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It's Gloria! @smilodonichthys.bsky.social · 10h

Oh we posting brassica memes?

Ladies Get you a fella who can do it all

And it's a illustration showing the wild version of Brassica oleracea with arrows pointing to different vegetables it had been bred into.

Cabbage, selection for terminal buds. Brussels sprouts, selection for lateral buds. Kohlrabi, selection for stem. Kale, selection for leaves. Broccoli, selection for stems and flowers. Cauliflower, selection for flower clusters.

Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 18h

And then you go into your password manager to change old ones and you have 250+, most from apps you only used once 10 years ago… there’s just too much comm cruft

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 1d

Looking at this again… he has to be the most miserable boss to work for, throwing out bad ideas and insisting people work on them

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 1d

So when it’s a stump speech, it’s all optimism and Trumpian everyone is against me. When it’s a debate it’s darkness, doom, and Sit Yourself Down There Little Missy

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 1d

Big clueless CEO energy there, Mr Mayor.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 1d

And with that, the white mama bears who've been fighting the schools for their kid's IEP jump off the Trump bandwagon

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 1d

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

bit.ly

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 1d

Wait until all the pearl-clutchers about "Big Dumper" discover that Mariners fans are excited that Humpy won last night

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 1d

She sure figured that out faster than I did, all these decades on

Lumpy MD @lumpawaroomd.bsky.social · 2d

This is the first baseball game my wife has ever seen and she now believes this is a sport about eternal punishment

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 1d

The Pac 12 didn’t die, it just bided its time for retribution

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody talks about mom when her hands rise to cover her face. Where did she go?

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 1d

I’m currently at a pop culture convention with 120k+ attendees where there’s Game of Thrones stuff literally everywhere, and the Marvel TV panel was so overpacked they had to shut down the floor. But I will agree people do not talk about Succession quite as often as when it was airing every week.

Nobody really talks about Succession anymore. Or Game of Thrones. Sort of confirms my thesis that, with rare exceptions, television does not really matter.

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JR Mayer @jrmayer.bsky.social · 2d

Now I finally understand the "Seattle Process" - it's just extra innings!

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 2d

Mariners fandom is the hardest in baseball, since it’s just 49 seasons of Are They Going To Be Good and only 5 seasons of Yes They Are But They’ll Still Blow It

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 2d

I don’t see the problem with that, and besides, as the last time to never make the Series, you have to think that would either fix the timeline or trigger the apocalypse. Win-win-win!

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 2d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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joes-spot.bsky.social @joes-spot.bsky.social · 2d

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 2d

THE GARAGES FOUGHT GODS AND WON FOR ONCE

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 2d

Maybe I will be happy about the Mariners, but I tell you, it is easy to love this team and so so so hard to be a fan for 30 years

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 2d

When this game started Seattle hadn’t burned yet

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 2d

You called yourselves the OTHER Washington ❤️

Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 2d

Two decades of watching them strand more runners than an overloaded King County Metro bus strands riders, I guess they had to get it right eventually

Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 2d

I thought for sure they were going to leave everyone stranded or something else totally Mariners

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 2d

BTW, if you live in metro Seattle, can pitch, and have your passport, call 1-800-MARINERS and they’ll send someone by to pick you up. They’ll need you for Game 1 on Sunday

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 2d

Mariners win

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