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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 10h

A Mariners fan on Reddit went crying to the mods when I said that they can’t call themselves classy when they cheered Jose Altuve getting hit in the head on their subreddit. Got me banned on the Astros sub. Just a bunch of weenies.

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 2d

Listened to Bloom while taking my lunch walk. Since I can’t take a picture of my audiobook while listening here is a picture of downtown. #RootRootRead

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 2d

For read for 30 uninterrupted minutes I am working on Heir to the Jedi. I’d be lying if I said I was enjoying it. #RootRootRead

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 2d

Next #RootRootRead was book with one word title, so I listened to Bloom by @delilahsdawson.bsky.social. If you need a “what in the fuckity-fuck” read, this is for you. A perfect Halloween book. Just don’t be an idiot and finish it right before bed like I did.

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 2d

So I’ve started my offseason #RootRootRead journey. First up was book checked out from the library. The Outsider by @stephenking.bsky.social was another stop on my Holly Gibney journey. She is a character I have come to enjoy very much.

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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 4d

Baseball really is the best sport because all it takes is one little bobble and suddenly a game built on routine and order devolves into panic and chaos

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 4d

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 6d

I NEED THAT LEGACY BOOK NOW

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 7d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

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#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 8d

I know that one asshole is NOT cosplaying The Doctor. He better not be.

Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 8d

On a very basic level, how dare the drivers of Houston have something pretty to look at while driving around. We only deserve pot holes and crumbling streets, I guess. Also fuck Greg Abbott.

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 8d

One time I forgot I had to write a 5 page paper on Richard III with less than 4 hours before class it was for started. Got an A. Another time my computer failed to save over half of a ten page paper for my film studies class. Turned it in with the paper still warm. Got an A.

Dane 🔜 LightBox Expo 313 @monkeyminion.com · 9d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 14d

It’s not often you get you favorite poem read by one of the greatest voices to ever exist. In honor of Halloween month, The Raven as read by James Earl Jones as interpreted by The Simpsons

m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiX...

The Simpsons - Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven

YouTube video by Nika Gongadze

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 15d

As someone currently reading The Outsider by Stephen King, I got real excited for a second. I haven’t read The OutsiderS since middle school. Looking forward to a reread. Can’t wait to get started, some great squares there.

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 15d

So many parents suffer from this delusion and I don’t understand it.

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 16d

I’ve been saying this for YEARS.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16d

Pope Leo called first of all for respect for both sides, but he also pointed out the seeming contradiction in such debates. https://to.pbs.org/4nPjGpf

Someone against abortion but in favor of death penalty 'is not really pro-life,' Pope Leo says

Pope Leo XIV intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.”

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16d

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

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NPR @npr.org · 16d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 17d

The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 17d

I can’t stand the sing-songiness. It makes me insane.

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 18d

Glad to hear this! My sister is a WWII aficionado so I bought this for her birthday next month. Sounds like she will like it.

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks as always to @itsallaboutde.bsky.social. Can’t wait to see what our off season #RootRootRead suggestions will be!

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 19d

And lastly, The Bullet Swallower, a book about dealing with the legacies our ancestors leave us for us. An intriguing read for book that’s a Western. #RootRootRead

Cover of The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James.

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 19d

Next was book written in the 80s. I picked The War of the Roses, a book about two assholes that deserved their fate. Didn’t really like this book but felt compelled to finish it. #RootRootRead

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Applescruff1981 @applescruff1981.bsky.social · 19d

For book with mostly blue cover, I read Lilian’s Invincible Summer, a book that serves a memorial to a young woman who was murdered by her abusive boyfriend. Very sad, but beautifully written and can hopefully help other women avoid Liliana’s fate. #RootRootRead

Book cover of Liliana’s Invincible Summer

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