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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Ben: Stop talking to this person. In real life, you would’ve walked away from them a long time ago.

Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Hi, Nick! I hope your mother is able to get all of the supplies she needs. Keep up the good work, and thanks for all that you do!

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Thank you for writing so beautifully about one of my favorite movies!

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I’m so glad you’re posting here as well now, Nick!!

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

From your lips to the sports gods’ ears…

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Yeah! I mentioned above how the “self-quoted material” issue is less common now, and the edit history is why. Some Wikipedia articles aren’t the best at citing high-quality primary sources, but the important articles do, and they’re great tools for helping kids learn to identify credible sources!

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hey! Teacher here. I tell students that profs don’t like direct Wiki citations because you can add chunks of your essay to an article, then “quote” them. (Rarer nowadays than 20 years ago, but still a pain to have to check.) But footnotes in Wiki articles point kids towards sources they CAN cite!

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If we’re doing The Wonder Years songs, I submit “The Paris of Nowhere.” They’re building shrines to St. Nick Foles!!

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This. Exactly this. Banning earmarks was defensible if you were convinced they were just vehicles for corruption, waste, etc. I didn’t realize they were the ONLY legitimate incentive for cooperation and compromise at the time. But removing them in the face of Citizens United was catastrophic.

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I can’t figure out a sequence that really makes sense, but I’d go with: Close Encounters of the Third Kind Men in Black Knives Out Margin Call Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Thanks for the quick response, Andrew! That’s really disappointing news; I’m not a local fan, but I’m fond of teams with nifty crests and names, and the Hailstorm checked both boxes for me.

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Did I miss something??? Why were the Hailstorm terminated? Where is CV Fuego going? I yearn for a stable USL pyramid.

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

It’s been years since “A Badly Broken Code” and “Parts of Speech,” and they’re as riveting as ever!

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

You’re in Amanda Mull’s starter pack! She’s good people, so I figured you must also be good people.

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Over at The Athletic, Anthony Slater noted that players like Kevon Looney and Gary Payton II look more fit and athletic this year. I’d like to know whether this is the result of Rick Celebrini and the rest of the staff adjusting their approach in some way, or just early-season fresh legs!

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Yeah, the Venn diagram of a) transphobes making bad-faith arguments about protecting women’s sports and b) people who actually care about and attend/watch/support/follow women’s sports is a set of two circles that never intersect.

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Company is a great pick too! And I’m with you 100% on Out of the Vein. If I could only save one 3EB album from being erased from history, it’s the one I’d pick. (The self-titled one is “better,” but OOTV has brought me so much joy, especially if I get to keep Persephone and My Time in Exile too.)

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

I will be overjoyed if Past Lives actually takes Screenplay, but worry it faded from the conversation too quickly to get across the finish line…do you think critics will still beat the drum for it after the usual end-of-year release crush?

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

They’re playing it at every show now for poignant reasons, but “Aurora” from “There is Nothing Left to Lose” has always been my favorite Foo Fighters song. The current heaviest-in-rotation is probably the Live from the Ryman version of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s “Last of My Kind.”

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Michael Feraco @michaelferaco.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

This is a FANTASTIC answer. It’s the most underrated song on the self-titled album. For Blue: “Wounded” Out of the Vein: “Palm Reader” Ursa Major: “About to Break” Dopamine: “Say It” The last two albums have been pretty rough but “The Dying Blood”/“Funeral Singers” pairing is pretty great!

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