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Mike Platania

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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is that bad
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
MapTap today
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NBA Player Shooting Hoops in Gym
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actioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 05/08/2026
"imagine AI was suddenly banned" okay I would have no loss in productivity but I would say "fuck off" to my computer several fewer times a day than I do currently
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Since first seeing this, I haven't gone more than 20 minutes without "Hey there Mr. Jambo!" flashing across my thoughts
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Jude Bellingham simply has The Stuff™
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
One way or another the documentaries about Pogačar are going to be fascinating.
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This was a great read and fair look at where cycling’s at these days. The current trust issues in cycling trace back to the fact that the past generation of dopers were never fully rooted out of the sport.
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Bellingham went from knocking in goals for fun to putting on a hazmat suit and cleaning up on defense. New favorite player
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Jude Bellingham simply has The Stuff™
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
SAD MESSI DOT GIF
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I finally finished The Americans. They somehow held the obvious tension for 75 episodes. That was an unbelievable show that I'm not sure I'll ever want to rewatch again.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"all writers use AI" nope, get the entire fuck out of here with that
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 23/02/2026
the Princess Bride image just before the battle of wits where he says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen."
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
TOLD YA
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
┳┻| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| _ ┻┳| •.•) 3v3 overtime kicks ass ┳┻|⊂ノ ┻┳|
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Hellebuyck right now
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Every defenseman who’s played hockey at any level has unsuccessfully tried some stick handling nonsense like this and Keller did it to win Olympic gold
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Teams should be allowed to defend against this Canadian men's squad with cattle prods.
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
You're not ready for the name of the energy transition specialist at Heat Pump Association UK
The man's name is Bean Beanland
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
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We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Neon pop-punk merch is the antidote to the greige plague we're currently living in.
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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a man in a green shirt is standing in the water looking at something .
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I just finished Mad Men for the first time. Hell of a slow burn, felt like it took 2.5 seasons to get going, but hot damn was that a good watch.
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
FEEL LIKE I'M LOSING MY MIND
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CHVRCHES - He Said She Said
YouTube video by ChvrchesVEVO
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
*taps the sign* it's not too late to get in on this bsky.app/profile/mike...
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Might be the funniest video on a bits-per-second basis in history. Conan beginning to laugh before Downey even starts because he knows something's coming. Downey nearly breaking on "with the island?" The "HA HA, sorry, nice try." Calling Ghislaine by only her first name. It's a masterpiece.
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Circa Survive; Juturna Porter Robinson; Worlds Taking Back Sunday; Tell All Your Friends Lorde; Melodrama Bloc Party; Silent Alarm Jamie xx; In Colour Underoath; They’re Only Chasing Safety Childish Gambino; Camp Knuckle Puck; Copacetic Coheed & Cambria; In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Buried lede about this movie is that it also stars John Mulaney and Kathryn Hahn?!
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Pope Leo go on Are You Garbage
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Feel uncomfortable leaving the house without eating at least one item of clothing that’s black
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
We need a mass intervention for these dudes, who are truly living in a prison of their own creation.
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Why Do So Many Men Refuse to Wear Shorts?
No matter how swampy it gets outside, a not-insignificant number of fellas refrain from ever exposing their legs. We asked a handful of holdouts to explain themselves.
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Song of the summer
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NIAMOS | Season 2 Club MIX | Andor OST Cover Chandrila Wedding, Mon Mothma Dance Music #andorseason2
YouTube video by Jeremy Brauns Music
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
NEW AWAY MESSAGE: A few months ago I went against my better judgment and bought a kick-ass GTI. It did not go well.
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When Achieving a Childhood Dream Goes Wrong
Inside me there are two wolves. And they're both idiots.
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Taps the trusty "Just Go See New Found Glory For $50" sign
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Brian Gaar @briangaar.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 25/03/2025
Surely a contender for the funniest thing a judge has ever said www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"On the night of the 2nd of March 2025, your actions were the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for."
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Someday Swampfest is going to see someone strapped to a DIY rocket and go to actual space. Every year the ante gets upped at this event, genuinely bonkers shit in the best way possible.
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MASHER: SWAMPFEST 2025 Video
YouTube video by ThrasherMagazine
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This has been playing on loop in my head for like 36 hours now and there’s no signs of it slowing
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Mr. Jones is the ultimate honey pot karaoke song. Everyone knows it, everyone loves it. We all feel like we know the words, but we don't. No one does. It is verbose and wordy as hell. You'll be left bellowing "MR. JONES AND ME!" and mumbling the rest of the way. This is a singular song in this way.
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Counting Crows - Mr. Jones (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by CountingCrowsVEVO
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I can't decide if reading this was like picking an old scab or a nice walk down memory lane. There have been so many goddamn near-misses for NY sports this century, none of which looms larger in my memory than the 2014 Stanley Cup Final. Not sure I'll ever get over it.
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Sports and the City: A Quarter Century of Misery (and Company) for New York Fans
Across the past 25 years, it has rarely mattered how uniquely New York sports stories have been told or how sweetly they have unfolded. They’ve mostly all ended the same way.
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It only took me four years but I have finally named my blog (lol oops)
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Lost Bands of the MySpace Era
"Remembering some dudes" MUSIC EDITION
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
With the Iditarod coming up I'm reminded of the time @brianphillips.bsky.social wrote the most buck-wild ridealong story ever
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Out in the Great Alone
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race pushes participants to the brink on an unforgiving trek to the end of the world. And, as one writer who tracked the race by air discovers, that is exactly the point.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
CLANG
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Really really enjoyed everything Nathan Zed says in this. The whole "try to be nonchalant" aesthetic of the last few years really is the pits, I am totally in favor of the maximalist, try hard renaissance.
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How Trying Became Cool Again
YouTube video by Nathan Zed
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Mike Platania @mikeplatania.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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a man is sitting in front of an lg advertisement
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