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Pete Alonso is consistent (30+ homers every full season) and also very much not: In 2025, he had the best month of his career ..
APR: .473 wOBA
.. and also the two worst months of his career.
JUL: .236 wOBA
MAY .294 wOBA
it was a weird [very good!] year.
APR: .473 wOBA
.. and also the two worst months of his career.
JUL: .236 wOBA
MAY .294 wOBA
it was a weird [very good!] year.
December 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Pete Alonso is consistent (30+ homers every full season) and also very much not: In 2025, he had the best month of his career ..
APR: .473 wOBA
.. and also the two worst months of his career.
JUL: .236 wOBA
MAY .294 wOBA
it was a weird [very good!] year.
APR: .473 wOBA
.. and also the two worst months of his career.
JUL: .236 wOBA
MAY .294 wOBA
it was a weird [very good!] year.
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Judge Charles Breyer, ladies and gentlemen (not refuting the Ancient Judge Delivers Crystal-Clear Rebuke theory)
December 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Judge Charles Breyer, ladies and gentlemen (not refuting the Ancient Judge Delivers Crystal-Clear Rebuke theory)
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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The honest truth about the Mets is this: If they don't figure out their starting rotation, it doesn't matter who their closer is.
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The honest truth about the Mets is this: If they don't figure out their starting rotation, it doesn't matter who their closer is.
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After learning that both Harry Ford and Jose A. Ferrer play sax, and thinking about how the trumpets are moving west with Edwin Diaz, I declare this the most ska winter meetings ever
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
After learning that both Harry Ford and Jose A. Ferrer play sax, and thinking about how the trumpets are moving west with Edwin Diaz, I declare this the most ska winter meetings ever
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The Mets presumably would have been okay with a contract for Díaz at his previous AAV of $20.4MM. It feels weird to draw the line at $23 million, which is basically the difference of signing like a backup infielder. The advantage of Díaz is that he's someone you largely set and forget.
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The Mets presumably would have been okay with a contract for Díaz at his previous AAV of $20.4MM. It feels weird to draw the line at $23 million, which is basically the difference of signing like a backup infielder. The advantage of Díaz is that he's someone you largely set and forget.
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i'm also stuck on the "and how very young she is." she's 32. that's definitely young. but it's not *very* young. and it is certainly not the kind of young that gets you a pass for making bad choices.
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
i'm also stuck on the "and how very young she is." she's 32. that's definitely young. but it's not *very* young. and it is certainly not the kind of young that gets you a pass for making bad choices.
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Formula is a miracle get fukt you melting candle
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Formula is a miracle get fukt you melting candle
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One thing about "original intent" is that the original Constitution was so hostile to the President that their rival was made Vice President, but now we have SCOTUS "originalists" happily giving the President absolute power over everything.*
* So long as they're a Republican.
* So long as they're a Republican.
the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.
December 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
One thing about "original intent" is that the original Constitution was so hostile to the President that their rival was made Vice President, but now we have SCOTUS "originalists" happily giving the President absolute power over everything.*
* So long as they're a Republican.
* So long as they're a Republican.
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15/ Today we’ve published a deeply reported 5-part series. It’s about Albany, Georgia.
It’s about getting sick in America.
And it’s about what happens when the most powerful institution in town is a hospital.
It’s about getting sick in America.
And it’s about what happens when the most powerful institution in town is a hospital.
As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
15/ Today we’ve published a deeply reported 5-part series. It’s about Albany, Georgia.
It’s about getting sick in America.
And it’s about what happens when the most powerful institution in town is a hospital.
It’s about getting sick in America.
And it’s about what happens when the most powerful institution in town is a hospital.
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crazy all the websites and paypros are doing their big No Horny Allowed crackdown while every online advertisement now is iether "AI SEX HOT AI CHAT NO FILTER BOOB AI FURRY GIRLFRIEND only for adults ages 6+" or "NPR is now teaming up with Bumfights dot com to revolutionize gamified asset trading"
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
crazy all the websites and paypros are doing their big No Horny Allowed crackdown while every online advertisement now is iether "AI SEX HOT AI CHAT NO FILTER BOOB AI FURRY GIRLFRIEND only for adults ages 6+" or "NPR is now teaming up with Bumfights dot com to revolutionize gamified asset trading"
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
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it's how we end up talking about Sinners and Nope like they're naturally aligned, instead of talking about how Nope, Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Sinners together mark the dawn of a new age of existentialist blockbusters
black creators of various stripes are often forced into categories so as to make them legible and (i’d say) shrink the ambitions of their work.
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
it's how we end up talking about Sinners and Nope like they're naturally aligned, instead of talking about how Nope, Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Sinners together mark the dawn of a new age of existentialist blockbusters
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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Wow.
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Wow.
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
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They were 8 and 11 years old
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
They were 8 and 11 years old
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Ok so the Nintendo store is absolutely riddled with AI porn slop. These are all rated "TEEN", apparently.
If you aren't chronically online: "Hentai" means animated porn.
If you aren't chronically online: "Hentai" means animated porn.
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ok so the Nintendo store is absolutely riddled with AI porn slop. These are all rated "TEEN", apparently.
If you aren't chronically online: "Hentai" means animated porn.
If you aren't chronically online: "Hentai" means animated porn.
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in the US, you can have one MLB team cheat their way to winning a World Series championship with insufficient consequences. Another team abandons their fans for a tax break and plays in a minor league park, raking in profits! how can fans
actually thwart that level of unscrupulous behavior?
actually thwart that level of unscrupulous behavior?
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
in the US, you can have one MLB team cheat their way to winning a World Series championship with insufficient consequences. Another team abandons their fans for a tax break and plays in a minor league park, raking in profits! how can fans
actually thwart that level of unscrupulous behavior?
actually thwart that level of unscrupulous behavior?
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot