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true fact: Badger Maggie Scannell is using Duolingo to learn Czech because she plays on the same line with Nela Lopušanová and Adéla Šapovalivová

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

clash of the titans tonight: Wisconsin vs Ohio State women's hockey the teams have met in the last 4 national championship games as it is written in October, so let it be done in March

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

at any given moment in a classroom of 25 students, at least two will want to go to the restroom ask me how i know

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i read today that the day after the 1968 presidential election journalist Murray Kempton wrote a column in which he said, "Richard Nixon is the president of every city without a book store" boy howdy i had to sit with that for a bit

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

in my classroom this morning i am confronted with this object, a vertical mouse it is an abomination and should be yeeted into the sun with extreme prejudice

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it's 325AM, i have to teach later this morning, and yet i am on my phone reading 27B/6, which is one of the funniest sites i've ever read and i'm not joking

27bslash6.com

Permission Slip

"Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have a sword fight."

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i have just discovered that i got one of those $90 payments TFG is sending to Medicare recipients think i'm gonna buy $90 worth of beer with it you stay healthy your way and i'll do it my way

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it is worth noting that TFG's order regarding the Gulf of Mexico has the same force in law as an order mandating that 2+2=5 "gosh, aren't the emperor's new clothes just lovely?"

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i am not a fan of Elvis Costello, but his responses to this are very good: when asked a question he finds stupid or silly, he gives either an appropriately snide answer or no answer at all also: the Magnificent W-O-O-O

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

today i subbed in a suburban high school PoliSci class that included three or four 16-year-old Trumpers it was fking grim, man

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i'm real old and i've been watching sports for a long time and i can tell you that some teams are sprinkled with fairy dust you have to be talented to win but that magic can be the difference between good and great, and between great and legendary

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

/lights cigarette, looks off into the distance, inhales deeply, exhales slowly/

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fox is showing drag racing after football today and not the Brewers playoff game because drag racing is the real national pastime i guess

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

watching a Mannix episode from January 1973 with a scene in a record store singles visible in a rack behind the clerk include Listen to the Music, Nights in White Satin, Everybody Plays the Fool Speak to the Sky, Popcorn, I Gotcha, Joy to the World, and American Pie

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

we watched all of the women's hockey game and one period of the men's game last night and both broadcasts were *dreadful* utterly clueless announcers, few replays, cameras that weren't properly calibrated twas a real embarrassment for a school as big and wealthy as Wisconsin

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

verify your age my first radio had tubes

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

final: Wisconsin 7, Boston U 0 defending champs still good

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

starting our 20th year as Wisconsin women's hockey season ticket holders we are at the rink to raise the 2026 national championship banner against the Boston U Terriers she's a beauty

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

any ideas on how to get through the day, sweetie?

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

taught five sections of middle schoolers today the whiskey i am drinking now is entirely medicinal for my throat pinky swear

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this is your occasional reminder that i have an undying white-hot hatred for the NBC Sunday Night Football song

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i am surely not the first person to notice this but WHY the FUCK is the US government paying for Trump ads

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

or as it is also known, Bluesky

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

there was not a single moment i believed Wisconsin would win today until there was 0:00 left on the clock nevertheless

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wisconsin football has begun Wisconsining

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

today's Mannix episode is a parade of familiar 70s faces: John Hillerman, Murray Matheson (playing a gazillionaire named Snowy Bartlett), Cesare Danova, Christine Belford, various 70s dudes with impressive facial hair, and Tina Sinatra as The Girl Who Starts the Trouble

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

today is Julie London's 100th birthday

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Miles looking like "what's the deal with this sax-tootin' MFer?"

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

approximate time until i can have a beer: 45 minutes

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i am helping to educate the youth of America today (sorry, youth; sorry, America) approximate time until I can have a beer: 3 hours, 45 minutes

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Borderblaster1570 @bradlovett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"But my FHA mortgage isn't socialism!"

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

yard sign in prosperous Madison suburb: "keep Wisconsin from becoming a Democratic Socialist state, vote Republican this year" i wonder if the homeowner can accurately define any of those terms, including "Republican"

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

not sure Micah Parsons will make much difference when he comes back unless he can block

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

butt no longer adequately descriptive now activating ass protocol

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"give me a Coors Light, and i don't need a glass"

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

roses are red we're all under stress

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i get why people and groups use FB and insta for promotion but every time i go on those sites everything looks so random that i wonder whether dropping leaflets out of a plane might be just as effective

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jb @jabartlett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

if i ever go back into radio i'm gonna call myself Cat's Ass Almont, although Waxy Tom Nerf is a close second

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