Michael
@unprovoked.net
Married cat person, bureaucrat, union steward and board member, longtime listener. Previously: bookseller, roller derby official, machine operator, broadcaster, pizza guy, fry cook, and dog walker. Most of the time I just stare at the sky. #LNK #1U
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One of my favorite bookstores is Women and Children First in Chicago. They always offer a great holiday guide and this year is no different: simplebooklet.com/womenchildre...
Women & Children First Gift Guide 2025
Women & Children First Gift Guide 2025
simplebooklet.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
One of my favorite bookstores is Women and Children First in Chicago. They always offer a great holiday guide and this year is no different: simplebooklet.com/womenchildre...
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We need every representative—Republican or Democrat—who says they support working people to vote for the Protect America’s Workforce Act.
Tell Congress: restore federal workers’ union rights now! https://act.aflcio.org/call_campaigns/pass-pawa-house/
Tell Congress: restore federal workers’ union rights now! https://act.aflcio.org/call_campaigns/pass-pawa-house/
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
We need every representative—Republican or Democrat—who says they support working people to vote for the Protect America’s Workforce Act.
Tell Congress: restore federal workers’ union rights now! https://act.aflcio.org/call_campaigns/pass-pawa-house/
Tell Congress: restore federal workers’ union rights now! https://act.aflcio.org/call_campaigns/pass-pawa-house/
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Dec 3 | Online: "Fighting Back 103: Black Gay Men and HIV/AIDS," a virtual talk presented by the American LGBTQ+ Museum and the New York City AIDS Memorial. Speakers: Phill Wilson and Kevin McGruder. FREE, starting at 6 PM ET. RSVP: americanlgbtqmuseum.org/event/fighti... #LGBTQIA #WorldAIDSDay #NYC
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Dec 3 | Online: "Fighting Back 103: Black Gay Men and HIV/AIDS," a virtual talk presented by the American LGBTQ+ Museum and the New York City AIDS Memorial. Speakers: Phill Wilson and Kevin McGruder. FREE, starting at 6 PM ET. RSVP: americanlgbtqmuseum.org/event/fighti... #LGBTQIA #WorldAIDSDay #NYC
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BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers!
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses
The city says about 15,000 employees will get paid $50 for each week worked over a three-year period. For some workers, that's thousands of dollars.
gothamist.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
BREAKING: According to a recent investigation by NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Starbucks illegally violated workers' protection laws in NYC 500,000 times since 2021. Over $35.5 million will be paid in restitution to Starbucks workers!
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
gothamist.com/news/starbuc...
Mostly void, partially sprite.
Saja denies he is a real chaos demon and lies in wait to ambush all those who would say otherwise
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Mostly void, partially sprite.
Every year around this time. (From webcomic name by Alex Norris.) webcomicname.com/post/1529587...
webcomic name
<p>the same joke every time by alex norris </p>
webcomicname.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Every year around this time. (From webcomic name by Alex Norris.) webcomicname.com/post/1529587...
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Customer Question of the Day: "How long is Eternity?"
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Customer Question of the Day: "How long is Eternity?"
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On the one hand, this is the thing Tom Stoppard would absolutely least like to be remembered for. On the other hand, he spent his last years complaining about "cancel culture" and trans people, so I'll take it.
Playwright Tom Stoppard has died at 88. Did you know he ghost-wrote George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? kottke.org/20/11/tom-st...
Tom Stoppard and the Last Crusade
Hermione Lee has written an authorized biography of playwright, screenwriter, translator, and man of letters Tom Stoppard, calle
kottke.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
On the one hand, this is the thing Tom Stoppard would absolutely least like to be remembered for. On the other hand, he spent his last years complaining about "cancel culture" and trans people, so I'll take it.
"... a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 - BBC News
Sir Tom won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"... a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild: blue racer, Eastern pondhawk, ghost crab, great blue heron, Sandhill crane.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Grizzly bear
Wolf
Orca
Moose
Sea otter
Grizzly bear
Wolf
Orca
Moose
Sea otter
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Beaver
Black bear
Caribou
Wolf
Moose
Beaver
Black bear
Caribou
Wolf
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild: blue racer, Eastern pondhawk, ghost crab, great blue heron, Sandhill crane.
Bullseye. youtube.com/watch?v=b80F... #FilmSky
Am I Ok? | Official Trailer | Max
YouTube video by HBO Max
youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Bullseye. youtube.com/watch?v=b80F... #FilmSky
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This Black Friday, we're calling on YOU to reject consumerism... by buying DILF! Yes, DILF, the book recommended by literally dozens of readers, is the only thing you need buy now or at any other time. Live a life of simple abundance. Live DILF: bookshop.org/p/books/dilf...
DILF: Did I Leave Feminism?
Did I Leave Feminism?
bookshop.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This Black Friday, we're calling on YOU to reject consumerism... by buying DILF! Yes, DILF, the book recommended by literally dozens of readers, is the only thing you need buy now or at any other time. Live a life of simple abundance. Live DILF: bookshop.org/p/books/dilf...
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The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln just ran a TV ad during the Husker game urging people to call regents and oppose the unit from being cut. That’s a new one for me.
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln just ran a TV ad during the Husker game urging people to call regents and oppose the unit from being cut. That’s a new one for me.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've been to: Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Mercy Rule, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, and UUVVWWZ.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:
-Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
-The Flaming Lips
-Public Enemy
-R. E. M.
-HAIM
-Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
-The Flaming Lips
-Public Enemy
-R. E. M.
-HAIM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:
Blue Oyster Cult
Robert Plant
Afro Man
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Weezer
Blue Oyster Cult
Robert Plant
Afro Man
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Weezer
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've been to: Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Mercy Rule, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, and UUVVWWZ.
Awake for the sixth time since going to bed. I believe that I have completed all the tasks our cat has commanded of me and that I will be allowed to sleep until treat time (in two hours).
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Awake for the sixth time since going to bed. I believe that I have completed all the tasks our cat has commanded of me and that I will be allowed to sleep until treat time (in two hours).
Ending it that way, too. Real nice.
Starting the day real mad, that's great.
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Ending it that way, too. Real nice.
Adjacent to this, some favorites among cover versions include Fiona Apple's "Across the Universe," Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Dear Prudence," and Nan Vernon's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (which I would have missed if not for a college radio gig in another lifetime).
Name your fav song by The Beatles.
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Adjacent to this, some favorites among cover versions include Fiona Apple's "Across the Universe," Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Dear Prudence," and Nan Vernon's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (which I would have missed if not for a college radio gig in another lifetime).
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If you like books but wish they were cheaper, allow me to introduce you to: Used books.
If you like second-hand books but wish they were free: Libraries.
If you like reading but can't get to a used bookstore and won't support the library (it knows what it did!): Scroll X and go slowly insane
If you like second-hand books but wish they were free: Libraries.
If you like reading but can't get to a used bookstore and won't support the library (it knows what it did!): Scroll X and go slowly insane
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you like books but wish they were cheaper, allow me to introduce you to: Used books.
If you like second-hand books but wish they were free: Libraries.
If you like reading but can't get to a used bookstore and won't support the library (it knows what it did!): Scroll X and go slowly insane
If you like second-hand books but wish they were free: Libraries.
If you like reading but can't get to a used bookstore and won't support the library (it knows what it did!): Scroll X and go slowly insane
Short thread to follow. 1/
Name your fav song by The Beatles.
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Short thread to follow. 1/
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Honestly you're not a real Marxist and are just an unserious Puritan if you think that it's revolutionary to ask people to work for you for free in a system where that "for free" doesn't come with a UBI or free food, housing, and healthcare for the worker
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Honestly you're not a real Marxist and are just an unserious Puritan if you think that it's revolutionary to ask people to work for you for free in a system where that "for free" doesn't come with a UBI or free food, housing, and healthcare for the worker
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At the newsletter: The Epstein shit is... a lot, right? In fact, everything in the news is sort of A Lot in the exact same way right now. Isn't it? Are you seeing it, too? I'm seeing it: jude-doyle.ghost.io/yeah-im-seei...
Yeah, I'm Seeing It Too
In which I am driven mad by the revelations.
jude-doyle.ghost.io
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
At the newsletter: The Epstein shit is... a lot, right? In fact, everything in the news is sort of A Lot in the exact same way right now. Isn't it? Are you seeing it, too? I'm seeing it: jude-doyle.ghost.io/yeah-im-seei...
Starting the day real mad, that's great.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Starting the day real mad, that's great.
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Inbox: The independent union at Blue Bottle Coffee, @bbiunion.bsky.social, is on strike. “As of today, we have gone out on the picket line to combat Blue Bottle's bad faith bargaining and ensure fair wages and protections for baristas.”
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Inbox: The independent union at Blue Bottle Coffee, @bbiunion.bsky.social, is on strike. “As of today, we have gone out on the picket line to combat Blue Bottle's bad faith bargaining and ensure fair wages and protections for baristas.”
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Apple pie tastes better with cheddar cheese on it — there I said it and I’m right.
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Apple pie tastes better with cheddar cheese on it — there I said it and I’m right.