I've learned something new!

27/8/2025, 6:45:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Interesting variation on striking. It needs a catchy name.

27/8/2025, 6:17:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

They finally gave Phil the budget and resources he needs to do his job properly.

27/8/2025, 5:42:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Louvre of Bluesky (@thelouvreof.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Look, y’all really don’t have to comment on everything. If you don’t know what the fuck is going on, you can just keep going about your day.

27/8/2025, 5:07:31 PM | 534 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

How about we don’t suggest armed troops be placed in schools?

27/8/2025, 5:05:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Extra fact: We call the thing you stand on a dais.

27/8/2025, 2:54:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Man, I got a $20 copay for Tonics.

27/8/2025, 2:44:07 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hard Drive (@hard-drive.net) reposted

RFK Jr. Cancels All Phoenix Down Development hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

27/8/2025, 2:30:40 PM | 525 107 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

THAC0 was an act of violence.

27/8/2025, 2:41:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

I swear, if you need prospective employees to blow you to give them a shot at earning a living, somebody broke you.

27/8/2025, 2:20:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

"Why do you want to work with us?" Yeah, my bank has this thing about the mortgage payments being on time if I want to keep living in this house.

27/8/2025, 2:18:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

It's called money, Chris.

27/8/2025, 2:11:11 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Weird new Monopoly variant, but I’m digging it.

27/8/2025, 10:35:25 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

The contradictions vanish when you remember their primary goal is the accomplishment of evil.

27/8/2025, 12:20:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, yeah. He’s already got his solution: ban vaccines and put the neurodivergent in work camps.

27/8/2025, 12:19:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

I am large, I contain multitudes, I can think all forms of bullshit suck. Including yours.

27/8/2025, 12:17:06 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

You literally just said no one is saying the thing, and followed it up by saying the thing.

27/8/2025, 12:12:22 AM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

All officers carry a sword or other culturally appropriate weapon. Carrot was able to provide his own.

27/8/2025, 12:06:41 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Seriously, somebody needs to track down and post this dingus’s ADTRW account name.

26/8/2025, 11:44:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

It was a warning to his enemies!

26/8/2025, 10:59:51 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Cerritos strong!

26/8/2025, 10:58:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

“Secret Agent Man”

26/8/2025, 10:14:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Mick Jagger is going to get a very confusing phone call.

26/8/2025, 9:56:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social)

Cat distribution system branching out

26/8/2025, 9:30:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael vs. 2025 (@thepmann.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow, two B-52s songs in one!

26/8/2025, 9:21:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) (@delaneyking.bsky.social) reposted

Palette cleanser. youtu.be/ffyKY3Dj5ZE?...

26/8/2025, 7:49:21 PM | 22 3 | View on Bluesky | view