Michael Hayes
@tragedyman.bsky.social
I (still) don't have a Wikipedia entry. I like movies, mashups, science, sci-fi, zombies, comics, history, assorted nerdery, & the Oxford comma. Neutral Good. I would prefer not to pay as much attention to current events, but we live in interesting times.
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Compare to British outlets bsky.app/profile/carl...
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Compare to British outlets bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Sex, notoriously, doesn't sell
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Sex, notoriously, doesn't sell
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Criminal: Hillary’s recipe emails
Good: Epstein emails proving at a minimum Trump knew about the pedophilia and didn’t care and at a maximum was a willing participant.
Good: Epstein emails proving at a minimum Trump knew about the pedophilia and didn’t care and at a maximum was a willing participant.
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Criminal: Hillary’s recipe emails
Good: Epstein emails proving at a minimum Trump knew about the pedophilia and didn’t care and at a maximum was a willing participant.
Good: Epstein emails proving at a minimum Trump knew about the pedophilia and didn’t care and at a maximum was a willing participant.
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Mandatory comparison. Note, it was a choice to not include a four column wide photo of Trump looking like shit in his only press appearance yesterday when he refused to answer questions about Epstein.
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Mandatory comparison. Note, it was a choice to not include a four column wide photo of Trump looking like shit in his only press appearance yesterday when he refused to answer questions about Epstein.
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.
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Stay for the alt text.
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Stay for the alt text.
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The worst game of MadLibs ever...
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The worst game of MadLibs ever...
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fantastic now let them know it needs to be fucking $30
69% of Americans support raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hr, according to YouGov.
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
fantastic now let them know it needs to be fucking $30
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They have a hard time liscensing swan lake?
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
They have a hard time liscensing swan lake?
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Slow news day. Hard to know what’s the lede.
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Slow news day. Hard to know what’s the lede.
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This part is crazy... because he truly lacks any form of empathy and self awareness
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This part is crazy... because he truly lacks any form of empathy and self awareness
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It's always weird to hear Motörhead's "Ace of Spades" on a restaurant's Muzak, but when it happens I am reminded of @alexwinter.com's TV show The Idiot Box. IIRC, in one skit he played a rock & roll accountant, and at the end he trashes his cubicle while this song plays.
November 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
It's always weird to hear Motörhead's "Ace of Spades" on a restaurant's Muzak, but when it happens I am reminded of @alexwinter.com's TV show The Idiot Box. IIRC, in one skit he played a rock & roll accountant, and at the end he trashes his cubicle while this song plays.
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Or the encucumbrance, if the Footlongbow comes with pickles.
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Or the encucumbrance, if the Footlongbow comes with pickles.
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Yeah, yeah, everybody wants their character equipped with a Footlongbow but nobody thinks about the encumbrance.
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Yeah, yeah, everybody wants their character equipped with a Footlongbow but nobody thinks about the encumbrance.
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If fired from a Footlongbow, the range would be 150/600 feet. In a hit, the target and each creature within 5 feet would gain +1 flavor.
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If fired from a Footlongbow, the range would be 150/600 feet. In a hit, the target and each creature within 5 feet would gain +1 flavor.
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
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Abbott's joke about putting a tariff on people makes sense if you read it in the context of hoping to be able to own people again.
They’ve all gone mad.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”
November 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Abbott's joke about putting a tariff on people makes sense if you read it in the context of hoping to be able to own people again.
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“If someone strays into a pepper ball, then that’s on them. Don’t protest.”
October 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“If someone strays into a pepper ball, then that’s on them. Don’t protest.”
Just remembered another use of the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
youtube.com/shorts/sl9a7...
youtube.com/shorts/sl9a7...
October 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Just remembered another use of the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
youtube.com/shorts/sl9a7...
youtube.com/shorts/sl9a7...
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12% of Americans will lose access to food resources when SNAP benefits expire in 8 days
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
12% of Americans will lose access to food resources when SNAP benefits expire in 8 days
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I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?
Beat me to it.
October 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Beat me to it.
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What's your favorite use of pre-existing classical music in a movie not directed by Stanley Kubrick?
Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer.
Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien
Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer.
Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien
October 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
What's your favorite use of pre-existing classical music in a movie not directed by Stanley Kubrick?
Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer.
Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien
Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer.
Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien