Ben Wheat
beardywheat.bsky.social
Ben Wheat
@beardywheat.bsky.social
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Husband. Dad. Software Engineer. Boston sports. Bad takes are all my own.
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🚀🚀🚀 I'm doin' a signal boost!

I just met Vanessa, an early-career dev with great energy looking for work! Interested in games and webdev, and working on a PS1-style game in her spare time. (Contact info is on her website)

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I've been working on a golf-centric project all year that I am eager to make into a thing so if anyone has golf/hardware tech connects, I'd love to talk!
Hey so I’ve been looking for my next role and striking out. If you know anyone looking for an Elixir dev with experience managing and advocating for teams, I’m your guy!
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Note: This is me — I asked this question.

You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
I don't prefer this timeline.
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To Vladdy: wow that one was FAST wasn't it?

To the catcher: did you catch that? Amazing
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Martin Short Home Plate Ump
Completely fix baseball with five words.
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Wow, crazy news today.

Anyway, here are my top eight prop bets for the Thunder-Pacers game tonight, sponsored by GambleYourEntireIRA dot com ...
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Per the Foundation's website, past recipients of this award include Henry Kissinger (twice), Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld.
News: Trump will receive the "Architect of Peace" award today from the Nixon Foundation. Among those who will be at White House to present it are Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia Nixon Cox, ex national security advisor Robert O'Brien, Jim Byron, the acting archivist of the US, sources tell CBS News
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Live your life in such a way that 7 million people don’t show up just to tell you that you are an asshole.

#NoKings
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
Who is Jelly Rolls music for?
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happy 21st stealiversary to all who celebrate
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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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007 struggling against his restraints: you can't cook those chicken nuggets with the fries, blofeld. you'll burn one and undercook the other

blofeld: fret not, mr. bond. this air fryer has dual zones
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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That insanity goes down officially as a grounded into double play, making it the only batted ball hit over 350 feet for a GIDP in the pitch tracking era (reg. + postseason).

Max Muncy grounded into a 404-foot double play.
I saw another that says "flied into double play". Which is officially official?
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insanely normal play by play here
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In answer to your questions ...

No, I've never seen that before.
No, it didn't happen because I will Strange But True madness to happen.
Yes, we just saw a "grounded into double play" on a ball that looked like a possible slam over the CF wall.
And the catcher recorded both forceouts.

Baseball!
what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee