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Tom McGrath

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Just another dipshit from Chicago. Bits and jokes and jokes and bits. Photos, sometimes acting, mostly nonsense.

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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · Nov 28

You incompetent idiots. You dummies. You clownshod nincompoops. Your descendants will be haunted by your deeds.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 4h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 7h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 4h

Holy shit

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 4h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 4h

I had to read that twice

Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 7h

The Warriors

Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 12h

Catholic school on the northwest side, so a) Cop Neighborhood and b) a fair amount of "The City is a Hellhole, Which Is Why We Live In Harwood Heights" weirdos.

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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 15h

I am not constructed in a way that’s designed for fighting, but the only thing that’s prevented me from throwing hands is that I’ve never ID’d who owns this van. (There’s also a Trajan Pro All-Caps Trump sticker, and the license plate is “TAP TAP,” which is unsettling.)

Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 15h

It also really puts the Elephant and Piggie books into perspective.

Deadward Sung @edwardsung.bsky.social · 1d

Why do we not get these stories on The Dodo, it’s just “duck and pig are besties”

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them

they would 100% eat us if given the chance

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 15h

Die, industry, die

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 15h

Tradcaths: “Pleeeeease can we have an American Pope?”

[monkey’s paw curls into a tight fist]

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 19h

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 15h

A parent at my kid’s school recently added a new sticker to their minivan’s rear windshield. It reads “I stand with Charlie Kirk.”

My siblings in Christ, we may disagree philosophically, but surely we can agree that the amount of standing he’s doing has been pretty comprehensively curtailed.

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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 1d

Charles Bronson arguing that Five Guys “used to be a better value”

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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 1d

Olivier giddily explaining a Death Drop to Derek Jacobi, who just keeps correcting him “Larry, it’s not a ‘dead drop.’”

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not body shaming but I’m also honest this Texas boy is gonna roll through Portillo’s once and switch allegiances

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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 1d

There’s this thing called a “Rainbow Cone…”

Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 1d

Toodling around between Lubbock and Midland, my SkyCardians:

Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 1d

Plot’s the same, but everyone is off-putting and the magic fails because nobody can stand to be around them long enough to give a shit.

Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 1d

“I’d Rather Not”

Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 1d

If “Now You See Me” had its charisma inverted.

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

The best part here are the parents saying “Bill’s great at teaching one on one, the program sucks but he’s great at that” www.wral.com/sports/belic...

Divided locker room, disastrous results: Players, parents blame Belichick culture for UNC problems

Multiple sources with knowledge of the inner workings of Bill Belichick's program say that UNC football's losses are a product of a divided locker room, a disorganized coaching staff and a failure to ...

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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 1d

If I had a tenth of that kind of money (which is more than sufficient to pay normal bills with just the dividends), the amount of nothing special I would do is incomprehensible.

“I’ll get bored!” My good bitch, do you know how many museums exist? Have you ever wanted to take a train somewhere?

Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 1d

This thing used to be a hospital, so it’s way haunted

Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 1d

I was unaware that there was an explicit version and a clean version until my then 6-y.o. cheerfully sang “let’s lose our minds and go fuckin’ crazy” in her car seat.

Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 2d

Not “mistakes” or even “light tests,” they’re spooooky old buildings being atmospheeeeeeeeric

Structural clay tile, left, sharp, with an elevator mechanical overrun in the background, indistinct due to a shallow depth of field. Sunlight is coming through a gap in the machinery

A strobe illuminates a chair and the corner of an otherwise gutted floor. The ceiling is lit from a light source out of frame

Another image of the gutted floor with the remote strobe behind a pillar. The foreground is dark, the background is concrete and cmu and stuff

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Tom McGrath @tcmcg.bsky.social · 2d

I’d very much like her to stop being bad with my name.

Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 2d

No.