Team bad

New pod! @actingthefulemin.bsky.social and I chat about the start of the Leafs season, including what's gone well (not much), poorly (quite a lot), and worse than we could have imagined (a distressingly large number of things) soundcloud.com/back-to-exci...

People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.

Leafs bad. Alas

The great poet, @actingthefulemin.bsky.social , once wrote that the point of sports is to be sad in a group. Won't you please join us in our sad, sad sports group?

Have listened to it and the Geese album is Interesting But Not My Thing. Stay tuned for future editions of Is This Indie Album Fulemin's Thing

I recognize we all do it from time to time but you gotta put a cap on pinata posting. QTing the dumbest people alive just spreads them around while you show off how you're faster than a snail

I don't expect this to happen (Leafs are too mid to get this far down yet) but does anyone know what the pick obligations are if they draft top 5 in 2026 and top 10 in 2027? The protections on the Carlo and Laughton trades imply they'd give the 2028 1st to both BOS and PHI, which requires cloning

A lot of blame to go around with the current state of the Leafs but let's put it where it belongs: this all goes back to Patrick Marleau

They explicitly rebooted the franchise with Craig! It's not like there's even been a flimsy layer of ongoing canon

I *loved* their remake of "Time of the Season" www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFCv...

feels like quite a few times now someone's been the Great Leftist Hope and then got KO'd by a basic question or an early oppo dump

ME CONTROLLING THE SEA AS AN UNDERWATER GUY: hahaha fuck yes! ME GETTING KILLED BY 10 MILLION POUNDS OF SLUDGE FROM NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.

my girl lives in another state, you wouldn't know her. none of us are capable of knowing each other

the weakest most sign-wavy liberalest protest is still more impactful and radical than your post, whatever your post says

it's absolutely true there's too much political talk on BlueSky to be enjoyable. i would rather make up fake hockey players and dunk on the Sens all day. but our superpower neighbour is going openly fascist and musing about annexing us. casts a bit of a pall over things

Aside: the Sony Vaio I got in 2010 was the best laptop I've ever owned. If they'd kept selling them in Canada I would never have bought another brand.

95% of grumbling about “cancel culture” is disingenuous reactionary bullshit … sustained by the 5% which is legit. The thing which makes The Thing We Are Talking About When We Talk About “Cancel Culture” scary is the capriciousness and lack of proportion. < thread > 1/7

of the many bands of my youth who flamed out before they really went anywhere, Snowden was one of the best. rhythm section that sounds like artillery and a very cool wintry tone www.youtube.com/watch?v=tECL...

is the Athletic not doing regular Leaf recaps anymore

not a great sign for the leafs to have this much trouble with the red wings

woke up from a nap in a frenzy

Teaching my nephew animal sounds and I think I've successfully taught him monkeys make the ooo-wah ah ah ah from Down With The Sickness

The pure hater energy Vlad brought to this series is all time stuff. He wanted to annihilate the Yankees and tap dance on their graves. And he did it!

the Jays beating the Yankees is an important reminder that as dark as things may seem, bad things can still happen to bad people

a rejuvenated Rielly would go a long way

a recurring theme of this season is going to be Who Can Break The Puck Out. their defencemen, who are legitimately good at many things, are mostly bad at it, and it was one of the things Marner could help with. the collapse-to-the-net defence + a bunch of limited passers = long d-zone shifts

ready to give up on the Leafs again

i love reading about the median American voter, who is Ralph Wiggum and determines the fate of the world

honestly Kawhi Leonard deserved that no-show job for overcoming Toronto Sports

vlad for prime minister

every now and then he says something that reminds me of the intro to Sleep by Godspeed You Black Emperor and it disrupts my day

I don't like to do this but I am a licensee of the Law Society and it is my opinion that getting rid of the Supreme Court Santa Coats is unconstitutional.

We truly do not dunk on yzerman enough for this. "But Fulemin, you do it every time Walman comes up." Yes and it's not enough

Well, if the Oilers can't win a cup in the next three tries with McDavid that cheap, no one will blame him for walking

One Battle After Another is as good as everyone says

one of the all time great kick-ins on a punk song www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jB_...

Tide seems to have turned among the swifties I notice

The thing about BlueSky is it's a website whose userbase is primarily people who left a similar website as an act of protest. Those people are gonna have strong views about how the site ought to be run!

It's time to remember now, kids: preseason performance means nothing. "I know, but--" nothing. It means nothing. "I think for certain players it--" the preseason is an abyss that neither ends nor contains and when you reach into it you reach nothing

“I know it’s only the Preseason but…” says hockey fan about to make the dumbest prediction of all time

“Dooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everything is ruined forever, if your allies have already forsaken you, if the battle is already lost, you aren't responsible for your choices. They can't affect the outcome. You're free.” www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Most contemptible thing is when someone posts a YouTuber to well actually a post. The sands in the hourglass of time are flowing always and you want me to spend 17 minutes on some Gen Z dipshit who doesn't believe in Helen Keller. Disgusting

My favourite thing about the season previews Dom/Shayna/Sean do is they're very detailed and scrupulously account for different outcomes and most of the comments are always like THIS IS A LIBEL ON OUR FRANCHISE AND OUR PEOPLE

I have this kind of scarcely-baked theory that people overlooked Bill Burr's shortcomings because a whole lot of people - both men and women - want a Certain Kind of Guy to exist and Burr seemed to fill that niche. A guy's guy, but progressive-ish, but not too progressive.

Kirill Kaprizov? More like Kirill CaprisOn--because now the Minnesota winger can afford all the three-quarter pants he wants

The Minnesota Wild will finish more ninth than ever before. They will be the most ninth place team in history.

The Flood the Zone stuff works very well because Trump is doing horrible things on every front, but the core issue of "they will steal the 2026 and subsequent elections and then use the military to suppress protests" is the one that needs an answer. Not a lot of good answers available!