Sean McKeown
@sifuabs.bsky.social
Life is an endless series of contextual ethics problems. Then you die.
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Sean McKeown
@sifuabs.bsky.social
· Feb 26
Since I seem to keep doing these, making a master thread to keep as my Pinned post with all my "these are my Commander decks" threads I have done... mostly so I can keep track of them, especially as I am considering new builds with some recent Commanders from Aetherdrift.
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I’m driving through rural Texas, prime insane right wing billboard territory and I just saw a billboard that said “no healthcare for the peasants but a ballroom for the king”
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’m driving through rural Texas, prime insane right wing billboard territory and I just saw a billboard that said “no healthcare for the peasants but a ballroom for the king”
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
cat
cat
cat
cat
cat
cat
cat
cat
cat
cat
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Blue whale (and calf)
Mexican free-tailed bat
King rail
Portuguese man-o-war
17 year periodical cicada
Blue whale (and calf)
Mexican free-tailed bat
King rail
Portuguese man-o-war
17 year periodical cicada
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
cat
cat
cat
cat
cat
cat
cat
cat
cat
cat
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"Your profession of faith does not lead you to do good things; everything you do is a good thing because you have professed your faith."
We saw that a few posts back, didn't we?
bsky.app/profile/raha...
We saw that a few posts back, didn't we?
bsky.app/profile/raha...
But, critically, Reagan's version of the metaphor is not the same cautionary "everyone is watching you, so don't fuck up" framing as Kennedy or even Winthrop used. It reverses the direction: "everyone is watching you because you are special, and because you are special, you cannot fuck up".
May 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"Your profession of faith does not lead you to do good things; everything you do is a good thing because you have professed your faith."
We saw that a few posts back, didn't we?
bsky.app/profile/raha...
We saw that a few posts back, didn't we?
bsky.app/profile/raha...
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Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
Read Pope Leo XIV's first homily as pope
During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.
www.npr.org
May 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
Was led to think about this again for literally no reason, it's just always true.
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Was led to think about this again for literally no reason, it's just always true.
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it seems Strategy, whose business model was "buy Bitcoin" and whose market cap was somehow larger than the value of its stock of bitcoin, is now collapsing. inconceivable www.ft.com/content/5347...
Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble
‘Digital asset treasury’ craze sours amid $1tn rout in cryptocurrency market
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
it seems Strategy, whose business model was "buy Bitcoin" and whose market cap was somehow larger than the value of its stock of bitcoin, is now collapsing. inconceivable www.ft.com/content/5347...
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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It's time for everyone's favorite chronologically unanchored holiday, The Story of the Lizard in the Leg.
Because people keep asking, the Story of The Lizard In That Dude's Leg. Some caveats:
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's time for everyone's favorite chronologically unanchored holiday, The Story of the Lizard in the Leg.
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Shocked cat who is still definitely here for the Trump-Mamdani bromance destroying the Republican Party.
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Shocked cat who is still definitely here for the Trump-Mamdani bromance destroying the Republican Party.
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I happened to be in the audience for the Colbert taping last night where @warren.senate.gov called out David Ellison *by name* and I'm honestly shocked it wasn't edited out. We love to see it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I happened to be in the audience for the Colbert taping last night where @warren.senate.gov called out David Ellison *by name* and I'm honestly shocked it wasn't edited out. We love to see it.
Now that I am at the end of the thread, posting the bottom of it here so it is easier to read.
TL;DR: Bitcoin and major stock indexes are crashing, VIX is spiking, something is going on and there are several possible What's, including "Wall Street thinks Donald Trump is fucking cooked."
TL;DR: Bitcoin and major stock indexes are crashing, VIX is spiking, something is going on and there are several possible What's, including "Wall Street thinks Donald Trump is fucking cooked."
There are numerous potential hypotheses for what "thing X might be cracking!" could be right now. But it sure looks like SOMETHING is cracking, because the VIX has spiked and Bitcoin is dumping and all major financial indexes continue trending downward.
Time to hold onto our collective asses.
Time to hold onto our collective asses.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Now that I am at the end of the thread, posting the bottom of it here so it is easier to read.
TL;DR: Bitcoin and major stock indexes are crashing, VIX is spiking, something is going on and there are several possible What's, including "Wall Street thinks Donald Trump is fucking cooked."
TL;DR: Bitcoin and major stock indexes are crashing, VIX is spiking, something is going on and there are several possible What's, including "Wall Street thinks Donald Trump is fucking cooked."
This is continuing in the vein of "Sean Is Mad And/Or Sad About A Number Again," except this time...?
Not sure if I am mad or sad or wistful or this is just a good moment for schadenfreude?
There is a key metric I have been keeping an eye on the past year, the price of Bitcoin.
Not sure if I am mad or sad or wistful or this is just a good moment for schadenfreude?
There is a key metric I have been keeping an eye on the past year, the price of Bitcoin.
November 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is continuing in the vein of "Sean Is Mad And/Or Sad About A Number Again," except this time...?
Not sure if I am mad or sad or wistful or this is just a good moment for schadenfreude?
There is a key metric I have been keeping an eye on the past year, the price of Bitcoin.
Not sure if I am mad or sad or wistful or this is just a good moment for schadenfreude?
There is a key metric I have been keeping an eye on the past year, the price of Bitcoin.
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
And you wouldn't know her, she goes to another school.
In Canada.
In Canada.
I got tricked into clicking a link to the virtual Nazi bar that is Substack, so I will save you the same mistake:
Ryan Lizza wants Olivia Nuzzi to know that he is dating someone way better, and to tell the world that olivia has banged multiple elderly sources and also that he is definitely not mad.
Ryan Lizza wants Olivia Nuzzi to know that he is dating someone way better, and to tell the world that olivia has banged multiple elderly sources and also that he is definitely not mad.
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
And you wouldn't know her, she goes to another school.
In Canada.
In Canada.
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Hello! today is 🎂🎉MY BIRTHDAY! 🎉🎂
For my birthday, plz read what is up of my webcomic/signal-boost this skeet? It would mean a lot to me!
Only 50 pages so far. It hasn't updated in ages, but I'm still working on it. Updates will resume when the backlog reaches 50 pages.
blikada.com?pg=1#showComic
For my birthday, plz read what is up of my webcomic/signal-boost this skeet? It would mean a lot to me!
Only 50 pages so far. It hasn't updated in ages, but I'm still working on it. Updates will resume when the backlog reaches 50 pages.
blikada.com?pg=1#showComic
Blikada
blikada.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Hello! today is 🎂🎉MY BIRTHDAY! 🎉🎂
For my birthday, plz read what is up of my webcomic/signal-boost this skeet? It would mean a lot to me!
Only 50 pages so far. It hasn't updated in ages, but I'm still working on it. Updates will resume when the backlog reaches 50 pages.
blikada.com?pg=1#showComic
For my birthday, plz read what is up of my webcomic/signal-boost this skeet? It would mean a lot to me!
Only 50 pages so far. It hasn't updated in ages, but I'm still working on it. Updates will resume when the backlog reaches 50 pages.
blikada.com?pg=1#showComic
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It was a victim of its own success in a lot of ways.
I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day.
The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.
I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day.
The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.
I've listened to several podcasts and read several articles on why people are souring on capitalism and they all don't mention Occupy which is weird to me because of nothing else they mainstreamed a lot of the language we use today. And it was a genuinely big deal at the time.
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It was a victim of its own success in a lot of ways.
I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day.
The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.
I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day.
The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.
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matt yglesias' primary claim about politics is that to win elections, democrats should adopt the strategy which has given starmer a 13% approval rating in the UK
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
matt yglesias' primary claim about politics is that to win elections, democrats should adopt the strategy which has given starmer a 13% approval rating in the UK
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Huh. So Larry Summers was the guy we all thought he was.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Huh. So Larry Summers was the guy we all thought he was.
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“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
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Everything about this story is awesome. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
A Farmer, a Designer and a Dating App Unite to Save Some ‘Gay Sheep’
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Everything about this story is awesome. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
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*Marjorie Taylor Greene* being so sincerely anti-child sex abuse that she's willing to douse both her own political career and the president's in gasoline before tackling him into an open fire was actually not one I saw coming at all ngl
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
*Marjorie Taylor Greene* being so sincerely anti-child sex abuse that she's willing to douse both her own political career and the president's in gasoline before tackling him into an open fire was actually not one I saw coming at all ngl
I don't know what more Balatro wants from me, I've beaten every difficulty level with every deck and achieved a truly ludicrous "highest point values per hand," that's a ten-digit number right there.
I have a friend trying to win with every joker at highest difficulty, and that's too far for me.
I have a friend trying to win with every joker at highest difficulty, and that's too far for me.
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I don't know what more Balatro wants from me, I've beaten every difficulty level with every deck and achieved a truly ludicrous "highest point values per hand," that's a ten-digit number right there.
I have a friend trying to win with every joker at highest difficulty, and that's too far for me.
I have a friend trying to win with every joker at highest difficulty, and that's too far for me.
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NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...