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Dave Doyle

@davedoyle.bsky.social

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Sports card writer. Recovering combat sports reporter. Fort Worth by way of Boston and LA. 🏳️‍🌈

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Dave Doyle @davedoyle.bsky.social · Jun 29

Dolores Park on an absolutely glorious SF Pride Sunday! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 17h

Bruno!

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Dave Doyle @davedoyle.bsky.social · 20h

Nothing to do with anything, but with this post I've officially unlocked the "guys who were champs when I was covering this are now fighting people on their way down I've never heard of" level of being checked out.

Dave Doyle @davedoyle.bsky.social · 22h

He won me over in Game 5 vs. Detroit. Any chunky dude wearing pink shoes who hits a check-swing double and then steals third is cool with me.

Dave Doyle @davedoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Your pal Bari can't even get Mamdani's name right. Real winner you backed here, Sally!

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Karlos the Frociaggine @karlosthefog.bsky.social · 1d

I still stand ten toes down on this statement even after I got death threats on Twitter about it. Writing off the south continues to birth resentment and a further divide that shouldn’t even be there. They want a division to make it easier to continue regressive bullshit. Stop. Falling. For. It.

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 8d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Chad Finn @chadfinn.bsky.social · 1d

“Instead.”

Good job turning a search engine trusted by all into a slop processing machine. Swell work.

(I was Googling to try to confirm a hazy recollection that Greenwell almost signed with the Marlins after the ‘96 season.)

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 1d

Will it count as irony when Harrison Butker joins Outkick

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Chad Finn @chadfinn.bsky.social · 2d

Bold comment on the officiating by Tom Curran on NBC Sports Boston. “It gives the whiff of Tim Donaghy.” I had a similar thought on the bizarre Diggs call that wiped out a 61-yard Douglas TD. Probably just inept officiating, but NFL invites intrusive thoughts by being so intertwined with gambling.

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Dave Doyle @davedoyle.bsky.social · 1d

You used to be really good, Sally. When did your brain break?

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Dave Doyle @davedoyle.bsky.social · 2d

You could have just posted "Hi Bari, please hire me!" and saved about 100 characters of text.

Dave Doyle @davedoyle.bsky.social · 2d

If you have any links to well-known writers in major legacy media outlets excoriating people on the left for no longer using Facebook, feel free to post them.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum @baseballhall.org · 2d

Twenty-six years ago tonight, Pedro Martínez was untouchable.

His six hitless innings out of the bullpen to help Boston advance to the 1999 ALCS produced one of the greatest games Joe Castiglione witnessed in his @redsox.com career.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 4d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Dave Doyle @davedoyle.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, they are hoarding money too. But yes.

Dave Doyle @davedoyle.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 5d

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 5d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Dave Doyle @davedoyle.bsky.social · 6d

One of my proudest accomplishments was getting in shape to bike all 545 miles of AIDS Lifecycle from SF to LA in 2019. I raised thousands of dollars in donations almost entirely from strangers over social media.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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