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Kevin McClean

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Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · Apr 3

Gonna start a thread for the turn of phrases my brain throws at me, mainly so they don't disappear. Updated as needed

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Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 12h

I was in my late 20s before I realized that the written and verbal forms of the word epitome were the same. I thought the written one was pronounced "epi-tome" and was an entirely separate word with an identical meaning.

This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 18h

How to spot a bookworm:

They use a word in conversation perfectly but pronounce it ridiculously.

Because they’d never heard it - they read it and learned it from context.

(Mine was facade.)

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 1d

Especially since most home scales aren't super accurate, so you could lose 2 lbs but see a 2lb gain on the scale

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

On what would have been Margaret Thatcher's 100th birthday, a reminder of what this awesome woman said at her funeral.

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Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 1d

You don't, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him

timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 1d

Cmon mate

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 1d

Justice for Beef

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 1d

a man with curly hair and a choker around his neck is standing in front of a black building .

Alt: Beef from Phantom of the Paradise

media.tenor.com

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Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 2d

www.thenational.scot/news/2553675...

'Genocide is not over': Palestinian woman gives emotional speech to SNP conference

A PALESTINIAN woman was given a standing ovation at SNP conference after delivering an emotional speech about decades of oppression in her country.

www.thenational.scot

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Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 2d

I'll just have to steal it and illegally upload it, then

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 2d

It's gotta be close to being in public domain, right?

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

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Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 5d

The best thing the Minnesota Twins did this season was to trade Louis Varland to the Blue Jays, as he had a big role in dragging the Yankees down to hell this post season.

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

A could feel a black hole forming underneath Puget Sound from Minneapolis

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

Hip hip Jorge

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

MLB website is using an AI that is misspelling the name of one of their playoff teams. Good work, fellas

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 3d

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

I think when baseball goes to extra innings it should knuckleballers only

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Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

That Rivas timeout was so he could smoke a quick one to calm his nerves

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

Every Mariners fan now

an older man in a white shirt and tie is sitting in the cockpit of an airplane .

ALT: an older man in a white shirt and tie is sitting in the cockpit of an airplane .

media.tenor.com

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

Every Mariners fan at the start of the game

a group of people standing next to each other on a plane .

ALT: a group of people standing next to each other on a plane .

media.tenor.com

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Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

They have played a whole ass 50% of another game

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

Release the Steinbeck Werewolf Novel

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 3d

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

You know what's fun and makes music? Whistling. AI bros can't whistle

SuperChill @frozzbot.bsky.social · 4d

Couldn't believe my ears when that music AI guy said nobody actually enjoys making music. That ranks as one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Anybody who knows how to make music enjoys making music. Why would they have ever learned to do it if it didn't bring them joy?

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

Love this for you ❤️

Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 3d

I once was working the room at an LGBT event in the early 00s for a candidate who jokes to the crowd, "I dress so well I could be gay!" The room fell dead quiet, and as the pol tried to talk themselves out of it, one of my coworkers muttered to me, "you got this, I'm gonna go play on traffic."