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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not that the Imperium from 40k is a model civilization but calling AI “abominable intelligence” kind of nailed it

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

every comment section needs at least one guy just fucking losing it for no reason

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is about the Red Sox collapsing in the wild card round, clearly

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Nicolas Dream, PhD @afraidofwasps.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Work Bully: How coms't thou hither? A worm? (New girl blushes and turns away) Bully's Henchman: You pebble! You stone! (Cronies laugh) Me: (bravely standing) Let her alone.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

love to watch my team play football, but first, here are four political ads in a row against candidates in a state I don't live in.

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardoned be, Let your indulgence fucking set me free.

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

re: best 21st century TV chat, this single scene from Deadwood would place the show in the Top 10 on its own (and it has like twenty scenes just as good)

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Compassion & Friendship in Deadwood

YouTube video by Max Brazil

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just hour after hour of him doing this so hard that he breaks his jaw

Nathan Fielder reacting to Elizabeth Holmes

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dorothy: Uh, tell me, Rose, um... Ah-ha ha ha!... Did they ever shoot a herring out of a cannon? Rose: Only once. But they shot him into a tree. After that no other herring would do it.

"The Great Herring War" joke from "The Golden Girls"

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this is a good point and like ... in order for the paperclips thing to happen, AI would need to be way, way, way better than it is right now

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a random outfit Emily gives you at the Desert Fair in Stardew Valley that you immediately change out of

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Everyone was convinced this guy threw a “gyroball,” a magic unhittable pitch. Didn’t exist — probably a reverse slider. He was very good (but frustrating to watch — seemed to take every at-bat to a full count) for two years, injured himself in the WBC and never really recovered

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“You and he were … buddies, weren’t you?”

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I used to moderate Barry’s chats with fans on the old ESPN SportsNation site. Always a gentleman, and sometimes his wife would call him in from mowing the lawn to get on the phone and talk. A real dude

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Vote for me and together we’ll hit a [weak grounder to first that Dave Kingman could field without a glove]”

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

my literal first thought was "wow, the actress playing Holmes is doing a really mean impersonation" before the horror set in.

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 06/09/2026

i flash the sign of the forbidden pitch. the pitcher’s face pales as he tries to shake it off but my hand remains cement still. he shakes again and i can see him looking at the children in the crowd. everyone has to grow up sometime. we’ll walk through those prison gates as world series champions

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The overlap for this thing I found is probably not significant but I’m cackling

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

HBO just released a new trailer for counting to 100. I know I'm supposed to have outgrown it, but it feels so magical to see all my old friends again: 7, 20, 5, and this time they even managed to include 22.

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.

The Emperor and Primarchs from Warhammer 40k, by Miguel Iglesias

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

a lot of these types around and yet none of them wrote "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" on the same night

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Did a historical fencing presentation and there was a local artist in the audience (Richard Pepp) sketching and folks, he got me dead-on

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

DANA: "Dr. Robby, The Earth's core has ruptured and lava is rushing to the surface. This is the end." ROBBY [grimacing]: "OK people, expect smoke inhalation, burns --" [lava erupts through the floor, vaporizing WHITAKER. A fire alarm blares] ROBBY [grimace deepens]: "Will someone turn that off?"

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The Pitt Season 3 | Official Teaser | HBO Max

YouTube video by HBO Max

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Reacher and Everett True are spiritually identical

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 30/04/2023

It's 1925. I'm leanin' against this lamppost on the lookout for dames who are lookin for trouble. I start flipping a quarter. I catch her eye. I fumble the quarter and it rolls into a sewer grate. I have lost the equivalent of thirty thousand dollars.

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

someone is going to try to harm this cat and will experience death by Getting Punched In The Skull Two Hundred Times By Reacher's Turkey-Sized Fists

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'll be teaching the longsword portion of this -- if you're in the Boston area and you wanna learn how to survive a duel, come through!

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Fiore dei Liberi's fencing manual "The Flower of Battle" includes a section where he goes "noble lord you are very honorable and would never do anything underhanded. by the way here is the exact recipe for blinding powder and how to put it in the head of your poleaxe. Just FYI wink wink"

Fiore instructing readers how to commit war crimes

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Russ played basketball like he was throwing himself on a wall of spears to try to get to one guy. One of the league's most entertaining players.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

kicking back some beers with the boys, trying to think of an obscure name to rattle off: hey do you guys remember god

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

an all-time line delivery. right up there with anything Dench or Hopkins have ever done

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is as wrong as you can possibly be. Aaron might be the most *underrated* baseball player ever (The correct answer for the most overrated player is Derek Jeter)

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Happy International Cat Day, Boudica.

"The kitten has a luxurious, Bohemian, unpuritanical nature. It eats six meals a day, plays furiously with a toy mouse and a piece of rope, and suddenly falls into a deep sleep whenever the fit takes it. It never feels the necessity to do anything to justify its existence; it does not want to be a Good Citizen; it has never heard of Service. It knows that it is beautiful and delightful, and it considers that a sufficient contribution to the general good. And in return for its beauty and charm it expects fish, meat, and vegetables, a comfortable bed, a chair by the grate fire, and endless petting."

Boudica, the finest of all possible cats

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Is Peyton Tolle spiritually Greg Maddux? Many people are saying this

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The thing about this Red Sox team (and this wasn't true in April) is that they make you put them down over and over again like Rasputin if you wanna beat them. And then sometimes they end up winning anyway!

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

my wife and I bought a Subaru (great car) earlier this year and I felt like I needed to shower after leaving most of the dealerships. One of them straight-up *would not let us pay cash* for a car -- financing only. We finally bought one from the first guy who was like, an actual normal salesman

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

was reading a summary of a Ray Bradbury story about an evil baby and come on now Ray

"The doctor considers whether David might have turned on the gas himself, but then reasons that he couldn't have done so; he would have been knocked out by the sleeping pills. It couldn't have been suicide. He goes to the nursery only to find the door closed and the crib empty. Somehow, he reasons, the child must have crawled out of his crib and opened the gas jet, but then the door closed, trapping him outside the nursery. For this reason, Dr. Jeffers realizes David's suspicions were correct - the baby, named Lucifer by David, truly is a murderer."

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Joe DeMartino @jdemartino.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I am thankfully off dating apps (although I did meet my wife on one) but my recollection is a steady decline in their usefulness from the time I started in '11 to the time I logged off in '23. OKCupid in particular: you could meet so many cool people there until they turned it into Tinder But Worse

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Dating app burnout has a cure: Learn to salsa or chase a chicken suit | CNN

The pitfalls of gamified dating apps are more reviled than ever: the ghosting, the overly curated profiles, being left feeling disposable and the endless added costs for features that fail to deliver.

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