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Scott Mackie

@smackie.org

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Lapsed Ginger. Scottish. Retired Internet Plumber. Old Macs. Splinter Maker. Photography. SF Giants. Snark. MDANT. Santa Cruz. Kendal. https://glass.photo/smackie https://optional-extras.org

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Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 7h

Just purchased! Looking forward to listening to it properly, later on…

Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 13h

Indeed. What a way to blow it.

On the plus side, one famous Phillies phan is not happy bsky.app/profile/anth...

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13h

Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 13h

Right first time, tbh

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Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 13h

Kershaw handed him his lucky post season monkey paw…

Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 19h

I’m not liking the look of the new Cambridge Footlights Jeeves and Wooster play

Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 22h

Genuinely surprised that people were freaking out that Kershaw coughed up 5 runs (and he was lucky to get out of the inning before that one).

Kershaw’s postseason stats are … pretty terrible for a HoF-bound pitcher and have been for a decade and a half…

Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 1d

But Jon, if they raise their voices and talk slower, like they’re talking to a particularly obstinate old Labrador, then the border guards are sure to let them thru. They’re British, man!

Ahem. I also await the videos with glee

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2d

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 1d

a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

ALT: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

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Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 1d

That was pretty much a retirement gift from the Phillies

Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 1d

Ah. Postseason clownball™

Dodgers: Here’s Kershaw!
Phillies: Hold our beer…

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 1d

I have never seen everyone in the right field bleachers at Dodgers Stadium look *behind* them for a home run to land… 😮

Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 1d

The actual security value? Gotta be √-1

Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 1d

Paul Henry in the NZ Traitors is actually pretty good at it. He’s not Claudia but he’s also not trying as desperately hard as Alan Cummings

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 1d

ha ha ha

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I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 1d

For some reason, this character springs to mind…

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🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 1d

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂
#funny

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Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 1d

Seen a few fights in Mathers over the years (was in there a lot in the early 90s). One fight knocked the sandwiches off of the counter, which nearly caused a riot with the staff.

Not quite a fight-y as unreconstructed Leith was but definitely had an edge

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Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 1d

Been years since I was in West End Mathers. IIRC, West End had to acquire/rent the women’s toilet of the building next door after they were push to serve women. The route to use it was … baroque, according to female friends…

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 2d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 2d

As a Giants fan, I’m allowed special dispensation to maintain animosity for AJ. But I’ll grudgingly admit that his booth work with Wainright is actually interesting and relevant.

And now back to whatever the hell the commentary on the Yankees game is…

Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 2d

I’m no AJ fan at all but flipping over was just …. ugh

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Scott Mackie @smackie.org · 4d

I love this for the Yankees

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