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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 3d

My matchup in fantasy this past week is so tight. It's a league where we put 9 prop bets on other fantasy players. One of my props was that my opponent would win their matchup, and that depends on how we resolve the prop. But we can't resolve that prop until we figure out who won

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 3d

My matchup in fantasy this past week is so tight. It's a league where we put 9 prop bets on other fantasy players. One of my props was that my opponent would win their matchup, and that depends on how we resolve the prop. But we can't resolve that prop until we figure out who won

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 3d

Alas, I have depicted you posting "Young Sheldon? Inconceivable! ;-)" as Louis Malle from My Dinner with Andre and my own slight revulsion as Wallace Shawn from My Dinner With Andre

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 3d

(And pointing out that "Vanya on 42nd Street" is a modern but powerful rendition of Chekhov that showcases his range or pointing to that play he wrote about drones or his essay about socialism just feels like I'm playing into the same reductive framework of cultural telephone)

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 3d

(like, it's not even that they know Shawn as the guy from that movie they fondly remember. But it feels weird that whenever he comes up in any context, people are like "Don't forget that this guy played Vizzini in Princess Bride." Pulling out Grand Nagus just feels like an equally reductive counter)

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 3d

(It's hard to get into this without fatally dissecting the joke logic, but this has always been a pet peeve of mine and it's funny to me that there's a meme that perfectly describes the situation, but about the same guy in a different role)

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite "Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon" is "Wallace Shawn from Princess Bride"

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 3d

I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 6d

yeah i totally get what you're saying. i'm more peeved at a) those on the left dismissing it as "censorious hall-monitor liberalism" and b) the guy himself for apparently not doing due diligence and leaving himself an opening to avoid damage. that's a pretty low bar if you're running for office!

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 7d

In Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks' original draft of Kokomo (whimsical, genius, spiritually enlightened, referential) the lyrics were "Key Largo, Montego, I know there's an answer".

But Mike Love (fascist, corporate hack, jealous Salieri) insisted on "Baby why don't we go?"

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 9d

the simple answer to all of this bullshit is that we're not a monarchy and we don't and shouldn't base our values or our assessments based on whose genes are being carried. as humans we're all goddamn cousins, and we are all cousins to every other lifeform on this planet

The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 9d

like at a certain point of pedantry, are we going with "that's not your uncle, that's your aunt's husband"? or "that's not your aunt, that is your father's adopted sister"? what the fuck are we doing here

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 9d

("aunt" meaning "dad's female cousin" isn't even stretching the truth. it means you share a great-grandparent instead of a grandparent and she is one generation older than you. it is the exact same concept. no one outside of genealogists has ever made this distinction before today)

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 9d

Players to reach base safely 9 times in a game, reg or post, all-time:

2025 WS G3 Shohei Ohtani (postseason record)
8/9/42 Stan Hack
7/10/32 Johnny Burnett
7/7/1922 Max Carey

h/t @EliasSports

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 9d

oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight

screenshot of a Justin Klugh tweet from October 28, 2015:

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 9d

I mean, I've gotten on base 8 times in a postseason game, so it wouldn't be the all-time record, but Shohei's thing is pretty good too

The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 19d

See i told you it would be a hot take

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 19d

But I'm trying to get at why this place doesn't yet feel like a true substitute for what the other site used to be. It feels like it's in the grip of maladaptive psychological and ideological strategies that were once necessary and are now seemingly just habitual.

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 19d

(Whereas on the other site fascists doxx and threaten you and the Department of State openly posts wrongthink as the sole reason for revoking someone's visa. It's orders of magnitude worse, don't get this twisted as some kind of apologia)

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 19d

Part of it is just a sense that when the discourse is venting and overwhelmed, it sort of flattens everything into a useless and affectless space where everything and nothing lands but it's all important and urgent. I'm starting to recognize this as just an unproductive and unhealthy state of mind

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 19d

Being on this site for any length of time feels like the quickest and surest way to diagnose problems with my politics and psychological baggage that I bring to the table. I feel an unusual aversion to posting substantive stuff here. It feels creatively stifling. And I don't totally understand why.

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 19d

Like we haven't figured out how to draw the line between good faith and bad faith disagreements and so we just default to treating disagreements as being in bad faith or (more perniciously) good faith but revealing unaddressed character flaws

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 19d

The real problems with this site have nothing to do with excluding bad actors and everything to do with the upstream habit of scrupulously identifying bad thoughts as a substitute for politics.

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 19d

My hot take (not this post) is that the right is offering nothing positive to the discourse and mindless "viewpoint diversity" for meritless positions does more harm than good.

Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 19d

I see endless posts excoriating legacy media and institutional actors for staying on Twitter. They don't fully migrate because bluesky is viewed as too much of an echo chamber. It will never be a viable mainstream competitor so long as it only houses an insular slice of the body politic.

Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 19d

This site would actually be better if it had more voices from across the political spectrum, and efforts to push out right wing accounts are only entrenching Twitter/X's dominant position in the political discourse.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 20d

Salesforce pitched ICE on tripling its staff www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force

www.nytimes.com

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The Joke Calculator @dewno.bsky.social · 21d

me when i'm physically at the U.S. Capitol building and being asked about extrajudicial political violence that I'm in the process of supporting:

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