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?
Still convinced that at least part of our problems today are the Republicans having too many posters and the Democrats not having enough. To ensure balance, we should rewrite the constitution to have one house of Congress devoted to posters and the other for those who want to write legislation
not surprising and yet still jarring to read ex-FBI agents describing how Kash Patel and Bongino reacted to Charlie Kirk's murder while running the agency. truly the content creator administration/podcast govt www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
January 22, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Still convinced that at least part of our problems today are the Republicans having too many posters and the Democrats not having enough. To ensure balance, we should rewrite the constitution to have one house of Congress devoted to posters and the other for those who want to write legislation
On one hand, perhaps W should have said upfront they were an ATProto app.
But on the other, if they did that, I wouldn’t have seen so many posts about them today
I don’t know if it was intentional, but there are worse marketing strategies xkcd.com/386/
But on the other, if they did that, I wouldn’t have seen so many posts about them today
I don’t know if it was intentional, but there are worse marketing strategies xkcd.com/386/
Duty Calls
xkcd.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:33 PM
On one hand, perhaps W should have said upfront they were an ATProto app.
But on the other, if they did that, I wouldn’t have seen so many posts about them today
I don’t know if it was intentional, but there are worse marketing strategies xkcd.com/386/
But on the other, if they did that, I wouldn’t have seen so many posts about them today
I don’t know if it was intentional, but there are worse marketing strategies xkcd.com/386/
One of the most broken aspects of social media is that so much content that goes viral and gets tons of engagement isn’t even trying to be good content anymore. Once there became a class of social media professionals trying to optimize for attention, it became a race to the bottom
January 20, 2026 at 1:10 AM
One of the most broken aspects of social media is that so much content that goes viral and gets tons of engagement isn’t even trying to be good content anymore. Once there became a class of social media professionals trying to optimize for attention, it became a race to the bottom
Nothing makes me feel more worldly and empathetic than non-Americans posting about how they don’t think Americans get how some political event is seen in their country and then it’s just the most obvious viewpoint that I would have expected them to have
January 19, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Nothing makes me feel more worldly and empathetic than non-Americans posting about how they don’t think Americans get how some political event is seen in their country and then it’s just the most obvious viewpoint that I would have expected them to have
Given that ICE is in Minneapolis and apparently going to Maine, what are the odds is the result of a “Best places for ice in January?” prompt to ChatGPT that needed some more context?
January 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Given that ICE is in Minneapolis and apparently going to Maine, what are the odds is the result of a “Best places for ice in January?” prompt to ChatGPT that needed some more context?
It feels like almost every problem with the internet is just a specific instance of the problem of people wanting to see the good content without seeing the bad content
January 6, 2026 at 11:50 PM
It feels like almost every problem with the internet is just a specific instance of the problem of people wanting to see the good content without seeing the bad content
Someone please tell me that post was good or at least not terrible
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Someone please tell me that post was good or at least not terrible
Imagine being an early European explorer in the Americas going back to Europe to try to explain to people you found a lake as big as England, not no the biggest lake in England, the whole country. And then that there are actually 4 more
January 3, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Imagine being an early European explorer in the Americas going back to Europe to try to explain to people you found a lake as big as England, not no the biggest lake in England, the whole country. And then that there are actually 4 more
As someone who started driving when you had to pay over $4 a gallon for gas and HS summer jobs paid like $7 an hour, you can’t convince me that gas costing less than $3 a gallon in 2025 isn’t basically free
December 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
As someone who started driving when you had to pay over $4 a gallon for gas and HS summer jobs paid like $7 an hour, you can’t convince me that gas costing less than $3 a gallon in 2025 isn’t basically free
Was halfway through an essay about why LLMs can be useful for some work and why software engineering is somewhat unique in being maximally suited for them in ways that doesn’t translate to other fields. Sort of thought I had missed the moment and people were understanding, but maybe not
i think software engineers insisting that everyone needs to pick up LLM tooling as a part of their job are mostly showing the depth of their own ignorance with respect to how other professions work on the basis that inevitably they must be right in some marginal way about the adoption of technology.
December 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Was halfway through an essay about why LLMs can be useful for some work and why software engineering is somewhat unique in being maximally suited for them in ways that doesn’t translate to other fields. Sort of thought I had missed the moment and people were understanding, but maybe not
Typed out and then deleted before posting two replies to stupid posts. Please clap
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Typed out and then deleted before posting two replies to stupid posts. Please clap
It’s so disappointing that we have a political movement against expertise in a area typical educated people are not really capable of weighing in (vaccines) rather than in the subset of legal issues like birthright citizenship that aren’t that difficult
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It’s so disappointing that we have a political movement against expertise in a area typical educated people are not really capable of weighing in (vaccines) rather than in the subset of legal issues like birthright citizenship that aren’t that difficult
This is true, but this also falls under someone has to perform the outrage. Media coverage won't happen until prominent people (ie elected Dems) go on video and accuse Trump of lying
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
This is true, but this also falls under someone has to perform the outrage. Media coverage won't happen until prominent people (ie elected Dems) go on video and accuse Trump of lying
Now that it looks like Trump is actually going to invade Venezuela to try to overthrow Maduro, I would really like to read about how people who consume Venezuelan/Colombian media were talking about this as a campaign issue in the 2024 election and it never made it into any English language media
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Now that it looks like Trump is actually going to invade Venezuela to try to overthrow Maduro, I would really like to read about how people who consume Venezuelan/Colombian media were talking about this as a campaign issue in the 2024 election and it never made it into any English language media
Comparing people thinking chatbots actually like them to people who think strippers actually like them isn’t fair to strippers, who are capable of liking people
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Comparing people thinking chatbots actually like them to people who think strippers actually like them isn’t fair to strippers, who are capable of liking people
I swear I am going to become the @whstancil.bsky.social of people on the anti-Trump side skipping over the outrage reaction and going right to the hypocrisy or “things are so different from 10 years ago” commentary. Nothing will ever become a scandal if no one even feigns outrage!
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I swear I am going to become the @whstancil.bsky.social of people on the anti-Trump side skipping over the outrage reaction and going right to the hypocrisy or “things are so different from 10 years ago” commentary. Nothing will ever become a scandal if no one even feigns outrage!
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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/...