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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1h

Russia has shortages, long lines, and imposed limits. Ukraine has knocked out about 1/2 (!) of Russia's refining capacity. And they're going to export a million tons of diesel? Yes, Trump is again siding with Russia against Ukraine, Europe, law, and democracy. But that won't make fuel appear.

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Moscow Gas Stations Reimpose Fuel Limits as ‘Second Wave’ of Shortages Hits Russia - The Moscow Times

Fuel purchase restrictions are beginning to make a comeback in some regions as persistent shortages continue to dog the domestic market following months of Ukrainian drone strikes on oil refineries, i...

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 3h

Strangely, the resultant trade deficit with Russia is of no concern.

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 5h

Please someone ask Kegseth about his thoughts on this/Catholicism in general. Thank you!

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 5h

There is nothing in this world that a Roomba loves more than getting lost under a couch.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 6h

I wonder how much the extant cult of Ditka owes its existence to these skits, rather than his actual time coaching the Bears.

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Da Bears @chicagobearsx.bsky.social · 6h

Courtney Cronin: The family of legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka announced his passing at the age of 86. Ditka was the first tight end to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and later led the Bears to a Lombardi Trophy in Super Bowl XX.

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Legendary coach, Hall of Fame TE Mike Ditka dies at age 86

Mike Ditka, a Hall of Fame tight end who became an NFL legend for his time as coach of the Bears, has died at the age of 86.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 7h

I look forward to glaring at that new pavement when I am back on my bike next spring!

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 9h

I wouldn’t even call them shitposts, this is Facebook Unc Slop and the fact that elites are unable to recognize that and think it’s insightful is a sign of just how bad their private media consumption is. Really makes you wonder about what’s going on in their groupchats!

nymag.com

The Group Chat Is Where the Tech Elites Drive One Another Mad

Some major figures on the big-tech right have found themselves a new safe space.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 8h

This is unspeakably grim.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 9h

I'm having trouble finding a good answer because it's hard to make compelling art about someone as stupid and flawed as Trump. He is simply a void where character would usually be in a story.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 9h

This is some real baby with the batheater energy.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 9h

How are bike riders supposed to route around it?

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 10h

Still healing from my bike accident (thank you, antibiotic cream!), but ny body keeps collecting new issues. Woke up with a pinch in my back this morning and, before I could do anything about that, acquired a bloody cut on my nose while moving a dollhouse. Why with all this pain?!

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 20h

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 19h

Just got to Mary's goodbye letter to Arthur in RDR2 and I feel like my heart just got stamped on. Fuck, what an experience this game is.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 22h

Genuinely disturbed to wonder how my FiL would play this game.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 23h

Ayyyyyy, look what finally arrived. And just in time to play with my in-laws this weekend!

A new copy of the indie board game John Company.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is as clearly as I've seen this spelled out. If the PCSA smelled off to you but you didn't know quite why, this interview offers very lucid proof that you were correct. defector.com/an-antitrust...

What you're saying is, the antitrust exemptions in the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc. are allowed as a result of the collective bargaining process, whereas the PCSA seeks a similar exemption by circumventing the collective bargaining process. Is that correct?

Generally, yes. When we talk specifically about labor markets, all of the restraints that we see in labor markets of our professional sports leagues—the salary cap, the draft, the limits on player movement, every single one of them—to the extent that they're exempt from antitrust law, are the products of good-faith collective bargaining between the management group and the players group, and exist in a collective bargaining agreement that was reached through good-faith bargaining.

What is being proposed with the Protect College Sports Act is to establish the exact same types of labor restraints, specifically a salary cap, specifically a number of years of eligibility to compete in college sports, and specifically limits on transfers, but not to do so in collective bargaining where there are representatives in the room, on behalf of employer and employee, but rather through a legislative bill, which seems to be negotiated by a number of different constituent groups, none of which is a representative of the players in any meaningful sense, and absolutely none of which have been chosen and selected by the players as a union representative.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know these folks. I work with these folks. This is a direct hit.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"More than it’s ever been, the Nobel Prize is targeted to graduate students and booksellers, which is to say the unemployed and the underemployed, but also the broodily bespectacled." lmao

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 08/10/2026

Important closing argument less than a month before an increasingly dire election for your party

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Everyone at The Onion probably needs to log off forever. Many such cases, unfortunately.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do we think Marco knows what happened to Athens after its leaders asserted that the strong do as they will and the weak do as they must? Cause I think there's a lesson in there for the architect of Trump II's neo-caudillo foreign policy.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. nyti.ms/4yCUebH

nyti.ms

Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I heard "little red corvette" as "do it and come back" for literally decades.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Completely lost it, just openly admitting bribery schemes on main

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump’s Global Grift Operation is starting to collapse under its own weight.

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Seth M. Fisher @mgoseth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I give a lecture at UM every year on (+ other things) the process of integrating college football. The parallels here are exact. As today, conservatives deeply understood sports' role as a playground for ideology. They rigorously enforced color barriers knowing Black success would convey equality.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Beautiful morning out there.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026

you know the onion was funnier when they tried to be funny

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wikipedia confirms that the White House is a Lutheran-free zone! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...

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Religious affiliations of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Has there really never been a Lutheran President? That's sort of shocking to me.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It would be a very funny but if this was all about an Incan king and my own presumptions were what ruined it, but I'll never know!

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gotta give the King of England some tortilla chips and bison tacos spiced with chili peppers.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Potatoes came up again and I think I have to return the book. The potato anachronism has ruined it for me.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Quietly amusing to see Amazon flag me multiple times for only ever buying Kindle books when they’re on deep discount.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

RIP to Eva Marie Saint, a lady with a nose for bullshit www.avclub.com/from-on-the-...

Don't Come Knocking (2005)-"Howard's
Motheri
EMS: I loved-did you see that?
AVC: I did, yes.
EMS: Did you like it?
AVC: I did.
EMS: Now wait a minute. Can we get a little more enthusiasm?
AVC: Sure. It's a great movie!
EMS: Now you're going too far. It's not a great movie. You can't win with me today.
[Laughs.]

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She and her husband did a stafed reading from Willa Cather as I recall.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I saw her in person at BGSU (she was an alum) and performed in the theater named in her honor many times. What a legend. She'll be missed.

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Jason Voorhees Darr @jasondtx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love the idea of Paxton dragging down Republicans nationwide instead of just Texas.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That is to say my one real usage of AI was useful insofar as it provided a mirror for my own work.

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A. Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The one time I used it at work was to try and create a multi-stage if/then formula in Excel that I couldn't manage to make work manually. The formula it created was so complicated that it made me say "why didn't it just update this one input variable...wait, why didn't I just update that variable?"

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Molly Fleck @mollyfleck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you ride transit in Chicagoland, you should take this survey.

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