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@olaugh.bsky.social

mke-bos-sfo compulsions (fun): music, scrabble, running compulsions (other): politics, urbanism

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Band name origin is from a Bonzo Dog Band song title. Same is true of Death Cab For Cutie (whom I’m sure have been Zohran signed already)

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the contrast between the left in NYC and San Francisco is incredible

winning the mayoralty by relentlessly focusing on the cost of living and making government more effective vs. promoting a shitcoin named after a bodega cat run over by a Waymo

07.11.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 289    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 6

My son has reached the age when kids yell a basketball player’s name while throwing up a shot. He yelled β€œBronny” before bricking his pants off the front side of the laundry hamper and unfortunately I couldn’t hold back a laugh. Sorry little guy

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illabield

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This is the inverse of the Mr Show sketch where the mob boss declares that the largest known number is 24

06.11.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But I’m from old times back when code ran fast

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the future of the democratic party is a coalition of the wokest people on tumblr and absolutely dead-eyed pursuers of the national interest and the maximization of GDP

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Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go β€œthis is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like β€œLeprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

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Please check all that apply

05.11.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4383    πŸ” 1078    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 18

Will Smith caught 73 innings this World Series

That’s the most caught in a WS, surpassing:

71, Lou Criger 1903 (8 games)

Prior most in 7g WS: 
67, Muddy Ruel 1924

h/t @EliasSports

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Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the first pitcher in MLB history to win 3 games ON THE ROAD in a single World Series.

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i'm afraid it's actually tom green

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it’s just always baffling to me that people don’t suffer more personally from being so stupid. they are for the most part living normal lives and getting away with this

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a cartoon man in a green suit is standing on a baseball field . ALT: a cartoon man in a green suit is standing on a baseball field .
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

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it’s pretty incredible how prop 50 in California is literally polling ahead of Kamala’s performance right now. turns out there are almost no libs who support unilateral disarmament in the face of GOP trying to rig elections, and great to see Virginia joining the fight

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The most impactful scene in the most popular movie made in 1996 was aliens blowing up the White House

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shorter answer for where this came from is probably β€œgrok”

23.10.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The numbers don’t quite work out so it’d have to involve multiple rounding errors and conversions between metric and imperial but it’s very close to the pace of a 20 minute 5K

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100 years from now people will all assume it was 9/11 that blew up the white house

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Fascinating platform story happening around the Graham Platner stuff. The number one source for almost all of the discourse about Platner on X right now is from an account that only had 70 followers at the start of the week, isn't a real Maine news outlet of any kind, and was created in August.

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Okay at this point it's genuinely amusing again, it's like that Austin Powers bit with the penis pump.

"'My SS Totenkopf Tattoo and Me: this sort of thing is totally my bag, baby,' authored by Graham Planter"

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You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.

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Politico Headline:

Maine's Platner says the worst is behind him

The besieged Democratic Senate candidate said he doesn't expect more damaging social media posts to resurface.

Politico Headline: Maine's Platner says the worst is behind him The besieged Democratic Senate candidate said he doesn't expect more damaging social media posts to resurface.

Boing Boing Headline:

"Progressive populist" Graham Platner has Nazi totenkopf tattoo

Graham Platner is a rising star in the Democratic Party, running for one of Maine's two seats in the U.S. Senate on a sharply "populist" progressive platform. A few days ago, we learned of old Reddit comments that required explanation: he asked why black people don't tip, said rural White Americans are stupid racists, and declared himself a communist. If this might be put down to shitposting ("not reflective at all of who I am," he said), Platner turns out to have another problem: a Nazi totenkopf tattoo on his breast.

Boing Boing Headline: "Progressive populist" Graham Platner has Nazi totenkopf tattoo Graham Platner is a rising star in the Democratic Party, running for one of Maine's two seats in the U.S. Senate on a sharply "populist" progressive platform. A few days ago, we learned of old Reddit comments that required explanation: he asked why black people don't tip, said rural White Americans are stupid racists, and declared himself a communist. If this might be put down to shitposting ("not reflective at all of who I am," he said), Platner turns out to have another problem: a Nazi totenkopf tattoo on his breast.

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streaming sucks and the video store sucked. i get media the only good way, ripping blurays from the public library and never watching them

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it's really great that the sneering editorial tone of the ideology comes in left, right, and centrist flavors, all of which reflect the nepotistic preferences of its ownership

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Having fuck-you money and spending your weekends coming up with cringe AI videos about how you're a servile kiss-ass

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