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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 21h

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 5h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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high & off the wallflower 👻 spoopy edition @baseball4breakfast.bsky.social · 1h

ask not for the ratio

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JM =^) @jm539581.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, they had.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1h

they knew they didn’t wanna see that shit

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 8h

you will not see a magnet for fury like the “let’s go 1-0 this week against Iowa” tweet James Franklin will post later today

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 1h

George Pickens is like if Kramer was the main character on Seinfeld. I can’t explain it but that’s how it feels.

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high & off the wallflower 👻 spoopy edition @baseball4breakfast.bsky.social · 1h

the rico dowdle experience will continue until morale improves

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 2h

Six year veteran undrafted free agent 27 year old who nobody thought was good at all has like 400 yards the past two weeks, football is so funny

NFL Daily News @fantasynflnews.bsky.social · 2h

Rico Dowdle so far:

15/90/0 rushing
3/53/1 receiving

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high & off the wallflower 👻 spoopy edition @baseball4breakfast.bsky.social · 2h

a less caked up player would've been out of bounds, that's talent

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 2h

We are literally watching her be red pilled in real time

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 2h

thank god the red zone channel started running commercials. when it was commercial-free i'd get to 7:30 p.m., look at how i'd spent my day, and realize i'd burned through an entire sunday without growing or developing at all as a consumer. and if i'm not a consumer i'm nothing at all

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2h

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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high & off the wallflower 👻 spoopy edition @baseball4breakfast.bsky.social · 2h

kyren williams making plays with his buttcheek, you can't teach that

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 3h

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 23h

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3h

sally is putting together an Ohtani career on this site. she has bad takes. she’s had meltdowns. her value over replacement poster is off the charts. we have no choice but to be awed in the face of greatness.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 5h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Danny Page @danny.page · 5h

If Major League Soccer doesn’t care enough to watch their own games in order to write about them, why should we watch their games?

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 6h

As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.

MLS is using generative AI to write match recaps. Writers used to get paid freelance rates to do that. Hssssss.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes a major newspaper columnist will remind me I don't have to post through a moment; I can stick to posting photos of my dog.

Max the Cockapoo is sitting on a subway platform, wearing a black Carhartt jacket and a red leash.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 4h

Curious to see what “major protest” this ends up being without the involvement of NYC’s staple far-right crew.

Side note: Zohran’s team didn’t send out his schedule for today. They’re also typically very tight-lipped for security reasons. This was leaked.

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 4h

Do Zionists still think protesting outside a synagogue is antisemitic?

Screenshot from Tali Goldscheft:

PROTEST today at 1 pm!!! 📢📢📢

At the same time as hostages are hopefully being finally released, Zohran Mamdani is speaking at CBE (Congregation Beth Elohim) in Park Slope.

Beyond outrageous.

A major protest by the Brooklyn Jewish community, including CBE congregants and former congregants, will be taking place.

IN BROOKLYN? Join us, rain or shine!!!

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Douglas Reyes-Ceroñ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 4h

if you can, 1000% worth seeing this in a movie theater

GKIDS Films @gkids.com · 4h

Let the spirits guide you home. 💫

Hayao Miyazaki's SPIRITED AWAY returns to theatres October 18-22 for Ghibli Fest! ☁️
brnw.ch/21wWbIp

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high & off the wallflower 👻 spoopy edition @baseball4breakfast.bsky.social · 4h

sally jenkins hellbent on being the main character on a football sunday? 🧐

high & off the wallflower 👻 spoopy edition @baseball4breakfast.bsky.social · 4h

@tonyny.bsky.social ay tweetknick you're on the sky app and i didn't know till now?

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8h

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 13h

Perfect posting from Tim Heidecker, 24 hours apart.

What an incredible experience, getting to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. I left feeling grateful and humbled by his majesty's generosity. I'll never forget this memorial experience and all the fun we had. Hope to do it again soon.

upon further reflection, there is a small part of me that feels I sent the wrong message, regarding the Riyahd Comedy Festival last night. While, I do think it's important for comedy to have the opportunity to thrive in all parts of the globe, there are some aspects of The Royal Highness, King Salmon and his leadership in the region that i don't agree with entirely, but it's a different culture when it comes to freedom and rights and I gotta respect that we are all different and have different values. My manager is now investigating the possibility of donating some of my fee to a charity for Vetrans of War.

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