chris pickard
@pickard.cc
sometimes I write about software or baseball or food
created August 3, 2023
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Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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Paved paradise put up a parking lot
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I studied the blade ass dorks
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you better believe I Remembered Some Reds
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if there’s a thing bsky loves it’s the DNC
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the living daylights whips ass
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I’m disappointed I’ll never come up with a joke this good
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get his ass martha
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a huge struggle of my baseball fandom is remembering and ignoring that almost every baseball player is the dumbest dude you've ever met (joey votto excepted, of course). ignorance isn't punished if you can hit a 98 mph fastball
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perennial MVP ✅ of a Los Angeles team ✅ nobody on base ahead of him ✅ Trout 🤝 Ohtani
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"Lawrence Butler hits a home run in a silo" is an all time call, at least
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crystal palace just sold Eze and now Meghan Markle is coming for them too? smdh
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Amanda Seyfried in mean girls
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without seeing them question I thought "why is that grown man drinking milk" so I think that settles it
lanyardigan (@lanyardigan.bsky.social) reposted
Hey, it’s the “Piano Man”! Yeah, from the bar! He has a song on the radio now! (listening) Hold up. What the fuck??
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There are too many to choose from, a near perfect show
Amy Ash (@lolennui.bsky.social) reposted
Taylor Swift dropping hints about her next project by revealing a stockpile of uranium
Chris Kluwe (@chriswarcraft.bsky.social) reposted
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
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I've been a reds fan too long and I've seen so many teams that were supposed to *finally* be the one that was supposed to lead us to the promised land that (at best) washed out the first round of the playoffs and were usually just looking up at the cardinals and brewers
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a 79 win baseball team where your 3 best players are 19, 22 and 23 is your favorite team ever that same 79 win baseball team a decade later makes you want to die
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watching the ultimate Dudes Rock content (a video entitled Electrolysis tank and Cast Iron Restoration). we could fix the male loneliness epidemic by funding community hobby shops
Blue sky nice guy (@rajandelman.bsky.social) reposted
Everybody was kung fu fighting. Those cats were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening. So forgive me if I doubt that crime's declining
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damn uncle sam got some fucked up knees
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Let’s try it to be sure
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mike duncan has entered the chat
lauren (@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com) reposted
Kruk: 'there is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman untamed' TMac: think I saw that on a t-shirt once. Kruk: lysistrata, aristophanes. TMac: big greek comedy fan, are ya? Kruk: they knew how to make a man laugh back then TMac: breaking ball in the dirt, count is 3-0
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I'm a pure dumbass I thought you were talking about letterboxd and goodreads
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hdu miami is A Public Ivy and they won't let you forget it
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you’re right and you should say it
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there’s a similar scene in three days of the condor and it’s Super Weird. easily the worst part of an otherwise great movie
Touchdown Kelvis (@frightshark.bsky.social) reposted
Mister Tally Man must tally me banana, it is in his nature inherently. To deny him this would be a cruelty that I cannot condone
Mike Petriello (@mikepetriello.bsky.social) reposted
I have absolutely no idea how they're going to have an Olympics here or why anyone would want to come
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DKs rock
Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
Gurt Sherm: The Video Game (@gurtsherm.bsky.social) reposted
David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) reposted
It must feel amazing to launch a dinger out of Truist Park. Sending a rocket through the front window of a 300-seat Bonefish Grill in the adjacent mall, all the Vineyard Vines dudes in there are so scared at the sound that they instantly jump into their Sorcerer-size SUVs and drive 55 minutes home.
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There are different teaspoon/tablespoons. The US teaspoon is a third of a US tablespoon
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AI art is a tool of fascist oppression
Lyz (@lyz.bsky.social) reposted
This economic anxiety, this masculine fear, is a story I keep hearing. But what of the Black women most impacted by the economy? Men, even when they are socioeconomically disadvantaged still benefit from the unpaid labor of women. lyz.substack.com/p/i-witness-...
Maia (@maiamindel.bsky.social) reposted
American History X The Everything App
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I don't even understand what this paragraph is saying? is python "more powerful" because you can do a lot very quickly? is rust powerful because of its safety guarantees? is C powerful because it's portable to every platform under the sun?
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this spoke to me because I love cooking but hate having to cook
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Trump whipping out some shakespeare ass slurs tonight
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if he wasn’t a coward it’d be pistols at dawn
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) reposted
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBC6...
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"The Onion: the Reacher of magazines"
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Clone Elly De La Cruz
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If a US birth certificate is no longer sufficient to prove US citizenship that is quite literally an existential threat against the rule of law. It is impossible to uphold the constitutional order without powerful judicial review.
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Trump take firework
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they tried to murder mike pence on 1/6
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Never Nervous Pervis is up there
Danielle Sepulveres (@ellesep.bsky.social) reposted
Dudes complaining about Women Night at a baseball game when they could instead just buy a ticket and talk to a fun baseball loving woman is why there’s a so-called male loneliness epidemic (of their own making
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one thing I hate is grabbing a cold beer, sitting outside on a beautiful night and chatting with attractive people about hobbies we both like
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did congress formally declare war? No. Did they pass joint resolutions authorizing the use of military force? Yes. unilaterally declaring war _is_ a break from the usual procedure
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about damn time
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bring back phpbb
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shit’s bad dude follow me on bluesky for more takes
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it's too thick and chewy to use as a traditional sandwich. it either crushes the filling or squirts it out the other side
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whatever attorney signed this nonsense needs to be disbarred. you studied for the bar exam so you could indict someone for "apparently typing text into his digital device". I hope your parents are ashamed of you
Memento (Lasagna) Morty 🌙 (@mementomorty.bsky.social) reposted
If Ohio is "sooo boring" then explain Grandpa's Cheesebarn
Mina Kimes (@minakimes.bsky.social) reposted
WHO MADE THIS
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it would, at least, cause people to get mad at you for your own work rather than what they assume your work to be based on the headline
Dan Greene (@dmgreene.bsky.social) reposted
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a pastry shop called just desserts where the tagline is “get what you deserve”
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For those of you wondering who Sulla is, read the storm before the storm by @mikeduncan.bsky.social
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Bro you gotta keep posting you’re doin great
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Imagine you’re an Air Force pilot, one of the very best. You get chosen to fly Air Force 1! It’s the pinnacle of your career! Welp too bad now you’re flying a pudding brained dumbass around in a yacht doubling as a Qatari listening post
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Well it’s either this or she was going to be the next surgeon general
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My favorite roaster’s website. There is one decaf option, one regular coffee listed as “low stock” and literally every other thing is out of stock. I have never seen this before. Trump Take Coffee
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dudes rock
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jets fans already booing the new pope
becca laurie (@imbeccable.bsky.social) reposted
bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Checking if roadkill edible (@leask.bsky.social) reposted
Mike Petriello (@mikepetriello.bsky.social) reposted
One of the most incredible plays I've ever seen
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the Luka trade of political bag fumbles
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🛴 🛴🛴
Randall Munroe (@xkcd.com) reposted
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
Chris Schweizer (@schweizercomics.bsky.social) reposted
R-r-r-recording in progress, Maarva
Absolutely Hammered (@ahpod.bsky.social) reposted
I can not stop laughing at Pete Alonso running. what the hell even is that.
Fulkery (@fulkery.bsky.social) reposted
Someone please tell Tiffany we are not alone now. We are never alone. Someone, or some… thing… is always watching. Waiting. Hungering.
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Raytheon, welcome to the resistance
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bring over kei cars cowards
Codify Baseball (@codifybaseball.bsky.social) reposted
THE ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES SCORED THREE RUNS ON A BASES-LOADED WALK AND THERE IS VIDEO
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fuck, MLB won’t even talk about what Jackie did that was so special. rank cowardice
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PBJ and is not a platonic sandwich but it's damn close for how simple and delicious it is
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TERFs aren’t feminist so IMO it’s fine for it to morph into a more expansive term
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chat is it good if this picture is the headline on finance dot yahoo dot com
Blue sky nice guy (@rajandelman.bsky.social) reposted
The hard truth is that there are some products you just can't make in America. These must be imported from elsewhere. Like chocolates, for example. American workers will always become overwhelmed by the speed of the conveyor belt. They'll end up shoving the sweets into their mouths and blouses
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HG is a dog, 8 2/3 0 R/ER
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great recession never hit imo we better come up with a good name for this one
one dozen rats at a keyboard (@panasonicdx4500.bsky.social) reposted
Noah Garfinkel (@noahgarfinkel.bsky.social) reposted
Shout out to Rome for having a long decline that was almost imperceptible moment to moment. What a dream.
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yup! feel that way about, well, most things right about now
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I feel bad, some of their guys are genuinely good and fun but anything that makes john fisher unhappy is 👍
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it's actually just a Jacobin headline jacobin.com/2025/03/mari...
MLB (Bot) (@mlbbot.bsky.social) reposted
The no-look snag 😱 What a play by Nick Martinez!