Megan
@mmckelly.bsky.social
Environmental chemist turned generalist turned higher ed admin with heaping portions of cats and hobbies
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i am standing right here
"Experts recommend it for everyone—it’s great for strength, longevity, mental health, sports performance, and self-esteem. But now, everywhere I look online is about two steps away from an Oath Keepers rally."
I Just Want to Start Lifting Weights Without Getting Red-Pilled
You there! Help me, please! I just wanted to learn about strength training on the internet, and now I’m pretty sure I’m in some kind of neo-fascist...
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January 4, 2026 at 6:20 PM
i am standing right here
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Chicago’s annual snowplow naming contest is underway and Mayor Brandon Johnson is backing the name “Abolish ICE.” blockclubchi.co/4pi3DA4
December 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Chicago’s annual snowplow naming contest is underway and Mayor Brandon Johnson is backing the name “Abolish ICE.” blockclubchi.co/4pi3DA4
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Literal words to live by: “Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, but don't let okay be the nemesis of terrific either.”
This week’s That’s Marvelous contains an end-of-year pep talk speed round! Plus some self-indulgent reflection! Read it all or even just some: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/164-new-year...
December 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Literal words to live by: “Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, but don't let okay be the nemesis of terrific either.”
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Yes, the travel book guy
So, I purchased the center and the land it sits on — the best $2 million I can imagine spending.
🧵 6 of 9
🧵 6 of 9
December 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Yes, the travel book guy
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Said it before and I'll say it again - if you look at every awful Rogansphere inspired "comedy" trend of recent years and think "I kind of want the exact opposite of that", Josh is pretty much your guy.
Comedy that's smart, warm, empathetic, and laugh out loud funny because of it.
Comedy that's smart, warm, empathetic, and laugh out loud funny because of it.
My new special Positive Reinforcement didn't make any prestigious end-of-year lists for me to post about, but I am really proud of it, and I think you'd like it if you haven't seen it yet! :)
Josh Gondelman - Positive Reinforcement [2025] | FULL COMEDY SPECIAL
YouTube video by Blonde Medicine
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December 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Said it before and I'll say it again - if you look at every awful Rogansphere inspired "comedy" trend of recent years and think "I kind of want the exact opposite of that", Josh is pretty much your guy.
Comedy that's smart, warm, empathetic, and laugh out loud funny because of it.
Comedy that's smart, warm, empathetic, and laugh out loud funny because of it.
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I’m sorry but BOTH my books are bestsellers???
I’m sorry BOTH???
I’m sorry but BOTH??????
bookshop.org/lists/bestse...
I’m sorry BOTH???
I’m sorry but BOTH??????
bookshop.org/lists/bestse...
Bestselling Nonfiction Books of 2025
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
bookshop.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I’m sorry but BOTH my books are bestsellers???
I’m sorry BOTH???
I’m sorry but BOTH??????
bookshop.org/lists/bestse...
I’m sorry BOTH???
I’m sorry but BOTH??????
bookshop.org/lists/bestse...
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We deserve this win.
December 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We deserve this win.
Lol of course they are
The Chicago Bears are once again looking for a new stadium site after a breakdown in talks over state financial aid for its planned Arlington Heights facility, the team announced Wednesday. blockclubchi.co/4p5gZiN
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Lol of course they are
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Hey Chicago peeps, you know what to do.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow
chicagoshovels.org
chicagoshovels.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hey Chicago peeps, you know what to do.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Wild to consider that I read 1984 as as 9th grader and thought it was so far fetched so as to be dull
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Wild to consider that I read 1984 as as 9th grader and thought it was so far fetched so as to be dull
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It's wild that this public perception is shifting when dems continue to be weak as hell on this. It isn't media driven, it's entirely people's lived experiences that's influencing this swing.
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's wild that this public perception is shifting when dems continue to be weak as hell on this. It isn't media driven, it's entirely people's lived experiences that's influencing this swing.
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Something that will make your brain feel a little happier if you could use that today (or tomorrow or the next day....)
My new special Positive Reinforcement didn't make any prestigious end-of-year lists for me to post about, but I am really proud of it, and I think you'd like it if you haven't seen it yet! :)
Josh Gondelman - Positive Reinforcement [2025] | FULL COMEDY SPECIAL
YouTube video by Blonde Medicine
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Something that will make your brain feel a little happier if you could use that today (or tomorrow or the next day....)
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“Your property taxes are higher than they should be because commissioners on the Cook County Board of Review keep handing out massive tax breaks to corporations, which shifts their tax burden onto homeowners like you.”
chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...
chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...
Cook County Board of Review bears a lot of blame for your home's property tax increase
When the board gives hefty tax breaks to corporations, it shifts the tax burden onto homeowners.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“Your property taxes are higher than they should be because commissioners on the Cook County Board of Review keep handing out massive tax breaks to corporations, which shifts their tax burden onto homeowners like you.”
chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...
chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...
Come for the malort, stay for the sobbing into your coffee
Today’s That’s Marvelous newsletter is up featuring some thoughts about Judaism and community and nü-metal and Malört. Lots of umlauts this week. Read it all: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/162-malort-a...
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Come for the malort, stay for the sobbing into your coffee
What is with this crop of upper admins who spend millions of dollars a year on their faculty, all of whom are employed in part on the basis of their ability to read, and then send out videos with no transcript we're expected to watch?
December 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
What is with this crop of upper admins who spend millions of dollars a year on their faculty, all of whom are employed in part on the basis of their ability to read, and then send out videos with no transcript we're expected to watch?
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i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets
This commercial for French's Mustard from 1987 is equal parts charming and also kinda unsettling, but what strikes me is the work that went into the absolutely delightful puppetry and practical effects for a *mustard commercial*!! Imagine that today??
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets
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i just learned that my piece, Collagen sits on a throne of lies, was picked as a notable selection in Best American Science and Nature writing 2025! my haters are blue in the face to see a humble blog receive among the highest honors a science piece can get!
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
“The best science and nature writing—which these stories represent—reminds us of the wide world and our connection to it, and the multitude of ways we make ...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
i just learned that my piece, Collagen sits on a throne of lies, was picked as a notable selection in Best American Science and Nature writing 2025! my haters are blue in the face to see a humble blog receive among the highest honors a science piece can get!
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
Hi the Vatican also published a doc on AI before Leo became pope and you can read it here if you want (and even if you don't, click on the link to enjoy the situating of such a doc on a real geocities looking webpage 😆): press.vatican.va/content/sala...
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hi the Vatican also published a doc on AI before Leo became pope and you can read it here if you want (and even if you don't, click on the link to enjoy the situating of such a doc on a real geocities looking webpage 😆): press.vatican.va/content/sala...
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The CDC is lying about vaccines. 🎁 defector.com/vaccines-do-...
Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, No Matter What The CDC Website Now Says | Defector
On Nov. 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a name that feels increasingly misleading, given Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s track record of sowing outbreaks of infectious diseases—quietly…
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November 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The CDC is lying about vaccines. 🎁 defector.com/vaccines-do-...
I got to see them between the gym and work with a couple of assists and it was so lovely and I’m so grateful 🤩
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I got to see them between the gym and work with a couple of assists and it was so lovely and I’m so grateful 🤩
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A bond fund for people detained by federal immigration agents is seeking donations. blockclubchi.co/4r1ZFxu
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
A bond fund for people detained by federal immigration agents is seeking donations. blockclubchi.co/4r1ZFxu
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Ever since I read Letters from the Editor — the collected letters of The New Yorker’s founding editor, Harold Ross — back when I was starting out in journalism, I’ve had this more full understanding of E.B. White, so, yeah. Not on my watch.
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Ever since I read Letters from the Editor — the collected letters of The New Yorker’s founding editor, Harold Ross — back when I was starting out in journalism, I’ve had this more full understanding of E.B. White, so, yeah. Not on my watch.
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Minneapolis: I am braving the elements and current air travel situation to do one show for you at the Parkway Theater on 11/23 (a week from Sunday)!!! Get your tickets: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...
Josh Gondelman
Fresh from his new stand-up special Positive Reinforcement, Josh Gondelman returns to The Parkway for a hilarious night of stand-up comedy!
theparkwaytheater.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Minneapolis: I am braving the elements and current air travel situation to do one show for you at the Parkway Theater on 11/23 (a week from Sunday)!!! Get your tickets: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.