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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · May 27

The Northwoods League season got underway yesterday, and already, the nonsense is afoot

2025 Nonsense Thread activated

Thunder Bay goes up 12-0, hangs on to win 12-11

Kalamazoo scores 7 in the 1st, blanks Royal Oak through three, gives up runs every single inning after that, wins 12-10

Battle Creek scores 7 in the 2nd, finds themselves down 10-8 at the stretch, wins 15-10

Royal Oak scores 5 in the 2nd, immediately gives up 8 in the 3rd, then scores 7 in the 8th to win 16-13

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 6h

That'll be the next head coach for Penn State, after he vows to return the program back to the things that made it successful

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 6h

you got a long way to go to get to the most embarrassing Penn State football coach news

Pete Thamel & @PeteThamel
X.com
Per his contract, Penn State owes James Franklin more than $49 million.
•Pete Thamel & @PeteThamel • 13m
Sources: Penn State has fired James Franklin.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 6h

going back in time ten years to let everyone know the Silicon Valley libertarians will be lining the streets to greet federal troops as liberators

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 6h

Underrated bit of Linda Yaccarino lore is that she is a Penn State superfan

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 7h

And his quarterbacking isn't so good either

Adam Gretz @adamgretz.bsky.social · 7h

Rodgers looks horrible.

P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 7h

Go ahead, Kristi and Tom, get the suburban soccer moms pissed off at you. Fuck with the weekend schedule that requires them aggregating from four different apps and six different text groups to coordinate. See how that goes.

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 7h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 7h

Brewers broadcasts have several unions running ads and it's a bit disappointing none of them conclude with "Up yours, Dick Uihlein."

P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 7h

That is why they moved to Los Angeles

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 7h

the chargers don't want to be around anymore

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 1d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 8h

Sunday Moose

P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 8h

My only question is whether Trump sues Disney again for $Infinity or if he makes Pugsley do it himself

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Scott Kennedy @scotttkennedy.bsky.social · 8h

It's a proportional response for sending us Piers Morgan, and I support it.

P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 8h

An 11-10 Jets-Broncos game in London feels like it could dissolve US-UK diplomatic relations

P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 9h

And the response is inevitably "well we just gotta concentrate the wealth more"

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ChicagoBars @chicagobars.bsky.social · 9h

2025 Chicago marathon sign of the route….so far.

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 9h

I feel like the existence of LIV Golf is the same as Elon acquiring Twitter. Its owners don't care if it's popular or profitable because they are rich enough to just keep trying to make fetch happen through sheer force of will and burning cash. It seems like a bad model for a lot of things.

The PGA Tour’s viewership dominance over LIV Golf is nothing new. Yet, LIV’s lack of commercial viability doesn’t seem to be phasing its Saudi benefactors, who remain intent on pouring billions of dollars into the product. Last week, the Financial Times reported the league lost nearly $500 million in 2024 under its UK-based entity alone. This is after eating $400 million in losses for 2023, and nearly $250 million in 2021-22.

2025 showed little sign of LIV turning a corner with an American audience. Viewers are voting with their remote, and choosing the PGA Tour over LIV Golf time and time again. And with reunification of the pro game looking as distant as ever, LIV’s stars will continue to toil in obscurity outside of major championships four times each year.

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Scott Kennedy @scotttkennedy.bsky.social · 11h

The Chicago Marathon morning is the 2nd best walk of shame morning of the year (after Halloween).

Good luck to anyone who had a really good Saturday night and woke up at some rando's house on the east side of the race course. With a little patience and determination you'll get home eventually.

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 11h

Bridge over Chicago Waters. This morning during the Chicago Marathon.

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Scott Kennedy @scotttkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

You don't say?

It took a generation but the owners have successfully moved this burden onto the players.

It used to be "will [owner] spend enough for this team to win", and now it's "will [superstar] take enough of a haircut so his team can win." Owner now gets his 50% cut no matter what.

Headline from The Athletic: Gary Bettman commends Connor McDavid for his approach to contract negotiations.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10h

I feel like we’re going through a crisis of credulity as a culture. You can see it with this, you can see it with woo, and you can see it with AI. Nobody’s willing to stand up and say “this is stupid, what are you talking about?”, so people keep spinning out of control.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 18h

Holy shit I am a Brewers fan and if I find myself sharing a section with you the next time I'm at the park I may just take the kids and hang out in the concourse for nine

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 18h

#hisunny

P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 22h

I hope he has ample opportunities!

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katie dzwierzynski @kdzwierzynski.bsky.social · 22h

matt shaw already looking up the ICE recruitment contact info

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 22h

Get them in on the Northwoods League next season, 10 baseball and 2 or 3 softball games free on your TV basically every night from Memorial Day to mid-August and the next thing you know you'll be slamming beers on a charter fishing boat in left field in Kenosha

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