Mick O’Brien

@mickobrien.bsky.social

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actor, reluctant AdOps guy, usually (see: husband; dad). keeper of RadioMOB. self-medicating via ornitherapy. ex-Quartz. ex-MN. He/him. #BLM. #SlavaUkraini
www.mickobrien.nyc

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So your Operating Engineers are definitely, definitely high right now, is what your union’s seal is telling me.

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look to your left and find your trans friends and look to your right and find your winemoms and lock your fucking arms together and DO NOT LET THEM BREAK US, and we will fucking win, friends, there are more of us than them and do not let them forget it.

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Controlling the information diet of journalists is incredibly powerful Like it or not, the people who write for the NYT and WaPo spend hours a day on there And then most other news is downstream of them

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We all knew Musk bought Twitter specifically to influence the 2024 election He basically said as much We were hoping journalists and other influential people would have migrated off it by now They did not

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The Founders anticipated all of this, and that is why they buried throughout the constitution various secret hints and rules that would, centuries later, make it illegal to notice or get mad when a powerful and extremely dumb guy repeatedly commits obvious oafish political crimes.

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This is from the Facebook page of the bystander killed in the shooting on Saturday, for the "Lower the temperature" crowd to ponder.

Scott Norwood breathing the hugest sigh of relief.

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Here is the Weird Bouie Reply list, I blocked and recommend you do as the spirit moves you!

bsky.app/profile/did:... yea honestly I couldn’t immediately find before or would have shared—it’s under moderation in settings not “lists”

@snackpointcharlie.bsky.social hey. keep doing what you’re doing. bsky.app/profile/mick...

Why yes, yes I did just buy tickets to see Jandek in a haunted mine upstate. How are you doing? nysmusic.com/2024/06/20/e...

Elusive Lo-Fi Legend Jandek to Appear at Rosendale’s Widow Jane Minenysmusic.com Jandek, one of the most mysterious and hyper-productive legends of the lo-fi folk/outsider music movement, is slated to make a rare appearance at one of the Hudson Valley’s most unique performance...

Why yes, yes I did just buy tickets to see Jandek in a haunted mine upstate. How are you doing? nysmusic.com/2024/06/20/e...

Picked a stupid week to reengage with this app. Bouie is goated, and deserved precisely 0% of that horseshit.

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Very unfun fact: Project 2025 specifically names Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area and wants to remove its protected status and open it up to mining. This is the future Donald John Trump wants.

Had to mute the “ackshually resistance to the AI bubble is highly lucrative” person. Now she’s claiming everyone who told her the thread was bad is part of a “coalition” out to get her.

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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood

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i cannot wait to urinate on a cybertruck. i am going to simply blast it with peepee

I have now been mostly Bsky-exclusive for a week or so now, and the bird app is not pleased. Absolutely spamming me with notifications. Real bunny-boiling behavior. Sad.

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Happy hundredth anniversary of this news headline from The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio. (July 9, 1924.)

@johndevore.bsky.social I did my indie-theatre-obligatory pre-release hype for your book over on The Everything App but I’ve since deleted that nasty thing from my phone so I’ll tag in over here to tell you I just loved the hell out it. I also loved the Tupperware play! I love you.

I haven’t been here much, for many months. Feel kinda shitty about that. Joined <50k, and then derped back to the bad place bc I missed The Discourse. But I realized the bad place is just The Discourse + Foregrounding Nazis, and what the fuck was I doing there. Deleted the app on 7/4, feels apt. Hi.

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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a mistake ive seen many make on this site is to try to come up with a coy way to write a death wish/threat about someone else and then get mad when the literate mods ban them for saying the thing they were obviously saying. anyway I’m not gonna do that.

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

Found this unopened Sahel Sounds cassette from 2015. I do not remember what it is, and I do not own a cassette player. Schrödinger’s jams.

We did the thing. Festive up in here, and due to weird extenuating circumstances (death) we’re already done with compulsory holiday travels. NYC come thru.

Found the sweetest spot in Central Park, in the Ramble, December only. Laminate yr dead fur angels and offer them to the tree.

Siblings are fun bc they remind you of stories like when my band was in the semifinals of a BotB in Toledo, OH and the promoter brought Creed by (they had played the hockey arena earlier) and we hung out awkwardly backstage at Frankie’s for 10 minutes. They liked our drummer. Totally forgot that.

In-laws just got an air fryer what should I get going in this bad boy I’m thinking potatoes?

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Instant victory if Biden uses the DPA to force Frito-Lay to give us the good flavors

Genesee sees something

Really, my personal 9/11 is the day my dad died, which is today.

20 years ago today I came to NYC with 2 suitcases and $350, to give it a three month vibe check as a sublet while my cousin was on tour. Reader, I never left.