Michael Mock
@mockwriting.bsky.social
Weirdo, monster-lover, evil genius, and tragically unpublished writer. Probably busy reading or writing, but video games are good too. Would absolutely misuse my superpowers if I had any. Can't wait to be done with 2020.
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Michael Mock
@mockwriting.bsky.social
· May 15
Introducing the New Toyota Tsundere!
Okay, we know how this looks. Modern trucks are supposed to look tough, bold, and muscular -- and the Tsundere comes through on all accounts.
Okay, we know how this looks. Modern trucks are supposed to look tough, bold, and muscular -- and the Tsundere comes through on all accounts.
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For real. I just wanna shitpost hot takes about food/bikes/punk rock and look at doggo pics. But nooooooo
Fun fact, none of us actually want to do this. Look at my profile pic and handle. I actually want to talk about model trains, but since my country has become a fascist rogue state killing people on the street and threatening to invade our neighbors, I kinda have bigger problems right now.
Hot Off The Press.
January 24, 2026 at 10:41 PM
For real. I just wanna shitpost hot takes about food/bikes/punk rock and look at doggo pics. But nooooooo
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I have never needed this more than this morning I think.
Going to burrito myself in a blanket and watch this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSXZ...
Going to burrito myself in a blanket and watch this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSXZ...
Finally A Happy Ending | Reading Reddit Stories
YouTube video by Smosh Pit
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January 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I have never needed this more than this morning I think.
Going to burrito myself in a blanket and watch this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSXZ...
Going to burrito myself in a blanket and watch this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSXZ...
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A long long tyme ago
Ich kan yet remembir
How the music oft wolde make me smyle
And Ich knewe that yf luck payed me court
Thenne Ich koude make the folk cavort
And mayhap to be mirtheful for a while
Ich kan yet remembir
How the music oft wolde make me smyle
And Ich knewe that yf luck payed me court
Thenne Ich koude make the folk cavort
And mayhap to be mirtheful for a while
January 23, 2026 at 5:17 AM
A long long tyme ago
Ich kan yet remembir
How the music oft wolde make me smyle
And Ich knewe that yf luck payed me court
Thenne Ich koude make the folk cavort
And mayhap to be mirtheful for a while
Ich kan yet remembir
How the music oft wolde make me smyle
And Ich knewe that yf luck payed me court
Thenne Ich koude make the folk cavort
And mayhap to be mirtheful for a while
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I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
January 23, 2026 at 2:28 PM
I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
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ANNOUNCEMENT!
My next novel, THE SNAKESTONE GIRLS, will be published by Quercus in early 2027. It's a Jacobean tale of witchcraft, described by my agent as 'Fossils, feminism and found family.'
'Kit's lyrical prose is as sweet as a black cherry, but darkness chases every bite.'
Ask me anything!
My next novel, THE SNAKESTONE GIRLS, will be published by Quercus in early 2027. It's a Jacobean tale of witchcraft, described by my agent as 'Fossils, feminism and found family.'
'Kit's lyrical prose is as sweet as a black cherry, but darkness chases every bite.'
Ask me anything!
January 23, 2026 at 9:41 AM
ANNOUNCEMENT!
My next novel, THE SNAKESTONE GIRLS, will be published by Quercus in early 2027. It's a Jacobean tale of witchcraft, described by my agent as 'Fossils, feminism and found family.'
'Kit's lyrical prose is as sweet as a black cherry, but darkness chases every bite.'
Ask me anything!
My next novel, THE SNAKESTONE GIRLS, will be published by Quercus in early 2027. It's a Jacobean tale of witchcraft, described by my agent as 'Fossils, feminism and found family.'
'Kit's lyrical prose is as sweet as a black cherry, but darkness chases every bite.'
Ask me anything!
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You heard it here first, people. Agents, you know what kind of pitches I want
January 22, 2026 at 2:23 AM
You heard it here first, people. Agents, you know what kind of pitches I want
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.
This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.
Just the Browser - Just the Browser
Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.
justthebrowser.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.
This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.
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We have $1500 to go for this one. I would trust Jessica with my children*. Please donate what you can to help these people stay in their house during this ICE occupation.
*In fact unbeknownst to her she will assume custody of our kids should both parents pass. FYI
*In fact unbeknownst to her she will assume custody of our kids should both parents pass. FYI
January 22, 2026 at 4:30 PM
We have $1500 to go for this one. I would trust Jessica with my children*. Please donate what you can to help these people stay in their house during this ICE occupation.
*In fact unbeknownst to her she will assume custody of our kids should both parents pass. FYI
*In fact unbeknownst to her she will assume custody of our kids should both parents pass. FYI
Natural State: Angry Artist
Current State: Exhausted Eccentric
Current State: Exhausted Eccentric
What's your natural state?
1. angry artist
2. bewildered bastard
3. exhausted eccentric
4. caffeinated catastrophe
1. angry artist
2. bewildered bastard
3. exhausted eccentric
4. caffeinated catastrophe
January 22, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Natural State: Angry Artist
Current State: Exhausted Eccentric
Current State: Exhausted Eccentric
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
"He's long gone -- never mentioned again beyond the first acknowledgement of their existence."
"He's long gone -- never mentioned again beyond the first acknowledgement of their existence."
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
"I always say we're a lesbian bar with a little asterisk," Lisa said.
"I always say we're a lesbian bar with a little asterisk," Lisa said.
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
"However, Coleridge is concerned with something more concrete than abstruse speculations on the nature of love."
"However, Coleridge is concerned with something more concrete than abstruse speculations on the nature of love."
January 21, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
"He's long gone -- never mentioned again beyond the first acknowledgement of their existence."
"He's long gone -- never mentioned again beyond the first acknowledgement of their existence."
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If you have time to give a shit about Greenland today, please call your congress folks and loudly give a shit to spare a Minnesotan who is really otherwise occupied!
reps.fyi
reps.fyi
We are at a weird moment where I personally don’t have a lot of capacity to give a shit about Greenland at the moment, even though it’s one of the most heinous and immoral things that’s currently happening and normally I would be so fucking pissed.
January 21, 2026 at 6:31 PM
If you have time to give a shit about Greenland today, please call your congress folks and loudly give a shit to spare a Minnesotan who is really otherwise occupied!
reps.fyi
reps.fyi
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Relaxation tips:
- picture a quiet forest
- picture yourself wandering in the gloom
- picture a mossy forest horror creeping up behind you
- picture yourself becoming best friends with the mossy forest horror, scaring townsfolk together, and sharing tea & laughter
- picture a quiet forest
- picture yourself wandering in the gloom
- picture a mossy forest horror creeping up behind you
- picture yourself becoming best friends with the mossy forest horror, scaring townsfolk together, and sharing tea & laughter
December 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Relaxation tips:
- picture a quiet forest
- picture yourself wandering in the gloom
- picture a mossy forest horror creeping up behind you
- picture yourself becoming best friends with the mossy forest horror, scaring townsfolk together, and sharing tea & laughter
- picture a quiet forest
- picture yourself wandering in the gloom
- picture a mossy forest horror creeping up behind you
- picture yourself becoming best friends with the mossy forest horror, scaring townsfolk together, and sharing tea & laughter
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If you’re a sitting member of Congress and not reacting to this speech by calling for immediate impeachment, removal and conviction, why are we paying you?
January 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
If you’re a sitting member of Congress and not reacting to this speech by calling for immediate impeachment, removal and conviction, why are we paying you?
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Hey locals: Flock (the horrible dystopian nightmare surveillance cameras) is on the public safety committee agenda for tomorrow at three. I can't go but you should, please!! We have six known active Flock cameras already and they need to GTFO of our town!
cityfortbragg.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...
cityfortbragg.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...
January 21, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Hey locals: Flock (the horrible dystopian nightmare surveillance cameras) is on the public safety committee agenda for tomorrow at three. I can't go but you should, please!! We have six known active Flock cameras already and they need to GTFO of our town!
cityfortbragg.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...
cityfortbragg.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...
Do you ever wonder who in the Sam Hill Sam Hill was?
January 21, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Do you ever wonder who in the Sam Hill Sam Hill was?
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we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
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If we accept that U.S. control of Greenland is vital to national security, then we must understand that our greatest vulnerability on "The Border" is not south along the Rio Grande, but north along the Nares Strait narrowly separating Greenland from the Canadian menace on Ellesmere Island.
January 20, 2026 at 9:23 PM
If we accept that U.S. control of Greenland is vital to national security, then we must understand that our greatest vulnerability on "The Border" is not south along the Rio Grande, but north along the Nares Strait narrowly separating Greenland from the Canadian menace on Ellesmere Island.
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Hi we're abstaining because it sucks ass, hope that helps
AI sits in billions of phones. Refusing to engage won't stop it, just leaves vulnerable people without knowledge. Demand ownership and control, not abstinence.
Abstinence From AI Is Not the Answer
Opinion | Refusing to use AI won’t protect society. Responsible resistance must include gaining knowledge about it.
f.mtr.cool
January 20, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Hi we're abstaining because it sucks ass, hope that helps
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January 20, 2026 at 4:28 AM
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Our ✨January 2026 issue✨ is ready at last!
Subscribers will get it January 26th, and everyone else can read it February 2nd!
It's taken a long time to get the issue ready, but take a look at that 😍TOC😍! The wait was well worth it!
Subscribe through Patreon:
www.patreon.com/c/HavenSpecM...
Subscribers will get it January 26th, and everyone else can read it February 2nd!
It's taken a long time to get the issue ready, but take a look at that 😍TOC😍! The wait was well worth it!
Subscribe through Patreon:
www.patreon.com/c/HavenSpecM...
January 19, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Our ✨January 2026 issue✨ is ready at last!
Subscribers will get it January 26th, and everyone else can read it February 2nd!
It's taken a long time to get the issue ready, but take a look at that 😍TOC😍! The wait was well worth it!
Subscribe through Patreon:
www.patreon.com/c/HavenSpecM...
Subscribers will get it January 26th, and everyone else can read it February 2nd!
It's taken a long time to get the issue ready, but take a look at that 😍TOC😍! The wait was well worth it!
Subscribe through Patreon:
www.patreon.com/c/HavenSpecM...
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Seeing the same pearl-clutching and hand-wringing about the interruption of the ICE pastor’s service as we saw about ACT UP’s action in churches in the 1980s and about Sinead’s SNL moment.
Some folks are just intent on going 0-for-3 no matter how many chances they’re given. smdh
Some folks are just intent on going 0-for-3 no matter how many chances they’re given. smdh
January 20, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Seeing the same pearl-clutching and hand-wringing about the interruption of the ICE pastor’s service as we saw about ACT UP’s action in churches in the 1980s and about Sinead’s SNL moment.
Some folks are just intent on going 0-for-3 no matter how many chances they’re given. smdh
Some folks are just intent on going 0-for-3 no matter how many chances they’re given. smdh
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Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.
Insightful point here: Even if you take Trump seriously - he does not like the optics - they rested on an assumption that communities would welcome ICE as heroes, rather than showing the type of solidarity that Trump inherently cannot understand.
Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
January 19, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.
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Insightful point here: Even if you take Trump seriously - he does not like the optics - they rested on an assumption that communities would welcome ICE as heroes, rather than showing the type of solidarity that Trump inherently cannot understand.
Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn
So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and this is by design.
newrepublic.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Insightful point here: Even if you take Trump seriously - he does not like the optics - they rested on an assumption that communities would welcome ICE as heroes, rather than showing the type of solidarity that Trump inherently cannot understand.
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How big is Greenland?
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
January 20, 2026 at 1:32 AM
How big is Greenland?
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.