Mike Trost

Awkward GIF Alt: Ben Wyatt from Parks and Rec anxiously clapping

celebrating NYC election results while watching Minneapolis's come in

okay for this next joke, you have to imagine that I'm Inspector Gadget doing hack comedy in the 90s:

"I just drove in from Albuquerque and boy are my arms tires"

ok thank you.

Weird coincidence, but my improv duo with @erikostrom.bsky.social is also performing at @improvagogo.bsky.social this Sunday!

do you ever unlike a post after you look at who else liked it and realize you dont want to be associated with all that?

Just saw Black Swan (2009) again, this time in IMAX. I love this movie so goddamn much and I'm going to be looking for any opportunity to bring it up for probably next week.

FUCK. JACOB. FREY.

WHY ARE THERE PAYWALLS ON JOB BOARDS JUST FUCKING HIRE ME OR I WILL LITERALLY BLOW UP THE SUN

I am incredibly honored to be the DFL endorsed candidate for Minneapolis Mayor. This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us. fatehformayor.com/donate

GO HOME JACOB, GO HOME!!!!!

queerness, as a liberatory politics and not just another vague personal label, must involve thinking, speaking, and acting against ICE, against the police, against the carceral + imperial state and its networks across the globe, against the violence of borders. happy pride!

Happy Pride! Can't wait to find out what fresh hell is in store for us!

Just saw Friendship (2025). It is a horror movie masquerading as a comedy. It's very funny and nothing scary happens, and yet I watched most of it through my fingers. Highly recommend to people who can tolerate that sort of thing.

If there are any mixologists out there looking for free bad ideas, a shot of Tullamore DEW followed soon after by a single The Good Crisp original flavored chip tastes *exactly* the same way a 90s smoker-friendly McDonald's would smell

Ralph Fiennes, simultaneously dressed like a cardinal and a referee and holding an open bible: "Ain't no rule says a dog can't be da Pope!"

I, too, am endorsing Omar Fateh for Mayor of Minneapolis!

my current retirement plan is to become accustomed to austerity

both of you will be out of office soon enough

gotta pretend like it's 10:30 and go to bed now even though I'm not tired at all, which I love because I'm gay and nonbinary and so is daylight savings time, my favorite, gayest non-hour of the year

okay, tomorrow, let's all talk about how woke and gay daylight savings time is, and maybe we'll get an EO dismantling it finally

You can't spell Demi Moore without DEI

a green garbage can with a large orange sticker that says "HA"

when you feel like trash but you see a funny meme

people say I'm jealous but my kink is CreditKarma

Shop local. Buy nothing. Papa John's.

shut the fuck up

Michelangelo said he found the angel in the marble, so I think he's probably already there. Maybe it's his middle name and I convince him it suits him better.

if I started dating a guy named David, and if he happened to work at the Jell-O factory, our couple name could be Michael and Jell-O's David

Super Bowl by Mary Ruefle Who won? I said. The game’s tomorrow, he said. And I became the snail I always was, crossing the field in my helmet. But I’d given it my all, while the plane arced on its way to a landing, when I overheard the woman behind us say I was gathering wildflowers to make a wreath to lay on my mother’s grave when my son fell off a mountain in Italy and I felt such joy over the unknown outcome of her words I was not ashamed, for I can feign interest in the world, just as she in that great green meadow must have.

of course my favorite poem about the Super Bowl is actually about mortality and the absurdity of being alive

I'm having a moray eel dilemma (unrelated)

Anyways, the influence of social media over the human psyche is a morale conundrum

I have twice today seen people whomst I very much respect write the phrase "boost moral" instead of "boost morale" and I'm telling you, if it has happened a third time before I had the chance to fact check the correct spelling I would have adopted it into my vernacular, no question.