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Bill

@billtwibh.bsky.social

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Baseball podcast guy and lawyer. MST3K, Rifftrax, MBMBaM, Dropout, and general foolishness enthusiast. Madeline Kahn fanboy. He/him

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 4h

Don’t be too hard on Katie Zacharia. To be Trump’s Press Secretary, you have to listen to him lie, write down his lies, repeat those lies to a White House press corps that dutifully transcribes the lies and repeats those lies to the public as if they might not be lies. It’s not as easy as it sounds.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 7h

Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•18h
'Goodbye' is an alteration of "God be with you."

Sean Kress• @SKress7514 • 16h
Do you have evidence to back this up? If so can you explain what "good night" , "good
morning" and "good evening" are alterations of?

Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•15h
what

Sean Kress & @SKress7514 • 14h
I was genuinely asking the question because the only thing I find on the internet is that it is basically a slur from the original.... I assumed there was a better explanation for it than that as it seems a little unlikely given the good night, good morning etc haven't been slurred into something else too. Sorry if you saw that as offensive.

Merriam-Webster @ @Merriam...•14h S
It is not related to 'good night/ day/morning.'
The 'good' in those do not come from 'God.'

Sean Kress @ @SKress7514 • 14h
So the internet suggestion this it is just a slur is what you are basing that on too then?

Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Merriam-Webster's etymology follows established linguistic scholarship, not unverified internet suggestions of a "slur."
"Goodbye" is an alteration of "God be with you"; "good" in greetings like "good morning" has separate origins unrelated to "God."
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goo…
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goodbye blog.oup.com/2022/02/if-god..
etymonline.com/word/good%20m
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Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 13h

Make racism subtle again

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 13h

Haha, no shit? www.nytimes.com/athletic/769...

FIFA Peace Prize could be scrapped a year on from Donald Trump win (Gift Article)

Trump was given the inaugural prize last December but he could be the only recipient with a FIFA committee now reviewing the award.

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The Brewers have yet to allow a home run in the NLCS Just three teams in the last 75 years have gone an entire best-of-7 postseason series without allowing a home run: 2002 ALCS Angels vs MIN 1995 NLCS Braves vs CIN 1990 ALCS Red Sox vs OAK

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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 13/10/2026

getting fired by this administration for being unethical is really fucking embarrassing

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Paddy J @paddyj1325.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They used to say that rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for General Motors. Today rooting for the Dodgers is like rooting for Amazon

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

one of the possible issues, yes

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

if you're pulling for the Dodgers and are not currently within like 5 miles of the Hollywood sign, you have issues

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Obviously the correct rooting interest ist the Brewers. I think I want the Brewers against the Guardians because the latter deserves a chance to win for the first time in nearly 80 years after changing their stupid name, but I can also repsect a Brewers-vs.-Rays rooting interest

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

that's probably fine

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

a balk is when the pitcher does the thing where he doesn't quite do the thing but then he does the thing super hard and then

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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#Balk Rules
1) You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that.
1a.A balk is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A balk iS when you balk the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that.
1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm-gonna get ya! l'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that
1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b(2)-b(i). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic..
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
2) Do not do a balk please.

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

my middle son's whole thing these days is that all advertising should be banned, and I'm pretty much all in on this

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

can't believe no teams have figured out yet that you just need to fill your lineup with baseball guys in their late 40s

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

big Dodgers fan?

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

oh goddamn that double play was fun to watch

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

that's right this mf said straigth

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

every time I'm forced to hear about Aaron Rodgers it's a hate crime against me, a straigth white cis man who doesn't like Aaron Rodgers

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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 24/06/2026

hussyknee: "The most basic, intractable fact about mental illnesses is that you simply cannot willpower your way out of them. The only exceptions to this rule are the ones I have, which continue to disable me due to lack of determination and other grave personal flaws"

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I don't know anything about anything but wasn't that Kevin Burkhardt

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

what a masterful performance by that referee. 50,000 fans came out to watch this one referee do his thing and they were NOT disappointed

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

if that's not a Seahawks first down nothing about football is real

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Remember, football continues tonight on NBC" lol no it does not, this is the end of a 7-hour NLCS pregame show

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Follow me for more great football linguistics jokes (I do not watch football)

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Tom Brady keeps saying “hats on hats,” but isn’t that a little…superfluous

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Now I’m watching Seattle and feeling like I know more about football than these teams do and that’s sad

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Commanders-Giants is the first football game I’ve even kind of watched all year and…do they just like not know the rules or

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hey, they just said it was a fact, not that it was in any way related to the claim

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ah yes. For sure. I just couldn’t parse it out of context and not sure what the other sentence was about. 😊

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have to admit that I can’t make any sense of this

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

tbh I feel like this shortchanges all the lawless murders off the coast

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My god I hate him so, so, so much

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The president is a big dumb baby who will listen to anyone," I say, ostensibly defending the president

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow, it sure is a big week for scandal-plagued asshats in their eighties to pass away (glances meaningfully at It)

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How is it that it’s both a tie game and the Rays are winning by like 9

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s the charisma, man. It’s magical.

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For money! Talk about how hard it was for money!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast

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Eephus Tosser @eephustosser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There are about a dozen military bases in San Diego County.

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In this case yes

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

lol what a stupid throw

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Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"your team was named WHAT for over 100 years?? well I won't judge, but I know a certain someone who will."

the Chicago Pope

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe we should start by enforcing the ethics rules already on the books, which would almost immediately lead to impeaching Trump. Then we can see if we really need to reform the rules that have been ignored for ten years I hate this guy as much as I hate most of maga

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

100% assumed the last line was a joke (and pretty funny!) until I saw who it was from

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game.

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mason Miller is the best athlete named after two professions that become important as a hunter-gatherer society evolves into an agrarian society

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WHEEEEEEE!

Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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