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The 2018 Nationals had six players whose next long-term contracts would combine for $2.015 billion: Soto ($765M), Harper ($330M), Turner ($300M), Rendon ($245M), Strasburg ($245M) and Scherzer ($130M).

Jorge Luis Borges, 1941, tells a short story that describes something very close to how my relationship with the web has evolved. sites.evergreen.edu/politicalsha...

inthesetimes.com/article/comi...

This should feel more like parody than it does. theonion.com/it-is-journa...

They keep using that word "Black Friday". I do not think it means what they think it means.

This article is completely unfair. abovethelaw.com/2024/11/demo... @lizdye.bsky.social calls Alex Jones a "sentient shitpost" without evidence that he's sentient. Then she says he's becoming a case of "explosive diarrhea" without acknowledging that diarrhea is much more pleasant than Jones.

@boingboing.net I'm sorry to stop reading you after your recent tech changes. Your anti-adblock script is mistaking my safari configuration for an adblocker (it's not... it only blocks trackers) and won't let me read. And I can't give money to substack. Thanks for years of wonderful things!

Thread of comical/worrying dog crossbreeds:

The 'ol SI ain't what it used to be. futurism.com/sports-illus...

Given how aggressive the ads have gotten lately, this doesn't seem like an exaggeration: