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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
having just rewatched it, it was not as good as I remembered. the same was true of the sopranos on a recent rewatch. i wonder if my tastes have changed with the times and anti-heroes need more likable costars. but both are still great shows. it’s okay that prestige tv has matured.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Maybe for some. But then it’s still just semantics. What people react negatively to is the breakdown of fairness, which coincides pretty well with a breakdown in formal democratic institutions, whether or not they connect that to the term, “democracy”.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Seems like it’s not that hard to understand. People value fairness. Voting and establishing rules that apply equally to everyone is basically a widely-agreed upon method of establishing fairness. That is what people associate with democracy.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
liberals are the biggest marks in world history
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
the only real tennis fans tired of seeing sinner/alcaraz are fans of another player who can’t get past them. if they weren’t as good, men’s tennis would be in shambles and a 38 year-old would be lapping the field while playing half the season. this is some of the best tennis ever played.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
alcaraz played incredible tennis. gotta love this.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
the post-serena years were rough but we are truly back
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
cleaned it up for the tiebreak!
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
has there ever been an all-time great as careless as alcaraz when up 40-0 on serve and up 0-30 returning?
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
carlos refuses to hit it into the open court and novak knows this
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
so many errors from carlos
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
the wta must be tired from carrying this tournament for 2 weeks
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Osaka-Muchova with some of the best hitting all tournament
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
turned it back on to see it’s still terrible tennis
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
this Felix-Demon match is worse than the Sabalenka-Vondroušová match yesterday. Felix regressed to the mean and Demon’s serve is awful. If there were any justice, both would lose in straight sets. Sinner should play left-handed in the Semis.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
all alcaraz needs to do is put the ball in play and yet
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Carlos is gonna regret not just looping in his seconds there
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I love when Carlos does his servebot impression
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
you don’t have to worry so much about the fate of fascists. if the Dems ever get back into power, we already know they will do little to seek accountability and, insofar as they do, the justice system you seem to believe in favors the fascists anyway. they will be back in power in no time.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Carlos isn’t beating Shelton the way he played today
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Alcaraz’s first serve abandons him at the worst times
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
the giant shrug of it all is really unsettling
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
alcaraz v medjedovic is a low-intensity practice session
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
alcaraz is gonna have a hard time breaking if he can’t put a return in play
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Things on the ChatGPT sub-Reddit are getting grim.
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Tony Brewster Ⓥ🌈 @tonybdogs.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Whilst the police in London arrest blind pensioners in Wheelchairs for being anti-genocide, in Portsmouth the leader of UKIP makes a nazi salute at an anti migrant demo and the police do nothing. Welcome to Britain 2025.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
It’s possible those of us shocked at this outcome have overestimated the critical thinking skills of people we once thought reasonable because the words they used generally corresponded to what we already believed and so we projected a degree of independent thought onto what was just repetition
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 08/08/2025
Israel plans to invade and “take control” of Gaza City in a major ground operation. The decision came after a late night Security Cabinet meeting.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
yeah the crowd was bad. they also were just constantly wrong when cheering on line calls. it was like they don’t watch tennis.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I feel like the way that word is normally used in tennis is not so applicable in this situation. It was less that she couldn’t take the pressure of the match than that she clearly has some issues apart from tennis that got triggered. She was still up when she decided to quit.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
yeah. I thought this tournament was gonna be big for her self confidence. I guess it was, but not in the good way. It would have been better losing in the semis than the way she went out.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
yeah it was sad. I felt bad for Mboko who had to win her first finals against her idol who was not trying.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
She broke Mboko again with an angry return winner and her expression didn’t change. Just mad. Mboko could not stop double faulting and Naomi had plenty of chances to get her mind right and it was like she resented the opportunity. You knew she was gonna throw the 3rd when she lost the 2nd.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
She was up 6-2, 2-2 but was upset because she got broken twice in the second (the set started with 5 breaks). When she got broken a third straight time she basically gave up. She started hitting balls as hard as she could and looked like she didn’t want to be there.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I have never seen a tennis match, let alone a finals, where a player was leading by a set and decided to tank the match. Osaka was approaching penalization territory at some points there while Mboko kept double-faulting the breaks back. Just horrible.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
oh well
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
it’s not a proper financial meeting without woody allen present
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
seems like he could have just talked to a bank teller
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
you gotta wonder what Chomsky was getting out of a continued friendship. like was that friendship so nourishing intellectually? was Epstein really funny? even if you believe he had a clean slate, that doesn’t mean you also have to stay friends.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
osaka is looking different this tourney. it would be so awesome if she was back. she can play with anyone.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
did I say my post was referring to you?
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
imagine getting upset at this feckless party for considering doing something to win a game in which there are no longer any rules
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Whether it's conservatives assassinating State Senators in Minnesota or liberals refusing to sell Alan Dershowitz pierogis in Martha's Vineyard, both sides have taken incivility to an extreme.
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Brendan @writtenover.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
too bad higher ed decided to be a willing extortion victim instead of organizing and calling his bluff
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Rhiannon @aywarhiannon.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Amazon union organizer Chris Smalls was on the Gaza freedom flotilla which was just raided by Israeli forces.
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