i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office

Everyone’s expectations got skewed over the past week but Abdul El-Sayed getting $70 million spent against him in a state he lost a primary by like 20 points eight years ago and still winning last night is probably the most impressive electoral accomplishment of the decade.

🎶Robin Hood and Zeferjahn a-runnin’ through the forest, ooh-di-lolly ooh-di-lolly, golly what a day🎶

My baseball take today is that Laz Diaz should probably be relieved of HP Umpire duty for the duration of him riding out his tenure

sandwiches

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?

Oh are we doing “bluesky is an echo chamber” again?

To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.

Is it like a new unwritten rule that you don’t challenge a 3-0 pitch?

I can never 100% decide if working at the O’Hare Chili’s is the worst job in the world because it never ends, or completely fine because nothing matters. Most days I land on “worst job in the world”

Craig Calcaterra@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 2d ago

“God it must suck to work at an airport because the worst part of flying is getting to the damn airport” — me every time I fly.

ah well this game is none of my business

Can’t believe I’m even talking about basketball on MLB Trade Deadline Day, but of course there’s a correlation to playing time and injuries. But I’d prefer we think outside the box and do something like make the court wider—bc it’s the *type* of stress on the body, not just “more minutes=bad”

Bobby Silverman@robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Swap in a few words and the NBA’s recreated this classic Onion headline

There is still plenty of time to trade Matt Shaw for more pitching.

This story is so absurd that I think it didn’t get enough attention. Chicago police is violating the law to the tune of hundreds of thousands of secret traffic stops that it’s not reporting as the law requires. When Pascal discovered this, they said they’d fix it… but secrecy has only increased!

Pascal Sabino@pascalsabino.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chicago Police officials said they would address the 200,000+ secretive traffic stops I had uncovered two years ago that were hidden from oversight. But now as CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling retires, the issue is worse— *half* of all stops in the last year were not properly documented

Aaron Nesmith does not get enough credit In general, and Caitlin is doing the lord’s work making sure that he does.

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Sadly we now have to trade Nico

I had a long time coworker, friend, and roommate who said something during our first week working together at a neighborhood restaurant. It’s tuck with me my entire life since: “Some people come here for dinner, and some people come here to be in control of another human being for an hour”

Mr Dr Bae@dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 4d ago

Since we're doing Covid again. "Do you know what else has that kind of urgency? When an addict needs a fix. Because let me tell you something: for every alcoholic, functional or not, that I served a drink to, I served three people addicted to being served." dallas-taylor.com/2020/04/22/t...

From Tom Holland’s first sentence (Civil War), his was the defining Spider-Man/Peter Parker performance. That’s been the trick for 25 years—can they do both? So far, he’s the only one.

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started@gothamgirlblue.com · 4d ago

Rewatching the Holland Spidey movies ahead of seeing the new one tomorrow, and Homecoming was so much better than I remembered. Really great debut film, and Holland feels like an actual teenager

For a shocking length of time this season, the entire NL Central was above .500!

Joe Sheehan@sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 5d ago

24 teams within 4 1/2 games of a playoff berth. I know I keep hammering this point, but it's because parallel to this, MLB has built an entire labor strategy, including a media campaign, around this not being true.

I fuckin hate Lana Del Ray man All of her songs are the same annoying sad girl drawl and I just do not give a shit about a rich white gal has to sing about melancholy California sunsets with a smoking waitress in 1973 pondering death or whatever the fuck

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

One could blame the deification of Mozart if one were looking for the topic of a banger thesis

King of Spring Tarts@kingtart.bsky.social · 5d ago

Modern performances of classical music have become too fast and technical, at the expense of artistry and expressiveness.

Just the idea that a sleepy town’s deepest desire is more traffic

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 6d ago

We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium.

This is funny because I think the 76ers are kind of goofy, all things considered. (And when/if they win a title, it’s gonna be weird)

Austin Krell@austinkrell.bsky.social · 5d ago

Oh no maybe they also love hadestown, which is the same story but also kind of different music

Probably should have said hi to his teammates at the WBC

Velodus✨@velodus.bsky.social · 5d ago

Cal Raleigh might be having the single greatest swing between seasons I've ever seen in sports because last year he hit 60 homers and nearly won the MVP and this year he's batting .163 and has 11 homers in 77 games. An unimaginable drop off.

Well, this is an astonishingly horrible idea.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d ago

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

Signage for this stuff is appallingly rare

jad 📸@aerojad.bsky.social · last wk.

local cyclist friends do not remotely bother with Glenwood from Bryn Mawr to Ridge, they scraped all the pavement off today and left a moonscape even cars are having a hard time dealing with. there is no posted signage about it

this is what they took from you

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