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Mike Fragassi

@refrag.bsky.social

He/him Chicagoan, stroke survivor, dev, moving further to the Left as I get older & more pissed off. I probably repost too damn much. And make too many grammatical errors & tpyos. Also @refrag@mastodon.cloud, but that's dormant.

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@TMZ 

EXCLUSIVE: Congressman Tim Burchett
says he wouldn't know Bad Bunny if the rapper walked up to him and asked to borrow his cell phone ... and the only bad bunny he knows is his pet rabbit, who had sex on Christmas morning in front of his nephew.

@TMZ EXCLUSIVE: Congressman Tim Burchett says he wouldn't know Bad Bunny if the rapper walked up to him and asked to borrow his cell phone ... and the only bad bunny he knows is his pet rabbit, who had sex on Christmas morning in front of his nephew.

LLMs could never

08.02.2026 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

wrt to some of the replies to this post, part of why the media has β€œmoved on” is because it has become extraordinarily difficult to document ICE activity on the ground, outside of them arresting citizens.

08.02.2026 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 238    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

"FanDuel & Spotify Pre-Party"
<takes long drag of cigarette>

08.02.2026 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It feels like we are on a path where in a few years, "this product was made without any use of AI," will command a premium. Sort of like high end, hand-made products vs. cheap, mass-manufactured products now.

08.02.2026 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Youth Curling Leagues don't seem to be a thing either

08.02.2026 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's like Eggar from Men in Black. An alien wearing a decaying human skin suit with only a slightly different diet

08.02.2026 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Try YT

08.02.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The movie Tampopo literally starts out as though it was a Spaghetti Western. A Ramen Western, if you will

08.02.2026 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The same reasons the Regime posts memes that repulse anyone who's normal. They're completely locked in their epistemic bubble & incapable of seeing how much they're twisted

08.02.2026 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As surprisingly often with Fox News: why did they choose a picture that makes her look badass lol? The line is already hard af and then they add the red text and the ruthless photo. It's not the way I would do propaganda

08.02.2026 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie is smiling and looking at the camera . Alt: Dwight from The Office says Thank you with a look that to me at least implies sincere appreciation
08.02.2026 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Pat Boone of Candyman

08.02.2026 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OK *someone* must have made a wire-fu Hong Kong action flick about cooks instead of martial artists

Crouching Char Siu, Hidden Dim Sum, something like that

08.02.2026 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

The problem with pointing this out to a Fox News audience is while some proportion of viewers will go "huh, yeah this is hypocritical" plenty will embrace it, citing Wilhoit's Law with malice & glee

08.02.2026 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Biggest Star of the Super Bowl Isn’t an Athleteβ€”or Bad Bunny We’ve seen this game before, and it doesn’t end well for anyone.

happy Super Bowl Sunday! for all you commercials sickos, I make the case that this game's ad blitz will be to A.I. what 2022's was to crypto and 2000's was to the dot-com boomβ€”with all attendant implications for our broader economy and the celebrity-promotion complex: slate.com/technology/2...

08.02.2026 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 157    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 14

That's just not that common of a phrase, even on menus

08.02.2026 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black.
A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black.
A HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY cannot say Black.

08.02.2026 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 871    πŸ” 380    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 14

you can take the Four Freedoms from my New Deal post office over my dead body motherfuckers

08.02.2026 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So I was suspended on Bluesky for three days because of my post containing Marvel Fan Art. Because according to Bluesky was promoting violence against a group. That group was ICE.

Cool stuff.

08.02.2026 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Perfect use of this meme format

08.02.2026 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is all very cool indeed, but I want to celebrate the idea that attempts to scrub history books clean can fail, for all the extremely relevant reasons

08.02.2026 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from Tumblr

User hatingongodot:

β€œIn 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, β€œDo not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.β€œ

LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy

User Shitacademicswrite:

i thought maybe this was fake, but there’s even a citation!

Taejong Sillok Book 7. 5th year of King Taejong’s Reign (1404), February 8.

Screenshot from Tumblr User hatingongodot: β€œIn 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, β€œDo not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.β€œ LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy User Shitacademicswrite: i thought maybe this was fake, but there’s even a citation! Taejong Sillok Book 7. 5th year of King Taejong’s Reign (1404), February 8.

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

08.02.2026 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1617    πŸ” 655    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 54

We would be in a better place if everyone said "Oh come on!" about 50 years ago to all of this nonsense.

08.02.2026 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

08.02.2026 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6389    πŸ” 3353    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 424

ahem

www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

07.02.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 194    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I just opened my copy of the Chicago Reader coffee table book that arrived yesterday. I can see that my big problem reading it is going to be constantly putting it down to search the web for online copies of stories that are shown only in photographs.

08.02.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Though Logan Arcade used to advertise the day as a TV free safe space for unsporty nerds

08.02.2026 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mostly. You have to remember not to go to a bar; you either have to go off social media, or mute a ton of words (and you'll still see tons of "oh my God what a play" vagueposts, which will be annoying)

08.02.2026 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

- and they're not inherently contradictory because there's a line between "turning your back" and "being a dick"

08.02.2026 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In this house we believe:

- The NFL is a corrupt, evil institution of billionaires

- There is nothing more punk rock than turning your back on things that you feel pressure to join in just because everyone else is

- Let other people enjoy things

- These last 2 are not inherently contradictory

08.02.2026 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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