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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 1h

That sucked

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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 2h

Reminding myself that the ‘92 Jays lost Game 1 of both the ALCS and the WS before winning in 6. Not against a guy who might not even be a playoff starter normally, but still.

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 2h

Ooooof

James G @orth.ca · 2h

21 balls in play, 1 hit

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 2h

What bats

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 2h

Did you guys leave your hitting shoes in the Bronx or something

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 9h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 9h

A thing I have learned from being online since 1995:

If you're a writer, editor, journalist, academic, you have to be ready to go contrarian when you feel it. And if you're feeling it all the time, such that it's become your idenitity, that's a signal. You broke your mind.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11h

Little over a month ago, I was told I was hysterical for being upset about the urban occupations by a white guy working in the beltway.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11h

They Were Academics Who Dared to Have Non-MAGA Views. Charlie Kirk Started a Watchlist to Make People Like Them Pay

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 13h

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 13h

“Uh, he’s not a liberal, so he must be a conservative. That covers all the possibilities, right? Let me look up the word in this dictionary from the 80s”

Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 13h

This is of course what happens when political journalists have a two-word vocabulary

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

About a week ago, the New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast portrayed Russell Vought as a devout Christian, a true “small government” conservative who loves the free market, and a man with a great work ethic. A remarkable combination of credulousness and deliberate whitewashing.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 4d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 14h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Reviewer 2 has comments.”

Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 15h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"The root cert expired."

Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 15h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“We are GDPR certified.”

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 14h

Gotta wonder if Alan Moore had written Watchmen now, if Ozymandias would have been a SV techbro like Thiel.

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 15h

Ozymandias isn’t an early-modern person, Dr. Manhattan says “Nothing ever ends,“ and there is no world government, but apart from that sure, man

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 15h

When you can’t even grasp the point of one of the best-known comic books

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 15h

Ya don’t say

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d

"Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call 'financial engineering'. In other words - there are fears these companies are overvalued."

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 16h

After decades of pretending The Left has been censoring things by writing "this character is a bit problematic" on tumblr, it is now just accepted that conservatives are going to throw a massive tantrum that should be listened to (just capitalism) every time a black person appears on screen

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes

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Toronto Blue Jays (Bot) @bluejaysbot.bsky.social · 1d

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine these being your values: I think disabled children have it too easy, they should have less stuff. That's the global right atm, those are the people we're dealing with.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 1d

Nah looks more like waccy tabaccy to me

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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