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Jacob Burgess 🔜 Home @jacobburgess.bsky.social · 5h

If someone expresses their desire, intention, or musing to leave the games industry the response should not be "Couldn't hack it, huh?"

No one should need to "hack it".

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 10h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 6h

Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Nick S @holgate.permanent.red · 22h

2013: we should get young minority voters by doing reasonable center-right politics

2024: we get young minority voters through crypto, sports betting, delivery apps and boiling people’s brains

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe this is a dumb thought, I'm certainly capable of those, but how come there aren't any rechargeable TV remotes?

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 1d

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D.M. Fox @dmfox.bsky.social · 1d

The government of Ontario used sports betting license fees to replace the cost of the annual plate renewal.

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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No No Quit @lesleynope.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a reason why it takes most people several attempts to break addiction. And for some it’s just going to be a cycle of addiction-recovery. Back and forth over time.

But we would have way less addiction in a less harmful society. Where it wasn’t profitable to promote addictive behaviours.

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 1d

No one cares about your prestige reading. Just read what you want.

You don't have to finish a book you don't like. You're not hurting the book or the author's feelings

Not every book has to be for edification. Read for fun for fucks sake

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1d

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 1d

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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Gourmet Spud @gourmetspud.bsky.social · 1d

This Jays season has been an unexpected, wonderful #blessing. It would be nice not to get ritually humiliated in the ALCS, but I'm not going to act like it wasn't fun as hell if this is where it ends.

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v i n c e y @yungvincey.bsky.social · 2d

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 3d

Awesome, the way to enjoy wrestling... is to enjoy wrestling. The AEW youtube page is pretty good about putting clips out in a timely fashion.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 3d

In accordance with Canadian law, all Mariners tweets will be posted in both English and French for the duration of this series.

Go Mariners / Allez les marins.

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 3d

And the fact that Canada is where it is should be a national fucking embarrassment.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 3d

Mhmmm... for the fucking circus!

Wait... that might be worse.

Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 3d

Aquarius: You will come to realize that being sold to the circus when you were nine may have caused some lasting emotional trauma.

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 3d

bluejaysnation.com/news/toronto...

There's a link for the footage, if it's already been a month, and he's that ginger, I don't think another couple of weeks will have him ready.

Blue Jays: Bo Bichette appeared to be in discomfort after running the bases

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The big question for the <a href="http...

bluejaysnation.com

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 6d

if you cannot produce your own autism, store bought is fine

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 3d

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 7d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 3d

You almost never see the FRONT of the home run jacket.

Toronto Blue Jays (Bot) @bluejaysbot.bsky.social · 3d

🤫💥 #PLAKATA

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5d

*after scoring on ourselves repeatedly* Well we obviously can't count on our fair-weather so-called fans to cheer for anything. The only way out of this hole is to find some new ways to score on ourselves; we need those opposing fans even more than before.

oh I suppose YOU have a better idea

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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John Lebow @bignicejohn.bsky.social · 3d

This is disappointing.

If I'm honest, about 60% of my retirement plan was 'evolve directly into a crab.'

Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 5d

I'm on the BBC talking about (how we won't be) evolving into crabs 🧪🦀

Also features Matt Wills (my academic older brother) and Ned Suesat-Williams (of the crab museum!). Unfortunately they were in London and I on zoom, so there was no time to tell Ned to join here

BBC Audio | The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry | To Crab, or Not to Crab?

Hannah and Dara investigate why nature has evolved the humble crabs so many times.

www.bbc.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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