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Micah
@rincewind.run
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Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.

Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild

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Insane Clown Posse “magnets: how do they work?” screenshot with a speech bubble
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Michael Westen from Burn Notice with a speech bubble suggesting he is saying the quoted post
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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one sentence? that’s all you got, Bill?
Reggie Miller making the choke sign
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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folks…
Me holding an I’ve Seen Enough mug
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Community chest Polling error in your favor, collect $200
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Bill de Blasio today, at long last:
Modified Onion page De Blasio: ‘Well, well, well, it’s so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit, huh?’
November 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Reacher Gilt to Crispin Horsefry:
Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?
November 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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A few good men meme “Do you recognize that sandwich?!” “I did not go back to collect it!”
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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obviously he didn’t try the same shit there but Bassitt tagging out Rojas on his way to first base gave me flashbacks to one of the great fuckface plays in baseball history

go to hell, A-Rod
A-Rod prepares to slap the ball out of Bronson Arroyo’s glove
November 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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iykyk
The Something Awful Doom Bathroom remodel
October 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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this is true! baseball players are tremendously superstitious and have exceedingly weird and often delightful rituals

please enjoy this anecdote about Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, who played for the Tigers in the 70s
Fidrych would walk out to the mound before every inning and manicure the mound. He would crouch down and pat the dirt down to his liking, and remove all cleat marks and divots he felt shouldn’t be there. He would yell at the ball if it didn’t go where he wanted it to, and throw balls back to the umpire, which “had hits in them,” as he said, insisting they be removed from the game. He would also yell at himself before, during, and after most pitches he threw. He was so superstitious that Tiger management refused to change out his rookie catcher for fear that it would mess him up.
October 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
It wasn’t that he’d liked being shot at by hooded figures in the temporary employ of his many and varied enemies, but he’d always looked at it as some kind of vote of confidence. It showed that he was annoying the rich and arrogant people who ought to be annoyed. (NW)
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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however much contempt you have for the median voter it is not enough
Antonio, Hispanic male (45) Opposes ‘The government offering parents vouchers to send their children to private or religious schools’ Opposes ‘deporting all immigrants who are living in the US illegally back to their home country’ Thinks ‘the government should do more to help needy Americans even if it means going deeper into debt’ Voted for Trump because of support for Israel and the second amendment
October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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this is a longstanding, time honored baseball tradition

the patron saint of Beefy Lad Hit Ball Far, arguably the most mythologized athlete in the history of American sports, George Herman “Babe” Ruth:
Babe Ruth hitting a home run
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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obviously Alejandro Kirk is a phenomenal athlete and has absurd hand-eye coordination but one of my favorite things about baseball is that dudes who look like this can be stars
Alejandro Kirk swinging the bat
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Discworld QOTD, from The Last Hero
‘The feeling stealing over me is that all these terms are defined by the hero. You could say: I am a hero, so when I kill you that makes you de facto, the kind of person suitable to be killed by a hero. You could say that a hero, in short, is someone who indulges every whim that, within the rule of law, would have him behind bars or swiftly dancing what I believe is known as the hemp fandango. The words we might use are: murder, pillage, theft and rape.’ (LH)
October 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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official American trade policy:
Tweet from @krangtnelson no no no you misunderstood. I said “fuck YOUR feelings”. MY feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird
October 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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xkcd dependency meme the tower is "the entire global economy" the skinny pillar holding it up is "some abstract hobby math some guy thought was neat"
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
"Good man." Ridcully put the gnome back in his pocket and looked up at Hex. "Amazin'," he said again. "He just looks as though he's thinking, right?" "Er... yes." "But he's not actually thinking?" "Er... no." "So... he just gives the impression of thinking but really it's just a show?" "Er... yes." "Just like everyone else, then, really," said Ridcully.
October 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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the establishment endorsing Zohran because they know he's going to win even if they don't like him is good, actually
Rockwell standing guy
October 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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deep down we all want to think we’re this guy
Piece Brosnan as Thomas Crown
October 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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hey yeah don’t be a tar pit
Post from @swoletariat.bsky.social “I guess it’s easy to sacrifice candidates pushing for universal healthcare when you have your “birthright get out of jail free” handy.”
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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in case you wanted a break from insane politics billionaires, I bring you insane sports billionaires

in which Glen Taylor, in a fit of seller’s remorse, tries to get out of selling the Timberwolves to Marc Lore and A-Rod by basically arguing that A-Rod is a fugly slut

(per @pablo.show)
Something that Marc and Alex’s legal team discovered in discovery is that Glen Taylor, in the months during the push and pull, had two executives create what amounts to a “burn book”, as in a Mean Girls-style list. A list that been described to me as numbered and 77 items long. And this list of 77 things Glen Taylor hates about Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez was communicated to the NBA and anyone who would listen, in an attempt to say “you can’t approve these guys.“ Some items on this list are: “Marc Lore had dinner with Kevin Garnett and never told me,” “Alex Rodriguez did steroids,” “Marc Lore came into the arena with an open bottle of alcohol,”
October 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Discworld QOTD, from Sourcery
A magical accident in the Library, which as has already been indicated is not a place for your average rubber-stamp-and-Dewey-decimal employment, had some time ago turned the Librarian into an orang-utan. He had since resisted all efforts to turn him back. He liked the handy long arms, the prehensile toes and the right to scratch himself in public, but most of all he liked the way all the big questions of existence had suddenly resolved themselves into a vague interest in where his next banana was coming from. It wasn’t that he was unaware of the despair and nobility of the human condition. It was just that as far as he was concerned you could stuff it.
October 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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there are many great incidents but I will remember a 72 year old Don Zimmer charging headlong at Pedro until the day I die
72 year old Don Zimmer charges Pedro Martinez and gets thrown to the ground
October 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM