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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 58m

The only problem with this exceptional troll from last night is that Doug Ford wants to punish Toronto far more than the Seattle Mariners do.

Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 17h

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h

I've said this before, but one of the more striking things about the current generation of righties is that they really show no sign of understanding that there's a world *beyond* their screens, beyond owning & being owned on social media. A real world, with real people & real problems.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah I mean, whiteness is a privilege which can be revoked at any time: that’s the point that OP is missing.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 4h

It’s telling that IMF sees a decent economy where workers can enjoy six weeks vacation as a failure, and not actually a model of success as a country www.devex.com/news/special...

Special edition: What to expect from the World Bank-IMF annual meetings

Ajay Banga is shaking up the World Bank's org chart. Kristalina Georgieva wants Europe to take shorter vacations. The annual meetings kick off at an uncertain moment for multilateral cooperation.

www.devex.com

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 16h

I’m not entirely sure why there was a force at home but 🤷‍♂️

Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 16h

See this is what’s great about baseball. You have never seen this exact play happen before and you never will again. Amazing.

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 16h

Love how even Frelick was like “Wait what whaaaa?”

MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 16h

WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?!?! #NLCS

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 17h

difficulty, boredom, and unpleasantness for the reader are not surefire signs of low literary quality, but our culture of consumer ratings has convinced people that they must be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 17h

Same

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 18h

Okay new plan: Never play Seattle in the postseason again

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 18h

The Blue Jays celebrating a Thanksgiving tradition: inviting your neighbours over to feast on taters

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 18h

You guys Lukes can’t do this all by himself

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 18h

Oh great, the weirdness magnet is umping again

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 19h

Guess we’ll find out

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 19h

Next year a game like this is going to be constant ABS checks as the calls get overturned again and again and

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 20h

I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 20h

Yes

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 20h

Daaaaaaa Yankees lose

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 22h

It’s 18 at the moment around here

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 22h

Gonna go out on a limb and predict that this will suck

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 1d

You want to talk about some of Carney's terrible policies? Okay, let's take a look at some of those terrible policies together. This will require a bit of a thread because there are too many details to fit adequately in single posts and I'll include supporting links to support the premise. 🧵 1/

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 1d

My friends ordered a steel, wood-fired boiler to heat water. It went through the U.S. from Mexico. U.S. customs *drilled 3 fucking holes in it*, rendering it useless. Searching for drugs I guess. It wasn't even destined for the U.S. and they destroyed it. Friends paid ⤴️ $1,000 to get it here. Gone.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 23h

I actually think about this a lot. I'm sure that historians and philosophers of science and technology have done work thinking it through, but it constantly surprises me how *little* the early modern technological take-off and Scientific Revolution are connected.

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 23h

this is a professional comment on this year's Nobel winners in the economic sciences.

I'm gonna note, gently, that neither steam nor turbine nor internal combustion engine development had strong theoretical underpinnings until surprisingly late.

a scientific worldview was necessary, sure, but how?

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 23h

ya know, if everyone down to Taiping China is making trucks, maybe everyone is also a goddam hard target.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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