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Mike Sakasegawa

@sakeriver.com

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Photographer, writer, podcaster. Host of Keep the Channel Open. Co-host of Hey, It's Me. Making @jejunebug77.bsky.social's coffee every morning. He/him. Please no unsolicited advice. sakeriver.com keepthechannelopen.com heyitsmepodcast.com

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Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · Dec 15

Okay new rule: if you respond to my jokes with advice and I don’t know you, I’m blocking you.

Good morning, by the way.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 1h

Jesus

New York Post @nypost.com · 11h

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

Maj. Gen. William "Hank" Taylor told reporters that he's been using ChatGPT to refine how he makes choices affecting thousands of troops.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 4h

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 15h

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social · 1h

Hey there 👋 I’m Mysterious Galaxy, the independent bookstore that’s bringing that Big Boromir™ energy this Saturday.

Specifically, the “Gondor has no king. Gondor needs no king” part.

Not the corruption by the One Ring or the Uruk-hai pin cushion part.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 1h

Oh my god

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 2h

Just boosting that I got laid off two weeks ago. Any leads on remote jobs in writing, editing, publishing, teaching, or adjacent work are deeply appreciated. Also always open to freelance!

Mushroom that feels like me job hunting for the algo.

A mushroom cap spread out and cracked on sunny grass.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 2h

It’s pretty clear that my partner loves me because she always thinks my hair looks good, even when it objectively does not.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 5h

As far as I can tell, the only way to find someone to follow is if you already know their exact social web handle. But there's no easy way to know what anyone's handle is because that information isn't available via your newsletter subscription or most people's about pages.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 5h

One of the things I find particularly bewildering about these new features is that it seems impossible to find any specific accounts? I'm currently subscribed to at least 4 Ghost newsletters but as far as I can tell there's no easy way to follow any of them on the Ghost social web.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 5h

Does anybody here use the new social web stuff in Ghost 6.0? What do you like about it?

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 5h

I'm not really sure I see the point of it all but then again I didn't care about Substack Notes or any of that stuff either.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 5h

Does anybody here use the new social web stuff in Ghost 6.0? What do you like about it?

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 6h

Colleen and I were at Books Inc. at the same time-- she predated me, and she was there for years after I left.

I'm genuinely gutted to hear they cut her role with the B&N purchase. She deserves better from a company she gave so many years to.

Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 13h

Book pals, help out a bookseller in need. My friend Colleen has been in painful chemo and the cancer has recently spread. Cancer (and capitalism) have taken her job as Books Inc ended her remote marketing job when BN took over. Please boost and/or donate if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/colleen-ca...

Donate to Colleen Cadiz’s Cancer Journey, organized by Melody Ross

This Go Fund Me has been created for the Cadiz Family, whose wife, Colleen, has been battl… Melody Ross needs your support for Colleen Cadiz’s Cancer Journey

www.gofundme.com

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 7h

I think it’s hilarious that I started seeing the “women don’t like the vehicle” memes before I saw the article, and my immediate impulse was to add a picture of a Cybertruck to one of those repost chains

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 7h

Still don’t want to go to the eye doctor but I know I’m getting old because I just got a little excited by the idea of getting progressive lenses

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 7h

a cartoon of three capybaras in a pool with the caption " one of us one of us "

Alt: a cartoon of three capybaras in a pool with the caption " one of us one of us "

media.tenor.com

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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 7h

I couldn't remember the name Cybertruck so I called it a T150 Sad Man Teeny Peen Edition

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 8h

Obviously the best way to make your podcast into a hit is to talk constantly about how nobody listens to it

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 8h

Step one is probably making a podcast that audiences actually want to listen to.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 8h

Currently listening to an old bonus ep of The Adventure Zone with guest DM Brennan Lee Mulligan, and I’m thinking how all I really want as a podcaster is to make the kind of show that makes other podcasters want to invite me on their shows as a guest.

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 9h

Excited to share this conversation with @dianaarterian.bsky.social about her new poetry collection AGRIPPINA THE YOUNGER (@nupress.bsky.social) & her upcoming co-translation SMOKE DRIFTS (@worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social) of the remarkable Afghan poet Nadia Anjuman

AUDIO: tinhouse.com/podcast/dian...

Diana Arterian : Agrippina the Younger & Smoke Drifts - Tin House

As an artist, how does one dive into the wreck of an archive, a canon, a shared collective memory, a history—one filled with silenced voices, distorted accounts, erasures and elisions—on behalf of tho...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 9h

I'm pretty sure Jamelle has noted this before but the project of American conservatism is above all else to maintain and strengthen social hierarchies. Higher castes oppressing lower castes is fine, even desirable. Lower castes making higher castes uncomfortable in the slightest is abominable.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 11h

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 16th 2025) in less than 8 minutes
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cluesbysam.com

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A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 23h

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Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 1d

Well. I have a cup of coffee and I have a book and I have some snacks. I have a partner who I love, who loves me, who I get to come home to. I have healthy, good-hearted children. And the air is clear the way it only ever is the day after a hard rain. Things are, for now, okay.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 1d

I miss when social media was fun.