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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 14h

I got a summer job sewing ski caps in a hat factory and it turns out a factory lined with wool is very hot and they didn't have air conditioning. I walked out after a couple weeks on a near 100-degree day.

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 17h

I'm so sorry, I thought of you all immediately, my heart goes out to your family

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 17h

I don't teach anymore, but I wouldn't allow a student AI bot to record. I would, however, run my own transcription app and provide the transcript to students. So many students are not native English speakers and I myself rely on them because of hearing loss.

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 18h

I once had an innocuous, rather adorable tweet go very, very viral, and it was fascinating to see what people projected onto it. In all cases it was very clear they were dealing with Their Shit™ and the tweet was incidental.

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I do, in fact, love symbolic logic, and also now my husband, who lured in with my game

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I didn't actually get cancer treatment in Rome but I will always associate being diagnosed with cancer with our trip to Rome, where I ate too much carbonara and thought it was a gallstone that gave me jaundice. But I like thinking the Pope and I have something in common now.

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The friends we’re visiting have AARP and Consumer Reports magazines on the coffee table and this is as close as I’m going to get to my dream of vacationing in the 90s

Cover of AARP magazine showing Martha Stewart

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I posted about this on Reddit where I try not to dox myself too much but I am a homeowner who does not want people getting killed in front of my house and if that means it's harder to drop off packages, I am sure we'll be okay www.reddit.com/r/philadelph...

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From the philadelphia community on Reddit: Great day for cyclists who don’t want to get killed and homeowners who don’t want cyclists killed in front of their house and passerby who don't want to watc...

Explore this post and more from the philadelphia community

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maxi dress! Marimekko! Bought vintage for much cheaper than it deserved!

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We went out for a fancy lunch after I got my hair cut and my wonderful husband took a Creative Commons licensed photo of me for my Wikipedia page

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We're up to 35, no one expected #pope to go the distance

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The idea of me, alone, in the rain, watching the Eagles lose, is too pathetic to contemplate

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's actually really nice except for the ceilings! It's very weird

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We have been discussing if this is intentional or just lazy for SO LONG

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My husband believes someone's cousin got the job

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is a fine hotel, really nice rooftop bar, just weird ceilings

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are at the Grayson, a Hyatt property near Bryant Park. It's an AMEX FHR property so presumably good, except for the weird mold shaped stain on the ceiling that I am told is intentional

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We asked a hotel employee and he said it's intentional

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the ceiling in our otherwise generic fancy corporate hotel. I can’t figure out if it’s intentional because it doesn’t fit the vibe

Large ceiling tiles with spray paint evoking a construction site. The seams are visible, with stains.

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aww and they tried so hard, putting the ellipsis in the middle. (I believe that's a @jenson.org innovation from the Apple days)

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Stef Pause @pause.im · 29/09/2026

Fresh what now?? Another great example of @karenmcgrane.bsky.social’s maxim “truncation is not a content strategy”

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What is going on with this front page that they have ceded the layout to whitespace, surely you could fit some more stories here.

New York Times front page showing a story about the CDC and another about preparation for pandemics. The majority of the page is blank.

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Provo, actually, but it's all sort of one mega city

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am doing a whole color analysis experiment. You may remember "Color Me Beautiful" from the 1980s. In any case, if you would like to play a game of "which color makes me look better?" I could use some more data: karenmcgrane.github.io/expert-octo-...

karenmcgrane.github.io

Which color looks best on Karen?

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Snowfall" is a 15 year old article by the NYT that has come to be shorthand for a deeply produced and researched piece with integrated multimedia, especially video, infographics, and audio.

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I sent it to him like "this is interesting!" knowing full well he would be spitting mad and it was an enjoyable hour or so we spent

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Where do you fall in your family’s birth order? How do you think that may have affected your personality?

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Len Damico @lendami.co · 01/09/2026

as @karenmcgrane.bsky.social famously says, “truncation is not a content strategy”

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Me too but it was one of their shows in Brooklyn. I was too sad for Brooklyn.

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Now the rumor is that they told different stories to different people about why they were leaving so they could find out who leaked. OR that the whole story was made up by the British tabloids to make Meghan look desperate, which is believable, but I believe in People's fact-checking more

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Matthew Macfadyden and Keeley Hawes

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Selfishly I do not want anyone to die in the bike lane right in front of our house! Or any bike lane but especially not that one

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Then Pavel, did you look into butt, and if so, what did you find?

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You are doing a thing if you choose to litter a matchbook at the cancer center

A used matchbook on a table in the waiting room of an outpatient clinic for cancer patients

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Here’s Karen’s cholangiocarcinoma at the cancer center, ready for today’s infusion.

Karen wearing a gray ball cap, a 3M VFlex N95 mask, and a black top referred to as “witch poncho.” A line for the infusion is attached to a port, upper right chest.

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hello, I'm Karen's Cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive cancer with fewer than 10,000 cases in the US each year. I fucking suck!

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yeah I really debated the newspaper one because it's so dear to my heart

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My husband @tcarmody.bsky.social called me out for not specifying the dril tweets and he’s right so: - scented candle family - racism dial - you do not have to hand it to them

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Scarin' McBraaains @karenmcgrane.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

1. Leopards ate my face 2. Main character 3. Everything happens so much 4. Pick a dril tweet I don't believe it's cowardly to say I think there are tweets that have had broader impact, like The Dress, but these I think made a more lasting impact

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 08/08/2026

redditor asking the important questions

Reddit post:

"Can I smoke weed after being shot in the head ?
Cannabis
I was recently shot in the head by a friend of mine ( accident) and this bad bitch wants to match with me after i get out of the hospital will i be okay smoking a blunt or 2?"

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/08/2026

this is what peak user experience looks like. you may not like it, but this is the ideal of interaction design.

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