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Stats @redsoxstats.bsky.social · 9h

Happy Yankees Elimination Day 2025. Sixteen years, 0 championships, despite Brian Cashman annually averaging the second-highest payroll and spending $3.9 billion.

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The 31 Minutos El Tiny performance has more than 5 Million YouTube views in less than 72 hours. Only a handful of Tiny Desks can make that claim. Pretty insane.

31 Minutos: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Robin Hilton @robinpr.bsky.social · 1d

It turns out the 'Wish You Were Here' title isn't actually a reference to Syd Barrett. Listen now on this wk's All Songs Considered from @npr.org

A conversation with David Gilmour : All Songs Considered

The Pink Floyd guitarist and singer talks about the 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here, a new live album and concert film for his latest solo release Luck And Strange, and more.Weekly Reset: Rowin...

www.npr.org

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I'm Gary Suarez of CABBAGES @imgarysuarez.bsky.social · 1d

It had to be done. Perhaps the biggest undertaking in my nearly six years of publishing the internet's best hip-hop newsletter, CABBAGES. Check it out, weigh in, and share like hell.

www.cabbageshiphop.com/100-best-rap...

The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time

Ranking the most essential and influential albums of this quintessentially American art form.

www.cabbageshiphop.com

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Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social · 1d

More like arbiter-in-chief

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Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social · 2d

I misread this as “confounded the free press”

NPR @npr.org · 2d

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

Who is Bari Weiss? CBS News' new editor-in-chief is a vocal critic of legacy media

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

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Vic Vinyl's 'Wheels Of Steel" @thewheelsofsteel.bsky.social · 9d

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Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social · 5d

alasdairroberts.bandcamp.com/track/let-me...

Let Me Lie And Bleed Awhile, by Alasdair Roberts

from the album The Amber Gatherers

alasdairroberts.bandcamp.com

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 6d

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:

If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

OPB @opb.org · 6d

Oregon is set to lose an additional $400 million in federal grants awarded for climate action and is among more than a dozen Democratic states losing federal funding after the Trump administration terminated nearly $8 billion for those states this week.

Oregon to lose an additional $400 million in federal climate grants

Oregon and 15 other Democratic states are losing nearly $8 billion toward climate projects, after the Trump administration terminated multiple federal grants.

www.opb.org

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Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t buy a house, car or boat that would require you to accept blood money in exchange for your services. It’s really that simple.

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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 6d

This is an astounding leap in just three years, and it's great news for American society in general that these guys are starting to see just how destructive the proliferation of sports betting is.

Convincing every sports league and TV network of the same thing is going to be much more difficult.

John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 6d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 7d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social · 7d

Such a shame

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · 7d

If you listen to @npr.org today, our hosts will tell you: it's the first day in more than fifty years that public media is operating without federal funding.

We're still here, going strong and keeping you informed.

Proud to be a part of this team.

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Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social · 8d

I downloaded the MLB app, paid $29.99 for the postseason, put ESPN on the Apple TV, muted the ESPN audio, and streamed the MLB app’s audio to the TV’s soundbar. It took a few minutes of tapping the play/pause button on the WEEI stream but I matched the sound of the ball hitting the catchers mitt.

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Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social · 8d

This is why you pay the man $70 Mill— I mean, $2 Million a year.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 8d

Shohei's second HR is a 454 foot shot to somewhere you don't hit baseballs as a human being

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Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve been disappointed by some close friends feeding the machine with their own photography and videos.

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Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social · 8d

Paid $30 to manually sync the Sox Booth with a silent ESPN

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Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social · 8d

“Happy and hungover / on the first day of October”

“Trying to remember / the last night of September”

Smokers in Love, by The Lucksmiths

from the album Cartography For Beginners

thelucksmiths.bandcamp.com

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 8d

I’m mad. Please put it in the newspaper (@gqmagazine.bsky.social) that I’m mad. Go Sox! www.gq.com/story/yankee...

When I asked Josh Gondelman, our esteemed Boston sports correspondent, to sum up the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, he put it like this: “I moved from Boston (okay, Somerville) to New York City more than 14 years ago, but the ugliest parts of my personality come out when I think of the Yankees. I want them to lose in new and innovative ways. I want their fans, including children, to have a bad time watching.”

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 12d

For reasons we cannot fathom but by which we are utterly delighted, our son was voted Homecoming King. Here is the t-shirt he wore to the pep rally. rawpaw.ink/products/inf...

A cute cartoon dog dressed as a sailor in front of a tugboat holds his fingers up in a V between text reading TOTAL INFORMATION COLLAPSE & THE END OF ALL CONSENSUS REALITY - THE DAMAGE CANNOT BE UNDONE, designed by Rory Blank

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 12d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social · 12d

You punched way above your weight for a real long time. RIP (it up and start again)

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