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sean mcgowan

@seanmcgowan.bsky.social

ooh ow OUCH (im runnin barefoot on gravel rn) owie ow ouch headlines & features @theonion & @clickhole ouch ooh owie writing Wordplay @nytimes YEEEOWWWW

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sean mcgowan @seanmcgowan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

i wish donkey kong was alive to see this

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sean mcgowan @seanmcgowan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

just one example of how i’d do things differently if i invented facebook

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Rest in peace to one of the great bloggers and the de facto mayor of Philadelphia. It was my honor and pleasure to work with him. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

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Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector

Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...

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sean mcgowan @seanmcgowan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

TIL: ever notice the door handle at dunkin’ donuts is shaped like a ‘D’? it’s because the D stands for “Drinks (are served here)”

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sean mcgowan @seanmcgowan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

before he died, i asked my grandfather to share one piece of life advice with me. i’ll always remember what he said

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sean mcgowan @seanmcgowan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

[moments before pulling the trigger] you’ve read your last complimentary article

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sean mcgowan @seanmcgowan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

made up a really annoying old person and wrote him for the new yorker. please enjoy

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I’m a Hundred and Thirty Years Old—Here’s What I Wish I’d Known When I Was a Hundred and Ten

When you’re a hundred and ten years old, you don’t think twice about attempting a backside one-eighty-degree nosegrind down the suicide stairs at Crack Park.

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sean mcgowan @seanmcgowan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

made a little word puzzle. you’re a mailman who has to figure out which letter goes to which apartment

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sean mcgowan @seanmcgowan.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

[in the criterion office’s pantry closet] oh, oranges. big fan of oranges. a clif bar…yes, there it is, 8 grams of protein — i’m definitely taking this. ah [i steeple my fingers] triscuits

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sean mcgowan @seanmcgowan.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

[slipping the meteorologist a twenty] sure would be nice if tomorrow was partly cloudy

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sean mcgowan @seanmcgowan.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

my buddy spent a semester abroad working at a nursery and came back with a baby accent

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sean mcgowan @seanmcgowan.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

german oceanographers named this “The American Mediterranean Sea” and nobody will recognize it. everybody has said “stop, that’s not what that’s called”

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sean mcgowan @seanmcgowan.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

aptly named after the pioneering explorer who sailed the world, the Magellan 9800i — the latest in self-checkout technology — “sails” through your items to unlock a “world” of convenience

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