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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2h

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

It’s pretty high. Most people are dumb and thoughtless

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DJ WEED PIZZA @djweedpizza.gobirds.online · 12h

Oregon Trail grave stone meme template “Here lies Clayton Kershaw AKA Mr Diarrhea, rest in piss, compiler bigot”

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

Okay that’s more like it

Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

I just think if you don’t score off Clayton Kershaw in a playoff game your franchise deserves to lose

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

I just think if you don’t score off Clayton Kershaw in a playoff game your franchise deserves to lose

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 13h

I admit I was credulous about Brandon Marsh’s hair so I feel really embarrassed seeing now that it’s clearly a bit.

Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 13h

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tweets mcgee is not changing his name to something else @smallupsetter.bsky.social · 16h

My timeline is filled with posts like this which means there's either a new Truth Social post or the Yankees are playing.

WalkingTaako, But Spooky🏴‍☠️🏳️🪣💩 @walkingtaako.bsky.social · 17h

Here we go again

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 17h

Was completely on purpose

Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 20h

Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 17h

Holy cow, this sucks. What an unavoidably awful future and rest of our lives we have in store

Caitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 1d

“I'm optimistic that, you know, five years from now a majority of kids are going to be in a private school choice program.” www.propublica.org/article/educ...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Matthew Leach @matthewhleach.bsky.social · 19h

This is getting reposted a lot, but I urge you to read the entire thread.

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 19h

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 21h

Kamala Harris in her joggers holding a phone to her ear in the famous, "We did it, Joe" video.

Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 21h

haha this will be a fun image to see all over the timeline tonight in the (highly HIGHLY unlikely) event the Phillies win

screencap of the Dolly Parton video that just got put out today. She's seated in a chair in front of a green screen, a microphone hanging over her head. The caption reads, "I'm Not Dying!"

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 21h

Aeneas Williams in his Cardinals uniform, crouching, ready to defend.

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 21h

And I'm proud to be an American
where at least I know I'm free
And I won't forget the men who died
to make Puerto Rico a US territory

David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · 23h

Bad Bunny should perform Lee Greenwood’s proud to be an American song at the Super Bowl but sing it in Spanish

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 21h

so the harm is "i don't like that it's easy for people to vote against me"

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 22h

Justices Appear Open to Challenge of Mail-In Ballot Rules by Illinois Politician

A majority of the court appeared sympathetic to the argument that political candidates should be able to sue over their states’ election laws. The case is one of several lodged by allies of President Trump.

www.nytimes.com

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 22h

[Rob Manfred when days go by without baseball]
"Oh god yes"

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 22h

ANNOUNCER: MOLECU-LOFTS...

CONAN O'BRIEN: THE MOLECULAR ROOMS!

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to Scientists Who Created New Molecular ‘Rooms’

The prize was awarded on Wednesday to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.”

www.nytimes.com

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 23h

HAH. I never even thought about how crypto was behind the push. Makes perfect sense.

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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 23h

oh my fucking god

Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 23h

When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.

www.latimes.com

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a San Francisco Giants community @mccoveychronicles.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

No experience necessary

Last night, Andrew Baggarly posted to The Athletic what’s tantamount to breaking news. It appears that it would be a huge surprise if the San Francisco Giants did not hire former catcher Nick Hundley to be the 42nd manager in franchise history. Given Baggarly’s longstanding relationship with Buster Posey, I’m inclined to believe that this […]

www.mccoveychronicles.com

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Niek @sesquipedalo.bsky.social · 1d

"plenary" is still on the CCN transcripts repository for now:
transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnc/dat...

Shout-out to the hero that archived the page as well:
archive.ph/QbVa3

CNN.com - Transcripts

transcripts.cnn.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Folks… we did it

Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 1d

So we will have 4 elimination games tomorrow

Tigers-Mariners at 3 ET
Cubs-Brewers at 5 ET
Yankees-Jaya at 7 ET
Dodgers-Phillies at 9 ET

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