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Steve

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I prefer social media that has more baseball, less nazis

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Steve @iamtherealsteve.bsky.social · Nov 15

Trying to put together a block list of the “shut up and dribble crowd”

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Brian McFadden

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Death could use a PR win, and I have a suggestion.

January 30, 2026 at 8:21 PM

Steve

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This is art

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

This is legit moving

January 30, 2026 at 12:31 AM

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Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️

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Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

January 28, 2026 at 1:51 AM

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The Tennessee Holler

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REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

January 28, 2026 at 1:47 AM

Steve

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Only allowed if you’re a school shooter or storming the Capitol

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d

Trump on the killing of Alex Pretti:

"You know, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. Can't walk into this. You can't do that."

January 27, 2026 at 7:09 PM

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Ed Zitron

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Currently working on one of my favorite pieces ever: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle. This company is so stupid and Larry Ellison has bet the farm on OpenAI having $300 billion to give it over five years. Larry Ellison is H.R. Geiger’s Jerry Stiller and he’s rigged his company to blow

Did I mention that Oracle took on $56 billion of debt to build data centers specifically for OpenAl? Or that the banks who invested in these deals don't seem to be able to sell off the debt?
Let me put it really simply:
- Larry Ellison's wealth is almost entirely tied up in Oracle stock.
- Oracle's stock is tied to the company "Oracle," which is currently destroying its margins and annihilating its available cash to buy GPUs to serve a customer that cannot afford to pay it.
- Oracle has taken on ruinous debt that can only be paid if this customer, that cannot afford it and needs to raise money from an already-depleted venture capital pool, actually pays it.
Oracle's stock has already been punished for these debts, and that's before OpenAl fails to pay for its contract.
- Oracle now owns part of one of its largest cloud customers - TikTok - that loses billions of dollars a year, and the US entity says, per Bloomberg, that it will "retrain, test and update the content recommendation algorithm on US user data," guaranteeing that they'll fuck up whatever makes it useful, reducing its efficacy for advertisers.
Larry Ellison's entire financial future is based on whether OpenAl lives or dies. If it dies, there isn't another entity in the universe that can actually afford (or has interest in) the scale of the compute Oracle is building.
We are setting up for a very funny and chaotic situation where Oracle simply runs out of money, and in the process blows up Larry Ellison's fortune. However much influence Ellison might have with the administration, Oracle has burdened itself with debt and $248 billion in data center lease obligations - costs that are inevitable, and are already crushing the life out of the company (and the stock).
The only way out is if OpenAl becomes literally the most-successful cash-generating company of all time within the next two years, and that's being generous. This is not a joke. This is not an understatement. Sam Altman holds Larry Ellison's futur…

January 27, 2026 at 1:49 AM

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Miles Klee 🦉

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well well well look who’s afraid of memes now

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

January 24, 2026 at 12:48 AM

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Razzball

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Minnesota is the best of us.

January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM

Steve

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“The Colonel walked so we could chicken”

The fuck does that even mean

January 22, 2026 at 3:05 PM

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Don Moynihan

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One court decision, two different headlines.

Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota

Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota
The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.

January 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM

Steve

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The insane thing is you can’t actually rule out “they’re doing Dave but worse”

Edward @arkayne242.bsky.social · 10d

January 21, 2026 at 5:07 AM

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Screamer Jim

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You know when you don’t say anything to a pitcher when he’s throwing a No Hitter?

January 21, 2026 at 4:51 AM

Steve

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This is the bigger issue IMO. It’s not that the cheap owners want a salary cap. It’s that they’re not making enough money even when they don’t spend. It’s just easier to convince fans they need a cap instead of outright asking them to stan for billionaires.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...

A cap proposal has seemed likely for more than a year now, but many in the industry expected a Tucker signing would galvanize owners. Two other ownership sources took a softer approach, positioning the Tucker deal as validation of their longstanding positions: that revenue and payroll disparity in baseball need change.

January 21, 2026 at 12:11 AM

Steve

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The deal had the EU buying $750 billion in US energy and investing $600 billion in the US.

We’re being run by a toddler

Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 13d

Looks like the EU-US trade deal is now dead, with all three major groups in the EU Parliament calling at least for suspension. The downward spiral has already begun.

January 17, 2026 at 11:12 PM

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Louisa

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BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

A very cute but forlorn looking brown and white puppy with big eyes and floppy ears, sitting on a forest themed blanket. Facebook post message: “Central PA Humane Society: Susan from Accounting is a 4 month old female.
We were told she is a Beagle/Australian shepherd mix”

January 17, 2026 at 3:49 AM

Steve

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Dick Monfort is a disgrace

January 17, 2026 at 5:35 AM

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Alexis G

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List is here bsky.app/profile/did:...

January 17, 2026 at 12:56 AM

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MeidasTouch

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Insane footage from on the ground in Minneapolis. Trump continues to turn our neighborhoods into war zones. This is not normal.

Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 16d

🚨BREAKING: ICE unleashes ONSLAUGHT of flash bang grenades and chemical ammunition at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in WAR-LIKE attack. Several protesters struck. Our reporter @zdroberts.bsky.social struck in the head.

"I got hit in the head really bad." LIVE NOW ⬇️