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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 9h

It's very weird that I keep two giant rectangles side by side in my kitchen, both for making food hot, and the big difference is metal is allowed to go in one and plastic is allowed to go in the other but if I mix it up I might die. They should just make a combo oven microwave that's safe for both.

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 10h

The rules of how/ if the bottom of the ninth have to be played are one of my favorite things in any sport.

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 10h

I was just telling MB last night that a mlb game hitting forty is my dream

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 10h

my favorite part about baseball is that there's too much of it. that's the entire point of the it. baseball is about taking what kids do (hitting a ball around w/ a stick, making up silly pointless rules to a game) for fun and stretching it out to its absurd perfection. what a sport.

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 10h

they're playing WHAT in los angeles tonight??

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sean kuhn @seankuhn.bsky.social · 11h

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer?

Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad.

The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself.

Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits.

Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 11h

also, what a fucking inspiration all of the videos i'm constantly seeing online of people in communities all over the country who show up and protest in the face of masked, anonymous

The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 11h

An anonymous officer was caught on video throwing a woman to the ground during a peaceful protest outside the ICE field office in Durango.

Dozens of protesters remained Tuesday after demonstrating through the night over the detainment of two children and their father on the way to school.

Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 11h

i mean, it's just straight up secret police at this point. when they're refusing to show badges or identify themselves, even when other law enforcement shows up, that's secret police.

The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 11h

An anonymous officer was caught on video throwing a woman to the ground during a peaceful protest outside the ICE field office in Durango.

Dozens of protesters remained Tuesday after demonstrating through the night over the detainment of two children and their father on the way to school.

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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 11h

oh phew, i was so worried amazon wasn't nimble. the thing that i care about in a recession, if a company is numble

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 11h

wake up babe, a new way of saying "we just put 14,000 people out of a job" just dropped

screenshot of amazon corporate blog post announcing massive layoffs, titled, "Staying nimble and continuing to strengthen our organizations"

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 11h

She’s so sassy??

Giant skeleton statue popping out the top of a garage with its hand on one hip

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 11h

so happy for them

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 11h

ii know his gem was a couple days ago but i was thinkin about him getting up in the bullpen to throw last night and then i was watching some highlights of his and short of like, an el duque style eephus pitch or a knuckler, he just has the absolute fuckin dream arsenal

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 11h

i hate the dodges but regret to announce yamamoto may be my new favorite ballplayer

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 11h

central ohio supremacy (don't google anything else he did)

madwoman in the gattic @emilygadabout.bsky.social · 11h

Young Rutherford B Hayes could, unfortunately, get it

Was he a terrible president? Certainly. But a young Rutherford B Hayes kind of looks like Theo James in Sanditon

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 11h

i can't stop laughing at one of these
www.tiktok.com/@whataboutau...

This time I’m keeping towels in the car just in case… #bigfamily #duedate #38weeks #homebirth #pregnant

TikTok video by Aubree Jones

www.tiktok.com

Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 13h

i think the kjp / chotiner thing is fascinating because she's clearly lost the plot, but at the same time i do think there's an extremely strong argument to be made that the degree to which the dem party has taken black women for granted is something they really are gonna have to address one day.

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 13h

oh yeah sorry i meant it also agreeing with you not as a rebuke! love your work!

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13h

One reason I think Platner needs to go is that at some point we're going to have to do an aggressive denazification of the entire political system and the party leading that effort cannot be caught handing out indulgences.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 14h

In the wake of Tucker interviewing Nick Fuentes for his show, now is a good time to read @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social's latest on the GOP's struggle to keep antisemites in the tent without going full nazi

The GOP’s antisemitism crisis

Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the looming Republican civil war over Jews.

www.vox.com

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 13h

one reason i think platner needs to go is you can't have a nazi tattoo and run for office man, that's just disqualifying i don't understand why we're still talking about this

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13h

One reason I think Platner needs to go is that at some point we're going to have to do an aggressive denazification of the entire political system and the party leading that effort cannot be caught handing out indulgences.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 14h

In the wake of Tucker interviewing Nick Fuentes for his show, now is a good time to read @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social's latest on the GOP's struggle to keep antisemites in the tent without going full nazi

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 13h

should be a certificate of Brauthenticity

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 15h

the cow's tools will never be used to dismantle the cow's barn

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 14h

everyone is like "your dad's cousin is your aunt" and sure that's true but also so is any adult woman whom your parents would allow to yell at you as a toddler. i have like 7 aunts and uncles i'm still not sure if i'm related to or not and i'm old as hell dude.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

lmao

My Post headline

Mamdani didn’t tell the whole truth about his hijab-wearing ‘aunt’ who feared for safety post-9/11

The “aunt” who Zohran Mamdani said was too afraid to wear her hijab on the subways after 9/11 was actually his dad’s cousin.

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 14h

TEMPLE OS YOUR TIME HAS COME

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 16h

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

www.theguardian.com

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 14h

just listened to the blank chcek big lewboski pod w/ the wife last night gonna have to do a lebowski / long goodbye / inherent vice triple header this weekebnd

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Wayne @rodinal.bsky.social · 14h

ball x pit ball x pit ball x pit

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