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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 12h

If you have 100 reviews, I will go on your podcast.

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 12h

#NBA
Only a Sixers broadcast would show a child supporting the opposing team in tears.

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 13h

Tonight’s cocktail…
The classic Aviation.
Love that foggy hue.

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Cheryl Platz @funnygodmother.bsky.social · 21h

I performed in improvised parodies of TOS for 9 years, appearing at comic conventions and on SyFy Wire. I also moderated the 2010 Emerald City Comicon panel with Leonard Nimoy, who was amazing. I grew up with TNG, but developed appreciation for TOS after “These Are The Voyages” #startrek #trekkie 🖖

Cheryl Platz as Nurse Chapel with Tony Beeman as Doctor McCoy, cast members from Where No Man Has Gone Before

Cheryl Platz with the original cast of improvised Star Trek parody Where No Man Has Gone Before, in 2011

Cheryl Platz welcoming Leonard Nimoy to the stage at Emerald City Comicon 2010

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 23h

shame about that word, though. 'blog' is so unseemly!

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 1d

a desert landscape with trees and bushes in the foreground and mountains in the background

ALT: a desert landscape with trees and bushes in the foreground and mountains in the background

media.tenor.com

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 1d

The Royal Tenenbaums.

(FWIW "The Life Aquatic" is my favorite W.A. film)

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 2d

wait what? toxic masculinity in farming?!

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 3d

"subtext is an anagram for butt sex"
-ancient fanfic writer's motto/my credo

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 3d

Showing out at the Garden. "You didn't pick me, huh?"

Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 3d

#NBA Spidaman making sure the Knicks see what they opted out of.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 3d

Louise in a still from The Canary Murder Case (1929).

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Fred Katz @fredkatz.bsky.social · 4d

The mystery of what was going on with Porzingis during last spring's playoffs has been solved.

Details in here on Porzingis' diagnosis and treatment:

Fred Katz @fredkatz.bsky.social · 4d

Kristaps Porzingis is in a new place — but then again, so are the Hawks.

Story from Atlanta on a 7-foot-3 big man trying to show he’s still got it and a revamped squad hoping to do the same: www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · 3d

In Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, George Lakoff debunks objectivism by showing how categorization and reasoning are shaped by experience and embodied cognition.

intertwingled.org/women-fire-a...

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 3d

Some folks have trouble accepting that LinkedIn has the best signal to noise ratio of any social media platform.

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 4d

I read this, and I'm like the @weratedogs.com guy.
They're all good pasta shapes, Action.

(Like: the hate for angel hair is because people don't know how to cook it or sauce it. Done right, the etherealness of angel hair is divine.)

actioncookBOOk @actioncookbook.com · 4d

a second day of the same discourse? no. no thank you.

instead I need you to name your least favorite pasta shape

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 4d

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 4d

Marcus Smart... isn't. #nba

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 4d

#nba
It's interesting that Steven Adams was part of the Rockets' final five (I see he was just subbed out...).

Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 4d

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 4d

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 4d

Did Reed Sheppard make eyes at the other Rockets' women? Why on earth won't they pass him the ball when he's wide open? #nba

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 4d

Strategic Em-Dash Reserves

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Peter Merholz @peterme.com · 4d

Rising prices are also being blamed for fewer tourists to Vegas, but I think much of this reporting/analysis is missing anti-immigrant sentiment. What percentage of attendees have been (and are now) Latine? I'd think the threat of ICE is hugely dissuading to participation.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 4d

“Listen we could either have groceries for a week or two or spend a day at the fair.”

thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/21/t...

...So Was It the Price of Turkey Legs? State Fair of Texas Attendance Dropped by 400,000

Texas State Fair attendance was the lowest since 2018. Many, including U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, pointed to rising costs.

thebarbedwire.com

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