Every time USians on here get get up about doomers/defeatists/pessimists/buzzkills/downers, I'm reminded that the prerogative of every imperial citizenry is to demand someone else fix their problems—including, especially, the ones they themselves created.
More:
https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/why-doom/
Noah S. McKinnon
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I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song.
Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA.
Various vein-openings at:
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Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
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Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
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Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
laserdisc.party
Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
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Apr 01, 2026
@nessotropheion Genuinely an incredible compliment. Very glad to hear it. 💜
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Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
laserdisc.party
Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
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Mar 31, 2026
Judging by its place on the draft list, I've been trying to write this one for over two weeks.
I would've gotten it out sooner, but I kept having to fix other people's problems. That'll be a much funnier sentence once you read the article.
https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/mentats-in-search-of-a-butlerian-jihad/
I would've gotten it out sooner, but I kept having to fix other people's problems. That'll be a much funnier sentence once you read the article.
https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/mentats-in-search-of-a-butlerian-jihad/
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Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
laserdisc.party
Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
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Mar 23, 2026
One last time: if you thought this year’s Team USA was an aberration, j have news for you. They’re not good news.
If you like it and you want to read more, feel free to subscribe!
https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/cleats-stamping-on-a-human-face-forever/
If you like it and you want to read more, feel free to subscribe!
https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/cleats-stamping-on-a-human-face-forever/
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Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
laserdisc.party
Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
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Mar 23, 2026
@Canuckduff I appreciate that! I'll keep that in mind. I learned to annotate extensively in college and never looked back, but I sometimes feel like an old fogey doing it.
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Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
laserdisc.party
Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
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Mar 22, 2026
@bright_helpings Look, just read my stuff and we’ll call it even. Sound good? ☺️
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Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
laserdisc.party
Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
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Mar 22, 2026
@bright_helpings Now this is absolutely wonderful news—I do a lot of footnoting when I write stuff like this and if they weren’t accessible I’d have to cobble together some alternative structure. It’s good to know I can call off those particular jets.
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Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
laserdisc.party
Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
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Mar 22, 2026
@bright_helpings 💜 thank you!
As much as I like reading Defector—and I do, they’re my usual lunch read at work—I find that their style lends itself to bandwagoning on whatever opinion becomes popular among online sports progs. Obviously I’ll take that over the alternative, but sometimes it’s hard not to wonder what took them so long.
As much as I like reading Defector—and I do, they’re my usual lunch read at work—I find that their style lends itself to bandwagoning on whatever opinion becomes popular among online sports progs. Obviously I’ll take that over the alternative, but sometimes it’s hard not to wonder what took them so long.
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Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
laserdisc.party
Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
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Mar 22, 2026
If I'd had my 'druthers, I would've finished this before the WBC final.
As it turns out, it was worth waiting to see how much, once Venezuela won, it suddenly became OK to say what I've always said about Team USA.
On cop-coded ballplayers of now and yesteryear:
https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/cleats-stamping-on-a-human-face-forever/
As it turns out, it was worth waiting to see how much, once Venezuela won, it suddenly became OK to say what I've always said about Team USA.
On cop-coded ballplayers of now and yesteryear:
https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/cleats-stamping-on-a-human-face-forever/
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Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
laserdisc.party
Noah S. McKinnon
@nsmckinnon@laserdisc.party
I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song. Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA. Various vein-openings at: https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
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Mar 05, 2026
She skitters darkly, like the night
Of cheerless climes and smoky skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bug
Meet in her aspect and her mug;
Thus sitting in that spider face
Which sits in Mordor’s deathly caves.
- Lord Byron, circa Third Age 3019
Of cheerless climes and smoky skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bug
Meet in her aspect and her mug;
Thus sitting in that spider face
Which sits in Mordor’s deathly caves.
- Lord Byron, circa Third Age 3019
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