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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 14h

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · 22d

Genuinely curious what is going on here. I'm local, but about to move closer to here.

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · 22d

What's made it so hard for something to get developed here? Zoning issues? Regular NIMBYism? Divine punishment?

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · 22d

There's gotta be a better way to get your SAG card

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elenore @dropthatphone.bsky.social · 22d

ladies love him. the CIA, the NYT, and car culture hate him.

Robert Redford fitted up in muted fall layers and a navy blue beanie riding his bike to work in Three Days of the Condor

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · 22d

I think about this every time the movie comes up

A tweet with a picture of Robert Redford looking fly, "Three Days of the Condor" is about a man who dresses so fly the CIA wants him dead

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · 22d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 22d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

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The Falcoholic @thefalcoholic.bsky.social · 23d

The last time the Falcons allowed 6 or fewer points in a game was 2020, when Raheem Morris was the interim head coach and Jeff Ulbrich was his defensive coordinator

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The Falcoholic @thefalcoholic.bsky.social · 23d

A HOLDING CALL AGAINST MY TEAM: An abomination. Unfair. Unjust. Wrong. May the devil strike you blind.

A HOLDING CALL AGAINST MY OPPONENT: Awesome, love that

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · 23d

I hope he switches it up every season.

Maybe next year he goes really hard on the J sound, as in John.

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · 23d

God would never

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27d

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27d

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · 27d

Gun violence is always a very bad thing. Sometimes it is both bad and ironic, but it's always bad.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27d

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Today we had a chance to stand with the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for this country in uniform. Ashli Babbitt is not that. She is a traitor. She will be a traitor. She died a traitor."

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 27d

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · 27d

I get why it feels out of place to some readers, but it's essential. Bureaucratic stupidity/absurdity can mess up our relationship with the environment as much as any real greed and malice.

It's also hilarious. Kind of reminds me of Burn After Reading in some tonal ways.

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · 28d

Much worse, but not as completely weird, as David Lee Roth being the EMT in your ambulance

Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · Sep 8

My fandom's origin is geographical.

It persists because I'm not a coward.

I've got 40-50 years to go on this mortal coil, and I will suffer every one of them with this stupid fucking football team.

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · Sep 7

Falcons

Ugh

Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · Sep 7

Melvin!

Remember Some Guys @remembersomeguys.bsky.social · Sep 7

B.J. Upton
CF-LF
Debut: 2004 - Retired: 2016
TOR - SDP - ATL - TBD

B.J. Upton at baseball-reference.com

Career stats of B.J. Upton

baseball-reference.com

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm not trying to be clever - these obscene bubbles happen more when the people at the helm have no actual material risk. The AI bubble is just dumber and more fascist-aligned than we're used to.

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · Sep 5

Lots of *companies* are losing money on it.

Lots of terrible individuals are making bank, and most will die richer than we could ever hope to be, regardless of the business outcome.

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · Sep 5

And still so many people blame Matty for all those disappointments...

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · Aug 24

I saw them play a really solid show while Rachael Price (the singer) was ~7 months pregnant. Can't say a bad word about their talent and work.

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Alex the Pretty Spooky @alexprettygood.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Big Lebowski, for better or worse. The zen of it stuck with me when I needed it the most, and still helps me manage the anxiety of living.

I'm aware that's pretty far from the Coen's intent, which was basically "Stoner Raymond Chandler"

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