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Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · Jan 22

Phoebe Spengler from Ghostbusters is just Liz Lemon in high school.

McKenna Grace as Phoebe Spengler in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, playing a young woman with short, curly hair and glasses sitting in a classroom.

Tina Fey as Liz Lemon from 30 Rock in a flashback scene where she has short, curly hair and glasses, standing next to a telescope.

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Ranking Some Guys @rankingsomeguys.bsky.social · 39m

Top 1,000 MLB Players of the 2000's

#796
Tony Womack, SS/2B

Arizona '00-'03
Colorado '03
Chicago (NL) '03, 06
St. Louis '04
New York (AL) '05
Cincinnati '06

.269/.310/.351, 68 OPS+, 3230 PA, 438 R, 110 2B, 32 3B, 23 HR, 224 RBI, 169 SB, 1.6 bWAR, 1.1 fWAR

-Top 10 in SB in '00, '01, & '05.

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Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 35m

Linguists have yet to explain why we say "Duquesne" like it's French but "Versailles" like it's a type of boat.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 56m

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 1h

Unless your Mize deceive you, I guess.

Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 5h

Pittsburgh refuses to be neatly categorized yet again.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 17h

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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Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 17h

The cock of the walk, baby!

Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 18h

Silovs, Malkin, Brazeau your three stars, again, imo.

Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 18h

The Pittsburgh Penguins, imo.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 19h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 18h

Sleeveless baseball jersey over a polo shirt is a look I have not seen before.

Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 20h

Very strongly resisting the urge to praise the Rags for their uniforms.

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Bob Grove @bobgrove91.bsky.social · 21h

Tonight marks the 4,500th regular season game for the Pens. 2,061-1,858-197 with 383 ties.

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Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 1d

Good book, would recommend

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

yoooooooo go get books from @bookshop.org

the ebook of mine & @lollardfish.bsky.social's THE BRIGHT AGES is $1.99!!!!!!

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 1d

Was the question just: “… Son?”

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 2d

social media has made people feel a little too comfortable with being mean to strangers

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 1d

Underrated part of this is he actually stumbles twice. The second time is funnier. And yet!

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHMYGOD
Trevor Lawrence is something else

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Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Vaughn looking just as good as the day he won the 1975 Masters.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

You just got beat by a time traveler from the 1910s

Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 2d

Grant just wants to be in Geddy Lee's limelight.

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Ed Giles @edgiles4.bsky.social · 4d

Gonna steal a truckload this book like the beginning of The Fast and The Furious.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 5d

Like, these guys just don't believe in America

Patrick Daugherty @rotopat.bsky.social · 5d

...American morality. The betrayals of the constitution are no longer gray but base. The military is not deployed to American cities. Citizens are not randomly stopped and "papered" in this country. These are literal founding principles. 1-of-2 parties have stopped applying them

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 5d

illumi
@illumi.meme
telling my kid "i'll give you something to cry about" and then moving the family to ohio
October 2, 2023 at 5:12 PM

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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 5d

314 runs scored at home
269 runs scored away

i don't think this is the problem

triblive.com/sports/as-pi...

As Pirates address power problems, hitters want to see them address ballpark dimensions

When assessing a Pittsburgh Pirates offense that ranked last in the major leagues in home runs, runs scored, RBIs, slugging percentage and OPS, general manager Ben Cherington didn’t mince words....

triblive.com

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 5d

*beastie boys*

well old homer simpson made nuclear POWER
getting paid peanuts by the HOUR
all the employees are taking TURNS
getting abused by mr BURNS

and so he became a union MAN
going on strike for a dental PLAN
didnt want his daughter to make FUNNY FACES
because after all LISA NEEDS BRACES

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