erin mccann
@mccanner.bsky.social
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.
Today: Ballachulish, Scotland, in May, while hiking the West Highland Way.
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Just pure incoherence from a product Google is shipping to billions of people. Also already being hacked by SEO games
December 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Just pure incoherence from a product Google is shipping to billions of people. Also already being hacked by SEO games
I believed and I still believe that Threads is an AI experiment and none of those people or posts are real.
December 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I believed and I still believe that Threads is an AI experiment and none of those people or posts are real.
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
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I began this story focused on the weird lies about Hurricane Helene but became very disturbed at how prevalent this pseudo-environmentalism is. The movement blocks real policy to curb climate catastrophes.
For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Chemtrails Aren't Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them?
The history and politics of so-called weather weapons.
www.rollingstone.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I began this story focused on the weird lies about Hurricane Helene but became very disturbed at how prevalent this pseudo-environmentalism is. The movement blocks real policy to curb climate catastrophes.
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It happened again!
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
It happened again!
I know stating opinions like this is very twitter-circa-2012, but George Bailey is the absolute worst and Mary deserved better.
December 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I know stating opinions like this is very twitter-circa-2012, but George Bailey is the absolute worst and Mary deserved better.
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I was done with these posts until I saw this one
December 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I was done with these posts until I saw this one
I’ve made it this far in life without ever having had to fly at Christmastime.
That is a streak I wouldn’t have minded continuing, she posted from SFO Terminal 3.
That is a streak I wouldn’t have minded continuing, she posted from SFO Terminal 3.
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I’ve made it this far in life without ever having had to fly at Christmastime.
That is a streak I wouldn’t have minded continuing, she posted from SFO Terminal 3.
That is a streak I wouldn’t have minded continuing, she posted from SFO Terminal 3.
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Some news: CNN said it was launching a weather app this year as part of its big shift to digital and new lifestyle products. But the app is being pushed back after people familiar say teams were diverted to another project. Details from @nataliekorach.bsky.social: www.status.news/p/cnn-stream...
CNN’s Digital Headwinds
Under Mark Thompson, CNN has laid out a sweeping plan to expand into lifestyle-focused digital products, though many of those efforts, including a weather app, remain works in progress.
www.status.news
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Some news: CNN said it was launching a weather app this year as part of its big shift to digital and new lifestyle products. But the app is being pushed back after people familiar say teams were diverted to another project. Details from @nataliekorach.bsky.social: www.status.news/p/cnn-stream...
This thrrrrreeeeead
At least five FUBARed Waymo robots:
Market & Guerrero, SF
One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how.
Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO.
OP: tiktok.brahmsstan
Market & Guerrero, SF
One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how.
Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO.
OP: tiktok.brahmsstan
December 21, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This thrrrrreeeeead
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Tis the season.
December 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Tis the season.
(Paul Williams also wrote the songs for Emmet Otter.)
I wasn’t meant to be alive now, I was meant to live in whatever era produced this
December 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
(Paul Williams also wrote the songs for Emmet Otter.)
I wasn’t meant to be alive now, I was meant to live in whatever era produced this
December 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I wasn’t meant to be alive now, I was meant to live in whatever era produced this
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The Epstein Files, everybody!
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Epstein Files, everybody!
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Occasionally Instagram tricks me into clicking on Threads. This is the first time EVER I’ve seen something there that delighted me
December 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Occasionally Instagram tricks me into clicking on Threads. This is the first time EVER I’ve seen something there that delighted me
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“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”
ICE Says U.S. Citizen's Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”
I will watch literally anything Craig Mazin does but uh... i was not expecting this to be what he does when i made that solemn vow www.vulture.com/article/the-...
Wake Up, Sheeple, This Flock Is Solving a Murder Mystery
The creator of Chernobyl and The Last of Us is returning to his comedy roots with a movie called The Sheep Detectives.
www.vulture.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I will watch literally anything Craig Mazin does but uh... i was not expecting this to be what he does when i made that solemn vow www.vulture.com/article/the-...
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this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt
![What’s the title or IP that you have yet to land but want?
Calvin and Hobbes. I’ve been chasing that for years and years, and I just have gotten nowhere with [creator] Bill Watterson. I began writing letters to him over 20 years ago. He lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and I was actually contemplating just going out there and just staying at a local Best Western and seeing if he ever shows up at the [local] bookstore. All he does is these wood carvings for poetry readings, and every now and then he goes to the bookstore and does signings.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bck7uabvjt4xu5uzn3exzhqj/bafkreihbf3oqirpgrhgcmd5ruwmeq6wi4bfhpzlgexh26yfjnb5g5i3a6q@jpeg)
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt
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absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos
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December 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
Just read an article about a movie coming out in 2026 and whew, I keep writing 2007 on all my checks
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Just read an article about a movie coming out in 2026 and whew, I keep writing 2007 on all my checks