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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 6h

This pairs well with your "annualized run rate" article today, because Character has been in constant decline for the last 2 years. Any "annualized" projections that included them were x13'ing a number that was *not* reliably recurring.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 10h

Re intentional grounding, the play doesn’t need a realistic chance of being completed, that’s nowhere in the rule. They blew the call.

Section 2 - Intentional Grounding

Article 1. Definition
It is a foul for intentional grounding if a passer, facing an imminent loss of yardage because of pressure from the defense, throws a forward pass that is not in the direction and vicinity of an originally eligible offensive receiver. The pass does not have to be incomplete for intentional grounding to apply.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I don’t think anybody else has a home office like that, not even the Captain’s quarters. Might have just been plot convenience for the episode with Lore (I think the first to show his quarters) but I wonder if there was more thinking that went into it.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If I'm advising a Dem candidate, those questions about impeachment are an opportunity to tie Trump's crimes and corruption around their opponents' ankles. "I would impeach Trump in a heartbeat, his list of crimes is longer than a CVS receipt, but Rs in congress are shielding him from accountability"

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think the "bother" is less about priorities (because it is pretty defensible to say, "it would fail, there's lots of other things we can focus on that are more achievable"), and more the lack of emotion, especially from Jeffries. How are you not ANGRY that Trump is doing crime with impunity?

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And AVT isn't one of the guys that's injured!

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It’s interesting how this requires them to be selective with their DTRs, because I don’t know if any of these guys, other than Onwenu, has a true season-ender. Like I wonder if Baringer rides the pine unless and until his replacement becomes a problem.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They’re calling up a safety from the P-squad after already signing Brown from the P-squad earlier in the week? Do they have some formation that’s 4 safeties and no corners?

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Any intended difference was lost on me, watching Prodigy, I thought it was a deliberate reference to the squad established in TNG.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Prodigy got it from TNG, “The First Duty”, featuring Tom Paris’s doppleganger.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A glass every half hour?! What are you, an almond farm?

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If the AI companies made enough money on AI to pay income tax (that is, any) it might solve the more severe brewing fiscal crises of defaulting debts and plummeting stocks.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Daily until tomorrow” 🤔

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I started into the podcast in year 3, and listened to the backlog—twice. It held up great. And I never even got the topical comedy in the first place, because I’m Canadian. It’s funny people being funny. It’s funny. I really miss it.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think the Athena is the best creative new ship design in a long time. But it doesn't reduce all that easily to a model, and from these pictures, doesn't look great.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Generally yes, though my understanding is that you still have to make (and use up) the designation if it’s on cut-down day. I remember something about them retaining a guy (I forget who) on their initial 53 only to IR him like a day later, and this was speculated as the reason why.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Him and Vance seemed like the front runners for a while, but now I think everyone will get out of Vance’s way, because the nomination is a one-way ticket into a woodchipper.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don’t know how he got “hacked”, and don’t care enough to check, but the “hacks” that a VPN can prevent are like 1 in a billion. They have some limited use cases for privacy and (mainly) circumventing geofences, but their marketing as “security” tools is pure bullshit.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You had this in your math already, but interesting that they are in genuine danger of going over the cap with NLTBE roster bonuses, practice squad elevations, and injury replacements. You think they do some maneuvering to make space?

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you eat enough crab salts, your butthole *will* look like that.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What really sets it apart is the output. Crazy. Scary.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's hard to feel more dim about the future of humanity than when I see a non-fiction bestseller list. So much scam artist bullshit, it's like reading an Amway catalog. Very hard to know what's actually good.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looks like a legitimate forward pass targeting a receiver, to me --🦓

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The rationale for recognizing NLTBE roster bonuses seemed to be that they were earned and paid mid-season, as opposed to things like "yards gained", "sacks", etc. that are cumulative over the season, and paid at year-end. In principle that should work both ways.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You helped clarify for me that when a player earns an NLTBE roster bonus, it’s charged current year. I’m surprised the inverse isn’t also true—when a player fails to earn an LTBE roster bonus, the credit should also be current year. It should be reciprocal!

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🤦🏻‍♂️ The Bills have already had a zero-punt game against the Patriots, I don’t need to see another one.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Investors like it when revenue goes up in correlation with capex (I know at least Microsoft has touted this), so it’s a great cheat if you can wipe capex off the books for $8b in assets gathering dust. Creates a short term revenue bump, too, on the “asset sale”.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t think that’s the point, because most of the outside money is debt. The rubes aren’t buying into the upside of owning GPUs (instead of renting them), they’re just getting X% on principal. I think this is about burying debt for GPUs that won’t be operational for years.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The “Polo, polo or pollo” polo?

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like, it's bananas for Amazon to say we're "improving our balance sheet" by replacing the AI bubble's most prized asset with a liability (lease obligation). You might say they're offloading risk, but only if they can get out of the lease. Otherwise they are just cementing the risk.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It does remind me of what private equity does with restaurants and department stores. Sell off the real estate and lease it back. Makes sense if you need an influx of cash to pay off a high-interest debt (e.g., post a debt-financed takeover). But a business isn't stronger with fewer assets.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You've worked for years Ed, with such detailed research and in-depth analysis, to show people what a dog the AI industry is, and they just... they IPO'd it out.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

8 snaps is quantification, and the run game he was meant to help break open has been atrocious.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Would be great if someone made an album that’s all killer, no filler. But what to call it? 🤔

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

lol, the corrective-scold reply gets its own separate corrective-scold reply. Bluesky is earning its reputation, today. I don’t even disagree, I just find it funny how much it conforms to the Bluesky stereotype.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They won the conference championship with 10 points, and lost the Super Bowl with 13, so that 12 point average picks up right where they left off!

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gilliam’s been much less than hyped. Byard’s been invisible too (though at least he’s out there). On top of Doub’s struggles, and AVT being underwhelming (even though healthy), this free agency is shaping up horribly.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Noticed it on CBS, too. I remember the Week 1 Packers/Vikings game, they declared a penalty call and then a non-call "wrong" on back-to-back plays. I don't feel like the refs have been especially bad this year, but for whatever reason the broadcasters have stopped pulling punches.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean, of course they hold out hope, otherwise what are they raising money for, why are they spending it, why do all these “operatives”, staff and consultants have jobs.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wigs + Celia Gooding brings back unhappy memories of the S3 premiere, but these photos do look very cute.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

lol, that dude was carried off the field screaming. If he’s actually fine, I hope his O line never lets him hear the end of it.

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Toronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

All these people/companies/countries caught up in the opportunity that Trump *takes* bribes, they managed not to notice that Trump is incapable of feeling indebted to anyone. Even the people he literally owes debts to! What chance do you have if you did him a (wink, wink) “favour”?

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