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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 2h

For flu this year at work I had to film myself getting it (long story) and I told the nurse I was going to hold the camera so she wasn’t on it. She said, “oh I should be on it. I look good.” I’ve been trying to have that same confidence in my own life ever since.

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 3h

Going Mitchum Mode

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 10h

I see that little green guy above it all over too

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 11h

I love the tooth graffiti on 83.

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 1d

Have you considered the alternative “not ENOUGH” on staff argument, which South Philly definitely believes

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 1d

“Me time”

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 1d

Alicia Mountain

We expect a tear-away check in the mail some weeks toward summer, those of us who didn't stack enough in the black. I recycle the magazines wearing strangers'® names that I don't call to cancel because I am alone enough already. And when the check does come the watermark reads leave this town, leave the state altogether, like a receipt stamped no returns, no exchanges.
You can't undo what you have done.

Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 1d

There is a two-horse race between Umberto’s (north of the harbor) and Southside Saloon (south of the harbor) for best sign in Baltimore, but we’re all the real winners in that contest.

Greatest City In America is right, as the benches say.

Picture of a store sign that says UMBERTO’S THE TOTAL LOOK, and has a pic of what looks like a T Rex bandmember

Pic of a cheeky red Rottweiler in a cap smoking a cigar. Sign says SOUTHSIDE SALOON and the tagline is WHERE LONGSHOREMEN ARE MADE OF NAILS

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 1d

Cafe Los Sueños!

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 1d

Same. I'm a fan of 3 of the last 4, with Kang being the only headscratcher for me, but definitely Laszlo's my favorite of the bunch.

Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 1d

"A wink across the bar is identified by others and is clearly understood as flirtation because the gesture is perceived by a crowd and exists in a social context. The Instagram Story Like is done under the veil of relative digital secrecy and does not have that common meaning."

Instagram Story Likes and Markers of Digital Affection

User research on the meaning of Instagram Story Likes

beingonline.substack.com

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s SátántanGÓ

Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 1d

László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 2d

Not a drill, @apdirtybird.bsky.social. That’s Ben rocking a Canes shirt. The prophets foretold this day would come.

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 3d

The phrase “satanic beef molesters” appears not 25 pages in. He’s gonna be famous.

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 3d

Buckle up.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 3d

"The future of the internet, in part, will entail the weaponisation of its submarine cable systems."

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian

A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 4d

Tonight’s flick

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 4d

“More evidence that Miami defensive end/menace Rueben Bain is a 42 year old man with a union card and five kids he has to take to church in the morning. Let’s get this shit over with early so he can get some sleep.”

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