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

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09.03.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 2338 πŸ” 306 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 6

cut to three days from now: the company is in talks to make a commercial out of his story

01.03.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

28.02.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 19038 πŸ” 8138 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 119
How many plate appearances and innings MiLB hitters and pitchers have before reaching the majors.

How many plate appearances and innings MiLB hitters and pitchers have before reaching the majors.

You aren't imagining it. Players are as a whole moving through the minors to the big leagues faster than before.

It's not just a few notable stars.

www.baseballamerica.com/stories/5-re...

24.02.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority

23.02.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 4512 πŸ” 2201 πŸ’¬ 103 πŸ“Œ 243

Reporter: Do aliens exist?

Obama: *chuckles* Technically no, a time ghoul is from Earth. Just not today’s Earth

20.02.2026 03:57 πŸ‘ 4473 πŸ” 714 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 17
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'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

Put!

It!

Back!

19.02.2026 13:25 πŸ‘ 2748 πŸ” 394 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 114
A humidifier on the sink in front of a bathroom mirror. The combination of small "on" and "full" lights above a wide curved vent make a pleasant smiling face and on the back of the humidifier, which can be seen in the mirror, another wide curved air vent and the two screws holding it together above it make a horrified face.

A humidifier on the sink in front of a bathroom mirror. The combination of small "on" and "full" lights above a wide curved vent make a pleasant smiling face and on the back of the humidifier, which can be seen in the mirror, another wide curved air vent and the two screws holding it together above it make a horrified face.

Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

17.02.2026 06:19 πŸ‘ 9145 πŸ” 2660 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Reuters: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.

17.02.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 15685 πŸ” 4508 πŸ’¬ 446 πŸ“Œ 318
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022

Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

14.02.2026 03:13 πŸ‘ 12834 πŸ” 3453 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 231
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

10.02.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 31326 πŸ” 13772 πŸ’¬ 972 πŸ“Œ 1689

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

08.02.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s actually really easy to not be in the Epstein files, some of us do it every day

05.02.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 2059 πŸ” 317 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 4

Maybe a new baseball season will fix me.

02.02.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 80 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 1
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01.02.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 3623 πŸ” 690 πŸ’¬ 95 πŸ“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 πŸ‘ 307 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 5

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 πŸ‘ 6837 πŸ” 1632 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 36

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 πŸ‘ 11921 πŸ” 3001 πŸ’¬ 307 πŸ“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 πŸ‘ 3560 πŸ” 765 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 22
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25.01.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 820 πŸ” 153 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 8

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

24.01.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 20901 πŸ” 7978 πŸ’¬ 144 πŸ“Œ 137
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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 πŸ‘ 13022 πŸ” 2148 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

tired of the news being snuff films

24.01.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 1520 πŸ” 236 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 9
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24.01.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 1951 πŸ” 514 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 23

β€œGet it all on record now β€” get the films β€” get the witnesses β€” because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

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

24.01.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 12977 πŸ” 4780 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 100
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20.01.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 15755 πŸ” 2777 πŸ’¬ 181 πŸ“Œ 107
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T-rex selfie

19.01.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 678 πŸ” 138 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4

This right here is why we play the game.

20.01.2026 02:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

20.01.2026 00:48 πŸ‘ 18584 πŸ” 3337 πŸ’¬ 372 πŸ“Œ 296
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.

CΓ³ry Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

18.01.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 5017 πŸ” 1982 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 135