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Settler historian of food, health and colonialism | hapless area man | amateur squirrel theorist | against fascism | sometimes make music: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thrums/vast-spaces-without-reprieve

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Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com · 3h

Don't mean this as some kind of grand pronouncement but rather just a feeling: I sometimes feel as if progressivism in the 2010s was a little like the dog that did in fact catch the car -- except that rather than not knowing what to do, the ppl in the car got out and were very angry about it.

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 3h

Me, watching the Jays play at Yankee stadium.

🦇Zombatman🦇 @budbuddyguy.bsky.social · 21d

The reverb 🤌

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 13h

He's just an unbelievably talented player. Sad he plays for the most terrible team in baseball.

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 13h

If you're a casual fan on this Jays bandwagon wondering why they'd throw a pitch anywhere near where Judge could hit it, they kinda didn't

James Smyth @jamessmyth621.bsky.social · 13h

on the Aaron Judge home run off the pole:

99.7 MPH is the fastest pitch he's ever hit for a homer

1.2 feet is the furthest-inside pitch he's ever hit for a homer

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 13h

Jays killed by fielding errors wasn't on my bingo card.

staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 14h

Not good!

staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 14h

Not fair that Judge is so talented.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 14h

Duchamp Flies, by Carmen Cicero, 2009, 📸 by Frank Franklin II

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Fred Thompson @yourbestfred.bsky.social · 15h

Lmao Vladdy is absolutely out of his mind

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 15h

Vladdy is just so good. The smartest guy on the field every damn time.

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 15h

Vladdy guerrero jr. diving for the run in the third

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 15h

Boone needs to go, this is humiliating.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15h

Watch that slide. He takes off like fucking Superman and the first person he looks at is the Yankees. Iconic hating.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 15h

I cannot believe they sent Vladdy here but he made it, the leap into the slide is 🤌🏼

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 16h

the one-two of "Yankees fans boo O Canada"/Vladdy homering in the first inning

well

I certainly didn't hate that

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 15h

Me, nodding sagely. "You are wrong, young padawan."

staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 15h

My kid just now: "Ah, just who we want in this situation. The Jays' popout king, Santander."

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 15h

hahahaha

that one's on boone

staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 15h

Unforced fielding errors: a proud Yankees tradition.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 16h

hahahahahahalololol

their booing only makes him stronger

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Gourmet Spud @gourmetspud.bsky.social · 16h

“Win it for my administration and each of its policies.”
“Yes sir.”

hatch @imhatch.bsky.social · 16h

go jays

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 23h

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 1d

Well, there's a jarring sequence of words to read.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot believe these lyrics from the new Taylor Swift album are real

Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes"

"You made a deal with this devil, turns out my dick's bigger"

"Everybody's so punk on the internet"

"So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire"

"Got me drеaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop - Boss up, settle down, got a wish list"

"Please, God, bring me a best friend who I think is hot"

"He dick-matized me and opened my еyes - Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see - His love was thе key that opened my thighs"

"Good thing I like my friends cancelled - I like 'em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal"

"Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?"

"Who's the baddest in the land? What's the plan? - You could be my forever night stand"

"They ripped me off like false lashes - And then threw me away"

"Her name was Kitty - Made her money being pretty and witty - They gave her the keys to this city - Then they said she didn't do it legitly"

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 1d

Canada hitching itself to dead-end fossil-fuels at precisely this moment will likely mark an ugly turning point towards decline and irrelevance.

Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 1d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy