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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 8m

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 8m

At some point in his papacy, Pope Bob is going to acknowledge that Evangelicals don’t think Catholics are real

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Doug @doug.city · 48m

The standard—and not totally incorrect—narrative is that the US basically abandoned transit after WWII, but there was a real revival underway in the 1970s that stalled out by the mid-1980s as the political winds shifted. Things have improved since, but we've never fully recovered that ambition.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1h

UMTA R&D spend from 1972-1989. The amounts in the 1980s appear to be overstated as a lot of those projects were commissioned in the 1970s and were finishing up. Dollars are not adjusted for inflation.

New spend by the late 80s was down to $13m/yr, $3m/yr of which went into 'privatization' =>

Tables of new R&D spend between 1985-1989. Spending on research related to train and system design had been entirely zeroed out.

Table of R&D spend from 1972-1985. The wind-down begins in 1982.

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 1h

This also describes North Dakota funnily enough

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 6h

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 7h

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 3h

Congress can at any time choose to behave differently. They haven’t actually stripped it of any power. It is because they have a (slim) majority of their own party there who doesn’t care, and a SCOTUS majority willing to give technical relief they largely won’t put into precedence

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 1d

I’d never really experienced it much before but holy shit now I know what people mean when they say the Azov Battalion has a power-bottom domination problem

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 13h

Hope everyone is ready to do more baseball tomorrow

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Spike Friedman @spikefriedman.bsky.social · 13h

TIME FOR A FEW SMALL BEERS

a man with his arms outstretched is standing in front of a police car on a road .

ALT: a man with his arms outstretched is standing in front of a police car on a road .

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13h

announcer: we have never seen 2 teams play this hard for their playoff lives

every fan: These teams had 11 hits between them in 15 innings

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 13h

Seattle, your long night of edging has finally climaxed

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 13h

The dog fell asleep some time around the 9th inning, just woke up, looked at the tv in disgust and went back to sleep

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 13h

First World Series without and ALDS winner

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 15h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 14h

are we getting a 15th inning?

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 14h

they just announced this is the last baseball game ever

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 16h

I think a lot about how Michelle Obama remarked on regularly being in rooms with the most powerful and wealthy people in the world and her chief takeaway was that they're just not that smart

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 14h

The only way we’re getting good personal essays again is if major publications are forced by law to only hire people who went to public colleges, or we have another Depression

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 14h

everybody wants to be Joan Didion or Eve Babitz, but nobody is actually as interesting

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 14h

shorter re-edit of Chinese Bookie or Woman Under the influence are the best ones to start with. If you don’t like those, you probably ain’t gonna like the others

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 15h

We love baseball

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 15h

It is interesting how some American impulses, like questioning the size of government, are so deeply rooted even these guys can’t shake it off

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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 16h

"THAT'S THREE OF A KIND FOR THE LAS VEGAS ACES! WNBA CHAMPIONS FOR THE THIRD TIME IN FOUR YEARS! A DYNASTY DECLARED!"

Ryan Ruocco with the call for ESPN. 🏀🏆🎙️ #WNBAFinals #WNBA

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 17h

Its clearly because they are attracted to the blue hair she/they/thems young enough to be their granddaughters and the cognitive dissonance has driven them insane

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 17h

The entire way they’ve approached this shutdown has been a total catastrophe for them, but they only understand how to quadruple down on everything so here we go

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