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Gary B

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Baseball nerd. Fan of PWHL Vancouver and all 27 MLB teams not named Yankees, Red Sox, or Nationals.

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Gary B @thegaryb.bsky.social · Jan 20

Most of us know "Do not obey in advance," but there are 19 more lessons on tyranny from historian Timothy Snyder. All 20 lessons are available in video format (5-12 min. each). See
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#democracy #autocracy #USA #Canada

On Tyranny - YouTube

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Gary B @thegaryb.bsky.social · 1h

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States of America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 12h

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 22h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h

I have the document, it’s a nothing burger.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h

Document signed at yesterday's peace summit in Egypt outlines only broad principles for Gaza's future, highlighting ongoing challenges to achieving lasting resolution to the conflict.
Trump, leaders of Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey signed the agreement. The warring parties—Israel and Hamas, did not.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 17h

This is only going to make Roberts trust Treinen more. Brewers are playing the long game.

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Gary B @thegaryb.bsky.social · 16h

Darn right, it's a skill. None better than Ron Hunt.
sabr.org/journal/arti...

Ron Hunt, Coco Crisp, and the Normalization of Hit-by-Pitch Statistics – Society for American Baseball Research

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve been sitting with this the last few hours. It’s really hitting me just how fucking depraved you have to be to respond to an inquiry about an abducted child with a screenshot of a post on elon musk’s hellsite smearing this kid who has no ability to defend himself. It’s unfathomable.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17h

Hall of Fame player using his hall of fame brain not to try to do too much.

Also won game with his brain in Philly suggesting the team try the wheel play,

I’m sorry to keep bringing this up but I can’t believe the Red Sox let a player with Mookie Betts’ talent, work ethic, and baseball IQ go

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17h

Mookie Betts has won two playoff games in a row drawing bases loaded walks after the opposing team intentionally walked Shohei Ohtani.

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 21h

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 22h

Thanksgiving turkey praying none of its side dishes find out about each other

www.thebeaverton.com

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Gary B @thegaryb.bsky.social · 22h

ARE. YOU. KIDDING. ME. Jorge Polanco does it again! 🇩🇴 🇩🇴 🇩🇴 #ALCS #Mariners

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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 16d

Ghislaine Maxwell reported that first met Elon Musk at a multi-day birthday event for Google co-founder Sergey Brin on an island owned by photographer/investor Jean Pigozzi. (image posted by Musk to deny he had an affair with Brin's then wife, unknown) #OpDeathEaters #Epstein

Elon Musk partying with Sergey Brin and unknown women, date unknow, location unknown.

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Gary B @thegaryb.bsky.social · 22h

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...

Trump pardons billionaire friend Conrad Black, who wrote a book about him

Black was convicted in 2007 on fraud charges, including alleged embezzlement, and obstruction of justice.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ken Chia, some guy online @kcchia80.bsky.social · 22h

Sigh

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Gary B @thegaryb.bsky.social · 22h

Congrats, Ryan. I look forward to reading it!

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Ryan Woodward @ryangw27.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! SABR's Native American Major Leaguers is now out and I am most honored to have my brief bio of Yolande Teillet's included. Check it out: sabr.org/ebooks Dirt Forever in the Skirt! #SABR #IndigenousPeoplesDay #ReadBaseball

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Gary B @thegaryb.bsky.social · 22h

Who was the Canadian billionaire?

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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 22h

"... one high profile former politician, one owner of a car company in Italy, one rock star, one magician, at least six billionaires, including a billionaire from Canada. We know these people exist in the FBI files, the files that you control.” #Epstein #OpDeathEaters

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Gary B @thegaryb.bsky.social · 23h

Josh Naylor, speedster, steals second base STANDING UP. 🇨🇦

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JM =^) @jm539581.bsky.social · 23h

Julio Rodriguez hits a 3-run home run to give the Mariners a 3-0 lead.

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Gary B @thegaryb.bsky.social · 23h

a woman with a scarf around her head and the words he 's a creep

Alt: a woman with a scarf around her head and the words he 's a creep

media.tenor.com

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Gary B @thegaryb.bsky.social · 23h

Reason number 2,245,122 to get the heck off Spotify! #PayMusiciansFairly

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Spotify has reportedly been running ICE recruitment advertisements in the US.

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MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.social · 1d

From the comments on this, it seems like most folks don’t know just how close Trump and Netanyahu are, or that their relationship goes back to the 1980s:

Trump is supporting this genocide, too, and if Trump were in power – you know, his whole family has been in bed with Netanyahu since the 1980s. Fred Trump was a close friend of Netanyahu when Netanyahu was living in New York and working at the UN. Netanyahu also slept at the home of the Kushner family. Jared would move to another room and Netanyahu would take Jared's bed because he's very close to the Kushner family.

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