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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 13h

Blake Treinen warming up in the pen

a man in a suit and tie is saying `` i 'm sorry i couldn 't resist '' .

Alt: A dapper bearded Christopher Waltz from Django Unchained saying "I'm sorry i couldn't resist"

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 13h

I'm ready for a return to respectful rivalry between our birds and theirs

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 18h

Aaaand that's a wrap on America, folks! It's been a great project, you should all be very proud.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

“Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?”

TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼

Aaand scene.

Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 18h

Computer folk: right an algorithm that adjusts strike zone but keeps existing dimensions intact at low-90s

Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 19h

We all have to reckon with our upbringing. It's very Katzansakis that way.

two men are dancing on a beach near the ocean .

Alt: Zorba the greek film clip of two men dancing on a beach near the ocean .

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 19h

This is how we save pitchers' arms, encourage putting the ball in play, and fully integrate the game for men and women

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 19h

Mason Miller gets a strike zone the size of a hubcap. An Eephus pitch, you HAVE to swing!

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 19h

Hot baseball take: I support a computer strike zone IF the strike zone changes size based on the speed of the pitch. Faster pitch, smaller strike zone. Slower, breaking stuff gets a bigger strike zone.

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that some Pams rule

a cartoon of a woman with the words and i have so much love to give

Alt: Archer reference: a cartoon of a defiant woman with the words and i have so much love to give

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know what to say, man, but I wouldn't want to be you rn

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 1d

I've been working on two different long-form projects this year, but just know that if you're ever interested in bringing on a genre reader or class speaker etc, I am HERE & super game to discuss short stories forever!

if you've read my work, this is probably the big one:

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 1d

Withering

Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 2d

The state of online media is such a bummer, I sometimes think: who cares? Then, I read something so smart and so funny and so uniquely the product of this compromised but generative space, that I remember: I care!
This, by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social, is a tour de force. defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 2d

Someone say Blake Treinen?!

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 2d

Because it's not negotiating, it's a juggling act to distract people long enough to steal everything that's not nailed down

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

Stupidest negotiators in history

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hassett: "China has stopped buying US soybeans. The silos are full and there are soybeans sitting on the ground w/tarps over them. That's unacceptable to POTUS. We're calling up our soybean customers around the world as part of our trade negotiations & we'll strong policies to support our farmers"

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 3d

Never let them forget: this is the Commander in Chief the military WANTED. They just didn't think he'd sound quite this dumb whenever he spoke in public.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I said one year before to Pete Hegseth, I said, one year before -- where's Pete? In the book I wrote -- whatever the hell the title, I can't tell you -- but I can tell you there's a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden and I didn't like it."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 3d

I was thinking of you specifically, my friend

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 4d

Not a day goes by when I don't think to myself: "I love Baltimore." And I know people in DC, in Chicago, in Portland who think the same thing about the city they live in.

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 4d

America is a country where you're legally required to let the baby touch the hot stove, so it can learn a thing or two

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4d

The “My Phone is Casino” app keeps saying I’m going to win

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haylie swenson @hayliebswenson.bsky.social · 7d

I cannot possibly imagine being the kind of person who, when faced with a long wait at an ER, chooses to blames the other sick, injured people who are also waiting

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 8d

I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell.

Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 8d

I started this thread in the middle of September 2025 because so much had happened this year that the media and zeitgeist had already memory holed.

Their actions aren't "countless." They aren't "unfathomable."

We can look it in the face. We can challenge it. Brave people already are.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19d

This is what they've done.

Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 19d

This is super cool bc:

1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list

2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them

3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 9d

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 9d

I genuinely appreciate your passion for The Wonder Years

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 9d

Ta-Nehisi Coates has the magic words to set our too-online generation free: "Do people you *respect* say that to you?"

Be proud, people! Trust yourself! If you don't respect someone, you don't HAVE to use your platform to promote what they say.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 9d

Ezra getting beat in an argument by an incredulous no

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