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Erik Magraken @erikmagraken.bsky.social · Jun 17

UFC gets idea for their next anti doping policy

Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · Jun 17

Elon Musk denies drug use by posting a screenshot of a drug test with the caption: “lol.”

Elon Musk Continues to Insist He Is Not on Drugs, Now With Screenshot of Drug Test

It’s come to this.

www.vanityfair.com

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 14

P.S:

This is not to pit one practice against another.

An agent can know BJJ and Muay Thai, but the "mixed" part of MMA is not combined in combat sports in the same way it is combined in enforcement organizations.

It's a "photo-op."

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 14

2/2 MMA professionals are no joke - it IS martial...

... & it's bound by rules of practice, practiced nearly naked, & without any weaponry, improvised or otherwise.

A relatively controlled environment.

If true, my money is on the proganda piece of it all, not reality. 😬

#burstingbubbles

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 14

Whether he believes the words or not, whether they were said or not, and whether they were lipservice or sincere: LMFAO

There are so many practical hand-to-hand systems already used by even just American enforcement agencies that are way more applicable than UFC MMA.

No shade to the source 1/2

MMA Fighting @mmafighting.bsky.social · Apr 22

Dana White lauds FBI director Kash Patel wanting to work with UFC: ‘All of these guys should be trained in [MMA]’ www.mmafighting.com/2025/4/22/24...

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 13

For real, a game like that is the joy I needed with the news cycle that feels more like a firehose to the face.

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Grim Duncan 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · Jan 20

What it's gonna feel like to post about sports on social media for the next four years

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 13

#oilers #stanleycupfinals

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 13

When the team tightens tf up

#oilersnation

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 13

I will not hear another **unwarranted** dog-pile on a sole defenseman in a team sport.

#oilers #letsgooilers #oilersnation

Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 13

@ the Nurse catastrophizers always, but mostly after he does a fine job on that goal. 💅

#oilers #stanleycupfinal #letsgooilers

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Que Chimba, Cj @cynicalceezy.bsky.social · Jun 13

Oilers got one.

Bitch, don't get too comfortable Better not get too comfortable
FUTURE, "TOO COMFORTABLE"

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 10

No activity from Ariel Helwani on bluesky has got to mean something.

#hottake

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jun 9

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 10

There are so many people in this fandom, incl the fighters, who KNOW what is happening, but they don't push back on anything.

A lot of warrior chest-beating, & how many of them take the risk of criticizing their own community?

Karim Zidan @karimzidan.com · Jun 9

No audience has proven more reflexively obedient than UFC fans. They are Trump’s perfect crowd: conditioned to worship strength, programmed to mistake dominance for leadership, and incapable of recognizing their own humiliation.

www.sportspolitika.news/p/trump-ufc-...

Bread, Circuses, and the 'Enemy Within'

After deploying the military to enforce "law and order" amid anti-ICE protests in LA, Trump appeared at a UFC event in New Jersey in a spectacle befitting the strongman he imagines himself to be.

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 10

It's a meat-grinder.

I believe in #combatsports

But not like this.

I keep thinking of all the fighters who talk about being "warriors" or "going to war" in the cage.

But they won't stand up for themselves & unionize?

Bad mathematics.

Pedro's the brave one here.

#mma

John S. Nash @heynottheface.bsky.social · Jun 10

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Four Corners program did an in-depth examination of the UFC. I get quoted as does a few others in & around the mma industry
amp.abc.net.au/article/1053...

Athletes expose the reality of fighting for survival in the UFC - ABC News

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 10

Something something preacher choir etc.

But like actually.

More a question of social cohesion & resilience from within.

There's a gap that the bullshit fills.

Why is the gap there?

#scicomm #publichealth #publiceducation #outreach

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 10

A note:

Any kind of intellectual superiority hurts progress.

That is still a slippery undercurrent in #scicomm, and pinning it down is like nailing jelly to a wall.

The call is coming from inside the house.

Instead of "why do ppl seek that?" - ask "why are ppl leaving this?"

#publichealth

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 10

Related: a lawyer once told me, "You can't regulate stupid."

This was during the "kids are eating Tide Pods" panic.

We can't control the choices people make.

What we can do it make sure we teach & maintain self-reflexivity.

A culture that values it.

Starting here. #publichealth

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 10

Highlights.

From fall 2019 to winter 2020, I was a graduate research assistant for a public health lab (great timing).

There was friction between what I was being asked to find & what they wanted to include in the definition of "public health."

Good to see this kind of work here.

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 10

Took me a while to pin down my disappointment, but that's it, I think.

I wish they played like they loved the game.

Ah, my heart.

#oilersnation #stanleycupfinal #playoffs

Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 10

I'm going through Ted Lasso again, s 3, ep 10.

About how the game doesn't belong to the owners of teams.

It belongs to the fans. To the people who play it.

To the people who love it.

I wish the #oilers played tonight like they loved the game, instead of just sticking it to the other team.

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 10

I love me some combat sports, but #hockeyfans this game is a lost cause.

#Panthers got under the skin and stayed there. Start to finish.

#oilersnation

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 10

Look, I'm pulling for the #oilers but chasing a guy and grabbing his stick is not exactly playoff caliber strategy.

Come on, now. Be mad but acting out in the final series.

Not even about good looks or honor, just fully hurting your own team.

#beagoldfish #playoffs

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Harper @chaiseloungesports.bsky.social · Jun 10

I'm seeing a lot of blame on Skinner (and defaulting on Nurse), but the whole team isn't flowing as tightly today.

Seeing a loss of cohesion. Can't just scapegoat it on one or two players, even if they're not at they're personal A-gane tonight.

#2cents #oilers

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