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miketanier.bsky.social
NFL Writer/Editor/Founder, Too Deep Zone. Formerly Football Outsiders, the New York Times, The Messenger, Bleacher Report and other ancient empires.
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I tried this with the pesto genovese.

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This! Also, the collegiality at Twitter disintegrated. Mentions were so toxic folks stopped checking them. So the chit-chat threads you saw in the early 2010s was replaced by either Troll Wars or folks with high follower counts just issuing decrees and walking away.

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The grocery checker at ShopRite asked me what I used pesto Genovese for and I have never been so mansplainy before in my life.

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I think a lot of sportswriters still on X think they are getting lots of engagement when they are just getting their 10 core followers and lots of likes from bots, plus trolls. They haven't noticed because it has been gradual.

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Rodgers is an off-off-Broadway revue, and no one appears to have any f***s left to give about him. miketanier.substack.com/p/perfunctor...

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

X did have diversity of opinion! There were the left-leaning and apolitical people I followed, and then there were the Nazis and Nazibots with blue check marks it forced into my feed.

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Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

submitted 15 hours ago • 136 comments

Los Angeles is not a war zone. The media keeps cropping the same damn photo to make it look like it is. There are plenty of live feeds going on right now that verify what is actually happening on the ground in real time. Nothing. The only unrest is coming from Trump & his thugs.

submitted 18 hours ago • 29 comments

Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

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I'll be there.

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We found out that ICE is staying at the AC hotel in #Pasadena and now there's a couple of hundred people protesting #NoICE

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Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.” Genuinely, morale is way down.

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Portland proved this point. We didn't have to defund the police. We just stretched it's resources thin, and they ran out of money on their own. Multiple protests in multiple places over a certain length of time will do that. They didn't even have money for traffic cops after the protests were over.

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Goodbye forever, Bluesky! There is just not enough Diversity of Opinion on here. No one called me a libtard cuck [insult slur here] or threatened me when I posted pics from a Pride Parade last week. I just cannot frequent a social network which lacks such spirited discourse!

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For Republicans, every government action is tyranny except for actual tyranny, which is good.

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Goldy actually officiated Chip 'n' Dale's wedding.

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Hands Off! was the biggest day of civic protest in years. We want next Saturday to be even bigger — with more people in more places driving even more defiance of Trump’s fascist agenda on No Kings Day.

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Join us for No Kings! ❌👑🇺🇸 mobilize.us/s/rhITUo

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King of the forty thieves, and here to represent The needle in the vein of the establishment

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This summer i hear the drumming.

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My hometown (wink) is lit by a giant Exxon sign. We used to drink on the railroad trestle below it.

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