Mika Cooper

@mikacooper.bsky.social

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Once an English professor, now a layabout, laying stuff about.

Well-known antique black & white photo of a bearded Gloucester fisherman in foul weather gear smoking a pipe.
Image of Queen Bee award for the NYT Spelling Bee game.
The “Queen Bee” award for finding all possible words in the NYT Spelling Bee game.
New York Times Headline: "Artemis II Astronauts Travel Farthest From Earth Than Ever Before"
Amorphous pink & purple blob surrounded by the words "Specially commissioned by Henry Rosovsky in honor of Jeffrey Epstein's 50th Barfday."
A drawing indicating that I got Queen Bee in the New York Times Spelling Bee game.
The image shows a still-life painting by Filippo Abbiati that resembles in many details the painting by Vaillant.
Screenshot of an obviously phony email, purporting to derive from "Mackenzie Scott Tuttle" (with a small "k" in "Mackenzie"), informing me that's she's giving me $1.5 million dollars.
Text from The Great Gatsby: "The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house. I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall. Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor."
These billionaires, Duran argued, “are fully in control of Trump’s MAGA party,” but their ambitions go beyond that. “The Republican Party is simply a host organism for the parasite of tech fascism,” Duran wrote, but “it’s not just the Republican Party that’s lost its soul. The tech authoritarians are also moving to co-opt leaders in the Democratic Party.” Duran pointed to the newly elected Democratic senators Elissa Slotkin and Ruben Gallego, who, Duran wrote, were elected with massive help from the Fairshake PAC, which was funded by Big Crypto to the tune of nearly $200 million in 2024. This is the same PAC that took out Sherrod Brown and Katie Porter. The top strategists of Fairshake are Democrats, not Republicans. Now that Big Crypto has helped take control of the Republican Party, it is making a play to co-opt the Democratic Party. It’s crucial to realize that any Democrat who supports crypto has taken the side of the tech billionaires.
To justify this decision, the panel had to address the fact that the state failed to produce any evidence of harm caused by transgender students using bathrooms or changing rooms. Rather than confront this gap, the court sidestepped the issue by creating what effectively amounts to a transgender injury exception. It ruled that “common experience” is enough to assume harm to cisgender students, stating: “SAGA overlooks that this is an unusual situation in which the State’s privacy justification is easily corroborated by common experience… That some students in a state of partial undress may experience ‘embarrassment, shame, and psychological injury’ in the presence of students of a different sex is neither novel nor implausible.” In doing so, the court required no actual evidence of harm to justify the ban under heightened scrutiny.
A page from Google Maps shows search results for "Gulf of America" & shows the name of the Gulf of Mexico to be "Gulf of America."
A photo of two facing pages from a 1928 edition of Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Esq." showing that Sterne uses multiple em dashes in each paragraph.
Search results for #democrat: “We've hidden these results. Results for the term you searched for may contain sensitive content.”
Screencap showing that various people have added me to lists with names like "Block Furry Posts," "Porn Bots," "NSFW/Pro-Ship," & "Zionist Allies."
A screenshot of the Merriam-Webster.com entry for "allude," which says: "'allude,' verb. . . . to make indirect reference . . . _broadly_ refer."
Text: Young people faced with high housing costs, dwindling job prospects, & inflation . . . seize on webinars & YouTube videos by people claiming you can hustle . . . your way to success . . . . Once drawn in . . . They consume a constant drone of conservative content that promotes regressive gender roles, American isolationism, & toxic individualism. Trump’s messaging works perfectly in this space.
Image of text: “But, hey, I got bullied too!” “How?” “By kids calling me a bully all the time & telling me I was abusive. Hey, that hurt my feelings!” . . . .  “What happened to the good old days when you could just nonstop fuck with somebody without them claiming to be a victim?” Peacemaker S1E5,11:02
Sitting in an executive chair & speaking into a handheld microphone is a man with little scalp hair, scruffy beard growth, & square-framed glasses, who looks a bit like a nerdy Jason Statham.