There is a player on the LA Queens, Brittany Apgar, who has a limb difference and traveled back to Illinois from receiving her first ever batting prosthetic *today* and is 3-for-3 in her first game playing with one. Incredibly cool.

I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · yesterday

I hate sounding like a conspiracy person but there’s a reason that this Sophie Cunningham thing is on like day 7 of discourse and how there’s absolutely very little trans staff writers driving the news coverage of it.

my rent went up again so the bacon grease goes down the drain

get ready everyone, it’s fran o’clock

BUNTSINGLES PLANS TO HIT BALL OUT OF INFIELD

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 18h ago

SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

few things more cursed than the ai generated banner ads that run on local news station websites

fascist country: love a cold beer cutie in them jeans, oh yeah woke 2 country: My schemes have made a man ashamed to show his face in Saginaw, Michigan

This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.

NEW MARQUETTE POLL, DEM PRIMARY Hong: 38 Barnes: 16 Crowley: 7 Roys: 2 Brennan: 2 (Undecided: 34) With leaners (after asking undecideds to choose): Hong: 46 Barnes: 21 Crowley: 11 Roys: 4 Brennan: 4 (Undecided: 14)

man, fuck this day already. what a loss.

Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.

Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at age 56

went 3-3 in my first baseball game since high school tonight so i expect the calls to start flooding in from pro scouts any second my hard hat and lunch pail are standing by

real art isn't in the cinema. it's not in books or libraries. it's definitely not in the TV. real art only exists on youtube channels with 3,000 followers where a guy who calls himself MicrowaveBen reviews tv dinners on a strange but internally consistent 7-point scale he calls the Flavornator

AI generated prospect lists require human-generated prospect list as inputs but are also very obviously going to kill off many of the jobs for the creatives who generate them, thus guaranteeing that in a few years all you’ll have is *bad* AI slop prospect lists

@ brewers your move you fucking cowards

Ruth Kapelus@ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Find you a baseball team that gets you vegan pizza.

Finally dug up my favorite Odyssey tweet ever

Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E

brewers good

German broadcast. Nailed it

man, this brewers squad is so fucking cracked lmao

Infiltrating Chicago PD and become the Serpico of ticketing people who park in bike lanes.

bruh, lmao

Dan Shafer@danshafer.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: David Crowley is back in the race for governor, per source close to the campaign. Event will happen tomorrow at 11 a.m.

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MLB Transaction Bot@transactionbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

St. Louis Cardinals designated C Yohel Pozo for assignment.

air quality is about 3x better than it was yesterday, but it still isn’t great. don’t be too prideful to mask up and protect yourself, folks.

love to have a massive wave of bots like days old posts and start following me. every account with the same pinned post from the same ai slop merchant. just leave me in peace.

Me: should I drop a stat? Remain quiet? Meh, I’ll throw one out. Karl Smesko: WE GOT HIM #WNBA

If you have or can obtain a 2026 MLB baseball, you should send it to me now!!

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in two weeks, i’m playing in a real baseball game for the first time since high school. kind of surprised it took this long.