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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 1h

SOURCE: UAB has fired head coach Trent Dilfer, @theathletic.com has learned.

UAB is 2-4 this year. Dilfer went 9-21 in three seasons.

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Matthew Bunch @matthewsbunch.com · 3h

McDaniel and Lamar would be a dream. Instead of running the dog-shittiest short yardage plays of all time over and over and over again.

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Matthew Bunch @matthewsbunch.com · 3h

a man says i 'd make that deal while wearing a white shirt

ALT: a man says i 'd make that deal while wearing a white shirt

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Michael Anderson @michaelander45.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe you shouldn’t be doing controversial changes to precedent or reversals of reasoned lower court opinions using it then?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Bill Connelly @espnbillc.bsky.social · 5h

Even by college football's ridiculous standards, "Guy who had the No. 3 team in the country 15 days ago gets fired" is pretty mind-blowing.

RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 5h

Holy cow... those mad lads from Northwestern got them to do it!

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Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 5h

Penn State has fired James Franklin. $50M buyout. So at least there is that.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 9h

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 · 11h

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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This Day in Miami History Podcast @thisdaymiamipod.com · 9h

Today is the final day of the Miami Seaquarium. It’s closing after 70 years on Virginia Key. In 2023, we revisited the park through the context of Lolita, the world-famous Orca that resided there almost all of its life. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

August 22, 2023: The Miami Seaquarium reopens without Lolita

Podcast Episode · This Day in Miami History Podcast · 08/23/2023 · 16m

podcasts.apple.com

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Matthew Bunch @matthewsbunch.com · 1d

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 1d

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slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 1d

14 innings!!!

This is the longest winner-take-all game by innings in postseason history

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Matthew Bunch @matthewsbunch.com · 2d

You threatening to come into my house and put a blanket on my couch, pal? Well, guess what? Read it and weep.

We the People
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
AMENDMENT III
BILL OF RIGHTS
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2d

All-time social media graphic from ESPN

An image of a Giants player back flipping with the text

He’s genuinely an idiot.
GUNNER OLSZEWSKI
on Cam Skattebo

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Matthew Bunch @matthewsbunch.com · 2d

A shirt saying “Come and Quarter It” in the style of the “Come and Take It” flag, with a couch replacing the cannon.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 2d

RIP, Sister Jean. news.luc.edu/stories/news...

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Matthew Bunch @matthewsbunch.com · 2d

That’s cool, but Isaiah Rider is going to be impossible to dislodge for No. 1. youtu.be/h7MFaPOfGeU?...

Isaiah Rider`s Incredible (Random) 3-PT Shot

YouTube video by slam40dunk

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Matthew Bunch @matthewsbunch.com · 3d

Xzibit in a blank image in the style of the “Yo, dawg” meme.

Matthew Bunch @matthewsbunch.com · 3d

Ahem…

An “All Inboxes” mailbox showing 257,201 unread messages.

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 4d

wilson: did you throw the pitch to baez, who chases outside the zone more than any other player in the league, just like i said?

bazardo: sure did boss, made it right down the dick like you said

wilson: what?