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Dr Aunt Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 19h

I mean, the Irish are famous for their poetry and "gift of gab", so I'm not surprised (and baseball is an international sport), but this really is a beautiful bit of writing. 👏

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 22h

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19h

I’m in the stage of grief where one criticizes the winning team’s generally bad city planning. #WorldSeries

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Jeremy @jp0610.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Halloween from Waltham🫠

A freelance photographer’s Facebook post asking pedestrians to use extra caution around drivers on Halloween night

A meme that says “we ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous”

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 3d

This is what it's all about. this is what Linus was waiting for

A giant spherical lit up building where the lights are in a jack-o'-lantern pattern. It's Science World in Vancouver if that means anything to you

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Patrick McDonough @citybeautiful21.bsky.social · 4d

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Almond Soy

Gabi 雪 @gabimccauley.bsky.social · 4d

Change one letter, ruin a candy

SARS Bar

eric shamow @botmatrix.myatproto.social · 4d

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Baby Tooth

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6d

The innings will continue until morale improves

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John Rees (Rhys) @jrees.net · 8d

Trunk or Treat is yet another way we have admitted we’ve failed children and seek bandaids instead of systemic solutions

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Only In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 11d

The City of Boston became the second-largest city in the world to outlaw facial surveillance — banning both the technology itself and any information it produces.

👁️❌

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 11d

Good morning.

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Patrick McDonough @citybeautiful21.bsky.social · 11d

It’s a terrific 3rd place morning in NC today.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19d

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Patrick McDonough @citybeautiful21.bsky.social · 20d

Sounds incredible- is this service something your family will take advantage of?

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NPR @npr.org · 20d

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

n.pr

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 20d

The electricity system is the largest commodity supply chain in the world that doesn’t feature storage. Every technology benefits from storage (esp Solar/Nuclear).

Top 1% of peak hours are 8% of your bill. Top 10% of hours are 40% of your bill
Batteries provide more tools to flatten out peaks.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 21d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23d

Page One in Boston.

@bostonglobe.com

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 23d

I love this image.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 25d

Cities are developing a new approach to developing housing: Integrating it into mixed-use library projects. These investments improve neighborhood vitality, add housing & improve services.

In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I create a database of such projects & point to success stories ⏬

Aging Libraries Could Offer Cities a Unique Opportunity to Build New Housing While Improving Public Services

Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartment units have been built in combined library-housing developments. These projects not only address local housing needs but…

www.urban.org

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · Oct 1

In 11 years of being in DC, including several years of being a daily metro commuter, I have never had a problem on any metro train or bus. They are lying, they know they're lying, and the target is an audience that can't tell the difference and never will be able to.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Oct 1

I rode the metro as a child in the 1990s when the murder rate was several times higher than it is now bsky.app/profile/joel...

Joel Siegel @joelsiegel.bsky.social · Oct 1

Rep. Lisa McClain, on CNN, praising President Trump for deploying the National Guard to Washington:

"My daughter could actually ride the Metro for the first time since she has been in DC."

[Her daughter is 22]

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · Oct 3

US DOT is putting another transit project on hold—the Red Line Extension in Chicago—because the transit authority pursued Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goals as part of the project, which the DOT claims are discriminatory.

The thing is, US DOT & Congress put DBE in place.

www.transportation.gov

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · Oct 2

🎶 And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free 🎶

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · Oct 2

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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NPR @npr.org · Oct 1

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · Sep 29

Trads watch the Lord of the Rings and fetishize the Shire, not realizing that the entire point of the franchise if that you have to leave the Shire to live a full life.