Taylor
@tsmat.bsky.social
Invested in SF Giants baseball, urban planning and transit policy, fiction and various media franchises. Under the yoke of the bourgeoisie.
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Drip/pour over coffee is a very good and I want an apology from all the euros who have trashed it over the years. Especially the ones who tried to claim that an Americano is somehow an acceptable substitute
"In a nation renowned for sophisticated tastes, the acerbic, harsh espresso served in many bistros was not just surprising, but seemingly inexplicable."
This is why I always used to chuckle when Parisians offhandedly dissed Starbucks. The problem is that the French think their coffee is good.
This is why I always used to chuckle when Parisians offhandedly dissed Starbucks. The problem is that the French think their coffee is good.
In Paris, the next coffee revolution is quietly brewing
Meet the pioneers reimagining the French capital’s café society, infusing every bean with craft, conscience and creativity
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Drip/pour over coffee is a very good and I want an apology from all the euros who have trashed it over the years. Especially the ones who tried to claim that an Americano is somehow an acceptable substitute
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.
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An Air Canada flight right now
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
An Air Canada flight right now
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Nice little rally the Blue Jays having going here. The odds suggest that they'll score at least one run here. But have you considered the 100-percent odds of them making two more quiet outs and wondering what could have been?
October 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Nice little rally the Blue Jays having going here. The odds suggest that they'll score at least one run here. But have you considered the 100-percent odds of them making two more quiet outs and wondering what could have been?
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everyone says they want a third space until i offer them the use of the dank, lightless prison cells i've dug out beneath my home in secret over 30 years. way to let the perfect become the enemy of the good, guys!
October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
everyone says they want a third space until i offer them the use of the dank, lightless prison cells i've dug out beneath my home in secret over 30 years. way to let the perfect become the enemy of the good, guys!
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This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
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This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
August 18, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"
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Remembering Some Guys is possibly the most singularly wholesome, non-toxic activity many men engage in
you want to get dudes out of the fever swamps of the manosphere? get them together and start arguing about relief pitching
you want to get dudes out of the fever swamps of the manosphere? get them together and start arguing about relief pitching
I mean this is literally a huge chunk of sports posting and half the time on this app it is immediately met with screaming about how sportball is for conservatives
One of my favourite things is when men in groups geek out about their shared interest or hobby so hard that they enter this state where they are all small boys again, unconstrained by toxic masculinity and masculine social expectations.
It’s rare to observe and it’s wonderful when it happens.
It’s rare to observe and it’s wonderful when it happens.
July 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Remembering Some Guys is possibly the most singularly wholesome, non-toxic activity many men engage in
you want to get dudes out of the fever swamps of the manosphere? get them together and start arguing about relief pitching
you want to get dudes out of the fever swamps of the manosphere? get them together and start arguing about relief pitching
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A really great, clear explanation for the "How you gonna pay for this" skeptics @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=hecd...
Erin Burnett asks Zohran Mamdani what it means to be a Democratic Socialist. Hear his response
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
June 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A really great, clear explanation for the "How you gonna pay for this" skeptics @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=hecd...
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NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
June 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one
PELOSI: Take the shot
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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
June 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
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that’s right
Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
May 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
that’s right
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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any Democratic elected who says they can't win the politics of "should we give Trump the power to disappear innocent people into a concentration camp" has a terminal case of consultant brain and should be ruthlessly hounded from office
April 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
any Democratic elected who says they can't win the politics of "should we give Trump the power to disappear innocent people into a concentration camp" has a terminal case of consultant brain and should be ruthlessly hounded from office
current levels of optimism in the US: "lots of people actually still think concentration camps are a bad idea"
April 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
current levels of optimism in the US: "lots of people actually still think concentration camps are a bad idea"
you know the Overton window has shifted to basically another plane of existence when you read things like "there's pretty broad discomfort with disappearing people with no due process" as though that is a reassuring, optimistic stance to take
April 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
you know the Overton window has shifted to basically another plane of existence when you read things like "there's pretty broad discomfort with disappearing people with no due process" as though that is a reassuring, optimistic stance to take
Saw an article from a local Philly paper saying that they thought this Giants-Phillies series would be "at least 3 easy wins to pencil in" and I gotta say I appreciate humility of putting that in print after last night's game
April 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Saw an article from a local Philly paper saying that they thought this Giants-Phillies series would be "at least 3 easy wins to pencil in" and I gotta say I appreciate humility of putting that in print after last night's game
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The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I was talking to the Brewers manager and he told me that every time the Yankees hit a grand slam he just puts in a new pitcher and I told him it sounds like he's just feeding pitchers to the Yankees and his pitching coach started crying
March 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I was talking to the Brewers manager and he told me that every time the Yankees hit a grand slam he just puts in a new pitcher and I told him it sounds like he's just feeding pitchers to the Yankees and his pitching coach started crying
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the only exception to this in my opinion is José Ramírez. you can't play third base professionally for long if you ever think about anything other than "see ball -> catch ball". 100% of your brain power has to go to that state of preparedness 24/7
Every cyber truck owners knew who Elon was.
March 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
the only exception to this in my opinion is José Ramírez. you can't play third base professionally for long if you ever think about anything other than "see ball -> catch ball". 100% of your brain power has to go to that state of preparedness 24/7
My son
Casey Schmitt hits a two-run homer (112.4 MPH EV) to plate Sam Huff. That is his second of the spring, which now leads the club #SFGiants
The EV would be a new max for Schmitt during the regular season.
The EV would be a new max for Schmitt during the regular season.
March 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
My son
This is still one of my favourite jokes
February 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is still one of my favourite jokes