Megan
@meganmccarthy.bsky.social
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
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Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
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Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
buff.ly/16gTRJa
Lab Monkeys Escape Overturned Truck Near Heidelberg, Mississippi
Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck around mile marker 117 on Interstate 59, north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi, marshalling a response from numerous law…
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
buff.ly/16gTRJa
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
buff.ly/16gTRJa
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anyway if you need some good news today... new robyn album soon www.stereogum.com/2323988/roby...
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September 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
anyway if you need some good news today... new robyn album soon www.stereogum.com/2323988/roby...
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So I wrote a thing on the occasion of @techmeme.com's 20th birthday, and I couldn't help but drag Bluesky into it (don't dogpile me please). news.techmeme.com/250912/20-ye...
September 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
So I wrote a thing on the occasion of @techmeme.com's 20th birthday, and I couldn't help but drag Bluesky into it (don't dogpile me please). news.techmeme.com/250912/20-ye...
Mississippi Marsala is great
June 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Mississippi Marsala is great
Nepo babies alllllllll the way down
June 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Nepo babies alllllllll the way down
Anyone who was in tech in Web 2.0 days needs to go watch Mountainhead right now.
June 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Anyone who was in tech in Web 2.0 days needs to go watch Mountainhead right now.
Papal March Madness bracket with Villanova all the way
May 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Papal March Madness bracket with Villanova all the way
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Whoever wrote this title at the Irish Times reporting on blood donation must have rubbed his hands together in mischievous glee.
www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland...
www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland...
British urgently want the blood of Irish people
NHS say it is ‘vital’ that Irish people in Britain step forward to donate blood
www.irishtimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Whoever wrote this title at the Irish Times reporting on blood donation must have rubbed his hands together in mischievous glee.
www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland...
www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland...
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Let’s just make every day 25 hours long
November 6, 2023 at 1:28 AM
Let’s just make every day 25 hours long
Been playing the same starting word since this game started and finally hit paydirt.
Wordle 775 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 775 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
August 3, 2023 at 8:42 PM
Been playing the same starting word since this game started and finally hit paydirt.
Wordle 775 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 775 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
There’s no need for Instagram with text, just please someone create a feed that’s half Bloombergian real-time wire news and half MST3K-type meme commentary and feed it directly into my veins
July 4, 2023 at 12:51 AM
There’s no need for Instagram with text, just please someone create a feed that’s half Bloombergian real-time wire news and half MST3K-type meme commentary and feed it directly into my veins
28-year-old at the whisky bar tonight was trying to compliment me by saying I looked like Elizabeth Holmes and I would just like a bit of credit for allowing him to stay alive after that.
May 10, 2023 at 6:05 AM
28-year-old at the whisky bar tonight was trying to compliment me by saying I looked like Elizabeth Holmes and I would just like a bit of credit for allowing him to stay alive after that.
All I want is a laptop and browser that can handle all my tabs.
May 9, 2023 at 2:46 PM
All I want is a laptop and browser that can handle all my tabs.
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can’t say this on the other app but the central question of that holmes profile is clearly “can a conventionally pretty white woman really be a criminal?”
May 7, 2023 at 3:43 PM
can’t say this on the other app but the central question of that holmes profile is clearly “can a conventionally pretty white woman really be a criminal?”
If Elizabeth Holmes is doing her own PR, she missed her calling entirely by starting up Theranos instead of her own comms shop.
May 7, 2023 at 4:33 PM
If Elizabeth Holmes is doing her own PR, she missed her calling entirely by starting up Theranos instead of her own comms shop.
So I’m on the patio with a coffee and the Times enjoying a glorious day, get to this section, read the headline, see the picture, and lose my gd mind.
May 7, 2023 at 4:23 PM
So I’m on the patio with a coffee and the Times enjoying a glorious day, get to this section, read the headline, see the picture, and lose my gd mind.
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Hey everyone, go follow @techmeme.com and please spread the word that Techmeme is now posting around the clock here!
May 3, 2023 at 5:11 PM
Hey everyone, go follow @techmeme.com and please spread the word that Techmeme is now posting around the clock here!
To clarify:
* It was the Trucker Hat era, but Silicon Valley generally avoided them. It was a classism thing, even back in 2005ish
* “Jell-O wrestling parties” is more accurate as “Jello-O wrestling party” because there was one big one post GOOG IPO, but I don’t remember more.
* It was the Trucker Hat era, but Silicon Valley generally avoided them. It was a classism thing, even back in 2005ish
* “Jell-O wrestling parties” is more accurate as “Jello-O wrestling party” because there was one big one post GOOG IPO, but I don’t remember more.
May 3, 2023 at 2:23 AM
To clarify:
* It was the Trucker Hat era, but Silicon Valley generally avoided them. It was a classism thing, even back in 2005ish
* “Jell-O wrestling parties” is more accurate as “Jello-O wrestling party” because there was one big one post GOOG IPO, but I don’t remember more.
* It was the Trucker Hat era, but Silicon Valley generally avoided them. It was a classism thing, even back in 2005ish
* “Jell-O wrestling parties” is more accurate as “Jello-O wrestling party” because there was one big one post GOOG IPO, but I don’t remember more.