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Philly/Seattle sports fan (mainly baseball), OKC resident. Political science professor specializing in climate change and great power conflict. Aviation and weather nerd. Dadchat. Jesus guy.
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I’m sorry but this is defeatist bullshit and should be ignored entirely.

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

Good context

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I know Everything is Bad right now, but you're looking to get lost in some baseball this season and are interested in sharing an MLB.TV account, shoot me a message. Cost is $37.50.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Apple's AI, which I did not ask for, has summarised my husband's text about going to the barber, then getting a cup of coffee before going to run training session as follows.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 5 days ago • 288 comments

My illegal Pinkerton is driving me to my illegal hotel while the hallucination machine in my phone summarizes the emails my coworkers wrote using their hallucination machines. My burrito travels separately in its own limo. This is innovation and normal.

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

15 9-year olds are coming over for 2 hours. In our hubris, we planned on doing an outside nerf battle in the middle of February. It’s 30 degrees with the wind chill. Let’s do this.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Wisdom

submitted 9 days ago • 97 comments

There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

submitted 8 days ago • 257 comments

Roses are red Like my cheeks when I blush Less than a week ago the Eagles sacked Patrick Mahomes six times with just a standard four man rush

submitted 9 days ago • 104 comments

We don’t hear much about the West Pole, where Cowboy Santa lives. Probably because of all the people he’s shot

submitted 10 days ago • 60 comments

I moved across the country, uprooting my family, for the promise of a stable future and the chance to serve the country and make weather forecasts better. I don’t even know what else to say.

submitted 10 days ago • 64 comments

Shrinking the National Weather Service staff with no real plan as tornado, hurricane, and fire seasons approach unnecessarily puts public safety at risk

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Grand Vizier Musk Pasha boldly brings his own children to a meeting with the Maratha Ambassador*. What's next, minting his own coinage? Having the khutba said in his name rather than Sultan Donald's? Girding on the sword of Osman himself? He treads dangerously.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Shea Hillenbrand

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math

submitted 11 days ago • 124 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 11 days ago • 523 comments

So long global order

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

submitted 12 days ago • 56 comments

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.

submitted 12 days ago • 51 comments

Simpsons predicted it yet again

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

That’s right Papa Frank

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Kevin Harlan is so good at this

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

if you were trying to distill the last few decades of American electoral politics into one post, i don't think you could do better than this

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This is the correct response to all popular music, beginning the day you turn forty. I too hope the young people had, and will continue to have fun.

submitted 14 days ago • 35 comments

lmao never change Philly

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SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS! THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!

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The Moon, by Gary Hume, 2009

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

Now..... IT'S BASEBALL SEASON

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

It’s time

submitted 14 days ago • 41 comments

THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES

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submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

VICTORY FORMATION

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

There are Philadelphia Eagles crying on the field. God bless these boys.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Muting Tom Brady, turning on the Philly police scanner

submitted 14 days ago • 60 comments

It is not possible to eat shit harder than Patrick Mahomes ate shit on that play

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

LAUGHING MY DARNED BUNS OFF

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Super Bowl blowouts usually suck but this one is a work of art, just a complete middle finger to everything that’s happening

submitted 14 days ago • 307 comments

up 28

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

that's right

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

The Bills and Ravens would've put up a much better fight than this

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

TEAR OUT THE NECK

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

An absolutel shellacking. A mollywhopping. An old fashioned bushwacking.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

If the Eagles score a TD here I might actually relax a bit

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

An answer to the question circulating this week about whether to use US flags at protests

submitted 14 days ago • 35 comments

If you’re in line to sack Patrick Mahomes, STAY IN LINE

submitted 14 days ago • 69 comments

Aleksander III receiving rural district elders in the yard of Petrovsky Palace in Moscow, by Ilya Repin, 1885-86

submitted 14 days ago • 32 comments