Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 12hOne 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 · 12hThackeray 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 McGovernDanchez @oriolesreview.bsky.social · 18hEvery paragraph is quotable but this one hits too close to home 1214
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The 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 · 06/10/2026It'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 · 06/10/2026Yeah, 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 · 06/10/2026I 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 · 04/10/2026When 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 · 04/10/2026Greeks from Chicago disproportionately represented in professional baseball, way past time they took over football too 000
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Is it good if a team is forced to use a 7th round rookie out of Rutgers at quarterback 000
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 04/10/2026May 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
Reposted by Conor McGovernDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026[crying, gagging, throwing up] Go Dodgers and the rule of law 4452
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Is 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 · 03/10/2026I interpreted Gallia as alt-Benelux putting up a fight rather than alt-Switzerland 150
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Valkyria 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 McGovernGoldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 03/10/2026How many local models do you run? 2312629378
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Wait so this is basically running beer line cleaner into a person's veins? 100
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Only if your hair could be reasonably described as a mane 010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not 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 · 02/10/2026Need 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 · 01/10/2026I 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 · 01/10/2026I 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 · 01/10/2026Heston Kjerstad would be an everyday player if he was a top-level middle infield glove! 030
Reposted by Conor McGovernLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Skipped the Nazis, huh. 2675584914
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's amazing that the US defense industry is just stealing stupid ideas from Warhammer at this point 181
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today we announce the creation of a Yiddish Policeman's Union 020
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don't know, those intellectuals are up to something...... 100
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Speaking 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 · 30/09/2026I can't believe I just had to remember Angela Nagle 040
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I like how this got retweeted by a Gaza scam bot 110
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026An 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 · 29/09/2026Why did they choose a picture of the female lead where she looks like she bathed in cooking oil 020
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And 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 $2.7m, which is a huge chunk of money to let you go overslot later 010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Leaving Rice aside because higher picks do generally have better outcomes, I believe the Mets have kind of a weirdly shaped incentive curve here because they keep their pick if it falls in the top-6 in the lottery but drop 10 spots if it falls outside the top-6 because they pay luxury tax 120
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A dastardly plan by the U$DkkkA to undermine native Saudi corn and alfalfa planters 010
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There'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 · 27/09/2026That 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 · 27/09/2026Drake Maye seems determined to be the worst quarterback in the NFL this season 020
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ok leaving aside the wanton and pointless destruction of pristine wilderness, the park factors here would be incredibly stupid 082
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's a pop song with a southern state in the title, that's basically country music in 2026 170
Conor McGovern @conormcgovern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What 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