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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 14m

Hinch pulling Mize after 54 pitches a week after doing the same thing blew up in his face? cool cool cool cool coooooool

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 4d

me before and after shelling out to see One Battle After Another in IMAX

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 4d

cc: academy awards

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 5d

they’re all massive Dalton Rushing fans

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 5d

I am also up 15 pounds since Ron Holland’s draft night for unrelated reasons.

Offseason O @omarisankofa.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the obligatory Pistons training camp weight gain story: Ron Holland's up 15 pounds since draft night and is prepared for "more opportunity" in Year 2.

"He’s earned that with his play in Summer League and the work he’s done over this summer."

www.freep.com/story/sports...

Ron Holland adds 15 pounds to get ready for minutes at power forward: 'I'll be prepared'

Detroit Pistons wing Ron Holland was impactful as he was just grasping the nuances of NBA basketball. Now he's bulking up.

www.freep.com

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 5d

You know the ones. When you just toss everything in your fridge that vaguely resembles a vegetable (plus some fruits) in a mixing bowl and that's dinner. The people love a big salad.

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 5d

It's a Big Salad sort of day

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 5d

His ass is so very large but have you considered that Tarik Skubal is a terrifying human being to have standing 60 feet and six inches away?

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 5d

Detroit wins the wild card series

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 6d

1. TWBB
2. OBAA
3. The Master
4. Phantom Thread
5. Boogie Nights
6. Inherent Vice
7. Punch-Drunk Love
8. Licorice Pizza
9. Magnolia
10. Hard Eight

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Dan McQuade @dhm.bsky.social · 8d

This sound is so pleasant I’m going to use it as white noise

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 8d

Tarik Skubal broke a camera (well, the foul tip did). Oops.

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 8d

It's on a shortlist of the best ever for me too, along with me sowing / me reaping and TomBroDude's @ lerbonjanes

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 8d

this is basically the aim of every AI company

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 9d

elite mascots at that one too

Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 9d

Big year for NBA refereeing conspiracies too

Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 9d

I prefer it in the tune of Uptown Girl

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 10d

Kerby Joseph and Aidan Hutchinson both hurt in the span of 5 minutes cool cool cool cool cool I want to die

Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 10d

Lions have been an absolute mess today. Good grief

Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 10d

Joe Flacco just threw one of the silliest picks I’ve ever seen

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 11d

Washington just ran one of the worst fakes I’ve ever seen

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 11d

lol USC. Lmao, even

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 11d

Kaleb Horton RIP.

The last magazine writer

What left with Kaleb Horton.

mattdpearce.substack.com

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 11d

I never got to meet Kaleb Horton, save for a few DMs on the old site where I told him how much I treasured his work. Horton was an incredible writer who never got close to the acclaim he deserved. His work is all over Bluesky this AM. Read any of them. This story blew me away archive.ph/RrjPI

The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping

In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town. Forty-five years later, we revisit the story.

www.vox.com

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Defector @defector.com · 11d

Alan Siegel's new book is an answer to the question "Why do so many people still quote 'The Simpsons' so often?" defector.com/to-artistic-...

To Artistic Freedom: The Cause Of, And Solution To, All Of Life’s Problems | Defector

People have been quoting The Simpsons to me so often, and for so long, that even if I don’t recognize the quote, I am able to recognize that it’s from The Simpsons. When I do recognize the quote,…

defector.com

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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 11d

One Battle After Another: second-best PTA movie, by far the best movie of the last few years

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