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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This bit in the New Yorker about Dan Quinn working with the FBI and CIA to develop "stress inoculation" techniques for the Commanders is truly bizarre

"During the second quarter of the game, with the Colts up 7-6 (they'd go on to win 30-13), a sideline reporter for ESPN offered a bizarre detail to the game-watching public. Over the summer, the Commanders' coach, Dan Quinn, dreaming up ways to make his staff more impervious to pressure, enlisted the help of the intelligence establishment of the United States. "He turned to some people in his back yard: the F.B.I. and the C.I.A.," the reporter said breezily. "He said he had a clandestine meeting with them to talk about 'stress inoculation'—how to introduce stress so that they're able to handle stressful situations. And they gave him some tips and tricks, and he's been using it for his coördinators." The coaches, thrown a battery of "unscripted" situations to puzzle through like stoic G-men, had taken avidly to the exercises, reportedly grateful for the training."

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really like the baseball stadium that Mike Tomlin built in Minecraft

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Chapel Hill bar Goodfellows has a picture of Jon Scheyer making this stupid face on a urinal puck. It's pretty satisfying to piss all over Duke Basketball.

Jon Scheyer stupid face when UConn knocked Duke out of the 2026 NCAA tournament

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just make the pitchers hit again for fucks sake, I want to see weirdly proportioned guys hit dingers 3 times a year not ruin the majesty of creation

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wire should’ve been first

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I credit rote memorization with my bar trivia prowess

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Decades and decades of a national policy and zeitgeist that amounts to 'nobody needs to care about social studies' and we're now in an unwinnable war with a foreign country whose culture and leadership we did not understand based around geography we ignored. 🤷‍♂️

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What the hell is wrong with this asshole

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wonder if ESPN knows that lots of people will just turn their football coverage off the moment they see McAfee up there

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dope moment between Tiafoe and Shelton

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/08/2026

I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2026

let him build the ballroom and then the next president can sell tickets to a public demolition or live stream a drone strike on the facility

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety aboard the West Virginia. He then hopped on a AA gun and despite no training at all shot down at least one plane despite being under constant attack. He was later killed action aboard the USS Liscome Bay during Operation Galvanic

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Have just started my gap year project of learning Arabic. This is going to be hard but we can do hard things.

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yeah I’d totally drink these no hesitation

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/08/2026

i don't think i'm eating enough curry. i need to be kormamaxxing. i need to enter vindaloo mode. if my friends aren't talking about vindaloos and saags i need better friends

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

sometimes i’m taken aback by how draconian UK defamation law seems, but on the other hand it’s pretty clear that British journalists can’t be trusted with free speech

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tremendous insight into the inner workings of the Trump administration that the NSA/SecState was allowed to go down in a fireball but the person who posts AI slop for the President qualified as needing to survive at all costs.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

More importantly: He went to Duke.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

40 years ago, it was so common for men to have a beautiful house with a beautiful wife that he would frequently confuse them for another’s. Sometimes they wouldn’t even know how they had arrived at said location in a large automobile. Now the days have gone by and men struggle to achieve either.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is gonna sound unfathomably arrogant but I think I could do every current cabinet secretary’s job better than it is currently being done

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

on the right, "bravery" is when you're willing to be criticized by liberals, even if the position you're taking is fully embraced by the federal government and half the states.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just going to say here, I think I've said this before, a 'historically accurate' version of the Odyssey is not possible because the Odyssey does not take place in a historical setting - it takes place in a fantastical pastiche of four centuries, mixed in with gods and monsters.

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Well. They’re still called the Falklands.

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ian @ahandleforian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My main issue with Haaland is that he normalizes Manchester City and kids that don’t know better might start thinking it’s ok to support that club

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

curling is so electric i love curling

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

it may fall within the "pepsi" category, but blue powerade zero is without a doubt the best sports drink there is. an undeniably great beverage.

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

where's replicant (lam 2001)?

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

143 days until i get to watch baseball again. might start crying.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Rooting not just for a Game 7 of the World Series, but another 18 inning game that goes so long on Saturday night that the clocks fall back at 2am before it’s ended and everyone gets tremendously confused about what time it is.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"pierre menard, author of the quixote," "the circular ruins," or "the south"

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

the last six weeks or so of m's baseball has been some of the most fun baseball i've seen in my life

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Welp, it was a good season. Thank you, Mariners. / Eh bien, c'était une bonne saison. Merci, les marins.

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Ben Esther @benesther.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

heartbroken about the mariners

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Lots of people kind of losing the plot online today, everyone yelling at one another. Have you considered embracing the calming fandom of the Seattle Mariners? Game 7 awaits.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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