knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Is this the first World Series sausage race? I think it is! 010 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Illinois going to the Final Four had me talking with relatives, getting mailed random shirts, people asking about Green Street nowadays. I think that without that type of investment the whole house of cards collapses and it looks like private equity 010 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026What was surprising to me about moving to a big city was just how little investment I felt in any of the teams around me. One of them won a national championship and I didn't even see enjoyment from that, just advertising years later about how to enroll 100 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026There are some legitimate applications that a mini-Watson could help me with at work. I'm not going to even look at it unless I know where it comes from and that it is natively run because the well has been so thoroughly poisoned 040 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I cosign this view: in theory, AI is nothing more than just the logical expansion of big data and machine learning and network theory that I was learning about in grad school 10 years ago. My question is who is hyping this and worshipping it, and why 140 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The reason that people like Illinois should not try to emulate Indiana no matter how much it breaks their brains is that, until proven otherwise, Indiana made the best head coaching hire of the past 25 years. It should be business books 50 years from now 050 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Baseball media is so amazing because the Dodgers required a line drive to go to a freak substititon last year to win the World Series and yet everyone still looks at them like the 1923 Yankees and the Monstars combined into one team 120 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I'm not saying that the "transplant" discourse isn't stupid and nativist and not worth anyone's time. I'm just saying that I understand where the impulse comes from when I drive by an In-n-Out with a 30 minute drive thru wait at 9 PM on a Tuesday in Lakewood, Colorado. 010 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026My "and then I put away my childish things" moment was admitting that Dr. Brown's Root Beer is the best root beer on the mass market. There's one grocery here that sells it and they have my sword 010 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"So you hate waffles?" was nine years ago. 2620 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If we need a day for an Italian American Hero, Yogi Berra's the man on The Hill AND he joined Athlete Ally in his 80's 010 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I think the thing for me is that some specific people who made sure to point out once every conversation that Twitter was The Bad Website are now longing for the days of the algorithm and people also scolding them but, like, edgily 000 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I genuinely wonder if it's because Keenum does not want to play any more than he has to--they've talked about how his role is more as a coach that also happens to have a jersey number 000 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026If you can answer: I am told there is a neat staircase there? How are the staircases? 100 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Well at least you have a good dairy store, which is more than I can say of Ann Arbor! 000 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Your cooperation is appreciated and you are a gentleman and a scholar, as far as I know. 100 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I'm not a photoshop guy but if you want to put Berts head onto Tom Wilkinson holding a bunch of baguettes you can have that one for free 110 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026From Lincoln! Don't have the sound on but I wouldn't be shocked if they played Bright Eyes too at some point in the year 110 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I have learned over the years that a lot of people are just bad at letting you know when they're thinking of you. "It's been forever, what happened?" "You stopped texting." "...oh! Guess I do that sometimes!" 020 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"Make Everything The Playoffs: A Seven Point Proposal By Rob Manfred" 000 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The logline for the 2004 election was "giant douche vs. turd sandwich". A lot of people thought Bush's team were a bunch of slimeballs but they hated Kerry more 000 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If you get the chance, John, let him know I'm rooting for him. 000 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That people are functionally illiterate because they were trained to do this in reading instead of actually doing the work to understand what is being said and the context in which it is being said. Long story. 020 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What good is social media if it doesn't have a "teach tape" functionality? 080 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I graduated as a music major and the singular focus on practice as a way to allow for creativity is actually one of the main ways musicians and athletes can relate to one another. If anything, that shared value is a prime example of why we should fund bands and orchestras like we do teams 090 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ballet is absolutely more competitive than any organized sport and any ballerina who has been training since they were 5 will tell you that. Just because it doesn't have to be scored doesn't mean there isn't a game being played 1140 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My math teacher had this same issue but with permutations/combinations and the lock on the suitcase in Pulp Fiction 010 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I wonder if the national ads on football games are having a reverse effect. Like, normies thinking "why is Ted Cruz talking about PRONOUNS during my Bears game that is not broadcasting anywhere in Texas?" Being annoying in America is a worse sin than being evil 230 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Eventually I find the friends who are willing to do likewise, and it works itself out. But it is a process of trial and error, for sure, and I hope that yours is as painless as can be 000 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I have learned the hard way that, when I befriend someone, I have to show this to them. "Goddamn you wrote an essay to me" my essays aren't 500 words long they're 5000, this is me trying to keep a lid on it, nothing else has worked 110 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Lemme know if you want me to venmo you a drink of your choosing! 000 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 05/10/20262) I have decided that my last meal will be an al pastor burrito and orange Krush from this food truck. It is absolutely heavenly. They have kosher breakfast burrito options too! 000 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Two things: 1) one of the perks of marrying into a Hawaiian family is that sometimes I end up with a ton of homemade sushi for lunch. Spam too, if she's really feeling it 100 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Then again, better to think you're a burden when you're not than think you're not a burden when you are. Might as well call that the Neurotic Prayer 010 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think for me whenever people dump their bile and cynicism on me it's easy for me to go "goddamn maybe I should send a burrito over their way" and whenever I reciprocate I feel like an incubus sucking people's joy and life force from them 110 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm now convinced that USC not doing this to Lane Kiffin in Tempe is a damning indictment of their lack of will to win, because that was the closest I ever thought we'd get to this in college football. 020 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Horseradish salsa: you'd think not, but actually! 000 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Bluesky is an echo chamber and the echo chamber is "Row your boat" 0171 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026At Northwestern, Wharfie Time is every time! Hi I'm Bret Bielema 000 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I mean, what I will say is I would rather listen to "eeeeeugh I dunno Jim" on an 8 minute loop remixed by The Orb than listen to 50 seconds of whatever the commentary was last night 020 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A Serbian Film and Human Centipede in back to back years was my first inking that this edgelord shit was starting to get old. 020 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Rule 7, Section 3, Article 4 for anyone curious! They did not make that easily searchable! 140 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My belief was that they were SOLELY referring to former Dartmouth player Ben Rice, but still, I winced when I heard it. 120 0
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Reminds me of yesterday either Jason Benetti or Matt Vasgergian saying something along the lines of "crazy week for the Ivy League huh!" 110 0