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Laura Johnson's avatar

Thank you, Beau!

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Greg Hauenstein's avatar

Thanks Beau!

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Brandon Alford's avatar

Thank you for this, and thank you, Beau!

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Beau!'s avatar

All y'all are welcome! Thanks to Lyz for hosting and writing Dingus newsletters every week so that we have 200+ players eligible for the tournament. Thanks to everyone who voted in any round, double thanks to everyone who voted twice and triple thanks to everyone who voted thrice. If you voted 4x or more, thank you infinity because when it comes to my gratitude the limit does not exist.

For folks who want to see the numbers, here are some links:

* Vote totals from all rounds - https://sht.ac/FqTjQI

* The 2025 bracket - https://sht.ac/BZFz4V

I'm already looking forward to next year's tournament. I think the only significant change will be that the 2025 winner (Elon Musk) and the 2024 winner (The Supreme Court) will be ineligible for competition in fairness to all the other losers.

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Giuliana Amidala's avatar

Q: Why did my online threat protection flag both of these links as phishing sites?

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Beau!'s avatar

Hmm...I haven't heard that from anyone else who followed those shortlinks when I've shared them in Discord or the Substack chat, so thank you for letting me know! I selected it because it's a URL shortener that doesn't do additional tracking. My guess is that your online threat protection is being overly cautious, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

Here are the long versions of the links:

* Vote totals from all rounds - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSZ2HUMU83nPftlrvnwxmiUx3pPIHqTg9SnDw7FXlYu1rMYHLpfqKBTbVvzbKlEmEZLfV8mr-aS6XWV/pubhtml?gid=996059058&single=true

* The 2025 bracket - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSZ2HUMU83nPftlrvnwxmiUx3pPIHqTg9SnDw7FXlYu1rMYHLpfqKBTbVvzbKlEmEZLfV8mr-aS6XWV/pubhtml?gid=104812831&single=true

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Giuliana Amidala's avatar

Thanks again Beau! The long links work just fine, thank you for adding them. _/\_

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Alex's avatar

From now on whenever women are sharing the problems caused by men I will think internally "Not Beau, though. He's Doing The Work. I'm gonna be more like Beau."

Note that I would never interrupt the women to say this because I'm not a baby.

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Beau!'s avatar

Ha! I'm sure that I've caused a few problems, but hopefully for the right people and the right reasons.

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Lisa's avatar

I have said out loud to someone before, "There are some good guys out there. Like Beau." And then I tell them about Beau.

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DB's avatar

Thanks. Beau, you are the best in too many ways to count. As always, Lyz, you are a true inspiration when my old ass really needs it. Thanks again!

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Amy K's avatar

Thank you, Beau!

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Jules's avatar

Thanks Beau! While my March Madness bracket was busted, this one wasn’t!

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Jeff's avatar

Thank you, Beau!

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Tim's avatar

Thanks much, Beau! You rock!

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Katie Gresham's avatar

Thank you Beau!

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Karen's avatar

Thank you Beau! You did an enormous service to humanity and oh Lord must it have been a trial to face that collection of dingi each week.

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Casey Kelly's avatar

Obrigada, Beau!

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Kristin's avatar

Thank you, Beau!

So many dingi and so much time to mock them. Every day of this administration has felt like a month.

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Bob Follansbee's avatar

Thank you, Beau! Well bracketed!

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Mary Hart's avatar

Thank you Beau!

And thank you Lyz for another hilarious take on the tragedy that is the US. The heartlessness, inhumanity, and absolute stupidity of those in power is incomprehensible. You allow me to breathe a little each Friday.

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Spoon Popkin's avatar

This is it. After a full year of reading about dingi, this is the article from which I finally had to become a paid subscriber. So many ups, so many downs. A glorious art historical music video, lovingly bashing the fools who control us… I give! I’m in!

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Beau!'s avatar

One of us! One of us!

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