Teams with higher payrolls stink. Teams with lower payrolls are right in it. The fact that the Dodgers are VERY good and have a VERY high payroll is going to be used deceptively, in bad faith, to try to pit fans against the union.
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This was a prospect trade situation, not a highest $$$$ situation. Other teams like the brewers could have beaten the dodgers’ offer and gone all in on trying to win this year with Miz and Skubal but chose not to.
Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 4d agoI am begging you not to believe gazillionaire baseball owners when they tell you Skubal going to the Dodgers means we need a salary cap. Competitive balance is not the reason they want a salary cap. They just want to spend less, and with more predictability, on total payroll. That is all.
I’m outlining a WIP I’ve been researching for a while, and I always have the same problem: I know very strongly where I want to start and end, but the entire middle is a mystery to me. How do you get from point F to point R??
The ATLA movie was so good and so cinematic, it’s such a shame it’s been jerked around so much. It was so much fun to see it a theater, and wonderful to spend time again with these characters I’ve loved dearly for 20+ years
Between this and the discovery that solar panel shade can actually _increase_ certain crop yields, people are discovering that there are truly extraordinary opportunities to make better use of the earth's surface area with solar panels. There's so much power waiting to be harnessed!
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2w agoA Chilean salmon farm now draws about 57% of its power from panels laid over the water, cutting roughly 136,000 litres of diesel a year and silencing the generators. With the noise gone, thousands of salmon have gathered in the shade beneath the arrays. Ecoportal buff.ly/CwczkbP #ShareGoodNewsToo
They did the right thing (kinda) and added a bunch more showtimes so I have tickets now!!!!!!!
Madelyn Starr@madelynstarr.bsky.social · 3w agoTried to get Avatar Aang tickets and the AMC app didn’t open them at 6am so by the time it opened, all the showtimes had been filled on Fandango. And now every time I see a seat I want in any combination of numbers (1 , 2, 3,) by the time I finish my order I get an error because someone else got it
Tried to get Avatar Aang tickets and the AMC app didn’t open them at 6am so by the time it opened, all the showtimes had been filled on Fandango. And now every time I see a seat I want in any combination of numbers (1 , 2, 3,) by the time I finish my order I get an error because someone else got it
This sucks. Hopefully only the true believers go and the rest feel ok opting out. It’s an off day between Philly and NY series and a total pain in the ass. Plus I’d imagine most of them would rather spend the day in NYC than schlepping to DC, all things being equal.
fabianardaya.bsky.social@fabianardaya.bsky.social · 4w agoDodgers statement: “As was the case one year ago, the Dodgers’ upcoming visits to the White House and Capitol Hill follow the longtime tradition of visits by other World Series champions. We appreciate these tributes in recognition of our back-to-back championships.”
anyway, pack the court until it doesn't matter. put so many in we don't know their names
I’m very loud about my favorite Dodger being Will Smith and that means people tend to assume I have a crush on him, which is really annoying to me. Can a girl not appreciate a talented catcher without it being a crush? Besides obviously the hottest Dodger is Kiké
An incredible performance that stays with you in a fantastic movie (my cat is named Mildred Pierce)
The Hollywood Reporter@thr.com · last mo.Ann Blyth, the petite actress and singer who earned an Oscar nomination for portraying Joan Crawford’s demon daughter, Veda, in the classic 1945 melodrama Mildred Pierce, has died. She was 98.
I drive a very small hatchback and some of my family encourages me to get a bigger car because it’s so much smaller than other vehicles now but I don’t want to be in a giant car arms race! I live in a city! Small zippy cars that let you see pedestrians and squeeze into parking spots are better!
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · last mo."based on the best available data, the model reached a sobering estimate: The shift toward vehicles with higher hoods caused about 3,000 deaths from 2016 to 2024. The estimate is conservative in many ways." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Fantasy that has romance in it is not the same thing as romantasy
Brief rant: Yes it's cool that Brunson took less money so the Knicks could build a champion under the salary cap. But he shouldn't have *had* to. Salary caps are just tools billionaires use to suppress wages, and no one gets upset because the labor (pro athletes) make so much money. 1/5
Nithya Raman, a Democratic Socialist, made the general election for Los Angeles mayor and faces a wildly unpopular incumbent. Dodgers are looking to win third straight World Series and have second best record in baseball. They say three's a trend ...
@elliepnw.bsky.social · 2mo agoSeattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick
At least once a quarter I go on YouTube and type “Sansa Stark Jon Snow reunion” and watch the scene. It feeds me emotionally somehow
Re: LA mayor race. We prob won’t know for a week whether it’s Bass v Pratt or Bass v Raman in general. Everybody chill.
Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 2mo ago2/ every registered voter gets mail-in ballot. Anything postmarked by Election Day will count. The count will be slow. Trump and his goons will use this to scream that Pratt is being cheated, regardless of if he’s in first, second, or third tonight. We might not know outcome for weeks if it’s close
I just discovered Obsidian and am using it to create what’s essentially a wiki for the worldbuilding of my WIP…. This might be a gamechanger
"Me and my pitching coach saw you from across the bar and we liked your vibe"
Chad Moriyama@chadmoriyama.bsky.social · 2mo agoOhtani picking up Yamamoto at a bar.
Dave Roberts cutting his nails during this game might be the greatest endorsement for Roki Sasaki's improvement.
Dave Roberts was just trimming his fingernails in the dugout?????????????
Tahoe is one of the most special places in California, and one of my favorite places in the whole world. This is insane
Rebecca Givan@rkgwork.bsky.social · 3mo ago"The Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center will have data centers from Google, Apple and Microsoft. The complex is roughly three times the size of San Francisco." www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/data-ce...
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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Where did this bowl slop backlash come from?? Bowls are the perfect food. You have grains, veggies, protein, slather them in tasty sauce, make it whatever cuisine you want it to be. It’s everything you could want from a meal
Some recent books I LOVED: - The Wolf Den trilogy by Elodie Harper - The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Cañas - The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling - Pockets by Hannah Carlson - Where Nobody Knows Your Name by John Feinstein And last but not least The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
Marie Brennan@swantower.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is your periodic reminder that word of mouth moves more books than any formal advertising! I invite you to rec something you've recently enjoyed -- preference for the stuff that's *not* already extremely well-known and talked about everywhere.