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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 1h

If your question is who waits in line an hour for a haunted house, the answer involves having 17F and 12M both in the cast. We are (for now) no longer last in line.

I wonder if anyone else timed their visit by leaving home when the baseball game ended.

matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 1h

Impeccable timing of the day: in line for a haunted house with what we heard was an hour wait. We've been in line 15 minutes. We are still the back of the line. (The people who were briefly behind us bailed at some point)

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 15h

the longer we do this, the more very human relationships and calculuses INSIDE OUR OWN TENT are going to be affected

we do not need existential discussions about “how much Nazi is too much Nazi” for a DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CANDIDATE especially when the other side is sending DOJ to election sites

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apocalypse meow @jess.shakesess.fyi · 3h

i walked through the haunted house and said hello and thank you to all of the monsters

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Stoeten @stoeten.bsky.social · 3h

We interrupt this World Series for a very touching thing and also some bullshit

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 2h

All the crap U2 got for the album that was on every iPhone... Jonas Brothers should be far more vilified because at least U2 didn't literally interrupt the flow of a game

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Lisa Marie @lisamarietea.bsky.social · 3h

I don't mean to be cynical af but stand up to cancer signs should say stand up to the US government for defunding research if you want to do anything besides being weirdly performative.

Stand up to health insurance companies. Stand up for patients rights.

And then inexplicably the Jonas Brothers?

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 3h

after a season of 175 games where there were no halftimes or other kinds of lengthy mid-inning delays other than the middle of the 7th we introduce new things that modify the pace of the game and warmth of the pitchers for the World Series, because sponsors

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 3h

"Cities should remain museum pieces for incumbents and any newcomer is strictly a burden" is the most loser mindset that powers the most loser politics in America today.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 13h

Moving to New York and pulling the ladder up behind myself, but wokely

elly belle @literElly
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hey full offense can people from out of state stop saying they'll move to new york immediately if zohran wins? I know a lot of you are joking but people whose families have been here for generations are already constantly being priced out, we don't need more mass gentrification
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 3h

Rob Manfred allowed a musical performance in the middle of the game because he doesn’t like baseball and doesn’t give a shit.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 3h

Fuck cancer, obviously, but fuck MasterCard even more.

This is the single most cynically exploitative thing I've seen in a baseball broadcast in my life, and that is a high bar!

matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 4h

Well, rain or no rain I still got to see an adorable person drop a pop fly today

It's okay, Freddie! Brush it off, you'll catch the next one!

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 4h

If you care (12M certainly didn't!), the MLBers included Tyson Ross (who was able to throw two kid lines of grounders at once), Aaron Ledesma, and others who I'd have to look up from an old Facebook post

matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 4h

3 comes a bit from 12M, who likes playing (not nearly as much as 7M) but is aggressively indifferent to watching grownups play.

In hindsight I regret taking 12M (10 at the time) to a clinic run by MLB alumni. His lack of interest + my mandating he be there got to the level of psychic pain

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 4h

Baseball things:
1. I love that 7M so loves practicing

2. As the cargo shorts dad, I never go home from a baseball gathering with exactly as many baseballs in my pockets as I brought. (Up two today, w00t)

3. I take odd pride in being late to watching baseball because of playing baseball

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 5h

My guess is today's rain dampened(!) turnout more than the announced (by SF & Oak mayors) lack of surge. Either way we are where we are and feds were still cowering behind a prefab stone wall

matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 6h

Shout out to both intrepid crosswalk aficionados at Dennison & Embarcadero just now. I barely had time to drive by but had to see what's up. Two is greater than zero

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 6h

#89 of 100: Disco Lines & Tinashe - "No Broke Boys"

I usually wait until nobody else is in the house to try these things but today I just felt like playing this, with kids around. Worked out okay.

matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 7h

11. Also the WH East Wing is still completely destroyed, the 30+ murdered Caribbean fishers are still dead, Adelita Grijalva still isn't seated (after 30+ days), and the Epstein files remain unreleased.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 7h

10. The Justice Department is sending "election monitors" to California & New Jersey for November 2025 voting.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 7h

9. Steve Bannon (why anyone takes him seriously...) floated a claim of divine anointing to support our president trying to seek an illegal third term. The man could (in theory) just run his son (not his Slovenian wife) as a Lurleen Wallace figurehead. Violating the 22nd Amendment instead is an FU.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 7h

8. Getting back to ICE-holes: They kidnapped the night manager of a Laugh Factory (a U.S. citizen) as his mother looked on helplessly.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 7h

7. An Arizona middle school is requiring a cisgender boy to play on girls' teams (if he plays sports at all), because an obvious clerical error resulted in his birth certificate listing him as female. This is part of the reduction to absurdity of the current anti-trans moral panic.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 7h

6. Security at a Baltimore high school handcuffed & searched a student after artificial intelligence mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun. Omnilert expressed regret (which is different from apologizing); it's not immediately clear to me whether Principal Katie Smith did even that.

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matt979.bsky.social @matt979.bsky.social · 7h

5. Zohran Mamdani gave a moving speech about overcoming anti-Muslim bigotry, after his NYC mayoral opponent (the sex pest, not the vigilante) joked that Mandani would have cheered on 9/11. For months, mudslingers put absurd anti-Semitism claims on Mamdani, while actual racism hid in plain sight.

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