Often parties begin by taking positions in bargaining. Unanimous support for a salary cap is a position. It's not an interest. The more the clubs (that's what this multi-employer group likes to be called) talk about salary caps the slower the bargaining will go. 1/ www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Again, the Guarantee Clause is not a suggestion

This was an interesting thread to read as an outsider to the industry. I will say that I have no idea what Servais was thinking...and unfortunately it sounds like her discussion has tainted what was an otherwise useful exercise with other panelists

Transphobia is the greatest lodestone for today's far-right, because it embodies the far-right desire to claim all identities are natural and biological. Today's fascists hate trans people for the same reason interwar fascists hated diasporic Jews - because they hate fluidity and border crossing.

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

"there were no moral panics about the internet in the 90s" are we sure about that. are we absolutely positive

🚨 TRUMP IS UNDERWATER IN TEXAS BY 19 POINTS! www.economist.com/interactive/...

And I've really hated this so so so much. I want to talk with people!

Periodic reminder that it's us or them. We're gonna have a wave election that makes this gerrymandering push at best useless to them and at worst a catastrophic dummymander. But we'd better have a plan to completely rip MAGA out by the roots the moment we have control of the federal government.

Apropos of the Mass Effect discourse and how that crowd also seems to drop the word "copaganda" a lot... I just find it incredibly annoying that they use such simple judgments (i.e. any story about policing is copaganda and all copaganda is bad). Cont...

I feel stupider for reading that thread on ME. I don't even like the games! (They just weren't for me!) But the lack of interest in interrogating themes—REGARDLESS OF AUTHORIAL INTENT—makes me question why those folks even choose to consume art. What a dreadful way to live your life.

Wait this is what caused the ME discourse? Good lord... We need fricken media literacy stat

The only two songs on this list that are even in the convo are "Kids" and "Such Great Heights" I'd like to also propose: - "Sandstorm" - Darude - "All Star" - Smash Mouth - "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers - "Yeah" - Usher (H/T @norlander.bsky.social) - "Tik Tok" - Kesha maybe a few others

Probably this, and if it's not, it's inarguably a 1-seed in the convo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBS...

Income tax brackets in 1980

It seems somewhat fitting for humanity to solve the climate crisis accidentally through the idiot decisions of total dipshits, and for us all to collectively not learn a damn thing.

have to admit it is quite funny that Donald Trump, the Republican Party president, has kicked the green energy transition into overdrive with a de facto ~$100 a ton carbon tax. getting a little chuckle out of that

100% serious that if he can keep this up this season, he's a lock for the HoF

I'm frustrated by media orgs like More Perfect Union because they often pick interesting topics but absolutely bungle the execution because they primarily want to point fingers at *something* and I've found that they've gotten it wrong more often than not.

So uh, I had a friend who died doing this.

I will say that I'm working on an academic project and I've had some new threads to pull on because of AI surfacing connections. Some aren't worthwhile, but some have fundamentally changed the direction of my project for the better.

I think 'earning' or 'deserving' or 'good' billionaires or 'bad' billionaires are all sort of missing the point tbh. There are decent people who are billionaires and there are unobjectionable ways to make lots of money but that's not the point. The point is that level of unaccountable power is bad.

omg after nearly a year of being off Adderall because I started to change up other meds, I am finally getting back on it neurodivergent win!!!

I'm all on board for uncapping the US House but the NH house needs to be literally decimated.

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

So the last 24 hours have been a journey for me, to say the least 🫠

This is going to be my “why I left the left”, I’ve decided

The artists listed in the 2nd paragraph (esp. Amy Winehouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) were biggest well AFTER rock's precipitous decline began. Like I have no idea what alternate reality Jarek Paul Ervin was living in, but it isn't here on Earth 1.

Can't help but notice this happened toward the end of the day so markets couldn't react.

I just bought my wife's Mother's Day card and it was TEN DOLLARS

Turns out, hey... I'm probably autistic.

This means something different to me today.

How does Rizo have the last idol? Insane. #survivor50

Emily that was a devious plan and it could have worked. Great game! #survivor50

CIRIE 👑 #survivor50

I think without question Cirie is the best Survivor player ever. Even if she never wins. #survivor50

Emily, that's fuckin devious omg. I love it even if Cirie is collateral #survivor50 But what about the extra vote?!

I gotta imagine both Ozzie and Rizo are playing their idols tonight #survivor50 Means either Joe or Aubry is going home?

Oh I understand it perfectly John

they shouldn't have given me "music theory" in my job title bc im obv not a theorist

"Diplomacy is for betas" –our US government

There's no other way to describe this than "fucking insanity" The GOP have officially lost their fucking minds.

This is not ending any time soon

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

Dustin Pedroia to David Wright.

I don't know why she isn't in that short list of UConn legends that folks rattle off. She's had an AMAZING career. Did you know she has the 2nd most points all-time in the WNBA?! Like I said...UConn LEGEND TINA CHARLES!!!

#NowListening "Sun In Your Eyes" – Above & Beyond youtu.be/_BrzbHZwokk?...

the fuck is gloomcore?

God, I love these sampling videos. Fatboy Slim is a mastermind...this is unhinged! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBY4...

So for my EDM anthem project, I felt really silly making one of my definitional criteria "melodic primacy" (in short, it's gotta be a melody!!!) Well, I think I found the anti-example LMAO youtu.be/9BB58y-E_O8?...