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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 · 7h

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Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

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 · 16h

I miss when social media was fun.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

I miss not being anxious to leave my house without my passport card, even to take out the trash.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

I miss having grandparents.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

I miss my old favorite sandwich shop. And the one after that. And the one after that. And the one after that.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

I miss my partner when we’re apart, even when it’s just during work hours.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

I miss having friends that I’d see in person regularly.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

I miss getting to have my kids live with me more than half the time.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

I miss having a semi-functional government.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

I’m not really able to pick a single favorite of anything.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

Photographs. Books. Poems. Podcasts. Essays. Sometimes other things, too, I suppose.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

I miss having a body that didn’t hurt all the time

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

I miss going to the movies

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

I miss making things

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

I miss being a prolific reader

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 16h

People are so weird and needy

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 17h

They responded to me that way too. It’s such an ironic thing, to demonstrate the inability to receive any form of criticism by calling someone else “thin-skinned.”

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 17h

People can be the absolute worst. I’m sorry you have to deal with so many of them 🙁

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 18h

I’ve been wondering if it’s just that my mouth is so bored that it wants any flavor at all

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 18h

I bought some to help rehydrate after I had covid and I agree, they are not good. I’ve tried I think three different flavors now? All bad.

Although, weirdly enough, I think they are growing on me. Like, they’re bad but I keep wanting to drink them? It’s so weird.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 18h

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 15th 2025) in less than 7 minutes
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cluesbysam.com

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

Reposted by Mike Sakasegawa

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 21h

“THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST THE IMAGINATION

ALL OTHER WARS ARE SUBSUMED IN IT” —Diane di Prima

👇 Good thread on protests, MAGA, what they want and how to avoid giving it to them.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

turns out it's all narrative warfare

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 1d

It’s the same with establishment Dems. It’s not that they’re acting against their or their party’s interests. It’s that winning elections is less important than doing whatever it takes to maintain the status quo.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 1d

GOP voters aren’t voting against their own interests. It’s just that maintaining racial and gender hierarchy and owning the libs is more important to them than their material wellbeing.