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To get back to winning, the Orioles are willing to change everything. Except for the man in charge. As Mike Elias promises a full organizational review, it’s obvious that his decisions and leadership are big reasons the Orioles find themselves stuck: www.thebanner.com/sports/oriol...

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was just a little misunderstanding that led Schmitt to baselessly accuse Smith of perjuring himself

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rufo was essentially the New York Times' higher education assignment editor throughout the Biden administration.

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everything's coming up Kurosawa!

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Aight, skipping those: Lawrence of Arabia Get Carter The Devil Rides Out Topsy-Turvy Black Narcissus

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With the conversations happening here today, I'm thinking about how Ellis gets to have a "second chance" without doing any of the work to change or even meaningfully apologise to the scores of women he harmed and manipulated. All he had to do was wait a while.

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Vera Tobin @vtobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While Pounties and Mounties have such similar plumage that even experts have trouble telling them apart, Counties are easily distinguished with or without their characteristic prey

An altered version of the Addams comic from the quoted post, with the role of the mountie (or pountie) and his Pan now filled by a vampire, getting his can.

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dudes rock. (This is about Mike Tomlin.)

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For the Criterion Current, I wrote about the 1948–1951 trilogy of U.K. anthology movies based on W. Somerset Maugham short stories: QUARTET, TRIO and ENCORE. All three are on the Criterion Channel. I enjoyed them so much I spent all summer reading Maugham stories. www.criterion.com/current/post...

Dirk Bogarde and Honor Blackman in "The Alien Corn" episode of QUARTET (1948)

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 24/09/2026

"is GE, the inventor of the modern turbine, too stupid to efficiently make turbine blades that have to operate for thousands of hours at near melting temperature? these VC backed software engineers are betting 'YES!' An exclusive from the WSJ"

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026

I hope you're sitting down, ma'am, because I have some shocking news about your royal family

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

nero's guide is awesome, and concretely helped me with making a website as somebody who doesn't have the brain for this stuff 👍 if you're an artist of any sort, making a website for yourself is one of those things that hugely pays off the extended effort time and again

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

we stan an Orioles superfan 🫡

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22/09/2026

Drug test him.

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"We should put Pete Hegseth in charge of the National Book Award longlist." —Bret Stephens

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is absolutely right, but the key is that Republicans would be the ones to force the issue. Many Democrats just refuse to take the open shot at Musk. He's a ripe, rich target, and an obvious way to dramatize key issues and mobilize key voters, but some of them are still sitting on their hands.

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Helene Meisler @hmeisler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This will not end well.

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Things goin' great for Valentina in the new timeline I take it

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.

Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I hope and believe that it's like David Vitter skipping a war dead memorialization vote to go see hookers: it's not just cartoonishly immoral, it's evocative. it's a lurid story of moral rot contained in one sentence, not just a gross fact about a senator.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the name is CHUMP THEORY mattweiner.net/On%20Chum%20...

mattweiner.net

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Donald Trump, the Home Alone 2 star? </jim_downey>

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rabies PSA or a #BatmanDay warning from Selina Kyle?

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#BatmanDay Alex Toth and Rick Taylor, from The Batman Adventures (1994).

A portrait in moody grays of Batman, square-jawed, atop a stone building, with yellow skyscraper lights behind him. His hand is raised and his cape flapping. The moon silhouettes his head and hand. At the bottom it reads "bravo to TV's Batman band, Alex Toth, 94".

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

GIANT ROBOT BATMAN My inks/colors over @mikemignola.bsky.social pencil drawing. #BatmanDay

A giant robot Batman towers over the city, spotlight cutting the night sky

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Writer Bill Finger, who took Bob Kane’s initial idea and turned it into the character we know today. #BatmanDay

Detective Comics #17, the first appearance of Batman.

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That blue-on-blue Brighton anniversary kit really was gorgeous.

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Watched an episode of Batman: Caped Crusader last week that had a minor character named "Carmine Broome"; it turns out this is a character name that has been used before, including on Legends of Tomorrow. It's not a Batman character that I know of. Is it a crew member's name? DC employee? #BatmanDay

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today is the birthday of tv's bright knight, Adam West (Sept. 19, 1928-June 9, 2017.) #BatmanDay

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Jerry Robinson, an influential artist & comics historian, who co-created the Joker and Robin, and an early advocate for creators' rights. #BatmanDay

A color photo of Robinson with his book, The Comics, sitting on a table in front of him.

Detective Comics #71, with a cover by Robinson featuring the Joker.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 19/09/2026

a “we love our jobs” story in 7 parts.

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI is going to kill us all… TIRED: …to turn us all into paperclips. WIRED: …by unleashing a swarm of agents to take out the power grid and send us back into pre-industrial times. INSPIRED: …because some lazy G-12 is going to blindly cut-and-paste from Claude, kicking off WWIII.

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was talking to @sifu.tweety.fish about this and I’m genuinely puzzled about why the Scientology e-acc/rat comparisons didn’t occur to me before.

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think it had literally been more than 20 years since the last time I saw Melt Banana.

A snapshot in red and green of two figures in a stage, one a woman holding her arm up holding an electronic device and the other a man in a surgical mask playing guitar.

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Crowley said, Oh, I shouldn’t. His friend Peter Straub, sitting beside him, said, Oh, yes, you should. So now the Conrad Sulzer branch of the Chicago Public Library has a copy of John Crowley’s Love and Sleep inscribed “To the readers of Chicago Public.”

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tilcayo there a) only weighs three pounds b) will definitely murder you, three pounds or no.

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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"The Nearness of You"—a man discovers that he's not crazy, but rather that time travel shenanigans resulted in his wife never having been born—is utterly worth reading even if you don't otherwise think you'd care about @kurtbusiek.bsky.social's loving tribute to the superhero comics of his youth.

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Zack Quaintance @zackquaintance.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

great deal ... it's all good, but the first 20 issues or so of Astro City are imo some of the best superhero comics ever made

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have another idea for you.

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So many people think that the students who can't pay back their loans are going to like Vassar or Oberlin or even Harvard. In reality they're going to schools like Legends Barber College or Construction Training Center. www.npr.org/2026/09/16/n...

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