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@mcsweets.bsky.social

Retired editor, recovering doomscroller. Dogs, then cats. Repeal the 2nd Amendment.

created December 28, 2023

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Profile picture mcsweets (@mcsweets.bsky.social) reply parent

Love this stuff. The sedimentology suggests that an earlier outlet of the Schuylkill to the Delaware in Philadelphia (where I live) Is about 10 miles upstream from the current mouth.

31/8/2025, 12:08:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Forget where I read that.

30/8/2025, 3:32:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Isn't this understood to be an earlier outlet for the Central Valley, i.e. San Francisco Bay?

30/8/2025, 3:28:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Franklin on Rittenhouse Square is nice and convenient to public transit. (Smacks forehead oops never mind.)

26/8/2025, 4:15:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey at least we still have bats.

26/8/2025, 4:11:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kev doesn't know. I can't find an obit, so that's a good sign. Speaking of obits, Fred's listed as a survivor in Danny Kenney's.

18/8/2025, 12:33:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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God bless Fred. He was always a gentleman to me.

17/8/2025, 11:50:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Does anyone know who he is? (Just curious. Of course.)

17/8/2025, 1:05:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And was wearing a trump hat last season for all to see.

17/8/2025, 12:58:38 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oof

14/8/2025, 7:26:28 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now they'll have to hire a sub.

14/8/2025, 7:23:49 PM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kyle Schwarber. Clutch.

12/8/2025, 12:05:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Saw Michael Jordan at spring training during this period. He was NOT shaped like a baseball player. As for Terry Francona, urk.

8/8/2025, 10:52:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Go get 'im Will

8/8/2025, 10:47:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wondering why he hasn't gone after Cornell. Does he think it's not in the Ivy League?

5/8/2025, 5:47:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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sploot

29/7/2025, 10:31:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mcsweets (@mcsweets.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh honey, it's STILL too hot.

20/7/2025, 11:17:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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❤️

17/7/2025, 5:55:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh honey, it’s too hot

14/7/2025, 2:17:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Most of the monitors are broken, TBF.

9/7/2025, 10:50:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*hall

9/7/2025, 10:48:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sadly, no. At the international arrival Saul at the airport. It's not on any of the monitors.

9/7/2025, 10:48:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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By dropping two to the Giants?

9/7/2025, 9:57:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's not a poodle that's an Irish water spaniel, cracker.

19/6/2025, 2:09:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Buckaroo Banzai

18/6/2025, 2:38:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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FOMO

24/5/2025, 12:18:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Democracy Skies in Blueness - Resist (@democracyblue.bsky.social) reposted

Bruce Springsteen Calls Trump Administration ‘Corrupt, Incompetent, and Treasonous’ variety.com/2025/music/n...

15/5/2025, 12:02:10 AM | 332 64 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is why I have so many conversations with DEA. "Is that dog working? Is he a good dog? Who's a good dog?"

15/5/2025, 1:06:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, until now (Walker).

15/5/2025, 1:03:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A doubleheader in the rain? Nola melts down, Walker looks good, Bohm hits a homer and Schwarber is tied with Aaron Judge? I'm excluding it from the database.

15/5/2025, 1:00:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🙁

10/5/2025, 12:30:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And it’s only May

9/5/2025, 2:11:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This will do.

9/5/2025, 2:29:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sorry but I hope your mom had a good time.

9/5/2025, 2:17:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Select Web instead of All, the default. Yeah, it's an extra step.

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8/5/2025, 11:30:31 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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not to mention Gulifty's

8/5/2025, 11:26:40 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mcsweets (@mcsweets.bsky.social) reply parent

I learned this and other slurs from my CATHOLIC BOYFRIEND in college.

8/5/2025, 6:16:43 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Prob no Minis. Just saying.

8/5/2025, 6:07:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait until the 'Nova crowd gets started.

8/5/2025, 6:04:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@dhm.bsky.social I'm counting on you to come up with a Big 5 joke.

8/5/2025, 6:01:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Villanova

8/5/2025, 5:52:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ammosexuals. A first for me. Bravo.

6/5/2025, 8:35:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also Barbera auto sales in NE Philadelphia but it’s spelled TARRIFF in the grafic so whatta loophole

5/5/2025, 2:44:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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also shirt collar is all wrong

3/5/2025, 11:34:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But they graffitied the Big Chair.

3/5/2025, 9:00:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yikes

30/4/2025, 1:43:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gotta be better than watching the Phillies

30/4/2025, 1:36:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also The Daily Show

28/4/2025, 2:35:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Star Trek

28/4/2025, 2:34:07 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will buy you a cold one if you make it to see the Reading Fighting Phils.

21/4/2025, 1:03:12 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But did you read their story about the NLRB whistleblower.

16/4/2025, 6:10:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But did you read their story about the NLRB whistleblower.

16/4/2025, 6:09:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As my husband says, comedy is hard online.

5/4/2025, 1:44:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jonah Blank (@jonahblank.bsky.social) reposted

Commerce Secretary (and Wall Street vampire) Howard Lutnick pretends not to understand Econ 101: ♦️When (imported) Fiji Water hikes its price by 20%, (domestic) Poland Springs will hike its price by 15%. ♦️If it didn't, it would be taken over... ♦️...By a Wall Street vampire like Howard Lutnick.

4/4/2025, 12:58:20 PM | 981 198 | View on Bluesky | view

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We have Max Kepler

3/4/2025, 8:26:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You don't say *which* Emanuel

29/3/2025, 7:02:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell.bsky.social) reposted

Hey, can I share some historical context with you about “race-baiter” Ebrahim Rasool? When I see a South African who’s a little older, I always check what they were doing before 1990. 🧐 Found something surprising: As a boy, Rasool and his family were expelled from District Six.

16/3/2025, 1:54:11 PM | 1049 497 | View on Bluesky | view

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😍

13/3/2025, 2:15:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You bet. What a great park.

12/3/2025, 11:50:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, used to come somewhat regularly, got drunk this year and decided to come back. (Good birdwatching at the Phillies training facility, by the way.) Tried Arizona last year, IT'S NOT THE SAME. Viva la huelga.

11/3/2025, 9:06:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Foto taken from George Steinbrenner Field, home (??) of your 2025 Tampa Bay Rays. Go Phils.

11/3/2025, 8:25:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Enjoying a visit to your lovely state even though I swore I'd never spend another cent here. Go Birds.

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11/3/2025, 8:14:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fast achy Day not too nail Tuesday.

2/3/2025, 2:42:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@marisakabas.bsky.social is killing it.

24/2/2025, 4:11:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Poop emoji

23/2/2025, 12:16:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh you beat me to it

18/2/2025, 10:40:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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attn: @possumeveryhour.io wapo.st/3X0im7x

14/2/2025, 6:40:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal.bsky.social) reposted

www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...

14/2/2025, 1:18:20 PM | 668 204 | View on Bluesky | view

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Time for some trouble at the BLS?

12/2/2025, 3:40:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Does anyone know how to register a complaint with Google? This is just embarrassing.

11/2/2025, 3:27:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kat Flandermeyer (@katflandermeyer.bsky.social) reposted

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

10/2/2025, 3:12:28 AM | 14285 4426 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you for your service

10/2/2025, 2:24:28 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What Willow said.

10/2/2025, 2:56:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg.bsky.social) reposted

When we unionized a few years ago, a lot of peanut gallery types on social media wanted to tell me it would be the end of Wired. Hope it’s now clear (thanks mostly to our insanely talented and hardworking politics team) that it does not work that way. Unions are good.

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9/2/2025, 4:16:53 PM | 10505 1831 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mcsweets (@mcsweets.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not a tacky golf club. It's a tacky dinner club. See: "You people don't even know what 'AR' stands for."

6/2/2025, 3:50:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Poison Ivy Possum

1/2/2025, 4:22:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Come on over to the green side.

26/1/2025, 11:57:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But what about dachshund racing

26/1/2025, 3:34:45 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/1toQOXz56qo?...

26/1/2025, 12:51:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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OK now do Tesla

22/1/2025, 2:07:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You sound like an Eagles fan.

20/1/2025, 12:32:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/1/2025, 12:00:01 PM | 380 83 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mcsweets (@mcsweets.bsky.social) reply parent

They can, you just can't tell, but I take your point.

13/1/2025, 4:23:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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OK, you were right.

8/1/2025, 1:16:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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HEY! They put up a banner!

31/12/2024, 11:49:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dachshunds give the best side eye

30/12/2024, 7:40:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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FANCY

30/12/2024, 12:31:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pfft. Where did a mallard get a neck like that.

29/12/2024, 11:55:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My man, that is a goose.

29/12/2024, 11:17:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whaa . . . oh. Now I get it.

24/12/2024, 8:43:52 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don't move.

23/12/2024, 9:55:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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OMG quit yer bitchin 40-17

16/12/2024, 12:58:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan McQuade (@dhm.bsky.social) reposted

“Conahan‘s actions destroyed families, including mine, and my son‘s death is a tragic reminder of the consequences of his abuse of power.” www.citizensvoice.com/2024/12/12/b...

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This is bad. From the NYT story on Biden's commutations: Another recipient was Michael T. Conahan, a former Pennsylvania judge who was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison in 2011 for wrongfully imprisoning juveniles in two for-profit detention centers in exchange for financial kickbacks.

13/12/2024, 12:42:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think the technical term is gorked.

12/12/2024, 6:59:45 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Penn State has always been public, and I forgot about Lincoln.

9/12/2024, 11:26:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Law & Order: Blair County

9/12/2024, 11:19:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Um not true vis-a-vis Penn State. Pitt and Temple are the two affiliates. The others are part of the state university system which isn't the same as Penn State, which is its own land grant university.

9/12/2024, 9:34:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Uh it's not?

9/12/2024, 9:21:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The deuce, amirite?

9/12/2024, 6:15:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view