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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 2d

Beans Factor

Manhattan University graphic featuring Bean Factor

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Coal haver @theknuttel.bsky.social · 5h

That’s a nice peace prize you got there, be a shame if you gave it to someone else

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 9h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 9h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15h

Saying "I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize" should pretty much be a disqualification in and of itself for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · Nov 10

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 6h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 6h

Darwyn Cooke - detail from The New Frontier, p. 339.

Superman rallies the troops with discussion of truth, justice, and the American way.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 8h

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no coast. @ledtotheflood.bsky.social · 7h

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 7h

An exchange in tonight's VA Gov debate:

AS: My opponent has previously said that she does not think gay couples should be allowed to marry.

WES: That’s not discrimination!

AS: She said that she is, quote-unquote, morally opposed to same-sex marriage.

WES: That’s not discrimination! (1/2)

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Brian @brian215.bsky.social · 7h

The Fightins

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Coal haver @theknuttel.bsky.social · 7h

SAID

Coal haver @theknuttel.bsky.social · 7h

Bob dylan is a straight up nerd. Who is making these sentences

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 10h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Coal haver @theknuttel.bsky.social · 7h

Oh prolly cos of blood thinners

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

i feel like everything bari weiss does is treated like she's a network exec in 1973 when she's really just a LARPer at the helm of a particularly irrelevant brand while TV news is dying.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 9h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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blights u @bitesu.kawaii.social · 9h

the lion does not concern himself with foreskin restoration

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Coal haver @theknuttel.bsky.social · 8h

Col. Drumline Elmo

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14h

I’m glad to hear that Hamas and Israeli negotiators have reached an agreement in Egypt to release the hostages and put an end to this brutal suffering.

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Thierry Ennui @heisenbergkamp.bsky.social · 12h

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12h

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Philadelphia Phillies (Bot) @notphillies.bsky.social · 12h

Game 4

#RedOctober

Phillies lineup, 10/9 at LAD. 6:08pm EDT game time on TBS/94WIP.

Turner 6
Schwarber DH
Harper 3
Bohm 5
Marsh 8
Realmuto 2
Kepler 7
Castellanos 9
Stott 4

Sánchez LHP

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h

Viscerally horrifying, but it's so obvious they felt they needed something other than one driveway in Broadview to "protect," and figured well there's the big federal courthouse let's throw that in. Without remembering that's not theirs.

They're blindly bumbling into extra constitutional crises.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17h

Chief Judge Kendall's statement comes as last night an Army commander told a federal court that DHS had so far made two requests for National Guard deployments in the Chicago area: (1) at the Broadview ICE facility, (2) at the Dirksen Courthouse on Friday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 16h

History is full of soft coups and revolutions in which the tyrant's most seemingly ardent supporters, intentionally or otherwise, destabilize him by saying "the king is wonderful, but he is being betrayed by corrupt advisors!" It used to be the ONLY way to pressure or force out a king.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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