Michael Fitch

@fitchgames.bsky.social

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Game developer, father, cultural critic. Available for work and consultation.

A pile of rings, bracelets, earrings, and necklaces next to a watch.
Blue and yellow painted toenails on a pair of feet on a white background
Four “news” stories with almost identical headlines, all about pop music from 60 years ago.
A map of the USA almost covered in circles that represent protests against Trump in his second term.
A blonde white boy of about 4 years old with bangs and a bowl cut in a navy blue jacket-and-shorts outfit on the lawn in front of a driveway with a yellow 1966 Mustang.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it” - Upton Sinclair with a picture of the artist as a young man
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it - Upton Sinclair with picture of author as a young man
Image of a section of the linked article reading: I wanted to see what would happen if I ignored the official stats and simply calculated the cost of existing. I built a Basic Needs budget for a family of four (two earners, two kids). No vacations, no Netflix, no luxury. Just the “Participation Tickets” required to hold a job and raise kids in 2024. Using conservative, national-average data: Childcare: $32,773 Housing: $23,267 Food: $14,717 Transportation: $14,828 Healthcare: $10,567 Other essentials: $21,857 Required net income: $118,009 Add federal, state, and FICA taxes of roughly $18,500, and you arrive at a required gross income of $136,500. This is Orshansky’s “too little” threshold, updated honestly. This is the floor. Link: https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie
Unabomber as rendered by sketch artist - there's room for headphones under there.
Google search results show no matches for term "ny ice protest"
Quotation from June Jordan's "Poem About My Rights" that reads: I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own And I can't tell you who the hell set things up like this but I can tell you that from now on my resistance my simple and daily and nightly self-determination may very well cost you your life