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If Major League Baseball ever does convince the federal government to build a stadium within a national park, I might give up on following the game for good.

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Tried watching Backrooms last night and I don't think it's for me. Put me to sleep like Hereditary did.

bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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"who is this fool" "thats mr bean, roland. he is a tv character from a nation over seas" "he has forgotten the face of his father"

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Sure, diesel is over eight bucks a gallon now, but that's what the student fees are for, right?

Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I saw a double feature back in 2002 with Austin Powers in Goldmember and Signs.

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Me playing EA College Football on Varsity difficulty:

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just watched Baltimore Bike Party roll on down my street, which I did not expect tonight but is nonetheless cool to see.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think a significant chunk of America -- its people and its institutions -- has a problem with focusing far too frequently on "problems" that aren't actually problems.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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The thing about AI slop imagery being used so heavily for Instagram marketing and such is that looking at all of it, with all of its tiny but unmistakable misalignments, is a horrorscape of visual rhetoric. It's like being in a room where every framed piece is slightly ajar.

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And your Sprite isn't fresh, David. What the hell, man.

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Justice delivered on at least one front.

dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Maybe instead of writing a book, David Rubinstein could have made a better use of time to avoid making faithful Orioles fans wait in a line for 30 fucking minutes for one (1) hot dog during a season finale with zero stakes. You think people want to spend money for more of this, big spender?

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it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I guess we can still call them Ivy League schools if you think about the ivy looking dead as hell, like Wrigley in winter.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.

Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Genuinely curious: Why is TimeOut, the Fresno State mascot, painted on the side of this Nebraska water tower?

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 19/09/2026

CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. (Ex)CCCC and writing studies folks, please read and sign: theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com

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Visit the post for more.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Delaware produced THE COCKFIGHT IN THE TUB shirts for the game against Coastal Carolina (added context: they play in Tubby Raymond Stadium)

a shirt that says THE COCKFIGHT IN THE TUB with a cartoon of Delaware's chicken stiff-arming Coastal CArolina's chicken

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The American government has spent more money on a pointless war on the other side of the fucking planet than it would take to fix up its own front yard.

From the Washington Post:

Iran war cost is now at least $43.6 billion, U.S. Central Command says

The total includes $28 billion needed to replace munitions but does not account for damage to American facilities throughout the Middle East.

From the New York Times:

Emily Thompson, the executive director of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, an advocacy group of current and former park employees, said the administration should be tackling the $24 billion backlog of deferred maintenance projects across the country.

How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks

As an outdoors enthusiast, I struggle to accurately express how it feels to watch this presidential administration pillage our most valuable public resources. How can they claim to love America when they so blatantly disregard and dismantle the physical country? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/c...

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Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.

Today, in Stop Fucking Using "AI":

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Add Coppin State's own Ma'at's Feather to the included illustrious list! The submission window for its second issue is open until October 16, so for all you intrepid Bluesky writers, get after it. maatsfeather.digital

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You ever think about how you spent your entire lifetime until recently without sparing a single thought about, like, the Kennedy Center?

Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Love it when I'm completely ignored by Baltimore bus drivers as I am standing at a stop and very obviously signal that I have a place to be, which has occurred multiple times now.

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Has anyone in writing center studies done a cost analysis for "the ideal writing center space, accounting for physical and online modalities as well as direct and indirect engagement with students and other stakeholders"? Have to think it's cheaper than "AI" is if you cared to do things right.

Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Got a bit of good news this afternoon when I learned that my proposal was accepted for The Last CCCC next April! Better lock in, Milwaukee, because if I'm only gonna have one chance to make an impact at this conference, I'll do my best to make it count. #4C27

Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My only contribution to a current discourse: Why did we all just agree to call him Arch Manning instead of Archibald? It's not as if he's accomplished anything yet, like Mitchell Trubisky.

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've been trying to conceptualize how students at my college should approach AI as part of their writing process, if they choose to do so, and frankly, this is the best visualization I have so far:

Seymour Skinner, who appear coolly detached from the latest antics of one Bart Simpson, a known troublemaker. A subtitle reads, "Pathetic."

Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For the Baitmore Bluesky folks: If you like the idea of volunteering a couple hours of your time in exchange for multiple free beers, then do I have the event for you.

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Frankly, this makes the entire NFL look amateurish.

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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We should start calling these Cronenburgers

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's a little funny that apparently the biggest international rugby game of the year is happening here in Baltimore. Forgot all about it until I noticed tons of folks in black and green from everywhere.

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Most of the time, when I've reflected on September 11 over the years, I end up just circling back to Brian Doyle's "Leap".

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Leap

Brian Doyle

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't think of it so much as a "crisis" as much as an opportunity. Now's the time to really start stretching yourself out; the only question is how to go about doing it. It's a huge fucking question, to be sure.

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Lotta talk from folks resigning from AI companies or whatever, talking about the rampant irresponsibility/immorality of corporate research and development and, okay, what am I supposed to do with this information? Put your own money and will behind the doomsaying; I've got enough to do already.