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How long until the White House just hires one of those karate robots to be a press secretary?

There's a house as you fly into Milwaukee's airport, that painted "Welcome to Cleveland" on its roof decades ago as a joke scare. This is just one more reason why I'm hoping for a Milwaukee Brewers and Cleveland Guardians World Series.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 17h

Oh you should see the local tv spots too!

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

(I love the rules to speed up the game btw … just not starting a post season game when the team’s fans are working still)

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

MLB: we need to speed up the game to get more people to watch it. Also MLB: let’s put a post season game on at 4pm local time on a Monday.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Sconnie sports-watching trifecta today: 🏈Green Bay Packers regular season football 🏀Milwaukee Bucks preseason basketball ⚾️Milwaukee Brewers postseason baseball

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Society's insistence on maximizing efficiency is the antithesis of what makes humans human. I keep trying to remind myself to linger in moments longer ... that's where you discover life's joys.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Then the other pairing looks like they’re calling Channel 6 anchor Doug Moore a “notorious dud” (which may or may not have been the case) and that he needed reviving for some reason. (3/3)

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This makes it look like the man crossing the new “Harbor Bridge” (!) is the murderer fleeing to Milwaukee. (2/3)

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The best part of my framed 1977 Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper isn’t the Elvis Presley cover story. It’s the two unintentional photo and headline pairings that make me chuckle every time I glance at them. (1/3)

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meanwhile our president stands the way an 8 year old would impersonate Julio Franco’s batting stance in the early 90s.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great news for Iowa today, as they finally land themselves an NBA franchise.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When you gas up your car and it clicks off because it's full, but you have a personality that wants it at a full dollar amount so you keep clicking to hit that next dollar but then you accidentally stop at $55.01...

Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes, versions of all of this have always been around, but nowhere even sniffing this amount of sheer quantity and sophistication.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We’re constantly playing defense against being tricked. AI, educational content that’s really an ad, politicians *gestures*, messages designed to spoof another to take $ or access, etc. No wonder we’re short of trust, patience & kindness when our muscle memory is to pressure test every interaction.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The refs marched the Vikings right down the field.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Joe, I am literally listening to that on cassette at this very moment. HILARIOUS!

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Donald Trump Office Space voice: “Yeahhhhhh, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and fly on the decoy terrorist bait plane, mmkay? Thaaaaanks.”

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Why is it newsworthy that Francesca Hong, the Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor, gave a non-answer about whether Thanksgiving should be canceled yet it isn't newsworthy that you won't be able to get Republican candidate Tom Tiffany to admit who won the 2020 election?

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Trump has made it abundantly clear that he has no interest in being a leader. His only interest is being a ruler. Your president should feel like they work for you, not that you work for them. Otherwise, even if they're "your" candidate, your side still isn't winning. Only your ruler is.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I’m just a real sucker for Everly Brothers solo material. Especially on vinyl.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

There's got to be a german word for assuming there's a german word for something very specific.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Republicans meant to order the never ending breadsticks at Olive Garden but had the never ending war in Iran delivered to the table, instead.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A random 90s Milwaukee Brewers card I still have:

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Anyone who's being required to show ID at a friggin' Olive Garden is probably legally required to introduce themselves to all of their neighbors before they're allowed to move in, too...

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Any of us olds who own THE ROCK on Criterion laserdisc (!) have seen Ed Harris behind the scenes and are not at all surprised by his curmudgeonly reaction about DUTTON RANCH ... which, might I add, is getting its best press ever because of this since I never heard a peep about this show before now.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Does Giannis realize he CAN say no to some advertisers?

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Went 4 for 4 in seeing great films this weekend. Backrooms (movie theater) Obsession (Peacock) Lucky (Criterion Channel) The Straight Story (Criterion Channel)

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

You know you’re a Gen X Sconnie if you have this many Greg Vaughn cards.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

10 months ago, btw. This was obviously going to happen. joe Biden isn’t shitting your pants. Trump is.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

AQI is Hazardous in Milwaukee, over 600 which is wild. It’s so smoky outside that our living room air filter can’t get above 54% quality (usually 100% unless we are cooking 🤣). It tastes like burning tires outside.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Satan’s doing a playground style draft right now. Wonder what sport is being played.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I talk myself out of more things than I talk myself into.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

(2/2) Add creative fiction or non-fiction if you haven't recently. Watch how it changes you. How it wakes you up. Inspires you. Gets you thinking, dreaming, EXCITED about something that isn't the fight or flight feelings you're getting from reading news or social only.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Unsolicited advice. Take it or leave it. Do some reading purely for enjoyment. Read a novel. Read a book of poems. Read a book of short stories. Newspapers and biographies/autobiographies are great, but I'm talking Yes-And here, not Or. (1/2)

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just after college I worked in the circulation department at a newspaper. If a person's paper wasn't delivered, I'd have to peruse a giant wall map and memorize the route (with tons of rural addresses like N56W28750 Rando Road). Sometimes multiple houses and routes in one trip. No Google Maps.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I tore through this Elizabeth Strout novel in just a few days. May be the best thing I’ve read in years. It’s as sad as it is uplifting. Such a personal “everyday” story filled with so much mid-life introspection. This won’t soon leave me. Boy would I love to see this adapted into a small film.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“It’s a Heartache” is one of my favorites. “Got So Used to Loving You” and “Baby I Remember You” off her “The World Starts Tonight” album are amazing too.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Giannis knows LeBron is picking the Heat. That's why he choose the number 7. So LeBron and Giannis can be 6-7.

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Shaquille O'Neal's 67 Moment

ALT: Shaquille O'Neal's 67 Moment

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The nice thing is, since Republicans are assuring us he's very much alive, none of these jokes about the corpse of Mitch McConnell are in poor taste.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Wait, which year is America’s Mike Tysonnial?

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Wearing my Mitch McConnell shirt today.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Definitely have a cheese drawer in the fridge. Two of them 🤣

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I absolutely loved the original teaser trailer for THE END OF OAK STREET. But was really underwhelmed by the full trailer. Sure hope that means I go in with lower expectations and can get wowed.

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Who knew that Freedom 250 was named after the amount of people who'd attend the week-long fair?

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Bruce @btothed.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

(2/2) So now swaths of the country think entertainers can and must lead us politically. How do you put the toothpaste back in the tube when these same people are missing so many teeth?

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