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jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

The Epstein List did not kill itself.

July 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

It’s pointless to rant and rave about every injustice because that’s what these fuckers want. We need a call to arms and a plan of action. And I’ve no clue on how the fuck to do that.

July 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

My Name is Earl and Raising Hope have to be the most wholesome comedy shows in tv history. (Parks and Recreation is in the mix as well)

July 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

People out here getting a loan for half a car and calling it a “side by side,” it’s wild.

July 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

Ozzy didn’t explode into a 1000 bats like I predicted. That’s like the third time I’ve been ever been wrong. #ozzy

July 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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The New Yorker

@newyorker.com

In 1972, members of the McCrary-Taylor family admitted that they had killed at least 10 people. “It’s still haunting people today,” a relative of one of the victims wrote, on the forum for a true-crime podcast.

The Long Afterlife of a Terrible Crime

Decades after her mother was killed, Regina Alexander reached out to the son of the people who did it.

www.newyorker.com

June 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

Storm trooper armor might as well be Saran Wrap. Shit’s trash.

June 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

The way Roku does baseball games is kind of fun. A broadcaster from each team’s regional network is genius.

June 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

The “big beautiful bill” can suck my big beautiful balls.

May 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

Laura Loomer has to have one of the most apt surnames of all time.

May 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM

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Bill Corbett

@billcorbett.bsky.social

All I know is that I better fucking get my usual 30 dolls for Christmas

May 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

May 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

I love you Al Hrabosky.
Who’d think we would see the Mad Hungarian nearly come to tears? What a legend. #STLCards

May 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

After you hit a walk-off tater you’re required to dap up the whole dugout. She’s a beaut ‘Nado #STLCards #MLB

April 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

I always forget how awesome the Atlanta Braves’ organ player is. The perfect kind of wiseass.

April 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

Marcell Ozuna man, lol wow #stlcards #mlb

April 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM

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Sara Sanchez

@bcbsara.bsky.social

The largest paying crowd in the history of Wrigley Field was the day Jackie Robinson made his debut. Wrigley is the only park left Jackie played a game in. Mike Ryoko was a kid at that ballpark that day and he wrote about it. Take a minute and read this today.

press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...

A newspaper clipping from Mike Ryoko part one:

Jackie's Debut a Unique Day
All that Saturday, the wise men of the neighborhood, who sat in chairs on the sidewalk outside the tavern, had talked about what it would do to baseball.
I hung around and listened because baseball was about the most important thing in the world, and if anything was going to ruin it, I was worried.
Most of the things they said, I didn't understand, although it all sounded terrible. But could one man bring such ruin?
They said he could and would. And the next day he was going to be in Wrigley Field for the first time, on the same diamond as Hack, Nicholson, Cavarretta, Schmitz, Pafko, and all my other idols.
I had to see Jackie Robinson, the man who was going to somehow wreck everything. So the next day, another kid and I started walking to the ballpark early.
We always walked to save the streetcar fare. It was five or six miles, but I felt about baseball the way Abe Lincoln felt about education.
Usually, we could get there just at noon, find a seat in the grandstand, and watch some batting practice. But not that Sunday, May 18, 1947.
By noon, Wrigley Field was almost filled. The crowd outside spilled off the sidewalk and into the streets. Scalpers were asking top dollar for box seats and getting it.

Part II:

I had never seen anything like it. Not just the size, although it was a new record, more than 47,000. But this was twenty-five years ago, and in 1947 few blacks were seen in the Loop, much less up on the white North Side at a Cub game.
That day, they came by the thousands, pouring off the northbound Ls and out of their cars.
They didn't wear baseball-game clothes. They had on church clothes and funeral clothes·suits, white shirts, ties, gleaming shoes, and straw hats. I've never seen so many straw hats.
As big as it was, the crowd was orderly. Almost unnaturally so. People didn't jostle each other.
The whites tried to look as if nothing unusual was happening, while the blacks tried to look casual and dignified. So everybody looked slightly ill at ease.
For most, it was probably the first time they had been that close to each other in such great numbers.
We managed to get in, scramble up a ramp, and find a place to stand behind the last row of grandstand seats. Then they shut the gates. No place remained to stand.
Robinson came up in the first inning. I remember the sound. It wasn't the shrill, teenage cry you now hear, or an excited gut roar. They applauded, long, rolling applause. A tall, middle-aged black man stood next to me, a smile of almost painful joy on his face, beating his palms together so hard they must have hurt.

Part III:

When Robinson stepped into the batter's box, it was as if someone had flicked a switch. The place went silent.
He swung at the first pitch and they erupted as if he had knocked it over the wall. But it was only a high foul that dropped into the box seats. I remember thinking it was strange that a foul could make that many people happy. When he struck out, the low moan was genuine.
I've forgotten most of the details of the game, other than that the Dodgers won and Robinson didn't get a hit or do anything special, although he was cheered on every swing and every routine play.
But two things happened I'll never forget. Robinson played first, and early in the game a Cub star hit a grounder and it was a close play.
Just before the Cub reached first, he swerved to his left. And as he got to the bag, he seemed to slam his foot down hard at Robinson's foot.
It was obvious to everyone that he was trying to run into him or spike him. Robinson took the throw and got clear at the last instant.
I was shocked. That Cub, a hometown boy, was my biggest hero. It was not only an unheroic stunt, but it seemed a rude thing to do in front of people who would cheer for a foul ball. I didn't understand why he had done it. It wasn't at all big league.
I didn't know that while the white fans were relatively polite, the Cubs and most other teams kept up a steady stream of racial abuse from the dugout. I thought that all they did down there was talk about how good Wheaties are.

Part IV:

Late in the game, Robinson was up again, and he hit another foul ball. This time it came into the stands low and fast, in our direction. Somebody in the seats grabbed for it, but it caromed off his hand and kept coming. There was a flurry of arms as the ball kept bouncing, and suddenly it was between me and my pal. We both grabbed. I had a baseball.
The two of us stood there examining it and chortling. A genuine major-league baseball that had actually been gripped and thrown by a Cub pitcher, hit by a Dodger batter. What a possession.
Then I heard the voice say: "Would you consider selling that?"
It was the black man who had applauded so fiercely.
I mumbled something. I didn't want to sell it.
"I'll give you ten dollars for it," he said.
Ten dollars. I couldn't believe it. I didn't know what ten dollars could buy because I'd never had that much money. But I knew that a lot of men in the neighborhood considered sixty dollars a week to be good pay.
I handed it to him, and he paid me with ten $1 bills.
When I left the ball park, with that much money in my pocket, I was sure that Jackie Robinson wasn't bad for the game.
Since then, I've regretted a few times that I didn't keep the ball. Or that I hadn't given it to him free. I didn't know, then, how hard he probably had to work for that ten dollars.
But Tuesday I was glad I had sold it to him. And if that man is still around, and has that baseball, I'm sure he thinks it was worth every cent.

April 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺

@nywolforg.bsky.social

The best howls inspire others 🐺

April 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM

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Rebecca Watson

@skepchick.org

Do you know the difference between “$2 trillion” and “$150 billion”? About $2 trillion.

Sparkling Wizzle @liberalbadger97.bsky.social · Apr 12

Imbecile 🤭

April 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

April 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM

jingozer

@gorillawolfe.bsky.social

I’ve worked in manufacturing a total of 18 years and it’s one of the greatest examples of worker exploitation. A lot of it is mundane maddening repetitive labor that’s not as appreciated as it should be.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Apr 13

More in No, Other People:

New poll:

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”

• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree

“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”

• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory

April 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM