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Publius Maximus

@publiusmaximus.bsky.social

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Giant nerd. I will like your selfies and reblog your pets. Jacobite Pretender for Tumblr clout. DNI if Jim Sensenbrenner I use a pronoun labler and would like if you did too: https://bsky.app/profile/pronouns.diy

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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · Dec 14

I don't know who needs to hear this, but:

The heliocentric view of the solar system is correct.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 4h

Aaaaah now you’re speaking my language.
And which team is Van Halen and which is Black Sabbath?

Andboo @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 4h

A concert where the band comes out for a half dozen multi-song encores. But they've already played their hits and all the deep cuts everyone was there for.

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Uncle OMJ @oliviamutantjohn.bsky.social · 4h

This is just how I live!

Also I take it the Mariners won in the most Mariners way?

KIMBOOLY👻💕✨ @k1m.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine having 15 bottoms whew

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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 4h

Baseball? The statistics exercise?

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bex @blueraccoon.bsky.social · 4h

#MARINERS DID IT THEY DID IT THEY DID IT

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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 4h

When a ship full of Vulcans is Captain by someone who hates Sisko very much...

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 4h

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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 4h

Jesus Christ I wake up early cause of jetlag, jump on Bsky and am wondering what sphere of hell I'm in where EVERY SINGLE POST is about fuckin baseball.

And then I see it.

On (almost) every post.

Right there at the top...

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It's a one-person chaos feed.

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Jeremiah Oshan @jeremiah.sounderatheart.com · 4h

The A’s are dead

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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 4h

Same! Rooting for them feels like betraying my childhood love of the A's...
And neither of us are in Oakland anymore.

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MatsSonDean @matssondean.bsky.social · 5h

If you're a Tigers or Mariners fan, I'd like to just point out that it is no longer World Mental Health Day.
You are on your own now.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 5h

I cannot stop the mass firings overnight. But I can wear a mask to protect myself and those around me

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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rockedfaces @rockedfaces.bsky.social · 5h

If you're reading this, better start warming up, because you--yes, YOU--are about to pitch for the Mariners and/or Tigers

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 4h

GG Mariners.

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JC died ten years ago this very night @conductress.bsky.social · 4h

COME ON MARINERS THEY ARE NINETY YEARS OLD

JC died ten years ago this very night @conductress.bsky.social · 1d

Listen, #Mariners, there are at least 6 men over the age of 90 in my choir. They really, really need you to win tomorrow. Please. For Bob and George and Erling and Ralph and Jerry and Harry.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 4h

They not only stop selling beer in the seventh but they straight up run out of food and stop serving anything. We were drinking bathroom sink water out of nacho helmets.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 4h

As someone who sat through a seven hour, 18 inning playoff game, let me tell u that everyone in that stadium is both freezing and starving lol

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Matt Kim @lawoftd.bsky.social · 4h

The innings will continue until morale improves.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6h

There are measles outbreaks across the country.

Covid is still surging and prompting many healthcare facilities to reinstate mask policies.

There’s misinformation about vaccines, Tylenol, autism and chronic illness.

Public health is in shambles… and now they’re firing dozens of CDC staff.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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🪦 @whetstone.bsky.social · 5h

@tkingfisher.com just finished hemlock & silver and it is ✨wonderful✨

i have a card i‘ve been hoarding that i would send you, but since i wouldn’t ask for an address, a description will have to suffice: it’s a photo of a supercilious cat with the text “if a cat could talk, it wouldn’t”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14h

It’s great that LeBron is starting to get those middle aged injuries in his 40’s we all get in our early 30’s because we’re out of shape. We’re going to see an injury report where he sat on the toilet wrong.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 5h

Unironically, yes, and thousand times over, to say nothing of the Tokyo tribunals.

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 5h

hard to escape the conclusion that the nuremberg trials were too gentle an admonishment

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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 5h

This was truly the day that Donald Trump became president.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 6h

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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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 6h

Stop calling it a trade war. It’s a trade tantrum.

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Derek Young @derekmyoung.bsky.social · 6h

It’s weird how regular season baseball is golf but playoff baseball is volcano BASE jumping.

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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 6h

Heard from my extremely offline wife today that a farm worker from our county got called to an immigration hearing and apparently a Very Large Contingent of people went with him as an escort to make sure he came back out

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 11h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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