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Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 17m

I don't partake in sports gambling but Parlays? Fool's Errand at best.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Sep 4

happy football season, quick reminder that sportsbooks win about 3% of your money on straight football bets, but almost 20% on parlays and same-game parlays.

which is why they have all the ads for those and not regular bets

(info via NJ Dept. of Gaming Enforcement monthly report, July 2025)

YTD win rates
football: 3.4%
basketball: 3.7%
baseball: 4.8%
other: 6.8%
parlay: 19.6%

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Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 1h

I'll be real, why are people so certain this isn't for the best?

This show needed to be put out to pasture a while ago.

Richard Deitsch @richarddeitsch.bsky.social · 2h

Here is when Inside The NBA will be on during the NBA regular season.

Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 20h

Eh...considering struggling with things like anxiety, depression and other things..

Just happy to get to "old".

Phat Bottom Betty @the-cigar-girl.blacksky.app · 22h

Y’all don’t like kids clocking us being old???

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Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 22h

Reminder: Cam Newton had Frank Luntz as his PR guy for YEARS.

Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 22h

Nothing Cam Newton says can possibly make me mad because my opinion of his thought process couldn’t possibly sink lower.

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Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 23h

My career lol

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 1d

Saw something someone said that was blatantly false and instead of correcting..

i scrolled and moved on..

growth.

Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 1d

Two things:

1) This is really well done
2) Taking Mamdani’s style of video explainer without fully endorsing him is…..

Well, ya know

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 1d

He has to accept it in order for a team to sign him (which probably isn't happening anyway, but still)

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

segregationist say like John Roberts. He believes in a national rebirth through the elimination of internal enemies, those enemies being non-white and the “left”. *that* is absolutely fascist and should be recognizes. But it does grow from “traditional” US conservatism

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

to enjoy the same rights and privileges as other citizens into serious account. This offers incredibly fertile soil for fascism to arise. It’s why Paxton labeled the klan as proto-fascist, especially combined with Lost Cause-ism. But, Trump is a real inflection point. He’s not *merely* a

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

I think where critics of folks who say “this is nothing new” are wrong is that they don’t properly weigh how authoritarian American conservatism *always* was. At no point in history has American conservatism not been explicitly white supremacist, if you take actively opposing Black folks’ attempts

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Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not gonna call it a crisis.

But these are the same dudes many of us came up with who ended up selling books without barcodes on them on the side of the street.

The problem is, those books are now videos.

Gabby🦋📚 @melaninn05.bsky.social · 2d

An open wound???? Masculine musk???? Please keep men with this dirty ass logic away from me PLEASE. Openly admitting you don’t shower is crazy work

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Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 2d

People saw LeBron on that shitty ass soundstage with none of the league broadcasting partners around and thought we were getting a retirement video.

Media Literacy is in the pits.

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Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 2d

Becky Lynch is getting to “put her in the ring with a broomstick and the broomstick is getting over” territory

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Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 2d

’m okay with him saying “it’s too personal” as long as he acknowledges that Cathy’s the one who probably led them down this path.

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Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 2d

i’m more than okay with Silver saying things “got personal” as long as he’s acknowledging that the person under his employ is the catalyst

Gary Washburn @gwashburnglobe.bsky.social · 2d

I asked NBA Commissioner Adam Silver about the current dispute between WNBA players, including Napheesa Collier, and Commissioner Cathy Engelbert and called the situation “unfortunate” and “personal.” #NBA #WNBA

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Nata Edwards @natathescribe.bsky.social · 2d

Because i like money, my only response to this is “lol”

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...