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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing I've started doing -- after owning up to my own failings, ongoing -- is asking friends/others making sexist/misogynist/violent comments to explain the "joke." Why is that funny? I don't get it. Explain the joke. It is unambiguous and makes a clear point, without being too aggressive.

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Sox Populi @soxpopuli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sox Pop Postgame Podcast 27—Onto the playoffs! @brianoneill.bsky.social, @jkiangresis.bsky.social, Malachi Hayes, @leonard48.bsky.social and @brettballantini.bsky.social talked ALC title misses, White Sox MVPs and the Wild Card round, on the @ffsn.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Ending 2026 with a win, onto the playoffs!

Podcast Episode · Sox Populi - A Chicago White Sox podcast · September 28 · 39m

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trying to combine baseball analysis with today's discourse: By failing to win the AL Central, it looks like Will Venable and the White Sox are "Choosin' Texas" after all...

O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know these movements are dangerous and their apocalyptic misogyny is in the highest levels of our government but I just have trouble taking anything seriously when your FEATURED SPEAKER is Sean Davis, who 99% of peope have never heard of and half of that 1% just thinks "mommy milky."

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hi hello. The White Sox can clinch a Postseason berth today! with: a win AND a loss by TEX

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was writing about the destabilizing effects of US involvement in Yemen from like 2004, and even I don't think the GWoT was a primary cause of the civil war(s). Lots of impacts can be connected, but that's true for everything in history.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rufo's fierce commitment to colorblind equality is admittedly complicated by his every public action and statement, but I can't really be expected to know about any of those.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Comerica had long past the point where it was thought of as a corporate name. I couldn't have even told you it was a bank, just where Detroit played. This is just sludge and will never be associated with the Tigers. I root for a team that plays at Guaranteed Rate, so I speak from experience.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There's genuinely something joyous in not being able to hear his voice.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I really, really hate everything about "Ole Miss" and everything it stands for and all its symbology and its hateful smug frathead racist rich kid assholes, all of whom would have been hooting at kids trying to integrate schools in the 60s, but Lane Kiffin sucks so bad that I'm cheering for them.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Had a long dream I was reading (and watching?) @juliusgoat.bsky.social new (nonexistent, I think) novel, which I described to a friend as "potentially treacly, but in his hands, nearly euphonic." It was especially strange because I had to look that word up when I woke up. Still, good book.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm so excited to read this I can barely breathe.

A picture showing "Acid Green Velvet," the new novel by Grace Krilanovich.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All these years later I still can't quite believe that the big "cold open" the show-within-the-show did to prove that they were not going to be cowed by censorship, the thing that the whole episode revolved around, that every agreed had to light the world on fire, was a Gilbert and Sullivan parody.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What is the thing in the sky? I know it is probably something simple, but: what is it?

O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Morality aside (which, don't put it aside, ever), does Talrico think people who believe his polite statements about trans rights to be an abomination unto the Lord will be like "oh, he's since modified them, I'll give the young man a vote!"

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I cannot believe Coco is still in this match.

O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sabs looked incredible tonight. When she's striking it the way she wants I don't think there's anything more exciting in tennis. Maybe *as* thrilling, but not more.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

At the high school I work at, I've heard multiple groups of kids laughing about Kirkiversary, and a group of bros joking about how people thought "this would change everything" who cares about him, he was "just some guy"

O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also, I don't know how anyone can write "Donald Trump Pledges..." or "Trump Promises..." without looking at themselves mournfully in the mirror and shakily pouring a stiff drink.

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Jeff Sabin @texanokie07.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Scrolling television stations…

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I guess I understand the politics of saying "TRUMP GIVES YOU MONEY" but this isn't even "if we win, the economy will continue to boom, so we'll be able to afford it." It's "we have the money, but if you let me down you don't get it." Which is evangelical, and maddening.

O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The charitable explanation is that it makes people think that they didn't have to work hard, which they obviously did, even with all the breaks and advantages, and ESPN sees it as their job to boost American tennis. I instinctively root against Pegula because of this, but I'm being charitable.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I clicked on this having no idea what it was (just an A24 thing) and thought "I don't recognize that actress, but she looks so familiar. How is she so good at being so goddamn unnerving?"

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Come for the "disgruntled lesbians" part, stay for her using the phrase "audibly heard" not once but twice!

O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@slangsonsports.bsky.social posts about the White Sox have been way more fun this year than as of late.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wrote about the @beltpublishing.bsky.social Revival publication of The Pit, with a fantastic intro by @whetmoser.com. It's non-gritty social realism, never blinking away from the frictionless lives of those getting rich off who eats and who starves. greatlakesreview.org/futures-in-t...

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Futures, In the Past

The Pit: A Story of Chicago Frank Norris Belt Publishing (Belt Revivals Series) Many of the great Chicago books revolve around people on the bottom trying to claw their way up from it. These could …

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Even if this wasn't hideously racist -- which is obviously, undeniably is -- the idea of something "inviting scrutiny," as if the the story wasn't creating its own proposition, is as far away from "do(ing) the fucking news" as you can possibly get.

There are horrors that we knew were coming; there are absurdities we didn't predict yet aren't surprising. Defiantly saying "Lake Ontario" is not either of those.

My girlfriend was asking me if "Ronin" is good and I said this is basically the movie, if this appeals to you, then: yes.

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Car chase in Ronin still kicks ass, in case you weren't sure

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I'm not even a Tom Petty fan. I think the day he died was the only day of my life I put his music on deliberately, as opposed to hearing him omnipresently. But Roy Orbison clearly liked him, and that's enough to say that, while all taste is subjective and idiosyncratic, this take is wrong.

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This is the same way I feel about being "proud to be an American." I didn't do shit! I was born here. I could be proud to use the benefits this birth incurred to me to do good, but pride at an accident of fate? Fuck that.

O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I've seen 7500 different pictures of Milo today and not a single one looks like the picture of Milo in my head, which I guess is from when he was last relevant.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Man, so many. Gombrowicz's "Diaries." @colsonwhitehead.com "The Intuitionist." @stephengrahamjones.com opened my eyes to a whole new kind of literature. "Il Rombo," by Esther Kinsky, just translated last year, shattered my world. As this prompt wisely states, formation through books is lifelong.

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O'Neill @brianoneill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The thing with "Lake America" is, in addition to being stupid and childish, it is SO stupid and childish. Like, they could have said "Lake Louis Armstrong" or "Lake Mark Twain" and sneeringly asked why people hate Great Americans. But he of course picked the most thuddingly stupid name.