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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I saw the video I wondered if a Schmitt staffer used an AI agent to look for dirt about Smith in this area. Then the agent mixed things up (since AI agents don’t know anything) and spit this Hawks theory out. And then the staffer ran with it rather than checking anything.

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Eephus Tosser @eephustosser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Forget the lottery. This is how we should determine the top ten draft slots.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

HE DID IT! NFL RECORD

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Human history has gone through many different periods.

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Part of me thinks the Sox should have just said, “Naw, we’re not flying to Florida to play in front of 300 people in a game that means nothing to us and then flying back up to New York for the playoffs. The Cubs can have it.” (I know why they’re not doing this, but still.)

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People are getting so mad at these dumb Top 10 lists but I just realized the real, secret way to make people mad would be to list all the shows you haven't seen a single episode of.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 25/09/2026

Alex Bregman is the first person in MLB history to play in 10 straight postseasons without appearing on the Braves or Yankees.

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Peter Abraham @peteabeglobe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Play faster!

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I haven’t seen many of these shows, but then I saw they put Watchmen 2 spots behind Battlestar Galactica. BSG is a very good show - arguably an *underrated* show (I really liked the finale!) - but let’s be real here.

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.

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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One important lesson from my career in politics that I want all of you to recognize: There's no secret polling data. The internals usually say the same thing as the public ones. The actual nonpublic data is which campaigns are a mess and which aren't.

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I genuinely think this picture should win an award. Maybe not a Pulitzer, but the next step down.

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Productive Outs @productiveouts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SOURCE: The AL West has been canceled. When asked for comment, one anonymous exec said, “Is this even baseball? I don’t even know what the hell they’re doing anymore.”

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Whoa. This is some big news. Aren't they the second-largest North American webcomic publisher? (Behind Webtoon, which site refuses to log me in every time I visit.)

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Patriots really making this installment of the Aaron Rodgers Failure Tour entertaining.

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Peter Abraham @peteabeglobe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Red Sox heading for the postseason

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In utter fucking dork news, a company named after the dragon's mountain in THE HOBBIT was ripped off in a clever arbitrage run by a company named after the rogue AI in NEUROMANCER. www.theinformation.com/articles/ere...

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How Erebor Bank’s Sweet Stablecoin Deal Backfired

When Palmer Luckey’s Erebor Bank launched earlier this year, it made an attractive pitch to lure new crypto customers: It would convert their stablecoins to cash for free. But Erebor wound up pulling ...

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mental whiplash: “Oh, Dave Barry has a blog?” “Oh, it’s on the Nazi site. Oh well.”

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The most overrated Bond film. The story craters minute Bond gets to the casino. Once he leaves the casino it starts looking for deeper craters (and finds them).

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Jake Goldsbie @jakegoldsbie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Riley Gaines implies the existence of a Riley Loses which, paradoxically, is also her

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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Has anyone enjoyed an immaculate inning more than Payton Tolle?!

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Red Sox @redsox.com · 13/09/2026

Please enjoy every pitch of Payton Tolle's immaculate inning.

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It was pasta its expiration date.

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Whenever I see a post like this I assume they’ve confused “liberal” (people significantly left of center, e.g. socialists) with “neoliberal” (basically, Reagan/Bush conservatives). Which confusion I assume is why the term ”neoliberal“ exists. I still find it strange when I see it.

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Flags are being flown at half staff for the over 2,000 Americans who died from COVID-19 on Sept 11, 2020 and Sept 11, 2021, right?

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Star Trek: Picard season 1. Leaps and bounds ahead of any other Trek series/film in sophistication and character drama. (Character has been Trek’s weak point starting with NextGen, so this was a Surprise.) I wrote thousands of words about it starting here: www.fascinationplace.org/2020/01/25/s...

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Star Trek: Picard: "Remembrance"

Why did I even watch Star Trek: Picard? I noped out of Star Trek: Discovery after the godawful first episode. I’ve been pretty consistently disappointed with Star Trek ever since The Voyage H…

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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m not sure who said it first, but I’ve been thinking about this line all week

A block print of a silhouetted cliff with the text WHAT IF THE BOULDER LOVED SISYPHUS?

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What’s an example of perfect casting?

Andreas Katsulas and Peter Jurasik as G’kar and Londo in Babylon 5.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026

payton tolle is the most charming man in baseball, exhibit 374

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

They say that Bluesky is dying but it seems like the number of bad takes where the author has deleted them so all we see are the quote posts followed by “Deleted” are increasing which I think means the social media equivalent of nuclear fusion is imminent. (Immanent?)

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sometimes I see a post and am so croggled by it that my first guess is that the poster’s account got hacked. The posts in the screenshot below are such. Not just failing to read the room, but apparently unable to find the building the room is in.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area".

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

House of Leaves not far behind.

The table of contents of the novel House of Leaves.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/09/2026

my consistent opinion on this is that the left/liberal divide is exaggerated by the most pugnacious voices in each camp, we are all mostly on the same side, and this is especially true right now given our common enemy let’s tone it down until we put them in an electoral dumpster

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕

Photo of a brunette with a braid in her hair, standing in front of a sign that says Vaccinated with a count of 30,000.

She is wearing glasses, a Sun Studio t-shirt, and an orange high vis vest.

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Cover 3 Boston Sports @coverboston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Everyone needs a Payton Tolle in their life 🤗

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026

re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly

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Brock Sager @brocksager.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hey #ComicSky, if you see this, share some love to your LCS: Comics Conspiracy Sunnyvale, CA (408) 245 - MASK www.comicsconspiracy.biz @comicsconspiracy.bsky.social

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Nate DiMeo @natedimeo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Well, I guess the old HOMES Great Lake mnemonic can just be swapped out for SHAME.

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Michael Rawdon @mrawdon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I recall noting in 2016 that David Bowie's passing was likely the tip of the iceberg for 1970s celebrities. I believe the iceberg is now pulling in to the station. (I say this in the spirit of "brace (y)ourselves, Generation X.")

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