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Mick O’Brien
@mickobrien.nyc
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fka @theobrien on the bird app. used to do weird nyc theatre, now mainly ornitherapy in the North Woods. keeper of RadioMOB. variously: ex-ev, ex-MN, post-media. ad operator operating correctly. he/him/his. Trans folx are folx.
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LD went camping this weekend, climbed a mountain, walked all the way to Massachusetts!
LD, a little shaggy poodle/bichon(?) mix wearing a red and black plaid vest, in the wilderness.
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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A movie you’ve seen more than seven times with a GIF.
No one specified “animated GIF,” which is good, because I don’t know that there are any.
Gregory Gaynes, Brooke Smith, Wallace Shawn, Jerry Mayer, and Lynn Cohen in “Vanya on 42nd Street.”
November 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Shock-horror in #CentralPark today - the beloved weeping willow on the north shore of The Pond at 102nd has blown down in last night’s wind. This old fella was so iconic to me. Brutal.
A weeping willow tree broken off at the trunk, lying half on land and half in The Pond in Central Park.
November 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Had to grip this. Let’s get this done, NYC.
My “Halloween voter 2025” sticker for the NYC mayoral election. There is a pigeon with a witch’s hat, holding a jack-o-lantern shaped trick or treat bucket in its beak.
October 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Sick.
Date of Birth: April 28, 32 Date of death: April 16, 69 Cause of Death: Exsanguination
October 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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A fire truck came through a minute ago and 49th st cleared for them immediately and everybody clapped for the firefighters.
#RealAmerica
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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7th Avenue is two very different streets right now, bisected at 49th lol.
I have no idea why they didn’t divert traffic at least half a dozen blocks north of here.
7th Ave looking south toward Times Square. It is a sea of humanity as far the eye can see. 7th Avenue looking north from 49th street toward where they really should have started diverting traffic at least 5 blocks north of here. It is a river of motionless cars, honking.
October 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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LD gets these little single-use zoomies, like zoomie DMT, and I love it.
October 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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LD will be right there when you need him. This bed is three times his height at the shoulders. Imagine the hops!
October 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Yeah no, it was good what I did.
Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain's about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.
September 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Put me on the board.
A Disney Plus cancellation confirmation page, with reason for cancellation marked “other”: “You have chosen to make yourselves complicit in fascism. I will not pay to enable it.”
September 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Skol.
After a Thursday Night Football showdown between the Washington Commanders and the Green Bay Packers on Sept. 11, the day after Kirk's death, featured a moment of silence for the activist — a league decision, according to an NFL statement - teams hosting games on Sunday were left to decide for themselves whether to honor him in similar fashion. The Titans, Chiefs, Cowboys, Cardinals, Dolphins, Saints, and Jets all did so. The Vikings, Steelers, Colts, Bengals, Lions, and Ravens did not.
September 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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First round of exposure therapy to help with the crippling theatre-aversion I developed post-Covid. Pray for me.
Program for Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park.
September 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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It didn’t Happen today, but this did.
LD, a 10 pound poodle/something mix, prances floofily toward the camera across a green lawn in the Catskills, dappled in late afternoon sun through leaves. There is a large tree in the background. He looks very happy to me. I hope he is. We just adopted him last month so it’s all still new
August 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Title card from a 70s horror film. Red letters against a deep purple curtain: Death Bed The Bed That Eats copyright George Barry 1977
August 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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A photo you took that brings you inner peace
A nine year old boy in a brown winter coat and a colorful hat in the North Woods of Central Park. His right arm is extended. There is a tufted titmouse sitting on his hand.
August 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Some personal news.
#dogsky meet LD. He is the boss of me now.
LD, a small white poodle/dachshund hybrid rests in a shady spot in the grass. He is stupid cute.
August 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Man, what
A Citizen app push-notification: “1 Killed by Lightning in NJ Lightning struck an archery range, killing a man and injuring over a dozen others ranging in age from 7 to 61.”
July 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I don’t know what everyone’s talking about with this guy, I see no red flags.
He splits his time between a sailboat on the SF Bay and a yurt in Washington's San Juan Islands.
July 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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This would unironically fix me.
A flyer on a light post reading “Read to Kittens on the Grass in Central Park.” There is an illustration of a little boy reading to a kitten on the grass.
July 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Happy Independence Day from the lower-right quarter of my Basquiat t-shirt only.
A detail of a Basquiat t-shirt. The words “URINE” and “ICE” are prominent.
July 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Hell yeah, ball out @hellgatenyc.com .
June 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Wow. Music industry heavyweight Mr. Mega has endorsed Andrew Cuomo. Capital is closing ranks.
Mr. Mega, from Bill Plympton’s “The Tune”
June 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Zohran&
Brad&
Zellnor&
Adrienne&
Michael.
Unflattering morning selfie of yr pal Mick with headphones and a Minnesota Twins cap. He’s wearing the iconic Total Information Collapse shirt by Rory Blank, with an “I Voted Early!” sticker on it.
June 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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jump-scare on the cover pulling it out after this long 😬
GET YOUR WAR ON. the definitive account of the war on terror, 2001-2008. DAVID REES introduction by MATT TAIBBI
June 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM