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@gavinesq.bsky.social

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Food/politics/law/sports. Friendly crank. Avid practitioner of drunken bonhomie. "World's most educated 8th grader!" -my wife. Proud Jayhawk. Remarkably tender lover. Retweets, or whatever they're called here, mean I made out with your mom.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 7h

And there go the sore loser Lions starting another fight after they get their asses whipped.

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gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 8h

I hate that thing. I hate that thing so much.

Sarah Jellen @ebyrdstarr.bsky.social · 8h

We really need to not do that thing where Andy plays not to lose and we wind up losing.

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gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 8h

If Butker could kick worth a damn, the Chiefs lead would be more than a field goal

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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 8h

Wrote this when Texas A&M paid Jimbo Fisher more than $77 million to go away. Still true!

Jimbo Fisher's exorbitant buyout reminder athletes aren't ones who broke college athletics

Texas A&M will pay Jimbo Fisher more than $77 million to go away. Can't pay those college athletes, though!

www.usatoday.com

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gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 8h

Just saw one for Vegas and that has to be on the list, right?

gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 8h

Isn't a Scorigami quite unlikely in every game?

gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 8h

Bumping this for very good reasons.

victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 8h

bumping this for no reason

victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · Jan 18

the chiefs are at their most dangerous when they dick around all season, lose 5 games, then get serious after christmas and look immortal in january. they never look like this in the playoffs

gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 8h

a man wearing a jacket that says more

ALT: a man wearing a jacket that says more

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gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 8h

We don't mind it. I don't mean that in a "gotcha" way. I mean it in a "we haven't had to live our entire lives dealing with it and the unwelcome attention and creeps and weirdos who come on to us when we're just minding our own business." I'm all for Stacy building a Sex Frankenstein out of Athletes

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gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 8h

I think there's an argument to be made that it was this movie that kicked off Al Pacino's "Chew the Scenery Like the Antidote is in It" phase.

gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 8h

Use Jerry Jones' anus. For pegging.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 12h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 8h

Well, to be fair, he *IS* disgusting.

gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 9h

I disagree. He's also like to see more people executed and help make that happen.

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gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 9h

If he said it out loud or in writing or via Morse code or semaphore, we know he is lying.

Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 9h

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...

www.them.us/story/suprem...

SCOTUS Justice Alito Suggests He's Not Interested in Overturning Same-Sex Marriage. Is That True?

Obergefell v Hodges has been back in the spotlight with fears gay marriage could be removed as a national right.

www.them.us

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victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 9h

$15M dead cap for the chiefs to cut butker btw

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gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 9h

I'm sure it's probably boring, but it's his fault, not mine.

gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 9h

I repeat myself, but Harrison Butker deserves every bad thing that happens to him.

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gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 10h

The Chiefs deploying their "Red Tissue" defense.

gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, but if they don't, trump will sue them.

gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 10h

The Tomahawk Chant is stupid and racist.

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gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 10h

@kevbo9.bsky.social, Mrs. gavinesq is a transactional lawyer and has spent much of her career in defeasance. I just read her this and she burst in loud, sustained laughter.

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gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 10h

Liability for bad faith.

Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 11h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word story that only someone in your profession will understand:

Boxes not reviewed beforehand.

Jennifer Hell Hoffman 😈🔥 @astroprofhoff.bsky.social · 15h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Observing run clouded out.

gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 10h

Like I'd know?

gavinesq @gavinesq.bsky.social · 10h

I thought étouffée was Creole?

Either way, yeah, I'm in trouble with someone.