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Mike Standish

@mikestandish.bsky.social

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Freelance writer. Very slow reader. Dad. Fan of Seattle sports, sci-fi, fantasy, cereal, and looking at my phone.

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Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 10h

You’re only saying that because Dan Wilson is demonstrably just fucking up at every opportunity

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 10h

Dan Wilson. What are you doing.

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 11h

Why on earth would someone not???

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 12h

Talking with bats

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 1d

Impossible to not love this team.

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 1d

I am enjoying a Mariners baseball game in October. In October!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t even know there was a James Bond Jr until just now

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to hold a baseball game and evil shit like this in my head at the same time. Strange days.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

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.

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 1d

This information probably bumped some actually useful item out of my brain capacity

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Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 1d

My five year old somehow made it to the middle of the 8th of the second Mariners game the other night and then crashed

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 1d

Important baseball update: Go Mariners

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Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 1d

D’oh!

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 1d

Skipping my therapy appointment to watch the Mariners game. Will this be good for my mental health? Only time will tell! #goms

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Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 1d

They should have used AI to write this

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 1d

THE MARINERS, MARK

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 2d

Well, I’ll help you make up you’re mind. You’re choosing the Mariners.

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not sure I have the energy for annoyed watching anything now. Though that one is tempting …

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been considering this for most of my life, and I’ve finally concluded… let’s go mariners

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 3d

Very happy that Gabe Speier has found a home in the Pacific Northwest, because he looks like the Oregon gas station attendant who screamed at me the first time I tried to fill up my own car.

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Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 3d

Why is Mitch Garver

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Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday morning reading: I’ve been having trouble articulating why Ezra Klein has been so disappointing lately and this piece sums it up nicely

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Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not as angry about it as Rothrock but I’m close

Mike Standish @mikestandish.bsky.social · 4d

To reiterate the point I made earlier, go mariners