jasper

jasper

@mxjpeg.bsky.social

29 usa they/them. here for sports, american politics, a little reality tv, etc etc

238 followers298 following155 posts

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Replying to @baseballmad.bsky.social

Baseball is stupid, but it's stupid in a manner which ennobles the human spirit. Football reveals the lies we tell about ourselves and our society for the hollow boasts that they truly are.

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incredible strategic error by Pat McAfee to reveal he is deeply bothered by relatively mild mockery from college students despite a key component of his job being "standing on a stage in front of college students for 3 hours a week"

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Forgot Wake hired Dickert last year (and not this one), but the point stands that no NC FBS team has had a coach for longer than a season and a half

Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org

Bill Belichick is now tied for the third longest tenured FBS head coach in the state of North Carolina Manny Diaz (Duke) and Blake Harrell (ECU) are tied for first, having started in 2024

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You know we had to mention ULM’s wild 4th Quarter comeback with a pitchy pitchy woo woo cherry on top touchdown.

Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org

NEW POD - Our Week 8 Recap - Colorado State & San Diego State’s 1,114 yards and 105 points, Ball State and Sac Stste, did the Southwick Jug disappear? WAGON WHEEL, RICE OWL 🦉 🆚 FAU OWL 🦉. BC scored 49 points??? ULM WON A GAME, Someone declined a safety?? & more! open.spotify.com/episode/09UW...

woman at the lunch place asked if i still did halloween of if i was “too old for that.” i thought she was gonna insult adults who still dress up, but turns out she wanted to show off pics of her adult daughter’s elaborate costume 🥺💖

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I will never forget the day my parents took us to the Cheesecake Factory. The awe we felt when they ushered us past the velvet rope to our table, bedecked with cheesecakes of every description. The respect they showed us, despite our dirty coal miner’s fingers, despite not knowing how to use a fork

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Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

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There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

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i know where the unused GPUs are stored and lately i've been taking a few at a time and throwing them into the ocean to blow off steam. nobody's even noticed

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

NVIDIA seems to be channel stuffing, forcing Amazon and other customers to take early delivery. The argument that these things are "scarce" when you don't even have anywhere to plug them into is nonsense...unless NVIDIA is saying you NEED to take them now, or else. GPUs are stacked in warehouses.

professor pspsps’d at the class today to get our attention like he momentarily mistook us for a gaggle of misbehaving cats

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Carl Quintanilla: Real average hourly earnings down 0.7% on the month, that's the sixth straight month... Jim Cramer: Look, rich people are making a lot of money. God, I sound like Marx. I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, look at the data.

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"For so many years, there was a really strict line in the sand when it came to sports betting. Then the tide slowly began turning internally. It was very troubling for me to see the normalization of betting and ESPN’s complete acceptance of that, and finally, they just decided to go all in."

Columbia Journalism Review@columjournreview.bsky.social

Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, tells @dannyfunt.bsky.social why she quit in protest. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

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Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note.

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🚨Olivia Rodrigo announces “expectations” remix feat. Chappell Roan. Out this Thursday.

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A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.

erininthemorning.comKilling of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court RulesThe case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”

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Replying to @jaywillis.net

Launching an insane website calling attention to irregularities in his birth certificate that strongly suggest that Zohran Mamdani was born in Dayton, Ohio

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one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them

LGBTQ Nation@lgbtqnation.com

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says marriage equality turned US “against religious liberty” - buff.ly/srirzs6

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I’ve covered death row cases for nearly a decade and witnessed several executions. What happened to Christa Pike wasn’t an anomaly. It could happen anywhere. With another execution planned for this week in Texas, let me explain why. THREAD 🧵

fuck every luggage company ever for making their “carry-on” suitcases /ever so slightly/ larger than the actual permitted dimensions