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Don't look now, but the highest-scoring team in the 2026 playoffs, on a runs/game basis, is the Cleveland Guardians. Cleveland: 5.25 r/g Yankees: 4.60 r/g White Sox: 4.50 r/g Padres: 3,67 r/g Dodgers: 3.50 r/g etc.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 10h

you have very good handwriting.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also they are very near the stadium. You can see the one from the other.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Attention Papa Johns. Dipping a slice of pizza into some gluey yellow garlic sauce is disgusting. Please take these images out of your advertisements. Thanks.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'll wait until the Guadagnino movie, thanks.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That book Bullshit Jobs is useful for this.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That's interesting.... I agree with OP, why do we think it's uncommon? Is it purely because of maiden names getting written out of the record?

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it's decorative gourd season, motherfuckers

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know, and you're right but I've been playing this "killer" thing for so long I don't recognize it as sudoku anymore, and I love it. You're right, there's probably not that much for you there!

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I had this same weird jolt on Sunday.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I would love a version of this with your design sense attached. ... I've been playing this daily for a couple of years, I never get tired of it, I don't know why. Sudoku never did anything for me, especially.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you're looking for something to do, check this out. Sudoku, but this site's "killer" version which just means a simple overlay of bespoke boxes with integers attached, with or without the X diagonals being necessary, and a third variant.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah don't. It's great as is. It's recognizable as a game encountered elsewhere but the implementation is top-notch.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If we deserved it, if the GOP deserved it, it would hardly be worth doing. They're bad people who want bad things to happen to the commonweal.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If they had to sit around thinking about what freaking policies will benefit the commonweal, well that's for losers and Democrats which are synonymous, fuck that. We're in it for the removal of our adversaries' human rights and the power generally, which we don't deserve, that's part of the point.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think we can agree on something, which is that the nepotism/laziness has a performative aspect. It is not sheer luck that leads to it, they are telling the electorate that they have power and impunity. The program is not sufficiently successful without that.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The goal is to lead to safe seats and that leads to complacency/laziness. These are candidates who only function when the elections are not contested but Trump brings about conditions where they are contested and then the complacency costs them. Sheer nepotism is a bad electoral strategy, yes.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, this is correct but not everything is dictated by Trump. And nepotism is relevant to this. But the illegitimacy of the GOP predates Trump and relies on what we can broadly call shenanigans. Suppressing the vote, pruning voter rolls, gerrymandering, etc. The list is long and goes back years.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Sure, I hate Liberty Biberty too"

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I saw the trailer about a month ago without knowing it existed and I instantly thought "this movie is going to eat the Sorkin movie's lunch." Also looking forward!

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Has Ezra or Matt Yglesias written about the contempt for the GOP electorate implied by running Darline Graham?

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, I think that's a part of it but more important is bad habits bred by polarization and by gerrymandering and similar antidemocratic tendencies. Running Lindsey Graham's sister to replace Graham isn't really an index of stupidity, it's an index of complacency, that that helps the Dems.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And it ends up being kind of a Rorschach test, even though it doesn't have to be. You just have to think clearly to override it. But people cave to their biases and call it science. In the moment it feels like it's been confirmed but just wait three months and the conclusions will be different.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think these poor predictions are really about contempt for the regular Democratic Party processes that by definition are less decisive. Orwell was very good on this. People worship power, they identify with it and fantasize about it, and the Democrats are bad for that kind of objectification.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

- Out parties do better in the midterms - Trump in office is a huge drag on the GOP's numbers - Authoritarian parties in general and the GOP in particular are lazy about choosing good candidates in congressional races - The GOP successes in 2024 depended on POCs that it was intent on offending

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The weirdest part of this is that this was all broadly foreseeable. You just have to think about 2018 for like three minutes. The numbers this year are a **little** higher than I would've expected, but the general situation was almost predestined. But our sage observers couldn't see it.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kind of informs Trump's attitude as to how (say) ICE should treat the residents of such cities.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Learning just now that Richie Palacios was originally a character in Do the Right Thing

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In truth, Ingraham is the stupid one here, she can't make a 1:4 ratio conversion in her head

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of course they're both wrong. It's less than $2 a stick.

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've said for years Cleveland is better without any Burke in it

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this series has not had much in the way of incident to comment upon

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

not persuasive as a way of explaining what the impact of Morello's California vote was, sorry

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Martin Schneider @wovenstrap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The procedure is illegal in Ohio already.

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