The Phils' first series once I'm back home is the mid-week fireworks series, which is hard to commit to with the hubs' new job, but if I wait the next homestand (Mets, Dodgers, Yanks) isn't til the middle/end of July...and it's already been a decade since I was last at CBP.

First W in the City Connects this season 🔔

Who you say you are, what you say you believe, your identity as a citizen of this country, are all on the table. “Are you prepared to stand and watch as Black political representation is erased? Do you not yet understand that this is also your fight if you have any hope of living in a democracy?”

Here's Seranthony Domínguez for the White Sox. Since I've covered the Phillies, he's as classy a player as they've had.

King

That was more beautiful than any Trea Turner slide

El Bombi saw what happened to Nick this week and didn't like that they were still being compared offensively.

Do you ever(y time) know you're ordering too much sushi when you order it, but you order it anyway?

I never know when I'm laughing with or at Bohm.

Once upon a time, the person doing captioning for the Phillies needed a shortcut to make sure they spelled Jhonathan Díaz correctly and now everytime TMac says "John" (frequent) the captions say, "Jhonathan Díaz."

One dominant, historic, Sán-sational month Introducing your NL Pitcher of the Month, Cristopher Sánchez!

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

still cracking up over my last RT with the AI-designated MLB allies.

happy pride!

Baseball is for all 🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month!

There’s been countless Nazi incidents at my kid’s middle school in a 80% democratic district. It’s legit terrifying. We need mandatory no punches pulled Holocaust education. Get kids to memorials and museums. Get them watching interviews of survivors.

June 1st

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

What the opposite of clutch?

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

BITCHES!!!! We’re up!

Say what you will about the Phillies walk-up song choices, none of them have ever tricked me into cheering for Michael Bublé.

Apparently, it represents the night sky. I regret to inform you, my good bitches, that I have seen the night sky, and it looks nothing like the fluffy inside of a child's birthday cake. Now I want cake.

Hey. What's with the funfetti on the Dodgers' city connects?

New “vote blue no matter who” just dropped

The concept of “free speech zones” and “first amendment zones” is fucking bonkers. So you mean the full constitution doesn’t apply outside of the little square y’all decided on? And we’re supposed to just comply with that?

[Bluesky is auto-hiding this, likely due to its angry sentiment and off-color language. I'm bumping it.] It's the cello broken by the New Jersey State Police at some point as they "nearly trampled an elderly man playing a cello with their horses and arrested him." Per @taliajane.bsky.social

Oh. False alarm, I guess.

Does everyone know there's a no-hitter going into the 6th (streaming on Apple)?

Just put in Kerk now and get this exposure therapy over and done with

There this house we're both wild about but we woke up to messages that there was an offer and the seller wanted to move quick and pressure all day but once we pulled out it became...well, the deadline can be extended a couple days.👉👈 And this is not the way to sell me a house.

Someone is very badly injured at Delaney Hall after Mikie Sherrill sent in the state police to attack protestors. Folks who were in Chicago and Minneapolis are saying this is the worst attack by state police they have seen. ICE was shooting pepper balls from the roof while state police attacked.

You can tell a man who hasn't ever cleaned for himself decided on this because if you knew how to clean you would know what you need to do. Someone said that all modern tech is trying to do is replace tech bros mom's and it's not hard to unsee this.

Don't be sorry, they offer the best nap you will ever have AND are an incredibly effective tool at helping you not die from cancer, everyone eligible go get this done

I just found out Kylie's Tension Tour is on Netflix, and if technology is so advanced, why didn't my TV turn itself on the minute this went live? APPARENTLY IT'S BEEN UP FOR TWO DAYS.

I do not think it is possible to do this. The world today is so different from the one I grew up in. If you add cell phones into a story that doesn't have them, there are so many "why didn't they--" questions that arise.

Watching random first season Xena episodes and man, we used to make 26 episodes of TV with a budget of 60 dollars and a dream and its BULLSHIT that we dont anymore

A devastating milestone for anyone with a conscience. If all unrecovered survivors of these attacks (including 2 from yesterday) are indeed dead, then the known toll of these extrajudicial killings has just hit 200.

Cliff Lee in June 2011 vs. Cristopher Sánchez in May 2026

What this actually means is he travelled to Bosnia as a medical student in 1994 to provide medical aid with a group that was praised for their humanitarian relief efforts in 1994 by a Presidential envoy of Bill Clinton and was only designated financially linked to terrorists by the US in 2002.

Reminder that Widow’s Bay creator Katie Dippold is behind one of the greatest Halloween tweets of all time:

Listening to the Phils while I finish up my work has led to me doing both poorly, or at least making the work take longerlerly.

What a stud!

Astrology has way more benefit to society than AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets combined. Imagine a world where people took time every day to self-reflect, to think about where they want to be tomorrow, and how their natural actions/reactions might stop them from getting there.

Semiotic anthropologist here w/alt-text! As I tell students & everyone who will listen: One of the great lessons of anthropology is that we built this. All of it. And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built. We can & must build differently.