Dave
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Dave
@dps952.bsky.social
Seattle patent nerd hockey dad.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Truth, but for many of the other names too. I got to meet Carol Marin once as a kid. And Bill Kurtis is a national (public radio) treasure!
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
More bad news for the New York Giants?
"Kafka" - Lawrence Krauss's one-word response in September 2018 to being told by Epstein of reporting on a Jed Rubenfeld investigation and Amy Chua complaints.

The Guardian story: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018...
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The best continuity in the Bond universe is in The Rock.
when I think “continuity” I think “James Bond” said literally nobody in the history of cinema
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Diplomatic waffling. You know the real list was The Blues Brothers, The Fugitive, Backdraft, and High Fidelity.
Pope Leo XIV may have spent most of his career between Peru and Italy, but he remains an American at heart.
Vatican Reveals Pope Leo’s Top Four Favorite Movies
The Chicago-born pontiff apparently has a love for American films.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
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Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Well I knew these stands were too good to be true for too long. At least Tacos La Cuadra managed to open a brick and mortar!
SPD out here on Northgate shutting down the taco stand between 8th and Roosevelt due to "multiple licensing and health code violations" that they wouldn't provide anymore info about.
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Hopefully no one on the jury is a Christian.
“If someone assaulted you, if someone offended you, would you keep a momento of their assault? Would you stick it on your daily lunchbox and carry it with you day in and day out?"
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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This is a fun chart!

The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday)

The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Has *no one* here seen Mame??
What the fuck, man
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Unreal lmfao
November 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hey, depending on how obnoxious I want to be, I could be watching Blackhawks practice at Climate Pledge from the plaza! I wonder how long it would take for security to come out if I went across the landscaping to get next to the window.
November 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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isn't this ultimately Drake's fault like
Nike's ad for the Dodgers win featuring Kendrick Lamar
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Approximately 27 minutes ago Fox dropped a Northwestern football promo in the middle of this historically epic World Series game. Nothing has been normal since
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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i started watching this game like 90 minutes ago and have seen maybe 2 routine outs
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
BASEBALL!
November 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Did these guys watch Die Hard 2 in reverse?
October 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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it's cool to see that this game's starting pitcher is still hanging in there
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I would like to point out that the last time I saw one of you LA-area athletes make a joke about being able to make it down to the park in 15 minutes to suit up was, like, an hour and a half ago.
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
LET OHTANI PITCH!
October 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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“Babe it’s 1 am why aren’t you in bed the children are going to wake up so early tomorrow”
“Sorry hun, me and the 157 most brain damaged friends I’ve met online are watching two baseball teams we don’t care that much about and the bits have gone on so long we can’t turn back now”
October 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
It sucks that everything else is so bad that we can’t dedicate a day of online discourse to this.
Pope Leo XIV prayed with King Charles III and Queen Camilla in the Sistine Chapel, marking a first time a British monarch publicly worshipped with a sitting pontiff since Henry VIII broke with the Vatican and formed the Church of England in 1534.
In ‘historic moment,’ King Charles prays with Pope Leo at Sistine Chapel
The royal visit to the Vatican marks the first time in nearly 500 years that a British monarch, head of the Anglican church, has prayed with a Roman Catholic pope.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM