Mike Holm

@mike-holm

Writer, reader, coder, slacker. Vegan. Sports card enthusiast. Check out my awesome web site PYTChecklists.com

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Mike Holm@mike-holm· Jul 16

Or maybe because of?

Image of the Wall Street Bull statue with the headline "SCHD ETF is beating VOO and QQQ this year despite limited AI exposure."

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Jul 12

Ziggy Stardust doing what Ziggy Stardust does. #caturday

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Jul 11

I don't want to tell USPS how to do their job, but I'll suggest that going direct from Chicago to Seattle would shave 5 or 6 days off the delivery time.

Post Office package tracking showing that a package went from Chicago to Providence Rhode Island to Springfield Massachusetts and then to Seattle Washington.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Jun 13

It's totally open. Has been for months.

Map of the Gulf of Mexico with the title Gulf of Strait of Hormuz

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Jun 6

"Should we wake him?" "Why, do you have something for him to sign?" "No." "Then why bother?" "Good point."

Group of white men staring behind old white man sleeping and ignoring the fact that the guy they're there to see is sleeping through the meeting.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· May 16

Ziggy Stardust has been with us for a week and has made herself at home. #caturday

Tortie cat lounging on a chair looking directly at the camera

Mike Holm@mike-holm· May 9

Brought home our new cat today. She’s parked under the bed for now. #Caturday

Cat hiding under the bed, wedged between a storage tote and the baseboard.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· May 8

Damn you, past writer/editor me!

Clip of text from my manuscript showing that one section simply says "Insert Tracy's story here."

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Apr 19

The DNC apparently trying to trick me into thinking that we're having a conversation so I'll click on their email.

Email item in my inbox from the DNC with deceptive text in the 'from' field that shows "The DNC, me (2)" so it looks like I've emailed them before. The subject line is "Did you see this?"

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Apr 15

For some reason I don't think Congress is doing enough to protect consumers.

Clip from credit card promotion email stating "...after that, your variable APR for purchases applies. 27.74%. This APR is as of 04/12/2026 and will vary with the market based on the Prime Rate."

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Apr 12

Hey, Sleepy Don, I don't want a volatile, difficult, unpredictable person having access to nuclear weapons either.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Mar 29

Rubio showing off his own natural resource.

Marco Rubio sitting on the couch in the Oval Office with a small barrel of oil in his grip, with the label "Flop sweat" over where it said "oil"

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Mar 29

Got this National Treasures rookie patch auto of the great Poku (who is now in the Euroleague, I believe) from my friends at Blez. (Also got a 2nd auto of his.) Not bad for $29. #cardsky

Basketball card from 2020-21 National Treasures featuring Oklahoma City Thunder rookie Aleksej Pokusevski with an autograph and a large piece of a Thunder jersey with part of a "K" patch.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Mar 28

No Kings Day 3 is in the books. At our local event: 5 middle fingers 2 thumbs down Countless honks, waves, thumbs up

Protest sign that reads “Trump is the punchline of the cruelest joke ever!”

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Mar 28

Protest sign that reads "Hey, Sleepy Don, I don't want a stupid person being president either." This is a reference to the statement that Trump made.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Mar 19

Looks like my ship is coming in. 😆

Snip from an email about a class action that says "Under the terms of the settlement, you may receive a Cash Payment of up to $5."

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Mar 11

File under Notable Worthless Possessions: an NFT of the NBA's new 2nd highest single game scorer.

A Bam Adebayo NFT from 2021 Prizm. Bam scored 83 points on March 10, 2026, the second most points in a single game in NBA history. (Wilt Chamberlain scored 100, Kobe Bryant scored 81)

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Mar 6

Picked up this gold jersey auto card of Royce Lewis from Topps Pristine. So shiny, I couldn’t resist. #cardsky

2025 Topps Pristine baseball card of Royce Lewis. Features a game-used jersey piece and an on-card autograph. Numbered 10 of 50.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Feb 2

I was amused by the pro-copyright / anti-AI statement at the beginning of Dungeon Crawler Carl (which I purchased from a local independent bookseller.)

Penguin Random House values and supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin Random House to continue to publish books for every reader.

Please note that no part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Jan 25

Outline drawing of a whistle with "this machine kills fascists" on its side.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Jan 17

It's interesting that in 1989 MTV had a program called MTV Classic where they showed videos from their heyday, meaning a few years earlier.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Jan 17

Page of redacted text with unreacted words "The Department of Justice for pedophiles not victims"

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Jan 15

Today we said goodbye to Galaga, the cattest cat that ever was. RIP Flopper.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Jan 11

When you're right, you're right.

Neil Young at Farm Aid in 1985 stating "if the family farm dies, the small family business in rural towns dies, and it could possibly turn them into ghost towns."

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Dec 15

Meme of Anakin and Padme. Panel 1: Anakin says "We needed to stock up on guns to prepare for a tyrannical govt." Panel 2: Padme, says "To fight against it, right?" Panel 3: Anakin silently looks at her. Panel 4: Padme, worried, says "Oh damn."

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Nov 23

Hey you, out there in the cold Getting lonely, getting old Can you feel me?

Pope looking like he’s singing into a microphone that he’s holding in his praying hands.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Nov 22

I feel like this panic over Google scraping your gmail messages to train their AI is unfounded click-bait. I can't find anyplace that says they use your private data to train AI. Google says AI in Gmail is a paid service and they don't use your data.

Snip of Google's information regarding their paid AI plans with section highlighted that shows Gemini (their AI product) in Gmail as a paid product.

Snip of Google's information about their paid AI product with a highlight around the section that states the product does not use a user's content to train or improve Gemini or other AI models.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Nov 22

Just another day.

Photo of Trump shouting at lawnmower boy, with text overlay that reads, “You’re not dreamy, he’s dreamy. Do you think he likes me?” Trump is referring to Mamdani, whom he seemed to crush on.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Nov 8

"Image created by OpenAI." You don't say.

Image of a chart showing exponential growth in AI agent capabilities, where "capabilities" is misspelled as "caaabblilies" and the y-axis has values 10, 10, 20, 60, 40, 70, 60, 80 while the x-axis has years 2020, 2024, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2020, 2025, 2020, 2020.

Mike Holm@mike-holm· Oct 5

Condolences to those who spent money for premium cards on Panini’s app, thinking they’d have access to them forever.