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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty

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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I would only consider those leads in Ohio and NC, and those are likely very close. MAGA voters have consistently under-self-reported due to the shamefulness of their views
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
re Judge Judy: Her argument is, "I don't like when people complain about the way America is; those people should just live somewhere else." That argument is itself a complaint about how America is; so, she should just live somewhere else. Problem solved.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
so, at least about 1/4 of the San Diego State football team does not have the MMR vaccine? JFC
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San Diego State football team dealing with mumps outbreak
San Diego State's football team is dealing with a mumps outbreak as it prepares for Saturday's Pac-12 opener against Texas State.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just watched a TV commercial. The first part of the commercial features an older woman describing how her mother was abusive to her regarding her weight, and how that has led her to think about her weight every day of her life. She is not thin, but she is not morbidly obese, either.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I agree with Schmidt his job is (in part) to ask questions. He should also research the questions first, or at least not accuse somebody of perjury based on insufficiently researched questions. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Schmitt on mix-up at Jack Smith hearing: ‘My job is to ask questions’
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) on Tuesday reflected on his mix-up during former special counsel Jack Smith’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying his job “is to ask question…
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Where can I buy an unlicensed Giants pride cap?
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Months after protest, SF Giants won't commit to wearing Pride Night hats again
Even as the baseball season ends, the questions aren't going away for the Giants.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think this gets it wrong. They don't think we're idiots. They themselves are idiots.
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Do Buster Posey and the SF Giants brass think their fans are idiots?
SFGATE columnist Dave Tobener has lost faith in the Giants' leadership.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Buster Posey is so off-putting it's almost enough to make me root for the Oakl.... aww shit. FJF
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Buster Posey wants Giants to learn from Pride cap controversy
Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey said the team must learn from their handling of the club's annual Pride Night, when several players added Bible verses to their caps.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In which the Senate achieves bipartisanship for the purpose of restricting the civil rights of college athletes (sorry for the Ted Cruz pic)
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U.S. Senate votes 77-22 to pass Protect College Sports Act
The Protect College Sports Act, a federal bill aimed at reshaping the industry, took a step toward becoming law on Monday when the U.S. Senate voted, 77-22, to pass it, with Ted Cruz saying "this bill puts an end to the chaos plaguing college athletics."
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
correct
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Elect a convicted felon, you get a criminal government.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My favorite part of this article is that Bryant Young and Alex Smith both came back to the Bay Area to live
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This Bay Area private school has ex-49ers Alex Smith, Bryant Young on staff
"When they explain some stuff, it's pretty good and people listen."
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why does the NBA start 21 days after the NHL?
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In which Jensen Huang admits to premature dementia
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The only thing that bothers me about this story is the reporter agreeing he should not have published newsworthy video of Seattle's coach even though it was not off the record.
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Seahawks' Macdonald apologizes to Broncos' Payton for comments
Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald said Wednesday he called Broncos coach Sean Payton and apologized for comments he made in a published video that went viral Tuesday.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The reality is people prefer HRs. If we really don't prefer HRs, this is easily fixed by a slow-pitch softball-like rule capping the number of HRs allowed. But of course people prefer more HRs and Ks. That's always been true.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In which a reporter claims the people I know who refer to themselves as Disney Adults do not exist. They will be surprised to learn they do not know their own beliefs.
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The Disney adult is a made-up problem
Contributing editor Julie Tremaine on why it's time to drop a stigmatized term.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The tear down plan has been pretty obvious for months
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Never forget: Vonnegut told us that Ice will destroy all life on earth
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Ice-nine - Wikipedia
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"last ninja standing" is so much less impressive than "total victory"
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This post has aged well
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Hey Heritage Foundation: Obamacare was your idea. Can you go back to being like that? I still wouldn't be on your side, but at least you wouldn't be committing treason.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So I assume everybody on Bluesky yelling for the press to not cover Trump's ego events have all posted congratulating the press for this. Right?
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Steve Hilton claims he's going to cut gas prices to $3 (CA gas average is currently just over $6). If he gets rid of all gas taxes, he will still need to magically cut gas prices by another $2.25. He's obviously not really going to do any of this.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just as being against the actions of the Israeli gov't isn't necessarily (or usually) antisemitism, it isn't necessarily antizionism either. And we should stop pretending that it is.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why is everybody surprised at the Kennedy Center thing? It was reported months ago that they set it up so all the repair donations would only be useable if they put Trump's name on it. It was obvious then this was going to happen.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This take is conservative, Danish, and very much correct.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
who is the guy on the senate floor shrugging and seeming to say, "he was alive"?
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Watch: Moment Mitch McConnell returns to Congress
Video shows the Kentucky senator leaving his home in a wheelchair and greeting colleagues in the US Capitol Building after a three-month absence.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@espn.com you can't date this article today and then include sections that haven't been updated since they got Lebron: "While Embiid is Philadelphia's oldest player at 32...."
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Philadelphia 76ers offseason recap, early 2026-27 season preview
The Sixers overhauled their front office and their roster this offseason. Will the major moves end Philly's title drought?
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
a full-sized bag of boom chicka pop should not open like that
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
why do so many of these player models have neck a vag that is worse than trump's irl neck vag?
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NHL players react to their odd NHL 27 facial scans
We asked over a dozen players about their facial scans and those of teammates that went viral. Many players were impressed with their digital avatars. Others were not.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I know it's the name of the arena, but this sentence still make the NHL sound like peewee league: "In a statement, the Red Wings said they 'look forward to seeing Dylan and his teammates at Little Caesars for the start of training camp.'"
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Dylan Larkin to attend Red Wings camp despite trade request
Longtime captain Dylan Larkin will be at Red Wings training camp, despite requesting a trade this offseason. Though Larkin will be in attendance, the team said it will begin the season without a captain.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@espn.com what did you do to the "Top Headlines" section font on your webpage? It looks terrible and doesn't match the rest of the page.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For all the bad press the NCAA is getting over "pro players," that press is doing a great job distracting from the fact that they did the wrong thing by not letting this year's 4-year graduates have a 5th year like they are doing for everybody who comes after them
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LSU tells SEC that Tigers have complied, won't disrupt meeting
In what appears to be a deescalation, LSU president Wade Rousse told Greg Sankey that the Tigers have "complied" with SEC rules and that the "issue is moot."
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I've been saying this since 2018, although this is the first time I've thought it was the government who was going to destroy your ballot
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
liberals are generally against surveillance. conservatives are against surveillance of themselves.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I actually agree with something Sen. John Kennedy said -- that it's stupid for the SEC to threaten to expel LSU. I was upset for a moment, but I felt better when I realized I largely disagree with everything else he said about this. Even the parts I agreed were presented in ways I didn't agree with.
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U.S. senator slams SEC over 'stupid' threat to expel LSU
U.S. Senator John Kennedy blasted the SEC's threat to expel LSU, saying he and other members of Congress "will be on them like a hobo on a ham sandwich."
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
According to the B1G, they DID look at the field clock. But ESPN says WM would have won under these rules. So ESPN is implying the B1G is lying, though they oddly do not explicitly say that the B1G statement is wrong. This is truly terrible reporting. Like not-worthy-of-a-HS-paper terrible.
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NCAA establishes 'standard timing protocol' in wake of Michigan win
The NCAA is establishing a new standard timing protocol in the wake of the controversial decision to award Michigan an extra second despite the broadcast clock showing zeroes.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not surprising
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LSU leaves Wright, Harris off roster for opener vs. Clemson
Dae'Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris, who were cleared earlier this week to return to college football after brief stints in the NFL, have not been added to LSU's roster for its season opener against Clemson.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm not really rooting FOR Miami, but I love watching Stanford get obliterated
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@espn.com, did you literally do no actual research for this article? The Cal jersey's aren't a "new" shade of anything. These are the Joe Roth game jerseys.
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Notre Dame and Wisconsin's alternates top best jerseys of CFB Week 1
Both Notre Dame and Wisconsin are pivoting from their usual classic looks for their Week 1 meeting at Lambeau Field.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Enes Kanter believes he has a first amendment right to harass women while they work
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Kanter Freedom files suit against Sky, Wintrust Arena owners
Enes Kanter Freedom is suing the Chicago Sky and the owners of Wintrust Arena, alleging in a 15-page complaint filed Thursday that his First Amendment rights were violated when he was removed from a Sky home game last month.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Of course it's disrespectful. Why would we show any respect to that racist, rapist bigot?
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
One of ESPN's sims had Cal going undefeated and winning the national title over VA Tech. It also had them making the playoffs almost 10% of the time. I'm reasonably optimistic for this season, but there is no way.
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2026 college football simulations: CFP, conference title odds
Using SP+ projections, we ran 1 million simulations of the 2026 season, so we found something for everyone.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What I don't understand about the Clippers-Kawhi situation is: didn't he want to play for the Clippers anyway? Was he going somewhere else if the Clippers didn't circumvent the cap to get him? And then: is this kind of cap circumvention rampant, like paying college players pre-NIL?
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
...in which the chancellor a flagship state university announces the intent of his school's sports league to violate court orders because their refusal to follow the law is "not a rule we will budge on."
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In the past, I've been afraid of renegades interfering with mail-in ballots. But now the gov't is just going to do it itself. Our elections have never been a model of fairness, but the US is genuinely not going to have a free and fair election this fall.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Okay but there used to only be two leagues and no divisions: " Option 5: Kill the leagues and divisions. You have a 30-team scrum and a schedule that is all about jostling for postseason seeding. This isn't what baseball has ever been...."
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How to keep losing teams out of MLB playoffs
It's possible that we could see multiple teams with records under .500 playing this October. That's a shame.
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I'm not Gritty, but I'm gritty @sunshipballoons.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You mean a court ruling that prohibits an organization from doing something also prohibits its constituents from doing the same thing? Shocking.
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Judge's order prohibits SEC from blocking athletes return
A Dallas judge signed an order Thursday that prohibits the NCAA, the SEC and its commissioner Greg Sankey from stopping a group of athletes from returning to college sports for one more season of play.
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