Michael
@mezekial.bsky.social
I write poetry (unpublished) and talk about games (also unpublished). Maybe I should try to get published one of these days...
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Michael
@mezekial.bsky.social
· Feb 26
Yelling "don't stop fighting! Protect what you can! Focus on local community and activism!" while also feeling complete and total despair is just 2025's version of There Are Two Wolves Inside You, I guess.
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I just got my commission "Phonecall in the manner of your goblins" and I couldn't be more delighted.
My strongest recommendation.
My strongest recommendation.
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I just got my commission "Phonecall in the manner of your goblins" and I couldn't be more delighted.
My strongest recommendation.
My strongest recommendation.
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Keep going everyone. Bullying works. No one wants this shit.
It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.
People hate AI slop!
People hate AI slop!
McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Keep going everyone. Bullying works. No one wants this shit.
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aghghh @reviewers sorry i forgot to add this , slide to the review guide that went out
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
aghghh @reviewers sorry i forgot to add this , slide to the review guide that went out
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one of the great parts about the mix of conservative brain and individualism is that they are all unlikeable and so paranoid of others that they are incapable of forming friendships let alone an actual positive community
Terminally online Right wingers are telling on themselves
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
one of the great parts about the mix of conservative brain and individualism is that they are all unlikeable and so paranoid of others that they are incapable of forming friendships let alone an actual positive community
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and this is quite literally every single free to play game 😩
In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
and this is quite literally every single free to play game 😩
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I’m boarding an early Amtrak but let me just say, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social was a delight!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!
Thanks Hodgepodge Books and Taproom for a great event at St Mary's Episcopal Church tonight here in Eugene, Oregon. And thanks to @lorraineberry.bsky.social for being a wonderful in conversation partner.
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’m boarding an early Amtrak but let me just say, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social was a delight!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!
@dcellgames.com if y'all were ready to have the game released a month ago and then it got delayed the night before...is that like the equivalent of having finished a Big College Essay right before a blizzard and the prof says "eh turn it in next month"? Or have y'all just been testing it 24/7 since
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
@dcellgames.com if y'all were ready to have the game released a month ago and then it got delayed the night before...is that like the equivalent of having finished a Big College Essay right before a blizzard and the prof says "eh turn it in next month"? Or have y'all just been testing it 24/7 since
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For non-subscribers, here's a gift: For the next 30 days, Aftermath subscriptions for new readers are on sale at $1 for your first month:
aftermath.ghost.io/11-06-2025...
aftermath.ghost.io/11-06-2025...
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
For non-subscribers, here's a gift: For the next 30 days, Aftermath subscriptions for new readers are on sale at $1 for your first month:
aftermath.ghost.io/11-06-2025...
aftermath.ghost.io/11-06-2025...
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A woman ruined my workplace
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A woman ruined my workplace
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
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2017-2025
Fuck 🖕 AI
Fuck 🖕 AI
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
2017-2025
Fuck 🖕 AI
Fuck 🖕 AI
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Once again the discourse reveals that some writers have no idea what feminism is. It’s aggravating. You still don’t know? In 2025?
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Once again the discourse reveals that some writers have no idea what feminism is. It’s aggravating. You still don’t know? In 2025?
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"let me absorb you into myself for all eternity so we never lose eachother in the deep sea, valentine"
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"let me absorb you into myself for all eternity so we never lose eachother in the deep sea, valentine"
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You just beat The Last Judge and its brutal, demoralizing runback and realize, as the citadel unfolds before you, this is just the start of Act II.
serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
You just beat The Last Judge and its brutal, demoralizing runback and realize, as the citadel unfolds before you, this is just the start of Act II.
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Will bear the knave by th’ volume.
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Will bear the knave by th’ volume.
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About to rewatch this speech to wake up in the morning
I could run through a wall right now
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
About to rewatch this speech to wake up in the morning
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serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
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hold him to it (the win was the easy part). call him out when he fucks up (he will).
but it feels fucking relieving right now to not wonder if i’m losing my mind because he’s not up there talking out both sides of his mouth or saying “i hate trump but continue charlie kirk’s work.”
but it feels fucking relieving right now to not wonder if i’m losing my mind because he’s not up there talking out both sides of his mouth or saying “i hate trump but continue charlie kirk’s work.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
hold him to it (the win was the easy part). call him out when he fucks up (he will).
but it feels fucking relieving right now to not wonder if i’m losing my mind because he’s not up there talking out both sides of his mouth or saying “i hate trump but continue charlie kirk’s work.”
but it feels fucking relieving right now to not wonder if i’m losing my mind because he’s not up there talking out both sides of his mouth or saying “i hate trump but continue charlie kirk’s work.”
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One of these days, Capitalism will sustain its last wound. It will topple and die, and we will see it bleed out in the street, neither mourned nor missed. Every cut and needle's prick brings us closer to that day.
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
One of these days, Capitalism will sustain its last wound. It will topple and die, and we will see it bleed out in the street, neither mourned nor missed. Every cut and needle's prick brings us closer to that day.
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Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
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Chat, is it bad when citizens can't distinguish between your paramilitary force and organized crime?
Ah. Who could have guessed this might become a problem?
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Chat, is it bad when citizens can't distinguish between your paramilitary force and organized crime?
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What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.
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Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.
From my dissertation:
From my dissertation:
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.
From my dissertation:
From my dissertation:
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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~40% of the ENTIRE corn crop of the US is used to make ethanol. This gets blended with gasoline to power well under 10% of our vehicle miles. If we converted 100% of our vehicles to EVs installing solar on a small fraction of the land this corn is grown on would power them all.
October 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
~40% of the ENTIRE corn crop of the US is used to make ethanol. This gets blended with gasoline to power well under 10% of our vehicle miles. If we converted 100% of our vehicles to EVs installing solar on a small fraction of the land this corn is grown on would power them all.