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ScopesTownBlues

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Milwaukee Brewers @brewersbot.bsky.social · 3d ago

Drop everything you’re doing: Our NLCS Movie is here

Kavitha A. Davidson @kavithad.bsky.social · last wk.

We went to Milwaukee a couple of years ago for Bob Uecker Bobblehead Night (no regrets) and caught this video of the sausages folding into the service elevator together 😂😂😂

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@hcrichardson.bsky.social · last wk.

reupping....

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2w ago

Accessibility challenges, stuck at work, a caregiver with parents, kids or patients, or live in a No Kings rally desert? Join our virtual rally! 🧵

The graphic displays photos of some of the speakers at the Official No Kings Virtual & Accessible GOTV Rally hosted by Stand Up for Science. The speakers displayed are Theo Braddy, Michael Lewis, Stacy Abrams, and Colette Delawalla. The graphic reads: "Virtual & Accessible GOTV Rally with ASL & Spanish interpretation. Show Up. Fight Back. GET OUT THE VOTE! Register at: tr.ee/8kXAhZ"

ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · last wk.

The last time the Brewers were in the World Series, I was young and hot, and in my prime. This time around, I'm eligible for Medicare in five months. 😂 #Brewers

ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · last wk.

#ETTD #Brewers

Shohei Otani greets orange goblin Trump during Dodgers' Whitehouse visit. Everything Trump Touches Dies.

Mark Podskarbi @mvp21.bsky.social · last wk.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · last wk.

y'all... 🤭😭

Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · last wk.

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 2w ago

Anyone need a genuinely *nice* story for this Wednesday? "Takahashi thought the lost barrel might be adrift somewhere on the Bering Sea by now. Or, he imagined an 'Alaskan bear wearing my down jacket or like, playing my flute...'"

B.C. man reunited with beloved flute, 5 years after it floated away down a Yukon river | CBC News

Jun Takahashi was stunned when he saw the online post: someone in the Yukon bush had found a canoe barrel full of his mildew-y camping gear, and his long-lost flute.

cbc.ca

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 2w ago

Happy pub day to @blacktopkid.bsky.social! Can’t wait to read this bad boy.

SA Cosby Truth to Power: A Luke Cage Novel

bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 2w ago

Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is the most articulate and impactful piece I've read regarding the Pentagon's planned livestreamed execution of Nidel Hasan. Please read it.

The Space Coast Rocket @CoastRocket

WE COUNT THE ENEMIES WE KILL. WE RARELY COUNT THE ONES WE CREATE.

Nidal Hasan was a patient on my floor in the surgical trauma ICU at Brooke Army Medical Center.

I wasn't there when he arrived. I had just left for my deployment to Mosul, Iraq. But the nurses and doctors who cared for him were my peers and my friends, and I know exactly what that required of them, because every one of us had done some version of it before. Before anyone tells me what strength looks like, understand what that work demands.

I have cared for a drunk driver who wiped out an entire family and landed in our ICU himself. I have cared for gang members who shot up a block while children were stepping off a school bus, then ended up on our unit with bullets of their own. I have kept alive people who murdered their own families and failed at taking their own lives. And in Iraq, I saved the lives of the very enemy fighters who had just tried to kill us and miraculously survived our response.

Every one of those patients got our best. Not because we felt anything for them, but because of who we were. You set aside anger, grief, prejudice and every personal feeling you have, because a life in front of you is a life in front of you. That's the oath. That's the duty.

So when Hasan came through those doors, my colleagues did what we had always done. They preserved the life of a man who murdered thirteen people and would have killed them too, given the chance. He killed those men and women in one of the very same buildings many Soldier's like myself have been in when I was stationed at Fort Hood.

He is alive today because they did their jobs. That was not sentiment. It was a hard, tangible expression of the values this country claims to stand for. Our principles had to mean something even when the person benefiting from them had violated everything we believed in.

Now the Pentagon plans to livestream his execution by firing squad on Dec. 3, and our leaders apparently believe turning his death into a public spectacle will demonstrate American strength. I think it demonstrates how little they understand the enemy they claim to be fighting. We kept Nidal Hasan alive, now our leaders want to make him a martyr.

Hasan walked into Fort Hood expecting to die. He believed his death would be rewarded. At his trial, he called no witnesses and offered no defense, and his own court-appointed lawyers worried he was seeking execution. He failed at martyrdom once. Now we're about to hand it to him, in high definition, for every extremist with an internet connection to replay, manipulate and celebrate.

We supply the footage. They supply the meaning.

Long after the politicians finish congratulating themselves, that video will still exist. Their moment of bravado becomes somebody else's recruiting material for decades. And this failure to think past the immediate display of power reaches far beyond one execution. We count the enemies we kill. We rarely count the enemies we create.

Look at the school in Minab, Iran, where multiple investigations attributed the strike that killed more than 100 children and their teachers to us. You cannot bury people's children beneath the rubble of their classrooms and expect a speech about American intentions to decide how they remember you. No denial brings those children home. No claim of good intentions makes their parents forget whose weapons killed them.

If those were our children, we would remember for the rest of our lives.

We would demand accountability. Many of us would want vengeance.

We would tell their stories to the next generation. We know this because we did exactly that after September 11.

Why do we imagine other people love their children less, grieve less deeply, or remember less clearly?

We have developed a horrifying talent for creating more terrorists than we will ever stop. We inflict suffering, evade responsibility, and then act as though the anger that follows came out of nowhere.

Think back to the first time you saw one of those al Qaeda videos of an American being beheaded. Remember the sickness in your stomach.

Remember the rage. Remember thinking that only savages would film a killing and send it out for the world to watch. Now ask yourself what the rest of the world will see when the camera is ours.

Terrorist organizations stage executions for the cameras. Authoritarian regimes make death a public spectacle to feed fear and rage. Watching our own leaders reach for those same tools should force us to confront how much of ourselves we are surrendering in the name of defeating them.

The line separating us from the people we condemn has to live in our conduct. A flag cannot hold it for us. Neither can a uniform, a title, or a declaration that we are the good guys.

On that ICU floor, on a bloody street in Mosul, and in trauma bays across this country, people like my colleagues hold that line every day under circumstances most will never face. They keep monsters alive because their duty and their humanity are bigger than their hatred of what those monsters have done.

Execute him if that's the sentence. But do it the way a confident nation does; quietly, lawfully, and without giving him the stage he always wanted. Let him be forgotten.

I expect our leaders to show at least as much discipline as the nurses who had to care for him.

They keep telling us they are defending what makes America different. Every day, they make that difference harder to see.

Robert W. Burns III is the editor and publisher of The Space Coast Rocket, an Army veteran and a retired trauma nurse. The views expressed in this column are his own.

CBS News @CBSNews

The U.S. military plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted of the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, when he faces a firing squad on Dec. 3, a Pentagon official said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier Thursday the Pentagon planned to make the execution public.

Hasan's case could mark the military's first execution of an American service member since 1961.

11:00 AM Oct 9, 2026 570.9K Views

KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞@mary1kathy.bsky.social · 2w ago

DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is clearly not acceptable

Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war

Milwaukee Brewers @brewersbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

Aaron Ashby: a DAWG

zoë @zo-e.xyz · 2w ago

okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later

"the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the
Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight - which
crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of "defensive" programming, the

bryan newbold@bnewbold.net · 2w ago

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 3w ago

Not sure why 9th inning Dodgers vs Braves made me think of this absolute banger, but treat yourself. youtube.com/watch?v=_ciN...

Gary Moore - Out In The Fields (Official Video)

YouTube video by Ovi Buzdugan

youtube.com

ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just noticed Trump's $90 Senior Bribe is pending in the husband's checking account. I told him, and he said: "Thanks, you fat orange fuck. Hey, want to send it to Jerri Green?" (Dem candidate for TN Governor) 🥰

Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 3w ago

Well done

Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 3w ago

Backyard watch party on the most perfect October Sunday possible in Milwaukee. Lifelong friends, one buddy with his two toddler sons happily playing and laughing. Jumping and hugging, my buddy running a lap around the yard pumping his fists in the air. The perfect storybook experience.

ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 3w ago

OH.MY.GOD. JACKSON CHOURIO! #BrewCrew

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3w ago

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 3w ago

We're pretty poor, but if I get one of those Trump $500 ACA refund checks, I'm gonna donate it to some Dems running in the midterms.

ScopesTownBlues @scopestownlib.bsky.social · 4w ago

Amy Klobuchar's father was a sports writer.

Internet cat with opinions…@im-just-sayin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Who knew Klobuchar knows ball? This little exchange could give her a boost in her Governor’s race. She’s not my favorite, but she’s not a Republican…

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

nytimes.com

TheCatMan @bigbrohem.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Gift" link. “The advertisement raises deep concerns about the Trump Administration’s use of taxpayer dollars and its compliance with federal laws that prohibit the use of appropriated funds for the promotion of a political party or candidate..."

‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms (Gift Article)

A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.

nytimes.com

ContempraInn 🌹@contemprainn.bsky.social · last mo.

A 12 years old, Cai Thomas has a treble voice so pure and clear that the moment he begins singing Laudate Dominum, the whole atmosphere seems to become more serene.

Lisa 🇨🇦@pinkmouse.bsky.social · last mo.

This article is really terrifying. The last option is that Trump tries to declare martial law on or around November 3. “Either martial law, or step aside,” he told us about Trump’s choices in the last scenario. #ElectionInterference #MartialLaw #Blues #SheShed

The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms

Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.

theatlantic.com