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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 5h

They should make more baseball players like Josh Naylor, a compact cluster of haunches and beef who is one of the best base-stealers in baseball despite running like an English bulldog with rabies

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve never really liked it as a strategy, especially when your team has the lead. I guess in non-DH league like the NL once was it gave pitchers something to do at the plate, but it is giving away an out.

Now drag bunts - that’s art.

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 6h

Hate the sacrifice bunt.

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 6h

I know people who met in IRC.

Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 6h

I wonder how much of “online” is not “online dating”.

People meet on social media, too, and that is not a dating app. And I know people who met in forums, online hobby groups, etc.

Apps clearly number one, but “online” is a bigger space than Tinder.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 7h

The reason people do NOT opt out of online dating, despite its engineered horrors, is because increasingly it's the only dating. Period.

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 6h

You could make a case that Gimenez is the worst starting bat in the American League (but elite glove).

Still, he is having a pretty good post-season at the plate.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 9h

Self-described thought-leaders postulating Antigone as the prototypical woke figure… Imagine how tired I am

Helen Andrews
How I came to see the "Great Feminization" as the most significant event of our century
—and a potential threat to civilization.
The Great Feminization
From compactmag.com

Zohar Atkins & @ZoharAtkins
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What is your take on Greek Tragedy, which often pits the feminine against the masculine as a fundamental dilemma, ie Antigone vs Creon or Clytemnestra vs Agamemnon. I hadn't really considered it before as Antigone is pitched as the hero, but is she not the Ur-woke figure?

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 10h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9h

Respectfully, y’all have lost your minds.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 9h

It's practically a requirement if you don't come from generational wealth or a top school. I do not think I'd have my career had I not "leveled up" by mining through trauma by writing about rape-revenge films as a rape survivor and the catharsis of horror during pancreatic cancer treatment.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

I think a lot of people don’t realize how insanely pervasive and coercive the early 2010s “the only way to make it as a young writer is to publish insanely confessional, raw online essays about your darkest secrets and trauma” culture was.

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 13h

Photo of a Semple Tanks, New Zealand's prototype WW2 armored vehicle, an unholy construction of corrugated iron mounted on tractor tracks.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome new people. I was asked at dinner last night whether Bluesky was an echo chamber. I said it doesn’t matter, because what I want from social media isn’t to talk to young republicans taking a break from their group chat, but to read things I want to read but that I might have missed.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Jun 12

The thing I want most from social media is for people to share things that I might want to read or watch that otherwise I wouldn’t read or watch, whether news, commentary, books, movies, tv, games to play, whatever. Bluesky does this. /4

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 18h

Sometimes I'll watch a cooking video and think I should I buy all the things I'll use once.

Like, "Ooh, a Jaccard meat tenderizer. That could come in handy."

No, it will not. You have forks to poke your chicken. Do not spend 50 bucks on another pointy thing, you numbskull.

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 18h

Yesterday was a very Friday kind of Wednesday and today is a very Monday kind of Thursday and my brain has no idea how to calibrate its mood.

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CTV News Ottawa @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s how much you need to make to comfortably afford rent in Ottawa

A new report shows the increase in minimum wage in Ontario has done little to close the gap on housing affordability in the capital.

bit.ly

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 1d

Also no new followers, which I take to mean that anyone of consequence to me was already here.

(The last few surges led to small boosts to my audience, but I don’t think I’ll hit 3000 here till spring 2026.)

Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't picked up any new follows from the current "surge" yet which the part of my brain that pathologically craves approval is fixin' to be Extremely Normal about

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 1d

I think it should remain possible to work professionally on video games without having to move

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Jon Bolding @jonbolds.bsky.social · 1d

board gaming tariff casualty

Dave Chalker @davethegame.bsky.social · 1d

Terrible news that AMIGO’s US division is shutting down. Produced some of my favorites and made them easily available here instead of needing to import them and get translated rules. Another needless tariff casualty.

AMIGO Games Inc., the US subsidary of the German game publisher AMIGO Spiel + Freizeit GmbH, is closing its doors at the end of the year due to the ongoing economic challenges since the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2018, AMIGO owner Uwe Pauli founded AMIGO Games Inc., a subsidiary in the US. The goal was to expand the presence of AMIGO products in the American market with a dedicated office and local market experts. At the time, no one could have predicted that a global pandemic would completely disrupt the retail landscape a year and a half later.
Coming out of the initial pandemic, AMIGO focused on expanding the awareness of their game lines, and cutting costs within the operation. While there were successes, such as reintroducing the Bohnanza line to the U.S. and new evergreens like Don't L.L.A.M.A and Cabanga, we were challenged in pushing those goals by the ever-changing landscape of shipping and component cost increases.
In the past 12 months, even more uncertainty has been introduced. This year's tariff dispute with the US, the lack of predictability, and significant additional costs gave the AMIGO management the final impetus to make the difficult decision to close AMIGO Games Inc.
"It's not an easy decision for us, but it's the right decision," explains Alexander Jost, CEO of AMIGO Spiel + Freizeit GmbH in Germany, where he is responsible for AMIGO Games Inc. "After eight years of intensive efforts, we have to admit that we cannot meet the economic challenges of the American market with our small company. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the AMIGO Games team Alex Yeager and Corey Delmonto for their tireless efforts."

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

This is the road where people are driving 154 km/h. A residential area with young families on one side, a park on the other.

And yet for some reason, people are clocking Autobahn speeds here. A few years ago a guy doing 100 killed an elderly couple. 1,500 crashes on this stretch in the past decade

A view of Parkside Drive in Toronto showing a simple residential street with a park on the other side

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot do a Canadian show without Peter Keleghan or Pat McKenna in a recurring role.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 1d

I do love how the first season is a more or less straight historical drama procedural and then Peter Keleghan shows up in the finale and the show realizes what direction it *actually* is going to end up going.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

At a conference last year a prominent senior political scientist told me he was "disturbed" that I was using settler colonialism as a frame in my book on US migration & citizenship history because I should "give the MAGA people something to be proud of in their history." 1/

Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 1d

Let me state this as clearly as I can:

It is not the job of a historian to make you feel good about your nation’s past.

We need to print this on t-shirts and bumper stickers.

a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and a very angry look on his face .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and a very angry look on his face .

media.tenor.com

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 1d

Or, a Canadian police detective did invent all these things, but he is very bad with paperwork and getting to the patent office on time.

Strange Currencies @strangecurrencies.org · 1d

One day I'll watch it all through again and make a list of all the things Murdoch is credited with inventing that he absolutely did not invent.

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 1d

I am seriously considering this offer for when I decide to set up my newsletter about which dogs are best.

(preview: It's a tie. They are all the best.)

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

Should add really that if you're a smol newsletter bean who would dearly love to NOT be on Substack, then I will happily roll (and manage) a Ghost install for you for cost + a small maintenance fee.

I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, Ghost V6 integrated with Tinybird for analytics is pretty damn filthy.

Been running @theupfront.media on Ghost for a while as part of our "No Nazi platforms" stack. Very happy with it (and with our Germany-based email hosting instead of Google Business)

The technology you use is a choice.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

Should add really that if you're a smol newsletter bean who would dearly love to NOT be on Substack, then I will happily roll (and manage) a Ghost install for you for cost + a small maintenance fee.

I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, Ghost V6 integrated with Tinybird for analytics is pretty damn filthy.

Been running @theupfront.media on Ghost for a while as part of our "No Nazi platforms" stack. Very happy with it (and with our Germany-based email hosting instead of Google Business)

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We reject platforms and technologies where our use would represent tacit support for — or tolerance of — the views of their owners or major funders where we disagree fundamentally with those views and the impact they have on the world.

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Perhaps more importantly, we don’t use toxic socials like Instagram, Facebook, Threads or X, which drive really unproductive behaviour in media outlets, journalists, readers and companies.

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