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Michael McEleney

@themcementality.bsky.social
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A gamer, programmer, perpetually sad Jets and Mets fan, recreational volleyball player, political news fretter, and a human being.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The algae in the reflecting pool situation is one of the most incredible metaphors for this administration yet.
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The further I get into my career as a software developer, the more I've come to resent object-oriented design. It has its use cases (like any design paradigm), but I think more often than not you end up with an overwhelming amount of extra code written that adds very little real value.
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
There is no humanity in this man.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You can just say things.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/02/2026
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Every airport employee acts aggreieved when you appear to be in a rush.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It feels like we're at an all-time high for nihilism in society, and the effect of that is pretty atrocious.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
We need an atheistic way to replace the idea of praying for someone's success/well-being/etc. It's useful to have a way to convey putting emotional energy into a good outcome for someone else with no actual ability to affect the outcome.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/11/2025
Car Size xkcd.com/3167/
4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 5 Steam codes for Tales of Xillia Remastered courtesy of @gamesplanet.bsky.social. Giveaway closes on Nov 2nd, 6:30 PM PT Game is $32.97 on Gamesplanet w/ code MILLA buff.ly/t0b4NED
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Sure, AI might 100x your productivity, it also might 100x your mental illness. There should probably be more attention put on the fact that there is a serious risk over the next 1-5 years of a large percentage of people basically departing reality to live in a fantasy world of AI crafted delusions.
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Gentrification discourse has given wealthier lefties and liberals people the ultimate excuse to not live near poor people, while also giving them a way to maintain a sense of moral superiority. One must simply say "I don't want to be a gentrifier."
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onion person @junlper.beer · 30/07/2025
the onion 2 months ago
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
this appears to be a common theme
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I can't believe I've just gotta keep clipping my nails every week or so until I die.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The unitary executive can set the curriculum at Harvard, order the owners to change the names of professional sports teams, throw his enemies in prison, close a Cabinet-level Department, but he is powerless to ask the sycophants he put in place in the FBI and DOJ to release the Epstein files.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
This is amazing. Yesterday Trump claimed he talked to his uncle about how brilliant the Unabomber was when the Unabomber was a student of his at MIT. The Unabomber never went to MIT, he was identified in 1996, and his uncle died in 1985.
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
It's amazing how fucked my twitter timeline has become in the past month. I'm not sure what they did to the algorithm, but it's now 90% clips from shows/movies with someone saying something clickbaity accompanying it.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought. Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too. What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.
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Mr Targeted Harassment @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.
A "blue alert" from the state of Texas for an injury to a cop 250 miles away from where I live.
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The fanfics these dudes write about an imagined, competent version of Trump really shows you how delusional they were.
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I think the only viable path to this future is one where AI and machines are taking on all the necessary work no one wants to do, but I feel like that future is rife with its own set of problems.
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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Wait you’re telling me that Brussels Sprouts LITERALLY tasted awful when I was a kid and I didn’t just magically start liking them as an adult?????
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article about Brussels sprouts:”Contemporary Brussels Sprouts. In the 1990s, Dutch scientist Hans van Doorn identified the chemicals that make Brussels sprouts bitter: sinigrin and progoitrin. This enabled Dutch seed companies to crossbreed archived low-bitterness varieties with modern high-yield varieties, over time producing a significant increase in the popularity of the vegetable.”
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/07/2025
yet another piece of baffling maliciousness www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...
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Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data
Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
So this is the way the country ends. Not with a whimper, but with a 'grok, is this true?'
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Wearing camo to raid a fucking Home Depot is insane.
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It really does feel like he asked all these people what they thought and then built a campaign to target what they said. Mamdani is a political savant, it's a shame he can't run for president. I hope he's the beginning of a new wave of progressive social democrats.
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Why did so many New Yorkers vote for Donald Trump?
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you were born before the end of WWII, it's time to retire.
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Dear Dems: this is what we want. This is who we want. Listen to us.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Uhhhhhh
OpenAI DOD
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Hard to imagine why the National Weather Service would suddenly get basic shit like that wrong... 🤔
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/06/2025
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Another pro wrestler with better politics and a more clearly articulated moral stance than 99.9% of elected officials
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
a lot of the people who will chastise you for criticizing Dems instead of focusing on Trump are surprisingly willing to criticize protestors instead of focusing on Trump
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Some people “double down” on things like “trans people deserve the same rights as everyone else” because it’s what they believe, not because it’s what’s politically expedient. Walz continues to show he was the correct VP pick. They just stupidly muzzled him.
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Anyone who thinks OO programming is easier or cleaner has never worked with someone else's code. Trying to figure out which class you had when a method was called on it can be the stuff of nightmares if OO principles are aggressively applied (and if the logs are so-so).
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is going to be an all-time flop, I feel awful for those kids. Could be well made, but it won't matter. Nearly everyone in the world is either satisfied with the movies that already exist OR are going to reject this because JK Rowling is a massive, abominable terf.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 22/05/2025
Just blatant fascism -- engage in our nationalist project or we will punish you.
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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Editor: You get the pictures for the air traffic controller story? Photographer: Sure did boss. Real fucking sexy just like you asked. Editor: What
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caylen @caylen.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
great job Gavin
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
What happened to the wall? Is Trump still doing that?
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/04/2025
notably absent? that's right: gamers
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Michael McEleney @themcementality.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The administration having this kind of leverage is a direct failure of Congress. Rather than defining clearly who can sell what and when and why, they've given an incredible amount of discretion to the administrative branch. Bureaucratizing so much of the federal government breeds corruption.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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onion person @junlper.beer · 16/04/2025
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