the fuckery will continue until morale improves

That guy's defense should have made him MVP

It would be funny if he shows up and they tell him the gallery is full, he can't come in.

Another thing is that the pitch called a strike overturned to a ball last night against Stanton was almost certainly a strike. Rulebook strike zone is 3 dimensional, but the ABS zone is 2 dimensional, 8.5" behind the front of the plate. That slider definitely dropped more than 0.1" in the last 8.5"

Saw a stat that about 50% of the ABS challenges were successful and people in the replies were like "OMG THE UMPIRES ARE WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT" and people really need to understand that 50% is what you would expect the overturn rate to be for borderline pitches being reviewed.

Listen I'm not in favor of Polymarket and Kalshi and those things but if they take bets on this it's free money.

American judiciary: Ballroom, no; list of Jews, yes. Passover starts in 30m; chag sameach.

The government that's attacking universities for their supposed antisemitism now has legal authority to collect lists of Jews on campus. Because, you know, they just want to protect us.

Remember when we had antitrust laws?

sometimes you don't even have to read the actual letter asking for advice before going "no. no you should not."

You know people gave early Bluesky a lot of shit, but one thing they did do right was that there was a general opposition to dogpiling. When the invite wall came down that seemed to have gone out the window.

whats important is that we're all screaming at each other

by far the worst tendency on this platform is its tendency to interpret a description of something that happened or is happening as an endorsement of that thing I have been reading Mark on conversion therapy cases for years and he has always been very clear about how awful it is

I have also prompted angry backlash by posting exchanges from Supreme Court oral arguments without adding some kind of indication that I disapprove of what was said. I'm not sure I can avoid this given the prevailing attitude on here. So I will pull back on posting about SCOTUS oral arguments too.

I have experienced similar pile-ons when my summary of a court's holding was mistaken for my personal view on the matter. This insistence on stripping a post of context then imputing bad faith is making BlueSky unusable for legal reporting. Today's incident shows that the problem is getting worse.

I have been covering legal challenges to "conversion therapy" since 2013 and have never described this harmful, discredited practice as anything other than abusive in all its forms. My intent was to clarify that "physical interventions" is just another euphemism for abuse. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

FYI: I am going to stop summarizing Supreme Court decisions on here as they come down. One comment has been plucked out of context of all my reporting, misread, and used as the basis of a mean-spirited pile-on. I am not going to subject myself to this. If this was your goal, then congratulations.

Yup. This sure looks like a movie that will be in theaters. It sure is that.

i’m glad the Supreme Court said what we’ve all been thinking: lawyers should be in charge of medicine

How can therapy be regulated as an evidence based therapeutic intervention if therapists have a First Amendment right to say anything to any client? If therapy can't be regulated as a therapeutic intervention, why would insurance pay for it any more than it pays for newspaper subscriptions?

Book cover revealed!

Another website that used to be cool as hell that announced a bunch of AI bullshit and then fired anyone you cared about

The essence of all the Russia stuff from the first campaign and first term was that Trump was an insider threat to the US, NATO, the UN, etc.—a manifest danger to the whole complex of post-WWII arrangements to defend free societies, stave off world wars, and advance the cause of human rights.

I'm just confused* that they reacted like that for this pic rather than the lip filler photo *(I do have a theory: This photo is Bad because you can see some Fat, which is both Bad and Not Feminine. The lip filler photo is Fine bc it shows she is properly Performing Femininity and Loyalty to Trump)

Congrats on Donald Trump for inventing the first Pyrrhic Loss

10 years later. Different platform. Same bs.

you can do both of these things at the same time, it’s very easy actually “all your shit is more expensive because Trump tariffed everyone, started an immoral and unnecessary war, and fucked the global energy trade, we will stop doing those things if you elect us” there, done

This is after a hip replacement!

Most Consecutive Plate Appearances Reaching Safely to Start a Season, since 1951: 2026 Joey Wiemer: 10 *active 2002 Carlos Delgado: 10 1956 Yogi Berra: 9 2021 Yermin Mercedes: 8 2017 Jeremy Hazelbaker: 8 1993 Geronimo Pena: 8 1983 Steve Henderson: 8

inb4 Elon funds an anti-Quebecois New Right Party that breaks the CPC

Lol the Department of WAAARRRR featured Smedley Butler on its blog today. You’ll never guess which big parts of his story they leave out! www.war.gov/News/Feature...

I guess the solution AI came up with to not put too many fingers on is just to pretend women don’t have hands

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

Step one: don’t serve ham at Passover

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥

the NCAA uploaded raw footage of the UConn buzzer-beater from every camera CBS had in the building to youtube (will drop in the replies) and the best part has to be this hard pan to Dan Hurley's mom yelling HOLY FUCKING SHIT followed by a synchronized simultaneous HOLY SHIT by both Hurley parents

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

Lmao at the Duke announcer excitedly tattling to try to get a technical called

HOLY SHIT UCONN

Whether it’s FDR setting up the industrial backbone of the allied forces and managing a war in multiple theatres after the Axis powers declared war on the US. Or Trump spending 100 Billion dollars for a war he is not entitled to start and cannot justify. Both presidents could barely walk.

republicans are reaching “alaska senate is lean D” levels of cooked