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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 1h

Two top ten posers down by 4p. Good-looking Saturday.

Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 2h

Vanderbilt eating shit

shrek from the movie shrek is smiling and looking at something

ALT: shrek from the movie shrek is smiling and looking at something

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 2h

The stats aren't particularly kind, but that Grunkmeyer kid should be proud of how he played. Showed some moxie and made some nice throws.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 4h

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 2d

Awesome story. And I suppose it kind of tracks that a prophet’s theology might (appear) inconsistent?

Were you ever a Mewithoutyou fan? Unorthodox Anabaptist church full of eccentrics in Philadephia(?) sounds like the sort of joint Aaron Weiss would have been a part of

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 2d

The word “dystopian” gets thrown around a lot, but this legitimately qualifies and is BAD bad.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 2d

That’s true. I appreciate that Nancy tried him all over the place (including RWB and CM), but his stubbornness to keep starting him (à la Philip Quinton) may have worked against him. He has looked much better off the bench imo. Not ideal for a DP, but it takes the pressure off and gets him going.

Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently giving the cool pope a jersey is now accepted local custom.

Lo, his holiness trembles, at the thought of the unholy nightmare of a custom-designed Andres Mendoza jersey he’d get from @supportersupply.co if he ever set foot in Ohio

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 2d

No, I’m pro-Herrera and thought we should have locked him up in the spring.

I appreciate the creativity of getting River Plate to extend him, but I don’t understand waiting until June to have those conversations and letting his visa lapse as a result. Was a big deal because of the Farsi injury.

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 2d

Losing McGuiness is tough, I’ll give Tall that.

But I think a lot of fans are giving him a TON of leeway because he worked with Bez.

MLS is a tough job. You HAVE to hit on your DP’s, and get creative with depth. Can’t screw stuff up like the Herrera extension and paying for the unused intl slot

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 2d

Time will tell on Gazdag. What if it’s not the yips? What if the scouting wasn’t solid?

People have this assumption that Nancy can elevate anybody, but it’s an unfair expectation (see: Dejuan Jones). Maybe Jim Curtain played the perfect system for Gazdag’s skill set?

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think it’s fair to expect perfection from a GM, and rosters can have cycles. But to John’s point, this team has gotten demonstrably worse under Tall’s 1.5 year tenure.

The only reason the heat was on (hence the reactionary signing +ext) was because he did nothing in 2 straight windows!

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 2d

Who is to blame for Gazdag besides the guy who paid $4.5M for him, watched him play 3 extremely shitty games, and then wrote him a check for $7.5M more?

I agree the general consensus was it was a good move, but in the fanbases’ defense, we’re not paid a shitload of money to get this stuff right.

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 3d

Is there a remotely-plausible argument that the Gazdag signing increased our points on the year?

The guys he directly took playing time from (AZ Jackson and JRR) both finished with higher xG/90, and the advanced metrics are all close.

If anything he made our team worse by preventing development.

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 3d

I think it’s a little unfair to say it’s totally by choice. It’s also the result of an inexperienced GM panicking!

We were always going to sell Cucho. Selling him cheap and late was rough

Panic-signing Gazdag was even rougher.
Doubling down and extending him early was mind-numbing!

John Zidar @john-zidar.bsky.social · 3d

Just so we're clear...

#Crew96 could have signed the 2nd most expensive player in the league (who has contributed 9G/3A in 806 min) for only $11mil.

Instead, we got a dud in Gazdag (4G/4A in 2067 min), the fatally late arriving & ultimately injured Ali (3G/1A in 304min), and no defense signings.

Jeff Carlisle @jeffreycarlisle.bsky.social · 3d

The MLSPA's salary release is out. LAFC's Son Heung-Min is second only to Lionel Messi in terms of salary. Inter Miami continues to lap most of the field in terms of total spend. Average and median salaries league-wide continue to creep up. More details here.

www.espn.com/soccer/story...

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John Zidar @john-zidar.bsky.social · 3d

Just so we're clear...

#Crew96 could have signed the 2nd most expensive player in the league (who has contributed 9G/3A in 806 min) for only $11mil.

Instead, we got a dud in Gazdag (4G/4A in 2067 min), the fatally late arriving & ultimately injured Ali (3G/1A in 304min), and no defense signings.

Jeff Carlisle @jeffreycarlisle.bsky.social · 3d

The MLSPA's salary release is out. LAFC's Son Heung-Min is second only to Lionel Messi in terms of salary. Inter Miami continues to lap most of the field in terms of total spend. Average and median salaries league-wide continue to creep up. More details here.

www.espn.com/soccer/story...

LAFC's Son second to Messi on MLS salary list

LAFC's Son Heung-Min, a summer acquisition by LAFC, has a guaranteed compensation of $11.2 million while Lionel Messi remains the league's highest paid player at $20.4 million.

www.espn.com

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 3d

LFG Jackets!! #cbj

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 3d

The hard Pips today took me half an hour to solve. Worth it.

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Michael Arace @michaelarace1.bsky.social · 4d

Live column off Hell is Real, playoff style, will be up without a paywall early Tuesday morning. Have a nice day.
www.thedisrespected.com/p/b273fa0a-4...

Playoff Hell 2025 Game 1

A bonus column for all subscribers

www.thedisrespected.com

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Leif Malone @thetroops.fightins.online · 4d

“We” - Me, in reference to the Toronto Blue Jays

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 4d

Producer: Alright Sachs maybe take a step upstage so Dax doesn’t look like a child

Director: lol bet

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 5d

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 5d

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, I think I get it in theory(?), but it does feel like a format built by execs, not sports fans.

They want a lot of teams in the playoffs ($$$), but don’t want low seeds moving on because of a lucky bounce. So they purge them w/ a best-of-3 (less random than H&H) and then move on.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 6d

A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.

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Charisma-free Weirdo and Dork @erikbobbitt.bsky.social · 7d

Richard Linklater understands the human condition better than any other writer/filmmaker.

Blue Moon is a 5/5, no notes film. My favorite of the year hands down. Maybe my favorite movie period since Past Lives.

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