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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 9m

No, different show.

Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 13m

Okay Seattlites… what was the name of the guy who was on a public access tv comedy show in Seattle in the 90s-ish era, used to always wear a hat and shades and pretend a spatula was a microphone? Argh can’t recall

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Spike Friedman @spikefriedman.bsky.social · 59m

a man is sitting at a table with a quote that says hope is a dangerous thing hope can drive a man insane

ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a quote that says hope is a dangerous thing hope can drive a man insane

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andré @838carlisle.bsky.social · 42m

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Burgundy Wave @burgundywave.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s the video at the start of the question. Decide for yourself if @bymattpollard.bsky.social is in the wrong here:

www.youtube.com/live/CGwCbG1...

Postgame Press Conference: Colorado Rapids vs. LAFC

YouTube video by Colorado Rapids

www.youtube.com

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 21m

This is terrible. That was an easy, simple question with a very basic lead-in.

He’s probably out of a job, and I get it, but that’s the breaks. It’s a demanding gig. He’s got to do better than that.

If I’m deciding on his future and was on the fend, I’d let him go for that alone.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 7h

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 7h

But by making one plane with multiple roles, they are more $$ (hence bigger profits on contracts) and less likely to be canceled.

So now we have F-35s that do all kinds of stuff but are a gross waste of money, IMO

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 7h

You bet.

It’s also partly because we started building these way-more-expensive fighters that are expected to do all things.

You go back to previous generations and we had a/c that had distinct roles. A-10s for tank busting, B-52s to haul bombs, EA-6Bs for jamming, F-14s for air superiority, etc.

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 8h

The stealth fighters use bomb bays because the bombs themselves aren’t stealthy, so if they were hanging outside on external racks the other guys would be able to see them on radar.)

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 8h

Um… lots of fighters drop bombs. Some have external racks (in US inventory, F18) and then the stealthy new fighters (F35, F22) have bomb bays that they can drop gravity bombs.

Most are configurable to change out the racks and can also do missiles, cluster bombs, etc.

We have all the ways to kill.

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t think this headline makes sense.

I guess it’s just me but somehow “we’re going to maintain this ceasefire by bombing you” seems counterproductive.

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy your higher health insurance costs, peons

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

NYT - DHS has purchased two Gulfstream private jets for Secretary Kristi Noem and other top department officials at a cost of $172 million. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 1d

we’ll never have a perfect referee performance. There’s always going to be calls like today’s where it could maybe be a foul, maybe not.

Anyway yeah we don’t want to call tiny things.

We wound up winning anyway so no problems in the end.

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 1d

to expect more from refs. We don’t just want them to say “no, get up, you baby” on the tiny little fouls and to be there to call the big obvious ones that people try and ignore.

We want closer to perfection, and it’s impossible. Since the line between “trifling” and “foul” is subjective, I think…

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 1d

like Morris did and the defender would be pissed if he tried to claim a PK. “I didn’t touch you!”

“You stuck your foot out into my path and tripped me!”

Blah blah blah.

Anyway, we got refs to settle that stuff and keep the arguments from derailing the game.

The problem, IMO, is that now we seem…

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 1d

players started referring questions of “foul or not?” to neutral observers (who, as the person the question is referred to, is the referee) is because when they were first starting to play the game and called their own fouls, there would be vigorous arguments that derailed the game.

Guy goes down…

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 1d

The whole “trifling” concept drove me nuts as a fan before I became a referee, but I get it now.

What it boils down to is this: we want the game to flow. We don’t want ticky-tacky little fouls to stop things.

And as refs, we’re there for the players. One of the very reasons association football…

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 1d

Not normally a big fan of the SJ ultras, but respect to them for this.

Jeff Carlisle @jeffreycarlisle.bsky.social · 1d

Nice shout-out by the @SanJoseUltras to Milan Mandaric, who among other teams owned the original San Jose Earthquakes at one time. He passed away earlier this month. #Quakes74

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Paul Cox @paulcox.bsky.social · 1d

That would have been a very soft penalty. I’m okay with it being overturned.

But no, it’s not an automatic yellow, either. It can be contact but a “trifling” foul, as in “contact but not enough for a penalty”… that’s not simulation.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 1d

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Rachael P @plussone.bsky.social · 1d

Watch Live: #NoKings Chicago in Grant Park www.fox32chicago.com/news/no-king...

Thousands of people gathered in Chicago's Grant Park for No Kings

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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