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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 11h

I don't love the new Emi Grace LP but she plays guitar like a motherfucking rock star more than anyone else right now and I am excited to hear more from her.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 12h

the way Tracey called this moment an act of battery makes me unsure he knows what threats are and skeptical of these claims. But to his point, I wouldn't be upset if he was corrected.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 13h

Either Clara Jeffery doesn't read past the headline before reacting at a level where she doesn't even process the summary embedded in the post, she doesn't think Newt Gingrich is is an ideological lunatic, or she cannot count to three.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 17h

If the refs don't have some other explanation for that last Rhyne Howard "foul" then

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 20h

I was always taught that regardless of industry you should know your budget, hear what the person providing that service will charge, and if there's a massive gap in those numbers politely say "I'm sorry, we're so far apart that I don't want to waste your time or insult you trying to negotiate."

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It's Craigin' Time @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 24/05/2025

the best baseball post of all time

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 23h

My centrist position for online gambling is you should need to get a license from the government that involves passing a math test, and it comes with a cap on new deposits into your account per year.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When Charles Johnson was doing this in 2014 he was a niche social media guy that hid his face and was persona non grata in any mainstream outlet. Michael Tracey getting booked on television for doing the exact same thing 12 years later is not great.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Might be a hot take but I do not know anybody who needs or should have multi-room audio installed in their home. The use case for this stuff in a residence does not make sense to me.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a small part of this is just a guy getting mad that a woman knows ball. She was raised by a sportswriter, man.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

looks like bets on "will a Fever fan at a home game Say It" cash, presumably at -2000 odds.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

credit to the ad man who walked into a room at Levi's and said "ok the campaign is just butts. Not famous butts, just different butts. Enough butts that everybody watching will see at least one butt they like. Before you ask, shut up, everyone likes at least one kind of butt."

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't think Clark trying to be fiery and physical with A'ja is gonna work out well over time.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@highlightt.bsky.social I'm considering subjecting myself to this and expect I'll spend the whole runtime going "hell yeah, fuck him up. Fuck him up even worse. Hell yeah."

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saw an ad talking about how great "Johnny Depp's Hollywood comeback" is. Weirdly, Amber Heard hasn't gotten any work in film or television in three years. I wonder* what's going on there.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sending Miller to the Hague is a conservative position, doing a new Nuremberg is centrist, and debating whether he deserves the long or standard drop after that is the liberal position. Whether he gets a full and fair trial and series of appeals before that is up for debate imo.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I understand most people find their way out of bad emotions by focusing on positive things but for me personally, it helps to steer into the spin and just feel extra bad for a bit before rallying and regrouping. Anyways, just had some malort and the rebuilding process kicked into gear.

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Marcella Arguello @marcellacomedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of course social media suppresses flyers and doesnt show them to your followers even after you pay for ads, they want everyone staying online, inside and arguing all night. So this is your reminder to leave the house and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL WHATEVER THE FUCK!!!

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely don't think Hurts could have thrown an easier interception if he was trying to.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I didn't mean to make a joke, but my sincere internal monologue just went "What am I going to watch tonight, are there sports or should I pick a horror movie? Oh yeah there's football tonight, and it's... the Bears starting Case Keenum and QB. Well, guess it's horror movie either way."

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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hot dam! It's Beaver Week at the San Diego Zoo 🦫 The beaver ambassadors usually live behind the scenes, but Beaver Week means more chances to see and learn about them during special presentations all week long.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026

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@burntbulb.bsky.social

okay you can't keep taking every one of my posts and photoshopping it
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of my weirder preoccupations in celebrity bodyguards. Imagine your job is just being paid to be massive and hover and make eye contact with people and glower and be like "I wouldn't, babes." Have you seen Kendrick Lamar's bodyguard?

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

username cut out because they didn't want to be quoted, BUT! This is good! People are returning to communities closer to forums and irc networks instead of letting one giant company be every website!

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Instead of identifying a problem and creating a product to solve it, the tech industry has been desperately grasping for anything the failed products they invested in can possibly do. They call themselves "makers" and "builders" but they're just gambling addicts chasing losses on a massive scale.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gaethje stumbles into the thing every fighter should be taught about promoting themselves: Winning is even cooler if everyone thinks your opponent is really good. 'He's not weak, I just beat the shit out of him that badly' reflects way better on you than 'that wimp gave up.'

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am not hating the single dollar I bet on Atlanta to win it all.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

war eagle

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

really annoyed by the ad where they say Ben Affleck plays a mathematician and he corrects them saying it was an accountant. He wasn't talking about The Accountant you dork, he was talking about your critically panned film Paycheck (2003).

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

if you're not watching basketball for some reason, just know A'ja is currently at 30 points on 80/100/100 shooting.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My soul is being healed by the return of playoff basketball.

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Does my oven feel ennui? Does my iPad anticipate and fear its own inevitable obsolescence? Can my calculator get a boner?

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the white guy 20 seconds in grooving to anything with a kick on the 1 and 3 and snare on 2 and 4 is why so much popular streaming music is bad.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026

Wait you guys are getting job interviews?

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's worth remembering that nearly every decision Katzenberg ever made was bad and dumb and his few good decisions were the result of other people, ones with talent, working desperately to persuade or trick him out of the bad and dumb thing he wanted.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

good time to remind everyone that WNBA playoffs start in two days and will be extremely fun

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I haven't bought any new instruments or music stuff this year because of the unemployment situation and my Sweetwater guy called to make sure I was ok lmao

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Obviously you don't want to have a mad king in power, but if you had to? I think I'd be a pretty fun one.

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Rugby Respecter @whatmcgives.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

S-tier meme just dropped

Chicago Pope saying "Great things happen in Chicago."

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If they asked people who actually like watching TV shows then Chopped would easily be in the top 15.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I want to go prime Mark Coleman on this so badly.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Catching up on Battlebots and my goodness Minotaur is still the most fun combat sports athlete in the world.

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