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JRoth

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"The patriarchy hurts men too, but not enough of them if you ask me." Architect. He/him. 🌩️👀 A85tO8wdT1JD

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4h
it’s not the key point but it’s worth saying that if you make a point of shedding the cultural associations there is actually nothing less cool than a frat boy. jumped up little pipsqueak wearing his fruity lil easter colors leaking piss beer out of every orifice. an embarrassment of a human being
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nanzhounoodles.bsky.social @nanzhounoodles.bsky.social · 16h
YOU hate Nader for throwing the 2000 election. I hate Nader for ushering in the era of Consumer as a primary political identity, touting the tort system as an alternative to normal democratic deliberation, and making things generally work worse in the USA.
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 15h
This is kind of obviously true. Like, “if only Trump hadn’t” posts are like talking about how things could’ve been fine if Calvin hadn’t run along tossing his dad’s binoculars in the air. Thats what Calvin does, that’s what Trump does: fuck shit up.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 21h
FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 15h
“Stumbling stones” in Arlington, Va., show the names of enslaved people on the sidewalks in front of where they were enslaved. The idea came from a similar project in Germany where small plaques were placed in front of the homes of those murdered in the Holocaust enslavedarl.org/s/memorializ...
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 22h
The Braves’ postseason motto is #LetItFly Apparently, the elements are on board with that: Austin Riley’s home run was wind-aided per @weatherapplied.com It was blown out +3 feet. Calm conditions ball hits a foot below the top of the fence.
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 22h
This game is incredible.
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Ryan L(unch)P(osting) @rlnotstine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/rlno... in every city, the question is the same: can the mayor control the police
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a core to an alt history here, but I can't figure its direction. I mean, the punchline is Moses as dictator of the US, but I don't think that's it.
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We must imagine this guy happy.
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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I get the same questions all the time. People ask me how I would deal with the Joker and the Penguin and the Riddler and their murderous thugs. I don't answer those questions any more.
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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A lot of ostensibly smart people talked themselves into thinking a 5 C shift would destroy the world, and now that the shift is more like 2 C they can't adjust. It's like the "bioweapons will end humanity" panic in the 1990s, nuclear winter in the 1980s, or "overpopulation" in the 1970s.
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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jokes aside, the "going into the trades pays off" discourse, which represents a common view, is I think an example of people largely getting magnitudes wrong (about distributions and lifecycle earnings)!
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Lewie Pollis @lewispoll.is · 28/09/2026
...and here is your reminder that letting the starter pitch deep into a game (or at least deeper than most modern managers' leashes) is not just more aesthetically satisfying, but also smart strategy. There is tangible, quantifiable value in minimizing the number of ours your bullpen has to cover!
thelewsletter.lewispoll.is
The Case for Leaving the Starter In
Quantifying the hidden costs of bullpen overexposure
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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump's emotional need for obsequious flattery is deeply unamerican and a true mark of shame that should haunt anyone who engaged in it.
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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I found Beatlemania bewildering until I watched some full episodes of Ed Sullivan, not just their performances. It's mostly mind-numbing! And prime time TV was not a whole lot edgier or more youth-oriented when I was a kid in the 80s.
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Pittsburgh graffiti @pghgraffiti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think the most incredible part of PCA's season is that through 50 games: he was hitting all of .225/.302/.357 with 5 HR.
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My own personal context on this is that both of my parents liked them, but were adults when they went on Sullivan. My mom liked the early stuff, but her musical history was listening to Alan Freed on late night radio when she was 11 or 12, long before rock hit big: her cred was infinite.
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible pun work at the old ballgame.
Jumbotron at PNC Park. A stat about Spencer Horwitz is headlined “Clutch Spence All the Richer.”

This is an extremely stretched Sixpence None The Richer pun.
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Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tone policing used to mean, "You aren't automatically right just because you stayed calm, and it's justified for marginalized people to be upset over their oppression." Now it means, "I can say whatever horrible shit I want, and if you object, you're oppressing me."
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't think this is true at all, but the *way* it's untrue is interesting. He campaigned on stopping immigration, lowering crime, cutting taxes, shrinking government, turbocharging the economy, & making peace abroad. He can offer arguments for all but the last. It's just that no one gives a shit.
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was talking about this recently with an ex-congressman (an old timer from the 80s and 90s) and one of the remarkable things about this cycle is that trump has given his party absolutely nothing to run on. no bill to tout, no accomplishment to hype, no nothing
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh wow, the guy whose signature legislative accomplishments are naming post offices has written a dogshit AI regulaction bill that would allow a Republican-appointed cabinet member to issue charters like it’s the 14th fucking century and AI is a river ferry.
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My beloved 20-yo Felt F90 died today (cracked rear dropout). Guys at the bike shop were describing how fucked the market is rn bc of the stupid fucking tariffs.
Man in cold weather gear climbing a hill on a red road bike with yellow bar tape and bluewall tires. It's fall.

Also, the photo isn't level, so the road appears flatter than it is. Actual grade is over 20%.
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John W. Tomac @johnwtomac.com · 23/09/2026
The closest approximation we have to the world of driverless cars is the school drop-off line. Thats a miserable experience for everyone, even in Brooklyn where 90% of students walk, bike or take the bus or train.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My reaction to this was “huh, doesn’t sound like Duckworth.” So I watched it. She’s talking about tariffs & funding USAID & farm bankruptcies & it’s obvious that the “save face” bit was acknowledging these things will change only if Trump agrees & you get him to do that by letting him think he won/1
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We don't know a lot for sure. But it's at least consistent with a story that he's systematically alienating people/groups more or less permanently. rather than people moving in and out of liking him depending on recent news. We'll see.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Amazing bit no idea if it's actually effective, maybe good for raising money?
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
the greatest lesson of my political life was watching Rob Ford accrue power in Toronto because, i shit you not, when he was a city councillor you could call up his office about whatever small issues (potholes, permitting, etc) and he'd actually help you out
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Jacques Nacouzi @jacouzi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes you can check locomotion.app page for detailed information. The beauty Locomotion is that it run solely by the community. This is a very "Montreal" mindset. Here are some custom made trailers.
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'll admit that this opens up to me a new option for that poll that would definitely do better than assassination on stage.
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Maine subreddit having more of a "all politicians are like that" reaction to the Susan Collins story is why Platner style politics really isn't healthy for a democratic society.
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Baseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
25 Years Ago Today: In the first post-9/11 game in NYC, Mike Piazza hits a dramatic 8th inning HR to help lead the New York #Mets to a 3-2 victory over the Atlanta #Braves at Shea Stadium! (September 21, 2001) #MLB #Baseball #History #LGM
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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If @science.org is covering it, I guess I should share something here- we have for the first time definitively detected radio emission from a planet around another star! 🔭🧪🎢 What does this mean? Details in thread! (But TL;DR- still not aliens) 🧵 www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...
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First radio waves seen from an exoplanet hint at otherworldly auroras
The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth’s.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Super valuable lessons. I also wasn’t academically challenged, any more than NHJ’s daughter was. I still firmly believe, as an educator, that the social education of the elementary years is FAR more important. And the social education most “good” US elementary schools impart is toxic
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Asymptotically approaching 27%
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the things MSM has been incredibly bad at in the 30+ year Gingrich Era has been being prepared to respond to facially bad faith talking points. Rs have gotten a ton of mileage from lockstep repetition of sounds-good attack lines that only work because reporters let them slide.
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Winterink @winterink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Basically every single pedagogical debate is like this: “Let’s move away from phonics, multiplication tables and testing because they leave kids behind” “Aren’t those the only things that work” “Yes” “And won’t it be less equitable in the end because rich parents can pay for tutors” “Also yes”
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
& our more recent Black Death research shows that peasant empowerment only happened in very limited areas where policy enabled it; elsewhere elites used the disruption 2 strip workers’ rights more, creating the 1st debtors’ prisons. But only the outdated “mass death => wealth” version gets quoted 🤨😔
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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 20/09/2026
(this might sound like a joke, but it definitely is not; asymptotic human driving--we used to describe it as a five-star rideshare driver after a good night's sleep at the start of their shift--is VASTLY better than autonomous driving, still)
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Incredible that "Sergeant Pepper" has two different songs appropriate for this moment.
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I can't finish "Death By Lightning" bc watching the dipshit doctor torture Garfield to death is just too awful.
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Baseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Z --- RING!! --- CLOMP!!" --- "How do you set the alarm for a fly ball?" ~ Charlie Brown (Classic Peanuts - 1974) #MLB #Baseball #Motivation
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Paul's genuinely an odd bird: some of the fights he picks suggest he'd occupy a space in the caucus similar to Baucus or some other the other PITAs in Obama's supermajority, but most of the time he's content to be more like Collins—lots of talk, precious little action.
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it's amazing how few crumbs you have to give prestige media to keep them on your side
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I agree that the Ossoff Admin jailing uday and qusay won't and shouldn't be enough to just make everything go back to 'normal,' but I'd argue that's a more likely outcome at this point than "dems win and just try to go back to 2015"
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Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gonna do a little thread here jumping off this post because I think what's been happening underneath the hood is really interesting. First is that Texas has gotten much more Dem since 2012 relative to the country, but gave back some of that change in 2024.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's kind of hilarious looking at Wrangler's website, because they really obviously know based on models and styling that their market is split between (mostly white) influencer wannabes who go to Stagecoach every year, and their core market of actually for real country folk regardless of ethnicity.
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Wrangler® | Official Site | Jeans and Apparel Since 1947
Since 1947, Wrangler has been the genuine source for comfortable jeans and western apparel. Explore our extensive collections of western clothing, including Wrangler jeans, jackets and other western w...
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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the opposite of what pound-for-pound means. The US is at least 200k times the size of al Qaeda at its biggest. The US would have to have killed 600M ppl and terrorized literally every human alive to match AQ "pound-for-pound." Dumb guy with good hair.
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m not saying “don’t grow or eat organic.” I’m saying it’s not a climate solution. It does other things! But not that thing.
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