Sign in

Conor McGovern

@conormcgovern.bsky.social
239 followers 230 following 1.4K posts

Failed minor league hockey goalie. Former union boss. Agricultural economist and school meals scientist. Covering the AA Eastern League for the Dynasty Dugout and creator of Dynasty Index (dynastyindex.com)

PostsRepliesMedia
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 12h
One of my most conservative beliefs (though it's uh, painfully obvious that the people making these arguments on the right were making them in bad faith and didn't really care) is that violent video games, movies, music, and other media were both a symptom and driver of societal decay
000
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 12h
Thackeray wrote about how attending a hanging made him grow to hate violence, but modern media so inundates even the youngest and most prudish of us with things our great-grandparents would've found unspeakable horrors that it's impossible to believe this will be anything other than a carnival
100
Reposted by Conor McGovern
Danchez @oriolesreview.bsky.social · 18h
Every paragraph is quotable but this one hits too close to home
So as you know, we have been forced to make some pretty substantial cuts. And believe me, it’s the last thing we want to do. We consider everyone who works here family. But there comes a time within any family when you have to identify your least productive family members, cut them out of your life forever, and leave them without any way to support themselves, at which point they’re not family anymore. They’re just strangers who know things about you that you’d rather not become public. Unfortunately, that includes you. Are – are you following any of this?

We’re going to have to let you go.
1214
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He's the mayor of New York
230
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The problem with GoT is that HBO was beholden to both the individual story beats GRRM had already written and the broad arc he had planned and it turns out very little of the former (court intrigue and mystery) mattered to the latter (generic 80s fantasy schlock about dragons and prophesied heroes)
000
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's tough because my hobby horse is that the most important thing on a cost-benefit basis that police do is traffic enforcement, but they don't take it seriously and treat it not as a virtue in its own right but only as a revenue source or pretext for search and seizure. Cameras help with that
110
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah, for all the panic about the tech, I don't think the Flock cameras are adding anything novel to the civil liberty abuse arsenal, but they are surfacing egregious stuff that was otherwise happening with no trail
120
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think the protocol for pneumonic plague (spread by respiratory droplets, albeit at a pretty low transmission rate) as in Irkutsk would be much different than existing protocols dealing with endemic bubonic plague, which is usually handled in emergency rooms and identified by "a prairie dog bit me"
110
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dan what if Honeycutt is just good now
100
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When Byard was with the Titans, they were playing the Eagles and we stayed at the same hotel in Philly for PAX Unplugged. Byard gets on the elevator and my then-three year-old daughter goes (as 3 year-olds do), "Who said you could get on?" and he made a big funny show of apologizing to her
010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Greeks from Chicago disproportionately represented in professional baseball, way past time they took over football too
000
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is it good if a team is forced to use a 7th round rookie out of Rutgers at quarterback
000
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
May be premature to declare that for baseball though, since in new CBA negotiations ownership has postured about setting a higher minimum age for the draft and further contracting the low minors, with the goal of off-loading more early player development onto the NCAA
000
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Must have a lot of fuel
020
Reposted by Conor McGovern
Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
[crying, gagging, throwing up] Go Dodgers and the rule of law
4452
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is there some IP thing that suddenly caused a bunch of game designers to make LotR games? Duel for Middle Earth, Fate of the Fellowship (both of which are excellent imo), and now a re-release of Queen's Gambit with an LotR reskin? The GW minis game is still getting releases too
110
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He's not wrong though
010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I interpreted Gallia as alt-Benelux putting up a fight rather than alt-Switzerland
150
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Valkyria Chronicles actually does a good job grappling with Nazi race science and war crimes, even working it into the magic girls stuff!
031
Reposted by Conor McGovern
Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 03/10/2026
How many local models do you run?

Pope Leo XIV
@Pontif... 17h
X
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack th Show more
3.3K 162K 316K l 15M
Spectro
@Spectromachina
X.com
ث
Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?
2312629378
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wait so this is basically running beer line cleaner into a person's veins?
100
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Only if your hair could be reasonably described as a mane
010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not really, particularly in non-residential. Job openings are down though across the board, so there isn't a ton of mobility - hence low wage growth
010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Need to read the full article at work where I have access, but I assume that chart is just raw incidence and doesn't adjust for exposure so I can't do my "hockey safer than walking" take quite yet
120
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I liked it as a throw-in too and I think the Red Sox might've preferred to have Narvaez in this game at this point lol
010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think they must've thought they had a chance at a Narvaez whose bat looked more like last year's and that would've been a good partner for Basallo. Instead what we got was a guy who somehow found a new level below rock bottom
100
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He mashes lefties (except the good ones)
010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Heston Kjerstad would be an everyday player if he was a top-level middle infield glove!
030
Reposted by Conor McGovern
Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
2675584914
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's amazing that the US defense industry is just stealing stupid ideas from Warhammer at this point
181
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today we announce the creation of a Yiddish Policeman's Union
020
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't know, those intellectuals are up to something......
100
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Speaking as someone in the DC area who got Lyme a couple years ago (albeit caught and resolved quickly) and hates being outside because of mosquitoes, I'm supportive of Trump entering his Mao Era
030
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I can't believe I just had to remember Angela Nagle
040
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I like how this got retweeted by a Gaza scam bot
110
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An NFL coach is required to be three things: (1) an uber-technical engineer, (2) a babysitter for adult toddlers whose appearance on an Iron Age battlefield would have caused entire Roman legions to flee in terror, (3) willing to work 120 hour weeks for barely enough money to pay for your zyn habit
101
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why did they choose a picture of the female lead where she looks like she bathed in cooking oil
020
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And in addition to just having a lower quality pool of players to select from in the draft crapshoot, it makes a huge difference for your draft pool. Difference in slotted values between the 6th and 16th picks last year was $2.7m, which is a huge chunk of money to let you go overslot later
010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Leaving Rice aside because higher picks do generally have better outcomes, I believe the Mets have kind of a weirdly shaped incentive curve here because they keep their pick if it falls in the top-6 in the lottery but drop 10 spots if it falls outside the top-6 because they pay luxury tax
120
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A dastardly plan by the U$DkkkA to undermine native Saudi corn and alfalfa planters
010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There's this tendency on the left to believe that ag subsidies are bad tout court, and to be fair US ag subsidies make little sense if your understanding of policy is divorced from any sort of political or historical context, but you kind of need that context to understand US and global agriculture
080
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's not a maybe lol
070
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That guy keeps getting sued and declaring bankruptcy and making up a new scam with a different name, I think he's on his third or fourth con now
010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Drake Maye seems determined to be the worst quarterback in the NFL this season
020
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ok leaving aside the wanton and pointless destruction of pristine wilderness, the park factors here would be incredibly stupid
082
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This has to be a bit
010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's a pop song with a southern state in the title, that's basically country music in 2026
170
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What do you think those guys have doctorates in
000
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The Phillies season rests on a bullpen game that Aaron Nola is starting on two days' rest" you bolt awake, Rome must burn, etc
010