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strawberry garfield @bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 1h

r i p diane keaton i love that you always dressed kind of like beetlejuice if he were a 2011 silver lake mom

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bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 49m

if I had a lot of followers, I like to think I’d be far too embarrassed to repost my shooters like this

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 59m

I am about to watch Tron Ares even though I have absolutely no interest in watching Tron Ares

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1h

what up TikTok it’s yr boy Young Gru

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 1h

his later NFL years looked a whole lot like his pre-Brady years. But if his age is a factor, I think it’s not so much that he’s not mentally sharp as it is that he’s just not motivated

bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t know. I think most of the problems with Belichick at UNC would still be there even if he were 20 years younger

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1h

of any person in the trump cinematic universe, the person whose influence i desperately want to learn more about is Baron‘s

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 2h

LA and Chicago, not two cities who famously do not have the improv scene that Portland is so known for

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 2h

its pretty funny that everyone hates companies so much that we got them to just stop doing April fools jokes

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3h

I think Zohran is great and inspiring and much needed right now, but all he's doing is like the job as it's supposed to be. Starts with a set of principles and advocates for them. It's like how everyone goes crazy for Chotiner for just doing the job. Not an indictment on either of them but the rest.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 3h

NO JESUS CHRIST THE TORTURE OF BASEBALL IS WHAT MAKES IT WORTH WATCHING

Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 5h

I strongly recommend Banana Ball youtube.com/@officialban...

It's so much fun to watch that we actually had a platonic room party to watch it while at a swingers' retreat

Banana Ball

Banana Ball has become the fastest and most entertaining game in sports. With its fast-paced rules and emphasis on continuous play, Banana Ball strips away the often criticized lulls and lengthy pause...

youtube.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 6h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 5h

Indiana Jones on Pumpkin Watch Cry Eagles Cry

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

the inverse of this is how much of politics is now just accepting that you have to vote for people who hate you, so your best option is to vote for people who hate other people more than they hate you

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 4h

I think the main refreshing thing about Mamdani, for me, is that he actually likes New York City and wants to see it thrive for everyone.

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christina @formeresq.bsky.social · 4h

I’d say we’ve got like one more month of federal district courts so make it count yall

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 16h

usually takes more than one game to learn that. your wife is a prodigy.

Lumpy MD @lumpawaroomd.bsky.social · 16h

This is the first baseball game my wife has ever seen and she now believes this is a sport about eternal punishment

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

Trump launched the TrumpRX website today.

It has a photo of Trump and an AI-generated family with too many fingers and mangled toes.

TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare

AI art really has become the aesthetic of grifters and fascists.

gizmodo.com

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Adam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 19h

I wish I was surprised that Deadline claims it asked questions that were actually asked by me and other journalists at this James Gunn press conference. No one from Deadline even *submitted questions* for it (and I know, because I moderated). This is just brazen and sad.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 5h

not enough people are talking about the 9-1-1 season premiere that not only sends Angela Bassett into space but also has a billionaire get eaten by a humpback whale

bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 6h

are there a lot of people who are going to start eating Lay’s chips just because they find out that they’re made of potatoes

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 7h

i am prepared to restructure society in any way necessary that prevents me from ever having to see a video clip of the hooting shaved ape pat mcafee

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 6h

someone on the mariners grounds crew gave him a bucket of dirt before game 5 and he shared it with friends at the bar last night

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 7h

killdozer pickup trucks are rolling hostile architecture; their manufacturers and drivers should be thought of like people who install park benches studded with caltrops to prevent the homeless from resting on them

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 7h

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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