Banjo
@banjolegs.bsky.social
Yelly Nerd. Upper Midwesterner. Tom Bombadil Enthusiast. No pay, no Goldblum. I basically talk about Spurs and Chicago sports nonsense with some Midwestern (Wisconsin and Illinois) politics scattered on for zest. HS Social Studies Teacher.
Book rules, the movie also rules so hard. Everyone is the coolest dude ever in that movie.
The answer is The Right Stuff, distressing number of people suggesting the overrated Devil in the White City. SPOILER ALERT: they invent the fucking Ferris wheel.
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Book rules, the movie also rules so hard. Everyone is the coolest dude ever in that movie.
Make the @wisdems.org the Wisconsin DFL. Easy layup.
democrats love all their moderate, progressive, and top-of-the-distribution leaders <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3
they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Make the @wisdems.org the Wisconsin DFL. Easy layup.
“Let’s make Wisconsin a fun Air Raid team“ was a very noble but in hindsight dumb idea. Get as many large linemen as possible and just run the ball.
It’s the fourth quarter and Wisconsin is currently winning a game against a ranked opponent where their punter is their leading passer because he competed one pass
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
“Let’s make Wisconsin a fun Air Raid team“ was a very noble but in hindsight dumb idea. Get as many large linemen as possible and just run the ball.
Spurs desperately need that other 8 spot to be filled with Adam Wharton or an Adam Wharton shaped player. It's a whole team of bad passers.
November 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Spurs desperately need that other 8 spot to be filled with Adam Wharton or an Adam Wharton shaped player. It's a whole team of bad passers.
Spurs have managed to build a team that doesn't have enough player who can pass and who can run through a midblock.
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Spurs have managed to build a team that doesn't have enough player who can pass and who can run through a midblock.
Chris Larson run for Governor dot com. (Unless he’s waiting for a House seat/Senate race)
The COVID crisis should have led to universal single-payer healthcare. Instead, it led to a new gilded age, and the dumbest politics imaginable.
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Chris Larson run for Governor dot com. (Unless he’s waiting for a House seat/Senate race)
I was galaxy brain thinking about what superstar trade should happen now that they’ve inexplicable built a good foundation driving in today
incredible note in here: Kevin Huerter has almost as many FTAs in 4 games as he did in 26 games with the Bulls last season
October 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I was galaxy brain thinking about what superstar trade should happen now that they’ve inexplicable built a good foundation driving in today
@edsbs.bsky.social brother, it was right there. Arkansas Coach: Jason Jarrett.
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
@edsbs.bsky.social brother, it was right there. Arkansas Coach: Jason Jarrett.
Bluesky politics discourse these days is "I read a screenshot of a thing and I will restate the things I've already said while taking in no new information."
October 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Bluesky politics discourse these days is "I read a screenshot of a thing and I will restate the things I've already said while taking in no new information."
We need @jamellebouie.net to write the "this is what the new Democrat party should look like" proscriptive piece that Klein is mehing his way around in these interviews. I do not any more wishy washy academia crap.
funny that everyone read "the hollow parties" but that few people seemed to have internalized its implications for building the democratic party into an actual majority party
October 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We need @jamellebouie.net to write the "this is what the new Democrat party should look like" proscriptive piece that Klein is mehing his way around in these interviews. I do not any more wishy washy academia crap.
He seems...too small
Reed Sheppard's defense in that first half was a bit of a rollercoaster. He has great instincts and hands but he's gotta be able to stay in front of the ball better.
October 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
He seems...too small
Going to try to handle post-teacher fuzzy brain better this fall/winter and commit to watching more regular season NBA and NHL games. Less phone scrolling/more single game following etc. The question will be if I get sucked into paying for NBA.TV so I can watch the stupid Bulls be bad.
October 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Going to try to handle post-teacher fuzzy brain better this fall/winter and commit to watching more regular season NBA and NHL games. Less phone scrolling/more single game following etc. The question will be if I get sucked into paying for NBA.TV so I can watch the stupid Bulls be bad.
I mean, we already learned our lesson with candidate selection from the Fetterman saga. Sometimes the solid boring normie person is actually fine.
October 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I mean, we already learned our lesson with candidate selection from the Fetterman saga. Sometimes the solid boring normie person is actually fine.
@nathanaclark.bsky.social if you don't make and share a list of 10ish passy central midfielders that Tottenham could sign in January, I will set myself on fire. Please and thank you.
October 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
@nathanaclark.bsky.social if you don't make and share a list of 10ish passy central midfielders that Tottenham could sign in January, I will set myself on fire. Please and thank you.
Frank has to pick a lane. Either play two 6s and drop the attacking line deeper and counter or play an 8 who can actually run with the ball.
October 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Frank has to pick a lane. Either play two 6s and drop the attacking line deeper and counter or play an 8 who can actually run with the ball.
I know they’re trying to fix it but shoutout to the last iteration of Spurs recruitment for deciding that having passers was overrated
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I know they’re trying to fix it but shoutout to the last iteration of Spurs recruitment for deciding that having passers was overrated
we can probably say this about every Brighton player but Jan van Hecke would be a fantastic Spurs player
October 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
we can probably say this about every Brighton player but Jan van Hecke would be a fantastic Spurs player
I teach HS social studies and also a book reader and this is something I think about a lot. Kids are so "fill the sheets/get work done"-itis that they just never engage with books. Need like, interesting short ones that kids will actually talk with each other about.
Let's be positive, what are 5 books you'd assign for a high school English class to get the kids on board with literature? I'll start
The Remains of the Day
Fatelessness
A Bend in the River
The Life & Times of Michael K
The Handmaid's Tale
The Remains of the Day
Fatelessness
A Bend in the River
The Life & Times of Michael K
The Handmaid's Tale
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I teach HS social studies and also a book reader and this is something I think about a lot. Kids are so "fill the sheets/get work done"-itis that they just never engage with books. Need like, interesting short ones that kids will actually talk with each other about.
My take on this is that we need to shove all the nerds who keep coming up with these wacky academic meta analysis's on left-liberal messaging problems in a locker and start talking about what policies we all agree on and want to do and how they'd be helpful to voters.
what I find frustrating about this is that Zohran won the primary because he successfully occupied both the magnetism and pollingism positions at the same time, focusing his obvious charisma and skilled campaign apparatus on a message designed to win the median voter www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
October 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My take on this is that we need to shove all the nerds who keep coming up with these wacky academic meta analysis's on left-liberal messaging problems in a locker and start talking about what policies we all agree on and want to do and how they'd be helpful to voters.
@maxrushden.bsky.social brosef, the American ads keep cutting off part 2
October 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
@maxrushden.bsky.social brosef, the American ads keep cutting off part 2
Trying to modernize the Badgers into a spread team was a noble effort but this is Wisconsin. They‘re allow to have Penn State’s ceiling. Get all the large people and run the shit out of the ball and have a top 10 defense.
What is Wisconsin doing running the ball
October 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Trying to modernize the Badgers into a spread team was a noble effort but this is Wisconsin. They‘re allow to have Penn State’s ceiling. Get all the large people and run the shit out of the ball and have a top 10 defense.
My Spurs tactical thought is that we're setting up in the Brentford 1.0 system and attacking in the Brentford 2.0 system. But we don't have the passers to do the 2.0 attack so everything bogs down. Just run and shoot the dang ball.
October 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My Spurs tactical thought is that we're setting up in the Brentford 1.0 system and attacking in the Brentford 2.0 system. But we don't have the passers to do the 2.0 attack so everything bogs down. Just run and shoot the dang ball.
since we apparently just don’t pass or dribble from the middle anymore, all of the creation and progression comes from the wings. And Odebert has been…not good enough
October 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
since we apparently just don’t pass or dribble from the middle anymore, all of the creation and progression comes from the wings. And Odebert has been…not good enough
@nathanaclark.bsky.social too early for Passy 8 player scouting list for january?
October 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
@nathanaclark.bsky.social too early for Passy 8 player scouting list for january?
the matches where the entire spurs team inexplicably just decides to no-show a match are going to be even more annoying while being a mid-block team now
September 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
the matches where the entire spurs team inexplicably just decides to no-show a match are going to be even more annoying while being a mid-block team now