Sean L. McCarthy

Real humans only pick Hot Mustard (not pictured)

If you can, cut

Colecovision married the best of both Atari and Intellivision, came with Donkey Kong, but still fumbled the bag

Russell Brand Pleads Not Guilty to Further Rape and Sexual Assault Charges

"During the hearing, Mr. Brand, wearing a leopard-print shirt opened to the waist"

does this man not have... anyone around to tell him not to do that www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/m...

Gen X meanwhile had improv games (thanks Whose Line)

Watched the John Oliver thing on Twitter and thought it was good and the best part was not telling people to come here or another site but to interact with actual human beings. I wont do that because I have a responsibility to mildly antagonize the host of Jeopardy on here but it is good advice

Lemme know when we actually have self-driving cars first and not cars remotely controlled by a human contracted from another country and then ask

Who’s got two thumbs to review Fringe shows who’s already booked their flights and lodging this year

I recommend giving up cable news and the Sunday shows for Lent; once it’s over, you won’t return to them because you will find yourself better informed and much happier

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

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So Elon Musk’s PAC illegally sent prefilled absentee ballots to voters in 2024 in Georgia. If they did this in other swing states, that might explain how Trump won in states where Democrats won senate and gubernatorial races with fewer votes. Now what?

AI is your Facebook MAGA aunt. Whatever she sees online is absolutely the truth and she's gonna tell everyone else about it. This is really really bad news man

We could’ve solved homelessness all this time but instead all we got was the militarization of the police state. And yet, thanks to the Rev. Jesse Jackson and those who came before and after him, we’re going to keep hope alive. Hope, we must.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I caught up with Jackson at a hotel elevator during the 1992 DNC in NYC, and he only agreed to take my questions once I told him I worked (interned) for The Hartford Courant. Back when newspapers meant something.

Shook Nelson Mandela’s hand and met the Rev. Jesse Jackson within the same hour the summer I was 20, and either I peaked that day, or that’s the Mandela effect everyone talks about.

Fluffy is so apolitical he’s on a co-headliner tour with Jeff Dunham this year

That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

anyway, i’m at the point where people starting new substacks/remaining on substack really bums me out but can’t spend a ton of energy getting mad about it. bigger fish to fry and all. it just confuses me how so many continue to ignore the evidence of how much they suck.

The media can only be counted on to pull its full weight when the story serves their interests

TIL Simsbury kid has one of them thar tearjerker Olympic stories

Clarification: Turns out Drake lost $1 million betting on the game, so it’s not all bad news

Asking the water-sucking machine how much water I’ve been using is AI saying, if you’re not going to do anything about Trump or Epstein or Bezos or Musk or Thiel or Zuckerberg, then why can’t we rub our soullessness in your faces

Unlock the national surveillance network…with Ring!

This Super Bowl is disrespecting the wrong Drake

Normalizing gambling on everything all of the time really launched us into end-stage capitalism

This is why I moved off Substack to Ghost. The Nazis will migrate to any big platform but when a platform actively promotes them, that is a choice

Let it be known that on this night three months ago, I told Luke I already had Vrabelmania. I’ve since sought out a second opinion, which diagnosed me with Drake Mayenia as well!

To warm up for the really vital protests, I’d first like a word with the person(s) responsible for making green candy flavored as green apple instead of lime

With real life-and-death problems facing us, I’m presuming that’s why nobody stopped Ella McCay from opening with a pretend they’re all younger after-school special set piece