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Playoffs Eschewer

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Oh, hi! Didn’t see you there. formerly of the other place. once: seen at Amazin’ Avenue, Deadspin, AV Club, Class Action Park. now: will talk about the Ed Grimley cartoon for likes

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 1h

I remember when all the kids showed up first day of school with their Fish Police lunchboxes

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 1h

Day #139: Fish Police (1992)

A teal lunchbox with a white handle, with an undersea tableau of a city skyline and taxi, with sea creatures dressed in 1940's/50's film noir outfits, including a fish in a trench coat, and devious-looking squid. Next to it is a white thermos with a teal lid, and image of a smirking fish in a fedora and trenchcoat next to the words "Fish Police"

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10h

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 11h

youtu.be/3vuveZtlkKw?...

The Decline of Western Civilization (6/7) Germs Perform "Manimal" (1981)

YouTube video by Shout! Studios

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 11h

RIP Darby Crash

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 11h

If I send you this, know I’ve lost my shit

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 12h

I mean in this case not having the correct scoring right away is pretty understandable

Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 12h

it did when I looked immediately after the play but I assume it was revised later due to on field insanity

Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 12h

according to gameday it was an 8-6-2-5 DP

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 13h

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 13h

Gotta flush twice to make sure the entire legacy goes through the U-bend

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 13h

Saying nothing would’ve been a better option

Joe Biden I am deeply grateful and relieved that this day has come – for the last living 20 hostages who have been through unimaginable hell and are finally reunited with their families and loved ones, and for the civilians in Gaza who have experienced immeasurable loss and will finally get the chance to rebuild their lives.

The road to this deal was not easy. My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war. I commend President Trump and his team for their work to get a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line.

Now, with the backing of the United States and the world, the Middle East is on a path to peace that I hope endures and a future for Israelis and Palestinians alike with equal measures of peace, dignity, and safety.

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 13h

something Pynchonian about the name Quinn Priester. like instead of pitching he shoulda been tracking missile trajectories with Slothrop

Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 13h

so *that’s* why they never found his brain

Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 13h

how to solve the male loneliness epidemic? teach teens how to dance with a sexy broom and then kill Hitler with it

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

gene kelly is antifa

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 19h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 14h

ah yes the extreme left posters whose main political project is “let’s say the R word a lot”

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 15h

I still don’t even know how a huge, weird book like that became such a talisman for Evil Men that it was equated with like PUA fare but I still see that take crop up every so often and it’s just baffling to me

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 16h

things bullets say

Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 16h

Almost every time I go thru JFK something weird happens.

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 15h

in year of our lord 2025 when basically no one reads novels anymore being aggressively mad about Infinite Jest is way more of a red flag than liking Infinite Jest

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 15h

there’s plenty of stuff to actually be upset about, no need to make up shit like this

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 15h

critics everywhere agree: it is a song that was released

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 16h

“her critically reviewed single”

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 19h

iirc the ad in question says X% of players who jumped over the foul line did Y other baseball thing during the game but there’s no way to quantify foul line jumps because it’s not a stat and TV generally does not capture every player’s march onto the field. it is very dumb!

Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 19h

weird product because nobody who would buy it has ever changed their bed linens even once

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Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social · 21h

On Lt Columbo Day never let us forget the episode where Columbo explains to a fitness guru how Mrs Columbo is thick, that he likes her thick, and how he will do anything within his power to keep her thick

Screenshot from Columbo where Peter falk explains to Robert Conrad he likes his wife thick

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Mike @2adult2person.gobirds.online · 19h

Craigslist ad saying “I will fight any Irish person”

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 19h

wondering if he left the jacket unsnapped at the bottom to show off the buckle or if the buckle unsnapped the jacket itself

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 19h

at the height of the Doge shit I was praying that whatever Eastern European chemist making his bathtub K would do us all a favor