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Dan Sheehan
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I write books (I AM NOT A WOLF), games (Magic: The Gathering, Who's A Good Boy), and jokes (The Onion, my many beautiful posts)
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · Dec 2
Reminder on this new platform that my grandmother defends all my posts and will not allow me to see harm
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
Impossible to emerge from the last few days with anything other than an incredible affection for the people of Minneapolis and an equally incredible need to see them catch a goddamn break
January 10, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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josie.zone
Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:

archive.is/ur35j
First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family. This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind, In fact, kindness radiated out of her. Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn't wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine, Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it Where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole. Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles, What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy: And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever. We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns. Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way. We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee's legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love. E
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
young woman I interviewed today asked what socials I was on and I said mainly Bluesky and she did the "stinky stinky" gesture so I'm sorry to say we're all washed
January 9, 2026 at 5:50 AM
dansheehan.bsky.social
In a legal system that uses fear as the ultimate excuse for violence, there’s incentive for recruiting as many cowards as possible, just food for thought
January 8, 2026 at 6:13 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
I’ll be on the ground in Minneapolis for the next few days for Rolling Stone. If you or anyone you know is helping to organize your community to protect itself from ICE (or just helping them cope with the tragedy of Renee Good’s death), I’d love to speak with you
January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
Heads up, the photos from this article are more graphic than any of the videos circulating right now (that I've seen)
January 7, 2026 at 8:25 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
Every Democrat who doesn't openly condemn ICE and CBP should have a hundred challengers trying to take their seat. Do not vote for people who let this blend into the increasingly bloody background of "the way things are"
January 7, 2026 at 5:44 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
When people talk about "getting back to normal" they have to understand that it can't be done until some of these guys are rotting in jail for the rest of their lives. I cannot share an America with these empty eyed ghouls
January 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
This has to be the fucking line man, they are executing people in broad daylight
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."

Bovino was there.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations. Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.” “She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said. Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.
January 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
Feeling very attacked as someone who first played the card on the left as a bright eyed teenager but yeah Doran I get it, I cost a little more to cast these days too
January 7, 2026 at 2:26 AM
dansheehan.bsky.social
Is Wild Is The Wind in the top 10 greatest albums of all time? I believe it is
January 6, 2026 at 9:59 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
Five years ago today, Democracy got its heckin snoot booped
January 6, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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shivambhatt.bsky.social
To win my vote the next dem has to do the following as a baseline-
1. Rebuild the DoE.
2. Stop calling the post office a business and start treating it as a constitutionally guaranteed public good.
3. Disband ice and remake the DHS
4. Refund the arts.
5. Restore everything nuked by RFK
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Using advanced equipment
January 6, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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First installment is up!
dansheehan.bsky.social Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 5d
As the Difficult Year project begins, I'm thinking about how our phones serve as an escape hatch from even minor moments of discomfort and how having instant access to that escape harms our ability to live in the real world
Phones are the great pacifying device of our time. No single human invention has ever been so capable of transmuting raw emotion into useless things. Great ideas become middling posts. Friendships become group chats. Political fervor becomes shareable infographics. Their greatest trick of all is turning time into less time. They are the crucial ingredient that allowed for the Smooth World’s formation, an anesthetic that can be poured on every wound. Our phones and the endless scrolls of social media they provide are perfectly designed to maintain a baseline level of addicted malaise, a promise that if you just scroll a little more, you’ll find whatever it is you’re looking for. The problem with phones isn’t just that they’re bad for us2 , it’s that they make us feel too good. Looking at your phone feels better than nearly any activity you’d otherwise be doing. There is no small, quiet, moment of our lives we won’t joyously skip over given the chance. It’s like we learned nothing from Adam Sandler’s Click.
January 5, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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dansheehan.bsky.social
My little project for the year is making my life harder on purpose. I talk about it a little bit here, but the long and short of it is that I think excessive convenience has eroded the quality of everyday life at great cost to our sense of self. I've been referring to it as The Smooth World
I’ve felt for a long time that our lives were beginning to take place not in the real, physical world we embody but in a parallel space that exists partially digitally, and partially in the perception of each individual. This other world is not a literal place so much as a sort of bubble that convenience places around us, protecting us from the exertions of other people upon our reality while also giving us the illusion of control over our own. Disruption of this world is often met with confusion, frustration, and even anger as those within it are forced to occasionally reckon with the fact that it’s a delusion they’ve placed themselves in. I call it the Smooth World. The Smooth World, as it is currently and continually designed, is meant to avoid friction at all cost. In it, food can be delivered to your doorstep by unseen butlers, cars turn every excursion out of the house into an isolating door-to-door commute, and in whatever small ways you’re forced to interact with others, you now all have the option of doing so while simultaneously anesthetizing yourself with an unending stream of short form video content. But hey, those things are chores! Surely optimizing them out of our lives has left more room for leisure! But the optimization hasn’t stopped at chores. Where once games, entertainment, and hobbies were a way of blowing off steam, now many opt instead to remain submerged in that unending stream of content. Our attention is no longer ours to give, having become a new frontier for those who wish to sell targeted advertising. So often, we look up from our phones during our two hours of free time each day only to realize that one of them is gone, that we’d made a second screen out of our lives.
January 1, 2026 at 9:51 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
Plenty of talk about how gyms are nuts in early january but every coffee shop I usually work at is full of twenty somethings talking about starting a podcast
January 5, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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> This means no podcasts where people are just hanging out/riffing/radicalizing me. If something is supposed to be worth hours of my time, the person making it can go ahead and write it down/research it.

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dansheehan.bsky.social Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 8d
Each month, I'll be abandoning some modern amenity in hopes of figuring out if a line exists between excessive convenience and drudgery. Social media, screens, car travel, delivery, none of it is off the table. I'm dumping modernity upside down until I can figure out which part went rotten
Let's have a difficult year
This year I'm making my life harder on purpose because I'm a genius
www.reallyveryhuman.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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tinyweasel.bsky.social
I'm gonna desmooth my life this year. Finally getting rid of Google for one.
dansheehan.bsky.social Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 8d
My little project for the year is making my life harder on purpose. I talk about it a little bit here, but the long and short of it is that I think excessive convenience has eroded the quality of everyday life at great cost to our sense of self. I've been referring to it as The Smooth World
I’ve felt for a long time that our lives were beginning to take place not in the real, physical world we embody but in a parallel space that exists partially digitally, and partially in the perception of each individual. This other world is not a literal place so much as a sort of bubble that convenience places around us, protecting us from the exertions of other people upon our reality while also giving us the illusion of control over our own. Disruption of this world is often met with confusion, frustration, and even anger as those within it are forced to occasionally reckon with the fact that it’s a delusion they’ve placed themselves in. I call it the Smooth World. The Smooth World, as it is currently and continually designed, is meant to avoid friction at all cost. In it, food can be delivered to your doorstep by unseen butlers, cars turn every excursion out of the house into an isolating door-to-door commute, and in whatever small ways you’re forced to interact with others, you now all have the option of doing so while simultaneously anesthetizing yourself with an unending stream of short form video content. But hey, those things are chores! Surely optimizing them out of our lives has left more room for leisure! But the optimization hasn’t stopped at chores. Where once games, entertainment, and hobbies were a way of blowing off steam, now many opt instead to remain submerged in that unending stream of content. Our attention is no longer ours to give, having become a new frontier for those who wish to sell targeted advertising. So often, we look up from our phones during our two hours of free time each day only to realize that one of them is gone, that we’d made a second screen out of our lives.
January 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
As the Difficult Year project begins, I'm thinking about how our phones serve as an escape hatch from even minor moments of discomfort and how having instant access to that escape harms our ability to live in the real world
Phones are the great pacifying device of our time. No single human invention has ever been so capable of transmuting raw emotion into useless things. Great ideas become middling posts. Friendships become group chats. Political fervor becomes shareable infographics. Their greatest trick of all is turning time into less time. They are the crucial ingredient that allowed for the Smooth World’s formation, an anesthetic that can be poured on every wound. Our phones and the endless scrolls of social media they provide are perfectly designed to maintain a baseline level of addicted malaise, a promise that if you just scroll a little more, you’ll find whatever it is you’re looking for. The problem with phones isn’t just that they’re bad for us2 , it’s that they make us feel too good. Looking at your phone feels better than nearly any activity you’d otherwise be doing. There is no small, quiet, moment of our lives we won’t joyously skip over given the chance. It’s like we learned nothing from Adam Sandler’s Click.
January 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
Football should have a "Lord's Ball" that allows teams to run a play with a white football once a game that's worth twice as many points and cannot be fumbled
January 4, 2026 at 10:05 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
You're mad that a guy punched you in the face? Well that's interesting because I never see you using your platform to condemn face punching
January 4, 2026 at 10:00 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
Questions like "is this legal" are a profound misreading of the moment, like saying that a dog isn't allowed to attack you
January 3, 2026 at 11:35 PM
dansheehan.bsky.social
Got back my first rolls of the year. Slightly disappointing results, unfortunately. Been trying to get better at night/low light shots. Used Cinestill 400 &800. I have a 3rd roll in progress where I pulled the 800 to expose at 500 and I'm wondering if it helped me get better focus and exposure
January 3, 2026 at 8:35 PM