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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 1h

If you're a really overdedicated sports fan (that watches too many sports), you have a handful of moments that transcend your cheering/booing emotions. This was one of those few moments for me so I look forward to digging into this...

#LightsUpLetsGo #OKBlueJays #WantItAll

Mike Wilner @wilnerness.bsky.social · 6h

I worked really hard on this for a very long time and am incredibly proud of it. It’s a long read, but for #Bluejays fans who remember that one swing a decade ago and all the madness that surrounded it, it will be well worth it. Please give it a look!

A controversial call, furious fans and The Bat Flip: An oral history of the game that turned Jose Bautista into a Blue Jays icon

Ten years ago on Oct. 14, the Toronto Blue Jays slugger cemented his icon status with one powerful swing followed by an unforgettable flip of his bat.

www.thestar.com

Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 1h

Hard to believe it's been 23+ years since I watched a game (or set foot) in Alfond. Renovated or not, I miss the place...

Jeff Mannix @jeffmannix.bsky.social · 2h

The $50 million renovation has changed the look of Alfond Arena on the outside and in the team area, but the rink itself retains its charm! The Maine Black Bears go for an opening weekend sweep of the Holy Cross Crusaders tonight at 7:00. Join Mike Tuell and me on the call on ESPN+! #JourneyNorth

Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 1h

I periodically post to note that America is less secure than it's been since 9/10/2001. This is just another example of it.

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 10h

"2+2 = 4 or = 5? In Mr. Matheson's 2nd grade classroom, depends on the narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 19h

Let me tell you about a little thing called "NHL Playoff Game 7 OT"......

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

I periodically do a session for college media kids in which I warn them to "not be that review writer that acts they just uncovered the genius of Led Zeppelin."

Case in point...

Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 1d

certain people are put on Earth for a reason, and @albertburneko.bsky.social is here to tear down dumbasses (gift link) defector.com/breaking-som...

Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived | Defector

Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications, these aren’t even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they’re many hundre...

defector.com

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thinking Jay Leno might get 10 minutes in there every day to ask us if we've "heard about this?"

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 1d

Shoulda used more Buckley's, less Tylenol.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 2d

Sean Fraser 🇨🇦
This year marks 150 years of the Supreme Court of Canada helping to shape this country, standing in ardent defence of Canadian democracy and in defence of our freedoms.
May its work continue so that 150 years from now, Canada remains the true North, strong, and free. #cdnpoli

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 2d

This is like dangling raw meat in front of a Rottweiler and that only becomes more true for NHL players after a big series or Cup win. 😅

Mike Wilner @wilnerness.bsky.social · 2d

I love that Hazel is saying "We're live" to everybody in the hopes that they will understand that they should keep their language clean and none of the #Bluejays actually give a f***.

Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 2d

Though this aired on American television, I am personally requesting that the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television seek the raw footage of this exchange so as to designate and preserve it as a masterwork.

#LightsUpLetsGo #WantItAll #OKBlueJays

Jordan @jordanmackinnon.bsky.social · 2d

The Vladdy-David Ortiz interaction on Fox in front of Jeter & A-Rod is the stuff of legends.

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, will do! :-)

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 3d

I look forward to AI making eggs free.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 3d

I'd be in for Straw-for-Santander tonight.

Also, I think Schneider has done a great job this year but I think he panicked pulling Bieber as he did...if he'd let Bieber gut out his "typical bad inning," we might have had a fresher bullpen for tonight + a similar likelihood of victory last night.

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Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 9d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 8d

Mario was simply doing his job as a reporter when police targeted him. He was detained 108+ days, muzzled by the admin. Today, the US govt is deporting him to El Salvador, which he fled for safety reasons. This chilling practice seeks to silence dissent & truth. www.democracynow.org/2025/10/3/ma...

Prominent Atlanta Journalist Faces Deportation After Covering Anti-Trump Protest

The Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara may be deported to El Salvador as soon as today despite holding work authorization in the United States and never having been charged with a crime. Guevar...

www.democracynow.org

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 9d

I was going to point out that Dave Chappelle hasn't remotely faced the same fate dissenting speech towards the Kingdom receives. But apparently cleverly pointing out what that fate would be runs afoul of @bsky.app moderation. Maybe THAT was the free speech he was worried about?

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 9d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 9d

To be honest, if enough seasons of Kentucky men's basketball displease people round these parts, "What you fail to see Mr Pope" will just become a common part of vernacular.

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 10d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 9d

It's a good thing I didn't have money to invest in the MiniDisc. 😅

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 10d

It's pretty much all of human "civilization" to this point.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10d

It’s incredible how much of modern life is people denying they broke the law, then slowly admitting they broke the law, but by then no one cares and we just move on, letting them break the law with no consequences.

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10d

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material

www.404media.co/openais-sora...

Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 10d

Discussed in @slobster48602.bsky.social 's great book on the history of the cassette. 😁

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 10d

It was a dinosaur piece of legislation when it arrived.

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Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 10d

The number of people here that are "that'd be cool except I'm hanging on to my Fahrenheit!"......

Yeesh. Converting to Celsius is by FAR the best part of going metric.

Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 10d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 10d

Drawing attention back to this when Colbert & Kimmel aired dueling interviews tonight. Again, OTA TV's light has long faded, this companies have bought up a crapton of the affiliates.......and then completely downplay anything that is celebratory of its charm.

The media industry.....what a racket.

Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 17d

Also, I know it's secondary but w/ all Sinclair-Nexstar Kimmel pre-emptions...

...OTA TV once had communal power. Now...streaming video options are limitless; our interests dispersed.

And these owners of OTA stations are willfully robbing their own medium of a rare moment of power it once enjoyed.

Bryce McNeil @brycejmcneil.bsky.social · 17d

I'm in Lexington, KY & can watch Jimmy Kimmel. Somehow, people in a lot of major American metro areas can't & it feels awfully strange.