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Michael

@sautter.bsky.social

Hello ... สวัสดีครับ ... Saluton My interests are reading & writing fantasy, drinking oolong tea, writing with fountain pens on nice paper & notebooks. Forza Inter Philadelphia, PA area Links: https://sautter.carrd.co .

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 8h ago

Two Uncanny Magazine Stories Are World Fantasy Award Finalists! - Uncanny Magazine

Excellent award news, Space Unicorns! The World Fantasy Award finalists have been announced! “10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days” by Samantha Mills and “Unfinished Architectur...

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 10h ago

You gotta fight... for your right... to parrrrty! Remembering Adam Nathaniel Yauch aka 'MCA' bass player, filmmaker & founding member of the Beastie Boys who was born on this day in 1964. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ya... . #music | #MCA | #AdamYauch | #BeastieBoys | #OTD .

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · yesterday

It's not just me, Kobo.com is down. #books | #ebooks | #Kobo .

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · yesterday

Stop! Don't give him any ideas. #LooseParts | #cartoon | #cartoons .

Loose Parts cartoon: 'Of all of E|on M-sk's inventions, the giant wind chimes were the most hated.' A giant wind chime is shown hovering over a city skyline.

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Power Structure Explained by Pearls Before Swine. #cartoons | #PearlsBeforeSwine | #TRA | #politics .

Pearls Before Swine, Sunday cartoon.
A meeting of billionaires explains how they distract & divine the peasants.
It's simple, one demonstrates be yelling out the window, "Biological men should play in women's sports!"

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 2d ago

♬ ♪ ♩ I always feel like somebody's watchin' me And I have no privacy (Oh-oh-oh) I always feel like somebody's watchin' me Tell me, is it just a dream? ♫ ♪ ♬ Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, 30m 33s . #ALPR | #Flock | #police | #BigBrother | #tech .

Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 2d ago

Released #OTD in 1979 'Fear of Music' the 3rd studio album by Talking Heads. The 1st Heads album I owned. I bought it on vinyl at K-Mart IIRC. Don't judge me! I was 13 & I couldn't just hop in a big American V-8 & go to a record store anytime I wanted. #music | #TalkingHeads | #FearOfMusic .

Fear of Music - Wikipedia

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 2d ago

He played for Inter so he may be a bit biased, but still good to hear. Vieri: ‘Inter start as favourites for the Scudetto, the others further behind’. #Inter | #InterMilan | #SerieA | #Scudetto .

Vieri: ‘Inter start as favourites for the Scudetto, the others further behind’ - Football Italia

Christian Vieri has made it clear that he feels Inter are still the favourites to win the Serie A title following their league and cup double in 2025-26, and

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 3d ago

Are you feeling stuck? #health | #PublicHealth | #stuckiness .

Kat O’Brien@lavidagata.bsky.social · 3d ago

In the @inquirer.com, which I think is among the best newspapers in U.S., Dr. Atheendar S. Venkataramani writes: “We are overlooking the most critical element of public health for Americans: feeling stuck. …It’s more than just poverty, loneliness, or a lack of opportunity.” share.inquirer.com/ldmDUz

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 3d ago

New month, new stage decoration at Warehouse 21 in Second Life - Warehouses & Dragons. #SecondLife | #Warehouse21 | #music | #SL | #W21 .

A screen cap from Warehouse 21, it shows a fire-breathing dragon below the title 'Warehouses & Dragons.'

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 3d ago

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." — James Baldwin Happy Birthday, James. #JamesBaldwin | #OTD | #quotes

A close-up black-&-white photo of James Baldwin.

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 4d ago

Good. Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly. #facebook | #AI | #MarkZuckerberg | #Meta | $META .

Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly

Investors are not happy.

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 4d ago

Home

Listen live to WMMR 93.3 Philadelphia. Your home for rock music, the Preston & Steve Morning Show, concerts, contests, and Philly news.

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 5d ago

MMR - Means More Robert! WMMR Honors Late DJ Pierre Robert with 24-Hour Marathon. Pierre Robert Day All day Saturday, August 1, 2026 on WMMR 93.3 FM. #Philly | #PierreRobert | #radio | #WMMR | #PierreRobertDay .

WMMR Honors Late DJ Pierre Robert with 24-Hour Marathon

"WMMR gets it—radio's real power lives in the voices and personalities that shaped a city's culture."

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Mighty Wmmr: An Oral History of Philadelphia's Rock Radio Revolution

In the early 1980s, the scrappy radio station 93.3 WMMR was on the verge of a major takeover of the Philadelphia airwaves. Erin Riley, who had her finger on the pulse of new artists like Bon Jovi, who...

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 5d ago

July 31st, 1978 - Mets vs Phillies (ABC Sports, 2h 9m) . #MLB | #baseball | #Phillies | #Philly | #Mets .

July 31st, 1978 - Mets vs Phillies (ABC Sports)

YouTube video by ClassicPhilliesTV

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Is this old man still making music? /s

Rock and Roll Garage@rockandrollgarage.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hear the new Peter Gabriel song “One By One”

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Taking acetaminophen during pregnancy isn't linked to autism or ADHD, new research shows

A massive new study reveals that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy does not increase a child’s risk of autism or ADHD. By comparing siblings, researchers found previous concerns were likely driven...

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Dear Loser Donnie can't be voted out of office if there are no elections. Steve Bannon predicts Trump will issue national security declaration on elections in late August. www.mediamatters.org/election-den... . #elections | #DJT | #politics | #ElectionIntegrity | #ElectionInterference

Bannon’s comments are part of a larger plot to undermine the midterm elections by manufacturing claims of foreign interference in 2020, especially by China. This scheme, which appears to include high-ranking administration officials like outgoing acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte and a coalition of MAGA media figures, has three stages.

Meme: Man smiling & pointing at his head: "Can't be voted out of office if there are no elections."

First, a White House “task force” that includes right-wing media figure John Solomon released a trove of documents that Trump falsely portrayed as evidence of China’s interference in 2020. Although the declassified material actually bolstered claims that Russia had attempted to interfere in the election on Trump’s behalf — not China on Biden’s. Nonetheless, the MAGA operation soldiered forward.

Second, the White House and its MAGA media allies would use this purported evidence as a “predicate,” in Bannon’s words, to declare a national emergency on the grounds that U.S. election systems aren’t secure — this is the stage that Bannon now claims will happen in the last week of August. Bannon’s guest in that segment, right-wing pundit Wayne Allyn Root, has previously said he believed Trump would declare a national emergency in August or September. (Root also claims that he has personally texted with Trump about this part of the plan.)

The third step is for Trump to issue an executive order that could attempt to force voters to prove their citizenship or create a national voter ID law, both of which are aspects of the SAVE America Act, which has stalled in Congress. The scheme’s supporters have also suggested that the executive order could give Trump “king-like powers” to ban the use of voting machines or scale back access to early voting and mail-in or absentee ballots ahead of the midterms.

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Tim Cook exits Apple not with a bang, but with a $350 billion whimper. macdailynews.com/2026/07/31/t... . #Apple | #TimCook | $AAPL .

Tim Cook’s fifteen-year run as Apple’s CEO is closing not with a victory lap, but with a sharp reminder of the limits of his signature skill set. Fresh off a record June quarter, the company under his final guidance faces a memory and component crunch that management itself has called a “hundred-year flood,” one that will constrain iPhone, Mac, and iPad shipments in the current quarter. Apple investors responded by promptly erasing some $350 billion in market value. The stumble leaves Cook’s carefully cultivated image as a global supply chain genius looking frayed just a few weeks before he hands the keys to John Ternus.

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Abstract.
Numerous geometric earthworks have been found in southwestern Amazonia, evidence of a monument-building precolonial civilization1,2,3. This knowledge has contributed to the discussion about the deep history and the precolonial urbanism of Amazonia, its sociocultural contexts and its environmental legacy2,4,5,6,7,8. Estimates of the geographical extent and population size of the forest civilization have remained weak, because the detection of earthworks has been almost exclusively limited to deforested areas where vegetation does not completely hide the structures. Here we used canopy-penetrating LiDAR data over 4,430 km of flight to define the geographical distribution and quantity of earthworks in this region better. On the basis of both existing data and our LiDAR documentation, we show that this cultural area alone contains as many earthworks as previously estimated for the whole of Amazonia. We also propose that the total human population of the area in 100–300 ad was 1.25–3 million people. If similar results are found elsewhere in Amazonia, the total precolonial population density and its effect on the current Amazonian soil and forest structure, biodiversity and even some modelling of the global climate should be re-evaluated.

Fig. 2: Diverse earthwork types with their topographical contexts.
a, Piloto. b, D. Schaan. c, Fazenda Atlântica. d, amag34/Lid24_05_43a. e, Lid24_05_44a. f, Lid24_09_1b. Hillshading and colours are applied on digital terrain models; numbers in italics indicate relative elevation (metres above sea level) derived from those models.

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 6d ago

Strange Brew Mutant

ALT: Strange Brew Mutant

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Steven Schapansky 🇨🇦@legopolis.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 6d ago

The Italian BTS Incident: Never Say This to a Thai -The Ultimate Cultural Trigger Explained

YouTube video by Stuart Jay Raj

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 6d ago

Cartoon titled Godzilla attacking Thailand: Godzilla shows up at a beach and locals run around trying to sell things (sunglasses, handbags, etc.).

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 6d ago

What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 6d ago

This 4,000-year-old city defied the rules of history. A 4,000-year-old city became richer by sharing prosperity instead of concentrating it. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... . #science | #history | #IndusCiv | #AncientHistory | #Mohenjo-daro | #IndusCivilization .

A Lesson From the Indus Civilization.
Dr. Green said: "Mohenjo-daro is often cited as being famous for what it doesn't have, such as the absence of palaces for kings, gold-filled tombs, and no statues of rulers. But what it does have is so important.

"In the period when inequality appears to be lowest, productivity appears to rise. It challenges the idea that prosperity requires us to concentrate decision-making powers in the hands of the few.

"It is quite an interesting lesson for modern societies, as the Indus civilization demonstrates clearly that an urban society can be highly productive and inventive at scale, whilst also ensuring that resources and power are shared equitably. In fact, doing so may even have been essential to sustaining prosperity over the centuries."

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · 7d ago

Is Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey” Accurate? Bestselling Translator Weighs In | Amanpour and Company

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · last wk.

A dark period in the U.S. indeed. The video less than 5 minutes long.

Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · last wk.

Watch it till the end. This is moral clarity -- TMZ understands the moment, and what that Rand Paul kangaroo court was, better than any coverage I've seen so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zaO...

Michael @sautter.bsky.social · last wk.

Social D just dropped a new music vid. Social Distortion - "Crazy Dreamer" #music | #SocialDistortion | #SocialD .

Social Distortion - "Crazy Dreamer" (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Social Distortion

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Michael @sautter.bsky.social · last wk.

Capitalism provides the U.S. with the best #healthcare system in the world! A For-Profit Hospital Slashed Costs. Then a Patient Froze to Death on Its Roof. A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos. #health

A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.

A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.

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