In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

I love writing the primary previews even though they're a giant pain in the ass because how else would I be able to share with the world that there's a real American election where the only two candidates on the ballot are named Ford Carr and Bonita Gooch

i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten

if nothing else another big night for the "polling in the no-one-picks-up-their-phone-anymore Era is cooked" take

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 20h ago

Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe

They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

is this good:

"It's about protecting women's sports which, by the way, I hate more than anything in the world."

Sonicscrewdriv4@sonicscrewdriv4.bsky.social · 2d ago

What sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...

Yes to this, and also why I struggle to understand transphobic professional female athletes. You think this little of yourself? You think ANY guy can just show up and beat you? This is just garden variety sexism, against yourself?

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · yesterday

You can see the very obvious throughline from “men could transition and easily dominate women’s sports” to “women’s sports are lesser and shouldn’t be taken seriously” to “women shouldn’t play sports” to “here are the acceptable life choices for women”

these guys all insisted that even the meager COVID restrictions we had in place would last forever because "government never gives up power" and instead of admitting they were wrong, they decided to just become full-time liars

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

Conservation organizations make a big deal out of saving "charismatic megafauna" like pandas not because they're super important but because they get people to donate money that the orgs can use to do the work that matters What I'm saying here is maybe Mauricio Pochettino is a panda

Bluesky absolutely can expand outside of a specific slice of American Politics in pretty straightforward ways. Like Twitter is still aggressively used in Japan and that's a good place to start chipping away. Entire industries. Getting sports posters on here has made the site more engaging.

this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

cop: did he send any texts around the time of the crash? cop 2: he sent a post that reads "padding my three track album with 26 skits and interludes" cop: not bad but it ain't going viral cop 2: posting isn't just about going viral cop: (sighs) not this shit again

It's genuinely a massive problem that the median voter both 1) believes "criminal illegal immigrants" to be an astronomically more serious threat than they actually are, and 2) believes that the legal immigration process is substantially easier than it actually is.

Sunsette / Cynthia Skye@sunderedmarches.com · 2d ago

I understand your position, but those are different situations. People straight up both envision a system much milder than exists and cannot imagine a modern world without that imaginary system. By default they have no real grasp of reality on the matter, but are usu. sympathetic to individuals.

BLUESKY IS A SPORTS APP AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN

Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d ago

Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

Caster Semenya, Brittney Griner, the list goes on and on. It's usually just racism.

Lauren Theisen@laurentheisen.bsky.social · 3d ago

Imane Khelif, Barbra Banda, now the Cunningham circus - it's kind of amazing how many "trans women in sports" controversies don't actually involve a single trans woman

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

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We shouldn't do public financing of stadiums but if we must then the cities/states putting up money deserve an equity stake in the team. Fair is fair

burn it all down@russbengtson.bsky.social · 3d ago

the big problem with sports franchise valuations skyrocketing and continuing to do so is that the only people who can afford to be team owners anymore are the worst fuckin people on earth. unfortunately this also applies to every other company in every other industry.

Given the circus around Cunningham, I’m reminded of Sarah Gorden’s statement following Elizabeth Eddy’s NY Post column: “The article does not speak for this team. … We don’t agree with the things written for a lot of reasons, but mostly the undertones come across as transphobic and racist as well.”

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

the most annoying thing about the What We Should Have Done With COVID discourse is that the actual viable option to accept more health risk in exchange for less disruption was not to rawdog the plague, it was to push the vaccine wide earlier with worse trial data

did not know this. one of the coolest things that’s ever been invented

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 3d ago

~yeah

This is what every one of these conversations sounds like

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

I'll say it: greatest comeback in WPBL history

let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4d ago

and Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!