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Julianne Helinek

@lookitsjulianne.bsky.social

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Philly born, New Yorker now. Posts on Philly sports, progressive politics, and Taylor Swift. Dreaming big and fighting hard.

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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · Nov 12

I want to share the story of what my mom did on Election Day in Pennsylvania.

It’s been painful to think about in the wake of the loss, but it also makes me burst with pride and is emblematic of the country I want to live in—the country I hope we still have when this is all over.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15h

this is a great piece and it absolutely sucks that the outlet went for the ambiguous headline rather.

The idea that you can remain on X and "influence opinion" is equally true for creating a new Stormfront account, or a 4Chan account, or a TruthSocial account.

Our job is to kills its influence.

Did the centre-left bit of UK politics Twitter make an error in decamping en masse to I Can’t Believe It’s Not Twitter? The old site, now remade as X, remains significantly larger than the new, and much of the political class have failed to make the jump. Did those of us who went let our desire for a comforting liberal bubble undermine our actual influence?

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.

The story of social media in the last few years is not one of a self-righteous liberal flounce, but of fragmentation: network effects are a thing, and if most of the people you like to talk to switch platforms, there feels little point in remaining behind. If we have lost influence, that’s at least partly down to the government’s reluctance to use its convening power to reshape the information environment, and its odd commitment to a site owned by someone who wants Keir Starmer in prison.

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Ben, longtime Mariners fan @aceofbens.com · 1d

The irony of calling this ""free baseball"" when we're all being held captive by two teams who just refuse to end the game

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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 1d

hahahahaha holy shit. holy shit.

Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 1d

Twitched a little watching a pitcher throw at the correct base.

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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 2d

This was really lovely and I recommend you read it despite me not agreeing with it 100%.

(Winning a World Series is easily 1,000x better than a division title and I'm gutted we won't do it this year. I may expand on that thought in the next few days, after a blissfully baseball-free weekend.)

Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 2d

i loved the 2025 philadelphia phillies. no playoffs can make me hate them. defector.com/what-ill-rem...

What I'll Remember About The Phillies | Defector

At the Phillies’ 2025 home opener, we decided that it was our year. As my friend Dana and I stood next to the giant balloon arch and let someone take our photo, people around us were feeling optimisti...

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Avi Wolfman-Arent @avi-wa.bsky.social · 2d

every time you remember it still happened

Phillie Phanatic faceplanting into the outfield grass

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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 2d

…is Maxey fielding an entire team by himself?

Zach Ciavolella @ciavo.bsky.social · 2d

76ers inactive for tonight's game:

VJ Edgecombe
Joel Embiid
Paul George
Quentin Grimes
Kyle Lowry
Jared McCain
Trendon Watford

Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 2d

It’s time to put Caitlin Flanagan out to pasture, our society has long since moved past the need for a Caitlin Flanagan (if we ever had one to begin with)

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 2d

Today is, no joke, World Mental Health Day.

[cries in Philly sports fan]

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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 2d

Tough to wake up this morning and realize that really happened.

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Colin Newby @tonewbyginnings.bsky.social · 2d

Baseball Tonight spoke about Rob Thomson's future with a tone that Phillies fans won't want to hear.

"We’ve been analyzing baseball for a century and a half now, and there is no commonality among managers who have the ability to win in the playoffs.” -Jeff Passan

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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 2d

Tbh part of me is rooting for the mutiny. Let Patullo wash out by week 8 or 9! The lesson has been learned that Sirianni is shit at promoting internal OCs, I don’t need to have the predictable consequences rubbed in my face the whole rest of the season.

Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 2d

The Eagles have 10 days to figure it out or they’re facing a full-scale mutiny.

ProFootballTalk @profootballtalk.bsky.social · 2d

Lane Johnson: Offense seems harder than it needs to be.
www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Kurt @itskurt.bsky.social · 3d

Update: It Was So Bad That I Think I’ve Circled All The Way Back Around to Being OK

Kurt @itskurt.bsky.social · 3d

I Will Not Be OK

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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 3d

This feels weird to admit but a part of me is relieved the Phillies’ playoff run is over.

I love them more than anything but that was a miserable 3.5 hours tonight. I don’t think I enjoyed a single minute of it. And I didn’t have it in me to do that every night if the run continued.

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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any interest in returning kickoffs for the eagles, they will have an opening after tonight

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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 3d

The only home run tonight was this post

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LancCo Rob (Give Me Whimsy, Damnit Edition) @lanccorob.bsky.social · 3d

Watching Philadelphia sports the last seven calendar days

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BOOOOOO! Reed Blankenship @lolphillies.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been waitin all day for Thursday night
Head inside the stove, snuff the pilot light

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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 3d

As it’s settling in I feel more and more terrible for Kerkering and more and more mad at the "stars" on offense. Orion made an all-time horrendous mistake. But the bats never should’ve put him in that position.

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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 3d

Normalize not letting the Eagles hurt you tonight. Our nerves have been through enough as is.

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Nick Piccone @piccone.bsky.social · 3d

Trea, Kyle, and Bryce own every bad situation the team’s been in.

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Alyssa @lyssben.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, as annoyed as I am at Kerk I'm more pissed at the offense who yet again failed to show up.

Let's be real, even if he threw to first and got out of it it would've been a continuous cycle until someone blew it because no one was hitting.

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Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne.bsky.social · 3d

Well, yeah. It was one of the worst baseball plays I’ve ever seen and it also happened to end our season.

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Monica @jolemamels.bsky.social · 3d

Welp, that’s the season.

Plankton wearing a Phillies hat and bomb belt with the caption goodbye everyone, I’ll remember you all in therapy.

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