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Bryan Toporek

@btoporek.bsky.social

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Senior multiplatform editor at Bleacher Report, contributor at Liberty Ballers, Forbes Sports, FanSided and Silver Screen & Roll, and a Process truster until the bitter end.

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 6h

Agreed. If there was more of a price difference between your options, it’d be a harder choice, but I think he’s clearly the answer

Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 6h

How many keepers do you get?

Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 7h

The Eagles also lost twice in a five-day stretch, including to a team that just lost by double digits to the Saints

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 14h

Need a detailed report on these ASAP

Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 14h

Trump finally did it. He made America great again.

Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 14h

everyone says america doesn’t invent things anymore but

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 20h

Money.

Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 20h

As annoying as the political scolds who can’t take a joke on here are, I will happily take that over an algorithm that promotes AI/crypto/gambling scammers any day of the week

Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 20h

One of the many, many reasons that I’m grateful for this place is that this might be the only social media network that isn’t overrun by this slop

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 21h

Fake AI videos mocking dead celebrities are going viral. We talked to their families, and they're horrified.

We break down OpenAI's Sora 2 and the moral and legal problems of "synthetic resurrection."

Gift link: wapo.st/4nNKzd3 w/ @tatumhunter.bsky.social

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

What a game.

Goodnight to all the fellow sickos who stayed up for that.

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

We're only 32 innings away from glory

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

Checks in on the baseball

Justin Klugh
@justin_klugh
JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes
1:13 AM • Oct 28, 2015 • Twitter Web Client
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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

Whichever team wins this game will have approximately zero remaining pitchers!

Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

I guess Orion Kerkering saved us from this level of hell, so that's nice

Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

This game began with Tarik Skubal striking out 13 batters in six innings and that feels like a distant memory now

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Justin Russo @flybyknite.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight's Game 5 of Tigers-Mariners is the longest (14 innings) winner-take-all game in MLB history.

Justin Russo @flybyknite.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight's Game 5 of Tigers-Mariners is the longest (12 innings) winner-take-all game in a non-Wild Card series since 1924.

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations in advance to the Toronto Blue Jays for their victory in Game 1 of the ALCS

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine a pitcher cleanly fielding a groundout, couldn't be me

Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

And here I thought a playoff game couldn't end a dumber way than it did last night

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

SUPER FUN AND NOT AT ALL EXCRUCIATING, RIGHT?

Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

As it turns out, I think I might have sold it for Super Bowl LIX

... worth it

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

My soul still hasn't returned to my body

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

Don't worry, Tigers and Mariners fans, extra-inning playoff baseball is super fun and not at all excruciating

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Gasol to the Raptors!

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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