"Health officials are investigating how people got sick after drinking raw milk" • They drank raw milk • They got sick I didn't exactly need the bullets, I just wanted to be fancy

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Post an album you have listened to 100 times.

My institution purchased an AI tool for the campus. I got an email about setting up my account early before it rolls out more widely, and then a follow up email asking why I haven't set up my account yet. Asking if I need help. 1/5

The Issue 23 Table of Contents has just entered the chat. What piece of writing, based on its title alone, are you most excited to read?

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

. . . How could I *not* photograph this? . . . #EastCoastKin #photography #ClassicMono #monochrome #Montana

There are 2 doors into my office. There is a guy from Facilities on a ladder outside one of them, head up in the ceiling, all the lights off, using a drill. No one else is here. He didn't hear me announce myself. Now I have one job: do not startle him and make him fall off the ladder.

Antibiotic says to take with food, so I had 17 sweet pickles

A thread worth pulling on

I take a few medicines, including vilazodone, an SSRI. If I didn't take vilazodone, I wouldn't have to take my other medicines. Because I'd be dead.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr and his band of conspiracy theorists are finally acting out their absurd revenge on those who helped us fight COVID-19. This should really scare us. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

2 may 2026 📷 fuji x-t5 #photography #urbangaze #classicmono

Delaminated the middle of my toenail in tangential rectangles like a grotesque keratinous Mondrian painting

Had a black sesame and brown sugar latte this morning from a place on the riverside and it was delicious. I’ve still got another hour before Actor Child’s rehearsal is over, so it’s time to write another short story.

26 apr 2026 📷 fuji x-t5 #photography #blueskyArtShow #shadowplay #ECK

26 apr 2026 📷 fuji x-t5 #photography #urbangaze #ECK

Tomorrow is #BandcampFriday, and my birthday is in a couple of weeks so, yeah, help me get this out there! mikesmale.bandcamp.com #Music #MusicSky #MusicProduction #Piano #BassGuitar #ElectricBass

29 apr 2026 📷 fuji x-t5 #photography #urban

enduring

The morning after the last day of classes at the college campus where I work.

OSGOODE Osgoode Station Northbound “Stay back from yellow line”

Open.

Stanchion is great to work with and produces beautiful issues Go get 'em y'all!

i haven't written anything since i was hospitalized in november. i've been wondering if it all affected my brain: maybe i'm not capable of writing any more. it's been frustrating and depressing. in the last two days i've written 4000 words in a new short story. how i have missed this.

I Need This Sign For Everything

heron's shadow on the reedy river, 5:01pm 22 apr 2026

I have a thing for power infrastructure. And old brick walls. And it's #TagTuesday. #photography #abandoned #graffiti #urban

At last! DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL, my very own @chooseadventure.bsky.social book, is now available! Enter a spooky, abandoned 80s mall overtaken by a warlock from another dimension, if you dare! Perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons! Get it from your favorite bookshop!

#10minutesfromhome Reflections at Albert Square Manchester

I’m on a short course of steroids so for five days I’m giving it 800% (doing 80 things 10% of the way)

Important public health notice for people on blood thinners, like me: Don’t brush your teeth ten seconds after eating a cherry starburst, unless you’d like to panic and then feel like an abject dumbass

still life waiting for the school concert to start, 16 apr 2026 📷 fuji x-t5, fujinon xf50mm #photography #ECK #stilllife

As a writer, I'm tired of settling for a pittance. I'm beyond exhausted at being told "this is the best you can get." I'm done with the world's richest people and companies stealing my stories and acting as if theft isn't theft when they do it. 2/

We must change how writers and artists are treated by society. We must stop the exploitation and theft of not only our creations but also our very lives by those with power and money. The Anthropic settlement was merely one battle. There will be many more to come. 3/

Framed - Working Landscape - Lake District Observations 📷Pentax 17 🎞️Ilford FP4 DD-X #believeinfilm #filmphotography #FP4Party #fridayfavourites

it tastes like bees’ daydreams of cumulus clouds

So I was supposed to dip the bread in the syrup instead of painting the syrup, palette-knife style, onto the bread. 1) syrup too thick 2) I have made toffee bread instead of the simplified kouign-amann

I may have been TOO generous with the syrup

Flipping a piece of bread soaked in honey and sugar syrup that’s been baking on a pan for 15 minutes is, uh, harder than the recipe indicates

Making a variation of kouign-amann, and hopefully it works out. It smells incredible. There’s a syrup of honey, brown sugar, vanilla, and butter spread on thick bread. Toasting in the oven as I type.

Shadows and faces on the way back from the supermarket just now.

A new day, and a #new addition to the London skyline. #sunrise #BlueSkyArtShow #ClassicMono

We're at 47% funded for our @starsandsabers.bsky.social Oz anthology, Omniboz: Tales from the Land of Oz! Help us reach our goal! www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/... #books #fantasy #horror #booksky

Atlas was so big and brave going to the vet today for his checkup and he wants you to know if he can face his fears so can you

most people with names similar to mine died around 1840, so I don’t get other people’s email :-/

Struck by this, which lays out the problem-solution-problem cycle of AI. Outsource feedback to the chatbot and the students will write to "please" the chatbot and then you have that problem to deal with (which could be solved by giving feedback yourself if you had time which is the real problem)

Harper’s Letter signatory labeler continues its unbroken streak identifying losers you can safely ignore forever