Noah S. McKinnon 🇵🇷🇨🇺
@nsmckinnon.bsky.social
baseball omnivore, commie teacher, amateur chef, decent @lnpgaceta.org commish, terrible podcaster @nosubsplease.org // he/him, bi/pan // libre tu cielo, sola tu estrella
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A fuller intro: Noah, he/him, left-handed / -politicked. My dog's Clark. My cat's Minerva.
For sickos: I run a fictional baseball league set in a 🇵🇷 that became free in 1868. I call games every week. Catch that at @lnpgaceta.org.
I also co-host a podcast about food called No Substitutions, Please.
For sickos: I run a fictional baseball league set in a 🇵🇷 that became free in 1868. I call games every week. Catch that at @lnpgaceta.org.
I also co-host a podcast about food called No Substitutions, Please.
Hyping this up again because it’s Black Friday, which means Threadless is slashing those prices.
The left-handers in your life deserve better from you, *especially* if you’re the left-hander in your life.
The left-handers in your life deserve better from you, *especially* if you’re the left-hander in your life.
Aside from our projects, Louisa and I have something else in common: we're both southpaws.
So we made a few exclusive designs for this boutique shop: only notebooks (left-handed, thanks to uploading the image upside down), stickers and magnets. Check them out! 👍
viasinistra.threadless.com
So we made a few exclusive designs for this boutique shop: only notebooks (left-handed, thanks to uploading the image upside down), stickers and magnets. Check them out! 👍
viasinistra.threadless.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Hyping this up again because it’s Black Friday, which means Threadless is slashing those prices.
The left-handers in your life deserve better from you, *especially* if you’re the left-hander in your life.
The left-handers in your life deserve better from you, *especially* if you’re the left-hander in your life.
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the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
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This guy…
In my early 20’s I used to work customer service at a place that sold his stuff. One time he was coming to the office to check the place out and meet people. Like a year earlier he beat up a sex worker.
Manager told me to take that day off because they didn’t want me bringing it up. lol
In my early 20’s I used to work customer service at a place that sold his stuff. One time he was coming to the office to check the place out and meet people. Like a year earlier he beat up a sex worker.
Manager told me to take that day off because they didn’t want me bringing it up. lol
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This guy…
In my early 20’s I used to work customer service at a place that sold his stuff. One time he was coming to the office to check the place out and meet people. Like a year earlier he beat up a sex worker.
Manager told me to take that day off because they didn’t want me bringing it up. lol
In my early 20’s I used to work customer service at a place that sold his stuff. One time he was coming to the office to check the place out and meet people. Like a year earlier he beat up a sex worker.
Manager told me to take that day off because they didn’t want me bringing it up. lol
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
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To put this in context, I was offered a teaching track job in 2023 that had a salary of $55,000.
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
To put this in context, I was offered a teaching track job in 2023 that had a salary of $55,000.
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When I was at NC state, I had lunch with a visiting scholar from Sweden who was visiting US universities for the first time. He described his experience as touring “hedge funds with football teams.”
That is so much money
5:45 pm on Thanksgiving Eve?
Now THIS is how you news dump.
Now THIS is how you news dump.
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
When I was at NC state, I had lunch with a visiting scholar from Sweden who was visiting US universities for the first time. He described his experience as touring “hedge funds with football teams.”
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Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
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Está cabrón que EUA e Israel sólo tuvieron que decir «ya hay cese al fuego» y el genocidio en Gaza desapareció de la agenda público, aun cuando casi nada cambió en terreno.
El genocidio sigue, pero las élites políticas y mediáticas ya no tienen que fingir que les importa.
El genocidio sigue, pero las élites políticas y mediáticas ya no tienen que fingir que les importa.
No, there is no ceasefire in Gaza
Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not a ‘violation of the ceasefire'. It is a continuing genocide under diplomatic cover.
www.aljazeera.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Está cabrón que EUA e Israel sólo tuvieron que decir «ya hay cese al fuego» y el genocidio en Gaza desapareció de la agenda público, aun cuando casi nada cambió en terreno.
El genocidio sigue, pero las élites políticas y mediáticas ya no tienen que fingir que les importa.
El genocidio sigue, pero las élites políticas y mediáticas ya no tienen que fingir que les importa.
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Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
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Aside from our projects, Louisa and I have something else in common: we're both southpaws.
So we made a few exclusive designs for this boutique shop: only notebooks (left-handed, thanks to uploading the image upside down), stickers and magnets. Check them out! 👍
viasinistra.threadless.com
So we made a few exclusive designs for this boutique shop: only notebooks (left-handed, thanks to uploading the image upside down), stickers and magnets. Check them out! 👍
viasinistra.threadless.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Aside from our projects, Louisa and I have something else in common: we're both southpaws.
So we made a few exclusive designs for this boutique shop: only notebooks (left-handed, thanks to uploading the image upside down), stickers and magnets. Check them out! 👍
viasinistra.threadless.com
So we made a few exclusive designs for this boutique shop: only notebooks (left-handed, thanks to uploading the image upside down), stickers and magnets. Check them out! 👍
viasinistra.threadless.com
I'll shortly be sending thank-you notes to all the donors who've reported in with receipts, especially since many of them increased their donation significantly from their original amount.
So far, just one day in, 25 of our donors have given $3,015 to their local food banks. I couldn't be happier!
So far, just one day in, 25 of our donors have given $3,015 to their local food banks. I couldn't be happier!
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I'll shortly be sending thank-you notes to all the donors who've reported in with receipts, especially since many of them increased their donation significantly from their original amount.
So far, just one day in, 25 of our donors have given $3,015 to their local food banks. I couldn't be happier!
So far, just one day in, 25 of our donors have given $3,015 to their local food banks. I couldn't be happier!
"You know, Noah, usually I want to kill all men, but not you."
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"You know, Noah, usually I want to kill all men, but not you."
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the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
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Usonian libs who get all sanctimonious with people from the Global South when we say USAID sucks ass (which isn't to say that Musk and co gutting it and causing millions of deaths is good, it obviously isn't) should read this, because it's exemplary of the imperialist bullshit USAID does.
Spectacular #longread on the history of the right-wing opposition in Venezuela, and how during Juan Guaido's shadow government an abominable legal strategy robbed the country of $30 billion destined for corporate claims holders. Amazing work from Moe Tkacik.
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela - The American Prospect
How Juan Guaidó sucked a weary nation dry, and primed it for the current U.S.-led assault
prospect.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Usonian libs who get all sanctimonious with people from the Global South when we say USAID sucks ass (which isn't to say that Musk and co gutting it and causing millions of deaths is good, it obviously isn't) should read this, because it's exemplary of the imperialist bullshit USAID does.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Morning, gente!
Donor emails start going out in a few minutes—but I can report, with overwhelming joy, that our 1st Annual No Substitutions, Please Triviathon Fundraiser was a colossal success!
If you want to find out who wins, and what our final amount was:
www.twitch.tv/videos/26280...
Donor emails start going out in a few minutes—but I can report, with overwhelming joy, that our 1st Annual No Substitutions, Please Triviathon Fundraiser was a colossal success!
If you want to find out who wins, and what our final amount was:
www.twitch.tv/videos/26280...
1st Annual No Substitutions, Please Triviathon Fundraiser! - lnpgaceta on Twitch
lnpgaceta went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Out of the Park Baseball 26 VOD now.
www.twitch.tv
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Morning, gente!
Donor emails start going out in a few minutes—but I can report, with overwhelming joy, that our 1st Annual No Substitutions, Please Triviathon Fundraiser was a colossal success!
If you want to find out who wins, and what our final amount was:
www.twitch.tv/videos/26280...
Donor emails start going out in a few minutes—but I can report, with overwhelming joy, that our 1st Annual No Substitutions, Please Triviathon Fundraiser was a colossal success!
If you want to find out who wins, and what our final amount was:
www.twitch.tv/videos/26280...
So far Louisa and I have managed to raise $1,574.20 for food banks across the country, and we're halfway through our trivia set.
Come watch, gente! Drop a pledge if you'd like, chop it up in the chat.
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta/
Come watch, gente! Drop a pledge if you'd like, chop it up in the chat.
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta/
LNPGaceta - Twitch
1st Annual No Substitutions, Please Triviathon Fundraiser!
www.twitch.tv
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
So far Louisa and I have managed to raise $1,574.20 for food banks across the country, and we're halfway through our trivia set.
Come watch, gente! Drop a pledge if you'd like, chop it up in the chat.
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta/
Come watch, gente! Drop a pledge if you'd like, chop it up in the chat.
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta/
13 minutes left until we go live!
How much money can we raise by answering questions about food and cooking?
Let's find out together! Come watch at 7 PM EST, maybe drop a quick pledge on stream, chop it up in the chat!
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
How much money can we raise by answering questions about food and cooking?
Let's find out together! Come watch at 7 PM EST, maybe drop a quick pledge on stream, chop it up in the chat!
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
13 minutes left until we go live!
How much money can we raise by answering questions about food and cooking?
Let's find out together! Come watch at 7 PM EST, maybe drop a quick pledge on stream, chop it up in the chat!
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
How much money can we raise by answering questions about food and cooking?
Let's find out together! Come watch at 7 PM EST, maybe drop a quick pledge on stream, chop it up in the chat!
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
In (just over) half an hour!
Listen to me and Louisa answer 66 questions of food trivia! Her brother is proctoring!
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
Listen to me and Louisa answer 66 questions of food trivia! Her brother is proctoring!
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
LNPGaceta - Twitch
We are the writers, streamers, and other workers who present to you 150 years of baseball in a liberated Puerto Rico.
twitch.tv
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
In (just over) half an hour!
Listen to me and Louisa answer 66 questions of food trivia! Her brother is proctoring!
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
Listen to me and Louisa answer 66 questions of food trivia! Her brother is proctoring!
twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
GENTE:
In 95 minutes, Louisa and I go head-to-head in the 1st Annual NSP Triviathon Fundraiser, raising money for food banks with every question we answer correctly. Help us do even better!
We're taking pledges on stream! I will read a poem!
Fun begins at 7:00 PM EST:
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
In 95 minutes, Louisa and I go head-to-head in the 1st Annual NSP Triviathon Fundraiser, raising money for food banks with every question we answer correctly. Help us do even better!
We're taking pledges on stream! I will read a poem!
Fun begins at 7:00 PM EST:
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
GENTE:
In 95 minutes, Louisa and I go head-to-head in the 1st Annual NSP Triviathon Fundraiser, raising money for food banks with every question we answer correctly. Help us do even better!
We're taking pledges on stream! I will read a poem!
Fun begins at 7:00 PM EST:
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
In 95 minutes, Louisa and I go head-to-head in the 1st Annual NSP Triviathon Fundraiser, raising money for food banks with every question we answer correctly. Help us do even better!
We're taking pledges on stream! I will read a poem!
Fun begins at 7:00 PM EST:
www.twitch.tv/lnpgaceta
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worker: bit of bad news it seems like god got kinda pissed we were building such a cool tower and he kinda cursed us into speaking different languages
worker 2: sacre bleu!
worker: yeah for sure man
worker 2: sacre bleu!
worker: yeah for sure man
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
worker: bit of bad news it seems like god got kinda pissed we were building such a cool tower and he kinda cursed us into speaking different languages
worker 2: sacre bleu!
worker: yeah for sure man
worker 2: sacre bleu!
worker: yeah for sure man
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For the new org we picked up, and for Georgia joining the fundraiser, here’s some especially emblematic pictures of Clark and Minnie.
Do you want more of these? Guess what: donate more, add more states, and you can see more of these wonderful babies!
nosubsplease.org/1st-annual-n...
Do you want more of these? Guess what: donate more, add more states, and you can see more of these wonderful babies!
nosubsplease.org/1st-annual-n...
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
For the new org we picked up, and for Georgia joining the fundraiser, here’s some especially emblematic pictures of Clark and Minnie.
Do you want more of these? Guess what: donate more, add more states, and you can see more of these wonderful babies!
nosubsplease.org/1st-annual-n...
Do you want more of these? Guess what: donate more, add more states, and you can see more of these wonderful babies!
nosubsplease.org/1st-annual-n...
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I have good news and bad news.
Good news: we hit our goal! Man, y'all really, *really* wanted me to read a poem on air, huh?
Bad news: that that's only if we can answer all 66 questions—so I'll keep pushing!
How much further can we go in 23 hours? Let's find out:
nosubsplease.org/1st-annual-n...
Good news: we hit our goal! Man, y'all really, *really* wanted me to read a poem on air, huh?
Bad news: that that's only if we can answer all 66 questions—so I'll keep pushing!
How much further can we go in 23 hours? Let's find out:
nosubsplease.org/1st-annual-n...
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I have good news and bad news.
Good news: we hit our goal! Man, y'all really, *really* wanted me to read a poem on air, huh?
Bad news: that that's only if we can answer all 66 questions—so I'll keep pushing!
How much further can we go in 23 hours? Let's find out:
nosubsplease.org/1st-annual-n...
Good news: we hit our goal! Man, y'all really, *really* wanted me to read a poem on air, huh?
Bad news: that that's only if we can answer all 66 questions—so I'll keep pushing!
How much further can we go in 23 hours? Let's find out:
nosubsplease.org/1st-annual-n...
My favorite part of parent teacher conferences is discovering how many of them don’t bother to ask their kid basic follow-up questions.
I got accused of not responding to a student’s message some time ago. Got home. Sat down. Looked at my inbox. The response is there, clear as day.
I got accused of not responding to a student’s message some time ago. Got home. Sat down. Looked at my inbox. The response is there, clear as day.
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My favorite part of parent teacher conferences is discovering how many of them don’t bother to ask their kid basic follow-up questions.
I got accused of not responding to a student’s message some time ago. Got home. Sat down. Looked at my inbox. The response is there, clear as day.
I got accused of not responding to a student’s message some time ago. Got home. Sat down. Looked at my inbox. The response is there, clear as day.