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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago?
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 23/06/2026
this letter is FUCKING CRAZY
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
They tried to hide but I got em anyway
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Pellechs @pellechs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This hit me so hard this week.
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI.  Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your are…
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/11/2025
Guys like Freddie and Ohtani and Mookie are also there because the Dodgers were the organization willing to pay workers their fair market value as opposed to most of the rest of the league working as a cartel to depress worker pay!
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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Three of the 12 most pivotal plays in baseball history by cWPA occurred last night
Updated cWPA board
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Emma Baccellieri @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
“I don’t know how much I’ve got,” he told Prior through his interpreter, Yoshihiro Sonoda, “but I can give you something. All I need is to be given enough time to warm up.” Verducci going long on Yamamoto, Rojas, Smith and the Dodgers:
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Dodgers Become Baseball’s Modern Dynasty With an Unforgettable World Series Win
Los Angeles won its third World Series in six years with some of the sport’s biggest stars and unlikely heroes—and, perhaps, some divine intervention.
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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Dodgers with 3 HR in a postseason game Kiké Hernández 2017 NLCS G5* Chris Taylor 2021 NLCS G5 Shohei Ohtani 2025 NLCS G5* (*game started by Jose Quintana)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Absolutely brutal.
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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.
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The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein
YouTube video by The Onion
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bemorte @bemorte.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
If only our church had doctrine or history related to: - laying down arms even when it made people less safe - a conspiracy to install a king into a democratic system with the support of the people - the importance of protecting groups from being hunted and expelled from their homes
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Chad Moriyama @chadmoriyama.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Holy shit, the pen got a fortunate break.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!
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Charlie Kirk: Joe Biden should be "put in prison and/or given the death penalty for crimes against America"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2025
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
“Charlie Kirk in His Own Words” 17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.
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Charlie Kirk in His Own Words
17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The future is watching a Mormon influencer doing self-promotion following an assassination through your phone screen until you are the Mormon influencer filming
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Foolish Baseball @foolishbb.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Someone had to be brave enough to say it, but we can't let something as pure and American as gambling be tainted by sports like baseball. My argument: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyKH...
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Baseball Is Ruining Gambling | Baseball Bits
YouTube video by Foolish Baseball
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Utah Senator Mike Lee has been in the news a lot recently, and many have fixated on his radicalization in recent years. In this youtube video I trace how Mike Lee is the product of two cultural forces: a longstanding right-wing extremism within Mormonism and the more recent MAGA-fication of the GOP.
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The Radical Rise of Mike Lee: Mormonism Meets MAGA
YouTube video by Professor Benjamin Park
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Taylor Petrey @taylorpetrey.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
1/ The way Christians used the Bible to defend slavery is eerily similar to how many now use it to condemn queer people. The battle isn’t new. It’s the same script with new actors.
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that obviously true things are in fact true.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Really good, predictably infuriating rundown of what happened to Outside Magazine. It's a pretty familiar story of media biz/VC fuckery, told comprehensively and well, by the membership-funded site that is already taking Outside's place. escapecollective.com/theres-a-wil...
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There’s a wildfire outside
Media veterans are demanding their names be removed from Outside Magazine's masthead. How did we get here?
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Liminal LDS @liminal-lds.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Even when you give the Church the benefit of the doubt, its current policy doesn't do what it thinks it does.
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The Benefit of the Doubt
For a minute, let’s give the church the complete benefit of the doubt on its change in policy on undocumented immigrants. Let’s assume that its policy change was meant to ensure some ai…
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Liminal LDS @liminal-lds.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@smbrnsn.bsky.social has been on a roll the last couple days and I hadn't been paying close enough attention.
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Ye Took Me In
Perhaps the most puzzling and troubling part of the church’s recent directive to church leaders on undocumented immigrants is the instruction that if church leaders believe a member is &#8220…
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Liminal LDS @liminal-lds.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Some more thoughts from @smbrnsn.bsky.social that I feel as well.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
So @microsoft.com has apparently forced AI garbage no actual writer wants into the latest version of Word. Here’s how to disable this insulting shit:
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Chino @chinoblanco.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I Don’t Want Kingdoms, Thrones, or Dominions. Also, Abish Pratt would not have liked Elder Bednar. "You young men will one day create earths! You’ll have unlimited priesthood power to manipulate elements and build earths!” I raised my hand. “What will girls get to do?” exponentii.org/blog/i-dont-...
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I Don't Want Kingdoms, Thrones, or Dominions — Exponent II Blog
I don't want Joseph's definitions of power. I don't want the priesthood man's ideal of eternal blessings. I don't want kingdoms, thrones, or dominions.
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
New Folding Ideas! Mantracks: A True Story of Fake Fossils youtu.be/2UDXdqqJQPE
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Mantracks: a True Story of Fake Fossils
YouTube video by Folding Ideas
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys. This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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Chad Moriyama @chadmoriyama.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Now this, this is #Content. (H/T: www.reddit.com/r/Dodgers/co...)
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therealfernel.bsky.social @therealfernel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Am I the only one who thinks they should have done the Simpsons MNF broadcast during a game where the Broncos are playing?
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a cartoon of the simpsons standing in front of an abandoned building
Alt: a cartoon of the simpsons standing in front their house with the Denver Broncos playing football on the front lawn
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 28/11/2024
In memory of Hal Lindsey, a guy who went out the normal way, here's the entire history of the Rapture:
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The entire history of the Rapture
Scroll to the end to become ready
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cal @calvinjburke.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
“I do not accept any interpretation of scripture or scriptural passages that portrays God as being partial, unforgiving, hateful, or vengeful—It is more important to uphold the character and will of God than it is to support every line of scripture." — Lowell L. Bennion
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Taylor Petrey @taylorpetrey.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
As a scholar of religion and a Latter-day Saint , I consider that this is perhaps the greatest LDS story ever told and a crucial commentary on faith and doubt, religion and secularism, power and freedom. Huge spoilers below: 2/
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