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As a lifelong Bengals fan, both these teams can rot in hell, but Watson somehow is making me want the Steelers to win. This hurts.

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 2h

He clearly needs a proper communications person but this is not terrible for someone doing it himself. Dudes, do better.

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Ray Thomas @raythomas.bsky.social · 3h

Incredible energy for this election campaign. Just absolutely smashing it.

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 10h

Now do this for soccer players trying in vain to call for VAR checks

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Marcy @deadheadgirly.bsky.social · 11h

I saw this yesterday and it stuck with me as I was planning to check out a record store I hadn't yet been to in the afternoon. I don't want to shit on what works for other people, but I was reminded how amazing it is to spend your money at places with people who love what they do.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14h

I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 30/09/2026

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 23h

Here's a moral argument for the college football crowd: if letting Trinidad play because the harm to him is too great, what the fuck do you think the state killing someone is?

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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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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

according to one of the reporters there as a witness she was still talking after the first dose and they had to bring the clergy back into the execution room before trying again

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there’s no reason for the death penalty to exist

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Imagine what the numbers would have looked like without hosting the World Cup

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is a vision of what the Real Electorate is in the minds of people like this that is mostly about their own experience of their long-ago childhood and is not troubled at all by reality, in which women in lower income households are overwhelmingly part of the workforce and long have been

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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Senate can pass a bill to regulate college sports, but they can't pass bills to lower the price of gas, groceries, or healthcare. They can't rein in Trump's thirst for war in Iran or trade wars with Canada, but they can tell college athletes how often they're allowed to transfer. Cool.

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Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A good preemptive reminder that, despite all the triumphant headlines you’ll see on Monday evening when the bill passes the Senate, no one knows if, how or when the House will vote on it.

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is both badass and a massive improvement over 99% of people singing the song. It's an extremely difficult song to sing well!

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

super cool that the entire us economy is tied to a bunch of companies that have less profitable business models than a cul-de-sac lemonade stand

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ooh I always like this one. Jesus never said “obey a nation’s laws.” Render unto Caesar was about paying your fucking taxes to avoid your family and neighbors being hassled by centurions.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What size slurpee do you want?

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My kid's school sent out this Spirit Week notification at 8:05 AM today. @actioncookbook.com has never told a lie

slightly cropped spirit week image:
- school initials cropped out of the top
- football on the left with "SPIRIT WEEK" in all caps in white text with a teal shadow on a black background with "20" and "26" in black text on off-white ovals in the bottom left and bottom right of the black header section
- next section has the same off-white background with 3 sections:
- 29 Tues in yellow text on a light blue background with "Dynamic Duo Day is a school spirit day when you and a friend dress up as an iconic pair, like Batman and Robin or peanut butter and jelly!" in off-black text
- 30 Wed in pink on a yellow background with "Country vs. Country Club is a spirit day when you pick a side - muddy boots & cowbells, or polos & visors. Dress the part, rep your team, and let the fun begin!" in the same off-black text
- 01 Thurs in black on a pink background with "Black and Pint Out Day is a spirit day when you wear pink and black, ALL DAY - shirts, shoes, even hair if you're bold. Wear it loud and proud, and beat the Jags! We wear *black* because it is an away game and *pink* in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month." in the same off-black text.

Cropped from the bottom was a QR code that allegedly links to costume ideas and a reminder that outfits have to be appropriate for school.

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please tell me someone got a video of the field judge falling flat on his ass in the #rams vs #broncos game

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If it's him or Newsom, Andy should win in a landslide

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The Rooster @rooster.info · 28/09/2026

Damn it’s that easy???

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“In 2025, Abigail Shrier was awarded the Real Clear Politics Samizdat Prize, alongside Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, and Jonathan Turley.” Lol

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Montgomery Biscuits? Forward Madison FC? Maryland Lacrosse?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Scott Hanson of RedZone talking about a man who sexually assaulted 28 women and might lead his team to a meaningless week 3 win: "Even with all the things swirling around in Deshaun Watsons back story, he can be a hero in this game"

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NGL when I first saw the typography, I thought this was going to be a Chuck Tingle joke

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lol same. I had never heard of thr song or the artist, and have no intention of hearing either. Gonna continue on my path of blissful ignorance.

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Michael Ray Surber of Killer Antz with a zed + Church Rat @surber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I believe collectively, if we start now, we can will USC to lose enough games that they wind up in the Holiday Bowl playing NC State and losing 16-10 on a last second failed safety attempt strip sack scoop and score. Start lighting candles if you can.

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can vouch for this: after I left for college, my parents ended up with a rescue blue tick mix then a blue tick/beagle mix, both of whom were expert couch hunters who routinely got their asses kicked by my sister's cat. Their current hound and something mix has to be held back from my kid because…

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Remember when Sony made great electronics?

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sex on the beach chickens? Nah, not quite Coastal breeze has to be something, right?

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A blue wave in the midterm elections won’t fix everything. Frankly, none of the immediate problems Americans face will be better immediately, because that isn’t how government works. And that’s all the more reason we need to push as many republicans out as possible now. (Thread)

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So what I'm hearing is you need to gang up on the Nazis _more_

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes the people in the NYT focus groups are always profoundly ignorant and aggressively incurious, but this definitely stood out to me. All of these people voted for Trump in 2024.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 24/09/2026

Heartened by this — I’m currently dealing with backlash from a huuuuge comics org that made a splashy anti-AI announcement last year but then did not live up to that announcement and got big mad that I called them out over it. (I’m giving them a chance to rethink their decision before naming ‘em)

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TRUMP’S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS “Was the bravest boy at the doctor and only cried twice” “Remembered to flush two hours later” “Didn’t throw dinner vegetables at Natalie” “Voted ‘Best Napper’ unanimously by every administration member”

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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Damn she look like Robert DeNiro

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026

Had this story in late May

Sources at meta are dunking on this and calling it a tamagotchi. It sounds like based on talking to sources that it could be a little ai companion you wear. I really hope they do this as it sounds so absolutely stupid, unbelievable

Jyoti mann quote tweet
Scoop: Meta plans to test an AI pendant next year as part of a broader wearable push, per an internal memo reviewed by The Information.

The first of 4 new smart glasses its releasing this year (code-named “Modelo") will launch as soon as next month.

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the same man who once said that the three branches of government are the Executive, House, and Senate.

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~Tilda is short for It's Decoratilda Gourd Season, Motherf***ers @hulcricket.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's very funny how Republicans in Virginia are attacking the marriage equality referendum on the ballot because it has the word "gender" in it and that makes it pro-trans. kinda gives away the whole game away that they're using trans people to oppose gay rights and women's rights.

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Drew @hopsandsmoke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

you want an issue that matters, couch fucker? how about fuel prices shooting through the damn roof because the man for whom you debased yourself to a level I didn't think possible decided to do a genocide

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Dan Lyons @danlyons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Very exciting stuff for more please repeatedly head to SI.com

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