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Jasper Wang @jaspercwang.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

It's been really lovely reading all the tributes to Dan. Many people have asked if they can contribute to support his wife and son. You can do so here: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...

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Visit Dan McQuade's Memorial Website

Take part in remembering Dan McQuade. Read his obituary, share your own memories, and learn about any funeral details on Ever Loved.

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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

“Without Dan’s voice, Philly Mag wouldn’t be Philly Mag. And, I’d argue, Philadelphia wouldn’t quite be Philadelphia.” Dan’s editor here, Brian Howard, on what our friend meant to this magazine and, more importantly, this city.

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Dan McQuade Got Philly Like No One Else

The writer, who died Wednesday, was one of the most gifted chroniclers of the Philadelphia experience.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Abolish Ice? No! This fantastic essay details a pragmatic, workable and very conservative training program for current agents that will solve all its problems and address civilian concerns. Bravo!

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Habeas Jocus @toowoke2joke.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The great thing about this idea is that DHS already operates, via third party contractors, excellent re-training facilities to accommodate their entire force. It's perfect, really.

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

yeah don delillo has a cool name and most of the guys he makes up didn't

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

only one author in the history of English language literature had a cooler real name than the guys he made up: Rex Stout.

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Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

What do we call it when a politician holds a public rally calling for the expulsion of homeless people from public space?

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

number one thing that makes me feel like I'm living in an RPG is the messianic cult depositing Lore everywhere

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Obvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

There's their idealized version of Eric Adams, where a black moderate, socially tolerant former cop can assemble a politically viable, diverse coalition to address serious systemic problems. Then there's the actual, real-life Eric Adams, who is a corrupt moron and quite possibly insane.

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Alex Jaffe ➡️ NYCC @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

When I met Jim Starlin, he told me “There’s only one difference between writing for Marvel and and writing for DC. The editors at Marvel are tyrants, and the editors at DC are idiots.”

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

NIXON: This Gerwig is she, er... ZIEGLER: I don't believe so, no. NIXON: But the husband. HALDEMAN: Baumbach. NIXON: I see.

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

yet again I must give it up for trees their cooling effect is so obvious in this newly mapped data on the heat island effect in nyc projects.thecity.nyc/2023_07_heat-i…

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/07/2023

"There are more than 10 million private swimming pools in the United States, according to a C.D.C. estimate, compared with just 309,000 public ones."

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Opinion | More Public Pools Could Save Thousands of Lives

The biggest reason so many Americans can’t swim is that they have too few places to learn how.

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

All-Star Superman is like the only modern mainstream Superman book I have/share with the kid, otherwise it's all old reprints

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Based Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! BIG NEWS: AEGIS-CWA won its union election - SEGA of America has Unionized! Remember, unionizing your workplace is way past cool! Just like the Chaos Emeralds, workers are stronger when we're together.

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

big nonprofit with massive testing facilities and rigorous standards and member survey data basically

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

I'm always trying to tell my friends to ditch Wirecutter and just subscribe to Consumer Reports. they have a product category issue of skewing older/homeowner like their audience but you can fundamentally trust their reviews and tests.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

proposal: on the signup page for this website there should be a jpeg of fentanyl used as talisman to ward away any police officers

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

yeah he's good. seems like he's having fun and not just cashing a check

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

oh I should've just clarified live-action. Spider-verse is great stuff.

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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO VISIT THE ZOO, NOT BUY IT

obi wan yelling at anakin on mustafar from revenge of the sith except instead of anakin it’s matt damon

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

I went to an $8 matinee of The Flash and I would've loved the hell out of that movie when I was 11. It's very funny that it flopped and the star went on a crime spree but it's also somehow the best/most comic booky Big Two movie in years.

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

this is generally the most convincing answer for every version of the question "why does everything look like shit and make no sense despite being very expensive"

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

I cannot overstate how much I hate this Geoff Johns shit

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

I was reading some silver age comics to my kid and it led me to wiki an obscure character and so many of these begin like "Solovar was the smartest ape in Gorilla City and an ally of The Flash" and then in the 2000s become this

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

oh I 100 percented Tropical Freeze years ago lol that's why I want to get mad at the prequel

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

anyway next I will probably get mad at the controls for Donkey Kong Country Returns

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

I think the lesson is people say stuff like "it's hard to screw up Mario" but it's really not, it's actually very easy to screw up Mario and it's remarkable when a company only does that like two or three times tops over several decades

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

someone should give me a column where I review decade-plus old video games

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

I kinda missed posting like this. not like a lot but kinda.

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

the new star trek game is finally patched and it still looks like it also came out in 2009 but it runs better and the writing is real good

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

anyway that's my opinion about a 14-year-old video game.

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

I never owned a Wii but I'm getting into emulation (cool/sexy activity) and it's truly remarkable how annoying the original controls of New Super Mario Bros Wii are. I don't even hate motion controls this is just a stupid way to control a platformer. Why do I shake to pick up a thing.

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

Budapest is still my fave of his modern movies but this one felt like a synthesis of what he's been trying in all his recent movies

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

Asteroid City. Very good. Will probably be the most visually impressive film involving nuclear bomb tests that I see this year.

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alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

2:12 am... going back for more Steely Dan - Second Arrangement | Remastered Nichols cassette

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Based Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic.bsky.social · 30/06/2023

Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! Fuck the Supreme Court!

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/06/2023

Horrific case in Chicago, in which prosecutors sat on evidence that someone arrested at age 28 hadn't committed the murder ... and then made him spend the next 12 years rotting away in PRETRIAL DETENTION in Cook County. Nearly half his life he'll never get back.

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