Jesse O’Connell

@oconnell.bsky.social

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Proud Alexandrian. Del Ray resident, dad, and 2x Hoya. Books, baseball, beer, and higher ed. Subscribe to ALXtra: open.substack.com/pub/alxtra

Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:09 UTC

Oh man that book was killer.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:31 UTC

Starting in 30 minutes, Alexandria plays for the Virginia Intermediate Little League championship, live from Simpson Field!

www.youtube.com/@AlexandriaL...

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:00 UTC

Ordered it online

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:20 UTC

The cerveza is our favorite, but have you had the new experimental michelada one? It’s pretty awesome.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 23:44 UTC

$1 in the legal tender of our twlight republic

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:26 UTC

They won their first game last night, play next at 10am tomorrow!

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:26 UTC

Apparently I’m also allowed to pick the between innings music which is really exciting because I bet baseball tweens also love the Decembrists!

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:10 UTC

And I’m not kidding about the historic Simpson field thing:

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 19:07 UTC

Alexandria is hosting the best Intermediate (13U) Little League teams from across the commonwealth in the state tournament, and you can watch the livestream from historic Eugene Simpson field at the link below. (Tune in at 6:15 tonight to hear my dulcet tones announcing the game).

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:52 UTC

How do I find out if I am porn or not.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:14 UTC

Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.”
But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 13:05 UTC

We’ve spent all this time focused on density *above* Alexandria… when all along the real opportunity lay below.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 12:47 UTC

We need to use Hazel to dig a one mile underground air conditioned running and biking loop.

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Chef Gaykwon @gaykwon.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:09 UTC

This guy was such a G for telling his evil wizard cyborg boss that his religion is bullshit during a work meeting.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

We’ve been super happy at Parker Gray Pediatric Dentistry for awhile now, including through the first round of orthodontics.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

I just tried to run and bailed 10 min in because I’d already lost half my body weight in water.

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Pyramead Head @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:22 UTC

Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there 🫡

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 03:26 UTC

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:37 UTC

Same, and I finally trained myself to leave the pot holder sitting on the handle to signal “don’t touch this, dumbass”

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:52 UTC

I thought the causality here was that eating the dog *gave* him the brain worm.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:10 UTC

Yeah that’s basically my stance too haha

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:48 UTC

In my more optimistic moments I consider a Nats rotation of Gray, Gore, Cavalli, Herz, and Any Warm Body Not Named Corbin and I start to feel pretty good about what’s ahead.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:36 UTC

The ongoing advertising campaign on MLBtv for Build Submarines Dot Com remains one of those ongoing B-plots that I really want to know more about.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:01 UTC

Rebroadcasting a game without the express written consent of Major League Baseball, obviously.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:13 UTC

Extremely ready for the James Wood Experience™️

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 12:58 UTC

Each subsequent season it seems sillier and sillier that this show competes for Emmys as a comedy.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 00:46 UTC

I KNEW I RECOGNIZED THAT GUY.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 00:46 UTC

The Bear is an incredible show for a great many reasons, but for my money the list of those reasons starts with Neil and Ted Fak.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 00:21 UTC

Becky: studying the blade in a monastery deep in the Cambodian jungle. Joe: getting quotes on buying Velveeta by the bale.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:30 UTC

[Smash cut to Joe forlornly setting down a cookbook titled Can You Dish It: 101 Recipes to Layer Your Way to Hot Dish Heaven]

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:25 UTC

Drinking this prevents scurvy, is what I’m taking from the can art.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:11 UTC

Yeah good point, I should have reacted to this first. I really enjoyed them.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:11 UTC

THERE IS A BLOCK GROUP CHAT??

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:04 UTC

Wait really? Haha

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 19:09 UTC

Hear me out: pizza place apprenticeship.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 18:52 UTC

I know the answer to this! The answer is: hahahahaha

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:11 UTC

I’m in. I can be there in 25 min. Sign us up. Our team name is the Hole In Oneders.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:30 UTC

Men’s 800 round 1, starting now!

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:46 UTC

I haven’t gotten to the new season yet, but am very excited to do so.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:16 UTC

This is exactly what we mean when we talk about diversifying our sources of revenue.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:14 UTC

Speaking as an entirely dispassionate bystander with no skin in the game, this was an excellent letter.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:10 UTC

National Harbor is just sitting there begging to be blockaded.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 11:19 UTC

Yeah without question. They’re gorgeous.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 01:24 UTC

So pumped that The Bear is back tonight.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 01:22 UTC

I’ve embraced radical acceptance that George RR Martin, Pat Rothfuss, and Scott Lynch will each never finish their respective series.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 01:19 UTC

Marta I own signed editions of both books! I have stood in line to meet him! This is not some casual drive by opinion, I think those books are genuinely incredible, maybe the best new *writing* in the genre in a couple decades. And I’ve accepted that he’s done after two.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 01:16 UTC

“will someday be 3 total” aw, Marta, I need to come give you a hug and help you accept the truth that the series is done at two books.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 21:13 UTC

It’s killing me that the Nats can’t decide if they’re a good baseball team or a bad baseball team.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 20:49 UTC

Tepid.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 00:35 UTC

40 year olds out here playing with chalk or some shit

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