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@theitch.bsky.social

I teach at the University of Northern Iowa and analyze MLB prospects for fantasy baseball purposes at Razzball.com.

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Itโ€™s actually really easy to not be in the Epstein files, some of us do it every day

05.02.2026 14:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2051    ๐Ÿ” 316    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Maybe a new baseball season will fix me.

02.02.2026 21:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…

01.02.2026 22:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3628    ๐Ÿ” 692    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 95    ๐Ÿ“Œ 39
BREAKING: Gokce Guven, the 26-year-old founder of fintech startup Kalder and Forbes 2025 30 Under 30 honoree, faces up to 52 years in prison for an alleged $7 million fraud.

BREAKING: Gokce Guven, the 26-year-old founder of fintech startup Kalder and Forbes 2025 30 Under 30 honoree, faces up to 52 years in prison for an alleged $7 million fraud.

Forbes 30 under 30 has a better arrest record than the FBI

02.02.2026 20:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 297    ๐Ÿ” 49    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

28.01.2026 23:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6844    ๐Ÿ” 1641    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 77    ๐Ÿ“Œ 37

BREAKING:

Minnesota's chief federal judge has demanded the acting head of ICE personally appear in court Friday to explain what the judge described as repeated failures to comply with dozens of court orders amid its enforcement efforts in the state.

27.01.2026 13:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11955    ๐Ÿ” 3007    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 309    ๐Ÿ“Œ 124

This is the GM firing an assistant coach and hoping that will be the end of the questions, except with fascism.

27.01.2026 00:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3567    ๐Ÿ” 771    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

24.01.2026 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20946    ๐Ÿ” 8020    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 144    ๐Ÿ“Œ 138
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The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down

25.01.2026 00:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13048    ๐Ÿ” 2159    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

tired of the news being snuff films

24.01.2026 18:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1526    ๐Ÿ” 236    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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โ€œGet it all on record now โ€” get the films โ€” get the witnesses โ€” because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.โ€

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

24.01.2026 21:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12866    ๐Ÿ” 4737    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 123    ๐Ÿ“Œ 97
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T-rex selfie

19.01.2026 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 648    ๐Ÿ” 135    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

This right here is why we play the game.

20.01.2026 02:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

20.01.2026 00:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18616    ๐Ÿ” 3351    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 373    ๐Ÿ“Œ 297
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Cรณry Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

18.01.2026 17:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4894    ๐Ÿ” 1931    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 58    ๐Ÿ“Œ 132

Even in Captain Planet the writers room would be like ok tone it back

12.01.2026 18:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2074    ๐Ÿ” 501    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Random Fox News dipshit is surprised to learn that Appalachian values don't include government agents shooting people in the face

Random Fox News dipshit is surprised to learn that Appalachian values don't include government agents shooting people in the face

<record scratch> "Yup, that's me - a soulless Fox News host. You may be wondering how I ended up here, listening to my guest tell me Appalachian values don't include government agents shooting people in the face."

11.01.2026 18:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 89    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

10.01.2026 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9226    ๐Ÿ” 3268    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 292    ๐Ÿ“Œ 159

The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something

03.01.2026 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4957    ๐Ÿ” 901    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

03.01.2026 20:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15606    ๐Ÿ” 5397    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 211    ๐Ÿ“Œ 122

Ramsey was channeling SGA on defense for Pittsburgh there.

22.12.2025 00:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Meh, there's nobody on staff to enforce this anyway. I hope the states just keep being states.

12.12.2025 13:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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me contributing to the family Christmas plans

10.12.2025 16:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 108    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jimmy Fallon: ...so you'll just consume everything.

Artaxias, The Screeching Void From Beyond the Sun: ALL SHALL LIVE WITHIN MY MAW.

Fallon: That's so wild.

09.12.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 518    ๐Ÿ” 142    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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If this is to complement Edwin Diaz, it is a tremendous move. If this to replace Edwin Diaz, may God have mercy on David Stearns' soul. #LGM #MetsSky

02.12.2025 02:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
@lanyardigan on twitter: "A cool thing about getting older is you hear from your skeleton a lot more"

@lanyardigan on twitter: "A cool thing about getting older is you hear from your skeleton a lot more"

06.12.2025 17:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 508    ๐Ÿ” 86    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

computer going to take my job? no. iโ€™ll pour water on it

06.12.2025 20:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1456    ๐Ÿ” 292    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

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