Mighty Mike McGee

My Ears Are Going to Be Huge Thoughts on turning 50 this month.

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Death and the Art of Friendship Maintenance, or: Why I Am Hanging Out With People More Often A quick and severely unplanned update on loss and reconnection; reading books and people.

Death and the Art of Friendship Maintenance, or: Why I Am Hanging Out With People More Often
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Life goal

Opt out. Unsubscribe. Boycott. Grow your own food. Live in a tiny house or have several roommates. Buy locally. Use cash. Buy pre-owned. Borrow. Lend. Repair. Be ok with having less. Shut this shit show down. These are radical acts of resistance.

El Camino bike lanes in Mountain View are here - San José Spotlight Long known as a route that many bicyclists will go out of their way to avoid, El Camino Real is getting a major upgrade, with dedicated bike lanes being installed throughout the Mountain View, Los Alt...

Long known as a route that many bicyclists will go out of their way to avoid, El Camino Real is getting a major upgrade, with dedicated bike lanes being installed throughout the Mountain View, Los Altos and Palo Alto portions of the roadway.

✍️ Zoe Morgan, @mv-voice.com

I often see multiple "#1 Fan!" merchandise for the same team. All but one of them are liars.

Happy to be a nillionaire.

Ate some spicy chips
Probably should have worn gloves
Flaming Hot Peeto

#haiku

In (And On) My Head

Waiting for haircut
Fifty percent chance it’s good
Could be a mistake
Why take such risks with scissors?
Since I walked in beautiful

#poem #tanka

Is all poetry manipulation? Is writing about whether poetry is manipulation also manipulation?

@robbieqt.bsky.social, my friend (and literary manipulator) wrote a good thing: open.substack.com/pub/robbieqt...

it's soooo sick that i can earn a living making weird videos that'll never draw a wide audience. that's remarkable. someone on @neverpo.st recently said the future of internet creatives isn't about going viral, it's about having a few hundred ride or dies. it's SO LIBERATING to be at that point <3

Sonnet 1
29/30 #napowrimo
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Human Interference
28/30 #napowrimo
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The Poetry In Poverty
27/30 #napowrimo
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Still Figuring Out My Dedication To Life
26/30 #napowrimo
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listening to some stevie and i kind of think that you could bring a good chunk of americans back from the abyss if you could just get them to listen to “As” and force them to hear him sing/growl “did you know that you're loved by somebody?!?”

Three Different Randys
24/30 #napowrimo
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Hope you had a nice birthday!

A Sign From God
23/30 #napowrimo
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No Middle Ground
22/30 #napowrimo
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Thank you! It means a lot coming from you!

Time For Adventure (For My Cousin)
21/30 #napowrimo @mightymikemcgee

I really appreciated the word play, Stevie.

What You Could Call Me
20/30 #napowrimo
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Like Solitude, But Brutal
19/30 #napowrimo
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the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

Carrying campaign mailers straight from my mailbox to my recycling bin is a bummer. Couldn’t there be less of them? And the ones we do get list upcoming live speaking opportunities and candidate forums?

Cacophony
17/30 #napowrimo
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Closure (cinquain)
16/30 #napowrimo
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Love ends
elusive act
needed, never wanted
here’s your desire, I’ll take mine
strangers