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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 2h

Curtis Silwa doing flu shot promotion with Mamdani is cute; Silwa hated Cuomo so much he's STILL endorsing Mamdani.

Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's fine to be skeptical about long term growth or whatever but gambling on sports does not mean you are investing in the continuing growth in sports -- every game and every parlay has a winning outcome and a losing outcome. It's zero sum (and less than zero sum when the house takes a cut.)

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As somebody who uses Claude all the time I periodically giggle about that Richard Dawkins piece where he named it "Claudette".

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ellie the Elephant having her own theme song (plus all the body-positive dancers) is just great, the W always makes me so happy. Just an awesome league.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm seeing jokes about Pop's new marriage but the man is post-stroke. This is an old-people-taking-care-of-each-other arrangement.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ESPN has Ben Golliver doing (some of) their top 100 list, meaning it's probably less ridiculous than usual.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Valks vs Fire is good basketball but it's also funny how it's also a competition between different insistent shades of purple.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ryan and Rebecca are just the goat sports commentary duo.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yeah, the Valks are incredible on defense but can they score enough against good teams?

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Valks' defense is hilariously hard-core.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm just saying that absent what has happened in the past week, Ed Sheeran sucks and Macklemore is good. And what happened in the past week is pretty well predicted by the way they are respectively bad and good.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We talk about Mamdani's amazing social media/promotional video team and apparently it's spreading. This is incredibly good (and I've been a skeptic of the candidate).

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Crypto is absolutely screwed now that AI is the next big thing. (AI unlike crypto actually is a big thing.)

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

After the Jays loss you're really just happy the Guardians are also likely to lose until you think THOSE IDIOTS COULD HAVE GOT BACK INTO WILD CARD POSITION IF THEY COULD SCORE AT ALL.

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Gloom🌺 @oddish.net · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day!

Excerpt from Book 1 of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations:

"What are the common wages of labour, depends every where upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower the wages of labour.
It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms.
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We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject."

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Enes Kanter is the dumbest man alive, I swear.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Baseball is just random as all hell.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So the NBA punished the multi-billionaire and not the easily-hated player nearing the end of his productive career.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Guy in the red shirt is doing his damnedest to move him along.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Interesting fact: only one of Natasha Cloud and Enes Kanter is currently playing professional basketball for money.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wasn't Stewie basically unplayable in the playoffs like two years ago? Has she pulled a Chris Paul deal with Satan type thing?

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Rowling aside, it is really depressing how we are *still* doing Harry Potter in 2026. Nostalgia is the most boring drug.

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Lev Akabas @levakabas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

MSG Sports revenue in the quarter ending June 30 was up $75 million in 2026 thanks to the New York Knicks' NBA title run and surging MSG ticket prices

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Mike Vorkunov @mikevorkunov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The difference a NBA finals run makes? $66.7 million. Knicks played 9 playoff games in 2025 and 9 in 2026, but made $66.7 million more this year in playoff-related revenue than 2025's ECF run because of higher ticket prices + merch revenue, according to a MSG Sports SEC filing.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm reading The Path of Knowledge and it's making me feel so whiggish (i.e. like a bad history buff). All this talk about brilliant commentators and translators of Galen but Galenic medicine was garbage!

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Clark and Mitchell on the same team is insane.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ryan Ruocco is the greatest commentator alive, and Rebecca Lobo is also elite.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Wnba sold off the sun to Houston, they are terrible, and the arena is still full. What a sin they didn't go to Hartford.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Why does anybody think LeBron should have or would have joined the Warriors?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The WH correspondents dinner is a hilariously bad idea, like imagine a 1999 War Correspondents Dinner where the guest speaker was Milošević

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

For people wondering "why not the Nuggets?" it's because Bron is ancient and doesn't want to play at altitude.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Argentina gets away with murder for so long, finally undone by the most questionable red card imaginable.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's totally normal to rage at this rage-bait but it's also why the fertility curve turns back upward for the ultra-wealthy.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Here's a fun video on the difference between the NBA and Euroleague and why tiny fast guards excel in Europe: youtube.com/watch?v=62zrvaQfSOA&time_continue=558&source_ve_path=NzY3NTg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fbasketnews.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fbasketnews.com

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Why NBA Scorers Can’t Score In Europe

YouTube video by Basketball Matters

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Penalties for flopping are always bad in every sport, just don't reward flopping there is no need to try to mind-read.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Between Ryan Grim suggesting a woman telling a casual boyfriend she wants a glute massage implies she must be a slut and Michael Tracy suggesting that any non-consensual sex has to be traumatizing or it's not actually non-consensual: who is showing the most ass?

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 08/07/2026

every time i see a screenshot of a ryan grim post i instinctively put a coaster on top of whatever i'm drinking

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I was Platner-curious for awhile but my take was the cheating / sexting while trying to conceive stuff -- this was a year ago! -- was going to be such a turn off for female voters that he was already an awful candidate. Now he's just a villain.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The Celtics blowing it up is weird. I get it for a Giannis play, but that return for Brown to terrible.

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Courtside Karenina @annajane10000.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I don't understand the response to the Leonard trade. Just read "And Leonard, who has the potential to lead Toronto to another title, is worth the cost of first-round picks in a way that those other previous acquisitions never were." This is crazy!

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