Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026AI Slop font so heinous it's starting to make me respect the Comic Sans holdouts 071
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As 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 020
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026However 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) 000
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthyMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now 56099151500
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthyMLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It'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! 1198
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthyHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out. 5441371126
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026For 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 030
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthyDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Dept. 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.nytimes.comOpinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s FallFour TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart. 1740043
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthyKatherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026sometimes 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 064
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You 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 000
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'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 001
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They're missing their top two bats (Contreras and Rafaela) as well as the Seigler-type spark plugs from the summer, and back to playing the guys who led the early-season suckage. Go figure. 000
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026But do they include streaming on laptops and tablets yet, or just TV views, because that’s a big difference in both numbers and demographics 000
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026At least the broadcast is a bottle episode?! 000
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Emmys 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. 000
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Journalists young and old, please take note that the advice remains the same as it ever was: Follow the money 030
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Roman 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? 100
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026They replaced Tim Apple with Temu Apple?!? 000
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026For 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...fromthecomicscomic.comFerry Tales Can Come True: Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s Staten Island Ferry Will Float A Comedy ShowOne 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… 000
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthyMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Dolly 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...nytimes.comDolly Parton’s Cautious Politics Resulted in Widespread AffectionBipartisan tributes demonstrated the success of the singer’s long-running effort to stay out of party politics in a sharply divided country. 613756639
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthyAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/08/2026my 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 18965216
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthyJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026User 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... 1620193
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthySoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/08/2026it'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 492735577
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026how is there hardly anyone in the stands at Dodger Stadium for this Dodgers Red Sox game? 010
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I'd only give up Arias for De La Cruz or Witt as part of a package that included some of our MLB-ready but financially dead-weight depth. Alas, the Red Sox haven't asked me to help close these deals. 000
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026they allllllllmost got me out there tonight just for this (i rationalized not going by telling myself they'd only have one size shirt and it wouldn't fit me) 100
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthygeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 22/07/2026mitch mcconnell died doing what he loved, keeping a federal office vacant for several months leading into an election 253959619
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Breaking 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...fromthecomicscomic.comMeet Montreal’s Just For Laughs New Faces of Comedy, Class of 2026It’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… 000
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Just realized why Nikki never wants to talk about her dad #Obsession 000
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Deftones at Endfest 2000, which I also attended/covered as a newspaper reporter (not pictured) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY1O...youtube.comDeftones Endfest 2000YouTube video by Miez Production 000
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthyMike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/07/2026X (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. 272632367
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Do stats in the third-place game count for FIFA Golden Boot? If so, then Mbappé and Kane could do the funniest thing right now 021
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Ask 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 010
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Please remember that IMAX pricing will drive all of these box office totals (and round-the-clock IMAX screenings already sold out at Lincoln Square for the foreseeable future) 010
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthyMeghan O'Keefe @megsokay.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Always great to have @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social's thoughts on the big SNL cast changes. decider.com/2026/07/16/c...decider.comLasting 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.” 011
Reposted by Sean L. McCarthyRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Reminder! 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-- 14782286
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026U.S. Senator is such an important job that any husk of a human can fill the seat 021
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I had explosive diarrhea before it was cool 010
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The 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...courier-journal.comA look at Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao through the yearsU.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and his wife, Elaine Chao, married in 1993. See photos from Fancy Farm to the campaign trail. 010
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 12/07/202614-2! 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. 000
Sean L. McCarthy @seanlmccarthy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026You’re never as alone as you think you are 040