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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · Dec 12

Gakster's controversial takes thread:

I did this in the other site:

I will say, I will take up arms to change our counting system to Dozenal. The fact that a third is a REPEATING DECIMAL pisses me off.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 5d

Asked to leave the No Kings Protest because I showed up in a 1999 Sacramento Jason Williams jersey.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7h

The government’s restrictions on immigration will turn this around any day now.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 8h

Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 11-13 October 2025

Approve: 14% (+1 from 4-6 Oct)
Disapprove: 69% (=)
Net: -55 (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 6h

Going to the Hate America Rally this Saturday, especially looking forward to seeing my former students/currently Antifa leadership.

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 18h

Turang what are you SWINGING AT

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 18h

i mean they're standing in an open field, not a strategically sound place

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 18h

bad time to walk in a run there

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ceej @ceej.online · 18h

any culture, at any point in history, could have invented darude’s sandstorm. the fact that they didn’t is just further proof that old times were busted generally

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 19h

god damn yo

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 19h

More accurately: a triangle has a high probability of having three sides.

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 19h

Dodgers shouldn't lose a challenge for that, assuming they did. It's a wild play, they had to make sure it was right.

Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 19h

From MLB Gameday: "Dodgers challenged (force play), call on the field was upheld: Max Muncy grounds into a double play, center fielder Sal Frelick to shortstop Joey Ortiz to catcher William Contreras. Teoscar Hernández out at home. Will Smith out at 3rd. 3 outs"

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 19h

*imposter syndrome intensifying*

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 21h

Related: My first philosophy professor once lent me a book of his and I was immediately blown away. I saw for the first time what it means to inhabit a text, to work to try to understand why the author said what they said, and what I might---might---have to say in response. My life changed forever.

My annotations from a random PDF in my "Annotated Scholarly Articles" folder. This one is from p. 108 of Loren Lomasky's "Liberty and Welfare Goods: Reflections on Clashing Liberalisms"

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 19h

Columbus is such a low bar...

Iron Eyes Cody - Wikipedia

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 19h

I mean...the joke is also right there....

An Italian-American actor portraying a Native American is crying.

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 19h

Brian Anderson, who Uecker mentored, is baseball's best announcer right now, and the most qualified to call a national game.

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19h

potentially the most accurately officiated/announced play in sports history, the umps and the announcer knew exactly what was happening on a once-in-a-lifetime play

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 19h

The fact they got this right on the field is insane

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 19h

Blake Snell’s Funniest Clips From His Twitch Streams

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 21h

I'm less mad at the ALCS being at 5ET /2 PT now that I know that it's Canadian Thanksgiving

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 22h

this seems good, but idk, this is not my expertise

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 22h

half-alive, be optimistic

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 22h

I feel like my push for UAlbany's dept to get a T-Shirt cannon was justified.

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 23h

While he was playing in the postseason himself for the Yankees in 2015, Carlos Beltran couldn't help but comment on Utley's slide breaking Ruben Tejada's leg. The hate can be real.

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 23h

I think this is unhinged because I'm sure I'm a simpleton and a knuckle-dragger pretending. Like, I can't write in margins. I can't. I fucking can't. How do you nerds just perform the nerd stuff like that???

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George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 23h

My ADHD hates looking at a lot of text. My curiosity had overridden, in the end, but it was TOUGH.

George Kassimis🦉 @gakster29.bsky.social · 23h

It's a mistake to expect that all well-read people grew up as book kids.

I took me a loong time to appreciate just sitting cozily with a book, and then I became an academic and it's been hard to read for pleasure since then. So, it was a short window in my life when I did that.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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