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Nathaniel Calahan

@thecrazyrodian.bsky.social
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History/lit teacher, wrangler of feral kids, reads way too many bad books and not enough good ones. Never quite finishes video games anymore.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 17h
critique every little thing you want about the movie and the book! but please, my god, it's fiction. why are you assigning personal motives to the author like that? Do y'all think Lee Child does a murder in every small town he visits? that Stephen king abuses dogs because of Cujo? IT'S GENRE FICTION
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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
have you considered asking the fans not to validate that narrative constantly
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There is no shortage of examples of teams ignoring obvious bad conduct for the sake of the sport. But her actual play since the ESPN profile has plummeted from decent to entirely replaceable.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This series was great, best of the playoffs so far. Two things I learned: 1) GSV is still a work in progress, even as they are advancing. That's scary. 2) Dallas is already WAY closer to great than I thought they'd be.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The thing about the Aces is not just that they can win in many ways but that they can win *in the clutch* in many ways.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A lot of time left, and a lot can happen still, but one thing for sure is that the Aces aren't playing flat and careless tonight. In an even effort matchup I think they win 8/10 times.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nothing the NFL loves more than rehabilitating men who hurt women.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.
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Richard Cohen @richardcohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The amount of mistakes the USA broadcasts make, whether about understanding the rules, or just knowing what's going on, is frankly embarrassing. #WNBA
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Send beer or coffee money to your Chicago friends today.
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Pluto Annatto @plutoannatto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So, you see, the WNBA decided to give up on Eastern and Western conference finals, and instead moved to a system in which teams were divided between the Brutal Sweep conference and the Messy Three Game Showdown conference
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Andy Tulin (Subscribe to The Post Presence version) @andytulin.net · 29/09/2026
The Steelers went to two Super Bowls in Mike Tomlin’s first five seasons, then he developed a crippling Minecraft addiction and they went 3-9 in the playoffs over the rest of his career
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Liberty are playing the way the preseason rankings thought they would all year. This is a team that can win it all!
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Dana Holtzbert @danaholtzbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just had to. #WNBA
Sabrina Ionescu's mean mug look being combined with Popeye the Sailor's cap and pipe.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lucky bounce makes are a legitimate part of basketball, and usually indicate which team has the magic spirits on their side for the night.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is actually the most prosecutable thing about Smith TBH
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Aces don't got it tonight. The execution on simple passes is off, the turnovers are stupid ones, and the shooting is flat. Barring the stars doing star things, this could be Indiana by 15+.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Chris Rufo spent a lot of time extolling colorblind individualism." No he didn't. That's not true.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A lot of people still seem convinced that the internet is a forum for sharing information instead of a corporate curated ad farm tailored to everyone's individual interests. Of course a ton of people have never heard of this song!
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I kind of think the second team could beat the first team head to head.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This more or less matches most of my experience with high schoolers over the last decade. The tools are (mostly) there but there's no initiative or stamina for the job.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What are two players who aren't sure which is the pass button on their controller.
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Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 22/09/2026
Jason Benetti gets absolutely roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. 🤣
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
TIL, and I don't know why I hadn't seen it before
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Look, I'm not sure Jackie Young will ever seriously be in MVP consideration, but the list of people ahead of her is small and (should be smaller).
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For years, Alaska officials prosecuted (& persecuted) a community of American Samoans in the city of Whittier, threatening them with years in prison for the crime of voting. You may have read about this when we covered it in Bolts earlier this year. HUGE NEWS: Alaska just dropped all charges.
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After a Yearslong Nightmare, Relief for American Samoans Punished for Voting - Bolts
Alaska officials for years accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting, but finally dropped those charges this month.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
At some point AI boosters need to stop being so insecure about people calling their new favorite thing shit. There will always be people who call your favorite thing shit. There are people who think puppies are shit. Learn from Yankees fans how to cope with loving something everyone else hates.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is true, but also Wren House Pie Thief is an absolute treat (and the pecan / other barrel aged special releases are so good it's unfair).
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hey look, something(1) is happening(2) here(3). 1) a shitty thing! 2) pushed by the shitty school! 3) on its actual students!
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.
buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com
SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School
What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Simply to add that “despise and resent teachers” is such a thin euphemism for “despise and resent women.”
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
20th c. developers: I'm gonna build a building and it's gonna be so fucking high, higher than yours 21st c.: if I can't see a forest from my mid city balcony then it's literally Stalinism
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There are a lot of very fine people with very fine politics, including most people on this very fine (okay mediocre) app, who are going to be absolutely blindsided when Republican ed policy surges in popularity and public support even if the rest of things swing the other way.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A lot of people read "something is happening" and decided it meant you must be a complete fool, and when confronted with evidence that you're not, they decided they couldn't possibly be wrong and doubled down.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not a single thing Annie said was a defense of Alpha School as a model of education, just that it's one of the many new corporate schemes emerging to hunt her own white whale, the AP program. Bluesky remains undefeated at turning every conversation into a shitty contest.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Bluesky challenge to actually read the real point of a thread: impossible. Nice to see the new dogpiling rules are worth about as much as we thought they'd be.
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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hell yea.
Riley ganes: I want to a wnba game in Mpls...it was a bunch of disgruntled lesbians. It felt like the entire arena was booing Sophie Cunningham
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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
people don't seem to be getting that it doesn't matter if the student accounts are AI generated. the product is advertising what it does, and real children are involved.
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No Escalators @noescalators.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Michigan fans explaining why there was still a second on the clock
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Luis Paez-Pumar @lpp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
That was one of the most blatant pieces of cheating I’ve ever seen lmao
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Mark Kelly: if you're given illegal orders you have to refuse them Reacher: if you're given illegal orders you have to hospitalize your superior officer
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My personal theory is that "MAHA" is a misleading brand or name because it presupposes those voters are inevitably MAGA, which many of them are not.
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just divide by 100
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
warren zevon:
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Nathaniel Calahan @thecrazyrodian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Dogpiling is actually very easy to define. It refers to the act of a mob of people on social media unanimously and rudely insulting a conservative intellectual, Bluesky employee, or NYT editor.
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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My thoughts on the MA-6 Primary Results.
Text that reads: "Thoughts on the MA-6 Primary Results. I am grateful to every supporter and volunteer who chose to believe that better politics are possible. This campaign was about raising the bar, of expecting better of our elected representatives. Too often we have seen establishment Democrats praising ICE, subsidizing data centers, funding genocide, or trying to blame the 2024 loss on our support for trans children. When professional politicians fail to meet the moment, regular people will step up.
This last year I have been honored to hear the stories of people across all 39 different towns and cities. And everywhere I went, voters have been clear: we can’t allow fascism to continue to rule over Massachusetts, and we can’t allow AI to endanger people, the environment and our future."
Text that says: "Thoughts on the MA-6 Primary Results (cont.) I extend my congratulations and endorsement to Dan Koh. His support for organized labor carries real weight in our progressive district, and he will fight back against Trump’s attacks on healthcare, reproductive rights and trans existence.

I will continue to fight to make AI work for us. As Howard Dean said, we are the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party, and that movement continues. I encourage anyone inspired by my campaign to join the Democratic Socialists of America by going to https://join.dsausa.org.
Together, we will reboot democracy.
-Bethany Andres-Beck"
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