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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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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 13h
We’ve used Aziz at Fair Appliance Repair for years, he’s great.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 17h
No.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy Friday, Alexandria! We're entering our public infrastructure thrifting era, voting like we're demonstrating our erotic acting skills in a diner, and losing the plot in our community theater production of the new ALXtra with @oconnell.bsky.social:
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Secondhand City
Lately driving around town we’ve found ourselves noticing places that could be something else. And we don’t mean that thing we all do—fantasize about cool things that could go into a vacant retail spa...
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You sure you’re up for that Mr. Russell… Street?
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I saw him on Dangerfield Rd!
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Eugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
"Sabio did not rule out a federal role in public education but said he wanted policy decisions controlled at the local and state levels." I have some very exciting news for Sabio about where education policy decisions currently take place.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s been a blast watching these kids the last two games.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No! Keep it for MobLand! Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren doing the most insane Irish accents ever put to screen!
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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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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Admiral Adama, philosopher
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s honestly wild that they don’t seem to understand that silly “front page” AI template they use for FB graphics is the root of their problems. This is the same template that keeps hallucinating fake versions of real people’s photos.
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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 · 29/09/2026
Pretty sure it’s a graphical representation of laziness and sloppiness. Because not a single person at this publication *actually looked* at this image prior to hitting publish. Their responses on Facebook make clear that they think it’s the same image the city provided… but it’s not.
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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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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have kids who like to listen to the pop music channels on satellite radio so I have heard this song approximately 7,000 times haha
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve caught a bunch of Boro games this year and he’s legit tearing it up in the Championship.
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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 · 26/09/2026
I assume it’s the normal Friday night show at Nat Harbor but the weather pattern is pushing the sound on top of us?
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I really want one of the local beat writers to give us 5,000 words on this. I know it’s been covered before, but I mean like the current blow by blow of how the new leadership feels about that deal, what the groundskeepers think, etc.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolutely love this series. It’s a bummer he’s been stalled on the fourth one for so long (though I’m much less mad at him about it than I am at GRRM and Rothfuss over their delays).
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you get the Toyota ad where the person doing the ad read puts the emphasis on the wrong part of the slogan? “Toyota. Let’s go PLACES! Cracks me up every time. Pure Tracy Jordan shit.
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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
I got 2987 on that one because apparently I’m bad at judging where specifically the front doors of large institutions are.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There’s also a big march in Dupont Circle right now so everything over here is also snarled to hell and gone.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HEYYYYYOOOOOOOO
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The almond tart and the “chocolate thing” are absolutely top shelf as well. 100% agree their pastry chef deserves more flowers.
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social out here making me stare into the middle distance first thing in the morning
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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’m super annoyed that I put my pin in the dead middle of Windmill Hill Park but that was considered 150 ft “off”
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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
alxwhere #5 · 2,780/3,000 🟩🟨🟩 1. 1000 pts · 30 ft off 2. 780 pts · 0.23 mi off 3. 1000 pts · 128 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 · 23/09/2026
Serious question - where is there enough open space at BB to bat a ball without constantly having to fish it out of the bushes and/or the pond.
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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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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fuck. To Kill a Flocking Bird is so good.
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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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