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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 26/09/2026

Loading my pockets with cottage cheese for my big job interview. Wish me luck!

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 21/09/2026

My 15 year old, apparently.

Simpson’s meme:
“Two: whenever Poochie’s not on screen, all the other characters should be asking ‘Where’s Poochie?’”

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 20/09/2026

At this point I’m tedious about it: The Bear Comes Home, by Rafi Zabor, in which an American brown bear speaks and reads Shakespeare and evades government scientists and collaborates with Charlie Haden and Billy Hart along the way to developing his own pure, authentic voice on the tenor saxophone.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 16/09/2026

Breaking: Mother 13 announces they are bowing out of opening slot on Ed Sheeran tour.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 13/09/2026

My almost-16yo meets up with his friends to go thrifting but they call it “checking out archive fashion” and I find it so adorable and annoying.

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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ anything 🕯️ good 🕯️ at all 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 06/09/2026

“Show me what Jandek-in-a-mine looks like” “This is what Jandek-in-a-mine looks like”

The weird, awesome open space of the Widow Jane Mine, outside Rosendale, NY. It is a vast open cavern (formerly a limestone mine, with a monolithic central supporting column). There is a stage with lights set up on the left of the column, and concertgoers in the foreground to the right.

Jandek, all in black, stage left in front of the huge central supporting limestone column, in a big Heisenberg-ian serious black hat, with an electric guitar. Stage right is @jandektales.bsky.social in a black dress and purple leggings.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 06/09/2026

I saw Beastie Boys/Body Count in Toledo & took an heroic dose of LSD beforehand, but my roommate’s high school BFFWB drank way too much tequila in the parking lot with some sketchy Germans, and I spent the entire show, peaking, in the the first-aid room under the arena, making sure she didn’t die.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 06/09/2026

I fucking love this prompt. I could keep going. I saw Jandek in a mine. A mine.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 06/09/2026

Saw Brainiac a few months before Tim Taylor died, at an all-ages show at an American Legion. Afterwards, I was the only “adult” who had his own apartment, so i had to host the after-party. Brainiac spent the whole time asking (ironically?) where they could get some crack.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 06/09/2026

OK I saw Fugazi at the 13-13 Club in 1991. I had a galvanic headache and my friend gave me some muscle relaxers, so I watched the show from on top of the stage right PA tower (too zooted to manage the pit). After the show, I climbed down, and a girl instantly started making out with me. We dated.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026

tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation

youtube.com

What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026

I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 10/08/2026

Me watching the GOP try to make the midterms a referendum on a popular Twitch streamer.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/08/2026

imagine a future where *we* appropriate the vicious symbolism of ICE in a merciless crack-down billionaires and the MAGA class: fancy production value videos of bashing down their fancy doors, slapping bags over their spray-tanned heads, black helicopters, shattered ugly gold homewares, etc etc

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 06/08/2026

I am unambiguously onboard if it’s Stephen Feinberg (Cerberus Capital) taking the L.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/08/2026

Whoa.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 05/08/2026

Well you see Tom is a Republican.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 04/08/2026

Guy who just listened to Lou Reed - “New York” while drunkenly making dinner: “You know who would have hated Bluesky? Lou Reed.”

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Masked ICE thug just casually shooting pepper spray at a few old ladies standing peacefully on the sidewalk filming them in uptown Manhattan today. Just because these monsters are quieter now doesn’t mean they’re not still out there violating people.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I’m hearing from multiple sources that they believe there is indeed a surge happening in NYC. This incident, in Inwood, happened amid multiple days of ICE in the area, as activity was also reported in Corona (Queens), Bensonhurst, Bushwick (Brooklyn), & Port Richmond (Staten Island) this past week.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 29/07/2026

You guys it’s a whole new season. I’m shallot-maxxing.

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sexy pride month lukedovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I really hate knowing so much about politics. It makes me sound insane.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 23/07/2026

My new hobby is logging into Spotify on the ipad that plays normie music in the office all day and blocking artists who particularly annoy me. How long before someone notices they haven't heard e.g. Matchbox Twenty Goo Goo Dolls Red Hot Chili Peppers Train in a while?

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 21/07/2026

Elon Musk is NOT allowed in Shawarma Hut London

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

we must never forget that tom homan is a bitch

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 15/07/2026

Here’s the next oppositional-defiant disorder as state government marker to watch.

Screenshot from the linked article, starts mid-sentence:

“…changing clocks that has been observed across most of the United States since the 1960s.
The 308-117 vote sends the bill to the Senate. If enacted, clocks would no longer return to standard time in November, though states could opt out of year-round daylight saving time.”
The phrase “though states could opt out of year-round daylight saving time” is highlighted, by me.

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

the more I reflect upon the benefits of the ecumenical movement, and the radical inability of (most) evangelicals to meaningfully participate in it, the more I begin perceiving evangelicalism as a rogue secondary mutation than another branch of the tree

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 12/07/2026

Lol - Conor McGregor you are too old for that kind of enthusiasm that early in the fight.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 12/07/2026

I just saw a large jet fly relatively low over Harlem, headed towards LGA, flanked by two fighter jets. Is it possible this was a bribe-plane sighting? 👀👀👀

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hooked on chronics @blazeweedman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

kinda fucked up that working for blackwater wasn't THE defining reason he shouldn't have been picked in the first place

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Ian Thomas Malone @ianthomasmalone.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Professor @hcrichardson.bsky.social, please run for Senate. This is a break glass moment.

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Shade 5 @shade5.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Better get your Stella before the tariffs kick in.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 05/07/2026

The fireworks at the closing ceremony of the 1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Durham, NC had pacing, suspense, verve, and dare I say wit. I have not since seen their like.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Standing, standing, standing. Quiet despair. One of the projectors shining on the Washington Monument briefly malfunctions so that, as God Bless The USA finishes playing, it reads REE instead of FREEDOM

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Ammnontet! @bleakvision.info · 19/10/2025

BAH! Enough talk! My <Beam Blast> shall make short work of you!

norman "my name is not norman but still i" rockwell's painting "freedom of speech" except i made the guy fucked up, and he's doing a Beam Blast. and also everyone around him looks more worried than usual

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 04/07/2026

I don’t know if the Kuti estate is behind this, or Knitting Factory Records, or who owns these rights these days, but: gross.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 02/07/2026

You know, having spent 30 years doing weird indie theatre... this is not entirely unrelatable.

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Daramola @izdaramola.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Today is the day we truly became Mamdanistan

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 23/06/2026

Goddammit I love you Ken Simon.

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Mick O’Brien @mickobrien.nyc · 21/06/2026

Missing this dude bad today. Not the chimp - I barely knew him. xoxo dad.

My own personal father, near the beach in Monrovia, Liberia many years ago. He has a towel around his neck, and a big smile, and is holding a baby chimp.

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Looking at algae." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said, "And creating a nuisance."

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