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mattufford.bsky.social
brother I have been keeping RECEIPTS, and there are a lot of them. defector.com/why-your-tea...
Why Your Team Sucks 2026: Los Angeles Rams | Defector
Some pathetic, frontrunning dorks are fans of the Rams. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Rams. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews...
defector.com
September 1, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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normative.bsky.social
No notes. youtu.be/GU_ID0asQ3M?...
Scooby-Doo: The Mystery of the Reflecting Pool | Donald Trump Parody #ScoobyDoo #Satire #DonaldTrump
YouTube video by Midnight Oil Productions (Jason Moore)
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August 15, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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hoovybaby.bsky.social
Polyphemus: And what is your name
Odysseus: My name is Bophedes
Polyphemus: Bophedes?
Odysseus:
July 19, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
I am ready for another season of Seattle Mariners baseball.
March 27, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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donnycaltrider.bsky.social
Learn about the Gen 2 @hipstersofthecoast.com shirt made by the one and only @caljones.com and @stitcherssupply.bsky.social

(And get yourself one!)

www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2026/02/1108...
Making Stuff Rules
Cal takes us on a deep dive into the nuances of screen printing the new Hipsters of the Coast shirt.
www.hipstersofthecoast.com
February 19, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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martin.kleppmann.com
The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅

(BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)
Book cover of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition". It has a similar wild boar on the cover as the first edition, but it uses O'Reilly's new cover design, and the boar is now slightly colourised.
February 18, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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mikexnichols.bsky.social
i often think about this review
Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
February 14, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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peltoncast.bsky.social
From: The Peltoncast
To: The Listener
Happy Valentine's Day!
There's a 100% chance of love You've got my vote for MVP I'd never put you in the rundown It's no hot take: Be my Valentine
February 15, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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maxdubler.com
So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.
That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer
February 14, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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techconnectify.bsky.social
Let's do this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...
You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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January 30, 2026 at 5:27 PM
davidmccoy.com
It's alive!
Screenshot of a chord- and lyric-detection app
January 31, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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faineg.com
Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

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jaderemedy • 4h ago And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like. Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is "well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it. This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order. And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely. "Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…
January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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idkmetcalf.lol
The vibes, they are so good
January 21, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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jeremiah.sounderatheart.com
Just got off a call with Paul Rothrock and I think this quote probably sums it it: “It's fucking cool to be a Sounder.”
December 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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agoldman.bsky.social
A couple months ago, @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social collaborated with baker and dessert detective Claire Saffitz on recreating a beloved cake, simply by descriptions and photos of that cake. And now Claire has a video on how to make it! Good luck and happy munchin’
Can Claire Saffitz Rebuild a Closed Brooklyn Bakery’s Iconic Cake? | Dessert Person
YouTube video by Claire Saffitz x Dessert Person
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December 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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jamellebouie.net
I’m quoting this because it is a very fair point for which I have an answer: The first thing is to recognize that in a democracy there is no such thing as “ the majority.” Instead, there are many and multiple overlapping majorities that can be assembled from different parts of the whole.
sashasubotich.bsky.social Rage Incarnate @sashasubotich.bsky.social · Aug 11
Most of the criticisms are fairly weak, but he does make the valid point that Americans are not as progressive as we wish they were. How do we achieve these goals when the majority of people are so ignorant and wrong about everything that they voted for Trump?
August 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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josie.zone
Jamelle prompted me to buy this and wow, I really hope a lot of young people read and internalize this shit!!!!

I kinda can't believe this got published lol
Having fought a long and despera- te war against the Empire it was only natural for the leaders and soldiers of the Rebel Alliance to turn their eyes to the future that the New Republic would provide. The years after Endor and Jak- ku were marked initially by hope and optimism. But the line between hope and blind hope is a dangerous one to walk. In the post-war years people be- came so determined to look forward that they did not spend nearly enough time looking back at what they had left behind. They tied themselves so tightly to the belief that this should never happen again that they neglected to ta- ke the steps to ensure that it could not. They did not understand the Galactic Empire. They did not understand how it had functioned, how it had operated and how it had ruled the galaxy. They did not comprehend why so many had served, seemingly voluntarily, within its ranks and perpetrated so many hei- nous crimes. They viewed the Empire as Emperor Palpatine and with him go- ne, SO too was his Empire. But that Im- perial ideology did not disappear over- night.
May 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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jfruh.bsky.social
insane that the person who almost killed congestion pricing in its cradle is now stunting on sean duffy like this. negative polarization is a hell of a thing
governor.ny.gov Governor Kathy Hochul @governor.ny.gov · Apr 21
The cameras are staying on.
April 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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dril.bsky.social
This, actually .
April 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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klugalters.bsky.social
The trickiest aspect of this piece, based on a poster for the 1927 movie 'Metropolis', was making acrylic paint look like dry media.
April 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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krissychula.bsky.social
This is high art
April 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.
April 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
davidmccoy.com
@deck.blue Is there a way to enable something like infinite scroll? I pretty quickly hit the bottom of my home column and don't see a way to load more (older) posts. Perhaps there is something obvious I am missing?

Thanks for all you do!
April 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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klugalters.bsky.social
I loved the idea of flowing locks alluding to Emrakul's tentacles - as if she's disguising herself with a glamour of sorts.

Painted after Alphonse Mucha's 1896 poster for Job cigarette paper.
April 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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lindseyadler.bsky.social
This story for the New Yorker is the culmination of many years of reporting on and thinking about one thing: What's the deal with pitching? It was nice to reconnect with people I know from the baseball world, and I have now seen the inside of a person's elbow.

www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...
Baseball Reaches Its Breaking Point
An elbow-injury epidemic has become an existential threat to the sport, prompting the M.L.B. to brainstorm new solutions, such as the use of a heavier ball.
www.newyorker.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM