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Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 6h

At the end I was just hoping SOMEONE would win

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Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 6h

It might continue into tomorrow at this rate

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victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 6h

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 6h

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Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 6h

Real

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Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 6h

Mariners: lol nah

Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 6h

You gotta be shitting me inning 14???!!!

Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 7h

Fruity Pebbles too

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Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 7h

Extra innings is so freaking exhausting.

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Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 16d

A screenshot of a tweet from @classicshelb that reads: Baseball fans watch 162 games per year and are completely furious the entire time

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

this is *really* interesting, both if you're interested in violence--but also if you're interested in history. there's so much in here about how easy it is to think evidence Y so obviously means X that you never bother to analyze whether it actually does

Birb_at_Arms @birblib.bsky.social · 2d

Today in historical hot takes: a well-supported argument that the straight punch was invented in early-modern Venice and likely didn't exist before that. hemamisfits.com/2025/10/05/a...

A paucity of punches: why was punching so rare in pre-modern martial arts

by Maxime Chouinard To most people, punching seems like one of the most natural ways of fighting when unarmed. Most movies will show protagonists and villains alike dealing numerous punches, and kn…

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slowhed @slowhed-comics.bsky.social · 1d

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

Jameis Winston eatin' dubs with Jaxson Dart

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 1d

I heard someone on a podcast say that music is boring now and, look, I am saying this as kindly as I can…skill issue.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal way for the Phillies to lose, Dodgers win the series

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Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 1d

Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 2d

I somehow haven't heard Lemonade all the way through and just absorbed it through pop culture discourse. Listening to it now and discovering that oh right the actual music fucking rocks.

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Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 2d

He was actually good. It was the rest of his team that was the issue.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 2d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 2d

This is obviously simplified and there’s exceptions but that’s usually how it goes.

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Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 2d

When you suck you have to think and study and try to be good. If you’re great you never think about it, it’s just easy for you. Same reason why people who suck at math but worked hard to learn it are usually better teachers than people who are naturals at it.

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Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 2d

Can't look like a badass when you're facing against someone in a unicorn costume

Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone at UNC who was responsible for his hiring should be actually fired for this shit. Legacy defining poor decision making all around.

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Railgun 🏳️‍🌈 @level5railgun.bsky.social · 3d

From personal experience: they don’t. They tip-toe around it endlessly. I feel like Liz Lemon yelling “just say the Jews already“

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