Mike Vachow
@mikevachow.bsky.social
Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? STL
Hey, @raychili2.bsky.social, did you see this news? The news broke while I was in Detroit and Traverse City for work last week. It was the one conversation everywhere I went in TC.
Report: Interlochen sex abuse spans 70 years, extends past Jeffrey Epstein - Bridge Michigan
The 97-page report detailed 70 instances of abuse by 47 faculty and staff members.
bridgemi.com
A is the correct answer as it includes the Door (WI) and Leelanau (MI) peninsulas, two of the most beautiful places in the nation. Unfortunately, you can't afford to live in either now that the new money climate and COVID refugees have joined the old money already there.
Brilliant Maps@brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 7h agoFor the next 40 years you can only live, work and travel within one region of the Midwest. Which one do you pick? More about the Midwest: brilliantmaps.com/us-midwest/
AI sucks the intellectual rigor out of every process. Check the slop for confabulations and sophistry? National security, high stakes legal matters, medical diagnoses, bombing target? Nah, f*ck it. It's like leaving your teenagers home alone for the weekend with a sports car in the garage.
Found this at a great little toy store in Petoskey, MI, and couldn’t pass it up. Grandkids are going to love it. Daughter and SIL are going to want to kill it with a hammer.
Hey, NOLA weirdos! This Bunny Matthews book is going to be great. Get you a copy!
Preorder: Bunny Matthews: His Life, Art, and Obsessions
Coming Soon: September 18, 2026 Upon checkout, please select either shipping, or pickup in store options. Preorder Pickup: You may pick up your copy at the Shop at the Collection between September 18 ...
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One of the greatest pieces of luck I’ve ever had: we spent the entire 90s in New Orleans, the nation’s ur music city, a city that’s never had a bad music decade. The 90s were outstanding. We dove into the local live scene, listened exclusively to WWOZ and were almost oblivious to this list.
assbutt@nasboat.org · 2d agoman this one is SO much worse lol. christ on a cracker.
According to my research (stopping by the cracker aisle for 3 months), this is an AI hoax, and I am bitter beyond belief.
There has never been a better time to kill your television.
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
Oh, you wanna know about St. Louis? Read these books: The Veiled Prophet: Devin Thomas O’Shea Mapping Decline: Colin Gordon Bitter Brew: Wm. Knoeldelseder
Don’t like the self-serve coffee set up bc I, a black coffee guy, sometimes have to wait for the “with room” people who enter a trance as they slowly stir, add a lil more cream, stir, sort thru Splenda packets, rip, stir…
I feel like these things breed in the cupboard as each trendy new mug hits the scene, faster than I can send them to Goodwill. When you wonder, what happened to my Stanley? It’s me. Oh, can’t go in the dishwasher? Nope.
Brutalist landing on the lake side of a highway underpass between downtown Petoskey and the marina parkland, a really great piece of landscape architecture.
Petoskey marina as viewed from Hotel Perry veranda at sunset. A sleek, 180 foot, Bond villain yacht is tied up in the distance.
Chicagoans, you’d have to be out of your mind to skip this. O’Shea’s book is fantastic, and he and Makkai are so wicked sharp and funny, they might just warp the time-space continuum.
Haymarket Books@haymarketbooks.org · 6d agoCHICAGO! The Veiled Prophet Join @devintoshea.bsky.social and @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social as they discuss the secret society that has controlled St. Louis for over a century. Live from Haymarket House and streaming on Youtube. Aug. 19 at 6:30 PM CT RSVP:
A searing cry. Must read.
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 6d ago"Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, the US and more are merging into a mega-war run by robots. They used to call these World Wars. They used to call people on the phone. The most common call I get today is from someone named 'Scam Likely.'" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
This news broke in the Detroit papers yesterday when I was there for work. I’m in Traverse City today, and it’s the one conversation.
Report: Interlochen sex abuse spans 70 years, extends past Jeffrey Epstein - Bridge Michigan
The 97-page report detailed 70 instances of abuse by 47 faculty and staff members.
bridgemi.com
Just follow the light into the woods. Go ahead. It wants to show you something.
Big Wonderful Wyoming@wydot.bsky.social · last wk.Wilson, 7/28/2026, 5:33:28 AM
I left the classroom almost 20 yrs ago, but I still have the same late summer anxiety nightmare: I’m a new teacher, don’t know where my classroom is, nor what grade levels I’m teaching, much less a lesson plan.
As it turns out, I’m in Detroit for work right now, had planned to go to this game, decided against last minute bc of rain/early start tmrw, then regretted it, then unregretted as I watched Caldero struggle, then Tigers came back, then… I am the squirrel.
Casey Drottar@caseydrottar.bsky.social · last wk.Detroit Squirrel update: The Tigers' entire grounds crew went out on the field to try to get that thing out of there and all that's missing is the Benny Hill theme
Driver of this tractor trailer: Willa Cather.
Big Wonderful Wyoming@wydot.bsky.social · last wk.Lone Tree, 7/27/2026, 7:09:27 PM
Terminal 1 Lambert Field 5:00A observations. Dudes with big draft beers—god bless them, kid on his 2nd bag of jerky, guy in a black tee covered with cat hair, woman delivering 15 minute Face Time harangue in Polish.
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Error Crater - big oops@errorcrater.bsky.social · 2w agopost a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Attended an outdoor wedding at 3:00 yesterday, Laumeier Sculpture Park, 91f and 70% humidity.
I don’t live in Michigan, but I direct an assn there, travel there >8X/yr. I read the Detroit News daily, follow online news of assn members, state house, policy institutes. Upshot, all the ads on my TV streaming services are from MI. It’s all surveillance these days.
We’re a few days from going out of town, so meals are getting pretty weird in our house.
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery -- go!
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2w agoOne unleashes the *hounds* of Hell, not the gates of Hell, you illiterate moron.
I don’t know. I did a spit take when Trump gave Davy Crockett a shout out in his Independence Day speech, but then I was like, that’s just a failure of imagination. If you had to guess whom Trump would name if asked to list famous Americans, Davy Crockett would be right there with Henry Ford.
Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 2w agoWe are retiring bingo cards. Nothing in on anyone’s bingo card. They are useless bingo cards and going into the trash. thank you.
