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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 3h

Mhmmm... for the fucking circus!

Wait... that might be worse.

Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 4h

Aquarius: You will come to realize that being sold to the circus when you were nine may have caused some lasting emotional trauma.

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 5h

bluejaysnation.com/news/toronto...

There's a link for the footage, if it's already been a month, and he's that ginger, I don't think another couple of weeks will have him ready.

Blue Jays: Bo Bichette appeared to be in discomfort after running the bases

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The big question for the <a href="http...

bluejaysnation.com

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 3d

if you cannot produce your own autism, store bought is fine

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 6h

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 6h

You almost never see the FRONT of the home run jacket.

Toronto Blue Jays (Bot) @bluejaysbot.bsky.social · 6h

🤫💥 #PLAKATA

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

*after scoring on ourselves repeatedly* Well we obviously can't count on our fair-weather so-called fans to cheer for anything. The only way out of this hole is to find some new ways to score on ourselves; we need those opposing fans even more than before.

oh I suppose YOU have a better idea

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 6h

This is disappointing.

If I'm honest, about 60% of my retirement plan was 'evolve directly into a crab.'

Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on the BBC talking about (how we won't be) evolving into crabs 🧪🦀

Also features Matt Wills (my academic older brother) and Ned Suesat-Williams (of the crab museum!). Unfortunately they were in London and I on zoom, so there was no time to tell Ned to join here

BBC Audio | The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry | To Crab, or Not to Crab?

Hannah and Dara investigate why nature has evolved the humble crabs so many times.

www.bbc.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 7h

There was some video of him running yesterday, and he ran like I do.

I think im a decade a half older than him, and notably not a professional athlete, either.

At this point, I'm not sure he's available for the World Series, either.

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 7h

I didn't realize how woefully incomplete my home was without these.

RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 10h

book covers featuring the muppets: thread

Elmo on the cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 21h

Actually, I probably look even better in sweaters this year!

... I lost a bunch of weight in the hospital.

John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 21h

John and Dad Of John looking good in sweaters.

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 1d

go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).

be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.

life is for the living. do it scared.

🏳️‍⚧️🖤🏳️‍🌈

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 22h

It Me!!

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 22h

I am also Built For Fall (looks good in sweaters)

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 23h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 23h

And torched the Yanks in the playoffs, too!

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 23h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.