I love that someone, a priest no less, is choosing to steal baseball cards. In 2026. From a store that sells everything. Some of us love the game a little too much ⚾ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/priest-episcopal-pittsburgh-stealing-baseball-card-rcna263069 #baseball #usnews […]

Wow, Dominican Republic is showing no mercy to those poor baseballs 🚀 I'm not sure if I'm reading the bracket right - is it possible to have Japan vs. DR for the championship, or would that have to be a semifinal? #wbc #wbc2026

The atmosphere in Miami for Venezuela vs. DR must be incredible. Though Venezuela needs to punch back soon, or it could be a blowout. #wbc #wbc2026

My history's a little rusty, but I believe Italy has never been this dominant in the last 3,000 years #wbc #wbc2026

"It Ain't Me, Babe" Wimmen's Comix # 1, July 1970 One letter to the editor (editrix?) accused the all-woman independent comic of being a front for the FBI, trying to undermine the feminist movement. (it wasn't) #comics #1970s #indiecomics #feminism #culturalhistory #wonderwoman #oliveoyl

I really like this #quote about trusting younger people even when you think they're off track. Voltairine de Cleyre was 41, and a veteran organizer, when she wrote: "Progress has to do with all mankind, not alone with the calm, the wise, and the patient […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

The theme for one of the Red Sox fan giveaways this year is, apparently, "Garrett Crochet joins the Rockettes" (Thursday, May 7 vs. Rays) #redsox #mlb #baseball #boston #fenwaypark #tampabayrays #broadway

Beauty is all around us. I just encountered this quote today #quote #quotes #popculture #beauty #jukeboxfridaynight #brunomars #poetry #inspiration #weekend #dance #gratitude

#quote #quotes #nostalgia #history #quotation

A quotation from **Churchill** > Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the […]

Staff Sergeant Marcario García, the first Mexican immigrant to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. For his actions in battle against the Nazis in November 1944, he received the Medal from President Truman in 1945. A month later, he was denied service […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Success story! A group of fascists (I mean literally fascists - their logo is a fasces, like Mussolini's) tried to get a photo op and recruit new members at an anti-abortion event in Washington DC. So antifascists (1) spoiled the environment for photos/videos, and (2) made counter-propaganda […]

Placing an ottoman in the middle of a bathroom floor is nearly as weird as the mirror-demon. (By the way, does anyone else say "hassock" instead of "ottoman," or is that limited to my regional-generational ideolect?) […]

Costume Party, 1930 Cusco, Peru photo by Martín Chambi #peru #photography #oldphotos #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #spookysaturday

Guernica, by Pablo Picasso 1937 Guernica to Wounded Knee, by Stan Natchez 2012; on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Natchez portrays "the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, in which hundreds of Lakota people were killed ... invoking the American […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

L'oubli des Passions The Forgetting of Passions Jean Delville 1913 Delville's subjects are mostly from mythology. So I'm not sure if this couple are from a specific famous story; or if it's simply a portrait of lovers about to be crushed by a flying saucer […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

tl;dr every American voter should at least read the State of the Union address whether you like the person delivering it or not. Back during the W Bush administration I started reading the official released versions of #sotu instead of watching, because it's faster and less aggravating. I never […]

#carriefisher #quote #quotes #quotation #starwars #jokes #oneliner

Connor Hellebuyck, incredible focus and athleticism - stopped 41 of 42 shots of an almost overwhelming #teamcanada attack. What a game! #teamusa could have lost 4-1 but instead wins the gold. It was worth sitting through all those commercials #olympics #milanocortina2026 #hockey

#5 might be disproved by the social media age: we keep right on "talking" (posting), despite the collapse of privacy and context. BUT it doesn't matter if 5 is false, because 2 is true #philosophy #artoflivingwell #wisdom #skeptic #humility #courage […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Medusa by Jean Delville Belgium, 1893 According to the Art Institute of Chicago, Delville used ink, pencil, pastel, and watercolor for this piece. I like how that combination makes some parts of the image more saturated and sharp than the rest, which creates […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Rich conservatives in the US used to be more honest about their beliefs. 200 years ago this month, Sen. John Randolph of Virginia opposed sending a delegate to the first meeting of newly-independent Latin American nations. His specific reason was racial: "[Shall an American sit] beside the […]

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/5920_per-capita-consumption-of-margarine_correlates-with_the-divorce-rate-in-maine r = 0.993 For every correlation, the site includes an AI-generated explanation of why the cause-and-effect is "real" #maine #ai #correlation #dataliteracy […]

Question for #web folks and other techies: Do you know of any existing web apps or tools that could accomplish the following? Or how hard it would be to set it up? Thanks in advance! A friend wants a scheduling system for groups of two or four people to meet up and play cards. Ideally players […]

Memories of Valentine's Day back in elementary school #ducktales #valentinesday #sexwork #1980s #80s #parenting #boston

Boston Legacy FC, the new professional women's soccer team, revealed their kit. I love the little bears as a nod to the Franklin Park Zoo, and the primary "swan" logo. Question for everyone: Would it be sexist if I casually refer to the team as The Legs? For […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

It can be funny when a sentence is translated and becomes much longer or shorter. Sometimes it's just a quirk of grammar, but sometimes the translator is using poetic license. This is from "A Handbook of Kannada Proverbs, with English Equivalents" (1912) by […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

A quotation from **Franklin Roosevelt** > We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. > They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to […]

“Minnesota nice” is apparently over.

"WANTED, Girl to wear stretch pants in pits during coming motorcycle road-racing season. Must be able to turn stop watches off and on, and must also be able to turn rider mostly on." from the classified ads in Helix, a #Seattle underground newspaper, February […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

I don't CARE what the rock salt – groundhog industrial complex wants me to believe. It is spring when the equipment truck leaves for Florida. End of discussion! Go #redsox #baseball #mlb #springtraining #mlbspringtraining #boston #florida #groundhogday

🐢 a nice little poem about turtles 🐢 "The Terrapin", by Wendell Berry The terrapin and his house are one. Though he may go, he’s never gone. He’s housed within, from nose to toe: A door, a floor, and no window. There’s little room; the light is dim; His furniture is only him. He doesn’t […]

I'm feeling pro-weirdness today. So here are two Odilon Redon creations. Redon may have been reacting against the bright Impressionists and modernism of his day. His work was dreamlike, mystical, often dark. Spirit of the Forest, 1890 The Monster [cropped] […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

"Hunting in the USSR" travel poster in the US and Canada, c.1930 I wonder how effective these ads were? It would have been mostly the rich who could afford international travel during the Great Depression, and the Soviet Union might be the last place they'd […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Cop who killed Sonya Massey in her home, because she had water boiling in her kitchen, gets 20 years for second degree murder also, the cop has cancer #sayhername #sonyamassey #illinois #blacklivesmatter #blm […]

Booooooo! (The chips aren't going away, but now they'll be made outside of New England.) #massachusetts #capecod #snacks #potatoes #newengland

Today someone called a layer of snow "shallow." I don't think I've ever heard that used to describe snow. It feels wrong; even though (in the US at least) we say "deep" snow all the time. Shallow is for water, or people. Not for snow. Snow can be light or thin, but not shallow. Do other people […]

We live in disorienting times; I feel lost and uncertain. Massachusetts got hit with a major snowstorm, and yet Worcester wasn't in the top ten?! What is happening??? #massachusetts #worcestermassachusetts #worcesterma #winterstormfern

Ike & Tina Turner Revue, c.1960 #oldphoto #musichistory #soulmusic #tinaturner #1960s #60smusic #oldschoolcool #americanhistory

I think it's true - the reaction most of us feel against a Bad Other is stronger than our impulse to pursue any Good; at least when it comes to cooperating with other people. It's significant, too, that he wrote this in the middle of Cold War polarization and […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

We watched Sinners this week without having seen any previews or ads for it. I did hear in advance that vampires were involved. So certain story beats were not a surprise, and that's okay. But I really didn't expect the vampires to hype themselves up musically before battle, and it was fucking […]

With #meta blocking stories about the protests and strike in #Minnessota, it is a reminder of why platforms like the fediverse are important. This is a video of the clergy protest at the MSP airport today, passed along by a colleague, at which 97 clergy were […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

"girls have finally swiped the boys' last private, personal thing" This is from a magazine for teens in the St. Louis area; apparently, traditional gender roles were melting away. In 1949. (We all agree "Speed Clayton" won the name lottery, though, right?) […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Night of the Demons cast photo, 1987 I remember watching this with my friends on VHS. Full transparency - at the time, we appreciated the boob shots the most. (Even *that one scene*. You know the one.) But it's a really fun movie overall! Even the irrelevant […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Where are my fellow baseball/history crossover nerds #mlb #nymets #mets #lgm #baseballhof #napoleon #holyromanempire #napoleonic #baseball #historymemes

This is a very smart and creative use of power: Maine's secretary of state just stopped issuing unmarked license plates for ICE vehicles. Any public officials who oppose fascism should be thinking about how they can use their offices like this.

I'm stunned that a movie star on his publicity tour for a new film would be so honest: << Ben Affleck and Matt Damon turned up to promote their own Netflix movie, The Rip. They don’t take long to open up about the distinctive challenges of working for that platform in this era. Damon mentions […]

This is a typo in the lede or the math is wrong, right? They forgot a decimal point, and turned 3.39 million into 339 million! 7.92 million births minus 11.31 million deaths / = decrease of 3.39 million Otherwise, China went through something in 2025 equal […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

#grief #philosophy #mystic #switzerland #quote #quotes #quotation #depression #genius

Say what you will about current pop culture, but the turnaround time on low-effort cash grabs is much quicker now than it used to be. Remember Paula Abdul's massive debut in 1988, Forever Your Girl? ... and the fourth (!) #1 single off that album was […] [Original post on hear-me.social]