Callalily
@callalily57.bsky.social
Genealogist. Mathematician. Book blogger. Theatre fan. I'm not so good at having "a brand." These are just my inner thoughts, inner thoughts. She/her. #hEDS
I've been following her on social media -- this is so cool.
Lucy 🫠 📷@ltotheucy.bsky.social · 6h agoThere 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.
a perennial obsession of anti-semites is the attempt to find 'real Jews' who can be used to attack other Jews. It's the role that Neturei Karta plays for a chunk of the British left too. But picking Mizrahim given actually existing Israeli politics is a real know-nothing sign.
Alex Mann@alex-mann.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is always a pretty easy tell for "does not actually understand Israel/Palestine outside of memes." I don't think anyone could look at the political currents of Israel and argue that the Mizrahi are somehow the people who will find common cause with the Arabs...
If you haven’t yet read my profile of Denae Benites and Ashton Lansdell, now is a great time to do so! Benites hit the first home run in WPBL history & Lansdell got the final out to give the Queens the first WPBL win!
The Girls Are Ready To Play Hardball
Ashton Lansdell and Denae Benites are finally living their dream — a busy year for baseball.
autostraddle.com
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4d agoand Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!
I fell asleep just before this happened (pain meds make me sleepy), so just seeing it now. This is awesome.
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4d agoand Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!
Okay I went back and recorded the WPBL anthem. I haven't seen a clip of it yet and....it needs to never be forgotten.
They interviewed Maybelle Blair, who is 99 years old and has 4 broken ribs and she's here to cheer them on 😭 she's excited women are allowed pants and said they had to to dig gravel out of her ass in those skirts
I feel bad criticizing Martha Reeve, but wtf was that? #wpbl
If you live outside of the US and want to watch #WPBL for free, I believe you can watch the official stream here
WPBL: Los Angeles Queens at New York Heights
YouTube video by Women's Pro Baseball League
youtube.com
WPBL Opening Day! Women's baseball! Watch on ESPN+ in the US, or on YouTube everywhere else!
The Ohio State Fair poster contest judges need an intervention. With #AltText
Ben Towle@benzilla.bsky.social · 6d agoCheck out the steaming pile of AI garbage that just won $1,000 first prize in the Ohio State Fair poster contest. It's especially tragic since the 5th place, drawn by an actual human, is great. Rooster (OH fair has biggest poultry show in US) riding the "butter cow" (exactly what it sounds like).
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
The "rural" for a lot of "rural" white voters is aesthetic. It's a lifestyle choice, not their livelihood. So you can't win them with policies that help rural areas. Their interest in "rural issues" begins & ends with the view from their porch & property values.
Yeah and a lot of the "white rural voters" people are trying to court, aren't even. They're exurbanites with a city job, a long commute, & a "farm" that mostly functions as a tax shelter. They might "feel" rural. But have no real skin in the rural economy, beyond driving up the price of land.
larry.earth (he/him) 8647@larry.earth · 6d agoGreat thread. Thesis: democrats already have strong support from Black rural voters, but the conversation about "rural voters" is a euphemism for WHITE rural voters.
Masked ICE thug just casually shooting pepper spray at a few old ladies standing peacefully on the sidewalk filming them in uptown Manhattan today. Just because these monsters are quieter now doesn’t mean they’re not still out there violating people.
Either making shoes, owning a restaurant, or owning a lumber yard. 100 years is great-grandparents, though.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
Ugh. Update: games are livestreamed for free on YouTube for viewers outside the US. If you're in the US, all the games are on ESPN Select (which is $12.99 a month), and some games are also on Scripps Sports Network (which is free.)
Callalily@callalily57.bsky.social · last wk.Reminder: the new WPBL (Women's Professional Baseball League) starts on Saturday, and all games are livestreamed for free on YouTube.
Reminder that the Golden Age of Comics began in 1938 when a couple of Jews started making stories about fighting evil. So many of the people in power now seen so much like cartoon villains bc those archetypes were literally created after some of the most horrific human beings of our known history.
Reminder: the new WPBL (Women's Professional Baseball League) starts on Saturday, and all games are livestreamed for free on YouTube.
The AI on Threads has apparently decided that today, it’s time to blame women for women’s sports not being more popular.
I'm O-positive -- looking into donation centers near where I am now.
public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · last wk.yikes
I think what makes this so enduringly compelling is Holland is not performing it as camp, there’s no winking, no sense that performing a woman’s song and routine is beneath him or something funny or transgressive or uncomfortable. He is completely serious and completely comfortable.
Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · last wk.Also where are my manners?
Amazing this needs to be said, but this is why we need to have zero tolerance for, oh, for example, Nazi tattoos. There are still people in the world who believe in the core tenets of Nazism. We can’t let people think they can flirt with this shit and still be allowed in polite society.
🚨🚨 #URGENTHistoricPreservationAlert 🚨🚨 Call Congress NOW! 202-224-3121 Pressure your electeds to contact ACHP to vote NO to #Section106 changes! The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation—front-loaded with Trump appointees—votes tonight! #HistoricPreservation #preservation #CulturalHeritage
@rhonnie-72.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump doesn't want anyone questioning him when he screws up by destroying the East Wing or polluting the reflecting pool--really doesn't want indigenous people protesting when he snatches Choco Canyon for oil drilling. ~~~ savingplaces.org/stories/sect...
This awful incident — a likely Latino man stabbing a Jewish man & an Asian man while allegedly shouting “Allahu Akbar” on the Upper West Side — is simultaneously: 🧵
2 Men Stabbed on Upper West Side in Possible Hate Crimes, Police Say
A man was arrested after the daylight attacks in a Manhattan neighborhood bordering Central Park. The police were investigating whether the stabbings were hate crimes.
nytimes.com
