Mary McDowell
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Mary McDowell
@marytmcd.bsky.social
Tech vet, political junky, alto, and voracious reader. Loyal north-of-Green Illini. Grateful wife of kidney transplantee (sign your card!).
Anyone else have a mismatch between video and audio on FS1? Hearing the announcers’ call ahead of the video is jarring.
December 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
From this broadcast, you’d never know #Illini are in the lead.
December 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Seriously, is this a talk show with Jelly or a basketball game? #illini
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Are they going to chat with Jelly all night or actually call the game?? #illini
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Touchdown #Illini !!
(Photo by @ceoatnkf )
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It would completely bust my brackets if they pulled it off, but nice to see AZ put up a good fight against Duke. #MarchMadness
March 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I-L-L!!
March 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Totally dissed! And I used to love Ernie and the boys.
March 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Here we go! ILL!
#illini
February 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
🎶 I’m stuck like a dope with a thing called hope, and I can’t get it out of my heart!”
Go #Illini! 🧡💙
February 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I’ve been a fan of Barbara Kingsolver’s books forever, but learning that she funneled the profits of her Pulitzer-winning book, “Demon Copperhead” to support the community in a very tangible way? Author pantheon. Huge respect.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...
‘Demon Copperhead’ Explored Addiction. Its Profits Built a Rehab Center.
Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Taking some solace in that Jimmy Carter didn’t have to see this.
February 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It’s both amusing and insulting to see the fake accounts “friending” me here. Always a super handsome guy with salt & pepper hair and some trite phrase (“so glad to get off Meta”) intended to express common views. And always easy to uncover the fake via Google. Upon reflection, definitely insulting!
January 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
OHOWIHATEOHIOSTATE…except when they deliver a B1G victory deep in the heart of Texas. Go Buckeyes!
January 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
‘Tis the season…to
start rehearsing the Handel.

A much needed distraction.

And some fabulous alto parts. (Though truthfully, not much
competition.)
November 15, 2024 at 4:28 AM