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@jkintampabay.bsky.social

Florida Man. Elder millennial. Progressive (AOC/Warren/Omar/Tlaib style.) Braves fan. Enjoy craft beer. Opinions my own not any employers. (Skeets largely baseball & beer. My respite from our dumpster fire hellscape.)

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Liberals will appease the fascists before allowing you to protect yourself or community from fascist violence.

The mayor is doing the fascists job for them by curtailing our first amendment right to protest

06.10.2025 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 693    ๐Ÿ” 214    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Important to note ICE tends to drop off detainees before 9 a.m. and after 6 p.m., which is why people were protesting at 5 a.m. to begin with. It's not because waking up at 4 a.m. was a convenient time for protesters!

06.10.2025 18:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3118    ๐Ÿ” 857    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if Iโ€™m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesnโ€™t it,

05.10.2025 12:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4826    ๐Ÿ” 1313    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 62    ๐Ÿ“Œ 34
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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

04.10.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23680    ๐Ÿ” 7941    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 450    ๐Ÿ“Œ 231

Pennywise, in a cover band: this next song is also Float On

05.10.2025 12:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

As a Georgia Southern alum from the days where we & they were I-AA powerhouses, I'm laughing myself silly at App State fans rushing the field over a win against a winless team. We would never...

05.10.2025 13:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

05.10.2025 01:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22474    ๐Ÿ” 8379    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 560    ๐Ÿ“Œ 490

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup.

It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

02.10.2025 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17344    ๐Ÿ” 4119    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 668    ๐Ÿ“Œ 186

Saw on Facebook that some betting site has Mark DeRosa the leader to get the Braves job. Love his personality on TV, and IIRC he managed the US in the last WBC, but I didn't actually watch those.

What's his managerial style like?

02.10.2025 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Babysitting & just put the kids to bed, so now watching Sox/Yanks. Story's HR the first AB I saw.

Not a fan of how close to Pepe the Frog their Wally homer celebration helmet is

01.10.2025 23:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If we can't get HSK to stay, I'd much prefer getting Story over Bichette. But I prefer HSK to Story.

Grisham is the interesting one. When I say I want a legit starter OF to be our 4th, he's what I have in mind. GG defense, sign him to play OF when Drake has to catch or if an OF starter needs a day.

01.10.2025 02:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Didn't realize Suarez was hitting the market. Would be cheaper than Iggy most likely, but he's only 1 year younger, so he'd also be a stopgap.

(*cough* Suarez 2yr deal, and get Colby Martin from the Marlins now for Columbus then Gwinnett, then our pen in '27 & closing in '28.*cough*)

01.10.2025 02:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
7 Blockbuster Braves Free Agent Targets To Watch In the Postseason The MLB postseason begins tomorrow, and for the first time since 2018, the Braves wonโ€™t be part of the action. A pivotal offseason awaits Alex

www.sportstalkatl.com/8-blockbuste...

Hmm. Personally, I'm a no on Bichette, Cease, & King. (Someone's gonna overpay, inconsistencies, injury concerns, in order.)

We should make a huge offer on Schwarber to force Philly to overpay, because they will.

01.10.2025 02:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lmao at your name for him ๐Ÿคฃ

The most recent episode of "If Books Could Kill" does a good job ripping one of his books to shreds

29.09.2025 04:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

29.09.2025 03:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26204    ๐Ÿ” 7568    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 600    ๐Ÿ“Œ 190
Cuomo: I'm not perverted, I'm just Italian.

Cuomo: I'm not perverted, I'm just Italian.

So, Eric Adams dropped out, leaving Zorhan Mamdani, beret aficionado Curtis Sliwa, and Andrew Cuomo: Not a pervert, Just Italian.

28.09.2025 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What would the reaction be if Democratic politicians went on TV every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was, or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is, or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and โ€œGod, can you imagine being from there?โ€

28.09.2025 19:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9046    ๐Ÿ” 2179    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 611    ๐Ÿ“Œ 132

Heh, that was my alma mater (Georgia Southern) until the last 3 or 4 years when we moved away from it

27.09.2025 03:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i made a helpful reference

24.09.2025 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3284    ๐Ÿ” 1384    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 68

My school was I-AA when I was there (we're FBS now, in the Sun Belt) & our last natty was my freshman year but I couldn't make it to the game.

I never went to road games & we defended home pretty well, so nobody ever stormed on us

27.09.2025 03:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The insanity at the end of college football upsets is amusing to watch on a TV or phone screen, but I'm 100% glad I never experienced that in person

27.09.2025 03:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Google search for "is hockey preseason over", which was the autofill I decided to roll with while typing, "is hockey preseason or regular season right now". 

The AI Overview highlights the sentence "Yes, NHL hockey preseason is over for 2025," before adding "as the schedule ran from September 20 to October 4, 2025, and the regular season began shortly after. The preseason serves as a final opportunity for team evaluations and roster adjustments before the competitive regular season begins, which for 2025-26, started on October 7."

So Google's AI thinks it's at least October 8th

Google search for "is hockey preseason over", which was the autofill I decided to roll with while typing, "is hockey preseason or regular season right now". The AI Overview highlights the sentence "Yes, NHL hockey preseason is over for 2025," before adding "as the schedule ran from September 20 to October 4, 2025, and the regular season began shortly after. The preseason serves as a final opportunity for team evaluations and roster adjustments before the competitive regular season begins, which for 2025-26, started on October 7." So Google's AI thinks it's at least October 8th

Google's dumb AI thinks we're in October already. Yahoo Sports app sent the push notification that the Lightning won and I wanted to see if it was a preseason or regular season game. And well, their AI did technically (unwittingly) give me the correct answer by the end.

27.09.2025 02:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cincy would be a more exciting match-up against the Dodgers than the struggling Mets, so this is great news.

27.09.2025 02:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, and it seems like Money Mike's streakiness is always "terrible spring, great 2nd half", so I guess we'll find out early next year if he's really grown this season

27.09.2025 02:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Let's hope so. Because yeah, the Braves Way is nice & all, but it gets too comfortable. It sounds silly, but I really don't think '21 goes the way it does without Joc.

Whoever can light that fire the best is who i want (to the point I'm only half joking when I say Joc should retire & we hire him.)

27.09.2025 02:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, I do have to wonder if that hurt someone new like a Nick Allen (but he started hot, so he likely just regressed to his norm.)

And it hurt established guys like Harris/Ozzie. But I think he should get some credit for Drake's approach the way Kranitz does when callups like Schwelly excel

27.09.2025 02:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This only happens to you once

26.09.2025 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21647    ๐Ÿ” 4242    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 294    ๐Ÿ“Œ 182

Terrible mayor, but damn if he isnโ€™t having the time of his life. Heโ€™s gonna be chasing this high forever.

27.09.2025 02:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 423    ๐Ÿ” 49    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Yeah, if team could hit in Mar/Apr/May we'd be in the playoffs. (If no Profar suspension, we'd be in playoffs.)

I came around on Hyers when someone here had a mini-thread in June or July on how his teams noticeably improve his 2nd yr after learning more patience & pitch selection his 1st yr

27.09.2025 02:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah, damn, I didn't know about him and that movie (tho tbf, sadly like 90% of baseball seems uber-conservative.)

My Skip thesis from last wk: the team needs a '21 Joc swagger. I don't see player we can bring in to bring that. So we needy firey mgr & Skip seems more competitive v Snit more laid back

27.09.2025 02:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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