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erin mccann
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Weather at The New York Times. Now in SF after four years in London. Brooklyn before that. Find me: https://instagram.com/mccannercat
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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · Nov 26
I have a phone full of photos I’m sort of proud of, and a year’s worth of adventures I haven’t really posted anywhere, so I’m going to semi-randomly try to post one a day through the end of the year to this thread.

Today: Ballachulish, Scotland, in May, while hiking the West Highland Way.
An old Scottish hotel at the side of a loch.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19h
YOU COULD PERHAPS HAVE LED WITH THE MOVIE PART
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NPR @npr.org · 20h
A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga
Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'
A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 1d
I cannot stop watching this.
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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d
sherman, for the love of god!
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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 23h
“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣
Troops to Portland still on hold, multiplying protest frogs, fact-check on Trump claims: Get caught up
It’s not clear when the 9th Circuit panel will issue its ruling, but it will likely come before an Oct. 17 hearing
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1d
Nice try, “Paul A. Thompson”
A Pitchfork review for One Battle After Another that call it a “nerve-wracking masterpiece”, written by one Paul A. Thompson
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d
It's the purest contemporary franchise in this way. No one really cares, the lore is inconsequential/nonsensical, but some proprietary and incorrect numbers suggest it's worth making another one. The result looks decent and gets some talented people paid. Cool. Two more Event Horizon movies please.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d
Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 1d
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 2d
Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...
Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance
The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.
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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 2d
an artiste
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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 2d
I appreciate quite a lot that the FedEx driver included my Halloween decoration in his delivery confirmation image.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d
Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 2d
This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 2d
This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.
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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 2d
There's a recent episode of East Bay Yesterday that is just a bunch of retire trash guys yucking it up in what is essentially a clubhouse, it's great! eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/we-...
“We let everybody throw it away” - East Bay Yesterday
In recent years, volunteer-led groups like Urban Compassion Project have struggled to deal with illegal dumping in Oakland. Despite removing more than half a million pounds of trash this year, piles o...
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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 2d
to be clear i think this is AMAZING.
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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 2d
The public works director of Oakland would like to get MC Hammer to record a song called "U Can't Dump This" as a way to help solve the city's trash problem www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
How a City Awash in Garbage Is Trying to Take Out the Trash
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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 2d
L.A. Officials to Announce Arrest in Palisades Fire www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
L.A. Officials to Announce Arrest in Palisades Fire
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 2d
The lede in this article is utterly devastating
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 3d
this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 3d
When a Guardian reporter pointed out on social media that the image was not a genuine photograph of the generally small and tame protests outside the ICE field office in Portland, the Oregon Republican Party’s X account replied: “We’re not reporters, just bad memers”
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d
The alt text 😭
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d
I love them both but Travis and Patrick look like they’re running a traveling medicine show in the Great Depression
Travis Kelce, wearing a newsies hat and a shirt that seems to be pattered on a motels wallpaper, and Patrick Mahomes, wearing a red checkered vest made out of an Italian restaurants tablecloth
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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 4d
well that’s fucking horrible
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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 4d
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 4d
hard to explan how thrilling this is for me

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Guy Fieri and the mystery of how 24,000 bottles of tequila went missing | 60 Minutes
Trucks carrying Santo Tequila, a brand founded by Food Network host Guy Fieri and former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar, vanished last year. This is how the sophisticated highway heist was pulled off.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5d
Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info.

SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...
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Ann Marie AwooOoooOooooo 👻 @anntastic.bsky.social · 8d
mom and dad are fighting I don’t like it
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