Seán Collins
@sean-collins.bsky.social
ex monk (osb) & former network news producer (npr) who helps people tell stories about their family. Julia Child once made me lunch.
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Seán Collins
@sean-collins.bsky.social
· Nov 14
I’m a 60-something former producer of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” decent cook, passionate reader of poetry, amateur photographer, bad Catholic, and a good listener. Survivor of a pandemic, an epidemic, and an MI. I care about social justice, LGBTQ rights & culture, and the Oxford comma.
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the most chilling part of trump's horribleness about jamal isn't just the lies & disrespect. it's what's in his mind, it's the idea that critics & journalists 'have it coming'. is it a green light to murder? maybe.
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
the most chilling part of trump's horribleness about jamal isn't just the lies & disrespect. it's what's in his mind, it's the idea that critics & journalists 'have it coming'. is it a green light to murder? maybe.
A professor of mine at Washington University had a poem that included a line describing the experience of opening the morning paper and seeing a story so outrageously fucked-up that only yesterday it seemed impossible.
This, boys and girls, is life imitating art.
This, boys and girls, is life imitating art.
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A professor of mine at Washington University had a poem that included a line describing the experience of opening the morning paper and seeing a story so outrageously fucked-up that only yesterday it seemed impossible.
This, boys and girls, is life imitating art.
This, boys and girls, is life imitating art.
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Would the Doktor care for a Brandy before retiring? Some warm Milch, perhaps? Ovaltine?
youtu.be/lcgEN3CaqXs
youtu.be/lcgEN3CaqXs
Young Frankenstein - Care for a brandy
YouTube video by BMK
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August 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Would the Doktor care for a Brandy before retiring? Some warm Milch, perhaps? Ovaltine?
youtu.be/lcgEN3CaqXs
youtu.be/lcgEN3CaqXs
Mary Kay Gumerlock, MD
neurosurgeon
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
neurosurgeon
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
August 17, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Mary Kay Gumerlock, MD
neurosurgeon
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
neurosurgeon
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.
Do you understand?
Do you understand?
August 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.
Do you understand?
Do you understand?
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My baby boy's first wonky media mention.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
August 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My baby boy's first wonky media mention.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
On 5 Aug 1949, a lightning strike in Western Montana started the Mann Gulch Fire which would take the lives of 13 smokejumpers from a crew of 16. That event would change how wildfires are fought.
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August 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
On 5 Aug 1949, a lightning strike in Western Montana started the Mann Gulch Fire which would take the lives of 13 smokejumpers from a crew of 16. That event would change how wildfires are fought.
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It will be the mothers in America that end this dangerous game.
July 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
It will be the mothers in America that end this dangerous game.
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Guy Pène du Bois, Americans in Paris, 1927 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134725
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134725
July 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Guy Pène du Bois, Americans in Paris, 1927 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134725
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134725
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
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when i think of Colbert, i think of an interview he gave to GQ when he first took over The Late Show, and had this to say about losing his father and brothers in a plane crash. www.gq.com/story/stephe...
July 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
when i think of Colbert, i think of an interview he gave to GQ when he first took over The Late Show, and had this to say about losing his father and brothers in a plane crash. www.gq.com/story/stephe...
The whirring sound you hear is Murrow spinning in his grave.
July 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The whirring sound you hear is Murrow spinning in his grave.
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Superman is a classic story laid out in a classic film, and it only seems “on the nose” because the world’s IRL villains are so cartoonishly evil.
July 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Superman is a classic story laid out in a classic film, and it only seems “on the nose” because the world’s IRL villains are so cartoonishly evil.
"Sex and fresh vegetables" was the advice my colleague Lorin Cuoco gave me in the early 80s when I made one of many attempts to quit smoking.
The second bit of wisdom I picked up over more than 40 pack-years of nicotine addiction: “If at first you don’t succeed, quit, quit again.”
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The second bit of wisdom I picked up over more than 40 pack-years of nicotine addiction: “If at first you don’t succeed, quit, quit again.”
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July 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"Sex and fresh vegetables" was the advice my colleague Lorin Cuoco gave me in the early 80s when I made one of many attempts to quit smoking.
The second bit of wisdom I picked up over more than 40 pack-years of nicotine addiction: “If at first you don’t succeed, quit, quit again.”
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The second bit of wisdom I picked up over more than 40 pack-years of nicotine addiction: “If at first you don’t succeed, quit, quit again.”
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10 years ago, I had coronary artery bypass surgery at Barnes Hospital in Saint Louis. I am forever grateful to my cardiothoracic surgeon Jennifer Lawton, my ICU nurse Victor Valencia, my many friends who got me back on my feet and my heart (and head) back in the game.
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July 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
10 years ago, I had coronary artery bypass surgery at Barnes Hospital in Saint Louis. I am forever grateful to my cardiothoracic surgeon Jennifer Lawton, my ICU nurse Victor Valencia, my many friends who got me back on my feet and my heart (and head) back in the game.
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I suspect this shows my naïveté, but I am surprised more federal agents are not refusing to comply with the orders coming from the Trump administration.
July 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I suspect this shows my naïveté, but I am surprised more federal agents are not refusing to comply with the orders coming from the Trump administration.
Today, monastic communities around the globe celebrate the Feast of Saint Benedict. Born in the year 480 CE, Benedict understood the difference between ear-listening and heart-hearing. In fact, the first lines of his "Rule" for monks include the words, "Listen... and incline the ear of your heart."
July 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Today, monastic communities around the globe celebrate the Feast of Saint Benedict. Born in the year 480 CE, Benedict understood the difference between ear-listening and heart-hearing. In fact, the first lines of his "Rule" for monks include the words, "Listen... and incline the ear of your heart."
July 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Oceans rise, empires fall
Next to Washington, they all look small
All alone, watch them run
They will tear each other into pieces
Jesus Christ, this will be fun
Da da da da da da da da da ya da
Da da da da da da ya da
—Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
Oceans rise, empires fall
Next to Washington, they all look small
All alone, watch them run
They will tear each other into pieces
Jesus Christ, this will be fun
Da da da da da da da da da ya da
Da da da da da da ya da
—Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
July 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Oceans rise, empires fall
Next to Washington, they all look small
All alone, watch them run
They will tear each other into pieces
Jesus Christ, this will be fun
Da da da da da da da da da ya da
Da da da da da da ya da
—Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
Oceans rise, empires fall
Next to Washington, they all look small
All alone, watch them run
They will tear each other into pieces
Jesus Christ, this will be fun
Da da da da da da da da da ya da
Da da da da da da ya da
—Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
They're monsters. Soulless, hateful monsters.
They are literally cutting a lifeline for kids in crisis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
They are literally cutting a lifeline for kids in crisis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
They're monsters. Soulless, hateful monsters.
They are literally cutting a lifeline for kids in crisis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
They are literally cutting a lifeline for kids in crisis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Someone was paying attention the day they taught law in Law School.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Someone was paying attention the day they taught law in Law School.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
There is a special place in hell for these smiling assholes. Unmitigated evil sons-of-bitches.
April 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
There is a special place in hell for these smiling assholes. Unmitigated evil sons-of-bitches.