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Damon Agnos @damonagnos.bsky.social · 4h

The cure for the male loneliness epidemic is to win a game 5 in 15 innings

J.P. Crawford, Cal Raleigh, and Josh Naylor hug to celebrate the victory

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 4h

ballplayers, they're just like us (exhausted from 15 innings of baseball)

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 4h

"autotake" before a game-winning single is going to go into the pantheon of the worst in-game analysis

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simon @trillymopena.bsky.social · 4h

Meanwhile, in Toronto…

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simon @trillymopena.bsky.social · 4h

Man these chuckleheads make me truly appreciate Dan and Buck

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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 5h

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
ADAM AMIN: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
ADAM AMIN: oh god yes
AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 11h

tweet by sketchesbyboze: thinking again about how "plague of frogs" in hebrew is actually "plague of frog," and how the rabbis took this to mean that pharaoh was terrorized by a single enormous frog

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · Feb 11

Silicon Valley guy who feels intellectually maxed out by the cubicle version of Lost is such a funny concept. “this speculative fiction is dealing me sustained HP damage!!”

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

"asking me if i want fries or a salad to go with my meal is an insult to god if u ask me just give me the fries my friend"
~the pope, probably

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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simon @trillymopena.bsky.social · 14h

I’m old enough* to remember when J. Trudeau spent $4.7 billion to take the Trans Mountain Pipeline off Kinder Morgan’s hands after KM more-or-less decided to stop building it.

*no longer in kindergarten

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 16h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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It’s Lars @larscasteen.bsky.social · 15h

What a gift it was to ‘90s hip hop that “bubonic” and “hydroponic” rhyme

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simon @trillymopena.bsky.social · 16h

Got the reverse rainbow today, too.

simon @trillymopena.bsky.social · 16h

I see what you did there, NYT Connections

Some squares from today’s NYT Connections game. Across the top the squares are THIRD, SISTER and LOVERS. The next row is BIG, STAR and SERIOUS, though that last one doesn’t really matter.

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Infield Fly Girl @infieldflygrl.online · 19h

Good morning everyone!

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 20h

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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simon @trillymopena.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget that when Jeter was running the Marlins, he gave Stanton to the Yankees basically for free, so, yeah, enjoy yourself, captain.

Asher @skydome.bsky.social · 1d

No one in history has ever been madder than Jeter in this moment

Derek Jeter smiling through his anger as Vladimir Guerrero Jr says “DAAAAA YANKEES LOSE” over and over again

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simon @trillymopena.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely half as long as Toronto’s title drought

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simon @trillymopena.bsky.social · 1d

This is good, but what I really want is a “Buck was right” shirt

Minor Leaguer @minorleaguer.ca · 1d

I haven't shilled a t-shirt in a while but Breaking T really did a good job at launching this John Schneider-authorized "Start Spreading the News, Bitches" shirt quickly. breakingt.com/products/joh...