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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · Aug 4

the dogs are called havanese because whenever you see one, you hava nese time

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 3h

Reminds me of the classic joke about the economists who each paid each other $100 to eat a pile of dog shit. Was it for nothing? No, they just increased the GDP by $200.

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 13h

I have unboxed
the corkers
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
planning
to uncork
yourself

Forgive me
I am Gen Z

Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 17h

Hi what

Headline: “nature’s labubu: why are gen z unboxing conkers?”

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 2d

sharing a fav bsky post which should already be relatable bsky.app/profile/davi...

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Dec 16

Eyeballing Jack Reacher right now. Big guy, obviously, but I don't think he sees me coming. As a henchman, this is the sort of moment that makes or breaks your career. I think I should go for it.

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 3d

lol great pull

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 3d

not since around when it came out, outside of rewatching the clip with the baseball boy

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 3d

I also just rewatched. The way Nicholson says “see hun, he learned it from the television” on the drive up with such barely-hidden contempt (at his wife, his son, and the world), it’s brilliant and he’s clearly a bad guy.

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 3d

because the replies are all mentioning it, here’s the rest of the roundtable not getting the joke

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 3d

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 5d

the reverse Tungsten Arm O’Doyle

Shohei Ohtani goes 1-18 with 9 K's during the NLDS, as the Dodgers beat the Phillies 3 games to 1 to advance to the NLCS

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 11d

It truly is! And it’s what companies do all the time in Ch. 11.

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 13d

OK let me do a little thread.

Contrary to popular belief, state funding for public colleges did NOT go down overall during the neoliberal era. That widely repeated result seems mostly be be an artifact of unusually low post-2008 levels.

But...

rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

graph of per-FTE student funding, 1980-2024. cycles around $10,500 until a big dip in 2008 and then a gradual recovery back to previous levels starting in 2012

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 12d

“honey, remember when I said I would still love you if you were a bug?”
GREGOR’s GF: yea, why?
“well, funny story,”

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 13d

CNBC

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 13d

finally time for the Ghosts of Mars critical reevaluation.

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 14d

It’s that time of year again

Screenshot of an article from The Onion:

The Word 'Spooktacular' Used To Mean Something In This Country

Published: October 31, 2012

Halloween is supposed to be a special time—a treasured holiday when children of all ages gather to celebrate everything dark and macabre and to experience the frights of

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 15d

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ta-Nehisi Coates not saying anything

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · Oct 13

just one day of watching NFL Red Zone would kill a typical European

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 26d

the “first they came for” piece

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 26d

iirc Bill brought on someone to justify the Colbert cancellation but citing the bogus “opportunity cost” figures touted by the network, but Kimmel is personal to him and this is good to get out there

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 27d

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · Sep 13

spending $2k at Dunkin isn’t enough for boosted status? Smdh

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · Sep 13

This guy kind of rules.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · Sep 12

One neighbor who lives across the street from the Robinsons, declined to be named. He said he's "blind to the world", and only learned about Robinson's arrest when he saw reporters and law enforcement in the street this morning.
He was agnostic about the massive media presence on his street. "Mother nature is mother nature, whatever she calls to do, let's do it," he said.
And was similarly accepting when asked about Robinson, the subject of a massive 48-hour search, living just across the street.
"If it's close to home, if it's 50 miles from me, it's the same damn thing," he said. "Shit happens and that's what it is."

sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · Sep 11

“Chat, what up, today we’re interfering with an active crime scene”

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · Sep 11

It gets even crazier

This dude Eldertiktok stole all the blood soaked Charlie Kirk merch to sell on eBay and left his fingerprints all over an active crime scene as soon as he finished recording his selfie vid, new fave shooting deep event character

photo of the guy stealing merch

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:

"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."