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casey morell @caseym.org · 21/09/2026

here's my ballot ———

a list of my top ten tv shows of the century so far. in no order:

- the americans
- survivor
- lost
- 30 rock
- barry
- arrested development
- midnight diner
- the trip
- the rehearsal
- twin peaks: the return

casey morell @caseym.org · 05/09/2026

i suppose it makes sense that my english dialect, according to the quiz going around, most closely matches [looking at map] the places i have lived the longest

a heat map of the united states. darker blue portions are in the upper midwest, showing most dissimilarity with the english i speak compared to the norm there. dark red regions are in central & south florida, the mid-atlantic, and the american southwest — all locations where i have lived for an extended period of time. there's also some lighter yellow, indicating partial matches, in the central midwest, where i did live for a little bit of time. all this to say: my american english is a land of contrasts

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casey morell @caseym.org · 21/08/2026

attention washington: it is perfect "go reenact that bit from 'frances ha' where she runs down the street while david bowie's 'modern love' plays" weather

it's 67°F and mostly sunny in washington. i know when to go out, and when to stay in, and this is going out weather.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 11/08/2026

all i can ever think about when i hear about mike maddux [from this]

When Olbermann worked in L.A., most games ended before his nightly sportscast. He could write his highlights in advance, just as he liked it. Before going on air at ESPN, Olbermann watched Patrick host SportsCenter from the set and noticed that many games were ending midshow. Patrick was ad-libbing his way through video of home runs and 3-pointers he’d never seen before, pulling out words like a play-by-play man does.

Olbermann was stunned. Here was a new superpower he had to acquire. “I learned how to do highlights from Dan Patrick, full stop,” he said.

Of course, Olbermann got great at ad-libbing, too. One night, pitcher Mike Maddux got shelled. During a commercial, a production assistant handed Olbermann a shot sheet describing all the hits that would be shown in the highlight. As McConville watched, Olbermann took out a Sharpie and crossed out everything on the page—every bit of action he’d need to describe.

“Keith, what are you doing?” McConville said. Olbermann waved him off.

When the highlight began to play, Olbermann said, “Mike Maddux.” As the hits piled up, he just said Maddux’s name over and over, in varying states of agitation. “Mike Maddux. Mike Maddux. Mike Maddux. MIKE MADDUX.” And then: “More like Appomattox. He surrendered. Rangers win…” When McConville looked over at Olbermann, Olbermann was staring at him, as if to say, Didya see that?!

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casey morell @caseym.org · 25/06/2026

i have tacked this up at my desk as inspiration

an image of a goose surrounded by golden eggs with the message

WHAT MATTERS IS NOT THE EGGS
IT IS THE GOOSE ITSELF
TRUE VALUE = THE POWER TO KEEP LAYING EGGS

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casey morell @caseym.org · 03/06/2026

🎶 he needs a kidney 🎶

screenshot of the NYT ethicist column's hed and dek. it reads

My Family Member is Being Pressured to Donate a Kidney. Should I Say Something?

The recipient would be his stepfather's colleague, whom he barely knows.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 24/05/2026

everyone to everton right now

tyra banks on america's next top model saying

I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU, WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU! HOW DARE YOU!

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casey morell @caseym.org · 06/05/2026

we should stop calling video-based programs "video podcasts." a video podcast is not a podcast. it is a talk show.

norman rockwell's famous painting "freedom of speech," which depicts a brave man standing up to voice an opinion.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 09/04/2026

very pleased to report everyone's favorite @financialtimes.com correction today is, in fact, in the print edition too

a correction notice in the print edition of today's financial times. it reads as follows:

Correction
• Researcher Brené Brown was misquoted in an interview published on April 6. She described herself as "solidly in my fuck it era" rather than "solidly in my fucking era".

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casey morell @caseym.org · 03/04/2026

gorgeous day for a ballgame

a photographic view of nats park from centerfield

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casey morell @caseym.org · 01/04/2026

vale, dc streetcar. you deserved so much better.

a photo from inside the dc streetcar on its last day of service. the photo is of a glass window inside one of the doors.

affixed to the window is a decal that reads "When lit, push button to open door" with a red arrow pointing to the aforementioned button off camera.

below that text is a sentence reading "Thanks for riding!"

through the window, offset above the decal, is a streetcar going in the opposite direction. it is red, with some yellow accents.

thank you, streetcar. i will miss you.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 27/03/2026

happy birthday metro i love you metro

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casey morell @caseym.org · 17/03/2026

therapist: the five-eyed queen head from the album "the miracle" can't hurt you the five-eyed queen head from the album "the miracle":

the album cover to "the miracle" by queen. it has all four band members' heads joined together such that one person's eye fades into another eye. it's weird!

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casey morell @caseym.org · 27/02/2026

if this is what you're whining about you should take a long look in the mirror

a screenshot of GET UP! from ESPN, where a panel is discussing the topic displayed on the chyron. said topic is "Joe Fortenbaugh: 65-game rule has ruined the [NBA] MVP market"

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casey morell @caseym.org · 21/02/2026

i see the los angeles angels are already in midseason form

a box score of a spring training game between the dodgers and angels. it's the top of the second and the dodgers have the bases loaded with one out. the dodgers lead 7-0. the implication is that the angels are bad.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 19/02/2026

look, if you're going to do political wishcasting, at least know the constitutional residency requirements for the presidency and vice-presidency beforehand. [this is from a newsletter today from the magazine MONOCLE.]

A better bet would be a Pennsylvania double-punch pairing: Democratic governor Josh Shapiro and senator John Fetterman. Though their ticket would be complicated by their vocal support for Israel, each has demonstrated a level of verbal and moral clarity that voters now crave. True, both Shapiro and Fetterman are white men in a party consumed by optics and identity politics. But progressive politicking can only result in progress if its politicians actually get elected. Though the pair have famously been frosty to one another, Fetterman’s hardscrabble, working-class Pennsylvania roots complement Shapiro’s more urbane sophistication. Pennsylvania is also the type of must-win battleground state that Harris failed to capture. Fetterman and Shapiro will have to move on from their current frostiness but in a country that has elected Trump twice, the improbable feels increasingly probable.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 10/02/2026

they're calling it the second stanford prison experiment

a WSJ headline reading "A Stanford Experiment to Pair 5,000 Singles Has Taken Over Campus"

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casey morell @caseym.org · 07/02/2026

the info for the image itself? equally delightful

the wikipedia page detailing the information of walton goggins' portrait of walton goggins. it identifies the image as a self portrait, uploaded by the actor himself.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 07/02/2026

today's delightful discovery: walton goggins seemingly did not like his photograph on wikipedia, so he took a self-portrait, made a wikipedia account, and uploaded the new image to his own article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_...

a screenshot of the revision history for the wikipedia article on walton goggins. it details the user "walton goggins" uploading a new image of walton goggins

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casey morell @caseym.org · 01/02/2026

i mean, anybody who is a fan of this team knows this but to see it laid bare like this is astonishing [from www.bbc.com/sport/footba... ]

Let's get a few facts out there.

Manchester United were winning their third Premier League game in a row, in the third game of Carrick's second spell in charge. It took Amorim 36 to do that and only the once did he manage three-in-a-row - or even successive wins - in his entire 14 months at Old Trafford.

In responding to victories for Chelsea and Liverpool the previous day, United returned to fourth spot in the table. Amorim never had them placed so highly at the end of a match round.

Including his first spell in 2021, Carrick has now won four of his five league games in charge.

He is the third United manager to achieve that, following Sir Matt Busby in 1946 and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in 2019. It took Amorim 12 league games to win four - and he won one out of the next 10.

Amorim's record of 1.23 points per game in the Premier League is the lowest of all United managers since Sir Alex Ferguson left in 2013.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 21/01/2026

one day i hope to be as content as fred, a cat in neko atsume

a drawing from the game neko atsume. it's of an orange cat, perched atop a cat tree. the cat is drawn to be asleep, and looks to be smiling. the cat is peaceful. the cat knows no troubles or strife. fred is just relaxed and relieved.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 20/01/2026

honestly, kinda metal from henrik ibsen here

from the wikipedia article on henrik ibsen:

Death and legacy

Ibsen, late in his career
On 23 May 1906, Ibsen died in his home at Arbins gade 1 in Kristiania (now Oslo)[44] after a series of strokes in March 1900. When, on 22 May, his nurse assured a visitor that he was a little better, Ibsen spluttered his last words "On the contrary" ("Tvertimod!"). He died the following day at 2:30 pm.[45] Ibsen was buried in Vår Frelsers gravlund ("The Graveyard of Our Savior") in central Oslo.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 13/01/2026

if only it were that easy, microsoft outlook

a screenshot from outlook with an image of an empty inbox. the caption reads "All done for the day." the implication is that one's work is done when their inbox is empty, which will come to a great surprise to anybody who has ever done any job involving having an email address, unless, for some reason, their job is exclusively to rid inboxes of emails. if that were their job, then yes: they would be "all done for the day."

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casey morell @caseym.org · 11/01/2026

old enough to remember etc

the title card from DON'T COPY THAT FLOPPY

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casey morell @caseym.org · 28/12/2025

fun one for the statheads: the men's and women's teams for melbourne city and perth glory played against each other on the same match day, and had opposite results. can't imagine this happens all too often

a screenshot from the FOTMOB app. it shows scorelines from two soccer matches. one is the australian a-league men result between melbourne city and perth glory, which was a 1-3 win for perth. the second is the australian a-league women result between, again, melbourne city and perth glory, except the women's scoreline is reversed: a 3-1 win for melbourne.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 14/12/2025

they're still writing the sacred texts on bar bathroom walls

a bluesky invite code written on a bar bathroom wall

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casey morell @caseym.org · 06/12/2025

looks like they've swapped the traditional rainbow-colored collar design for the kennedy center honorees for a navy blue medal

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo poses for a photo with the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors Awardees - Earth, Wind & Fire, Sally Field, Linda Ronstadt, Sesame Street, and Michael Tilson Thomas -- before hosting them for dinner at the U.S. Department of State, in Washington, DC, on December 7, 2019. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]

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casey morell @caseym.org · 06/12/2025

[to the tune of james murphy saying "gil scott-heron" in the lcd soundsystem song "losing my edge"] svelte ozempets

an iOS push notification from the New York Times. it reads as follows:

Svelte Ozempets?
GLP-1 drugs for pets could be the next frontier for the blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 03/12/2025

let the record show i had NO involvement in this story

an NPR push alert alleging paul mccartney's "wonderful christmastime" is horrible

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casey morell @caseym.org · 24/11/2025

how is it secret if it gets a dang push notification

an iOS push notification from starbucks reading as follows:

Two for turkey week
Kick things off with the secret menu.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 14/11/2025

man's going for the ronaldo at the 2002 world cup look

ronaldo at the 2002 world cup, with a shaved head except the front part

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casey morell @caseym.org · 13/10/2025

how are they secret if i'm getting a push notification about them

a push notification in iOS from starbucks. it reads as follows:

2 new secret menu drinks!
Plus all the fall feels [emoji of someone shushing another person] [emoji of two eyes looking conspiratorially]

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casey morell @caseym.org · 01/10/2025

well, this is a new and terrifying wikipedia article alert

a warning box at the start of a wikipedia article, reading as follows:

"This article may incorporate text from a large language model. It may include hallucinated information or fictitious references. Copyright violations or claims lacking verification should be removed. Please see the associated project page for additional guidance. (September 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message)"

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casey morell @caseym.org · 18/09/2025

thinking about the last sinclair-ABC fight, when ted koppel read the names of soldiers killed in iraq on nightline and sinclair objected [from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightli...

On April 30, 2004, Koppel read the names of members of the United States Armed Forces who were killed in the Iraq War since it began in March 2003. This prompted controversy from conservatives who believed that Koppel was making a political statement, and from management at Hunt Valley, Maryland-based television station owner Sinclair Broadcast Group, which felt that ABC was undermining the war effort in Iraq; in protest, ordered forced its ABC-affiliated stations not to air that night's edition, and instead had the stations air a special in which the "merits" of the war would be debated. Sinclair invited Koppel to participate in the replacement program, but he declined.

Others, most notably the television columnist for The Washington Post, thought it was a ratings stunt for sweeps; indeed Nightline was the highest-rated program during that time period, and had about 30% more viewers than other editions of the program which aired that week. ABC responded to the controversy, saying that the program was meant to be "an expression of respect which seeks to honor those who have laid down their lives for this country."

Koppel repeated the format on May 28, 2004, reading the names of service members killed in the war in Afghanistan, and on May 30, 2005, reading the names of all service members killed in Afghanistan or Iraq between the last program and the preparation of the program.

This time, all of Sinclair's ABC stations aired the program as scheduled.

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casey morell @caseym.org · 16/09/2025

did not expect to see fbi director kash patel wearing what appears to be a liverpool fc tie today in his senate hearing

fbi director kash patel wearing a dark blue suit, and a red tie with white diagonal stripes. the tie has what appears to be a yellow liverpool fc crest

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casey morell @caseym.org · 04/09/2025

sipping seltzer while having a fisherman's friend lozenge in your mouth

david lynch IS gordon cole IN twin peaks: the return. he's leaning back, eyes closed, pursed lips, sitting before a photograph of a mushroom cloud

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casey morell @caseym.org · 03/09/2025

INBOX: radiohead coming off hiatus to play shows in europe this november/december

- November 4, 5, 7, 8 - Movistar Arena, Madrid, Spain
- November 14, 15, 17, 18 - Unipol Arena, Bologna, Italy
- November 21, 22, 24, 25 - The O2, London, UK
- December 1, 2, 4, 5 - Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark
- December 8, 9, 11, 12 - Uber Arena, Berlin, Germany

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casey morell @caseym.org · 31/08/2025

strange day out here at windswept fields

lando norris is taking off his shoes, and one of his socks

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