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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 4h

Also absurdly ironic that you want someone with mental health issues to depart from your public perspective for offending you with their performance, but you want to whine about censorship.

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 4h

Nobody is censoring you or trying to control you.

People are drawing conclusions from the words you are using that are frankly entirely valid.

Words being in common use doesn't mean they are inoffensive. Insults and epithets are common and descriptive.

You obviously don't have to take advice.

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 4h

Holy shit man.

You are coming across as a psychopath.

Within three postings you have belittled a person with well reported mental health issues, refused to accept that your bigoted comment was insulting, and told a person to set themselves on fire.

Log off.

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 4h

The fact you refuse to believe the term "head case" is harsh is beyond idiotic.

It is quite literally a derisive reference to those with mental health issues, and is quite clearly intended as an insult.

You are being a bigot and it offends people and your absence of shame is telling.

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 5h

"Democrat led"

The Republicans currently control the Presidency, Congress, Senate and the Judiciary.

The Republicans are doing a bang up job of convincing morons that despite winning everything they remain the victims of tyranny.

barbisblue @barbisblue.bsky.social · 5h

HHS spokesperson A. Nixon on Saturday referred POLITICO to the department’s Friday night statement saying the firings were “a direct consequence of the Democrat-led government shutdown,” adding that the layoffs were necessary because the department was too “bloated”under the Biden administration.

HHS rehiring some people fired through reduction-in-force efforts

A Trump administration legal document said HHS initially targeted 1,000 to 1,200 employees for dismissal, and people speaking with POLITICO say the firings focused on the CDC.

www.politico.com

Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 5h

Driving without a proper license or insurance is illegal, but also VERY easy to do.

Just because laws exist doesn't mean people can't break them really easily.

This shouldn't be confusing to people.

Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 5h

If doing everything legally was the *easy* and *default* option, far fewer people would break the law.

Unfortunately in MANY scenarios, the legal process is vastly more complex and difficult than the illegal option.

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 5h

There are apparently people who conflate legality with difficulty.

Their logic is apparently that illegal things should be the most difficult, while legal things should be the easiest.

These people should perhaps consider tax laws:

Not filing taxes = super easy
Filing taxes properly = not easy

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 5h

Murder is also very *EASY* to *DO*.

Doesn't make it any less illegal.

How easily crimes are committed doesn't have anything to do with their legality.

Good luck with your plan though.

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 5h

If you adjust for inflation just to make the comparison accurate, "Tron: Ares" made $22.55M in 2010 USD... Roughly half of what "Tron: Legacy" brought in.

Variety @variety.com · 5h

Disney’s sci-fi sequel “Tron: Ares” opened to a disappointing $33.5 million this weekend, falling short of projections of $45 million to $50 million.

For comparison, 2010’s “Tron: Legacy” debuted to $44 million (not adjusted for inflation).

variety.com/2025/film/bo...

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 5h

I know people are already panicking about the Leafs 5v5 performance so far... After... *2 games*...

They sit at 40% 5v5 xGF which is bad.

But...

Tampa sits at 33.7%.

Winnipeg sits at 38.7%

Detroit and Anaheim sit at 61%.

People need to *RELAX*.

It's been TWO GAMES.

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Stephen Marche @stephenmarche.bsky.social · 1d

This is Kevin Gausman, Blue Jays Ace, teaching his daughters how to ride bikes at the Evergreen Brickworks farmers market the day before the biggest start of his life. Everybody knew who he was. Nobody bothered him. Watch out Mariners. He looks happy and loose.

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 5h

I assume Scherzer gets a start, Bassitt is a long relief guy like Lauer.

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 5h

The Dems have been playing a completely different game with a different set of rules for roughly 45 years now.

Reaganism is when it fairly clearly shifted IMO.

Ever since then they have been retreating/adopting and co-opting GOP language/ideas for political expedience (selling out).

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 6h

Gross.

We can't lose the *only* MLB team that has never won a league pennant and played in a World Series.

That would upend all of history and confirm we are living in a simulation (again).

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 6h

There is a massive irony in Christians (or people of any religious faith) failing to accept the plausibility of a grass roots movement upending the established power structure when that is literally how *every* major religion pops onto the scene.

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 6h

LoL... Privately?

Pretty clear they have been doing so publicly for a long time.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21h

"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."