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One of the best things on this site is @peteabeglobe.bsky.social responding to doomer Red Sox fans in his replies
December 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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tricksywizard.bsky.social
What strikes me is that this is one of the best statements on the issue of GenAI that I've ever read.
nicholaskole.bsky.social Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 7d
lowkey kinda love this pope?
December 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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huhhowdoibluethis.bsky.social
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
NBC's broadcast of the Macy's parade has superimposed the word "FOREIGNER" over the balloon of Mario.
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
jbbers.bsky.social
I think of this clip at least once a week
ityslmemes.com ITYSL memes 💦🥩 @ityslmemes.com · 16d
thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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badideas.bsky.social
Here’s @realgdt.bsky.social in NYC expanding on his rallying cry of ‘fuck AI!’, talking about how art and even love come from shared pain and movies can save your life. This shit made me and others in the audience cry as much as his version of Frankenstein…
November 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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cbsnews.com
Two Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors."
2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors"
Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha say they'll defy federal orders regarding Trump's immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.
cbsn.ws
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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redsox.com
8x All-Star
3x Cy Young Winner
World Series Champ
Hall of Famer

Happy birthday to the legend, Pedro Martinez!
TEXT: Happy Birthday Pedro Martinez IMAGE: Pedro Martinez smiling and pointing after throwing a first pitch a Fenway Park.
October 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Beautiful day in Boston
October 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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indivisible.org
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
jbbers.bsky.social
Good Stuff @jonfavs.bsky.social

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Which Way, American Man?
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October 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
jbbers.bsky.social
The big platforms are just choking on AI Slop. This is going to lead to big changes on the internet, and no one knows how this will all playout. Thanks to @hankgreen.bsky.social for this example: youtube.com/shorts/eUpy3...
We’re getting duped by AI outrage bait
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October 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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wutrain.bsky.social
👍 Blue Jays
October 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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nedraggett.bsky.social
And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.
Facebook post from Kaleb Horton, September 18, 2017: Toys R Us is probably going out of business this year. I'm fascinated by the collapse of retail, because what it really signifies is the collapse of the 20th century. The reason I pushed to profile guys like Harry Dean Stanton, Merle Haggard and Chuck Berry, was that writing about them is a way of writing about the 20th century, and how different it was from where we are now. How shockingly different, in retrospect. The migration out of the south, the descent of the Dust Bowl, which was a Biblical plague; the millions of people who were killed during World War Two. Monoculture, and the idea that a great episode of a television show would be seen by *half of all people.* The arrival of flight, and the end of horses. Homes without electricity. Coming of age without computers, without television. Listening to the radio for entertainment. The 20th century was a long time ago and it's a ghost now. It's a ghost you see in the places you wouldn't expect. It's seen in towns that were bypassed by the freeways, the dusty little towns out west that still have old diners and motels and payphones. It's seen in the places that we left, places where mines shut down, places where tourist attractions died off. It's seen in Bakersfield with Buck Owens' Crystal Palace and it's seen in Roswell, which stubbornly maintains the relics of the '90s UFO boom. Things like that won't be around forever. Someday owners will die and towns will burn and they won't be rebuilt. And it's difficult to suss out what those things are, because they're on roads, physical and metaphorical, that we no longer travel. The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end. But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s. I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are. I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.
September 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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redsox.com
Pedro's here!
Pedro Martinez points to the crowd as he walks onto the field at Fenway Park. He is wearing the Red Sox home white uniform.
September 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
jbbers.bsky.social
This is amazing!
September 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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kmpanthagani.bsky.social
A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.
September 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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michaelstipe.bsky.social
I can
I can
August 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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August 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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sambiddle.com
Perhaps the quintessential image of the pre-9/11 era. A better world still seemed possible.
vghistory.bsky.social videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Jul 28
imagery, electronic gaming monthly, magazine (2001) archive.org/details/elec...
mario and sonic on top of a wedding cake (sonic is the bride and is holding flowers). they are holding hands.
August 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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lojikul.bsky.social
We are gonna have charts for AI slop exposure by generation like we do lead
July 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
First time since I've worked here where I read a headline and immediately thought "Oh this one's about me 100%."
Dunkin’ Announces They No Longer Have Heart To Charge People For Such Depressing Meals
CANTON, MA—Stressing that whatever garbage they have on their menu couldn’t possibly be better than what Americans had at home, Dunkin’ officials announced Monday that they no longer have the heart to...
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July 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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natcassidy.bsky.social
Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.
July 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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culturecrave.co
Buddy Hield says he was disappointed after visiting the Colosseum in Rome

"I watched 'Gladiator' and thought Maximus was a real warrior ... I’m going into the Colosseum yelling ‘Maximus!’ and then my tour guide said, ‘He’s not real’”
July 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
The median American swing voter today is explained perfectly and only by this clip youtu.be/SBN8L0CiWbQ?...
Simpsons elect Sideshow Bob
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June 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM