Mike Sphar
@mikesphar.bsky.social
I have approximate knowledge of many things
If I was a governor I would be asking myself what Trump would do if Federal law required him to proclaim Obama Day
*rubs temples*
As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but...
The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.
As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but...
The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.
February 14, 2026 at 1:34 PM
If I was a governor I would be asking myself what Trump would do if Federal law required him to proclaim Obama Day
Interesting to me because I was a very picky eater when I was younger, and I mean well into my 20s.
Up to then my score would be 29.
Now 30ish years later my score is maybe 4-5 depending on how strongly we mean NOT. I could eat any of them if pressed, but 4 or 5 I strongly prefer not to.
Up to then my score would be 29.
Now 30ish years later my score is maybe 4-5 depending on how strongly we mean NOT. I could eat any of them if pressed, but 4 or 5 I strongly prefer not to.
February 13, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Interesting to me because I was a very picky eater when I was younger, and I mean well into my 20s.
Up to then my score would be 29.
Now 30ish years later my score is maybe 4-5 depending on how strongly we mean NOT. I could eat any of them if pressed, but 4 or 5 I strongly prefer not to.
Up to then my score would be 29.
Now 30ish years later my score is maybe 4-5 depending on how strongly we mean NOT. I could eat any of them if pressed, but 4 or 5 I strongly prefer not to.
I think a lot of people would be surprised to learn how many small towns are politically dominated by their wealthiest resident, who owns a car dealership or fast food franchise or meat processing plant or whatever. America has been sowing oligarchs for a very long time.
Basically my conviction is, nobody should have enough wealth to single-handedly disrupt democratic accountability in a town of 1,000 — much less somewhere larger. Every kid can understand this. Put it in a Schoolhouse Rock.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I think a lot of people would be surprised to learn how many small towns are politically dominated by their wealthiest resident, who owns a car dealership or fast food franchise or meat processing plant or whatever. America has been sowing oligarchs for a very long time.
No offense to any other comic ensemble in human history but COME ON.
This one show would populate at least two Mount Rushmore's worth of comedy legends. (Harold Ramis and Martin Short were in it too.)
This one show would populate at least two Mount Rushmore's worth of comedy legends. (Harold Ramis and Martin Short were in it too.)
January 31, 2026 at 12:37 AM
No offense to any other comic ensemble in human history but COME ON.
This one show would populate at least two Mount Rushmore's worth of comedy legends. (Harold Ramis and Martin Short were in it too.)
This one show would populate at least two Mount Rushmore's worth of comedy legends. (Harold Ramis and Martin Short were in it too.)
Without hesitation I will state that I also was the result of an unplanned teen pregnancy and my mother’s life (and father’s) (and later sibling’s) would have been better if she hadn’t had me. She will strenuously disagree of course because she is a loving mother but that doesn’t change the reality.
Mike Johnson: "I was the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy exactly one year before Roe. A lot of people tried to convince my very young parents that they should just take care of that problem. But I am eternally grateful that they allowed me the chance at life."
January 23, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Without hesitation I will state that I also was the result of an unplanned teen pregnancy and my mother’s life (and father’s) (and later sibling’s) would have been better if she hadn’t had me. She will strenuously disagree of course because she is a loving mother but that doesn’t change the reality.
Most prestigious board ever assembled at any time, any place
Take that, Council of Nicaea
Take that, Council of Nicaea
“It is my Great Honor to announce that THE BOARD OF PEACE has been formed.”
January 16, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Most prestigious board ever assembled at any time, any place
Take that, Council of Nicaea
Take that, Council of Nicaea
Begging anyone with any opinions on Venezuela to talk to Venezuelans before you share it
January 3, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Begging anyone with any opinions on Venezuela to talk to Venezuelans before you share it
Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, though most Vimes books work as examples of devotion to civic duty
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 2, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, though most Vimes books work as examples of devotion to civic duty
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Óingo Glóingo
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Tolkien Heads
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Durin Durin.
December 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Óingo Glóingo
Reposted by Mike Sphar
Minneapolis has FIFTY YEARS of inclusive laws protecting trans people, allowing them to self-identify, and ZERO cases of trans people attacking women in the bathroom. ZERO. Over FIFTY YEARS.
The narrative is that trans people will harm and harass people in the bathroom, but it almost always is actually like this case where the aggressor is the transphobe confronting the trans person. It's ridiculous. They want to kick "undesirables" out from public life entirely, if they could.
December 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Minneapolis has FIFTY YEARS of inclusive laws protecting trans people, allowing them to self-identify, and ZERO cases of trans people attacking women in the bathroom. ZERO. Over FIFTY YEARS.
Reposted by Mike Sphar
Reposted by Mike Sphar
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Coincidentally this was just shared with me today
December 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Coincidentally this was just shared with me today
Can't find good sources now but years ago I read that the majority of popular American xmas songs were written around the 40s/50s, which was also an era when novelty songs in general were at their peak popularity in the US
There's plenty not to like about British Xmas music, especially if you ever had to work in retail or pubs in December, but it's fundamentally *party* music. US Xmas music is schmaltz.
December 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Can't find good sources now but years ago I read that the majority of popular American xmas songs were written around the 40s/50s, which was also an era when novelty songs in general were at their peak popularity in the US
Literally a Black Mirror episode
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 6:26 PM
Literally a Black Mirror episode
It should go without saying to anyone who isn't a dumbshit that "No formula is superior in nutrition to breastmilk" does not mean "No formula provides sufficient nutrition"
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
It should go without saying to anyone who isn't a dumbshit that "No formula is superior in nutrition to breastmilk" does not mean "No formula provides sufficient nutrition"
It shone pale as bone
As I stood there alone
And I thought to myself how the moon
That night cast its light
On my heart's true delight
And the reef where her body was strewn
As I stood there alone
And I thought to myself how the moon
That night cast its light
On my heart's true delight
And the reef where her body was strewn
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It shone pale as bone
As I stood there alone
And I thought to myself how the moon
That night cast its light
On my heart's true delight
And the reef where her body was strewn
As I stood there alone
And I thought to myself how the moon
That night cast its light
On my heart's true delight
And the reef where her body was strewn
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 AM
It's been 8 years and this piece of shit still says HUSSEIN with a hard-R
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It's been 8 years and this piece of shit still says HUSSEIN with a hard-R
Email from Fathom Entertainment: "Experience Giordano’s Most Popular Masterpiece in Theatres"
Me, a Chicagoan: The...pizza?
Me, a Chicagoan: The...pizza?
December 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Email from Fathom Entertainment: "Experience Giordano’s Most Popular Masterpiece in Theatres"
Me, a Chicagoan: The...pizza?
Me, a Chicagoan: The...pizza?
Reposted by Mike Sphar
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
Years ago, still relatively early in my tech career, we had an incident and a last minute meeting was called. I was the second person to walk into the room, and the first person said "Mike, are you aware when you walk into the room it feels like everything is going to be okay?"
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Years ago, still relatively early in my tech career, we had an incident and a last minute meeting was called. I was the second person to walk into the room, and the first person said "Mike, are you aware when you walk into the room it feels like everything is going to be okay?"
Flock of Seagulls
Oingo Boingo
Kraftwerk
Great Big Sea
The Decemberists
Oingo Boingo
Kraftwerk
Great Big Sea
The Decemberists
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Flock of Seagulls
Oingo Boingo
Kraftwerk
Great Big Sea
The Decemberists
Oingo Boingo
Kraftwerk
Great Big Sea
The Decemberists
I met a Corgi today named Martin Short
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I met a Corgi today named Martin Short