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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The first song that came to mind when I saw this photo music.youtube.com/watch?v=8WRW...

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Fake Empire

YouTube video by The National - Topic

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The Economist @economist.com · 24/09/2026

Deaths now outnumber births in reliably Republican counties for the first time since at least 1982. We explain how this may already be affecting voting patterns in America bit.ly/471apDL

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So we *have to* build more of these to 'beat' China? (h/t @dwallacewells.bsky.social)

Bar chart showing that the US has more data center capacity than the next 14 countries combined

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track." www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is awesome, esp the guitar work on Robert's and the sweet version of Relatively. Respect to ZB for keeping the focus where it should be. Just a nice ~30 minute interlude on a Sunday morning .... youtu.be/DUP2jPVoQ4c

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Jason Isbell - The Belting Bronco - Episode Nine

YouTube video by Zach Bryan

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Janette Moser @mjmoser.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Watch all the way to the end for the least shocking plot twist of all time bc this is just so emblematic of how all these people are.

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I got to do a version of this one last time with my daughter to get tickets to a One Direction show in 2012. She was mystified (and still is today) about why I was so excited to stay up all night with her and 2 friends at a mall in the Dallas suburbs to get actual physical tickets for the concert

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Brentford has a good vibe about them. Generous owner, good stadium, smart and successful approach to developing players, and their fans seem to appreciate how lucky they are to have all of these things. Hope to finish in the top 8-10 of the league with at least 1 win over their hated rival Chelsea

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So I've got another essay in ihavethatonvinyl.com 🥳 Big thanks again to Michele for all she does to run the site and give a helping hand to aspiring writers. Check it out! ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/will-...

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I Have That on Vinyl

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Lock them all up and throw away the key #fuckICE

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Wishing Well, Breakout, I Heard A Rumour, When Smokey Sings, Always ..... damn that was a great summer for music. Matthew never misses with these

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Damnit it was so sad to see that GH is gone. What a talented guy. RIP

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Red States in the US southeast, led by Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, have the highest level of maternal deaths in the entire developed world. Anti-abortion policies are simply a pretext for what is in fact extreme hostility to women's healthcare. Here an exploration of Texas.

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‘I Don’t Want To Die’: Texas Patients Are Afraid to Get Pregnant

The fear of losing their lives is precisely what many pregnant Texas residents say they’ve experienced after four young women died in the state when they were unable to access medically necessary abor...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social at @heatmap.news points out that the smoke days we're experiencing were not foreseen by climate models & so nobody has reckoned on their cost in lives, health, & economic disruption—which appear to be MORE than EVERY OTHER climate impact PUT TOGETHER.

How costly? “When monetized,” a group of Stanford and Princeton economists wrote in Nature last year, in the first major study on the topic, “the climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the U.S.A.”

You read that right: The cost of climate-worsened wildfire smoke alone is larger than what earlier studies said every other estimated cost of climate change would be, combined.

To summarize, wildfire smoke did not appear in our economic simulations of climate change. As recently as a few years ago, we did not really know that days like today — or June 7, 2023; or September 15, 2020; or September 9, 2020 — could occur. Then they happened. And happened again. And then we studied them and discovered that, in fact, they may be more expensive for the U.S. economy than we once thought climate change itself would be.

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I've traveled a lot (American) and can't think of another monument or museum or whatever Kilmainham is that I've visited that moved me as much. My parents generally downplayed our Irish heritage but my blood was absolutely boiling after visiting there for the first time when i was 40-ish

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'm going to guess that the usual right wing hypocrisy applies

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Stewing in their own juices in their offices for sure. The only ZM policy this person has ever specifically objected to (to me) is the city grocery store proposal, which is a tell for how deranged they all are

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A NYC resident friend who's politically a HW Bush Republican told me that Mamdani "is a dangerous demagogue just like Trump". 100% impossible for me to understand but there's a lot of that out there

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

For those of us a bit older than you, we learned about Shakespeare, opera, French cuisine, and many other cultural staples via Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes referencing them in the same way

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We haven't faced a team yet that has scorers like Belgium does, plus it feels like the bad vibes Trump brought to the Knicks in game 3 of the finals could apply tonight. Hope I'm wrong but you can see it coming

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Like he just won Wimbledon 🤣

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Aren’t they arresting and deporting students who say this exact thing

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Web In Front is a long time favorite of mine that still sounds great

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Great stuff from @yourmandevine.bsky.social on last night's miracle. Still hard to believe that this really happened #LFGK

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Stellar recommendation for sure

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Why is that? He was THE guy for boxing's coming post-Ali era out of the '76 Olympics, then he was at the center of the Hagler/Duran/Hearns peak non-heavyweight period. Only lost 3 times in his pro career despite taking on everyone relevant

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Diana Lewis Burgin's (English) translation of The Master and Margarita is one of my favorite books. So many scenes, lines, characters, etc that still feel alive in my memory. Hope the Time is Right for you soon

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🤡 houseof1000cowsarejustfoods 🤡 @cowsarejustfood.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

stevie wonder tearing through superstition for almost seven minutes on sesame street is one of my favourites things (found a version that doesn't look like a 5th gen vhs rip) youtu.be/FZeigvMA4go?...

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Stevie Wonder - Superstition - Sesame Street 1973 - STEREO HD

YouTube video by Shadi Frick

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I learned this truth so quickly when I started a new company catering to small businesses in the telecom industry. Probably 90% of the potential clients were assholes who left larger firms because they were this exact kind of nightmare personality

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

happy mother's day, here's 17 minutes of colleen donaghy www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9oH...

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Best Of Jack's Disappointed Mom, Colleen (ft. Elaine Stritch) | 30 Rock

YouTube video by 30 Rock Official

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I love Mr B but as a card carrying Not A Millennial, Float On or All My Friends feels more on target

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

That's surprising. My Gen Z daughter and her same age husband had their wedding DJ play Mr Brightside as the last song on the playlist at the reception and the kids went bananas. So did I and my older cohort of course ....

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I bet that's Stipe and Natalie's version, not Lulu's original

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I know it! And have for a while - it's one of those songs that's been in my brain forever but Leon Bridges's cover (2021) brought it forward and led me to add it to a bunch of personal playlists. What a beautiful work of art

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Michael O'C @m1chael0c.bsky.social · 22/04/2026