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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 10h

What’s the proportion of brownstone Brooklyn kids with twee names these days?

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎵 Move closer to your World (Series), my friend... 🎵

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First-person perspective of Chef Pepper as he is crushed to death by vengeful condiments.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The proposed supertall skyscraper would impede and block the natural airflow that allows the historic Gravitron to project vomit back onto its nauseated patrons. This Community Board urges you to vote no!”

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Without a deep bullpen, I think they essentially had to postpone all of it - try to extend Luzardo another inning, which pushes McFarlane to the 7th inning and perhaps into the first part of the 8th, where Duran then comes in.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's so many of these. I remember the first time I saw the trailer for "Intolerable Cruelty", and until I saw the title at the end I was sure it would be called "Gimme Some Lovin'" because the Spencer Davis track was playing the entire time.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One Grasshopper, Sidecar, and Pink Lady.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gain fifty pounds beforehand and ask that the illustrator perfectly capture the bloat of my bullfrog neck. Refer to myself as “Lunchpail Jones”.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have this one on my phone with a similar sentiment:

sculpture bust of a modern man looking aghast.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Confession: I’m history’s greatest monster who, when seeing the first section break in a non-fiction piece, immediately goes “okay; time to skip forward without reading this entire next passage until I see the next section break”.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I got so spoiled in 2022 - no one had any faith they’d make it in, so lots of tickets were for sale on phillies.com; I bought a standing ticket to NLDS Game 3 (Hoskins bat spike) for only $40, and a 200-level seat to NLCS game 3 for maybe $80.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I ate lunch there at least twice a week for the 7 years that my employer was located above the Chelsea Market before we relocated. Majorly bummed out.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Is there an equivalent to karaoke in any other art form or musical performance? Maybe an open-mic night with a guitar onstage and everyone taking turns trying to play a solo on it without knowing how to play at all?

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

William Safire smiles with approval (from hell).

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s so ugly- I love it. You sonofabitch, I’m in.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Three Days of the Condor is good.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have one use of LLMs in my life: once a year I use the one built into the Annual Performance Review system of my job to write my utterly meaningless self-evaluation. My career is siloed/ceilinged (tho still has a semi-sturdy floor) - for that one thing, I’ll let the robots pretend to care.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

For sure, though there was a big dollop of “what is this ‘tip’ you speak of, I know it not” feigned naivety baked into the mix as well. Though it varied by country; Germans tipped better than Brits, for example. Pre-travel googling “what is the tipping standard in [country]?” should be a given.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When I waited tables in Miami back in the day, a table of Europeans meant an automatic 18% tag added to the check just to protect the server.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My (admittedly hazy) recollection is that until the airline deregulation act in 1978, the domestic carriers all had near-identical prices on their routes, so they had to compete/differentiate on service.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Great-grandparents (next gen was too young): to avoid the other GGparent options of “gravedigger” or “ditch-digger/ice-block-deliveryman”, I’ll gladly go with “theater owner/bakery shop owner”, especially since the bakery meant being exempt from flour/sugar wartime rationing.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

They’re making food out of Bryce Harper. SOYLENT GREEN IS BRYCE HARPER! Baseball is something else, indeed.

Sponsored email ad featuring Bryce Harper of the Phillies for some dubious electrolyte drink powder, with the unsettling description of “electrolytes made with Bryce Harper”.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I feel like it’s at the Shasta cola level.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Folks, if you think The Odyssey was good, just wait until you experience its sequel.

A vintage Magnavox Odyssey 2 video game system.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

You will bear witness to Americana as players awkwardly hold lit sparklers and an old tape of Ray Charles is played over the Jumbotron and random kids ride Schwinns and Huffys on the outfield, and you will feel the nostalgia required. It’s not called the Wheel - it’s called the Carousel.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

That irritated feeling when the first spin lands on the Grizzlies, forcing an immediate waste of a team re-spin.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

“Speaking with Mitch McConnell” is about as conversational as when Weird Al talks with Mr. Frump.

youtu.be

Mr. Frump In the Iron Lung

YouTube video by Weird Al Yankovic - Topic

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A1 uses orange peels (or at least it used to when I was a kid) - must be a steak sauce thing.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Retire, you useless hack.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

My favorite description of it will always be from this newspaper listing.

The Wizard of Oz - Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Reddit is for squares. Everyone knows that the hippest screenwriters are swingin' on the flippity-flop at Yahoo! Answers, daddy-o.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Wash it down with a half-gallon of iced coffee concentrate.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I will say this: negative stories have been published there if something embarrassing/illegal happens - clubs have been annoyed by those things being on their home pages, but the league runs the sites and news is news. But yeah, no pieces that are self-critical on labor issues for sure.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Visual voicemail making my boomer dad sound like a disaffected sardonic Gen-Xer.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Was the visual order of the books purposeful - like, is it following a mixtape-cassette and/or multiple-quote-epigraph kind of thing?

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I can picture the terrible trailer with “I Feel Good” by James Brown as the soundtrack to it.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Love that! It was the first effect I learned to do with an Oxberry animation stand back in film undergrad a thousand years ago.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Which is still mildly better than when old people hoard their wealth and house and let their kids eat shit for 30 years instead.

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Changing payment timelines for articles/stories from “net-90” to “upon acceptance” through threats of savage beatings would transform publishing/journalism. Maybe he’s on to something?

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Can you see the tickets if you log into White Sox Account Manager? am.ticketmaster.com/whitesox/

am.ticketmaster.com

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Hamhock @hamhock.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I half-expect him to run for mayor of NYC in 2029 in the Cuomo lane, and get absolutely humiliated.

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