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Granite Canary
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A gorgeous gay man from Maine. I write about the Red Sox Farm System as a hobby.

I enjoy rap, international news and politics, vegan living, and relaxing. Red Sox, Celtics, Browns and Norwich City Fan.
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World’s most normal goalie: “Nothing matters, nobody cares, we’re all gonna die” defector.com/worlds-most-...
World's Most Normal Goalie: "Nothing Matters, Nobody Cares, We're All Gonna Die" | Defector
When seeking optimism, one wouldn’t typically look to a backup goaltender for the Calgary Flames. The Wet Logs are bringing up the league’s rear, and they’ve contractually and metaphorically hitched…
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November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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ugarles.bsky.social
i am going to spend my retirement years smuggling chinese mrna vaccines into the u.s. from canada
August 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
i wrote about the texas floods and climate anxiety and mercy defector.com/the-floodwat...
The Floodwaters Are Rising | Defector
It’s easy to forget that God’s covenant is limited. God makes a solemn promise to Noah that He will never flood the whole Earth again … however. “Never again will I let floodwaters destroy all life,” ...
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July 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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michaelrosen.bsky.social
92 mph/0" iVB/8 HB is demonic
June 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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jayjaffe.bsky.social
The Dodgers’s silence about ICE in LA — and Dave Roberts’ feigned ignorance about what’s going on — is an absolutely horsehit look for the franchise of Jackie Robinson and Fernando Valenzuela www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...
Commentary: Cowardly Dodgers remain silent as ICE raids terrorize their fans
The Dodgers have declined to release a statement in support of their fans protesting ICE raids that have ripped apart families in Southern California.
www.latimes.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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patrickwyman.bsky.social
This is bad, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
June 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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veryimportant.lawyer
go fast turn left raise hell praise dale no kings
June 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
this is good nymag.com/intelligence...
How AI Made the Future Unthinkable
Advanced artificial intelligence will change everything, we are told. Do we get a say?
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June 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
granitecanary.bsky.social
Just waiting for the Red Sox to waive the white flag and tear this roster down at this point.
June 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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mrdanzak.com
An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down.

A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family.

A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working.
Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”
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May 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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rothschildmd.bsky.social
I talked to @annamerlan.bsky.social about the Trump 2.0 cabinet, which is essentially a very large brain worm with smaller brain worms protruding out of it, and which speaks in a language only comprehensible to other brain worms.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump's brain rot cabinet
How right-wing Internet conspiracies are an integral part of his second administration.
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May 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
granitecanary.bsky.social
Shame there isn't an afternoon baseball game on. Perfect Monday for an afternoon beer.
April 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
An exciting new innovation in Pitching Weird, here.
mikepetriello.bsky.social Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · Apr 14
Wrote about Justin Martinez, who throws 100 MPH, but more importantly throws one of the lowest-spin high-velo splitters that has ever been tracked. What if a knuckleball was thrown 90 MPH?

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April 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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lukeknox.me
how does this audio work so perfectly with PlayStation 1 graphics
April 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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fourverts.bsky.social
the country is being ran by a conglomerate hegemony powered by the worst people in your fantasy league
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
granitecanary.bsky.social
Pretty abysmal defensive display from Norwich City. Hope to see some changes in the second half.
April 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
big week for the guys in this photo!

(left) charged with rape
(middle) decimated the US health infrastructure
(right) confirmed head of centers for medicare and medicaid
russell brand, rfk jr. and dr. oz, looking disgusting
April 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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edzitron.com
Here's my latest for @baseballprospectus.com - it's one of my favourite things I've ever written, an emotional piece about burning out, heartbreak, exhaustion and catharsis, and how beef boys and dingers can, even briefly, make it all feel better.

www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
Nevertheless, in writing this column, I realized my time at Yankee Stadium was the first time I’d relaxed in over a year. I realize it’s dramatic to write this about a sport about hitting a ball with a bat where giant oafs sing YMCA for reasons that even they can’t speak, but I realized, a day later, that going to Yankee Stadium was, as it may be for many people, a defining moment in where I’d allowed my life to go astray. I went to Yankee stadium as the result of a prolonged period of certain doom. Everyone in New York has had their cursed amulet—people that fascinated them while slowly driving them mad with their inconsistency or obfuscated intentions. An endless fascination with something that will never give you what you want is enough to mire your life in sludge and confusion, every glimmer of hope a mirage that blinds you to more important or worthy uses of your time. Eventually the moments of magic become more distant, their memories more fragile, and get covered up with memories of when they didn’t come through for you, or when their actions made you realise you weren’t being treated with dignity.
April 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
granitecanary.bsky.social
What a game! Thrilled to see them score after some frustrating offense. Sargent is something else. #ncfc
March 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
granitecanary.bsky.social
Beautiful grey and snowy morning here in Maine. Looking forward to an 11am beer and Norwich City Football. #ncfc
March 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
I wrote about the goblins in charge, an old boss who bit me on the arm, and the use and abuse of contempt. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector
The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’...
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March 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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depstein1983.bsky.social
You must read @stevengoldman.bsky.social on the federal government's erasure of Jackie Robinson. You must! @baseballprospectus.com

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Jackie Robinson and the Twisted Mirror | Baseball Prospectus
An aggressive Orwellian politics intrudes into baseball (whether you’d prefer to stick to sports or not).
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March 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
granitecanary.bsky.social
Gotta be the most frustrating game of the year. I really want to see how JHT reacts to this dreadful second half. #ncfc
March 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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jphillll.bsky.social
One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen
The White House official Twitter: We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again." –President Donald J. Trump Followed by a picture of Mahmoud and the words shalom Mahmoud
March 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM