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Gavin (who is back in town)

@11mmyjohns.bsky.social
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Big root beer guy. Once and future trader. 34th place crossword solver for two consecutive years. Appreciator of the fact that the 1999 New Orleans Saints had two quarterbacks named Billy Joe.

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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 4h
blue sky the official app of sports needs to have fewer posts about whether or not it’s racist to make jokes about this quarterback’s name and more posts about how all he does is throw rowdy bombs all the way downfield. It feels too even right now
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the worst punts imaginable?
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the tv show list is fine, the only thing that is egregious enough to be worth mentioning is that Orphan Black is top 10 and didn't make the top 100
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most Great Shows I have either seen and loved (Breaking Bad, GOT, Arrested Development) or am in the process of watching (The Sopranos, 30 Rock), or know that I really ought to get to someday (The Wire, Schitt's Creek). But I have no interest in Mad Men and never will.
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
who is on your mount rushmore of television performances? mine of course would be: Tatiana Maslany as all the clones in Orphan Black Bryan Cranston as Walter White James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano @rejectedjokes.bsky.social as Jean-Ralphio Saperstein
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i mean i guess i could, but i don't know if he'd accept
sam bankman-fried on my "people you may know" on facebook dot com the website
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Orphan Black Breaking Bad The Good Place Veep Arrested Development It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Severance Parks and Recreation Game of Thrones Succession
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
too many of the characters talk in unintelligible ways
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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 19/09/2026
If I had a nickel for every time Colgate played in a game featuring 2 teams with red C logos this season, I’d have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
just saw a mutual i respect say something wildly wrong and pretty offensive but not out of malice. remembering that it is in fact an option for me to say nothing.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The reason that you don't "withhold your vote" or "wonder if it's better for Republicans to win" is because beating the electoral shit out of Republicans convinces their pollsters, activists and candidates that their current strategy is a losing one. Make them do an autopsy, not an inauguration.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
anyway we’re going to win huge in November and it isn’t going to solve everything right away, or even later, but it will make things meaningfully better in both the short term and the long term for ~everyone, and I know this because I remember 2006
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’m not saying we *should* have Republicans on Bluesky, I’d rather not have Republicans anywhere. But their absence makes a lot of people here, left, liberal, and conservative Democrat, forget who the real enemy is
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
this mentions piranesi and the boys are back in town so I would like to say that if you are a single woman between 30 and 45 who likes those things…hello
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My friend just referred to our longest serving president as “Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt” and I’m like. Yes. That’s what his name should be. It is that.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Shout out to Katie Rogers for closing this paragraph full of Trump’s unhinged statements with this head scratching parenthetical sentence: “(Mr. Trump usually frowns on election fraud.)” Does he? Didn’t he try extremely hard to commit election fraud in 2020? Remember, ”I need 11,000 votes…”
“Please raise your right hand,” Mr. Trump instructed a rowdy crowd of thousands inside a Dallas arena on Thursday evening. Many of them complied. “I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States that loves us so much he can’t even breath that I will go out with my family, my friends, I will do it any way—I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try and cheat like hell, Ike they do.” (Mr. Trump usually frowns on election frauds.)
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
we like sports and we don’t care who knows
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I am speaking good wishes into the universe for a @girinathan.bsky.social recap of this incredible match
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I think I should be able to understand how somebody could not realize bluesky 38 was AI coded. I guess if they have never seen an AI-coded thing before? But it still seems far fetched
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Clippers-themed parody of “Say No To This” in which “Miss Maria Reynolds” is replaced by “Mister Kawhi Leonard” I don’t think I’m going to write this but maybe I should - probably nobody else will
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump thinks that if you pay somebody $10 for a burrito than you have lost the $10, like it has been stolen from you. He's not pretending; this is literally the basis of his trade policy
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
plenty of options, but these are as good a ten as I can think of
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I have generally thought of "trial of the century" type media coverage as a relic of an embarrassing past that we have gotten better if not perfect about, like Olsen Twin age countdowns or making MVP decisions based on who has the most RBI. The Clancy case is denting that optimism.
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Jesus Christ, famously stingy about giving fish to people
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r.e. parrish @reparrishcomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A Literary Muppet Show Episode
Kermit, on stage: "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TONIGHT'S GUEST... LEGEND OF ARGENTINE LITERATURE... AN UNPARALLELED MASTER OF SHORT FICTION...
JORGE LUIS BORGES!!"
Borges: "Thank you Kermit"
Gonzo, running onstage with an armful of books: "WHOOOOAHH! OUTTA THE WAY!!
I'VE GOTTA RETURN THESE OVERDUE BOOKS TO THE LIBRARY OF BABEL!"
Waldorf, in balcony: "Say, have you ever contemplated eternity?"
Statler: "Actually, I'm contemplating it right now.... FEELS LIKE THIS SHOW WILL NEVER END!
Both: "OHO HO HO HO!"
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VeGOREpunk AuHORROR @vegapunk-aurora.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
*Mr Beast voice* I HELPED THIS WOMAN TURN A ROOM FULL OF STRAW INTO GOLD USING ONLY A SPINNING WHEEL! IF SHE CAN'T GUESS MY NAME IN THREE DAYS, I'M TAKING HER BABY!
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
the group chat fellas got me this time @whstancil.bsky.social
my friend saying that I am a John The Baptist figure for Will Stancil
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Genuinely I cannot take it. The way the press has ONE STANDARD for everyone but Trump and his goons and then A TOTALLY DIFFERENT STANDARD for them. It’s intolerable, it’s obscene
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I want to address what happened over the weekend outside Madison Square Garden. A few loud numbskulls must not deter us from building multi-faith, multi-racial coalitions for justice.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.
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Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms
Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Really interesting. The fundamental question is kind of whether sports are more like oil or more like a roulette wheel. They’re both, and neither.
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Blue Sky Moment today when I was just starting to think "boy this comic bit that this one guy I follow does sure is played out, huh" and then *arguably my favorite tv character of all time* extends it in appreciation and homage. and i'm like well maybe I'm in the wrong here, I don't know
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
(tapping the sign) bsky.app/profile/maxd...
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Revisiting a favorite take of mine which is that Lady Bird is a great movie but there is a jarring lack of realism. This movie is set in Sacramento between fall 2002 and fall 2003 but not once in the entire movie does a character complain about the officiating in the 2002 Western Conference Finals.
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Roger Cormier @themetsnewsletter.com · 27/08/2026
Since you can upload videos up to 10 minutes long nowadays, here's Mookie Wilson's at-bat in the 10th inning of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just realised that Pete Hegseth is straight up “what if Mac from always sunny was secretary of defense”
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason
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Ally Sammarco @allysammarco.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Using a children’s book to make fun of children being detained, neglected and isolated from their parents is next level fucked up
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
a few bigger bands: Green Week Waterfalls of Wayne Wayne Cannons and Bouquets Weezest Good North Carolina Insane Clown Police Department Neutral Milk Resort Joy Multiplication Tuscany And The Machine The Keys Imagine Larger Dragons The Sex Shotguns The Unrhythmics Silversun Eighteen-Wheelers
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
so one obstacle to listening thoroughly to the new Phoebe album all the way through 30-40 times to really experience it is that Haunted is so good that every time it ends I’m like “well why don’t I just listen to Haunted again”
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I continue to be absolutely amazed that the conspiracy theory Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson alleged was happening under Biden—an enfeebled elderly president is being secretly managed by his aides who are hiding his declining health—is actually happening under Trump & theyve mostly just shrugged.
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
one interesting thing I think about the “AI debate” is that, on average, slightly smart people are mostly for it, really smart people are mostly against it, and really *really* smart people are strongly for it. I don’t know what dumb people think because I genuinely don’t know any.
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
my seventeenth most toxic opinion is that I actually do genuinely for real think that AOC and I could be a good couple if we met organically through friends or something
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I said this yesterday, but in a world without Harry Potter I would know SO much about 1890s baseball
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When I see "J Street" I think "Jane Street" which is funny because for me personally my reaction to discussion of either one is "hey, don't lump them in with the bad guys"
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Gavin (who is back in town) @11mmyjohns.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Let's Tier The Great Songs Of Hot Fuss: HELL YES All These Things That I've Done Change Your Mind Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine STRONG TUNES Mr. Brightside Somebody Told Me Smile Like You Mean It SURE Andy, You're A Star On Top OK Everything Will Be Alright Believe Me Natalie Midnight Show
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