Mike Oliveri

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Today is release day for @urbancik.bsky.social's URBANCIK: A MEMOIR, which, unlike most memoirs, contains chapters written by myself, @marysangiovanni.bsky.social, @nytebird45.bsky.social, @mikeoliveri.bsky.social and more. Never been a book quite like this. Paperback and eBook. amzn.to/4nzPLRf

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Most of my friends right now.

Man, I think I bought this on Kindle along time ago and forgot about it. Need to unfuck that. Easy to miss stuff in the TBR stack when it's not an actual, physical stack.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, but if a contractor parks his truck too close to your mailbox you ain't getting your mail until tomorrow.

I suspect the answer is yes, and they use it to fellate another gun.

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The website that perfectly encapsulates red, right-wing America:

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Watch creepy humanoid robot twitch and move with human-like skeleton Poland's Clone Robotics reveals Protoclone V1, a lifelike android with 200+ degrees of freedom, 1,000 Myofibers, and 500 sensors.

It's not like science fiction hasn't warned us about this for decades.

And don't worry, the videos aren't creepy at all. 😬

Peoria Ag Lab workers reflect on sudden dismissal from federal cuts Jeannie Klein-Gordon spent more than 11 years getting to a permanent position with the United States Department of Agriculture.

I know someone who works at the Peoria Ag Lab. They're scrambling to reorganize and absorb the workload from vacated positions, but it's next to impossible, especially if there's another round of layoffs.

This is the lab where penicillin was first mass produced. They do critical work for us all.

A partial screenshot from my online Verizon account with the greeting "Hi Asshole. Thank you for being a loyal customer for over 10 years."

I put this in as my preferred name on my Verizon account years ago, and it has never stopped being funny.

A tanker truck that was driving in front of me on the highway. It has an American flag zip-tied to the ladder on the back of the tank, and the flag is absolutely filthy from road dirt and grime.

I'm getting tired of performative patriotism like this. Dude's so eager to show off his 'Murica boner that he doesn't realize, given all of the road filth on that flag, he may as well just drag it through the mud.

I named our living room stereo Audio Murphy for streaming purposes, and not near enough people acknowledge how brilliant that is.

YouTube video by Ateo3 Demon knight - Cowboy

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I was really hoping this was shopped and satirical. Nope.

We really are living out Idiocracy.

Watching a jury orientation video produced by the state, and I love that one of the YouTube-recommended videos is "How to Get Out of Jury Duty (Legally)."

Delete your shopify account.

Man, those "exploding" paper straws. I put one in a hot chocolate and the shrapnel almost killed my mom.

What the fuck. This is the dumbest timeline.

Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.

Trump...has ZERO RESPECT FOR OUR MILITARY MEMBERS.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

UFC president White condemns fighter's Hitler comments Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White said comments made by featherweight fighter Bryce Mitchell about Adolf Hitler were "beyond disgusting".

In other words: "What he said was reprehensible, but we're still going to give him a platform to grow his audience so we both profit from it." Dana White continues to show what a huge piece of shit he is.

www.rte.ie/sport/mma/20...

Coming soon: Heavy Metal Magazine #1 The World's Greatest Illustrated Magazine of Sci-Fi Fantasy and Horror

I was a subscriber to Heavy Metal for a time, and have a handful of back issues that go waaaayyy back. I'm looking forward to seeing if this relaunch captures the spirit of the original mag.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hea...

Seems like there's a sudden flurry of activity on this app. Bring it! With X long dead and Threads being loaded with nonsense, I've been feeling out of touch for a while.

How am I just now seeing this? Hey, man! Still kicking the tires on this Bluesky thing, I guess.

Pulp Fiction is Officially an “Old Movie” Now - Common Reader Quentin Tarantino’s most identifiable feature as a writer-director is his characters’ talking, talking, talking, often followed by violence triggered not by the talking, really, but by accident, coinc...

Damn, son, why you gotta drop it on us like that?

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A Haunted Revenge with Gabino Iglesias : Up First from NPR By the time he was in middle school, writer Gabino Iglesias gravitated toward stories that unsettled him. Stories that scared him enough that he needed to turn on a light. Now a Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Iglesias writes this type of fiction himself. Today on The Sunday Story, Iglesias talks to host Ayesha Rascoe about his new novel, House of Bone and Rain, which centers on a group of friends determined to avenge a murder. Iglesias describes how he uses supernatural elements to make a story more powerful, the redeeming parts of toxic masculinity, and the beauty and perils of unwavering loyalty.

It was pretty cool to hear a great interview with @gabino.bsky.social on my feeds this morning. It's not like they talk to horror authors often.

www.npr.org/2024/09/01/1...

It'd be pretty awesome if folks could help Brian and Mary build out a great place for author events.

It's Father's Day, and I got my CAKE! Happy Father's Day (Creepshow)

Happy Father's Day!

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A bourbon Old Fashioned in the foreground, with my Lochby Field Journal in the background.

Happy National Bourbon Day, y'all. Cheers!

I've been visiting Cincinnati frequently for the last five years, and the locals keep telling me I HAVE to go to Skyline Chili. Two Illinois expats living there assure me that no, it's not worth my time.

we feature the traditional Japanese martial art of jodo, in which competing opponents wield a long wooden staff.We also take an in-depth look into the intric... Jodo①〜Japanese martial art 〜

I practice and teach a martial art called jodo, which not a lot of people are familiar with. This video is a pretty solid introduction. If you like samurai, anime, or martial arts, it might be worth a few minutes of your time.

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"Let's have kids," she said.

"It'll be nice," she said.

Tight shot of a CAO Bones cigar and the Stephen Mitchell translation of the Tao Te Ching atop my trusty Lochby field journal, alongside a rocks glass of New Riff's Balboa rye.

Summer planning in full effect. I have a lot of catching up to do.