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Sean L. McCarthy

@seanlmccarthy.bsky.social
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Comedy journalist for The Daily Beast and Decider. Freelanced for The New York Times back when it meant something (complimentary). FKA @thecomicscomic on social media for olds. fromthecomicscomic.wordpress.com buttondown.email/piffany

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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As much as I’d believed 2004, 2007, 2013, and 2018 had healed me, the old cursed feelings can come back so quickly to an old enough Red Sox fan
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
However I can help, whomever I can help, please know I'm here for you. Also, please alert me if I'm missing a situation that can benefit from my certain set of skills (shaming bad men, deterring otherwise halfway-decent men from breaking bad, showing those who are ready to repent how to do so)
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You cannot spell sigh without SI
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's impossible not to smile when Payton Tolle is on our screen 😂 He takes the mound tonight for Red Sox vs. Yankees Wild Card Game 1!
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For my birthday, please rise up and serve justice to these corrupt evil billionaires across politics, business, sports, entertainment so we may instead spend our collective wealth on solving problems for a change
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dept. of Feeling Seen: Speaking for those of us who labored on the Baltimore drama mentioned, this -- more than any arbitrary listing -- is gratifying. That said, looking around at our republic and society today, I would prefer to be entirely ungratified.
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Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
sometimes i think about how google launched these major "art and culture" partnerships with archives and museums all over the world, which supporting large scale scanning, digitization, cultural access. and then it all just got dumped into their proprietary ai chum bucket
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You know social media is cooked when even all of the baseball accounts are making waves about the MLB playoff seeding being out of whack without mentioning that the same exact thing happened in the AL just LAST SEASON
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm the delusional type of Red Sox fan who wants to believe they're mini-tanking to get the 6 seed in the AL and avoid the Yankees and Rays until the ALCS
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Emmys teaser for Michael J Fox included Back to the Future scene. Genuinely weird when TV awards include film clip montages and movie awards (AFI for Eddie Murphy) include multiple TV tributes.
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Roman Anthony hitting more like Kingman than King of Red Sox Nation, going 1-5 with 3Ks and a HR a few days after going 1-4 with 3Ks and a HR. what say you @redsoxstats.bsky.social?
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
DTF St. Louis, more like Bromeo & Juliet
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They replaced Tim Apple with Temu Apple?!?
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For what it's worth, Snapple takes over that old Staten Island Ferry as a real floating comedy club for one night only later this month, making Pete Davidson and Colin Jost's fairy ferry tale dreams a reality. fromthecomicscomic.com/2026/09/01/f...
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Ferry Tales Can Come True: Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s Staten Island Ferry Will Float A Comedy Show
One Night Only! Courtesy of Snapple Snapple There’s no such thing as a September Fool’s Day, so brace yourselves for this real news item… The retired Staten Island Ferry that Satu…
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dolly Parton lived with a gay man for years. She was a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ folks and a philanthropic champion of childhood literacy and education, vaccines, and the black people in her community. "We don't know what her politics were"? Please. She lived them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...
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Dolly Parton’s Cautious Politics Resulted in Widespread Affection
Bipartisan tributes demonstrated the success of the singer’s long-running effort to stay out of party politics in a sharply divided country.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
my main issue with ai is that i would personally see a larger ROI if those trillions of dollars were spent on healthcare or public transit or schools or road repairs or SNAP or free childcare or free school lunches or EV charging stations or public libraries or housing or clean energy or broadband
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
User of the web, have you ever asked yourself, "where is this coming from?" I have. We all know this, of course, but it is well described here by Siva Vaidhyanathan. "Having organized the web, Google now proposes to replace it." www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/08/2026
it's not why *everything* sucks, but having all three branches of the federal government captured by thieves, abusers, bigots, and cowards is definitely why a lot of things suck
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
how is there hardly anyone in the stands at Dodger Stadium for this Dodgers Red Sox game?
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
mitch mcconnell died doing what he loved, keeping a federal office vacant for several months leading into an election
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Breaking news! It's Monday of JFL week, so time to Meet The New Faces of Comedy at @justforlaughs.com fromthecomicscomic.com/2026/07/20/m...
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Meet Montreal’s Just For Laughs New Faces of Comedy, Class of 2026
It’s the Monday of the final week of Just For Laughs Montreal, which means it’s time to meet this year’s new crop of New Faces of Comedy! Not to get anyone’s hopes or expect…
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Just realized why Nikki never wants to talk about her dad #Obsession
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I said what I said
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Deftones at Endfest 2000, which I also attended/covered as a newspaper reporter (not pictured) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY1O...
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Deftones Endfest 2000
YouTube video by Miez Production
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/07/2026
X (it's not Twitter any more and hasn't been in years) is the red state diner of the internet: the place lazy journalists go to get a sense of what they think "real" americans believe based on a ridiculously reductive and wrong definition of what it is to be a real american.
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Do stats in the third-place game count for FIFA Golden Boot? If so, then Mbappé and Kane could do the funniest thing right now
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I believe!
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Ask Jeeves and ye shall receive answers Ask Claude or ChatGPT or Grok and ye shall taint the water supply for millions whilst also receiving misinformation that taints everything else
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Meghan O'Keefe @megsokay.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Always great to have @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social's thoughts on the big SNL cast changes. decider.com/2026/07/16/c...
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Lasting Impressions: Assessing Chloe Fineman’s legacy as she leaves ‘Saturday Night Live’ After 7 seasons
“It’s really hard to leave SNL but it does feel like the right time.”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Reminder! There are alternatives to Substack! Which do not have its ethical problems! (My newsletter is on Ghost, which is fabulous, and Buttondown is among the others I've heard praised.) Thread--
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
U.S. Senator is such an important job that any husk of a human can fill the seat
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I had explosive diarrhea before it was cool
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The newspaper in Louisville threw shade on that "new" hospital photo by publishing this spread on Friday of what McConnell and his wife actually have looked like over the years www.courier-journal.com/picture-gall...
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A look at Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao through the years
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and his wife, Elaine Chao, married in 1993. See photos from Fancy Farm to the campaign trail.
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
14-2! If they don’t get swept immediately on the other side of the break, I’ll believe this is for real. For now the vibe shift is very real.
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You’re never as alone as you think you are
10 years today
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Red Sox fans, beware this time of year, for the boys from Boston love to surge into the All-Star break as the hottest team in MLB! June 25 to ASG 2026: 11-2 so far 2025: 13-4 but last 13 went 12-1 2024: 10-7 but 10-3 last 13 2023: 8-5 but 8-1 last 9 2022: 8-14 but 20-6 in June 2021: 11-5
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
You guys don’t have to keep posting bad tweets from bad men. We left the bad place because we are no longer interested in reading their shitty opinions about women.
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Year of Chris Fleming continues to flourish #Emmys
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
World Cup Football Fever: GOOOOOOOOALORIOUS!
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Presented without context
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Yes, the golden goose cursed the USMNT, because that’s what he does. But the real story is that Belgium’s golden generation — with an all-timer goalie, midfielder and attackers — might finally achieve their ultimate goal.
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Good morning, London! Who wants to dilly dally?
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
For the three people still unsure how to feel about Louis CK releasing a new Netflix special decider.com/2026/06/30/l...
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Louis C.K.: Ridiculous’ on Netflix, the comedian slowly, crudely, comes to grip with the inevitability of mortality
“The way I look at like is, if somebody does one good thing for me, I keep that. Anything else they did, I can, I can let that go.”
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Wondering how it must feel for so many Americans experiencing full Zlatan for the first time what the rest of the world has known for a quarter century now
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Surprised it took this long for food conglomerates to realize you could just add powder to all of your products, and suddenly… new PROTEIN edition!
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Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Cannot wait for content creators to someday soon claim that the Great American State Fair was also evidence of Tartaria
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