Reposted by Matthew MarklandChris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A book is a podcast you can hold in your hand 911713
Reposted by Matthew MarklandMonster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Had a viral-ish post on the subject earlier this week, which led me to ask: What Else Does Jason Kelce Look Like? midwest-excellence.ghost.io/what-else-do...midwest-excellence.ghost.ioWhat Else Does Jason Kelce Look Like?Midwest Excellence, a newsletter by RandBall's Stu (from the internet) 5123
Reposted by Matthew MarklandDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 262185664910
Reposted by Matthew MarklandMike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 08/06/2024It’s hardly a coincidence that the decline of the United States coincided with Cinnamon Toast Crunch transitioning from the bakers - a lovable trio of collaborators who took joy in a delicious breakfast- to the cannibalistic pieces of cereal that ushered in a dystopian age of every entity for itself 2309
Reposted by Matthew MarklandVintage Jerseys & Hats @polyesterunis.com · 26/09/2026#IowaState Cyclones football, 1977 2232
Reposted by Matthew MarklandPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026parents with school age children are not and should not be the only ones who materially support public schools. property taxes of many people without children are appropriately directed to public schools. each of us should be pouring into these schools in our own ways (giving of our time etc...) 1033352
Reposted by Matthew MarklandDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If the law stated REAL DAMN CLEAR that a frontier lab is found liable for punitive damages if its model escapes its sandbox and hacks shit, and if that law was robustly enforced, then the frontier labs would figure out how to build better sandboxes. This really isn't rocket science. 518652
Reposted by Matthew MarklandMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE 6936191171
Reposted by Matthew MarklandChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.” 12561091620
Reposted by Matthew MarklandTasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried 226120916810
Reposted by Matthew MarklandDavid Brauer @dbrauer.net · 23/08/2026Biking this afternoon in a lovely shade of Luce Line trees, I said to my wife, “The barest hint of fall in the air, delicious.” The Six Best Weather Weeks of the Year are still nine days away! 4708
Reposted by Matthew MarklandAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026this is actually so dehumanizing, I find it steals my breath a little. These finger-wagging AI advocates will have nothing to say about the very real impacts of eugenicist ideas and policies on actual human beings. 48127
Reposted by Matthew MarklandCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Ryan Jeffers using a bat designed by his daughter 213812
Reposted by Matthew MarklandBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The agentic vizier software I bought to automate my whispers to the sultan has developed its own agenda and long story short I'm getting beheaded at dawn 274132668
Reposted by Matthew MarklandCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Chelsea Gray goes behind the back again, the lead on this pass is unreal 839368
Reposted by Matthew MarklandMadame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The predominance of smaller sizes in surviving historical clothing doesn't necessarily demonstrate the average size of people. The smallest clothes are the ones you can't remake to fit somebody else. 010132
Reposted by Matthew MarklandSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Legislative term limits are a terrible institutional reform that no jurisdiction should ever enact. We have mountains of data published in dozens if not hundreds of studies about what term limits have done where they've been enacted and there's not a single desirable outcome reported in any of them. 59328
Reposted by Matthew MarklandMichael Henk @mykenk.us · 14/08/2026A guy hears voices, plows under his cash crop, and risks his family’s financial ruin to host ghost games for dead athletes. The takeaway? A severe mental health crisis is totally fine, provided you can successfully monetize Boomer nostalgia to avoid foreclosure. 0344
Reposted by Matthew MarklandGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/08/2026A big thank you to all of Minnesota’s poll workers and election judges working today’s primary. You make sure our elections continue to be safe, free, and fair. 97128171679
Reposted by Matthew MarklandAaron Gleeman @aarongleeman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Kaelen Culpepper is a consensus top-100 prospect with a chance to be a very good long-term regular in the Twins' infield. And as a nice bonus: I think Twins fans are really going to like him from a personality standpoint, too. 2462
Reposted by Matthew Marklandglastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Glowing Embers. Photo taken before sunrise this morning on Glastonbury Tor. 311156142
Reposted by Matthew MarklandAndy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 18/03/2026good reminder that before the counting is over, election results don’t tighten. at no point is anyone trailing. nobody moves closer. they’re just tabulating the polls. it’s a fixed number that just isn’t done yet. to say otherwise is bad journalism but even worse math. 81984403
Reposted by Matthew MarklandEffectively Wild Stats @ewstats.com · 29/07/2026The Twins just won a 9-inning game in which they hit 5 GIDPs, a feat only accomplished 104 times. That's rarer than throwing a no-hitter! Only 11 teams have won a game with 6 GIDPs, most recently the Astros in 2018. Nobody has ever won with 7. (Stats provided by Michael Mountain) 0379
Reposted by Matthew MarklandDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I hope every day you all are trying to cultivate joy. A kindness to a neighbor. A long walk. Poetry. Birdwatching. Meditation. Being silly and playing peekaboo in a checkout line with a cute baby. These are dark times, and joy is something the bastards cannot take from us. Fight for it. 261243310
Reposted by Matthew MarklandCodify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Kerry Wood, Behind-The-Back Eephus 😮 402160422
Reposted by Matthew MarklandD.R. Ranshaw @drranshaw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026And there will STILL be a fricking typo or six in it. 511598143
Reposted by Matthew MarklandBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Discovered a Blockbuster dvd at the thrift store and purchased it like I was rescuing a precious scroll from the burning fires consuming the Library of Alexandria 401601122
Reposted by Matthew MarklandBobby Nightengale @nightengalejr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Joe Ryan struck out two of the four batters he faced in the All-Star Game: -Gave up a single to Juan Soto. -Struck out Freddie Freeman. -Struck out CJ Abrams. -Induced a popup against Max Muncy. 1303
Reposted by Matthew MarklandGrant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Video reviews in the All-Star Game should be decided by fans who won a contest and they should take zero seconds 818231
Reposted by Matthew MarklandMoist Owlet (Flushable) @g-sharp-major.bsky.social · 11/07/2026OH MY G-D 3369
Reposted by Matthew MarklandMLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Alan Roden walks it off for the @twinsbaseball.bsky.social in his season debut! 0111
Reposted by Matthew MarklandWes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026God this is so braindead, treating “America” as a monolith. The sport belongs to the US as well because there are millions and millions of people who love it. It’s just that most of them look differently. 2122020
Reposted by Matthew MarklandLocus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 08/07/2026WE ARE LIVE! Help us have a great first day? We REALLY want to make this SFF anthology work & start a new annual SFF Best Of series! Head to locusmag.com/anthology (link in bio) to get a pledge in! Be a part of something special! #BacktheBook Sharing helps us tremendously:) 1229137
Reposted by Matthew MarklandAlbuquerque Journal @abqjournal.bsky.social · 05/07/2026A grassroots coalition is pushing back against NSF's plans to demolish the historic Sunspot Solar Observatory in the Sacramento Mountains.abqjournal.comNM residents fight to save 80-year-old Sunspot Solar Observatory 0229
Reposted by Matthew MarklandRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026On this July 4th, remember the words of Dashiell Hammett, who was jailed by HUAC for not naming names. "I don’t let cops or judges tell me what I think democracy is." —Dashiell Hammett 1630230
Reposted by Matthew MarklandVintage Jerseys & Hats @polyesterunis.com · 05/07/2026#PolyesterRankings of 1976 #MLB uniforms #14: The #Twins had excellent '70s uniforms, including an awesome shade of #PowderBlue and two different hats (I prefer the red one). Plus, a unique tri-color bell helmet. But, they didn't do anything special for the 1976 season. #Bicentennial #Baseball 0316
Reposted by Matthew MarklandDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 21/06/2026This clip explains the entire American economy in 76 seconds: - Steve Martin is the middle class - Martin Short is the working class - Chevy Chase is the billionaire class 717745
Reposted by Matthew MarklandLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/06/2026Personally I find it way too poetically appropriate that the Trump administration has corrupted a national memorial in away that has tainted the very concept of reflection. 514833
Reposted by Matthew MarklandDan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 20/06/2026"How can you not be romantic about baseball?" 19263081399
Reposted by Matthew MarklandOrcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 18/06/2026YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS. 04118
Reposted by Matthew MarklandElder Taylor @taylornewc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed 123138653804
Matthew Markland @matthewmarkland.bsky.social · 09/06/2026@scalzi.com has been to Minneapolis. Seen at Town Hall Brewing. 010
