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Walter Hickey

@walthickey.bsky.social
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Executive Editor @sherwood.news, book whatyou.watch, writer numlock.com. Previously FiveThirtyEight and Business Insider. Pulitzer Prize winner.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
overwhelmed by how beautiful this is
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 21h
the biggest unanswered question stemming from the reveal of Mike Tomlin's Minecraft civilization is what incredibly nerdy hobbies are the other NFL coaches from William & Mary forced to hide
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 23h
we are careening toward a delightful outcome of the AI moment wherein the Roman Catholic Church becomes a major patron of the arts, thereby allowing yet another generation of extremely horny artists to make absolutely bank by simply painting "ST. SEBASTIAN" over a painting of a desperate twink
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i really do enjoy this game Parseword #246 ⚡️ 44s ⭐️ No Assists www.parseword.com/daily
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Parseword - A tricky wordplay game
Transform phrases through wordplay to solve cryptic crossword puzzles.
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
its not exactly a long list?
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
LAPD was all-in developing Dragnet and Adam-12, to support their techno-optimistic transition to radio cars and helicopters mid-century. Looks like they’re playing the hits here.
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Max Read @maxread.info · 01/10/2026
buddy, they won't even let me fork it
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If A.I. Is Making You Crazy, You're Not Alone | Hard Fork
YouTube video by Hard Fork
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 01/10/2026
Do you know that Democratic politicians in the State of New York could make life very very uncomfortable for James Dolan by actually using the levers of controls they have over MSG's tax status and future? And yet! bsky.app/profile/noah...
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
crylaughing at the thought of Mike Tomlin getting home after a long day of listening to Aaron Rodgers and just straight up dissociating for five hours in Minecraft 
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
very fun @neilpaine.bsky.social blog neilpaine.substack.com/p/dennis-mil...
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Dennis Miller On Monday Night Football Was Weird. But the Games Were Great.
The comedian’s 2-year stint in the booth was widely mocked. It also happened to coincide with some of the best on-field action MNF has ever seen.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
after the violent destruction of the Kido Butai (Jaxson Dart), the outcome of the Giants season is inevitable. they can never built a fleet carrier to battle the rest of the NFL. the Yamato-class J.J. McCarthy is beautiful, yet built for a different war. he will help provide a more glorious defeat
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This rocks, another quarterback who can't throw a football is just what we need right now
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msjonesnyc @msjonesnyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Illustration in The Wall Street Journal for a story on low intervention, speedy cosmetic surgery! 🏃‍♀️💉🏃‍♀️ #wsj #wallstreetjournal #msjonesnyc
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this is one of the most inspirational photos i have ever seen www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Japan Has No Space for Solar Farms Apart From Old Golf Courses
The perfectly manicured fairways at Minohara Country Club wind through the forested hills of Gunma Prefecture about two hours from downtown Tokyo. In a few years, they’ll disappear under row-upon-row ...
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So lol this is gonna sound crazy but I’m inside a porta potty outside MetLife can you tell me if I’m headed towards the stadium or away
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you think The Shining is a shit movie I'd love to know what you think an example of a good one is.
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Ford F-150 being the official vehicle of the New York Giants makes a ton of sense, in that you would think that such a large market would have made literally any innovation or appeal in the past decade but it's just been a humiliating shitshow where you're so bad you'd get smoked by the Chargers
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is wild: "The integrated system was able to simultaneously produce around 90 MW of electricity, 0.6 kg/s of hydrogen (~52 tonnes/day), and 612 m³/day of freshwater from a single reactor module." physicsworld.com/a/producing-...
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Producing hydrogen, electricity and freshwater with one reactor – Physics World
A proposed tri-generation system uses a small modular reactor to deliver clean electricity, hydrogen fuel and desalinated water from the same energy source
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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The funniest thing about the top 100 list is they're like "'Beef' (FIRST SEASON ONLY)" alright man but what are we doing then if the second season sucked so bad
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026
I unironically love these lists because it gives everyone something to be incandescently furious about with zero stakes hell yeah let’s take a break from The Horrors and get mad about television rankings
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
chalk-ass list. maybe they do need to buy letterboxd
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
absurd. everybody knows the best shape for a city is doing a Corsucant www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Best City Shape for Shorter Commutes
A new study finds that a round city layout with the tallest buildings in the center allows for shorter travel distances and better sustainability.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
had the absolute pleasure of playing podcast host and interviewing cartoonist extraordinaire @cashbrowns.bsky.social www.inkstuds.org/caroline-cas...
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
in another era its like putting Bonanza ahead of Fawlty Towers. no i will not elaborate further.
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 24/09/2026
Good morning: youtu.be/uh7s2jr0b48?...
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We Investigated the Christian "Scam" Fronted by Tim Tebow | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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Matt Patches @misterpatches.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Weird tag on Prime Video's trailer for Madden. Was there confusion? I guess it looks a bit like an SNL sketch...
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 24/09/2026
People need "community." Bars need a business model: www.fingers.email/p/people-nee...
"That's the price you pay to be in community," Matellian, Last Ditch's third founder, gamely told Quinn, inventorying her various woes. It's a spectacular kicker to the piece. But with respect to Greenfield's indebted, involuntary publican, I don't think that's the lesson of her parable. Or, it's not the most salient lesson for our purposes, at least. To wit: American commerce is organized in such a way that bars must be businesses first and third places second. That order doesn't account for the social value that a good bar reproduces among its regulars and in its neighborhood. But neither will the bank. And no matter how wholesome and nourishing the community a failing business manages to build, somebody always has to pick up the tab.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026
Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-…
Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
they found a real pokémon www.numlock.com/p/numlock-ne...
Researchers looking for life in the scorching-hot geothermal pools of Lassen Volcanic National Park in California have found a fascinating creature they’re calling Incendiamoeba cascadensis, or “fire amoeba of the Cascades,” which was found in a lake that maintains a temperature of 47 degrees Celsius, or 116 degrees Fahrenheit. In subsequent lab studies, the organism continued to grow even at temperatures of 57 degrees Celsius and continued to reproduce up to 63 degrees Celsius, which are new records for eukaryotes. The study, published in Cell, contends that the amoeba may even be able to tolerate temperatures up to 70 degrees Celsius by morphing into a cyst. Changing form? Extreme, magma-fueled environment? They named it “Incendiamoeba”? My fellow Americans, we’ve done it, we’ve discovered a fire-type Pokémon.
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
wait this is very funny bit
The lawsuit is being leveled by She’s Alive LLC, a company set up by Parton before her death to handle her posthumous finances and business affairs. It’s run by Parton’s longtime manager, Danny Nozell.
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
is that a threat www.sportico.com/leagues/hock...
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U.S. Sports’ Longest-Tenured Commissioner Isn’t Done Yet
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman continued to brush aside questions about when his record-breaking tenure atop pro hockey in North America might end.
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
cool profile of the island bunker where they found hiroo onada www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/m...
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A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe
Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
certainly there's some mistake here. clearly they mean "early modern english but doing exagerated Italian accents"
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Acting the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I think a lot of people think the point of sports is that your team will win and then you will be happy. That is not the point of sports. The point of sports is to be sad in a group
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 22/09/2026
There is no reason Bruno Mars should still be charting for an album he made 16 years ago tedium.co/2025/08/01/b...
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Dear Billboard: The Billboard 200 Is Broken. Here’s Why
How a decision sparked by the death of one of the world’s biggest pop stars knocked the Billboard 200 out of alignment.
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
wonder what's more likely 1. a song i have never heard once in my life is the most popular song in the history of music 2. Billboard has broken their own charts in a way that can never be fixed apnews.com/article/ella...
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How Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' became the longest-running No. 1 hit of all time
Ella Langley’s song “Choosin’ Texas” is officially the longest-running No. 1 single in the U.S., spending 23 weeks at the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
new theory, much like our three airports are constantly trading the status of The Good One, the three generally solid teams of New York City are now also trading one eye between the three of them.
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
god dammit
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
whoa
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Scott Spratt @scottspratt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"There's the moon. I'm told waxing gibbous. waning, waxing." - Joe Buck, garbage time poet
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Michael Izzo @mjizzo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I just want to watch a competitive Giants season from start to finish, is that really too much to ask…
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Want to know what happens behind the scenes to make a single bioGraphic feature story? Buckle up! A 🧵(1/6) For this feature, @judeisabella.bsky.social started out by securing funding through @pulitzercenter.org and collaboration with @lanacioncom.bsky.social and @thefern.org ...
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The Unwilding of Patagonia’s Pollinators  | bioGraphic
In a region synonymous with wilderness, native bumblebees are being replaced by industrial worker bees—and ecosystems are paying the price.
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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Death Dragging an Old Man to His Tomb, by Stefano della Bella, 1648
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