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Michele Tepper
@michelet.bsky.social
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Also known as Misha. UX design then (frog, CFPB, startups) and now (Salesforce Platform). Brooklyn native/cliché. A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend
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December 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Two cows on a couch. A phone is ringing in the foreground. One cow says to the other, "well, there it goes again... and we just here without opposable thumbs"
December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Kookaburra (Australia)
Baboon (South Africa)
Skunk (USA)
Cow (Argentina)
Evidence of a cow grazing in the Patagonian woods
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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My young cousin always puts a bit of wordplay on her pumpkin pie crust. Usually it’s song lyrics, but this year it was political
A pumpkin pie crust with a piece that says RELEASE THE PIE-STEIN FILES
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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From the entrance to the exit
is longer than it looks from where we stand
I want to say I'm sorry
for stuff I haven't done yet
Things will shortly get completely out of hand
Pope Leo looking like he’s crooning into a microphone
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Dog sitter’s report on my pup: “She wiggling”
A small brown dog with a white chest, wiggling
November 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Two hearts on either side of a rainbow with the text “I believe in holding grudges. I’ll heal in hell.”
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Love my neighborhood
A “Ghosts for Cuomo” sticker on a lamppost in Brooklyn
November 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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My polling site was packed! Continuous but fast moving line of about 10 ppl to check in. In and out in under 15 minutes. Crowd seemed half there for the Halloween sticker, half pleasantly surprised by it
Two early voting stickers - one Brooklyn-themed, one Halloween-themed
October 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Indy says hi!
A happy small brown dog with white markings. She is very cute
October 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Another awful (and cloudier) hotel room view. What a trip!
An absolutely stunning view of the mountains and the lake in Patagonia
October 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Argentina knows how to do a landscape
A photo of the Andes and a big lake
October 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Borges is not buried in Buenos Aires, but his parents and other relatives are
A photo of the plaques marking the graves of the parents, sister, brother in law, and niece and nephew in law of Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires’s famous cemetery the name of which escapes me at the moment
October 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Dog also enjoying a break in her routine

(thanks again for the Eva’s hookup @jameshupp.bsky.social @lauraolin.bsky.social )
A small brown dog out in the country with other dogs. She looks happy
October 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The skies were even clearer this morning
A picture of the Andes as seen from a hotel room in a vineyard
October 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Just a terrible view from this hotel room
Just a spectacular view of Malbec fields with little luxe cabins built in the fields. In the distance, the Andes
October 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Not everyone in this household is fasting
A small brown dog enjoying a French fry A small brown dog really going to town on a French fry
October 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Look, I would have seen this anyway, but it was *wonderful*. Silly and sad and a portrait of two friendships, real and imagined.
September 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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This is basically our dynamic
A small brown dog with her mouth open faces the camera. A middle aged woman with a skeptical expression who needs a haircut is holding her
September 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The thing about having a cure and extroverted dog is sometimes she makes friends with photographers
A small brown dog on the lap of her middle-aged person A cute brown dog being petted by a smiling young Black woman. The dog looks happy
September 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Somebody got a haircut and nail trim, and then insisted on being carried the three blocks home like the diva she is
A very cute small brown dog with white markings and a short haircut
September 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Here you go!
A small brown dog who is excited for leftovers at thanksgiving
September 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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My Wordle bell curve just keeps getting bell curvier
An extremely bell-shaped distribution of guesses to win, with 4 having nearly 2x as many as 3 or 5
September 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I love this, from Bill Hogeland on TC Williams: williamhogeland.substack.com/p/unlocked-a...
"How a style of thinking mired in bemoaning the fallout from everyone else’s absolutism might process the confrontational moral defiance that marked, for example, elements of the American Revolution, Abolitionism, and the Civil Rights Movement, I’ll never know. It seems to me that we’ve at times benefited from drawing on our apocalyptic/millenarian streak when opposing government. That tendency also produces monsters. We aren’t always going to get perfectly clear which is which. I’m also pretty sure that my suggesting that a degree of incommensurable messiness defines the political, psychological, and spiritual reality of the American experience will never play for the readership targeted by Williams’s explainer, which is a simple machine, operating according to the laws of a political pseudo-physics, designed to clean up messes by organizing conflict into predictable symmetries with no reference to life itself. If that approach represents the last, best hope of the liberal order, then the liberal order really might be doomed."
September 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM