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@ptmoria
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@jonbecker_ At your service
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@laurenhtexas Do not, under any circumstances, tell my wife about this
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@StephieTheLefty I had genuinely forgotten what energy is like
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TAke a look, y’all: pictures_of_spiderman_4346.jpeg
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Stephen A. Smith as J. Jonah Jameson would be incredible content
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@swolecialism I tried to derail an abortion argument between a few folks the other day with my go-to: “you shouldn’t be allowed to vote unless you make less than $100k.” You get some confused looks then without fail the next words out of their mouth are “wait, *less* than?”
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@PopulismUpdates
Populism Updates
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Let's go
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@laurenhtexas Folks we are at “candles” level of pumpkin-themed decor over here. Please, our future child’s college fund, it’s very sick
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"Wabe"
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Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Candles $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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@astrosbatgirl
julia morales stan account 👑
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Trade deadline be like
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@MattZeitlin Same can be said for Sorkin, Tarantino, all the hyper-stylized writers of that era. It worked in its time, it doesn’t anymore
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@xenocryptsite I never thought about what an advantage it is not to have to run a primary (or at least to get a mulligan on all your positions from your last primary) but it’s blowing my mind
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3 years
@PopulismUpdates I know it’s not how the names work but “Wayne Kai-shek” fucks so hard
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4 years
@JonIsAwesomest @daveweigel (by posting this gif I am not agreeing that Jonah Hill is the worst gif, I am saying this gif itself is the worst gif)
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2 years
@violentlyepic @KindaHagi um he’s literally neurodivergent and an actor??
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@quantian1 Fuck this got me
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2 years
@MattZeitlin Wikipedia says the Texas Triangle has an estimated 2020 population of about 20.9 million, to the state’s 29.2 million population as a whole, so a little over 70%
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@isaiah_bb It’s genuinely insane and I haven’t seen anything even attempting to defend it. The appellate court opinion (just taken up by the state supreme court) is so damning
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1 year
@PopulismUpdates -calamitous failure -shortest term in history -killed the queen -the day collar thing You couldn’t write a more ridiculous PM
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3 years
@FoolishBB Base Juan Balls. SotOBP. Childish BambinO-Swing %
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@derpo377 I think the “crowd pleaser” description was accurate and that it would’ve been a hit with the moviegoing public
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4 years
@mikeduncan Post the goddamn takes Michael
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@KindaHagi No I’m sorry, pretending it “hurts” to hear a perfectly normal word is valid, and, in fact, a personality
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2 years
@heaven_toniight @derpo377 Inside you there are two wolves
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Your Dad's Public Housing Thot
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Deleuze with Twin Peaks music
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That’s right
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James Medlock
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@ArmandDoma I like a 50-50 ratio when I’m eating bread with butter
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@FoolishBB He’s an all-star, Dave
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@kept_simple @isaiah_bb “They have digital. What is digital?”
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@swolecialism The train movie was good but it would’ve been better if after crashing through the screen the train had specified that it’s the exact kind of communist I am
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3 years
@jdcmedlock Shit you not, tonight I said to my wife “You remember the tax guy from twitter I told you about? The one who bofa’d Grover Norquist?” [long pause] “Well anyway there’s this cat...” and she just looked at me like I was a lunatic
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Thrilled to hear they’ve developed drugs that can reverse dementia, even temporarily. Huge leap forward in pharmaceutical science
@MattGertz
Matthew Gertz
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During Biden's speech last night, you could see the right recognize in real time that their attempts to brand him as a dementia patient were failing and coalesce on a new narrative: Biden was on drugs.
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@jen_rice_ Help, my precious boy Upper Kirby keeps getting stuffed in lockers in school
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@carlinspace @xenocryptsite I came across this lawyer’s bio recently, I love how the clarification after his name is “(Bill)” like oh yeah the thing I’m really wondering when I see this name is whether he goes by “William”
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@FoolishBB Cardinals opportunistically stealing great players is a decades-old tradition and would make for a pretty good video imo. Even in recent years just look up how little they gave up collectively for Holliday, Goldschmidt, and Arenado. It’s the true devil magic
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@AidantheBoJoDem lol I feel ya but a catastrophic debate in June that results in a change is a lot better than a slow bleed through November without a big moment to force the issue
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@MattZeitlin Send this man to PF Chang’s immediately
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This is so funny in retrospect. It was also very funny at the time. It’s just very funny in retrospect too
@coopercooperco
F♯A♯∞, fka ☕️
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A divergent point in recent history I think of now and then is Pfizer announcing its COVID vaccine was 90% effective the Monday after the 2020 election.
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@SashoTodorov1 I’m so happy any time I get to introduce someone to “Haiti has limestone”
@DrKarimWafa
Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini
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Gaza has gas. Sudan has gold. Congo has cobalt. Haiti has limestone. Afghanistan has copper. West Papua has crude oil. Every nation suffering from some form of genocide or intense suffering is attractive in the eyes of the western imperial machine of consumer capitalism.
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@mattdpearce Uhtred, son of Uhtred (that’s two Uhtreds), plus his older brother Uhtred (three)
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@jdcmedlock Really undersells the Biden admin’s achievements (Afghanistan, Ukraine, IRA, CHIPS, not getting massacred in midterms)
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@isaiah_bb Looks like a lot of growth starting around October 1917 if you ask me
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9 months
Dusty Baker rn
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@EephusTosser
Eephus Tosser
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The shocking part of the Hader signing isn't that it's Josh Hader. It's that the Astros will actually have a lefty in the bullpen.
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@mnolangray Agree if “sport” is broadly defined as “competitive entertainment enterprise without major real-world consequence,” i.e., politics is not a sport, but Great British Bake Off is
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Yes… YES
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@jayrjordan
Jay R. Jordan
8 months
In December, H-GAC quietly funded $336 million worth of transportation proposals across the Houston region. That includes Montrose's Safe Routes to School and the extension of the Waugh Street bike lane from West Dallas to Allen Parkway More:
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@TNOQuoProQuid Galaxy brain: maneuvering to capture the RFKj vote so it doesn’t go to Trump
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1 year
@MattZeitlin I don’t know why anyone sees the need for Lebowski revisionism, it’s one of the funniest movies ever made and has lost absolutely none of its charm over time
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@xenocryptsite I really like the scene in Knives Out where the Thrombeys argue with Frank Oz about the will. “Will readings” are pure cinematic nonsense but the later scene, where they argue about testamentary capacity/undue influence/slayer statutes, is basically spot-on
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3 years
Pretty neat that ALAB is just Mic Dicta now. A second golden age is upon us
@Ugarles
Sen. Lemon Gogurt ugarles.bsky.social
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welcome back
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@swolecialism And by developing J so well it tells you everything you need to know about K and MIB, if he’s someone they see as a good recruit
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People are rightly dunking on Disney’s weak-tea defense of the Star Wars hotel, but it actually points out something more damning than anything Jenny Nicholson said:
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@screenrant
Screen Rant
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After spending 8 incredible months working at the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, I can tell you what everyone's getting wrong about this experience.
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I’m fine with new Batman movies every two years as long as they keep handing it to different directors. It’s a fun showcase for different styles. Kind of like Mission: Impossible, where the De Palma > Woo > Abrams > Bird > McQuarrie progression is interesting
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2 years
@mikeduncan Mike Duncan KHive confirmed
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@tolstoybb It’s kind of nuts how Toyota just solved cars one day and that was that. I’ll even defend their electrification strategy; in mass numbers plug-in hybrids are the cheapest and most effective way to decarbonize
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2 years
I just had a dark thought that by the time the Ike Dike gets built, it’ll be named after a far more destructive storm, the big one we all dread
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Just realized that at some point I crossed the threshold of 14k followers so let’s all celebrate with a hearty Build the Ike Dike
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@daveweigel But was still born before Korea. They’re really inching forward
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1 year
My house is two blocks from a shelter and I would like to inform all the haters and losers that it’s fine. Just let people build
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James Medlock
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I think it’s good YIMBYs are sticking up for building homeless shelters - if they didn’t, they wouldn’t deserve the name. There is no more moral imperative for a housing advocacy movement than to get everyone in housing
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@xenocryptsite A line that exists only to explain why his name is “Kylo Ren,” a name that exists only because they wanted his identity to be a surprise (40 minutes into the first of three films)
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@mnolangray The Urbanism of Rostov-on-Don
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@xenocryptsite The TNG episode where the hot people planet wants to execute Wesley for falling into a flower bed is kinda halfway there, except the stakes obviously inflate with the whole execution thing
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@isaiah_bb How’s the frat scene at Oompa Loompa State
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Texas is a red state because more people vote for Republicans than for Democrats
@PviGuy
PVI Guy ✯
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#ElectionTwitter Here's why Texas is a red state:
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Hammering DHS with FOIA requests to get the true story of the end of Mic Dicta
@Ugarles
Sen. Lemon Gogurt ugarles.bsky.social
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DHS, do you want to do a podcast
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1 year
Notably missing from this piece is any on- or off- record assertion that Dianne Feinstein does not have dementia
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@tolstoybb I hate that it’s not even a “trick” question unless you go out of your way to draw a misleading diagram
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@xenocryptsite
Xenocrypt
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Boring TL tonight, which I hope means, a good week to come.
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lol I learned about this one from the comments, she lost the internship over this, then Hickam went to bat for her personally and it sounds like she ended up ok
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@jamieloftusHELP
jamie loftus 🌭
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who are the internet main characters of the day you still think about? good, bad, indifferent, who's stuck with you. can be any era
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When I first found out about Tulsi Gabbard I was like damn she’s gonna be president, then I kept finding out about Tulsi Gabbard
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Xenocrypt
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@nikhilarundesai Sort of the flipside is Tulsi Gabbard, who I think got sort of the generic "hey, look, a new young good-looking politician" rollout from the national press when she first won, when she is, uh in various ways, certainly much more interesting than that.
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@PopulismUpdates That is definitely not LBJ’s grave it’s some other poor bastard named Johnson lol
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@evan7257 “Texas isn’t a red state, it’s a non-voting state” may be good messaging to keep Dems from getting disheartened but Texas is in fact a red state
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@FoolishBB Still undefeated
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3 years
@isaiah_bb Surely all of those republicans will vote for her over the GOP nominee, brilliant strategy, A+
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1 year
@evan7257 Why don’t they call it Eastheimer
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@MattZeitlin Tinted license plate covers
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@NickTagliaferro Curiously silent on whether Moldova is Russia
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@tolstoybb I’ve been playing around with bing
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@xenocryptsite I don’t think you can defend it narratively, but there’s more “support” for the Leia twist in the early drafts of the original than for the Vader twist. Lucas’ May 1975 draft had Luke and Leia (early versions of them) as twins, but none of the drafts have Vader as Luke’s dad
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2 years
Take it from someone who used to clean the toilets at a Hobby Lobby every day: this is wildly incorrect
@elizalian
eliza
2 years
if every woman agrees to potty train their son to sit while peeing, we can completely eradicate pee covered public toilets within 2 generations. let that sink in.
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@MoneyballMemes “Billy, I can’t manage this team under a one-year contract”
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@MattZeitlin I don’t know what specific argument did it but I think this is how I ended up radicalized into the position that you should be able to build any form of housing anywhere for any reason whenever you want
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@laurenhtexas People want to hate these drugs so bad
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@xenocryptsite @MattZeitlin The Departed really hit the sweet spot: the plot depends heavily on cell phones but would completely fall apart in the smartphone era
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@Ugarles lol no worries man, I think we’ve all been there in some way, the rest of us are just lucky our shit didn’t happen in public
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@TheStalwart It actually violates the Sherman Act for Xbox metaverse not to let you meta buy a meta PlayStation
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4 years
@evan7257 Himalaya, Burns BBQ, probably gonna drop in on a quince at the waterwall
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@ddayen “Hey Cass, it’s Joe. You interested in being my Director of LIGMA?”
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@derpo377 I think DOTF is basically terrible (better than TROS don’t get me wrong) but the “he lost the Star Wars” bit is great and I’ll defend it to my dying day
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Just one guy’s opinion here, but if any Palestinian lives can be saved, I actually think they are worth saving
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3 years
@swin24 This, by the way, is my favorite example of that phenomenon
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Shannon O'Neill 🐀
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Here me out on this. Clearly Disney had Hilary's robot ready to go and then they had to try and make it look like Trump. Don't hate me. This is just a necessary and painful fact we all need to deal with.
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@Ugarles Imagine being shameless enough to make this argument when the dumbest member of congress is gonna clobber you by 20 in November
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3 years
@isaiah_bb I share the instinct but honestly, kids like to mimic their parents and that’s fine, plus if this keeps a kid quiet for even 30 seconds while their parents are juggling WFH and child care then it’s good in my book
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I’m not as big a Nate hater as a lot of folks here, he was still closer to right in ‘16 than almost anyone else, he just needs to quit trying to be a pundit. Unfortunately he seems to prefer punditry over doing what he’s good at
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@Hezbolsonaro @NickTagliaferro This is a funny side effect of the grifter’s need to stay on brand, like if Stoller called it the “monopolist Ottoman Empire” or something
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2 years
@okSettleDown All successful political movements treat alienating people as a virtue
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2 years
Jeff Luhnow tried to draft a convicted pedophile, brought a violent domestic abuser into the clubhouse, and lied through his teeth pretending not to know about the cheating scheme (deleting evidence of same) and blamed the whole thing on his subordinates
@RyanGarciaESM
Ryan Garcia
2 years
If you think Jeff Luhnow should be back in baseball you're either unaware of the terrible stuff he's done or you're aware and you don't care about morality at all in the slightest to the point where your character should be questioned
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@UselessSplendor @Ugarles Next up, ALAB falls apart and we do this all again next year when they reconvene on a new pod called “ex post fuckto” or some shit
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Premise: he’s an up-and-coming newscaster focused on his career. She’s a reality show producer. After an accident, he suddenly can’t stop himself from telling the truth, and she’s the only person who can help After ~4 episodes it’s like none of that was ever part of the show
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