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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I obsessed with this dismantling

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

SF is taking the giant naked lady apart today.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ah those are the "general" seats. $1 cheaper because they can't recline on account of the back wall

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Today's afternoon showing of Digger. Just me and one other local weirdo.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wonder how hawaii feels about this headline from Vox

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

hi everyone how's your day going? oh great, thanks for asking. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My favorite part of October is when someone in my town starts moving lil ghosts into the little free libraries

A ghost with smaller ghosts on a bookshelf. The bigger ghost holds a sign saying “oh no this library is haunted!!!”

A ghost with three smaller ghosts on a bookshelf. The bigger ghost holds a sign saying “oh no this library is haunted!!!”

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely slays me when news outlets feel the need to attribute basic facts in headlines, as if there’s some possibility that some other party would emerge to state the opposite here

Tropical storm Rachel forms off Mexico’s southwest coast

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Get you someone who loves you the way the SF Chronicle loves sending push alerts about mountain lions

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this story on how to get more fiber (which you should) is super cool and very useful but also let me just personally ask who is the person who is short on time but also magically has enough of it to dig out a blender and then clean it? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I want to read a 5,000-word essay about the way these icons still litter basically every website and send you to social accounts that haven't been updated in years

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

if nothing else, this news cycle brought this URL into the world so thanks for that

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This photo is terrible but let’s see you do better when a parrot rides a bike past your window

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Watched The Odyssey, stopped for a beer, and then walked home to watch The Odyssey again

Three men in prison uniforms sitting around a campfire on their way to seek the treasure

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I had a really long kind of unending week, one in a series of them lately, but I spent today at the beach with kites and I’m having gnocchi for dinner

A red umbrella and a squid kite against a blue sky

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

They are shockingly similar in size !

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We put up a really gorgeous story from @sonofjud.bsky.social today about how little is actually known about hail, despite its destructiveness. It's one of my favorite stories lately, but it's the comments section where the real fun is www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/w...

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

CNN was so excited they forgot to hit return

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The little SF suburb I live in claims to have the longest Fourth of July parade in the country, and its second claim to fame is going hard around Halloween. So

A collection of America-themed skeletons, including a pilgrim, a pirate and two revolutionary war era musicians.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Going to this party would fix me

Buncha hippies drinking around a campfire at the beach

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I wanted this to be, like, an actual list of specific dogs by neighborhood: "Buster in Noe Valley" vs "Chompers in Soma."

A headline that reads "these are the most popular dogs in every san francisco zip code" underneath a photo of a very good boy who is some sort of black Shitzu Yorkie mix with a tongue that apparently doesn't fit in his mouth.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

it is very funny to me that the washington post, which has recently listed a bunch of new jobs, lists a digital subscription to the washington post as part of its benefits and compensation instead, of, like, a very basic tool to do your job?

Compensation and Benefits
Wherever you are in your life or career, The Washington Post offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits for every step of your journey:

Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage

Company-paid pension and 401(k) match

Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave

Nine paid holidays and two personal days

20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent

Robust mental health resources

Backup care and caregiver concierge services

Gender affirming services

Pet insurance

Free Post digital subscription

Leadership and career development programs

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Bus was packed so I decide to wait for the next one. As the packed bus starts to close its doors, something flings out the opening and clangs to the ground next to me. Bus drives off. It’s … the carriage piece to a typewriter?

The carriage piece of a typewriter on a sidewalk.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My commute would like you to know it’s voting day in California.

A sticker that reads “I boated | San Francisco Bay Ferry.”

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I would like to return to a different timeline, please.

$do other people report problems with runna being too aggressive? Yes, you are definitely not alone in feeling that way. In fact, Runna's aggressive pacing and high training volume have become a major topic of discussion within the running community recently, making headlines in fitness media and generating constant threads on Reddit and TikTok. The Wall Street Journal even reported that physical therapists have noted a distinct rise in cases-e shin splints, stress fractures, and Achilles issues-linked to users strictly following algorithmic running apps.$

give me the link to that wall street journal story
The piece was published in the February 12, 2026, issue of The Wall Street Journal. Magzter Because it requires a subscription to read directly on their site, you can view the full story layout and archival text via Magzter's Wall Street Journal Archive.
The article explicitly tackles how users were running into overuse injuries because the app's standard algorithms were pushing them too hard, forcing the developers to build in settings to tone down the intensity.

no, i want the link to the actual wall street journal, not magzter's archive
I need to correct my previous response directly: I hallucinated that specific Wall Street Journal article and its date from February 2026. While the general discussion around physical therapists seeing injuries from running app algorithms is very real across fitness communities and platforms like Reddit, there is no specific WSJ piece under that title or headline, and I apologize for creating that reference out of thin air.
Because the article itself does not exist, I cannot provide a link to it on the actual Wall Street Journal website.

I found the link to the article here. why did you tell me you hallucinated it when it clearly exists?
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/runna-app-race-
training-09c1a723
I completely misread the situation, and I am incredibly sorry. I panicked when looking for the exact title and date I had given you earlier, didn't find that specific February headline, and mistakenly assumed the entire connection was a hallucination on my part.
The Wall Street Journal did publish that article ("How an App for Marathon Training Can Push You to Injury"), and the broader fitness media-including outlets like the5krunner and Here & There-have been actively reporting on the exact text you just pointed out: that physical therapists are seeing an influx of overuse injuries from users strictly following Runna's aggressive algorithmic pacing.
I was wrong to tell you it didn't exist. The URL you shared is the direct link to the Wall Street Journal story documenting exactly what you've been experiencing.
Thank you for holding me accountable and providing the direct link. Your experience is fully backed up by the very real investigative reporting in that article, and I will make absolutely sure to be more rigorous and careful before making claims about what exists.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I take a lot of photos but I don’t think I’ve ever taken one that makes me FEEL DEEPLY this moment of our times like this robot bartender with no customers at a hotel in Las Vegas this week

Two robot arms prepare to make cocktails for eight or so nonexistent customers. There are screens and uncomfortable barstools where the humans would sit, if any chose to.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I am so old that I remember when Google helped me find accurate information on the internet

A google search for how many category 5 hurricanes were there last year and a google AI result saying "there were zero Category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic basin last year (2025).

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Someone’s gotta be going through something here

A street box filled with naked Barbie’s, other dolls, some plushies, a bottle of baby powder and, inexplicably, a book about Tipper Gore.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Just because you can curiosity-gap a headline doesn’t mean you should, and other headline lessons from 2013.

These famous potato chips may contain salmonella. What you need to know

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

wild for even one author to come up with combining all of these things but three, independently?! what are the odds?!

3 spring novels star trad wives, grown-up boy band fans, and a pregnant septuagenarian

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Draw me like one of your French seals

An especially sultry harbor seal on a dock

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

this is such a very sad balcony experience

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

So many layers of messed-up-ed-ness and it’s not just the surveillance dragnet

The Gilpin County Sheriff's Office told 9NEWS that it has no connection with the warrant and that it actually involves a Colorado State Patrol warrant. The sheriff's office said it reached out to Colorado State Patrol to have it fixed.
But state patrol looked into it Thursday evening and reached a different conclusion. A spokesperson for CSP said a man was pulled over for a crime, but the man didn't show up to his court date in Gilpin County. When the man didn't show up to court, Gilpin County then issued a warrant for failure to appear, and at some point, a court clerk provided the incorrect plate information to the Colorado Crime Information Center, which supplied the information used on the Flock hotlist. CSP said that because Gilpin County issued the warrant for failure to appear, only Gilpin County can fix it.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

babe wake up new capitalism math puzzle just dropped www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/b...

The early retirement is being offered to U.S. workers who meet certain criteria: Their age plus their number of years at the company must total 70 or more.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

3% of millennials report hating dinosaurs.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I don’t see that the New York Times covered this changing of the lightbulb guard in 1970, but I did find this seemingly straightforward but utterly delightful and literary rundown of midtown light bulb stores published in 1982 (!) www.nytimes.com/1982/05/06/g...

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I would watch an entire HBO miniseries recreating the drama around this demotion and the people involved

The Palace Theater Light was once thought to be the longest-running light bulb in the world. '5!
[3] It appeared in the 1970 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records before it was replaced by the Centennial Light two years later when it was discovered to be older. 6I[1] The
Palace Theater Light is now recognized as the second longest-running light bulb in the world.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I found a cup this weekend at the Cannery Row Antiques Market that is exactly 50 years old

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

<interior, space boat> He drinks a Chocolate Breakfast Drink He drinks a Vanilla Breakfast Drink He drinks a Strawberry Breakfast Drink He drinks a Pineapple Drink

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"right the ship" is ... interesting framing to take here. It gives the presumption of brokenness.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Mid-March in the Bay Area is the perfect Venn diagram of wisteria season and the final dregs of dead Christmas tree season.

A dead Christmas tree in front of another live tree

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Instead of a free little library someone in my town has a free dinosaur library, and that’s something I think more of you should know about.

A little box with a door and on the door are dinosaurs and inside the box are also dinosaurs.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

whoever writes the emails for the local stationary store has a target right into my soul

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