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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · Dec 12

Gakster's controversial takes thread:

I did this in the other site:

I will say, I will take up arms to change our counting system to Dozenal. The fact that a third is a REPEATING DECIMAL pisses me off.

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 9h

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 39m

(Also, I love how "Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis" was too long, so we called it Lou Gehrig's disease...and then that was too long and now we just call it ALS. That's funny. Poor Lou Gehrig had a disease named after him, and then we stopped using his name to refer to it. Idk which is worse lol)

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 46m

For the academics who follow me, Sarah Langs has also been battling ALS for a few yrs. She's only 32. We baseball folk are dreading she's not with us anymore. And she is being accused of plagiarizing numbers of something millions of people saw happen in real time. Unbelievable.

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 46m

This isn't plagiarism, this is just pointing out something that happened that I could look up on Stathead on my own volition. A third person posted something similar before both of them!!

Person A: The sky is blue!
Person B: Hey you stole my idea!!

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 57m

How the hell do you plagiarize a baseball stat?

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2h

Beefing with the most beloved person in baseball media didn’t go well? Wild, unforeseen!

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 1h

I'm in (another) Jack Benny rabbit hole right now. There's a lot I could say. I'll just say this: we can lose Hope and Burns, and, to a lesser extent, the Marx Bros to the sands of time. Losing Jack Benny to those sands would be a tragedy, and I think it's happening. 😞 He's so important to the craft

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 2h

Johnny Carson shared with others that he looked up to them (particularly Benny, famously), but hated that they ran themselves into the ground at old age. That's the reason he retreated from the public eye after he hosted his last Tonight Show. He didn't want to end up like them.

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 2h

Bob Hope, George Burns, the Marx Bros, and Jack Benny were the last of the Vaudeville generations. Vaudeville circuits *still* existed in the 70s, and Hope still appeared on those stages!

And Vaudeville comedy was what you might imagine it to be. Still being done during the disco era and Watergate!

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 2h

Milton Berle told a great joke (probably not his own, because he wasn't that talented) at George Burns's expense at a Dean Martin Roast.

"George, you look the same as you did 30 years ago! Old."

This was also true! He was seen as an elder in the 40s! But he would live 18 more years after the joke!

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 2h

Like I'm not trying enough, or committed enough if I don't write in the margins; if I don't stress about writing too much; or if I can't come up with something in the Q&A.

My philosophical talent is very "gunslinger"-y. My process isn't that deep.

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 2h

First, I juuuust missed out on those types of word processors. That's so cool you use it.

Re: Margins, I'm confident I know the material, and I have thoughts on it. I started my grad career 15 years ago, I know things and can engage. But I also feel like an outsider at times.

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 3h

Like, there have been times all of them have sucked.

But all of them have multiple great players I ENJOY watching, and the wins are just not there atm. That's unprecedented.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11h

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 3h

ALL of my teams (Mets, Jets, Rangers, Knicks) have remarkably talented players, talent any of them hadn't had in *years*

And somehow the Knicks are the ones that haven't completely shitted bricks...

yet.....

The Rangers became the first team in NHL history to get shut out in each of their first three home games of a season. Their 180-minute goal drought at Madison Square Garden is the second-longest, behind only the now-defunct Pittsburgh Pirates' 187:19 in 1928.

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 7h

a woman says i don 't know her on a tv show

Alt: a woman says i don 't know her on a tv show

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 7h

Accidental good thing to have happened, honestly. Right for the wrong reasons.

Fuck FIFA and the IOC.

Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 8h

Serious chance he's basically going to break one of the world's premier sporting events on a whim one day.

Trump threatens removal of World Cup games from Boston, Olympics from LA

Blaming Boston street takeovers and LA wildfires, the US president said both global sporting events could be moved for supposed safety reasons

www.theguardian.com

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 8h

Get rid of the sponsorships and the commercials from betting companies now.

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 11h

Padres manager Mike Shildt said he retired in part because of death threats from sports bettors:

Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain

www.nytimes.com

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 8h

Let's also understand: he is rich and a public person, so he knows how not to slip far from what he looks like. An actual union rep from Illinois doesn't have that savvy.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 5d

Asked to leave the No Kings Protest because I showed up in a 1999 Sacramento Jason Williams jersey.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16h

The government’s restrictions on immigration will turn this around any day now.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 16h

Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 11-13 October 2025

Approve: 14% (+1 from 4-6 Oct)
Disapprove: 69% (=)
Net: -55 (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 14h

Going to the Hate America Rally this Saturday, especially looking forward to seeing my former students/currently Antifa leadership.

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 1d

Turang what are you SWINGING AT

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 1d

i mean they're standing in an open field, not a strategically sound place

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 1d

bad time to walk in a run there

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

any culture, at any point in history, could have invented darude’s sandstorm. the fact that they didn’t is just further proof that old times were busted generally

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