MacWhat

MacWhat

@johnmacwhat.bsky.social

Data analyst who is a fan of college football, Star Trek, D&D, cooking, and not using Twitter anymore

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I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

Honestly, maybe a best of three system just to make sure we get what people really want

one dozen bats at a keyboard@panasonicdx4500.bsky.social

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

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Nathan Fielder's success is proof we lost a lot when Comedy Central stopped being the top talent scout in the '10s. Since then Netflix has gotten us Hannah Gadsby and Nate Bargatze.

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it really is amazing how accurate the “do you support both Palestine and Ukraine” litmus test has proven to be

Lyyra@lyyyra.bsky.social

The Ukraine-Palestine alignment test remains undefeated

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Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

Would be a great time for the Big Ten to issue another apology for a different game on Saturday

Brandon Marcello@brandonmarcello.bsky.social

Big Ten officials made a mistake on Oregon's two-point attempt, the conference says.

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Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

Underwood busting is karma at its purest

Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter@realbachscore.bsky.social

Exclusive: This super donor is quarterbacking Michigan sports from a waterfront estate in Florida: Jolin Ellison, class of 2012, international studies graduate and billionaire Larry Ellison’s sixth wife.  w/@emilyglazer.bsky.social www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

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New: FBS oversight committee says it cannot overturn the Michigan-WMU ending. "The committee agreed that the instant replay protocols were not followed in the contest’s second-to-last play. Had the protocols been followed, the outcome of the game would have been different."

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Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports have shown a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect. www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-p...

austinchronicle.comTexas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms • The Austin ChronicleTexas’ Pregnancy Death Report Set to Release After Midterms

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"Do you think the relationship between the US and Israel is..." Too supportive: 48% About right: 34% Not supportive enough: 8% Quinnipiac / Sept 6, 2026

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BREAKING: Democratic Ohio gubernatorial candidate Dr. Amy Acton was attacked by an armed individual who lunged at her during a campaign event at the Canfield Fair near Youngstown. 1/

I'm not happy about the game result, but if Western and the MAC accept the result, we roll with it. I hope the lesson taken from this is that every damn broadcast should have the replay centers mic'd. Absolutely bizarre decision by the B1G to say they were doing it only for Friday games this year

RedditCFB@redditcfb.com

The MAC issues a statement saying they’ve accepted the explanation offered by the Big Ten.

Also the Spartan Bob situation was correctly officiated (at least on that specific play, the refs actually made a massive fucking mistake that cost MSU a timeout leading up to that moment)

functional moron@fiveburger.bsky.social

michigan fans will be like “i don’t know why everyone is so mad, this is exactly like that thing that happened a quarter of a century ago that i still remember because it made me so mad”

Also, if you're wondering about fractional seconds, the clock rolls over when there are no fractions left. 0.1 seconds renders as 1 second. So 0 really mean no time left

Timothy Burke@bubbaprog.xyz

the clock is expired and nobody has touched the ball. this is ridiculous!

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the intro to Batman: The Animated Series is one of the single best bits of storytelling ever done in any medium, an absolute masterpiece of character and atmospheric development achieved in a single minute with no dialogue

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There is something kind of bleakly funny about how much time and ink was spilled about how we'd moved past the GWOT and Forever Wars and come to terms with our mistakes and entered a new phase of politics and then every time a Muslim shows appears on TV the media snaps back to 2003 instantly.

noah smith now bravely coming out in favor of the iraq war

Frankly I think it would be a failure if Democrats don't message to as many people as possible that they should vote in person. The risk of fuckery is so high that you should go in person unless this is physically impossible for you

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

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I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social

Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.

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“Trump ‌on Sunday said ​in a ​post on Truth ⁠Social ​that NBC's ​Kristen Welker will be reported ​to ​the FCC for ‘rebuke or ‌punishment’, after he said she ​reported ​the ⁠Republican President had ​mixed ​results ⁠in his endorsement of ⁠candidates.” I remember when this would be unthinkable

ESPN is showing a high school football game and it's just a catastrophe for one of them early on. Two TDs surrendered, no 3rd down conversions, fumbled a punt for a TD, and just threw a pick deep on their own end