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managing editor @Blockworks_ | fiction in @houseofvlad @miserytourism @frwell_trans & elsewhere | HEROMAN a novel forthcoming from @expatlitj

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Michael McSweeney
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I stirred two years of notebook things into a story, now out at @havehadhavehad . Many thanks @crowjonah for taking this one.
really, really wonderful one today from @mpmcsweeney "I help J unfold his long metal table and tell J that the soup smells like his best work. I hope so, he says."
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@lukeisamazing Me, to Duncan's corpse:
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person: hello my brain: don't bring it up don't bring it up don't bring it up don't bring it up don't bring it up don't bring it up don't bring it up don't bring it up me: ok so it's like cash but on the internet right and
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Really starting to sound like they shot one of the kids
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Jason Koebler
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SCOOP: Uvalde and Uvalde Police have hired a private law firm to fight against being required to release body camera footage and other records related to school shooting Files could be 'highly embarrassing,' involve 'emotional/mental distress,' it argues
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Didn't he get stabbed by a red lightsaber right after this
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Bitcoin Magazine
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When red candles no longer faze you #Bitcoin
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If you told someone three years ago that we'd be watching bitcoin futures trade on CME you'd be escorted out of the building
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@thetomzone This whole scene
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New level of obsequious
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Ted Cruz said on The View that his wife Heidi laughed when Trump smeared her as ugly during the 2016 primary, and his dad laughed when Trump suggested he was involved in JFK's assassination
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I think about this picture a lot
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Fun fact: the Bitcoin white paper is hosted on the website for the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Link here:
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Would you read a piece of your own and a piece you love and then I publish the recording(s) on a semi-regular podcast and also I pay an honorarium to performers? Asking for a friend, I'm the friend, I want to do this
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@KevinMKruse @FrankLuntz Pennies for the poor, unchecked billions for connected friends. It's a scam.
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Michael McSweeney
5 years
So I'm in Decentraland and I, an avid gamer, have no idea what I am supposed to be doing.
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@benshapiro Go enlist if you support what's coming
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6 years
"Shitcoin" has entered the Congressional record, what a time to be alive
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2 years
This website is still free
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Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time
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Ripple keeping it real classy in their Wells Submission
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@ByYourLogic I view every professional relationship through the lens of whether I think my power level is higher than theirs
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Michael McSweeney
5 years
So it's midnight, and I can finally reveal some really cool PERSONAL NEWS: starting today, I will be serving as @TheBlock__ 's managing editor! Excited to get back to covering the industry full-time as part of an awesome and talented team!
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Michael McSweeney
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@JoeBiden Thanks for proving that you don't deserve power
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@MortonAKlein7 @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib Ah I guess they're calling people who hate a right-wing segregation-loving land-seizing government "Israelophobes" now.
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@libsoftiktok Imagine being upset by this
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@MrAndyNgo Are you denying it?
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Them: So, got any plans for the holidays? Me:
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Thinking about fake litecoin news
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Uh
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@mschlapp It should be no problem for the campaign to produce evidence given all of Trump's claims, right?
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7 years
INBOX: New cryptocurrency lets you sell your soul
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Michael McSweeney
5 years
Today is my last day at @coindesk and I'm feeling many emotions about it, but suffice to say that apart from the handful of scumbags I've encountered in the space, I love you all
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Michael McSweeney
7 years
Coming back to #bitcoin after unplugging for 9 days
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@benshapiro It's less about the respect part and more about the openly mocking and laughing at his incompetence and egotism
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Three Arrows Capital files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in New York updated w/ court documents + details
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@JasonSCampbell Imagine spending every day mad about this. What a life.
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4 years
This can't be anything but a malicious, ass-covering lie. The tone is the giveaway.
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Michael McSweeney
2 years
It just died? Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time. Bitcoin led an amazing life. What else can you say? It was an amazing currency, whether you agreed or not, it was an amazing currency that led an amazing life. I am actually saddened to hear that.
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@NeerajKA Breaking: Macro investor Master Chief says he's buying bitcoin
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Both my parents tested positive for COVID-19 this morning. To hell with these people, may failure and misfortune follow them for all time.
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POLITICO
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This morning, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany described state-level guidance intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus at Thanksgiving as “Orwellian,” contradicting local authorities and arguing that such proposals were un-American
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Michael McSweeney
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Three years to the day since I adopted the good Captain. Every like he gets a pat, every retweet is two pats
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Absolutely jazzed to get a short story acceptance from @xraylitmag
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@libsoftiktok Another day at the outrage factory
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@Jack_Burkman @realDonaldTrump The war crimes supporter has logged on
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Michael McSweeney
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My first novel, Heroman, is being published this year by @ExpatLitJ alongside these incredible writers. Humbled to be in such company.
@ExpatLitJ
Expat Press
3 years
Moonwalk with me, shock troops. We’re bringing joy to you year round. We’re making dreams reality. Each one of mine is worth ten of yours. More soon ~ cc: @cjchr1stine @peeweehermit @stretchedskin @1amCait @diamonddustpaw flyer by @cafeviolenza . We ride.
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Twitter the last 36 hours
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@MichaelCoudrey @annamerlan The first subsection of the murderer's manifesto is an attack on the Democrats. Stop playing defense and learn to read
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Crypto Twitter doesn't seem fun anymore. Informative sure, and, currently, essential for keeping up. But it increasingly reads as a vendetta-driven place, and that is sad to see.
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Michael McSweeney
5 years
@alicewetterlund @drmistercody @cmclymer Sanders campaigned vigorously for her in 2016, which Clinton publicly thanked him for. Now that he's beating her ideological allies, she's badmouthing him. It's pretty transparent.
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Can we all agree (at least) that bitcoin is pretty goddamn awesome
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Michael McSweeney
4 years
Gentle reminder that since 2011, protestors in the US can be classified as terrorists and detained indefinitely.
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"Woke mind virus," I mutter as someone gets their pickup order before me
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@rachelmillman Def worth all the lives lost to his horrific business empire and the destruction of the planet
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@wownicebuttdude War criminals use bananas
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Holy shit, my book is done
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It's not the top until something like this happens again
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Ripple: Brian Kelly answers questions abt $XRP and explains how to buy it using Polonius Exchange | CNBC
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@Chinchillazllla It's called world building
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@Timcast Gotta wonder if the chief magistrate of the country hadn't spent an entire month downplaying the severity of the situation and saying it would magically go away, there might've been time to prepare and build a support system
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@saderotica Muttering "authorpreneurship" as I drive my car into the river
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@briansanimal @KiaHumphrey3 @denialisahoax @EliseStefanik Then why did he sign the bill that authorized the funds?
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Pour one out of Isabelle, who just crossed the rainbow bridge. 16. RIP to a nice old lady.
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@Commentary
Commentary Magazine
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@EliLake takes a look at “The Iraq War, 20 Years Later.” It wasn’t the disaster everyone now says it was. Read more: #Iraq #IraqWar #SaddamHussein
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Michael McSweeney
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Very excited to start writing a monthly-ish column for @dailydrunkmag about video games and storytelling, which is really an excuse for me to get back into emulating again
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Michael McSweeney
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Bob Saget visited UMass in 2006 and told one story about a sex video sent into America's Funniest Home Videos, some couple crashed through the glass slider while having shower sex and continued banging on top of the bloody glass. RIP.
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@seanmdav @FDRLST This all seems to ignore the fact that the IC conducted an investigation in order to corroborate the complaint.
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Michael McSweeney
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This novel in the community library box has a cigarette ad inside it
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Michael McSweeney
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I'm sad about this. I'm sad about @coindesk 's Consensus -- an event I spent years working on, since its inception -- having to go virtual. This means no Blockchain Week. I'm sad that the world's on fire and that, in the U.S., the worst is still to come. Be safe, everyone, please.
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The Block
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UPDATE: The Block's primary concern is the health and safety of all event participants and as a result, is considering alternate dates in the fall for The Block Summit. Thank you to all of our participants and sponsors. Email summit2020 @theblockcrypto .com for a full refund.
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Michael McSweeney
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Swapping out "Roxanne" for "Blockchain" in the Police song actually kind of works
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Michael McSweeney
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Wanna work on our news team? Hit me up: mmcsweeney @theblockcrypto .com
@fintechfrank
Frank Chaparro
3 years
This is why it’s important to rely on good sources. CNBC, Reuters, and more reported instantly on a clearly dubious press release as gospel fact. Meanwhile, our team hit Walmart customer service lines, checked for red flags in the press release, and searched email registrations
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Hey crypto friends, I'm officially opening the gates to op-ed/contributor submissions for our end-of-year Outlook 2022 series. If you're interested, please reach out at mmcsweeney @theblockcrypto .com. Thanks!
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@scottwongDC @gabrielmalor Grabbing a few more taxpayer checks
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Now would be a hysterical time for Trump to return to Twitter
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Michael McSweeney
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I have many feelings and a few thoughts about the @CoinDesk acquisition deal, the end of the @DCGco era, the intense highs and intense lows of that period, how it nearly killed me. I hope @Bullish proves to be a proper steward of a website for which many people sacrificed much.
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Real capitulation is when you can't remember what the good times felt like
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Regulators watching the YAM situation unfold
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@jonathanchait Maybe the Democratic Party elite can lose the election to Trump
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Congrats to @pete_rizzo_ who wrote the second-highest number of posts for CoinDesk
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@DonaldJTrumpJr Your dad broke federal law when he solicited a bribe
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Michael McSweeney
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1/ So, in light of everything that's happened recently with CoinDesk, it seems like a good time as any to reveal that my name isn't Stan Higgins. It is, as my Twitter handle/screen name suggests, Michael Patrick McSweeney.
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Michael McSweeney
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Never forget
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Read a long poem at Unnameable Books this weekend in Turners Falls
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Lmao imagine watching the Super Bowl
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God's favorite game
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Michael McSweeney
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This is the Trump administration. That's it. This is all they've ever been.
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