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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 59m

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 10h

Robert Clothier was known across Canada as Relic on The Beachcombers.
But long before that show premiered, he was a decorated Second World War pilot who flew over 50 combat missions in Europe and had to learn to walk again following a crash.
This is his amazing story.

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A black-and-white photograph of a man with a weathered face, wearing a knitted cap and a plaid jacket over a shirt. His hair is slightly disheveled, and he has a serious expression.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 2h

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 8h

recommendation

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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 3h

a bed stuck upright? talk about murphy bed's law

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 4h

Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down.
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

www.dexerto.com

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 4h

Game 7 in Three Jumps blogs.fangraphs.com/game-7-in-th...

Game 7 in Three Jumps

In Monday’s ALCS clincher between the Mariners and the Blue Jays, the memorable moments didn’t happen at field level.

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Ben Nicholson-Smith @bnsbaseball.bsky.social · 2h

Last night was the most-watched Blue Jays game Sportsnet has ever had via @SportsnetPR:
•An average of 6 million Canadians watched
•An average of 1.9 million watched Blue Jays Central pre-game
• Max audience of 8.3 million when Jeff Hoffman struck out Julio to end the game

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🇨🇦 Matt Sullivan @sporkless.com · 2h

Even his dumb ass has enough experience at this point to know nobody's gonna stop him. They haven't yet in his long lifetime -- why wouldn't he get away with this one too?

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4h

Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Baseball Reference @baseball-reference.com · 9h

George Springer's HR in Game 7 had the highest Championship Win Probability Added of any play in ALCS history. 🤯

See the full leaderboard here: stathead.com/tiny/o9tQI

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🇨🇦 Matt Sullivan @sporkless.com · 9h

Ticketbastard.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 20h

why not
isn’t this something they are proud of

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 18h

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 18h

Woo referring to the yell to start his answer says it all

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🇨🇦 Matt Sullivan @sporkless.com · 13h

Never bunt, smack dingers.

slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 16h

so far this postseason:

- Teams to score first are 23-17
- Teams to out-homer opponents are 24-5 (23-8 in ‘24 PS)
- 44.5% of runs have been scored via HR (was 41.1% in ’25 RS, 47.0% in '24 PS)

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 15h

Resettling of ethnic russians to the occupied lands while locals are forced to flee genocide or thrown into torture prisons is russia's state policy. Now he argues that Ukraine must capitulate based on what ethnic russians moved to Crimea since 2014 think.
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