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Alexander Basek

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Shoe cat. I’ve been to Prague.


Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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A damn shame that Inhofe didn’t die in a plane crash as he deserved to (forty years ago).

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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If you haven’t already, My Dark Places is a great chaser for Black Dahlia

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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Life in the time of Reddit cannot handle ambiguous endings!

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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Of the profiles you’ve written, is there one subject you’d like to go back to and profile again? Either because you feel like you didn’t nail it the first time or because they’ve done interesting things since.

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Razzball's avatar Razzball @razzball.bsky.social
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Can you pick out the non MLB starter?

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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The Wilpons would definitely be tripped up by GDPR

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greg2hats's avatar greg2hats @cyberbadboy.com
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Sorry to all my lawyer friends who spent a bunch of time learning how law works in the US. I had friends who were Flash developers and things turned out alright for them after they pivoted to C# or whatever. Hopefully there's an equivalent for our national legal system

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.

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Vicky Johnson-Dahl's avatar Vicky Johnson-Dahl @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social
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"no, I'm not related to Trent, but I am a big industrial fan"

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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Franny’s 4 Eva. Also: Hi-Fi (All on 7th and 1st) Original International Bar Porchetta Miracle Grill

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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But how will it all play where Americans get their news (screens on gas station pumps)

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Luke O'Neil's avatar Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
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I found a wet vhs tape in the woods behind the old church cemetery and snuck it into the house so my dad wouldn’t see it and it was this debate. Then my family died.

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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Getting them to walk (away from the tv). Inspired.

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evacide's avatar evacide @evacide.bsky.social
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I have known many CTOs that did not need to replaced by AI because they could have been replaced much more easily with a very short shell script.

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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Heh, I’d say he’s the charter member of The Injured Poteets Department—hey, is someone burning toast?

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georgia-lux's avatar georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.social
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bro i would watch my step if i were you. you're about to turn this contretemps into an imbroglio

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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“So you’re saying it COULD happen here?”

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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Definitely still mad about the governor thing. Pour that energy into the winemaking, buddy!

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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“The Belichick Boyfriend hoodie. Available at select Jordan’s Furniture locations.”

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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“Doc ElAttrache in the CedarSinai system might be able to help. But he’s not gonna be cheap.”

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Jeff Crank's avatar Jeff Crank @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com
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the Alitos are just the latest example of why German-Italian alliances are deeply problematic

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man it's a hot zone,'s avatar man it's a hot zone, @mobute.bsky.social
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Press 1 if you wish to volunteer for RFK2024. Press 2 if you wish to donate to RFK2024. Press 3 if you wish to be added to our mailing list. Press 4 if you wish to leave a message with our staff. At any time, you may press 5 to repeat these options or say "worm" to speak to The Worm.

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Pjörk's avatar Pjörk @nicoleconlan.bsky.social
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You could never make Murder She Wrote today (the protagonist is a writer who makes a comfortable living)

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Corbin Smith's avatar Corbin Smith @corbinsmith.bsky.social
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I wrote this AND I took the pictures!!!

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Ana Marie Cox's avatar Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social
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I don't think people appreciate how bad things are in journalism and how terrible a blow it is to democracy. I have never seen the employment this iffy, wages this low, reporting this little in demand (by editors). You wonder how a column like Kathleen Parker's gets printed--that's who's left.

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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He’s a model now and his rider is quite specific

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Osita Nwanevu's avatar Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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If you went back in time to 1999 and tried to tell people Donald Trump would be president and try to overthrow the government, some of the only people who would believe you would be subscribers to Adbusters.

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laura olin's avatar laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social
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all the original internet pets dying is a real metaphor for the current state of the web

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drewtoothpaste's avatar drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social
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i don't think the human body works the way doctors think it does. there is no way that something which ate cheezits for 40 years is now unable to eat cheezits. it would be like if your car suddenly started getting weird burps every time you filled up the gas tank

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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For Sale Baby socks How do you get these fuckin’ things to stay on

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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I started my paternity leave two weeks ago. I’ve trained my whole life to sit this much.

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the Mountain Goats's avatar the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social
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the true story of Radiohead’s OK Computer is that Thom had a laptop but every time he’d say “where did I put my laptop” the band would say “Thom it’s called a computer” just for a laugh, but then one day he beat them to the punch line and said “My laptop OK COMPUTER” and they all laughed. Even Ed

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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Sure, AI will replace writers, but Apple doesn’t even bother to write new copy for the baseball screen bug. “It’s a nail-biter in the 7th!” Oh, again?

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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Here in PDX I’ve seen a couple with 🚫Elon bumper stickers on the back

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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Stern students learn moral reasoning challenge

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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We’ve got it all here. They’re calling each other “Soros-funded” and “MAGA extremist” despite ostensibly both being Democrats.

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.bsky.social
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To install one insurrectionist onto the Supreme Court may be regarded as a misfortune; to install two looks like carelessness.

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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I tried to get one of them to let me do a ride along for a piece but was not successful. What could have been!

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Blue Heron Farm's avatar Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social
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Thinking of all the servers working brunch today. 🙏🏻

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keb mode: oppidan mode's avatar keb mode: oppidan mode @kebbyruxpin.bsky.social
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be a little more reverent when you speak on ancient grains.

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Alexander Basek's avatar Alexander Basek @alexanderbasek.bsky.social
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They can’t have anything else in their brain. Either psycho or blissfully untroubled by outside thoughts. Mussina did the crossword in the dugout!

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Paul Ford's avatar Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social
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I spend a lot of evenings looking for where my Weltanschauung went wrong and I think the biggie is that I really believed increased velocity of communication would lead to net global increase in creative empathy. Mainline protestantism. What can you do.

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