Patrick McEwen
@pmcewen.bsky.social
Lacrosse guy, but no one seems to talk about sports here, so I guess I'm here for the political news? Maybe some finance and economics stuff too?
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If you aren't familiar with Massie, this quote is the quickest way to catch up. So many levels to it
reason.com/2017/03/15/t...
reason.com/2017/03/15/t...
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM
If you aren't familiar with Massie, this quote is the quickest way to catch up. So many levels to it
reason.com/2017/03/15/t...
reason.com/2017/03/15/t...
Starting to realize that the politician who said he could only lose if he was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy was maybe not actually joking at all
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Starting to realize that the politician who said he could only lose if he was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy was maybe not actually joking at all
Also unless I don't understand how the federal government works, the 2019 law about federal employee back pay was worthless political signaling back then and it's coming back to bite Senate Dems right now. The budget is a law, so it can change any previous laws
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Also unless I don't understand how the federal government works, the 2019 law about federal employee back pay was worthless political signaling back then and it's coming back to bite Senate Dems right now. The budget is a law, so it can change any previous laws
Maybe I have just been getting too much political news from Bluesky, but this seems like just about the worst possible way for this to end for Senate Democrats
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Maybe I have just been getting too much political news from Bluesky, but this seems like just about the worst possible way for this to end for Senate Democrats
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Everyone's true "welcome to the Big Ten" moment is not when they win a conference title, or beat Ohio State or Michigan. It's the first time they drown in a bathtub at Iowa when its like, 38 degrees outside.
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Everyone's true "welcome to the Big Ten" moment is not when they win a conference title, or beat Ohio State or Michigan. It's the first time they drown in a bathtub at Iowa when its like, 38 degrees outside.
Now that it’s even more obvious in retrospect and happening again, I would really like to read something that attempts to explain why so many business leaders and other elites just completely failed to understand that backlash to Trump is what caused the cultural lurch left of 2019-2021
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Now that it’s even more obvious in retrospect and happening again, I would really like to read something that attempts to explain why so many business leaders and other elites just completely failed to understand that backlash to Trump is what caused the cultural lurch left of 2019-2021
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I hadn't covered a college game since Georgetown-Villanova on April 14, 2019 but the Hoyas & Cavaliers threw down yesterday & I had to be there. Couldn't have picked a better time to come out of retirement - here's my story for @insidelacrosse.bsky.social:
www.insidelacrosse.com/article/geor...
www.insidelacrosse.com/article/geor...
Georgetown's Connors Connect Often, Colsey, Injury Returners Shine For UVA at Fall Scrimmage
CENTREVILLE, Va. — The latest installment of the annual American Boy Fall Brawl took place Sunday afternoon at Centreville High School,
www.insidelacrosse.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I hadn't covered a college game since Georgetown-Villanova on April 14, 2019 but the Hoyas & Cavaliers threw down yesterday & I had to be there. Couldn't have picked a better time to come out of retirement - here's my story for @insidelacrosse.bsky.social:
www.insidelacrosse.com/article/geor...
www.insidelacrosse.com/article/geor...
Started to notice that the issues that seem to end up mattering are the ones with the most actual outrage posts. Probably partially an indicator of the issues people actually care about and partially the posts causing more people to care
I remain convinced that a major reason for the asymmetry in politics is that everyone one the broad left of center has started just skipping over the getting upset part and right to complaining about the hypocrisy, lack of action, asymmetry, etc, but skips right over the initial reaction
October 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Started to notice that the issues that seem to end up mattering are the ones with the most actual outrage posts. Probably partially an indicator of the issues people actually care about and partially the posts causing more people to care
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the chauncey billips poker stuff was kinda sitting out there in the open for years www.reddit.com/r/ripcity/s/...
From the ripcity community on Reddit: Chauncey allegedly scammed people out of thousands of dollars by running rigged private poker games in LA & Vegas
Explore this post and more from the ripcity community
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October 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
the chauncey billips poker stuff was kinda sitting out there in the open for years www.reddit.com/r/ripcity/s/...
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They saw the blazers almost beat the twolves and launched an investigation
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
They saw the blazers almost beat the twolves and launched an investigation
I hope everyone on here who found that gathering with a crowd of people who wanted the same thing had a positive effect on their mood and enjoyment of life considers that maybe sports fans are actually on to something
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I hope everyone on here who found that gathering with a crowd of people who wanted the same thing had a positive effect on their mood and enjoyment of life considers that maybe sports fans are actually on to something
AI seems to be like alchemy, get rich quick investment seminars, etc in that if they really had the good stuff, they wouldn’t be offering to sell it to you at any price because they would be too busy getting rich using it themselves
October 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
AI seems to be like alchemy, get rich quick investment seminars, etc in that if they really had the good stuff, they wouldn’t be offering to sell it to you at any price because they would be too busy getting rich using it themselves
First @leaflet.pub post! I wrote about @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social having her content reposted and if there anything we can do with #ATProto to try to improve the situation
On Using ATProto to Improve Social Media Habits
Is there a way to encourage sharing original content rather than uncredited reposts?
pmcewen.leaflet.pub
October 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
First @leaflet.pub post! I wrote about @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social having her content reposted and if there anything we can do with #ATProto to try to improve the situation
I remain convinced that a major reason for the asymmetry in politics is that everyone one the broad left of center has started just skipping over the getting upset part and right to complaining about the hypocrisy, lack of action, asymmetry, etc, but skips right over the initial reaction
October 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I remain convinced that a major reason for the asymmetry in politics is that everyone one the broad left of center has started just skipping over the getting upset part and right to complaining about the hypocrisy, lack of action, asymmetry, etc, but skips right over the initial reaction
Felt like an easy prediction we were headed for some version of a Woke 2.0, but I have to say, I did not have one of the big early moments of it being lead by the Disney adults
September 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Felt like an easy prediction we were headed for some version of a Woke 2.0, but I have to say, I did not have one of the big early moments of it being lead by the Disney adults
Don't think I can handle yet another day of "if only Dems would all do this one thing they would win elections" discourse
September 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Don't think I can handle yet another day of "if only Dems would all do this one thing they would win elections" discourse
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
There is no demand for it and if it existed, all of my behavior suggests I would not actually use it, but times like this I really wish I got my news from a source that was several days late on everything, but carefully curated to only include information that was extremely likely to hold up
September 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
There is no demand for it and if it existed, all of my behavior suggests I would not actually use it, but times like this I really wish I got my news from a source that was several days late on everything, but carefully curated to only include information that was extremely likely to hold up
Soccer should move from halves to 22.5 minute quarters and allow unlimited subs during breaks between quarters so starters can rest for either the 2nd or 3rd quarter and the intensity level can be a notch or two higher the whole game
Everybody should absolutely view this as an invitation to drop your spiciest soccer takes.
lol I’m gonna need bluesky’s biggest soccer post ever to balance out all the politics engagement im burying myself under.
September 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Soccer should move from halves to 22.5 minute quarters and allow unlimited subs during breaks between quarters so starters can rest for either the 2nd or 3rd quarter and the intensity level can be a notch or two higher the whole game
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Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.
September 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.
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Nate was/is an expert in that field and he was right that communication surrounding Covid was pretty fucked. I understand him kinda losing his mind over it tbh.
September 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Nate was/is an expert in that field and he was right that communication surrounding Covid was pretty fucked. I understand him kinda losing his mind over it tbh.
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It’s something more than this. Covid was a time when, among other things, the ability to communicate with a mass audience about complicated math became extremely high stakes, extremely quickly.
Health experts were absolutely dismissive of the idea that there could be experts in that specific field.
Health experts were absolutely dismissive of the idea that there could be experts in that specific field.
But -- and this is where I think Silver has a point -- Covid broke a lot of people temporarily. The public health folks saying the George Floyd protests were totes cool were also way outside their lane. I agree that Silver has overreacted to a lot, but this overstep was also real.
September 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It’s something more than this. Covid was a time when, among other things, the ability to communicate with a mass audience about complicated math became extremely high stakes, extremely quickly.
Health experts were absolutely dismissive of the idea that there could be experts in that specific field.
Health experts were absolutely dismissive of the idea that there could be experts in that specific field.
Reading all the skeets about JJ McCarthy after drafting Justin Jefferson in a fantasy league
a man says i 've made a huge mistake in front of flowers .
Alt: Gob Bluth from Arrested Development says "I've made a huge mistake"
media.tenor.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Reading all the skeets about JJ McCarthy after drafting Justin Jefferson in a fantasy league
By far my strongest held belief on trans athlete sports participation is that is become super weird how many people are being asked to weigh in on the issue and then have their opinions reported on like it matters and is news
September 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
By far my strongest held belief on trans athlete sports participation is that is become super weird how many people are being asked to weigh in on the issue and then have their opinions reported on like it matters and is news