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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 2h

detroit style pizza and new haven style pizza (ok, fine, apizza) are both wonderful but they are basically different foods!

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 2h

i know who needs to hear this: anyone who has never heard the residents' masterpiece GOD IN THREE PERSONS!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyJv...

Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 3h

just looked at his IMDB and my goodness the man works a lot!

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, makes sense. I tend to be skeptical of the anti-elitism (which tends to carry anti-intellectualism) of populist candidates, including left populists like Bernie. Certainly would be interesting if Platner could pick up some of the voters attracted to right populists in the LePage/Poliquin tent.

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 3h

The Maine progressive whose career I'm most familiar with is Shenna Bellows – I interviewed her when she was at the ACLU – though I don't think she's run with as much of a populist streak as Platner. Is that comparison reasonable, or no?

(Or, for that matter, is he more like Cutler?)

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 4h

all of which is really to say: we do this because this is how our brains work. the one thing we can work to avoid is reifying our rationalizations.

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 4h

i think what typically happens is the classic process of rationalization, by which we seek an explanation for a feeling, then confuse the post-hoc explanation for the actual reason we're feeling that feeling — bc we're evolutionarily designed to work this way. *then* we inappropriately generalize.

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 14h

i, too, personally believe something is important because i know about it:

1) the firesign theatre
2) the stand-up comedian stewart lee
3) the adventures of buckaroo banzai

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Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 14h

help me Dumper-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 15h

tbh it really depends on whether you feel that can't hardly wait is a '90s movie

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 22h

the higher ups said i should keep posting

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

Padres manager Mike Shildt said he retired in part because of death threats from sports bettors:

Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 1d

and it's just so typical that they decided that kjerstad was untouchable. it's one thing to be unwilling to trade an up-the-middle guy like gunnar henderson or samuel basallo, but a corner bat is the absolute epitome of a guy who should be dealt from a position of strength.

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 1d

elias's patent refusal to push his chips into the center of the pot is looking like the one-sentence summary of his baltimore career

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 1d

to paraphrase william gibson, the juice is already here, it's just unevenly distributed

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 1d

me too!

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 1d

one thing many washington post critics – sietsema, chris richards, et al – have done very forcefully is to argue for the significance of the stuff we have in washington dc. sietsema has probably been the loudest voice in the country persuasively arguing that dc is one of america's best food cities.

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 1d

it is *absolutely* a differentiable skill and it is also one that consists entirely of gamesmanship and ref-working and arguably a skill area that should not exist in a fairly officiated game

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 1d

take: "getting hit by a pitch" as a skill is akin to pitch framing as a skill

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of my cranky old man schticks that I am right about. Eeeeeeeeverybody thinks they can spot the narc. No you can’t. They are actually good at their jobs and the idea that you can spot one a mile away is 1) hubris and 2) propaganda that works in their favor

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 1d

www.hotnewhiphop.com/952661-dange...

D’Angelo Reportedly Dead At 51

Further details on D’Angelo's death remain unclear after news of the iconic singer's passing became public on Tuesday.

www.hotnewhiphop.com

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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bunnicula @eboldy.bsky.social · 1d

my mama made me peach cobbler for my bday and between the amount of butter and the sorbitol in the peaches it’s ruining my gut and i’m still gonna eat it all

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 1d

managing an extremely large region is inherently challenging, across every business sector imaginable!

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Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social · 1d

the LA Times has been in a tough spot for *years*; its perceived weakness was why Aaron Kushner tried to expand the orange county register to eat the LAT's lunch. didn't work, of course, and yet! then the LAT buyer tried buying the san diego paper to shore up the region; that didn't work, either.

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