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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 4h

This is one of the most incredible games of one of the most fascinating postseasons I can remember

best sport

best sport ever

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 5h

finnegan had a 1.50 ERA and 34.8 K% with the Tigers after the trade

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Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 6h

Kyle Finnegan on to face middle of Mariners order in 7th after a historic outing for Tarik Skubal:

6 IP, 2 H, R, 0 BB, 13 K
99 pitches, 69 strikes

Most K's by a starting pitcher in a winner-take-all postseason game.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 18d

A really striking thing about the US is how it feels like everyone is constantly trying to rip you off. You have to hold constant vigilance against scam. Absolutely corrosive to social trust and a core part of our current political problems.

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 1d

the author is 50 years old

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 3d

general observation that sports fans are no longer able to handle their shit. tigers' fanbase has been demented these last six weeks.

Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 4d

big, big tell that it details both the authors' long-distant former roles and makes no mention of what they've been up to for the last four-plus decades

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 6d

surprisingly chill and thoughtful guy, all things considered

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 7d

but also that the inferring—and its seemingly infinite varieties, given the complexity of material reality—is wondrous by itself, no soulstuff or magic required

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 8d

we should immediately redeploy all ICE agents to Innsmouth

Congressman Now Claims Existence of Five Underwater UFO Bases Off U.S. Coast

Explore the intriguing claim about underwater UFO bases made by Congressman Tim Burchett. Are aliens truly lurking beneath the waves?

franknezmedia.com

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 9d

104.5 MPH from Mason Miller lol

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 10d

lol remember "The Washington Post," the newspaper?

Live headline from The Washington Post: "Trump, Hegseth present their vision for the military." (Their vision is using it to wage a civil war against their enemies.)

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𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.social · 11d

Director Charles Laughton’s classic suspense thriller ‘The Night Of The Hunter’ starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, and Peter Graves opened in theaters in New York City on this day in 1955. 👊🏼 💸 📖 #OTD

"𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝-𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚝𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜."

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 11d

bro why are we letting a living hemorrhoid be shadow president

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 11d

innate hierarchies of sex and race are bedrock beliefs for the American right, even the ones not churning their own butter on Instagram

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 17d

not just at xAI

‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

www.theguardian.com

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 18d

llms are cool because it gives talking to yourself the authority of a subjective conversation with another (bird pecking its mirror rflection till it dies)

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 21d

if this was the cover, I'd read it

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 21d

as someone who grew up in a majority Catholic country who has traveled to several other majority Catholic countries, the U.S. Catholic church is schismatic

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 22d

When the wallet inspector asked to inspect my wallet, he assured me it was all above board.

Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 22d

almost everyone ruling us today is a failson or failgrandson who inherited their status and cooked their brain in pandemic group chats. imperial decadence at its worst.

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 23d

you still have abusive partners serving as pimps—now without anyone having to leave the house!—and sex work as a cottage industry has created its own problems

thebaffler.com/outbursts/ti...

Tit for Tat | Piper French

How a statute created to take down the mafia came to be wielded by a group of angry male fans against OnlyFans creators.

thebaffler.com

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 25d

man rolling rock up hill
how it started how its going

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 25d

Churchill and Robinson are two branches of the same rotten tree, and appeals to past imperial glory only serve to embolden fascists. the line from "Britain stood alone!" to Brexit is pretty damn straight. yes, fascism is incoherent. no, you can't beat them with their own fables.

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Exit South @exitsouth.bsky.social · 25d

this one is especially insidious given the bloody atrocities of the British Empire, many of which postdate the end of WWII

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