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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 16h

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 14h

Accidental diptych of two dipshits

Cover of TIME magazine, from August 2015.

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The Surprising Joy of Virtual Reality
And why it’s about to change the world
By Joel Stein

On the cover, Palmer Luckey is barefoot and wearing jeans, a polo, and a black Oculus VR headset with a cable trailing off the right side of the frame. He is superimposed onto an image of a sandy beach.

Viewed together with the first photo, it looks like Altman and Luckey are looking at one another.

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Leezus H. Christ 🏳️‍⚧️ @langhuck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the maddest I've ever had anyone get in my Twitter mentions was when I made this joke about Blake Snell:

a tweet by Nikki Haley, who posted "12 fellas down, 1 to go", quoted by me, saying, "Blake Snell at the start of the 5th inning:"

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séa @seagothman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

a surly and dejected manny machado is a beautiful sight to see 😂

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe the Brewers are finally the team of destiny. Incredible scenes

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Catch of the year as of this writing

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Baseball’s better in a domed stadium!” Yeah, about that…

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Now if you’re the Rays, do you send Rasmussen out for the 9th?

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A cool thing about being a candidate with no ideas is just showing up wherever and talking feels like a win. (they kept texting me after this btw)

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So you’re saying it was…. like a G6 😎

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This level of stupidity doesn’t just happen. You have to work to achieve it.

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The walks are on Nola but maybe have to tip your hat to Harris for hitting this location, right?

The pitch hit by Harris for a home run is clearly below the bottom of the zone by multiple inches.

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bob Kettle—who before moving to Seattle oversaw torture programs at a military prison in Iraq—makes a lot more sense when you consider that he may view himself less as a member of the polis and more as a colonial governor.

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is why ESPN broadcasts suck. They seem outwardly embarrassed by the product, which is why you wind up getting infographics about the manager’s colonoscopy instead of what’s happening on the field. If you don’t believe the on-field product is enough, your audience sure as hell won’t either.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Classic signs of autumn: leaves turning. Pumpkin spice. Cozy sweaters. Kershaw dropping a steamer on national television.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This felt like the first sane thing written about the song

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Scare-a Wrath 👻🎃 @toasterposey.art · 28/09/2026

Mike Krukow is 1 of 1.

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MACBETH: Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; / I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield / To one of woman born. MACDUFF: Despair thy charm, / And let the angel whom thou still hast served / Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped. MACBETH: Fuck

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emily s. @emily.news · 27/09/2026

i have sincerely wanted something like this for a long time slowroads.io

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just say no to Tim Tebow. This has never steered me wrong.

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phylan @phylan.website · 25/09/2026

I know your local PD is overfunded but is it this overfunded

a cop-ish looking car with bubble decals and big block letters that say BUBBLE RESPONSE UNIT

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SF Giants Bot @giantbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🤖 Justice delos Santos I was sent this photo from Mark “Mud” Grant of Krukow, Grant and Bob Brenly at a 1987 Doobie Brothers concert. The epitome of “hell yeah, brother” imo

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

what possibly could have happened around the start of March

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One impeachment trial a month until he's gone. Make the Senate a permanent court while Trump holds office. Be clear about "It will be this way until we've run out of worthy crimes" so everyone's clear about the gig. Make John Roberts loathe his work.

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adam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

vacant lot remediation is one of the most robust evidence-based interventions for community violence and neighborhood wellbeing that we know of. like UBI, it works literally everywhere it's implemented

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just in time for Infrastructure Week

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They’re calling “I’m the one who made gas more expensive” the most brilliant political message of all time

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is how I find out Psycho Mantis is on Bluesky

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Early results of switching SPD chiefs.

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Lia Seth @liaseth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is the ideal male. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

A screencap from Make Some Noise season 5 on dropout. Paul Robalino plays a trumpet, Nico is popping a confetti cannon, and Sam Reich holds a plaque while looking nonplussed.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This crackdown is brought to you by Fan Duel

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🏢 David L 🚎 @davidl206.city · 14/09/2026

CM Rivera is something we haven’t had much of in Seattle: an old-fashioned, spoils-distributing machine politician.

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is killing me www.tiktok.com/t/ZTUQXF6Sf/

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"We report nearly a million users a month for looking at kiddie porn!" may not be the ironclad defense of your platform that you think it is

The company blocks users who post or engage with exploitative material and reports them to authorities, X said in its statement, including 780,000 users in the past month alone.

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perplexpert @situational-lefty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Counterpoint: why was Bob Keytle satisfied with the performance of the SPD under the crony-ist, absentee leadership of Shon Barnes?

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Many of you would be shocked to learn that Jewish Americans are much further to the left on Israel and Gaza than Christian Americans or Jewish Israelis.

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