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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 1h

Barger looks like he’s remembered his position again. We should be okay.

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Karl Morant 🇨🇦🍁 ANTIFA member. @kamorant.bsky.social · 2h

Sadly, Canada will no longer have more Santa Clauses per capita than every other country.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 2h

They claim the right to stop anyone and demand their papers based solely on the discretion of masked, cos-playing thugs who've decided you "look scared" or are "gripping the steering wheel tightly."

Miller is telling us, "Brown people today, the rest of you tomorrow." Listen to his words.

Trump Watch @trumpwat.ch · 8h

Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino: "We need reasonable suspicion to make an immigration arrest. Notice I did not say probable cause, nor did I say I need a warrant? Perhaps you look panicked when you see a Border Patrol agent. Perhaps you look scared ..."

So they scare people and then can arrest them.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 3h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3h

it’s all just a grift

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Lisa Stampnitzky @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 6h

This really is beyond parody

Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 6h

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

www.insidehighered.com

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damned316 🎃 @dxmnkd316.bsky.social · 20h

Missed opportunity here for Pithon

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 20h

Python 3.14 is out today! Here are my notes on the new release: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/p...

If you're an open source library maintainer who supports all current Python releases this also means you can drop 3.9 support now and start depending on features from 3.10, like match/case

Python 3.14

This year's major Python version, Python 3.14, just made its first stable release! As usual the what's new in Python 3.14 document is the best place to get familiar with …

simonwillison.net

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 20h

I know the pics/compression aren’t doing them any favours, but those helmets look like that cheap silver plastic from a dollar store jumbo jet toy.

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 20h

Kopitar is not wearing that with conviction.

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 20h

a close up of a woman 's face with the word abomination in white letters

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with the word abomination in white letters

media.tenor.com

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 20h

Didn’t even realize I demolished nearly half a bag of Doritos stress eating while watching the game. I haven’t done that in probably 15 years.

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 20h

(idek what i mean by that)

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 20h

For a bullpen game? Are you crazy?!?

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 20h

And while we are being honest: I’m ok with the Jays winning either game 4 or 5!

I haven’t seen Schlittler pitch, you gotta hope for some playoff nerves but usually by this point in their careers they’ve been through it many times before.

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Rick City @rickcity.bsky.social · 21h

If you drink every time you hear "bullpen game" you'll be dead before the sun rises tomorrow

bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 21h

Worst drinking game *ever*.

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 21h

Full credit to the Yankees for taking advantage of it, but the Jays beat themselves tonight. I don’t expect that to happen again tomorrow.

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 21h

Worst drinking game *ever*.

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 21h

Well, that sucked. But it’s one game and we still only need one to advance. Tomorrow it is, then.

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 21h

stupid sportsball, I’ve lost all track of time

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 21h

Whew. Okay, Blue Jays, one more kick at the can. Make it happen, you’ve done it all year.

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 21h

“… placing … them … in … zip … ties … and … separating … them … by … race”

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 21h

Hmmm. You seem nice. It might be a trick, though. Just with those appeals alone I’m questioning my stance on tariffs.

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 21h

Don’t tell her, Rick. We’re gonna need to know who’s who when the US invades us.

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 21h

Imagine, if the pitch clock didn’t exist this Jays game would end at like 4am

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bastage42 @bastage42.bsky.social · 21h

That’s great!