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One of many Dans

@guspowers.bsky.social

Currently PDX, but previously from many elsewheres.

created October 7, 2023

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Moments like this are when BlueSky has the juice. Love to see it.

13/9/2025, 7:21:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Proper Irish spelling, too. South Bend in shambles.

13/9/2025, 7:08:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2026 spring game is only 10 months away.

13/9/2025, 7:07:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Drinking with a straw?!?

13/9/2025, 4:34:47 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bryce is playing to match that energy

13/9/2025, 4:28:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's more about the accent than the substance, as we know.

13/9/2025, 3:39:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RIP Tom.

13/9/2025, 2:40:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Eck means New Mexico is now an extra punchy FCS team in FBS.

13/9/2025, 1:29:37 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jon, how do you deal with such a Kans-ass in Kentucut?

13/9/2025, 4:09:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It had a handle. We all need a handle in this fallen world.

12/9/2025, 9:56:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's something needed about watching the beast grow with you. Young enough to follow along but old enough to recognize what's new.

12/9/2025, 9:55:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28 baud was just that slow. Took years to get there. And it was hyperspeed.

12/9/2025, 9:50:50 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Personally I think this thread elides over a little of the immediate post-Trump battle among his possible "heirs" upon his passing, but Kirk as JD's chief of staff then trying for the empire is... Terrifyingly obvious

12/9/2025, 9:47:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's also something to the point that all these lone shooters are fondest of online multiplayer games.

12/9/2025, 3:59:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Narcissism of small differences is one of the greatest motivators known to humanity.

12/9/2025, 3:57:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Weirdly, Garfield is the more famous name, but Heathcliff was the better one, so this fully tracks even beyond meme.

12/9/2025, 3:37:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Paul Free Tompkins just giving gifts to good boys and girls across America. Happy Tompkins Eve!

10/9/2025, 1:00:15 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So the Washington Post company line is to defend pedophiles. Feels like the most depressing possible Spotlight sequel.

10/9/2025, 12:17:12 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do you realize how many citations he needs to include in the text? In proper blue book format?!

9/9/2025, 11:57:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who was being an asshole as Voldo?

9/9/2025, 11:54:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

8/9/2025, 9:52:25 PM | 9100 3509 | View on Bluesky | view

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Victor Frankenstein

9/9/2025, 3:22:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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True, he's simply a great victor.

9/9/2025, 3:21:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How do you think Taylor could afford her masters?

9/9/2025, 3:11:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And can you trust the GOP to actually come through on useful subsidies? Another round of executive orders and that's back in the courts and out of congressional hands. Thief in the house pitching ideas while pointing a gun at you. The gun makes them scarier, but it doesn't make them trustworthy.

8/9/2025, 2:33:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm so let down by the poor citation work on the signs at this protest. "We're not going to take it!" Holy anecdata, bro!

8/9/2025, 1:49:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Broadly I agree, but it sure seems like it's all just made up BS to claim only certain issues matter, regardless of popularity. Point to a poll and you have to run on the tooth fairy being our greatest ally.

8/9/2025, 1:45:00 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Real strange place to put all that nutmeg.

8/9/2025, 1:31:37 PM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We need more Blandas not just for the old ass kicker purpose, but also for the kicker/QB combo. I long for another Tom Tupa.

8/9/2025, 4:37:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kept using Lamar until the Bills forgot Henry was back there.

8/9/2025, 2:54:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Neutral Milk Hotel

8/9/2025, 1:33:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So many tried.

8/9/2025, 1:31:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And that's in Foxboro. He's just greeting the locals in their own language.

7/9/2025, 9:02:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rats with wings are better to see than rats.

7/9/2025, 8:44:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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AI just trying to tell you what you want to hear. A good win, solid, but not unbelievable. Might still be some questions on the offense to gripe about Sunday morning, good technology.

7/9/2025, 4:46:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"never again" means "now's fine"

7/9/2025, 4:19:48 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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How's that War or Terror going for us? Same shit different decade. You need to run on concrete things, and campaign against other concrete things.

7/9/2025, 3:52:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Door #1 needs to be the message, especially because Door #2 can also be found inside Door #1. If someone brings up #2, point to #1 because the goal is to remove Trump, a person who can be forced to face consequences, versus corruption, a concept that exists as long as reality does.

7/9/2025, 3:49:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pantomiming it instead of actually trying to enforce clearly stated rules.

7/9/2025, 1:43:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can't technocrat a difference in goals and values. "We should punish them, but intelligently" deletes everything after the "but" Are you team "immigrants good" or team "immigrants bad"? It's that easy, guys.

7/9/2025, 1:27:05 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When you crank the dials on the economy to make sure that sociopaths are rewarded in business over bland business sense, well... How the hell do we have weirder rich guys than in Howard Hughes days?

7/9/2025, 1:23:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Teacher's pet thinking when the teacher is a monster.

7/9/2025, 1:21:50 PM | 19 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's a plan built on "the adults in the room will sort everything out and we'll reap the benefits" and never asking who the adults are (or where they are)

7/9/2025, 1:20:46 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Live on the Pacific, evening is still prime.

7/9/2025, 3:41:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They won't even tell Gundy he could to to Les Schwab to take care of the flat tire he's got for a very reasonable price.

6/9/2025, 11:27:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oregon isn't even playing that well. It's like varsity against pop warner out there.

6/9/2025, 8:58:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Breakaway from the Second Rome punking the breakaway from the Third Rome. First Rome clueless.

6/9/2025, 8:56:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I also miss Glenn "Big Baby" Davis

6/9/2025, 7:03:40 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well you're the high priest of BlueSky, and the head of X is a Nazi, so that is a true statement, just not for the reason they think it is.

6/9/2025, 7:02:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just be loud and proud for immigration. It's literally the only sensible option AND the morally proper one.

6/9/2025, 6:50:49 PM | 25 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're already trying to claim citizens aren't citizens simultaneously. The "work" is done, it's just the execution remaining.

6/9/2025, 6:05:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The working man's nepobaby

6/9/2025, 4:09:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Economics are truth. Not even a hard science. Just priors and cash, the mixture of the gods.

6/9/2025, 3:50:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Leo on brand.

6/9/2025, 2:41:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They call it the mean because it's cruel to everyone

6/9/2025, 4:09:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every gas station has a self service lane here, it's fine, even if they don't really put signs in good places.

6/9/2025, 4:03:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And usually the idea is to flip a lower rung crook to nab the big boss. So Epstein being Trump's Capo really makes it tough to argue against the pedo-con theory.

5/9/2025, 10:52:10 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dudes got excited when they realized his name was Whitey.

5/9/2025, 9:44:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At least reference our friend Bill Pecota rather than Bill James. James actually was with the Sox with Theo so he had some actual front office experience.

5/9/2025, 7:46:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Damn, proper borderland house. Almost to Seekonk

5/9/2025, 7:32:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The useful point of sabermetrics was being able to confirm if your assumptions worked. It should never have been about committing religiously to only a certain style of management. And Dewey Evans should be in the Hall of Fame.

5/9/2025, 7:25:47 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nate made his name accurately calling out dumbass baseball coaches and GMs. Weirdly it's not as easy to call out experts who aren't actually dumbasses because they are actually credentialed.

5/9/2025, 7:20:48 PM | 35 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's such debate club dweeb shit. "The better argument" ruling is a system to let bad faith actors win every argument.

5/9/2025, 4:00:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Once you get yacht life going, you need to get some people on your boat. Eight rings, one Jourdain

5/9/2025, 1:28:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He loves proving that he can. Really it's his only core ideology.

3/9/2025, 3:01:02 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The eagles are coming! Which eagles?

3/9/2025, 2:00:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Specifying Scots-Irish is a real thing. Burning crosses and clans and all that.

3/9/2025, 1:33:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's cool, school supplies are the issue moreso than the fact that schools now have ICE response protocols much like school shooter ones.

2/9/2025, 8:03:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Miss Dauber so much. The Troy O'Leary/Daubach back to back was very stoppable but still felt like the best shot.

2/9/2025, 5:24:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But the question is: is this site what's creating those people? Is there a better alternative?

2/9/2025, 4:33:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Malthus is bullshit, but it's wild watching Malthusians suddenly bemoan the decreasing global birthrate. You can't really "fix" people, so you need to adjust how the economy works to prevent collapse from lowered birth rates. But then we don't do that, so...

2/9/2025, 4:25:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All groups will contain a few bad apples. Anyone who is arguing about "bad apples" as the defense is really trying to cover deeper structural issues. The purpose is the bad apple.

2/9/2025, 4:04:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Need one guy with charisma, and one guy as charisma void. No one will ever care long enough to pay attention to charisma void.

2/9/2025, 3:25:36 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As surveys show, Goody Proctor was seen cavorting with the dark one on Hallows Eve.

2/9/2025, 3:16:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We do deserve better! He's so right. So who do we call in to actually fight for better?

2/9/2025, 3:03:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It feels more Adams-style, but they might not be on top enough for MS Paint.

2/9/2025, 2:59:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And that's one reason why they like it. If you silence the people with direct experience, then it's a clean stage for "intellectuals" to game-plan in crystal pure hypotheticals.

2/9/2025, 2:58:36 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And supposedly it's all to prevent Farage's popularity from growing, but weirdly all it's done is put the stink of failure on everyone except them.

2/9/2025, 2:44:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please, let's not call it milk violence. That's needless. It's just gut on gut crime.

2/9/2025, 2:38:20 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Judging by my timeline, it's mostly about Bill Belichick losing badly.

2/9/2025, 3:15:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I believe they have the only infinity pool in North Carolina. Technically against state law, but never will be enforced. Gotta live in style.

2/9/2025, 3:13:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not fair, Matt Patricia is making Ohio's defense look good.

2/9/2025, 3:12:03 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please, Jordan is going to the mountains to get those games in Cherokee. Only way about it.

2/9/2025, 2:52:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bill already cut Bailey Zappe.

2/9/2025, 2:14:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I bet Daniel Radcliffe has a workaround. He's walked a mile in those shoes.

1/9/2025, 8:04:26 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The shame is that he actually did some great work on Baseball Prospectus back in the day, but did his damnedest to be earth's truest demonstration of The Peter Principle.

1/9/2025, 8:03:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The A students line is the right one. If an A student messes up, grade gets dinged and they care. If the abrasive class "clown" is threatened with the same, it doesn't matter. C's graduate on the same stage.

1/9/2025, 8:01:42 PM | 118 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Weirdly there are a lot of convicted criminals in office who face no punishments. Why is that never the crime to act on?

1/9/2025, 7:48:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let's be real, it's Vance's brother.

1/9/2025, 7:09:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In my hometown the police beat of the town paper was the most crucial news of the week, even if it was 95% discussion on who saw a wolf and which roadkill was claimed as venison.

1/9/2025, 5:54:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jesus this is why I spend my BlueSky time on the Shutdown Fullcast crew. Yes there's politics in it, but it's mostly college football throuples and cute hounds.

1/9/2025, 5:39:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But it's such a nice "explanation" to hold onto to let you do something different. Honestly it's no different than evangelicals switching to abortion when they realized they had lost at segregation. (And weird how the moment abortion is killed, segregation reappears, but that's another thing)

1/9/2025, 5:36:51 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Defenestration of Prager

1/9/2025, 5:30:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure, because it's the opinion of people that don't matter (to them).

1/9/2025, 5:29:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Explains why he got rid of Steve Nash

1/9/2025, 5:05:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Join me in 1992 and appreciate the beauty of Cito Gaston's Toronto Blue Jays ...

1/9/2025, 4:52:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I moved from Massachusetts to North Carolina in the middle of March, 2020. In Boston the streets were EMPTY, only thing you could see was flashing police lights periodically. In NC, all the NC State kids were renting party buses for St Pat's. It was jarring.

1/9/2025, 4:49:27 PM | 37 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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We put a massive hit against poverty in the middle and then just pulled the rug out again.

1/9/2025, 4:39:55 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every lease in Boston has a 9/1 start date. What are you going to do?

1/9/2025, 2:03:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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19 year old woman injured in the crash you say?

31/8/2025, 10:05:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view