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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I feel this is extremely accurate to my experience as a Canes fan. Montreal’s unpredictable offensive approach plus ridiculous goaltending bugs me way more than just about any other team. Anaheim would be similar if they could defend at all since they can similarly generate these lucky chances
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
What an absurd question. This one isn’t even hard, and it so clearly starts with “stop paying them to be professional terrorists under the protection of the federal government.”
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
@canesprospects.com sick primary assist from Avramov today
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Who challenges a preseason goal??? (I know, it’s Maurice, again). Anyway, I had fun with that one, even with the OT loss. Canes prospects did well. Nadeau is really pushing for a spot!
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Canes Prospects @canesprospects.com · 13/04/2025
A beautiful tip from Bradly Nadeau!! With this goal, Nadeau becomes the first U20 player with 30 or more goals since 2006!
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Luke DeCock @lukedecock.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Another assist last night, now on an eight-game point streak. (Probably going to be difficult to keep up a 143-point pace though.) Svechnikov’s point streak is at seven games, and he’s on a 34-goal pace, much closer to what they need from him. Due for a multi-goal game somewhere on this road trip.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/11/2024
i think that the people interested in recriminations and score settling right now aren’t seriously grappling with the magnitude of what happened and the implications for the rest of our lives. most of us will probably die living in the political order that will emerge out of this election.
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I really wanted to believe that the message of hate the Trump campaign was blasting out wall to wall was going to turn people off. Clearly this country just sucks.
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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.mov · 02/11/2024
The Texas COME AND TAKE IT flag with a Cheez-It where the cannon is
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
If someone asked me to write a piece about why the gender divide is such a noticeable feature of our politics, #1 is reproductive rights and misogyny, but well before I'd get to "male loneliness" I'd do "men are socialized to believe they should always feel important and never feel shame"
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
I know this has been said a lot lately, but clogging up sports broadcasts with gambling ads suuuuuucks. The games aren’t as good as the NGL, but at least when I watch AHL games I’m not bombarded with gambling odds in the middle of the play! On top of it being half the commercials!
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Venus's Unruly Child @saturnexalted.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
Some of y'all need to shut the fuck up about the South, because you're demonstrating not just your callous disregard for humanity but your total ignorance Asheville is in the mountains, hundreds of miles from the coast, and one of the gayest, most progressive cities in the nation
Skeet from sidestream.bsky.social that reads:

Doesn’t North Carolina use a lot of coal for electricity generation? Didn’t NC vote against climate change mitigation along coastal areas (for poor people only though)

You reap what you sow etc etc.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 19/09/2024
Which is going to be a problem REGARDLESS of the mechanism used to "detect" rude replies. If it's user reports, it's going to be massively subjective. If it's an algorithmic process, it's still going to be massively subjective but it's going to cloak itself in the language of objectivity.
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
My favorite recent sci-fi film is Ad Astra in part because it actually grapples with how terrible and dangerous long space travel within our solar system would be, how inhospitable everywhere conceivably within reach but earth is.
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Carolina Hurricanes @carolinahurricanes.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Seems good
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John Barron Harkonnen @sigill.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Once again NYT cannot be bothered to do even a tiny bit of due diligence. They talk to Mom For Liberty Pnina Mintz of NJ, who says she was a Democrat until the pandemic. Voter records show she’s been a registered Republican since at least 2008
Voter records compiled by stevemorse.org showing Pnina Mintz of Cherry Hill, New Jersey voting exclusively as a registered Republican, in records going back to 2008.
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Woohoo!
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
ok after days of breathless “has Trump moderated his abortion stance?” coverage I’ve formulated a thoughtful response and here it is HE PROMISED TO OVERTURN ROE AND THEN HE DID AND HE’S BEEN BRAGGING ABOUT IT EVER SINCE WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL DID YOU SUFFER A GROUP CONCUSSIVE EVENT
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
I’m sure I’m not the first person to point this out, but you just know dudes programmed this dumb chatbot by the extreme level of confidence it displays while being wrong
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Really hoping Kamala wins and continues to deny NYT and WaPo any sit down interview for as long as they remain Like This
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A-A-Ron @aroun.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
I've tried to work for companies that aren't actively making the world worse. So far I've managed to stick to companies that produce useless but not destructive things 👍
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/08/2024
The No Kings Act attempts to answer a very basic question, which is, what if the Supreme Court is absolutely fucking terrible at its self-assigned job of interpreting the Constitution ballsandstrikes.org/court-reform...
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The No Kings Act Is About Putting the Supreme Court In Its Place
The No Kings Act asserts that all branches of government—not just the Supreme Court—have an obligation to interpret the Constitution.
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
RFKJ negotiating a cabinet position
Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail after his arms and legs have been chopped off by King Arthur
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
WELL NOW THIS is clearly a cleverly cherry-picked stat by Bill Clinton—that cunning fellow. *checks stats* Uhmm actually the numbers are worse for Republicans than what Bill Clinton said. He must’ve cut them a break to make it sound plausible. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... o
"Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, America has created about 51 million new jobs. I swear I checked this three times. Even I couldn't believe it. What's the score?
Democrats 50, Republicans 1."
- Former president Bill Clinton
This is a cleverly cherry-picked fact.
Clinton starts with the end of the Cold War, presumably the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, which (economically speaking) is somewhat arbitrary. Economic trends such as job growth are not determined by presidential terms but often economic forces beyond a president's control.Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that nearly 50 million jobs were created from November 1989 through July of this year.
By starting during George H.W. Bush's term, Clinton skips over Ronald Reagan, a Republican who oversaw the creation of 16 million jobs. Instead, the period covered by his statistic included three Republicans - Bush, his son George W. Bush and Trump - who had poor jobs records. About 1 million jobs were created from November 1989 to the end of the first Bush term, 1.4 million under his son, and then a negative 2.7 million under Trump (because of the pandemic). All three Republicans ended their terms with the country in economic downturns.
By contrast, 22.9 million jobs were created under Clinton, 11.6 million under Barack Obama and 15.8 million under President Joe Biden.You will note that gives the Democrats 50.3 million jobs and the Republicans a negative 300,000. Perhaps Clinton thought that would sound too fantastical. So it appears as if he dated his statistic from January 1989, which results in a total of 51.5 million jobs, with about 1.3 million for Republicans.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
More evidence for beef Americans, Cruz is running against Colin Allred former NFL linebacker. The ticket in 2028 will be the guy who plays Reacher and Ray’s brother from Everybody Loves Raymond
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Guz Walz, who had one of the most emotional moments of the DNC as he called out "That's my dad!" has a pretty incredible story. https//people.com/...
people.com
Tim Walz and His Wife, Gwen, Open Up About Son's Non-Verbal Learning Disorder: 'His Secret Power' (Exclusive)
Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen, are opening up to PEOPLE about their 'brilliant' 17-year-old son, Gus, who has a non-verbal learning disorder, ADHD and an anxiety disorder — all conditions that they call...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
i am just imagining trump sitting in a huge room with a giant tv watching this tim walz love with jd vance sitting across from him and trump just glaring back and forth from screen to vance without saying a word
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
At least it tells us we were right - they really have been listening for years to consultants telling them NOT to do things that are popular. To instead tell everyone better things aren’t possible
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Vance just tried to defend his comments about Italian and Irish immigrants with "have you ever seen Gangs of New York?"
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
setting aside for a moment how truly awful this is, worth noting this article is effective because the first 4 paragraphs are devoted almost entirely to quoting him verbatim.
LA Times: This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace,” Vance said. “Which is this idea that like, well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally — you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them, and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term.”

He added: “And maybe it worked out for the moms and dads, though I’m skeptical. But it really didn’t work out for the kids of those marriages. And I think that’s what all of us should be honest about. We’ve run this experiment in real time and what we have is a lot of very, very real family dysfunction that’s making our kids unhappy.”
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
You know, it’s possible to grow up working class and go to an elite school and have disdain for the elite weirdos you met rather than the people and place you came from!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/08/2024
Yes, there are people who get parasocial about politicians, but often times I think excitement is just the damn bus route: the excitement about thinking a new bus route will go near your house is real, and the disappointment when it doesn’t is likewise.
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pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
Before executing a Muslim man, Alabama denied many of his final religious requests (as it has with Muslim prisoners in the past). But the state allowed another man to lead a march to “When the Saints Go Marching In” before executing him.
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Before Executing a Muslim Man, Alabama Denied Many of His Final Religious Requests
Keith Gavin made a number of requests about his final moments, all stemming from his Islamic faith. But the prison largely ignored them, as it has with Muslim prisoners in the past.
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 27/07/2024
Lock them up! Lock them up! Lock them up!
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kswagger.bsky.social @kswagger.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
I’m realizing why it’s so hard to explain the 9/11 reaction to my kids. They live in the post-9/11 world, but without having lived before it they’ll just never fully grasp the impact of that event.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 21/07/2024
A man stands in front of a crowd of other seated men and asks "who here thinks I suck?" All the other men raise their hands causing the speaking man to break down. One of the men with his hands raised says "and people say voting is a waste of time."
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
To that "senior dem" resigned to Trump: "leave your seat"
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ice.cream.assassin (spooky edition) @icassassin.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
One of the biggest problems the Dems have is that they are so goddamn easy to manipulate. The Dems are Marty McFly, the GOP and the punditry are Biff Tannen, and Marty keeps acting like he can actually get Biff to stop calling him chicken. As if it's both possible and that it fucking matters.
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Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
Look, the reason the Republicans are so certain of their victory is they are planning on cheating. It is not electoral strength, it is blatant lawlessness.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
The fact that people are even talking about a completely new ticket is insane. Giving up every last shred of incumbency advantage and removing your ability to talk about the achievements of the last administration just so you can run Gavin Fucking Newsom, what are we doing here.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
This is how you do it.
Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, who earlier this year called for citizens to use physical force against peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters, condemned political violence in an appearance on CBS, saying that Americans should settle “differences through political debates and through elections. We don’t settle them through violence.”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/06/2024
The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
Look. I care about climate change a lot. I'm close to a single-issue voter on the subject! But we have GOT to stop worrying about what are, in the scheme of things, rounding errors. I hate, hate, hate this kind of personal-responsibility climate stuff, it's deeply counterproductive.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
one thing I’ve noticed about this generation of dems is a sort of “plan for the best, don’t even contemplate the worst” approach to political strategy. once you see it in one area, it’s hard not to see it in a lot of other ones too
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わはは @mrbowers.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Every article about Red Lobster filing for bankruptcy is "ha ha endless shrimp, what did they think would happen" and then buried ten paragraphs down is the usual:
The following year, Darden sold Red Lobster to Golden Gate Capital, a private equity firm, for $2.1 billion. To help fund the deal, Red Lobster spun off its real estate assets in a transaction known as a sale leaseback agreement. Red Lobster had long owned its own real estate but would now be paying rent to lease its restaurants.
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kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
I hope new york seizes his plane in the middle of an october rally in wisconsin and he walks out on the empty tarmac where they parked it freezing to death looking for it
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
once again chuckling at the 3 libs on scotus doing the whole bullshit "what if there's a patchwork electoral system" dance
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