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Washtenaw BoC meeting has been something else tonight. DOZENS of anti-abortion commenters came to complain about a potential millage prop that would (if approved) give some money to PP and now that Commissioner Crystal Lyte gets to respond, near midnight, she is uncorking on them. Hell yeah.

Nick Baumgardner@nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Snl Saturday Night

Alt: Jeremy Culhane as Tucker Carlson on SNL, saying “That’s the rule. That’s the goal now.”

static.klipy.com

taking the children to their first Tigers game later this month — vs the Dodgers. hoping to see Skubal so I can begin to educate them that on a Chris Illitch team, you’re always trying to get rid of your best players

It’s fun that they’re trying out the “Runner on Second PLUS ~Wacky Ball~ in extras” combo in this Tigers-Cubs game, but I’m surprised they’re just jumping in midseason before a trial in the minors or something

@hooverstreetrag.org has your son visited the Field Museum, and, perhaps, left something behind?

Mounted specimen of a birb at the Field Museum. A placard indicates the species is “Franklin’s Gull”

John Schultz @jwschultz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’ve always thought of nut and peanut allergies as the bad ones because there are some scary cases of terrible reactions to minor exposure, but my son has both plus a dairy allergy, and dairy is more annoying by miles.

Where’s the account that tracks the probability that a given fly ball will have been caught? Feel like Riley Greene really maxed out the meter on that Bohm liner

Bryan Mac @bryanmac.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WHAT A GODDAMN STRIKE

John Schultz @jwschultz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I do want to speak ill of the dead. I regret that I’ve been meaning to send Mitch a handwritten letter to tell him I’m going to plan a road trip to piss on his grave, and I haven’t sent it yet and it’s probably too late.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict. Seven of his colleagues did, and with McConnell’s leadership, more would have done so, potentially enough to get to the supermajority needed. With conviction, the Senate could have also taken the vote to block Trump from running again. Doing so would have ended Trump as a political power. McConnell was clearly considering this option. In an oral history interview at the time the House was impeaching Trump, McConnell said

But apparently you can impeach somebody after they leave office, and if that happens, there’s a second vote in the Senate, which only has to pass by a simple majority, that prevents that person from seeking office again. So he could not only be impeached, but also eliminated from the possibility of a comeback for this office. So it is significant.

In the end, McConnell protected Trump from punishment. It was not just the refusal to vote to convict. After a swift House impeachment, he pushed to delay the Senate trial. He opposed the Senate joining in a Congressional investigation of Jan 6. He endorsed Trump in 2024, although this matters little except to further diminish McConnell’s dignity, as it was clear by this point that the Republican Party was Trump’s and McConnell’s time of influence was at an end.

John Schultz @jwschultz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am an obnoxiously careful driver in my neighborhood, like I annoy someone every day by going under 25 on the long street people use as a cut-through. Last week in our van I completely missed a man and his 60-lb dog waiting to cross until I saw the yellow xwalk lights he had activated, to my left

eke@eke.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the diagrams and actual footage of how the A pillar can basically result in you never seeing a pedestrian on your front left walking through a crosswalk is chilling

Current status atop the P2 and P3 parking structures at Michigan Medicine: weathery.

Can… can somebody delete my post because I quoted a post in a thread he started? I do not like that.

Franklin D. Roosefella@roosefella.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I understand the necessity in some cases, but when somebody’s default post settings make it so this is the only way I can respond to any post in any thread they started, it strikes me as antisocial media. Anyway, looks like “Cobra Man” and “Worble” cobra-man-music.myshopify.com/products/202...

2022 Global Domination Black Tour Tee

Global Domination Tour Tee. Printed on Comfort Colors 6.1 oz 100% cotton garment dyed t-shirt with a relaxed fit. Pre-shrunk. Art by Bill Connors, printed in Los Angeles, CA

cobra-man-music.myshopify.com

Whats the band on that tee-shirt?

Just saw a man checking out at Your Ypsilanti Meijer Store in a very vintage Coach and Four t-shirt and was very tempted to ask if I could “take a picture of it for the internet.”

Sundance@sundance.bikesky.social · 4mo ago

Hope this includes “look *in front of you* when you’re driving forward” for the driver who hit me and ran over my bike (then drove off) on Friday.

How not to hit cyclists for dummies hand book

Why *would* the same city that’s overly communicative about a prescribed burn that it performs not reach out to inform neighbors that a private company is going to cut down some trees near them? A real mysterispiracy! #a2council www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Screenshot of text from the linked article. It reads:

She has been saddened, frustrated and confused to see the trees that have been a
backdrop to her life for years removed, she said, noting her home is one of about 20 next to the site.

"While the city of Ann Arbor is quite proactive about communicating with residents when a controlled burn is planned nearby, I am shocked that there was no communication when an entire old growth forest was leveled," she said.

@mfc248.bsky.social how do we feel about the prompt on “What are seagulls?” (I feel very negative)

If you’re still in line for Law Quad regalia photos, stay in line!

People in graduation gowns in a big line on South University in Ann Arbor, waiting to take pictures with the Law Quad as a backdrop

People in graduation gowns in a big line on South University in Ann Arbor, waiting to take pictures with the Law Quad as a backdrop. Photo is from an hour later, still lotsa people

Hey, do we think the silly beans who work on this app know that your feed scrolls all the way to the top if you open a photo and turn the phone sideways to make it big enough to read any of the text?

When you’re in the hospital and there’s a tornado warning, they make you evacuate the rooms, or at least get out beyond the curtain into the vestibule of your room

A sweet baby boy, hair starting to regrow after chemo months ago, sleeping in a hospital bed pushed up against the door of a hospital room

Have had a classist thought about itemizing deductions this morning, but the class I am ist is the paid-off, Prop-A’d NIMBY class trying to lock our city in amber, so I don’t feel bad about it.

I do not think it was sporting of Denver to lay on the ropes for 40 minutes and suddenly begin playing hockey in those last 2

It’s okay, everybody. I realized Michigan had scored once during each beer I drank in the first and I had stopped drinking because armsleep. But kid’s in bed now so I ran to get another during the PP and had taken my first sip when Perron scored, and: I am on my 4th now.

Hoover Street Rag @hooverstreetrag.org · 6mo ago

Some people could fall asleep on a motorcycle driving out of a helicopter

My son asleep in my arms in front of the Denver-Michigan Frozen Four hockey game. I did take this picture a few minutes ago, but he would also have fallen asleep in overtime

Oh dear, I am concerned for the Denver goalie.

What did they put in the ice? Two of the most dramatic broken sticks I’ve ever seen, already