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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 6m

What I’m discovering here is that a lot of you had a lot less faith in the Pope’s blessings than I did.

Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 4h

As far as Sousa and Walker getting all het up over their own fans booing them, I can’t bring myself to care about their feelings, but in 2026—after seeing years of ignorant, short-sighted, spoiled opinions become conventional social media wisdom—I refuse to take other Astros fans’ side on anything.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 22h

¿por qué no, y no puedo enfatizar esto suficientemente, los dos?

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 23h

If you're wondering how locked in I've been during this Astros season, I completely missed that they have a pitcher from Australia on the active roster.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 23h

I cracked a joke about the Astros being on pace to lose 9-0. That was two innings ago.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 29/09/2026

One of my students today went, in one minute flat, to “why are you a fan of those cheaters?” to “the Cubs got Alex Bregman and he’s been great,” so it’s another day on the counter of baseball fans being unable to read.

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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 27/09/2026

Honestly, this a basic reality for being Black or Brown in the US.

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Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Surviving Nuclear Apocalypse Thanks to Soviets Having Consciences Heritage Month! Here’s to Vasily Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov, who saved everybody on earth.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 26/09/2026

Today I got to introduce a fellow teacher to the time David Brooks claimed “capocollo” and “soppressata” were too hard to pronounce for people without a college degree, which must be what Petrarch felt like in that library when he discovered the poems of Catullus.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And it turns out it was wildly mischaracterizing. As it was pretty obvious it was going to. bsky.app/profile/fake...

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A.G. Rodriguez @agrwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

9/23/1868

The flag of Lares. A blue field atop a red field separated by a white cross. There is a white five pointed star in the top left blue quadrant. It is the official flag for the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico and the historic flag flown to symbolize the rebellion against Spanish rule on 9/23/1868.

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The no big acCount of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just listened to the latest episode of No Substitutions which was on overnight oats. I thought @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app might be horrified to know I not only make mine at room temperature but my technique involves using protein powder for extra rib stick tuitiveness.

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It helps to understand America as a casino you’re trapped in: no windows to another future, no concept of time apart from the casino itself, designed to wear you down. Neon lights and beeps and boops, every machine dressed up as some familiar IP, all doing the same thing: slowly bleeding you dry.

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speedy @deathofspeedy.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026

i really need some help or i'm not going to make it through this month without going into collections and down from there i know everything is actually impossible right now but i have to ask thank you for reading

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Roger Figueroa, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.Sc. @rogerfigphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I held one of those “newspaper jobs” at the age of 12 as the paperboy of my own community in Puerto Rico. It was my first job, and it instilled in me the value of work. More importantly, it taught me the value of written media in people’s lives. “Adiós” al periódico que me enseñó a trabajar. 🗞️

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I feel the rest of the world (Americans included) have no idea of how aggressively the US is pushing to make Latin America into a giant colony. Every day we get news about political interference, increase in military presence, absurd trade demands, online propaganda, Venezuela being pillaged, etc

Headline from one of Brazil's biggest newspapers that reads:
Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) warns the government and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) about the 'critical' level of escalating US pressure against Brazil in the elections.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/monicabergamo/

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 21/09/2026

For the last day or so I thought y’all were giving props to Chris Simms for saying something original for a football-related personality, but no, he was just insisting that football retain enough sanctity that Ted Cruz can’t go on pregame shows. Low bar, even for this country.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 20/09/2026

Love that Silo is explicitly a show about what happens when you put an IT person in charge.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The other thing to remember amidst all the Steven Pinker discourse is that the book that made him an NPR-darling celebrity academic, The Blank Slate, was essentially an argument that non-evopsych social science is ideologically corrupt and possibly evil.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For obvious reasons, culture warriors in the pay of private interests that seek to take universities over have every reason to obscure this. On an individual level, too, structural explanations are cold comfort when the one job in your field is on a topic you don’t work on and goes to someone else.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But the actual problem is not who gets the golden ticket this year, but rather why a socially vital sector (do we not think knowledge, about society and about nature, is valuable?) has been eviscerated to the point where a steady job teaching and doing research is a golden ticket in the first place.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think it is important not to connect these in the wrong way. We have seen, again and again now, Wokeness or DEI offered as an explanation, especially where any noticeable number of the lucky few to get the chance at a career come from fields dealing with such “divisive” topics as gender or race.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But academia itself has a similar (not identical; but maybe related) problem. There are a few stars, and a larger handful of people privileged with secure senior positions. And there is a sea of casual labour. But there is less and less of a middle where people can make real careers by solid work.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What you won’t find much of are ordinary scholars who have neither an axe to grind about their failed hopes nor a buzz to create for their next NYT bestseller about why plagues are good or The Left has stifled debate by eating sandwiches. Both the picture and the personnel draw from the extremes.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In publications advancing an “antiwoke” line you will find a corresponding mix of would-be or once-was academics who couldn’t make it work for one reason or another, and classical liberal stars who are very much making it work — with a sprinkling of wingnut welfare types on race science postdocs.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s worth considering the confused role academia plays in radical centrism as a movement. It is, first, a muddled target: a bastion of wokeness, brainwashing, ideological compulsion but also irrelevance, elitism, weakness. But it’s also a magic well of authority for heroes like Pinker and Peterson.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There’s more to be said about the relationship between Pinker-style stardom and the state of academia. Not because academia is Woke, but because star systems loosen rigor at the top while solid scholarship becomes a dead end lower down. Shoddy celebrities and broke PhDs proceed from the same machine

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 19/09/2026

🎶 Do you want to build a project? 🎶 I mentioned a bit ago I'm trying to make an RPG Maker MV game. It's a gladiatorial tactics game—imagine Final Fantasy X (very gently) fucked XCOM. Thing is, between stress, executive dysfunction, and lack of confidence, I'm notoriously unreliable at doing this.

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Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey, it’s me, your childhood friend from your idyllic hometown in this RPG. Let’s do some tutorial missions together. No, I’m not in any of the official art, but that probably doesn’t mean anything.

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It was an honor to perform this very chilling and poetically rendered story. "Foreign Objects" alludes to atrocities committed by the US military in Vieques, Puerto Rico. How beautiful to render it this way, with our many voices.

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy Friday! I'm going to be very annoying about this but I HAVE to give props to @boriscrito.bsky.social, @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app, and @sofiaquintero.bsky.social for bringing Foreign Objects - my story of communal tragedy and hope - to life. Free to listen! www.patreon.com/posts/169642...

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Foreign Objects | Podside Picnic

Please listen to an audio production of my flash fiction piece, Foreign Objects. Many thanks to Sofia Quintero, E.G. Condé, and Noah S. McKi

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jegf @jjk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Whenever someone I'm traveling with points out a water tower, I make the same joke: "That's where the local Animaniacs live"

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 18/09/2026

Rochester drivers are like Superman—in that their fatal weakness is a shiny green thing and they seem to think they’re from a species immune to physical harm on Earth.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

YOU COULD HIRE SO MANY FUCKING TENURE TRACK FACULTY FOR THIS. SON OF A BITCH.

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

self evidently true but it doesn’t follow the patriotic sentimentality that’s taken hold of The Resistance™️

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ICYMI For the beginning of #LatineHeritageMonth, I released a full cast audio production of Foreign Objects yesterday Of the Latin American countries celebrating, Puerto Rico is not yet free. This is a story of communal tragedy and hope www.patreon.com/posts/169642...

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Foreign Objects | Podside Picnic

Please listen to an audio production of my flash fiction piece, Foreign Objects. Many thanks to Sofia Quintero, E.G. Condé, and Noah S. McKi

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Today is Mayflower Day - when misguided idiots set off from Plymouth, Devon, to go to America, and look at the shite we're in now. Here are ten artworks about/based around that voyage: First up: "Re-Rites" - Jasleen Kaur (2020)

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 16/09/2026

I know you’re all disgusted by this news, but I think this is actually a fair rule. After all, how are you going to disqualify applicants for bestiality when the director’s out there screwing the pooch every day?

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @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 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 05/07/2024

I think a lot about how Clemente had the most Puerto Rican death a ballplayer can have: so busy trying to do something no one else was doing that he didn’t stop to think that he was getting on a colossal death trap—because he cared more about Nicaraguan victims of an earthquake than his own life.

“The mythic aspects of baseball usually draw on clichés of the innocent past, the nostalgia for how things were. Fields of green. Fathers and sons. But Clemente's myth ares the other way, to the future, not the past, to what people hope they can become. His memory is kept alie as a symbol of action and passion, not of reflection and longing.
He broke racial and language barriers and achieved greatness and died a hero. That word can be used indiscriminately in the world of sports, but the case definitine uses omeone who gives his life in the service Kohers, ada hat is exactly what Clemente did. He was also the real-softle caly Latino players in a game that is increasingly dominated . . .

by Spanish-speaking athletes. Ramirez, Martinez, Rodriguez, Pujols, Rivera, Ortiz, Beltran, Tejada, Guerrero- these are the names of baseball today, among the 204 Latinos who opened the 2005 season on major league rosters, about one-quarter of all players. Puerto Rico itsel has mostly moved on to basketball and other faster-paced sports, leaving the baseball obsession more to the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, but the story of how Clemente was the best among them is passed along from generation to generation, country to country.”

There’s more, but it doesn’t fit in the alt text and it’s worth reading in its entirety, so I’m putting it in the next skeet.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 15/09/2024

Didn’t know this article existed until today, but this is the exact quality that makes Roberto Clemente my GOAT. He not only sought to be the best damn baseball player of his era, and achieved that (argue with your nearest wall), but to be a positive influence on the world. sabr.org/journal/arti...

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Roberto Clemente: Baseball Rebel – Society for American Baseball Research

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 15/09/2023

Happy Roberto Clemente Day to all who celebrate. Reading Maraniss’ 2007 bio. The portrait that emerges is of a man unafraid to take pride in his accomplishments—which should let all of us whose identities have seen us reduced and alienated from our own great deeds take heart.

Painting of Roberto Clemente, in black and white, holding his bat, superimposed on a collage of maps of Puerto Rico and Pittsburgh, with his famous quote in stencil font atop it all: “Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on Earth.”

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 15/09/2024

‪An entire life, on the diamond and off it, spent reminding us of one of the most immutable truths of the universe: When you want the job done right, you call the boricua. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷‬ Happy Roberto Clemente Day.

A painting of Roberto Clemente, wearing the classic Pirates white vest with the fancy 21 on the back and the black sleeves, having just undoubtedly lined the crap out of some terrible breaking ball a pitcher tried to slip past him.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 03/07/2024

We’re allowed our little Olympic team and our flag-covered cars and our fried plantains, so long as we remember our place and express our gratitude when the Americans come to town to indulge their national adolescence.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 03/07/2024

If there is one thing that lights the revolutionary fire within me to burn hot and sky blue, it is that this fucking cesspool of a country has forced me and my people to scrape and bow and apologize and be *proud* of our “kindness,” which is really the servile character that’s been forced on us.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 03/07/2024

He had to swallow his pride in two languages, to carry the baseball reputation of an entire country on his back for a good portion of his career, and yet he held himself to a higher standard than every suburban white boy raised to be a top 100 prospect who pretends like no one ever believed in them.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 03/07/2024

Clemente got routinely slagged off as a hypochondriac, malingerer, layabout, time bomb, and everything else by a sports press that didn’t know how to deal with an Afro-PR player who was incredible on the field and had the audacity to be proud of it, and yet he learned to distinguish friend from foe.

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