Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 05/07/2024Alt 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. 075
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 05/09/2026If 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. 0101
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 24/08/2026Have you thought any of these things? You may be entitled to reeducation: buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/a...buttondown.comSola Tu EstrellaHere are a few of my least favorite things. 2113
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Got a shirt today that makes me look like a dad on vacation, and isn’t that just the most aspirational state of being? 000
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Work sucks, the world sucks, I miss my dog, and tomorrow there’s more of the same. 000
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 26/07/2026So 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. 000
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Gotta take advanced mind reading course before I return to France. 000
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 10/07/2026True justice will only happen when European women have have a boyfriend whose idea of chic is not the cleaner sneakers and fresh shorts. 000
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Float test and see! Cool water, if a blob floats she’s in a good place to use. If she doesn’t float, keep feeding. 000
Reposted by Orbit the FriendLeah 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: 2338661526
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 24/06/2026My 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 000
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 20/06/2026On having superpowers, Aztec Batman, and the cleavage of divinities: buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/a...buttondown.comSupervictims, Part I: The Limits of Anticolonial FantasyIn which Noah ruins a fun movie for himself, and, unsatisfied, proceeds to ruin it for all of you, too. 033
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Same with my college checking account, but my mom died ten years ago. My brother had to jump through hoops to close his account, like needed the death cert, so I put off closing the account. Finally got around to closing this year because I was tired of the fees and they just.. let me close it. 110
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 13/06/2026My brother complained his ex wife set the house to that temp and it was “bad.” The correct path forward is to set the house to 68 in the winter and 75 in the summer. Thus, comprise and as much of middle finger to the electric company as possible. 000
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 12/06/2026If How to Get to Heaven From Belfast has no fans, it’s because I’m dead. 010
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 09/05/2026If 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?? 010
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 26/04/2026The Swan Princess set us all up for failure by suggesting that there were men out there who could read 000
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNeil Pajamas @agrippanothing.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I think you mean the White House is breaking a law that was put in place by congress after Watergate. 21799633
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Latin is different in the alternate timeline duh 000
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah 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. 041
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 02/04/2026who called it “reaching second-engine cutoff” when “going SECO mode” was right there 072
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 01/04/2026tired: Artemis II wired: Ar2mis 2193
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Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Today I am irrationally angry about the big lie in food packaging history: this bullshit right here 000
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Jira powers my life, it’s true. But I draw the line at opening tickets to tell other people to complete a task they themselves know needs to be done. The next time a PM asks me to create a task for another team to complete, I will scream. Idk maybe we are using it weird. 001
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 18/03/2026¡VAMOS VINOTINTOOOOOOS! 0112
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 15/03/2026Look: 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. 182
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 12/03/2026I 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...buttondown.comWhat Fresh Hell is This?Got to start somewhere, right? 086
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I 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. 030
Reposted by Orbit the FriendMike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 18/02/2026In 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. 214320
Reposted by Orbit the FriendMary Shelly Beans 🎃 🫘 @billhookunion.beanyear.com · 14/02/2026Howls Moving Castle has a cloaca 1010520
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I had a fun celebrity sighting moment the one time I was actually on the American Airlines plane with the incredibly loud and creaky landing gear. 110
Reposted by Orbit the FriendRob 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🇺🇸💔 12677631118
Reposted by Orbit the FriendAlexalchemy’s Bluesky Thing 🇵🇷🇵🇸 🔜 TBA @alexalchemy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Howdy, 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...... 1206
Reposted by Orbit the FriendMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/12/2025My 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. 1846357
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Today I understood the Buns of Bronze line from Hercules. Parody of Abs of Steel. I get it. That’s clever. 000
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 28/11/2025This is NOT A DRILL! My favorite kdrama of ALL TIME is back on Netflix! Stop EVERYTHING And go watch Secret Garden right now!!!! 0102
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 12/11/2025Plus, 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! 1911
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 12/11/2025ANNOUNCING: 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... 0910
Reposted by Orbit the Friendez “dyke ghoulfriend” @ezrez.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Zohran says you’re trans now 3754291432
Reposted by Orbit the FriendBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025There are more of us than there are of them. 437323975147
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 27/10/2025I’ll say it. The 787 is the chode of the skies. 000
Reposted by Orbit the FriendNoah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 27/10/2025NUTRITIONIST: 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 3212
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 27/10/2025I have a lot of bits. This is not a bit. This has cause psychological harm to me. One of the most profitable companies in the world, and they can’t figure out sort by album. Fucks sake. 100
Orbit the Friend @magicisthecause.bsky.social · 27/10/2025An album is an artistic complication, and sorting by album by artist as the ONLY WAY TO VIEW ALBUMS should be considered a crime. I hate hate hate hate it, and the fact that they’ve kept this up for TWENTY YEARS means too few people care to complain. 120
