Mike Gottschalk
@mikegottschalk.bsky.social
creative director | LA
designer | director | herder of sheep thousandplateau.com
designer | director | herder of sheep thousandplateau.com
![passage of text from “On the Inconvenience of Other People” by Lauren Berlant that reads,
“…to store the cases. If you can repeat yourself, you have a line on life. Ellroy spends a lot of time using free indirect discourse to capture the intensity of the affect of crime-related thinking, whether the thinker is a criminal, a victim, or a cop. Stoner is said to have learned that
Men killed women for capitulation. . . . Men did not kill women because they were systematically abused by the female gender. Women killed men because men fucked them over just that rigorously and persistently. ... He learned that men killed women out of boredom. ... Stoner learned that men killed women for lawn mowers and crockpots. ... Men killed women and got gooey over women in a heartbeat. ... Stoner learned that men killed women by proxy. ... Stoner learned that men killed women because the world ignored and condoned it. [19]
The violence of the book's initializing murder amplifies in series like this one. Like Ellroy, Stoner uses analogy and pattern to fill up the holes in any…
My Dark Places
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aesthetically, the best clothing labels are very plain, like this
January 5, 2026 at 1:01 AM
aesthetically, the best clothing labels are very plain, like this
Transgenerational trauma style
January 6, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Transgenerational trauma style
A deep element of the psyop was that troops blasted Van Halen’s “Running with the Devil,” creating a disabling cognitive feedback loop in that the obvious choice would have been “Panama.”
Reading up on the invasion of Panama in 1989, and came across this slightly surreal detail. US psy-op forces blasted the Vatican embassy with loud music to flush out Noriega. George HW Bush thought it was "irritating and petty" and told them to stop. www.airandspaceforces.com/PDF/Magazine...
January 3, 2026 at 8:33 PM
A deep element of the psyop was that troops blasted Van Halen’s “Running with the Devil,” creating a disabling cognitive feedback loop in that the obvious choice would have been “Panama.”
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An excerpt from #maritmacarthur's introduction to #CriticalAI's new series: an ongoing cluster of essay on 'GENERATIVE AI AND WRITING IN HIGHER EDUCATION.
CAI 3.2 also includes to essays from the series and host of complementary articles and reviews.
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
CAI 3.2 also includes to essays from the series and host of complementary articles and reviews.
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
December 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
An excerpt from #maritmacarthur's introduction to #CriticalAI's new series: an ongoing cluster of essay on 'GENERATIVE AI AND WRITING IN HIGHER EDUCATION.
CAI 3.2 also includes to essays from the series and host of complementary articles and reviews.
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
CAI 3.2 also includes to essays from the series and host of complementary articles and reviews.
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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Watching a streamer with my son and I think I may have discovered the perfect rules-light TTRPG stat system. 😅🇨🇦
December 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Watching a streamer with my son and I think I may have discovered the perfect rules-light TTRPG stat system. 😅🇨🇦
December 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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asylum furniture (cleanable white surfaces/chrome/fluorescents/ceiling mounted items)
December 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
asylum furniture (cleanable white surfaces/chrome/fluorescents/ceiling mounted items)
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Just discovered that the Levantine Arabic word for dice is “nerd”. Impossible to be a coincidence
December 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Just discovered that the Levantine Arabic word for dice is “nerd”. Impossible to be a coincidence
it’s laminated though
December 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
it’s laminated though
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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Still think about my Latin professor who 5 weeks into the semester realized that the class didn’t know English grammar well enough for him to be able to explain Latin, so the class suddenly became a simultaneous English grammar & Latin class
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Still think about my Latin professor who 5 weeks into the semester realized that the class didn’t know English grammar well enough for him to be able to explain Latin, so the class suddenly became a simultaneous English grammar & Latin class
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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NOW HEAR THIS: Every service member has an OBLIGATION to NOT carry out “Blatantly” Unlawful orders:
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
NOW HEAR THIS: Every service member has an OBLIGATION to NOT carry out “Blatantly” Unlawful orders:
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
1) COMMIT A CRIME OR WAR CRIME
2) VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION
3) VIOLATE TREATIES & INTL LAWS
4) VIOLATE THE UCMJ
5) ORDERS YOU TO ABUSE YOUR POSITION OR AUTHORITY OR SUPERIORS PERSONAL GAIN
