Pins and needles here but I have to go to work in the morning. I'm going to bed with the hope that I wake up to good news. Its been trending the wrong way for the last hour though.

Mr. I would never.

The Tigers are about to be 2 1/2 games out of a playoff spot. What the hell are we letting 12 teams into the playoffs for if a team is going to trade one of the best pitchers in baseball when it's 2 1/2 games out of a playoff spot? We already have the NBA for this garbage.

The White Sox today made two acquisitions: one was Luis Castillo and the other was Team In Their Division No Longer Employing Tarik Skubal

Tigers are about to be 2.5 games out of a playoff spot and have the 3rd-best run differential in the American League at +50 (Yankees +86, Red Sox +56, and considering Detroit’s up 8-2 in the 8th in Sacramento they could be 2nd by the end of the night) They still gave up

I was getting ready for bed and then Tarik Skubal got traded and now I'm going to be up until the Sun comes up potentially.

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 6d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

I hate Haley Stevens with the passion of 950 Suns. The entry point to my hatred of Republicans is 1,000 Suns and Mike Rogers is well past that; If Stevens wins her election this week I will be voting for her in November without a second thought and patiently waiting for Slotkin’s 2030 primary.

Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 6d ago

And this is true for all sides. If you're hoping a progressive or a moderate loses a general election because you don't want to validate that side of the coalition, you're not taking beating Republicans seriously enough. We just need to win as big a victory as possible.

Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"

"If you are my enemy just go ahead and try to defeat me. Don’t tell me how to be more like you. You suck!"

Don't Take Advice From Your Enemies

The most useless genre on earth.

hamiltonnolan.com

If Platner was a Republican plant from the start, would he be acting any different?..

if this is actually the case there isn’t anyone who would appreciate this ghoulish maneuver more than McConnell himself so you can’t say they aren’t honoring the man

tomwellborn3rd@wellborn.net · last mo.

Republicans may be running out the clock on disclosing whether McConnell is even alive, purely so a filing deadline slides past and Thomas Massie can't grab the seat. A man's actual mortality reduced to a procedural loophole for gatekeeping power.

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

Moritz Seider for Germany at the IIHF Worlds!!

Let’s go!

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Read the interview:

Is Zohran Mamdani living up to his promises as New York City's mayor? We asked four retired NYPD officers at a driving range in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Gleyber Torres was doing well today. All the tests were negative. No IL. Tigers get good news on an injury for once

W00t.

Jason Beck@jasonbeck.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Kevin McGonigle on Sunday after his first MLB home run: “It meant everything, especially doing it in front of the city. I love this place already. Looking forward to a long future here.” On Wednesday, that long future got some clarity: www.mlb.com/news/kevin-m...

This was, not coincidentally, the rhetoric almost verbatim around globalization/NAFTA in the late 80s and early 90s, except a truly enormous amount of people who believed they were Management found out that they weren't.

Scary Mr. Olmec Man@scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's wild how the AI booster vision has been, *exclusively*, "everyone but the owners will eat shit"

i’m so old i remember when obama called out SCOTUS for citizens united during a SOTU, predicting this would happen, and alito shook his head and said “that’s not true”

Marginally related: When was the last time they won a game that was televised on ABC on a Saturday? That may seem like a niche category of game, but as someone without cable who listens to most games on radio these games are some of the only times I see them on TV and I can't remember the last W.

L.T.@larrythesequel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Red Wings just can't win when they really need it. Time is running out.

Red Wings just can't win when they really need it. Time is running out.

"A University of Oregon study found that when states legalize sports betting, intimate partner violence increases by roughly 10 percentage points after upset NFL losses." yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/gambling-i...

You don't have to gamble for gambling to ruin your life

How gambling is eroding empathy, destroying relationships, and changing our culture — even for people who never bet.

yourbrainonmoney.substack.com

After my 45th birthday a few weeks ago I decided to get serious about doing regular exercise - I did pretty well for quite awhile living a sedentary lifestyle but now a few check engine lights have come on and my Doctor has encouraged me to be proactive about them.... (1/5)

I posted this as a reply to a comment but I think it's worthy of standing along as a post because it's true. I have a vision for how I'd like to appear in public but I basically don't know how to do that and I care enough to have the vision but not enough to learn.

L.T.@larrythesequel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What's so wild about this to me from the outside is that a very substantial part of my identity & self-perception is built around the fact that I consider myself aggressively not-vain, & yet one of the first things I would do if I came into a dump truck of money would be to hire a personal stylist.

honestly why not this lady instead of platner

Andrea LaFlamme@andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For those who may not know, yes I am the person who chalked on the sidewalk in front of Susan Collins’ house. Not only did she call the police to erase my work (violating my 1st am right), but she’s since moved to a house without a sidewalk. She’s already made it clear that she’s intimidated by me.

Red Wings got goalied tonight. Tough loss at a tough time but it happens.

I realize that we are in a war right now and there are far more serious things going on in the world but this is the funniest school email I’ve received in my decade+ of parenting and I can’t stop laughing