nicholas mainieri
@NickMainieri
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Writer. Fiction, narrative journalism, and so on. @NewAmerica Us@250 Fellow for 2024-2025.
Joined April 2009
Grateful to share that I am a @NewAmerica Us@250 fellow for 2024-2025. I’ll be working on a story about @FoundryField, a ballpark and communal art project that amplifies history, creates new space for play, and both expands and complicates understandings of our national pastime.
🎉 The 2024 class of New America’s Us@250 Initiative is here!. 13 fellows & 2 senior fellows will reimagine the American narrative through storytelling that reflects our shared values/aspirations, just in time for the nation’s 250th anniversary. 🇺🇸 #Us250
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I will be joining tonight’s @NDBaseball broadcast during the early innings to talk about South Bend’s Foundry Field and what I’ve been writing about it over the last year with the support of my @NewAmerica fellowship. @FoundryField #us250 #journalism #JackieRobinsonDay.
Join us as we celebrate the history of the Foundry Giants - a team of Black players who worked in the Studebaker factory and played baseball in the 1920s-30s. 🆚 Valparaiso .📍Frank Eck Stadium.⏰ 5:30 PM ET.📺 ACCNX.📊 #GoIrish ☘️
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Nah. I, and about every writer I know, love em dashes. We learn to edit against them in revision. If AI is overusing them it’s because it was trained on the pirated writing of many real human beings for whom the em dash is instinctual, artful, considered, and not always logical.
A shortcut for detecting if something is written with AI is they all use this symbol "—" throughout the writing. It's relatively rare when a human uses it, maybe once or twice, if that. But AI chats love using it. No clue why.
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RT @alexheard: As you may have heard, most (not all) of the people who produce Outside magazine (and the website) were laid off on Thursday….
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RT @poorerthandead: This is the first piece of a book project I'm working on about Timothy MacCarry, a Catholic anti-war protester who died….
therevealer.org
An anti-war student’s strange death decades ago and how it resonates on college campuses today
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Those who come here risking life and limb to harvest the food that appears on American tables or to rebuild American cities after disasters should have as much claim to being American as any of us born into it do.
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RT @ioangrillo: Yes, Mexico Has Deep Narco Corruption, But So Does The USA. - Border Agents working with cartels.- CIA has worked with traf….
crashoutmedia.com
Trump's trade war targets "intolerable alliance" with drug traffickers; but what are his other motives?
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RT @ioangrillo: It's true there is huge narco corruption in Mexico. It's also true that:. - US gives sweetheart deals to narco snitches.-….
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What a wonderful story. A little dose of something that we all need right about now.
This weekend, lie back and let the capybara take you to a gentler place.
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RT @BobUeckerSays: "As a catcher, it’s too easy to throw out a guy stealing. So I'd throw it to the CF and see if he could throw him out."….
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RT @TrlyAdventurous: "Part history, part murder mystery, part seagoing adventure—entirely captivating"
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RT @NewAmerica: Are you looking for funding and a community of peers to help develop your next big idea? If so, then @NAFellows wants to he….
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RT @NickMainieri: In honor of @JohnAxford’s forthcoming Wall of Honor inclusion by the @Brewers, resharing my story about Ax’s last comebac….
beltmag.com
Among the sleeve of tattoos on his left arm is a still frame from his favorite film, the neo-noir classic Le Samouraï. He wears his former Brewers number, 59, on his red Canadian jersey. He is two...
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In honor of @JohnAxford’s forthcoming Wall of Honor inclusion by the @Brewers, resharing my story about Ax’s last comeback at the 2023 World Baseball Classic @WBCBaseball. Congrats, Ax! The Ax Man Cometh, Again.
beltmag.com
Among the sleeve of tattoos on his left arm is a still frame from his favorite film, the neo-noir classic Le Samouraï. He wears his former Brewers number, 59, on his red Canadian jersey. He is two...
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RT @TheLincoln: Weird how these people still don't care if the output makes sense at all. Grimoires are books of spells, not blank pages. C….
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I’d give anything to be in a warm and friendly neighborhood bar in New Orleans right now.
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The soundtrack in this bar right now is giving major The Saint starring Val Kilmer vibes.
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RT @JohnAxford: When I returned to Milwaukee for that one fateful game in 2021, after blowing out my elbow and walking off the mound, I was….
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