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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺

@nsmckinnon.bsky.social

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baseball omnivore, commie teacher, amateur chef, decent @lnpgaceta.org commish, terrible podcaster @nosubsplease.org // he/him, bi/pan // libre tu cielo, sola tu estrella

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · Nov 14

A fuller intro: Noah, he/him, left-handed / -politicked. My dog's Clark. My cat's Minerva.

For sickos: I run a fictional baseball league set in a 🇵🇷 that became free in 1868. I call games every week. Catch that at @lnpgaceta.org.

I also co-host a podcast about food called No Substitutions, Please.

Clark is a very floofy white dog with dark brown eyes and lips who is happily hoarding a red Kong and brown fuzzy teddy bear with a tan belly. His ears are back and eyes fully round, and teeth shown in a grin of toy-addled craziness.

Minerva is a dilute tortoiseshell kitty—she’s gray with stripey markings in tan all over, like latte swirls. She sits on an iPad with one paw out in front of her and the other tucked in, like a proper lady, and has ears back and narrow eyes because she’s probably hearing a bird.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 4m

Between Leo and Kyle Tucker, Chicago’s really cornering the market on secret Hispanics these days.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

LMAO

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Oubao Moin 𓆏𓆌𓆉𓆈𓆚 🇵🇷🇱🇧|🍉🌻🌿 #VivaPuertoRicoLibre @astrophobia.bsky.social · 20h

Puerto Rico es un país diseñado con el sumo propósito de ser hostil contra las personas con discapacidades y contra los peatones. Son las últimas personas que se toman en consideración ante todo. Esta sociedad de carro maligna e híperindividualista será nuestra tumba.

Metro Puerto Rico @metropr.bsky.social · 20h

Atropellan a mujer en silla de ruedas en Toa Alta

https://www.metro.pr/noticias/2025/10/11/atropellan-a-mujer-en-silla-de-ruedas-en-toa-alta/

Atropellan a mujer en silla de ruedas en Toa Alta

La mujer fue transportada a una institución hospitalaria, donde posteriormente se certificó su muerte

www.metro.pr

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 3h

You know something? Neither can I.

Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 3h

generational photogenic talent

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 4h

If I could choose one superpower, I would obviously want it to be absolute mastery over life and death.

But if that’s not forthcoming, summoning guacamole at will would be a close second.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 22h

Her Majesty, the Queen.

Blue Cream Minnie, my extremely adorable tortoiseshell cat, gazes with her green eyes up up and away as she lies on her pink pillow, ears alert.

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

belly rubs

On a dusty pink pillow (that’s the color, the pillow is clean, shut up), my cat Minerva—an adorable dilute tortie, gray with latte swirls around her left eye, down her chest and stomach, and circling her paws—purrs contentedly, her eyes closed, as I scritch her furry tummy.

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Kevin Abel 🇵🇷🍉💖 #PUERTORICOLIBRE #BlueskyPR @kevinabel.bsky.social · 8h

Le quiero agradecer a Hatsune Miku por la canción de gasolina 🙏🏽

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 6h

you’re like

James Franco, with a noose around his neck, says “first time?” to someone else.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 8h

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20h

“Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help ‘liberate’ Venezuela with bombs under the banner of ‘freedom.’”

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

www.commondreams.org

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 22h

Her Majesty, the Queen.

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🦇bat bisque🦇 @badbisque.bsky.social · 1d

BLUE 👏 CREAM 👏 MINNIE 👏

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 23h

Sébastian Lecordeux, more like.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron of France reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, days after Lecornu resigned.

Macron Reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as France’s Prime Minister

President Emmanuel Macron is trying to steady the political turmoil that has gripped the country and jeopardized the passage of a budget.

nyti.ms

Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

TBF, this is more a French feature—in almost any other parliamentary system repeatedly appointing a PM who does not have majority support in parliament is straight up a constitutional crisis.

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samly89.bsky.social @samly89.bsky.social · 1d

Please, my friends, look at my child. I am a mother whose heart aches for my child every hour. My only dream is for him to eat and live. Please help us. Our hope is in you. 💔😔 gofund.me/001d3fab

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t understand why my cat can’t be appointed to the Supreme Court.

“She can’t read!” Neither can Neil Gorsuch!

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

belly rubs

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 1d

LMAO

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Tifa☭🔻𓁢𓂀𓆚 @hellhoundtifa.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that this lady asked Israel to invade her own country and approved of the U.S. strikes on innocent Venezuelan fishermen.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

So sorry to hear it. Take care of you and yours. My thoughts are with you.

Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

Baseless it might be, but I think this is on the money. They picked someone they could sanitize for public consumption and pretend that they’re making some grand statement about liberalism, but they can still give Trump’s ideological coalition a win.

Problem is this admin won’t be normal about it.

Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize people picked someone most USians had never heard of—so she’d be easy to sanitize—and broadly aligned with Trump—presumably to calm him down—and the Trump admin is too fucking stupid to take the huge cosmetic win here because they don’t employ a single normal person.