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croolby.bsky.social
@croolby.bsky.social
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High school teacher. Amateur game developer learning Godot. Baseball fan. North Carolinian.
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kohler.bsky.social
Now I heard there was a tiny box
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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retrosheet.bsky.social
Retrosheet is pleased to announce its second semi-annual release of 2025, which includes play-by-play files for the 1910 and 2025 seasons, box-score files for the 1898 season, and a deep dive into the 1935 Negro League season.

www.retrosheet.org/fall2025rele...
Fall 2025 Release
www.retrosheet.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
croolby.bsky.social
You know you spend too much time around gen z when you see a headline like this and immediately think "why is MLBTR covering fashion now"
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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grantbrisbee.bsky.social
Mitchell Report-ass pigeon
maggietokudahall.bsky.social Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 9d
I have found the best pigeon.
A fat pigeon that is basically a sphere on a brick patio
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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earthbound-txt.bsky.social
Ah... I see. Well, you don't look like you could figure outa sophisticated game like baseball anyway.
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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whetmoser.com
to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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khayyaamb.bsky.social
GEN Z HARRY OSBORN: Pete what's up with all those books about Spiders you can just look them up on Tiktok

GEN Z PETER PARKER: C'mon Harry you know it's my, uh, Hyperfixation

MILLENNIAL J. JONAH JAMESON: PARKER! YOU SENT ME .webp FILES! HOW DOES A GEEK LIKE YOU NOT KNOW WHAT A FILE EXTENSION IS
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
croolby.bsky.social
Today thanks to @ewpod.bsky.social and this post I learned that Ruby Bridges is younger than Scott Boras
dgraham.bsky.social David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 14d
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
derfbackderf.bsky.social Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 14d
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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kathbarbadoro.bsky.social
Google AI is like an Eric Adams quote generator
Al Overview Men in New York have done countless things throughout history, from building the city to participating in major events like the Stonewall riots and the September 11 attacks. Their actions have ranged from daily life and economic hardship during the Great Depression to playing significant roles in the city's political and social landscape, such as the assassination of Malcolm X or the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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buckweaver.bsky.social
That Ortiz and Clase reportedly received the EXACT same dollar amount from fixers — in 2025! — as Shoeless Joe Jackson and Lefty Williams did in 1919 is … completely absurd. And another reason why player salaries have very little to do with why these gambling scandals happen.
Tweet from ESPN’s Jeff Passan at 12:37 pm on November 9, 2025: Prosecutors allege that Luis Ortiz was paid $5,000 for throwing an intentional ball June 15 and Emmanuel Clase given $5,000 for facilitating it. They did it again, according to the indictment, June 27. The payment for each on that pitch was $7,000 apiece.
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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grantbrisbee.bsky.social
I’ll need to see 50 more cases like this to form an opinion on how the marriage of professional sports and legalized gambling is going. Hard to say from here.
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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randochrontendo.famiconsumer.com
Chrontendo Episode 26 (00:44:22)
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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rustyshackles.bsky.social
Tfw you’ve obtained the “Ham”
May 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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pattymo.com
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
Hand written sign at shop reading “WE HAVE” “CHICKEN” “NOODLE” “SOUP”
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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nytimes.com
In @nytopinion

A photographer spent 15 years documenting the life of an impoverished family in rural America.

This is what she witnessed.
Opinion | The Pressure of Poverty in Appalachia
A photographer spends 15 years documenting an Appalachian family and the constant pressure of poverty in their lives.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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dwillis.bsky.social
Look, I like using and teaching R, but come on:

hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.
hadley.github.io
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
croolby.bsky.social
Has any picture more strongly evoked the Curb Your Enthusiasm credit music
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
croolby.bsky.social
Well, maybe it sounds better in the original French
en.afp.com AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 23d
VIDEO: 🇫🇷 🇧🇷 🌍 Macron calls for a 'triangle of love' between Europe, Brazil, and Africa

French President Emmanuel Macron calls for a "reinvented" transatlantic relationship so that the "triangle of pain" that linked Europe, the Americas, and Africa can be transformed into a "triangle of love"
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
My congratulations to all Baseball Perverts. It was their "super bowl" last night and it seems they all had a very bad time (in their culture that's how you have a good time)
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
croolby.bsky.social
Some truly avant-garde management from Roberts tonight
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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smallupsetter.bsky.social
It's time once again.
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
i wonder if this is the last time in professional baseball a pitcher born during the reagan administration will face hitters born during the HW bush administration
November 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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maxread.info
on an emerging movement in the discourse: "platform temperance" maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...
This burgeoning movement seeks to root criticism of (and response to) Big Tech in ideas of health (public, social, intellectual, and spiritual) and morality rather than size and power, positioning the rise of social media and the platform giants as something between a public-health scare and a spiritual threat, rather than (solely) a problem of political economy or market design. I see versions of this school of thought not just in speeches and op-eds from Auchincloss and Cox or blog posts from Thompson, but in Chris Hayes’ book The Siren’s Call and in the inescapable work of Jonathan Haidt. (You might broadly think of Hayes and Haidt as representing “left” and “right” tendencies of the broader movement.) Notably, all of the above-mentioned have found platforms on Klein’s podcast. Back in a January interview with Hayes, Klein offered up a kind of political vision or prediction rooted in this tendency: Thompson dubs this loose movement, or at least the version touted by Auchincloss, “touch-grass populism,” but I think this is wrong: The framework in question is distinctly not “populist” (unlike, say, the neo-Brandeisian “new antitrust” movement that has been a major focus of the “techlash” to date) so much as progressive in the original sense, a reform ideology rooted in middle-class concerns for general social welfare in the wake of sweeping technological change. At its broadest you could maybe call this budding program of restriction, restraint, and regulation “Platform Temperance.” But that name describes a broad tent, and like the progressive movements that emerged in the late 19th century, it can produce both grounded liberal-technocratic visions, and paternalistic, pseudoscientific, and ultimately harmful moral panics.
November 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM