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Rebecca 🦋 @rebecca79903973.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 05/07/2024
Alt text for the rest of that second page, from David Maraniss’ Clemente bio, which I finished yesterday after months of being unwilling to get to the sad part. Clemente gave everything he had to baseball, but unlike so many of his successors, he also gave everything to others. Including himself.
“At Clemente's sweetest moment of glory, in the dugout after his Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1971 World Series, he brought pride to all of Latin America by choosing to speak in Spanish to honor his parents back home. Thirty-four years later, when another Latino, Ozzie Guillen, the Venezuelan manager of the champion Chicago White Sox, stood atop the baseball world, he too paid homage, revealing that in the study of his house he kept a shrine to the one baseball figure he honored above all others, Roberto Clemente. For many years after Clemente's death, Tony Taylor, the Cuban infielder, made a point of walking young Latino teammates out to the right field wall whenever they visited Pittsburgh to give them a history lesson about the great Clemente. He is your heritage, Taylor would tell them, but more than that he is what you can become.”
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 05/09/2026
If I had a nickel for every time a fluffy cloud dog of mine forced himself through the tiny cat flap on our baby gate, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice. Or it would be, if I didn’t know both dogs to be among the most stubborn creatures on the planet.
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 24/08/2026
Have you thought any of these things? You may be entitled to reeducation: buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/a...
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Sola Tu Estrella
Here are a few of my least favorite things.
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Got a shirt today that makes me look like a dad on vacation, and isn’t that just the most aspirational state of being?
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Work sucks, the world sucks, I miss my dog, and tomorrow there’s more of the same.
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
So let’s just hope for trowbridge to uhhhhh find himself going the way of that one ambassador?? You really can’t talk about this show without getting yourself on a list.
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 25/07/2026
The frame from Bill Wurtz’s History of Japan that says “open the country. Stop having it be closed” over Matthew Perry and gunboats over the USian flag, except I’ve replaced it with “open the schools. Stop having them be closed.”
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Gotta take advanced mind reading course before I return to France.
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
True justice will only happen when European women have have a boyfriend whose idea of chic is not the cleaner sneakers and fresh shorts.
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 09/07/2026
The Big Bill Hell’s video, specifically the frame saying “Shove It Up Your Ugly Ass!”
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
11:42 AM • 6/25/26 • 670K ViewsJill Tucker
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My mom was a complicated person but I can’t tell you how mad I am that she normalized awful periods. After 20 years I finally did something about it and now I don’t have to have any periods at all. This is fucking magical but why the fuck did it take me TWENTY YEARS Actually. TWENTY FIVE YEARS
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 20/06/2026
On having superpowers, Aztec Batman, and the cleavage of divinities: buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/a...
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Supervictims, Part I: The Limits of Anticolonial Fantasy
In which Noah ruins a fun movie for himself, and, unsatisfied, proceeds to ruin it for all of you, too.
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If How to Get to Heaven From Belfast has no fans, it’s because I’m dead.
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
If voter suppression is the public story, what’s the story behind voter registration drives to a person who has been dead for 10 years, referring to an address that hasn’t been relevant for 15 years, to the phone of someone else entirely??
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The Swan Princess set us all up for failure by suggesting that there were men out there who could read
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Neil Pajamas @agrippanothing.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I think you mean the White House is breaking a law that was put in place by congress after Watergate.
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 08/04/2026
@magicisthecause.bsky.social saw Stephen Root on this episode of Fringe and immediately went: "Something incredibly sad or incredibly fucked up is about to happen." She was right on *both* counts.
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 02/04/2026
who called it “reaching second-engine cutoff” when “going SECO mode” was right there
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 01/04/2026
tired: Artemis II wired: Ar2mis
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 01/04/2026
A man with a very angular head, no hair on the top of his head and gray to the sides, and blue eyes, wearing a light blue shirt and red bow tie, says “it is happening again” while standing in front of a red stage curtain.
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Today I am irrationally angry about the big lie in food packaging history: this bullshit right here
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 18/03/2026
¡VAMOS VINOTINTOOOOOOS!
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 15/03/2026
Look: the U.S. didn’t “ruin” baseball. There is no golden era when USian players were super fun. Baseball has been extremely hospitable to joyless cop-coded white guys with sticks up their asses since the 19th century. What you’re seeing is the rest of the world choosing to improve on the model.
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 12/03/2026
I am become a Newsletter Bastard. Expect 2-3 pieces a week, on some combination of politics, education, classics and baseball. You can subscribe for free, but if you’ve got some cash burning a hole in your pocket, you can certainly help encourage me. First piece: buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/a...
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What Fresh Hell is This?
Got to start somewhere, right?
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I think the true cleavage point in society is this: do you believe you are smarter than a computer. I believe I am smarter than a computer. Not in the like I could beat a computer at chess, in the I know I can correctly identify an elementary school full of children better than a computer.
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
In the dawn of man, he was a lonely creature, naked and defenseless. Life was short and cold. Then, groups formed and found strength in numbers. One of them said "I will become a customer success team lead." Another said "I will write tickets on Jira, Asana, or Trello." Thus was paradise realized.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Why shouldn't I end it in lol
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Mary Shelly Beans 🎃 🫘 @billhookunion.beanyear.com · 14/02/2026
Howls Moving Castle has a cloaca
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🕯️My cousin Brian passed away last night. After a courageous 3 wk stint with ICE. He slipped on a fellow agent’s frozen peepee puddle & somersaulted many times in the air, yelling “yabbada yabbada yabbada” & tragically aspirating (a different) agent’s pee he’d been gargling. He hated women🇺🇸💔
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Alexalchemy’s Bluesky Thing 🇵🇷🇵🇸 🔜 TBA @alexalchemy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Howdy, here is your reminder that Puerto Rican airspace is STILL shut down by the US military as they are turning this island into a military base for their illegal invasion of Venezuela. And yet there are some people here here that think that protesting that is exclusively Pro Maduro somehow......
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
My curmudgeonly thought for the day: We would not need so many "The ending of blahblahblah EXPLAINED" videos if full-length works of narrative fiction were still routinely taught in grades 5-12. If fairly straightforward plotlines are baffling this many people, something has gone seriously wrong.
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Today I understood the Buns of Bronze line from Hercules. Parody of Abs of Steel. I get it. That’s clever.
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is NOT A DRILL! My favorite kdrama of ALL TIME is back on Netflix! Stop EVERYTHING And go watch Secret Garden right now!!!!
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 12/11/2025
Plus, in the spirit of @adapalmer.bsky.social, I'm matching the first $500 in donations. So what are you waiting for? Sign up, pledge some money, and in two weeks from today you can have an absolute blast watching two nerds get outrageously competitive about food trivia!
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 12/11/2025
ANNOUNCING: The 1st Annual No Substitutions, Please Thanksgiving Fundraiser! Louisa and I will go head-to-head answering 66 trivia questions. We're asking people to pledge money for their local food banks for each one we get right. Want to participate? Check out the form: forms.gle/WSbvEkrJACxA...
Announcement poster for our 1st annual No Substitutions, Please fundraiser, which centers on a wreath crowned with food. Clockwise from the top; pumpkin pie, mac & cheese, biscuits, brussels sprouts, an ear of corn, rosemary, roasted sweet potatoes, parsley, a blue bowl of cranberry sauce, green beans, thyme, stuffing, a roast turkey leg, mashed potatoes with gravy, sage.

The information:
Who? Your favorite co-hosts, Noah and Louisa.
When? Tuesday, November 25th, 7:00 PM Eastern.
Where? Livestream on Twitch: @LNPGaceta.
Why? To raise money for local food banks.
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ez “dyke ghoulfriend” @ezrez.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Zohran says you’re trans now
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
There are more of us than there are of them.
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I’ll say it. The 787 is the chode of the skies.
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 27/10/2025
NUTRITIONIST: you really need to eat more fiber ME: then I will have to crisp a chickpea NUTRITIONIST: you can just eat some whole grains ME: a chickpea I shall crisp NUTRITIONIST: they also make supplements for this now, you know ME: crisp time
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I want Apple to know that 20 years ago it changed how albums are sorted on iPod and iPhones, and I am not overly exaggerating when I say it ruined my life. I’ve had to live knowing that millions of people are just *fine* with this and it makes me want to [redacted]
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
There are so many reasons Ben Horne should be in prison. First that tie and then the way he is eating that sandwich.
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 21/10/2025
It’s the World Series we deserve in 2025: one team has one of the least-punished cheaters in baseball history. The other has George Springer.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
doug emhoff's law firm cut a deal with trump to provide him 100 million in pro bono law services and eliminate all dei initiatives. seven partners resigned, doug emhoff did not 💙
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Two things: 1) Rebel Ridge fucking whips. 2) I really want to play with that Halloween I Spy book.
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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism
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Bobson Dugnutt @literallytho.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
if charlie kirk being murdered makes you feel worse than watching a genocide take place in real time, than all the school shootings that have happened, than watching people being deported to a torture prison in el salvador with no due process, that tells me everything I need to know about you
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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 07/09/2025
You know that dril tweet that goes "ah. so u prosecute Jared Fogle because of his beliefs? do tell. (girls get mad at me) sorry. Im sorry. im trying to remove it?"

Well, I changed it so it looks like Shohei Ohtani tweeted "ah, So i shouldnt hit opposing baserunners in the balls? Do Tell. (baseball fans get mad at me) Sorry. Im sorry. my translator did it"
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Eephus Tosser @eephustosser.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This sport is not real.
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