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Jesse O’Connell

@oconnell.bsky.social
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Advancement at the American Council on Education. Del Ray dad and 2x Hoya. Books, baseball, beer, higher ed, and all things Alexandria. Subscribe to ALXtra: alxtra.ghost.io

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Eugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 5h
Baseball has had increasing attendance every year of the current CBA except the one immediately following the last lockout. Instead of maintaining that momentum, the owners plan to lock the players out again. Too much money is coming in, franchise values are growing too fast. Stop the success!
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MLB attendance up for 4th straight year, boosted by Rays
Major League Baseball attendance rose for the fourth straight year to 71.75 million, reaching its highest total since 2017, with a boost from the
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 22h
What a run by Cavan Sullivan.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the right's crippling lack of ball knowledge strikes again
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Internet Contrarian @internetcontrarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that sets Nats Park apart is local draft program. Very few parks have that. But lines are slow and some MBA is going to look at $/inning and cancel it. Would be a mistake. A signature they lean in. Yet 1-2 taps were mass market or cocktail this year. Feels nearing its end. Mistake.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What am I being advertised here? Is this a safe room? A meth lab? An xl TARDIS? Also who is the audience for this ad, what commuter is going to be like “ah yes, I would like to impulse buy a weapons grade sauna(?) for my backyard.”
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finally got to see the cute animation! alxwhere #11 · 3,000/3,000 🟩🟩🟩 1. 1000 pts · 0 ft off 2. 1000 pts · 23 ft off 3. 1000 pts · 10 ft off alxwhere.com
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How well do you know Alexandria, VA? Three spots a day, 1000 points each.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I heard the trendy coffee shop in Bag Park is absolutely worth checking out though.
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Ryan Belmore @ryanbelmore.com · 28/09/2026
For those interested, more information and maps of project area are here www.alexandriava.gov/capital-proj...
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Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project: Del Ray East
The City of Alexandria is rehabilitating sanitary sewer mainlines and manholes in Del Ray East.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New map of Del Ray just dropped. Tag yourself, I’m Van Dorn Street (North Edition).
A deeply hallucinated map of Del Ray produced by The Zebra.
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Matthew Pouliot @matthewpouliot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ignoring strike years/2020... .316 average is lowest to lead the majors ever 45 homers is lowest total to lead the majors since 2014 116 RBI is lowest total to lead the majors since 2014 119 runs scored is lowest total to lead majors since 2014 40 doubles is lowest total to lead majors since 1972
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finally got around to reading the viral Boston Globe piece and I’m in a daze muttering “DJ Harsh Noise Boyfriend” like an incantation.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Washington has won eight of its last 11 games. On a vastly extended timeline that sort of pace might get them back into contention. Sadly however they, like the rest of us, are prisoners of finite championship seasons, the existence of the Gregorian calendar, and the realities of axial precession.”
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Cup of Coffee, September 24, 2026
A Nor'Easter is a-brewin', Schrödinger's Aaron Judge injury, Falvey to the Mets, what I hope is foreshadowing, musing about Muse, and "There's Always Something There to Remind Me"
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Senator Elizabeth Bennett-Parker @ebpforva.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fetch isn’t happening, but my first fundraiser since becoming one of the youngest state senators is. Can’t make it on 10/3? You can still support your favorite millennial state senator at the same link: secure.actblue.com/donate/ebp1003
Aaron Samuels from Mean Girls with a speech bubble saying I wonder when Elizabeth is hosting her annual fundraiser this year. Image of Cady Heron from Mean Girls saying It's October 3rd
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“I know how to swing a cricket bat, and I hit him pretty hard,” McDonald said.” Coolest Alexandria local news quote of all time?
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Potomac Yard restaurant staff recount fighting off attempted robber with grill scraper | ALXnow
Staffers at a restaurant near Potomac Yard recently fought off a knife-wielding attempted robber and are telling their story. On the night of Sept. 1, manager Merve McDonald was behind the counter at ...
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OFFICIAL: You make that list of places to name after Trump yet? FLUNKIE: Sure did boss, real fucking ironic just like you asked. OFFICIAL: What.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He concludes by insisting this is why people don't read books anymore. Because literary culture is being "hollowed out" and it's "turning off a generation of readers hungry for literature judged only on the merits of the work itself." Bret. You dolt. You didn't read the books or judge their merits.
Bret, insisting that this is why people don't read anymore.
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ME: it is the middle of September and it is almost 80 degrees outside. it still feels a little early to be drinking pumpkin spice coff- STAPLES: merry christmas you piece of shit
K cup display with peppermint bark coffee and peppermint Swiss miss in goddamn September
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy Friday, Alexandria! We're placing litigious grocery orders, tossing our bratwurst, and telling mass surveillance to go Flock itself in today's issue of ALXtra with @oconnell.bsky.social:
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Flock Around and Find Out
Ever since the invention of the modern camera, our culture has produced an abundance of stories, songs, and art about the fear of being watched. This concern has deep historical roots—people have drea...
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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tommy Pham's first hit in the Majors this season is a go-ahead three-run homer for the White Sox. Incredible.
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Mark Agee @markagee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"NPR sat down with this solar calculator and asked it to explain this poem about God"
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
imagine a divorce so bad it turns you into mickey rourke
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This book was absolutely astonishing.
The Everlasting by Alix Harrow
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Serious contender for “most open a wide receiver has ever been in any football game ever”
A Boston College receiver, alone in the middle of the football field
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Have gotten five texts like this in the last 24 hours. “President Trump authorized a $5K check for William Kristol - but you need to confirm your official approval in the next 10min.” Makes you wonder if it wasn’t ever aimed at voters, but was always just part of a fund-raising scam.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It was an MLM convention. Anyone whose Dad ever sold Amway knows what this was. The downlines have tapped out their networks and are dropping off, garages full of product they can’t move and broken homes waiting for them when they get back.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some truly incredible things being posted on Al Gore’s internet this morning.
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Mike Sager @mikesager.net · 10/09/2026
They built a feature without thinking about how it would work. This is just idiots testing in production on an internet connected server. The answer to stop this idiocy is to use existing laws and legal resources to go after the humans who did this. Stop assigning agency to tools.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“But ‘she’ is an actor because ‘she’ is a single creation who can appear in different roles in different projects!” You are describing Gonzo as Charles Dickens.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Typical NFL politics QB: Republican RB: Republican TE: Republican WR: Anarchist
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Look I was extremely likely to sign up the Washington Sun regardless, but bringing back Boswell and Sietsema exponentially increased the enthusiasm with which I mashed that subscribe button.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day. Speaking of laboring, the Nationals have blown a major league record 37 saves this season. If they’d converted just a third of those they’d comfortably have a wildcard spot in hand.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
chess dot com probably doesn’t have much money but they clearly have enough to own the world’s richest man
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My man looks like he owns a Hooters-branded Discover Card
Secretaryof Homelandsecurity Markwayne Mullin
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Everyone is doing this dialect test but no one is talking about the murder confession in the middle of it?
A screenshot of the viral dialect test with the question about a woman’s lifeless body in a pool
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How is it possible we had that storm last night but the air is still soup. Running just now was a huge mistake.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Happy Friday, Alexandria! @oconnell.bsky.social and I are celebrating the third birthday of ALXtra with even more em dashes, foul language, and sophomoric humor than usual. Join us:
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Three Years and a Newsletter
Congratulations—you’re reading the third anniversary issue of ALXtra!  If this opening line seems familiar (and why wouldn’t it, aren’t you all constantly reading our back catalogue so you can stay u...
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Allison Pregler 📼🎃 @allisonpregler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A screenshot from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. The subtitle reads, "I'm one of the few people who've written more books than they've read."
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
still can't get over how everyone in public office just decided that letting spammers make all cellphones unusable is just how life has to be
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Is it good when the red part of the radar storm track passes right over you?
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just saw that Edge of Tomorrow is back on a streamer I subscribe to, guess I’m not going to bed at a reasonable hour tonight after all.
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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I hear you—and I apologize. That mushroom was one of the poisonous ones, you’re right. That’s not just useful feedback—it’s you setting a boundary.
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wow. $15,000-20,000 refundable tax credit (you get the money like a grant if your taxes aren't as high as the benefit) for keeping journalists hired. $15,000 for hiring new ones. $7,500 for hiring part-time. For-profit, nonprofit, **sole-proprietors** — doesn't matter. How did this happen???
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California Legislature Passes Nation’s Largest Proposed Investment in Community News
Historic effort provides support to local news outlets for hiring or retaining local journalists, AB 2222 now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Science has determined: - the Median Baltimore Orioles player - the Median Tampa Bay Rays player
HUNTER CORNMAN

Apple-cheeked blond oaf

Usually hits .218 but turns into Ted fucking Williams whenver he's facing your team

Attended Robert E. Lee-Strom Thurmond Secondary in South BiscuitvilleDAX DONK

Perpetually damp-looking ambidextrous sidearm knuckleballer with 0.95 ERA

Acquired by the Rays for $500 out of the Boat Repair Technical College of Alaska

The moment he’s owed real money he will be traded to the Yankees for a stack of scratch-off tickets
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