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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1h

🎶girlfriend in antifa I know I know it’s serious🎶

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 3h

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Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social · 5h

Free (!!!) at the Too Deep Zone:

"In fairness to Tanner Engstrand, his first-quarter game scripts look clever and Lions-like. Then someone fumbles at the goal line."

Jets TankWatch:

miketanier.substack.com/p/tankwatch-...

TankWatch: New York Jets

The Jets are winless. Yet they should be better. Blaming Aaron Glenn and looking for a QB in the 2026 draft would be very Jets of them.

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 6h

You'll never guess who wrote this one, so I'll just tell you: it was me. Learn about MLB's very 1990's hesitation at allowing Japanese money near America's national pastime, Nintendo's partnership with Ken Griffey Jr., and their long-running relationship and fascination with baseball.

Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 7h

In the '90s Ken Griffey Jr. was as much of a Nintendo icon as Kirby, Link or Samus. As the Seattle Mariners play deep into the baseball playoffs, we look at the team's long history with Nintendo. www.endlessmode.com/article/nint...

Nintendo's Baseball History: Why Ken Griffey Jr. and the Seattle Mariners Should Be Honorary Smash Bros.

As the Seattle Mariners continue their playoff run, we look at the team's long relationship with Nintendo, and the video games it inspired.

www.endlessmode.com

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 6h

Griffey got traded to the Reds under the threat of FA rather than leaving as a FA. Great piece though, had no idea (and unsurprised about) the xenophobia.

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 10h

Millenials are the greatest generation

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 10h

It is a great bit that they are 4-1 when Lawrence’s best highlight involves him falling prone and Hunter has done almost nothing to date.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 23h

I think you’d have to believe Kyler is one of the five worst starting QBs in football to be happy with this unit’s performance this year, myself.

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 1d

I mean sure, they'd get jobs on a staff somewhere. Are any of them getting hired to the same roles they currently have?

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 1d

(Did he just allow a game-winning drive to a rookie who was woeful for the first four weeks of the season?)

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 1d

One letter away from what is needed. So close.

Rotoworld Football @rotoworld-fb.bsky.social · 1d

Cardinals fine Gannon for Demercado altercation

The Cardinals fined head coach Jonathan Gannon $100,000 for a sideline altercation with RB Emari Demercado.

dlvr.it

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Aaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 1d

With all the wild close games, we have a lot of these tables where current teams are very good or bad among teams with the same W-L record.

Chiefs are 5th among 2-3 teams since 1978, Texans 10th.

New DVOA commentary: ftnfantasy.com/nfl/week-5-d...

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Defector @defector.com · 1d

Two months later, on July 12, the couple were in the area of Bristol, Conn., staying at a hotel. Hill had been yelling at Vaccaro all day because "she was not doing what he wanted her to do," the document said. Inside their hotel room, with some of Hill's other children and family waiting in the lobby, Vaccaro told Hill that she didn't want to go out because she was pregnant and didn't feel well. Hill responded by picking up Vaccaro's phone and throwing it at her face. He then "threw a punch and tried to hit her pregnant stomach, but she deflected it," the document said. Hill also "ripped at her hair and pulled some hair out, then grabbed her purse and flung it across the room," the record said.

Vaccaro was very far along in her pregnancy in November of 2024, when the couple along with some family were at their Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., condominium getting ready to leave for a Dolphins game. Hill got angry with Vaccaro while they were in the bedroom, with the rest of their family in the living area, and spat in her face, the document said. She gave birth to their daughter the next day.

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 1d

Not even close to running out of song references for him this season, it sucks.

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists from the Bulletin Of Radioactive Football Takes have agreed to move The Shedeur Clock to 89 seconds until midnight.

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 1d

C.J. Stroud Week 5 Intermediate Middle: 5/5, 81 yards, 1 TD
C.J. Stroud Weeks 1-4 Intermediate Middle: 2/5, 32 yards

C.J. Stroud's Week 5 passing chart from NFL Next Gen Stats

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 1d

NFL now runs through the AFC South. I don't make the rules here.

rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 2d

You've dogged the AFC South too long and now they have three top-10 DVOA teams that are all better than the Bills, Ravens, and Chiefs. There's no way I'm posting this because I think the Jaguars may go down tonight, how dare you ask that. Surely this is everlasting and not just a snapshot in time.

A screenshot of the current DVOA rankings per FTN -- notably the Colts are 3rd, the Jaguars 6th, and the Texans 8th.

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victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 1d

HE DID IT

Jeff "Mac'n Steeze" Cryptsko @jeffkrisko.bsky.social · 1d

Trevor Lawrence Legacy Drive

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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 1d

A Pick and Flick Adventure

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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