Michael Kusek
@michaelkusek.bsky.social
Publisher of Different Leaf. Former Take magazine. I never have enough good sense to stay home. Always looking for art, design, ideas & trends.
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if your flyer is AI im not going!! if your accompanying visual is AI im not listening!!!
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
if your flyer is AI im not going!! if your accompanying visual is AI im not listening!!!
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This is Trump celebrating the murder of Rob Reiner. That's what it is. That's what we should call it.
People who said this sort of thing about Charlie Kirk were fired, arrested and banned from the US.
People who said this sort of thing about Charlie Kirk were fired, arrested and banned from the US.
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is Trump celebrating the murder of Rob Reiner. That's what it is. That's what we should call it.
People who said this sort of thing about Charlie Kirk were fired, arrested and banned from the US.
People who said this sort of thing about Charlie Kirk were fired, arrested and banned from the US.
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Oh. Cool. Just as the President is using every power he can to suppress dissent and stifle speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov and the @judiciarydems.senate.gov are trying to hand Trump a new tool to suppress speech online.
What a joke.
What a joke.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Oh. Cool. Just as the President is using every power he can to suppress dissent and stifle speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov and the @judiciarydems.senate.gov are trying to hand Trump a new tool to suppress speech online.
What a joke.
What a joke.
This is terrible.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is terrible.
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Really well presented testimony from a brave man with one small, devastating story that captures so much of the moment.
George Retes is an American citizen and veteran who was unjustly pepper-sprayed, arrested, and imprisoned for three days by ICE.
Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇
Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇
December 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Really well presented testimony from a brave man with one small, devastating story that captures so much of the moment.
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JESUS CHRIST JUST GET A TAMAGOTCHI.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
JESUS CHRIST JUST GET A TAMAGOTCHI.
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[December 10th, 1985] New Order performed a concert at L'Eldorado in Paris, France.
December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
[December 10th, 1985] New Order performed a concert at L'Eldorado in Paris, France.
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never mind if they lie side by side and touch each other
December 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
never mind if they lie side by side and touch each other
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"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
Just a great read and leaves me incredibly eager for @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social’s eventual book about her.
Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
www.inquirer.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Just a great read and leaves me incredibly eager for @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social’s eventual book about her.
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Literary journals, small presses, zines, these are the gifts we need all year.
I need to go through and update this, but if you’re looking for great gift ideas and the like I bet there are some great options in here
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December 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Literary journals, small presses, zines, these are the gifts we need all year.
I’m sure there is an SNL skit to be made about being the intimacy coordinator for Heated Rivalry.
December 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I’m sure there is an SNL skit to be made about being the intimacy coordinator for Heated Rivalry.
He's just such a little squirt of a human, isn't he?
Commander Greg Bovino led a group of Border Patrol agents on walk around the French Quarter in New Orleans this afternoon.
December 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
He's just such a little squirt of a human, isn't he?
Last night I followed a pickup for a removal company with the exceptional tagline “We will grab your junk!”
December 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Last night I followed a pickup for a removal company with the exceptional tagline “We will grab your junk!”
A fatal flaw and the height of hubris: thinking you can wing an interview without any prep or a strategy conversation with your communications people. Why have them if you clearly don't think you need their input? A politician who bothered to prepare wouldn't say anything this foolish.
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A fatal flaw and the height of hubris: thinking you can wing an interview without any prep or a strategy conversation with your communications people. Why have them if you clearly don't think you need their input? A politician who bothered to prepare wouldn't say anything this foolish.
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please read this
December 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
please read this
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sue the fucker for every last bit of his liquor money, Frank
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
sue the fucker for every last bit of his liquor money, Frank
We lost so, so much with each death. Such a talent taken far too soon.
In honor of World AIDS Day, I'd like to share a story that breaks my heart whenever I tell it. Please read it. It's the story of David Carroll.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
We lost so, so much with each death. Such a talent taken far too soon.
OK. Think of a conversation you had with a friend or family member that just had an MRI. Did they have a vague idea of what was being scanned and why? Were they unaware of the results?
No, they knew every detail...and so does Trump. The results are bad enough that he's needs to lie about it.
No, they knew every detail...and so does Trump. The results are bad enough that he's needs to lie about it.
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
OK. Think of a conversation you had with a friend or family member that just had an MRI. Did they have a vague idea of what was being scanned and why? Were they unaware of the results?
No, they knew every detail...and so does Trump. The results are bad enough that he's needs to lie about it.
No, they knew every detail...and so does Trump. The results are bad enough that he's needs to lie about it.
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In 1982 someone tampered with Tylenol bottles in Chicago and every single bottle of Tylenol was immediately removed from the nation's shelves, during the Reagan presidency. Today, an AI bot coaches a kid into committing suicide and it's crickets. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago...
Chicago Tylenol murders - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In 1982 someone tampered with Tylenol bottles in Chicago and every single bottle of Tylenol was immediately removed from the nation's shelves, during the Reagan presidency. Today, an AI bot coaches a kid into committing suicide and it's crickets. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago...
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19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
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The good lord gave me the soul of a theater kid, but not the voice of one--and that is my burden to bear.
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The good lord gave me the soul of a theater kid, but not the voice of one--and that is my burden to bear.
Making hasselback potatoes is more enjoyable in theory.
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Making hasselback potatoes is more enjoyable in theory.
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[August 29th, 1980] Patti LuPone, star of the Broadway musical "Evita," sings pop songs at a New York nightclub called Les Mouches after her shows. Despite concerns that it strains her voice, LuPone says it has actually made her stronger.
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
[August 29th, 1980] Patti LuPone, star of the Broadway musical "Evita," sings pop songs at a New York nightclub called Les Mouches after her shows. Despite concerns that it strains her voice, LuPone says it has actually made her stronger.