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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes people find out I used to have a job where I met lots of rock stars & film stars & they're like "I bet you have so many of great stories about that period" & I'm like "Nope not really, but I do have quite a good story about badgers if you want to hear that?" www.tom-cox.com/my-best-true...

A few years ago I used to feed peanuts and dry cat food to the young badger in the above photograph, which lived in the field opposite my house alongside several of its pals. Around that time I remember a growing feeling that, everywhere I went, people were waiting to tell me excellent stories about badgers. At one of my spoken word events someone recalled being on their bike and getting chased down a dark alley by an angry badger, another spoke of a friend who was bitten on the bottom by a badger in the garden of a house party in Exeter. “Maybe I am going to the wrong parties?” I asked myself. Perhaps the most vivid tale of all came from Leslie of the Dorset For Badger And Bovine Welfare Group, who I met at a small festival in Somerset: she said she made peanut butter sandwiches for her local badgers and fed them to them every day at dusk. The badgers had come to count on these but one evening when they arrived in her garden at the regular time the terrible realisation struck Leslie that she was entirely out of peanut butter. She searched her fridge and freezer for a replacement meal but the only one she could find was an old frozen dish of ratatouille that, if she was honest, she wasn’t sure she’d ever get around to eating. “They absolutely loved it,” she told me. “But they ran off with the dish afterwards.”

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 16h

To put this in context, construction runs now through Jackson Chourio’s 10th season as a Milwaukee Brewer.

Jeramey Jannene @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com · 17h

Here's a Halloween scare courtesy of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Gov. Tony Evers: construction starts Nov. 3 and lasts through 2033 on Interstate 94. urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/10/15/c...

Construction Starting On $1.7 Billion Interstate 94 Widening

Closures begin Nov. 3 with construction running through 2033.

urbanmilwaukee.com

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 17h

The Pope is evidently a decent man & good priest with a huge task, but him yelling to a random guy about the Cubs like he's in the parking lot at Menards will always make me double-check if I'm sober

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 18h

Solid advice from downtown Milwaukee.

A sticker that says “Punch a Nazi” is on the outside of a garbage bin on Wisconsin Avenue near the lakefront in Milwaukee.

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 21h

Any article that includes how to get rich off American money by opening a fake beach bar in Uruguay and doing a bunch of fake credit card transactions gets an automatic repost.

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 21h

People are gonna get rich. www.ft.com/content/0425...

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 21h

Despite how it looks, I post strategically for maximum endorphin production.

Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 22h

Yep. I haven’t subscribed to Ballly’s/FanDuel for the Bucks since 2022. Doubtful I’d go back anytime soon.

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 22h

The same three guys like all my posts, and you know what? I’m putting ‘em in my will. Post likes reveal your most cherished family.

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Milwaukee Zack @milwaukeezack.bsky.social · 22h

The Pope talking shit about his crosstown baseball team is the most American that Catholicism will ever be.

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 22h

At minimum this is three subscriptions on top of $20/month for the RSN to watch the local games. I’m a Bucks First fan lunatic and likely always will be, but this is a joke.

NBA @nba.com · 1d

2025-26 NBA Season Watch Guide 📺✍️

The 2025-26 regular season begins Tuesday, October 21 on NBC and Peacock!

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A K (Bone Coloring, Silian Rail Font) @aklingus.bsky.social · 23h

Saying it in Spanish AND English is some upper tier hate bsky.app/profile/razz...

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 23h

Pope’s gonna wave an L flag the next time some guy shouts this, and the whole north side of Chicago will collapse in a rage spasm.

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 23h

Bob Uecker wearing a dark, unbranded baseball cap and smiling wide, having a good laugh. A pair of mirrored sunglasses rests on the bill of his cap.

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 1d

Cubs fans have argued for the last two years that Brewers fans suffer from Counsell Derangement Syndrome, basically. That they are hysterical children. Then it turned out the actual Brewers players hate his ass and them too. Tough break.

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, the cold, gray, wet portion of the year is here. That fabulous fall weather the aesthetes of the season love so much.

Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 1d

I was young, I was reckless, it seemed like it was going to be a thing. We somehow had multiple free previews of the early League Pass and would watch Ralph Lawler and Bill Walton call games. A type of all-in silly fandom I can't really do anymore.

Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing wrong with the Brewers bats that five Miiler Lites the night before game 3 can’t fix. Go out there unshaven and asking yourself “Why did I have five Miller Lites?” and you drop into survival mode. See ball, hit ball. No time to think about the pitcher’s repertoire.

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static klinger @jessespector.com · 1d

(mariners win two games on the road) aww, you’re sweet!

(dodgers win two games on the road) hello… human resources???

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 1d

Brewers should get a run for that, just because.

Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 1d

Catching a foul ball barehanded so impressively the broadcast gives you a slow-motion replay and analysis of your technique and clothes. That guy’s living the dream.

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👻Wereman 🐺🎃 @spookarties.bsky.social · Dec 1

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

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Jeff Ash @jeffash26.bsky.social · 1d

Topps put this card in the 1976 set to celebrate Brewers infielder Kurt Bevacqua's win. Gum bubbles were measured with a Bazooka caliper held by NL umpire Dick Stello. Both Bevacqua and Johnny Oates tried to cheat (candle wax in the mustache and old gum), but host Joe Garagiola ruled that out. (2/2)

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Jordan Treske @jordantreske.bsky.social · 1d

I spent multiple hours during study hall in high school examining the mailbox heights on Google Earth when I heard about it ha.

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 1d

Haunchyville. You know it, you love it, you drove out to the edge of a cornfield in 1993 expecting … something.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunchy...

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 2d

894, Cold Spring Road, Forest Home. That’s just the immediate area trying to get to/from my mom’s place. What the hell?!

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