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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Point absolutely taken, understood. I certainly didn't intend to diminish the role of the production crew (et al.) but will be more mindful going forward. Best of luck against Tech tonight! I'm curious to see how it goes

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Not giving McDonough enough credit. I wouldn't put it past him doing it on his own.

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@sickoscommittee.org Can we get some recognition for Daniel Sparks in the NCST-UVA game please?

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It was the winner of one of those "pick a song to play in the second half" votes. None of the options were good.

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Call Me The Brie-ze @briesmith.xyz · 12/02/2026

Folks, I know this isn't going to be a popular sentiment on this website, but I'm gonna say it: churches are not your enemies here. Reddit atheism and Republicans have made you skeptical, I get it, but there are churches out there talking the talk and walking the walk.

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My trips are almost entirely south of the Northeast Corridor (mostly ATL-CVS), so I wouldn't know myself, but I wouldn't be surprised if security was occasionally more stringent at NYP or WAS. Still, it certainly isn't a common occurrence. And it definitely doesn't happen on any non-Amtrak trains!

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Conservative talk is popular because radio's demographics mean that folks with conservative leanings tend to be overrepresented in radio listenership. The format has pushed extremist views largely because airing those views are good for ratings.

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Even if we're talking about terrestrial radio only and ignoring the new competitors, conservative talk is rarely your only option on the dial. It might be your only *political talk* option, but you'll usually have a combination of music, sports talk, Christian, public radio, and/or news available.

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I have relatives in the radio industry and I'm familiar with how it operates. Consrv. talk is among the more successful formats out there even in highly competitive markets. Also, as everyone in radio is well aware, radio no longer has a monopoly anywhere due to streaming, podcasts, and satellite.

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I regularly make overnight trips on the Crescent (well over 25 trips in the past year) and have never once been asked for ID or seen anyone else be asked for their ID. Just not a thing that happens at all.

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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

An interview with a man who does not board trains.

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

From what I can tell, KTLK no longer broadcasts Vikings or Gopher football. The only sports broadcasts there are Gopher hockey. Most sports broadcasts are on KFXN (both owned by iHeart). Also, conservative talk is still quite viable as a format (on the AM band, at least), even without live sports.

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Bands are just not hot like this anymore...

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, both of Steely Dan fame, giving smoldering looks to the camera. Becker has his signature long, somewhat unkempt hair with a mustache and soul patch. Fagen has something kind of like a mullet and is wearing a pair of aviator-ish sunglasses. Both look very awkward (as they should)

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

That's a shitload of container on flatcar. Wow

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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off

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David Chen @davechen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Watching the Bad Bunny halftime show & I still can’t believe the Left got football in the cultural divorce. It was a lovely vision of the country where our differences and diversity are celebrated. Flip the channel and you can see footage of different people being crushed and suppressed. America!

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Alt+0151 is pretty easy, imo (Or alt+0150 for an en dash)

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Today is the 52nd anniversary of the release of "Blazing Saddles," the plot of which involves business and political interests leveraging ordinary people's bigotry in an effort to obtain power and financial gain. People like to say that that movie couldn't be made today. Shit, we're living it.

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Jerry Falwell Jr (not a pastor, just the former head of Liberty University) is the (alleged) coke fiend with an interest in being cuckolded. Jerry Falwell Sr (the pastor who founded Liberty University) wasn't into all that (afaik), but was an ultra-wealthy megachurch pastor with un-Christian views.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I get this, but here's where I'm at: Trump & Vance are the worst of us. America is bigger than them, and they win if we let them define us. Team USA is the best of us. It's filled with Americans MAGA hates—first-generation + immigrants, LGBTQ+ athletes, people of color—& I'm gonna root for them.

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/02/2026

An account you control, @PagliacciDaClown, has been suspended for the following post: "Who up doing clown shit, lmao? I'm thinking about ending my own life." Our moderation policies aim to encourage healthy discourse. For an example of a user we think exemplifies this spirit, see @PagliacciDaClown

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Even within a denomination, it very much depends on who you ask

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Samuel Johnson once wrote "that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon" and I think the same can be said of any American whose heart does not swell at least a little at the words of the New Colossus inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.

Text of The New Colossus. It reads, "Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Also, turns out that he's on this platform too (although the account is pretty inactive)! @jamesmcmurtry.bsky.social

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TLC @tarantical.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

More relevant and important political/protest songs for the crowd that insists artists aren't meeting the moment. This first one from James McMurtry is maybe the best song released in 2025. youtu.be/yAo6FR2f97M?...

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James McMurtry with Betty Soo ‘Sons of the Second Sons’ 09/12/2024

YouTube video by Jeff Rey

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I'd buy it. Someone start selling!

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This one has been making me laugh for hours

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

When you do observer training, they make clear that your role is to observe, alert, and DEESCALATE. Because escalating against ICE does ICE’s job for them. Thrill seekers looking for a riot create the opposite of what the successful mass movement of observers seeks to provide: safety, awareness.

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

So, basically, this table is pulling predictions from multiple different models, and current conditions make prediction difficult, so the predictions from the different models differ significantly in a way that makes it look self-contradictory. Right? If so, that makes sense! Thanks for the answer!

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ceej @ceej.online · 23/01/2026

participating in the general strike by being kind of shit at my job

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Hey, weather folks (@brobroma.bsky.social?), quick question This is the NWS's current probabilistic snow forecast (Baltimore/Washington office). Why, for Charlottesville, does it show the expected snowfall amount as 9" but only a 35% chance of 8" or more of snow? Is "expected" not a median?

NWS Snowfall Totals by Location table screenshot, highlighting Charlottesville, VA

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Vineyard Dawg @vineyarddawg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Y'all, he's our boy. We knew he had it in him.

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Équipe Radar Love @midnightdorifto.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

for @amandamull.bsky.social and Bulldogs who have to go to work tomorrow

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Miami lost three games this season and their last offensive play of each one of them was a Carson Beck interception

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

It’s sort of insane how pervasive the framing that multiculturalism is some weird liberal experiment has become. It’s the default state of what happens when people have easy movement and aren’t actively being told to hate each other. You can prove it by going outside in almost any city.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 16/01/2026

“Oughtposting vs isposting” is immediately load bearing for me

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Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I have a theory that the general epistemic crisis has led to a lot of very online people getting used to communicating primarily through oughtposting and kind of forgetting how to deal with isposting

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

(PCA, of course. PCUSA would be a bridge too far)

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I believe aliens visited New York City in 1900 to build the subway. Proof: a subway was built in New York and New Yorkers have not really been able to build one in the last 85 years.

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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Whoever made this 🫡

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The supplanted of 69 by 67 as the funny number is an indication of Gen Z's absence of erotic desire. In this essay I will

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John Carolin @johncarolin.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Where the Dirty Birds kick for threeeee?

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