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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 7h

As should we all. He’s a mensch.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 9h

god i am so stressed i need this man to be okay, he hasn't been around long enough to have a solid understudy lined up yet and i do not want to lose this momentum we need like thirty years of this guy to really clean house all the way

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/10/2026

The solution to the male reading crisis is the same as its always been: Mad Magazine

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Can we all stipulate that anyone who thought Kimberly Guilfoyle would be a good spouse lacks the judgment to credibly run for president in 2028?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In that situation now with Sheila (well, no hills; mostly hoisting her in and out of cars). But I know she would do the same for me.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Never let up. On this issue, there can be no appeasement.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Y'all denied her tenure

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mine went so well that, when it was over, the gastroenterologist happily handed me a business card for his winery.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/10/2026

me: I dunno, I still like the guys on the team but I'm sympathetic to the argument seeing the Dodgers win in the playoffs every year is boring (braves fans start doing the chop) me: General McPherson I summon and bind thee to these boys' bats. Claim your vengeance

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

with each passing day it feels more surreal to be an independent journalist. like playing with a toy train while vanderbilt owns the railways.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Even more fun if the White Sox win, then visit the Vatican instead of the White House.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The price of gas is now what used to be the amount you'd pay if you forgot to fill the rental car up before returning it.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh please no. No homers through metrics. Flukes are the heart of baseball. Let them breathe.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As part of my first newspaper job, I would cull the letters to the editor. My god. It was then that my faith in humanity began to ebb.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

During night games, Justin Turner would run his fingers along the cushion on the dugout railing. If his fingers came off it wet, he wouldn’t try for a homer.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That was a damn long lede but I enjoyed the ride, by god.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Came across a pair having a dinner date on my patio. It was … well, I’m just glad that’s not one of our dating rituals.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time a left-handed person sees an actor on TV or in a movie writing with their left hand

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Leonardo DiCaprio Points: 'Yes, That's It!'

ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio Points: 'Yes, That's It!'

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My real success as a literary agent comes with how many books I do with a map in the front.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One reason to learn about things outside your major is so that you have something to talk about with people at parties and on dates. No amount of money will make up for you being a crushing bore. History majors learn this early but I guess it takes other people longer.

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Laura Collins-Hughes @collinshughes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At least five people in this A train car are reading physical books. 🩷

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day. Today we celebrate the life of a man who saved billions by not believing a computer. May we all learn this valuable lesson.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nixon did this. But he didn’t tell the whole world about it.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did not know there was such a thing as a neck beard and now I am the worse for it.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Am I the only person who thinks of “Animal House” when seeing this?

Knowledge is Power, a quote from Francis Bacon, written above the entrance of a high school building.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just don’t do it. Believe me. Don’t.

Aging rider steers unicycle off bike path, face plants into sand.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Now if you can make close shut with a soft “bam” as the air fills with the aroma of a newly mown lawn.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of the few companies whose logo I would wear.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

After you answer his questions, can you have him explain it to us?

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Someday, maybe soon, during the Great Reckoning: Random person: You think I … Heck no, I never supported those crazies. Me: OK. Tell me a joke.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Regardless of the motivation, an excellent choice.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me on election night if this happens.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wait, why isn’t that happening now?

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was present, years ago, when a copy editor, a former staffer at an adult magazine, noted to her colleagues that the word is “bestiality,” not “beastiality.” I do wish those posting about Kash Patel’s testimony today could have been there with me for that memorable moment in copy-editing history.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Read this with a slight shiver. For years, Californians thought of lovely, warm, blue-sky’d days in late autumn or winter as earthquake weather.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Stories about earthquakes and other disasters share this quality. But the accounts of those who actually emerged from the rubble are a HUGE exception.

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bayeux Tapestry good but massively upstaged by seeing a cat in a ruff right before

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Tom Clancy never worried about this.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s hard to take the Maw of Hell seriously when the first thing it swallows is a porta-pottie.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

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Jim LaVally @jimlavally.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“While in the Mid-City area, visitors to The Angels should take in TACMA and The Tar Tar Pits.”

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