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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 5d

luckily, I had absolutely no faith in the Phillies to begin with

reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 15h

sure he’s a great player but the clubhouse is so fucking sick of hearing “damn! We’re in a tight spot” every time someone goes down 0-2

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 15h

we’ve heard “Father Time is undefeated” a thousand times, but Bron getting a DNP: My Agonies really makes it palpable for me

Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 16h

Lakers star LeBron James is sidelined for at least 3 to 4 weeks due to sciatica on his right side. He is out for the start of the 2025-26 NBA season.

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 17h

oh, well, I wouldn’t want to look like a Hater

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 17h

well he is probably available this offseason if we wanna find out

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 18h

you have to start the clock in 2015 but it’s fucking uncanny

Fangraphs stats for left-handed pitchers from 2015-2025, with Patrick Corbin highlighted to demonstrate that Postseason Clayton Kershaw is Literally Patrick Corbin

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 18h

Clayton Kershaw’s postseason legacy is a full season sample size of being, essentially, Patrick Corbin

lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 18h

after more than a damn decade of wah wah wah bequeathed runners and it's dave roberts' fault and it was a fluke outing and every reason-turned-excuse in the book, let's look at the numbers:

clayton kershaw postseason stats
196.1 IP
40 G
4.63 ERA
3.98 FIP
1.146 WHIP

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phylan @phylan.website · 19h

Chris Paul hits a huge three to cut the lead down to 42

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 20h

I’m so happy for him, wish the giants hadn’t fucked that one up but glad he’s thriving

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 1d

You Will Never Be Him

a baseball player wearing a black hat with a sf logo on it

ALT: a baseball player wearing a black hat with a sf logo on it

media.tenor.com

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 1d

look, a bit of this was likely the Astros bullshit, a bit was bad management, and a lot was just the merciless randomness of baseball. but none of that makes it any less fucking hilarious

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Kershaw couldn’t retire before one final postseason blowup

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

One last postseason diaper blowout for Clayton Kershaw. A beautiful sendoff for a legend.

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 1d

PAC vs Orange Cassidy is one of the best long term feuds in pro wrestling, mostly because they’re incredible at wrestling each other but also because it’s more or less this

Dr. Venture about to pay the Monarch a bunch of money to fuck off and stop being his nemesis, unsuccessfully

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 2d

hate being picked last for the Garvey sibling intramural exhibition

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 2d

are all his kids gonna get to throw pitches too

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not saying it’s universally right and definitely not a good time. but if your ostensible allies are saying “this political project can only work if we toss some people overboard,” they can’t be surprised when you say: well shit, if we toss EVERYONE overboard we’ll really get somewhere

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 2d

if you want to know why people start believing in accelerationism as a political principle, just observe the way squishy liberals behave when their welfare and rights aren’t yet the ones on the line

buddhaofnazareth.bsky.social @buddhaofnazareth.bsky.social · 2d

If you prefer Newsom and not Vance (or Trump.3) as President, don’t push him into a corner over an issue that the other side will gladly completly crush if you help them stay in power

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 2d

Palestinians stand atop the rubble of their lives and show the rest of us what courage means. We owe them everything.

Me for @discourseblog.com on two years of genocide.

www.discourseblog.com/p/palestine-...

Palestine Is Still Here

Two years of genocide couldn't erase the Palestinian people.

www.discourseblog.com

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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 2d

that's the most queens a bishop has ever taken

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 3d

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

www.thetimes.com

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 2d

A great reminder that no matter how clear you think you have made the meaning of your work, there will always be avid fans of it who nonetheless miss the point entirely.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 3d

Doesn’t look like I’m getting my old account back so I guess we’ll settle in here. Still looking for pals which is annoying because I have friends everywhere.

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 3d

he is explicitly not for everyone. he plays for the dodgers. he is very much not “for” the fans of the team the dodgers are playing against right now

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3d

Philly booing Ohtani cmon man. He's not a Dodger he's our national baseball Folk Hero. He is for everyone. He loves dogs and hits balls 500 ft and throws the ball 100 mph.

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 3d

about halfway through this goes in a direction where I cannot follow, but it sure nails the circumstances! and end of the day, Bakker’s the one with the three pound brain and I am but a vulgar Marxist who double majored in Warcraft and opiates, so who the fuck knows

reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 3d

every time I see some bullshit about Portland burning or Palestinian crisis actors I cannot but conclude we are in the Semantic Apocalypse rsbakker.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/w...

What is the Semantic Apocalypse?

Here’s the comic book version (the only version, given the kinds of complexities these issues generalize over): In social terms, you could suggest that the Semantic Apocalypse has already hap…

rsbakker.wordpress.com

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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 3d

it’s fucked up that of all the spec fic authors predicting the near future, R Scott Bakker was the one who nailed it. not the Nietzschean sociopath messiah or the horny aliens bio-engineering sex orcs, but the fragmentation and eventual collapse of consensus reality

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