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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 9h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 7h

Nah, over as soon as the winning run crosses (and runners have advanced to negate force outs which could end the inning).

On a homer you get to keep the whole thing, though that wasn't the case until ~1920. Babe Ruth was shorted a 715th career home run, officially scored a triple.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 7h

TO THE 15TH

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 7h

Fox is starting to sweat about their noon Ohio State kickoff

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 8h

oh is that what a good throw home in extras looks like

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Defector @defector.com · 19h

Breaking: Some guy now aware of most revered country artist who ever lived 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…

defector.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 1d

"Next to Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner was considered kind of an uggo. Maybe it's time to reevaluate that."

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine starting from the premise "Johnny Cash was uncool" and then not only going on to write another thousand fucking words about it, but being allowed to put it in the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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DC Beer @dcbeer.com · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
Frooted POG sour with lavender, terpenes, and vegan marshmallows, 6.2% ABV

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 2d

Good news! Nobody needs eyes to see!

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 2d

a man with a scarf around his neck is holding a knife in his hand .

Alt: Alice Cooper loves Milwaukee

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 3d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 3d

Got a renewal notice literally this week, eighty American dollars lmao. Tried to cancel and they offered ~$20.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 8d

[after tenting my fingers for one month straight] more like stupid tha very idiot

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 8d

Weeks after Charlamagne tha God mocked Hakeem Jeffries calling him “AIPAC Shakur,” Jeffries responds with his own nickname: “Charlatan the Fraud”