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Knuckle Joey @knucklejoey.bsky.social · 2h

got to watch that game with my son, answering his questions and he says "Daddy, I get why you like this"

fuck yeah

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it's charloween! (it/its) @charloh.online · 2h

bro they're rebomping your smoops on flimpy

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Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social · 2h

we’ve been watching NEWHART every night at 10:30 on broadcast television and there’s never been a tv couple that hates each other more than dick and joanne

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h

Good time to take four hours and watch this if you never have before youtu.be/TIgK56cAjfY?...

The History of the Seattle Mariners: Supercut Edition

YouTube video by Secret Base

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Hawk Ghost @gateshawk.bsky.social · 5h

The Goodwill mannequin is struggling but aren’t we all

Goodwill mannequin with a top-sider halfway off, black dress shorts, blue pullover with his hands and arms seemingly tucked inside as if it’s really cold out

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Kelly Dwyer @kdonhoops.com · 3h

I just checked, Game 5 is way longer than this: youtu.be/TIgK56cAjfY

The History of the Seattle Mariners: Supercut Edition

YouTube video by Secret Base

youtu.be

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 4h

Noted good guy Adam Amin is calling the shit out of this game btw. A real multi-sport talent in the mold of Nantz or McDonough

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Kelly Dwyer @kdonhoops.com · 5h

really is nice to see a person I've never heard of acting in a commercial

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 6h

I'm in a 3-1 count against Tarik Skubal. Got him right where I want him. I proceed to guess wrong, missing a changeup by two feet. The bat flies out my hands and my pants fall down and I tell the ump "I'm good, let's just call that a strikeout."

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Kelly Dwyer @kdonhoops.com · 6h

champion.

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Kelly Dwyer @kdonhoops.com · 6h

All-Time Badass

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Drew @drew-h-stevens.bsky.social · 12h

After having his career rescued by a meniscus and cartilage transplant, Lonzo Ball is just grateful to still be able to play the game he loves.

That he now gets to do it for a team that can “actually” make a run is icing on the cake.

For @thebigs.bsky.social.

www.thebigs.us/single-post/...

Lonzo Ball, "blessed" to be a Cavalier, Returns to United Center

CHICAGO — News travels fast ordinarily, but when it comes to how quickly word found Lonzo Ball about his trade from the Chicago Bulls to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Isaac Okoro this summer, it might a...

www.thebigs.us

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Kelly Dwyer @kdonhoops.com · 13h

this is where he truly needed Michael Finley to step in

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

“Because of the tremendous wealth of key figures in [the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia], major corporations have enabled, collaborated with, and turned a blind eye to [its] efforts to suppress, torture, falsely imprison, terrorise and murder dissenters both within Saudi Arabia and around the world.”

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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AUgetoffmygold @augetoffmygold.bsky.social · 1d

Vintage Almost-Pop Stardom month on Greatest Pop Stars! First: @alinaisyou.bsky.social on 1995 Björk.

-Does Jay Leno get freaked out by dolphin sounds?
-Should Jean Paul Gaultier have intro'd Björk + Madonna?
-'Post' or 'Homogenic'?
-'Tank Girl': actually any good?
www.billboard.com/music/pop/bj...

Would We Have Called Björk a Pop Star in 1995?

This Vintage Almost-Pop Stardom episode of the Greatest Pop Stars podcast looks at the Björk of 30 years ago — too enigmatic to fit in anywhere, but too spectacular to ignore.

www.billboard.com

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 15h

it's Alex Rubenstein Time www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0BX...

How to dominate the World Series and lose

YouTube video by Secret Base

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Kelly Dwyer @kdonhoops.com · 15h

all that and a little hair on my upper lip!

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 15h

Our executive editor, Wes Wilson, did a great job on this story. It's about a College Station, Texas woman who had her mugshot used in a fake viral Facebook post. Despite the sordid details of her arrest being put all over the internet, Megan has almost no recourse: www.chron.com/news/article...

Fake story puts real Texas woman in Olive Garden breadsticks hell

A fake story about an angry Olive Garden waitress throwing breadsticks at customers is going viral on Facebook. But they used a real Texas woman's picture and it's ruining her life.

www.chron.com

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Kelly Dwyer @kdonhoops.com · 15h

disagree, we're all 12, exactly at a sixth-grade level.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18h

as a cognitive scientist, I can confirm we don't know how humans think

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Kelly Dwyer @kdonhoops.com · 15h

the phrase "criminally underrated" needs to be thrown in jail

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hakkiles34.bsky.social @hakkiles34.bsky.social · 16h

035 - MS
BIG BILL BROONZY ♦️
(Scott*, 26-06-1893/1903_ Chic., Il., 14-08-1958)
Lee Conley Bradley
🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎤🎸
Teacher: Papa Charlie Jackson
Y.A.: 20s-50s
{Bolivar C., Miss./Ark. blues, Chic. & country blues, jazz}

youtu.be/N-pShRISHnQ?...
w💣w‼️

*or Lake Dick, ARK

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 16h

One of the great jazz photographs, by Bob Parent:

Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes, Thelonious Monk & Charlie Parker
The Open Door, New York, September 13, 1953

"Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft."
- John Coltrane

A photo of the small stage, with the four musicians performing.

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Kelly Dwyer @kdonhoops.com · 16h

Lay Down Substack

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 17h

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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