🚨 THE SEATTLE MARINERS HAVE WON A HOME PLAYOFF GAME

you know, one maybe underrated possibility is that in October weather Safeco/T-Mobile switches from being a pitcher’s park to being an insane pitcher’s park and we just didn’t notice because there weren’t any playoff games in Seattle for 25 years

JULIOOOOO

JORGE POLANCO CRUSHES HIS 2ND HOME RUN OF THE GAME TO MAKE IT 2-0

@paulframe85.bsky.social Jorge Polanco: Skubal Killer!?

And then, as they say, what happened

hahahahaha, BOY did they not do that

Two dudes whom despite their best efforts have no power in Canada.

Nothing is over until it’s over and the Yankees have an incredible offence and great pitching and can absolutely come back. But this was a very silly ratio at the time given how well Toronto handled the Yankees this year and it looks even sillier right now

Incidentally I love that the reasoning for the civil servant cuts is to bring it down to 2016 levels. Hey, lads, did something happen in 2016 to increase the number of civil servants we need. Maybe some kind of change to state powers, say. bsky.app/profile/nute...

You might think from this statement that the Tories want to cut spending a bit. Let me tell you, when I saw the figure they want to cut the state by I fell off my chair

YOUR HEADLINE PLEDGE OF *THIS CONFERENCE* IS A MASSIVE STATE DEPORTATION FORCE!!!!!! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oh good god Yankees

at least the Yankees don't have a defensive liability like Juan Soto in right field anymore!

The case for the ECHR ultimately rests on the importance for the UK that other states meet a minimum standard in how they treat their citizens. It is based on our self interest. spinninghugo.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/f... /2

STOP THE COUNT!

FORZA ROMA!

Well, at least that's over now. (The speech. Her leadership has between one to seven months left to run.)

This is all true. What the UK needs is a good long spell of properly conservative government, say for 14 years or so, and to exit major liberal international institutions; that will finally begin to roll back the left-wing capture of the country

party that has directly led to the destruction of all state-capacity in the UK wants to undergo a massive ethnic-cleansing project that requires untold amounts of state-capcity is a pretty good joke tbf

I had a weird dream that the Conservative Party, which rejects the idea that there should be money available for things like 'basic policing services' or 'care for the elderly', has committed itself to a colossal new state deportation project which it has branded by association with Donald Trump

> LinkedIn profile to make mammy proud > bit classist > poor orator unclear why Fianna Fáil decided to go with such a quintessentially Fine Gael presidential candidate

….is this ALDS game ever going to actually end

@paulframe85.bsky.social the scoreless streak ends!

JULIOOOOOO MARINERS STRIKE FIRST

LET’S GOOOO DODGERS

Of course Ohtani chooses tonight to be absolutely fucking useless

Let’s Go Mariners! #TridentsUp

It is genuinely amazing the extent to which the Conservatives' current strategies are basically the complete opposite of what they should be doing.

Immigration is the major issue on which the public least trust the Conservatives, with it the only issue on which they have a clearly negative net trust rating among 2024 Conservative voters. I'm sure that they'll be won round by more undeliverable policies and targets.

There were some who thought the Tories had become utterly Twitter-poisoned America-brained loons who think their X feed is real life and are completely out of touch with the UK, but fortunately this should take care of that idea

This is re: the secession of the plebs but I think non specialists would be surprised to learn just how much of early Roman history you will find credible historians willing to believe is completely made up (short answer: basically all of it before Pyrrhos and a fair amount afterwards)

I swear every single time I hear about an Arsenal march, it’s “well they won but also seven key players went off with injuries and could miss several months”

A politician who embodies the current direction of the Tory party: a supporter of all the big policy shifts of 2016-24, who literally worked in Downing Street, who has decided oh, no, it is actually the fault of the immigrants. No, it’s your fault!

with X in particular it is very clear that the only thing protecting it from the political clampdown it richly deserves abroad is American geopolitical power

Very hard not to conclude that the Dem messaging strategy of focusing on healthcare has been highly successful at shaping public impressions of the shutdown fight so far despite being hated on here to the point that major accounts were actively adopting GOP framing to attack it

Oct 3 poll of 2,811 U.S. adults (+/-2.4%) % of U.S. adults saying Democrats' bigger goal in congressional shutdown talks is to: Preserve Affordable Care Act tax credits & restore Medicaid funds 61% Expand Medicaid benefits to immigrants in the U.S. illegally 13% today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

My favourite ridiculous example of this is the Manchester United credit card in Malaysia and Singapore (yes really) which used to give extra rewards only when they won now also gives rewards when they draw as people were churning due to lack of victories milelion.com/2025/07/17/h...

every time one of those "look how evil ages you" posts goes viral you get a reminder that much of us have heuristics for navigating the world that aren't much different from that of a middle ages peasant

Timeline shouts in Unison: "IT'S NEVER THE COMMS!"

I’ve tried and I simply cannot come up with any possible joke that is as funny as the text itself

you know the Dems are winning the shutdown fight because Republican operatives keep posting cope about it

It is genuinely fascinating how timeless and trans-cultural some autocratic motifs are. The idea that the emperor was working tirelessly at all times for his subjects was a common Roman theme; most famous for Justinian who was constantly depicted as the ‘sleepless emperor’ by imperial propaganda

Phillies/Dodgers NLDS

FREEDOM

American Big 2 capeshit’s bloated continuity is Good, Actually because a multigenerational collaborative narrative is something genuinely unique and interesting they bring to the table.

But also, even if they were Zionists or Israelis it wouldn't make the murder acceptable. I'm kind of tired of how much the Discourse demands that people condemning antisemitism unwittingly imply that there would be acceptable Jewish victims of antisemitic violence if they were Israeli or Zionist.

Yankees enjoying great success employing their new “hope the other team drops your easy outs” strategy for two days in a row; which is only fair after other teams used it against them for most of the year