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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · 1d

3) They're fucking carving a turkey on air right now?

Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · 1d

2) A condescending lack of agency given to the Mariners. Our wins are not framed as our successes but others' failures.

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · 1d

1) A super-star/individual framing to all narratives. I love Cal and Julio just as much as the next PNW freak, but we're a team of 26 players built to function as a unit. No Mitch Garver is not "trying to be like Julio" by going for a triple.

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many things that annoy me about the national MLB playoff broadcast, so might as well scream them into the void here...

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · 5d

The Nobel Peace Prize is so funny because it's one of those awards that's completely opaque and self-reflective in its meaning, but because it's been branded as totemic everyone takes it seriously. It's like the Golden Globes--if the award is stupid, why does it matter who it goes to?

Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · 7d

The words "Heather Christian, MacArthur Fellow" are so pleasing to me

Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · 8d

I've never clicked on something faster. Thank you for this really excellent piece of writing!

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 9d

this is so sweet

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · 9d

Props to the folks at FS1 who just got this trivia right. Good on their research people.

Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · Sep 13

One of the Apple TV announcers just said Castillo is nicknamed La Piedra because he looks like Dwayne Johnson which is just...not true. #mariners

Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · 19d

At the phase of my aging millennial gaydom that literally any encounter with Defying Gravity makes me cry. This week alone it's been the UMich show band and a Lawrence cover in a Broadway melody.

Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · 26d

They should bring those RUSH stamps back. Like a queer scarlet letter.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 27d

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · 27d

The Roman Empire?

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · Sep 13

Like, it's not how he got the nickname and also he doesn't look like The Rock?

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · Sep 13

One of the Apple TV announcers just said Castillo is nicknamed La Piedra because he looks like Dwayne Johnson which is just...not true. #mariners

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · Aug 27

30 Rock is also on Hulu, in case that's useful!

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · Aug 22

Another day, another morning spent cosplaying as a statistician in an attempt to understand art better

Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Gilded Age is such wretched material but Baranski and Nixon really are luminous in it

Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · Aug 13

GREATER CLEMENTS (Samuel D. Hunter, 2019)

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 13

the biggest force for rural resentment of cities in the last three decades is that cities got way better and the countryside got way worse.

Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is reprehensible! Your coverage and criticism has taught me so much about how to approach movies and TV with a thoughtful but sharp eye. Sending you best wishes for a soft landing at a place that appreciates your skill.

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · Aug 5

"I heard down in Argentina...you know Argentina? Great country, really welcoming place to some Europeans who needed it. Anyway down there they're crying for me. Crying because what the radical Dems have done. But they don't need to do that, don't need to cry for me because we never stop winning."

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Aug 5

Trump standing on the roof of the White House

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Remember the big cow? 🇵🇸 @thebigcow.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · Aug 1

Seconding a Mariners game and the Arboretum! Gasworks Park is also a fun site

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · Aug 1

I know I'm gonna die a thousand tiny deaths between now and the end of the season, but goddamn does it feel good to be a Mariners fan tonight

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Dylan Pickus @dillopick.bsky.social · Jul 29

Another day another (sad) reminder that ASSASSINS is the most astute and powerful observation of American culture ever written.