Luke

We can say no to things.

Also, it's apparently only 10k for 3k athletes? ~3 each isn't exactly a huge number even if you're just assuming it's horny athletes, let alone the souvenirs of it all

I will never forgive Paul Beeston for getting us out of the AL Central.

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

it looks like a shitty mobile game...

Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.

The kids actually made animals that don't exist. The AI just put a bunch of stuff that already exists together into a polished slop blender. You can't get a better illustration of why AI can't create anything new while human creativity is bottomless.

France's Viral Ice Dancing Team Has A Dark Backstory | Defector Blink and you might not have caught it. On Monday, Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry took to the rink and staked their claim to the ice dancing gold medal. Dancing to Madonna’s “Vogue,” ...

Resharing this because the top teams in ice dancing just took the ice — a primer on the dark backstory behind France's viral ice dancing team. They are among the favorites for gold.

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Haven't quite wrapped my brain around it already being spring training????

Idk if it's because the Olympics are literally on right now, or because of the Jays playing games into literally November(?!?), or just because life is mega hectic and busy rn, but it's hard to process

Centrists

Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.

My understanding is local law enforcement cant do much to directly kick ICE out but maybe they can jail all the sex criminals. That would leave about four or five agents remaining which might be more manageable

The fact that he spent nearly all of last year with a bum shoulder, and only now surgery is happening is...... concerning

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

(except that the overwhelming majority of people who actually know what they're talking about have been screaming from the rooftops about how it's bad this entire time)

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Federal public servants called back to office 4 days a week starting this summer | CBC News The federal government expects its employees to return to in-office work for a minimum of four days a week starting this July.

Two things I’m not sure is widely understood:

1. Many public servants no longer have their own desks and work in transient government co-working spaces

2. Many describe a Kafkaesque existence of going to physical offices only to spend their time on video calls with the people sitting next to them

The colonial imperialist west shouldn’t be forgiven for a lot of things, and the crimes against Haiti and her people are one of them.

if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good

who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice

We're traumatizing thousands of kids for life. The people behind this are monsters.

Finneas and Billie

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

Swing and a drive and git up ball were the greatest loss of Buck switching to colour. I will remember his voice after I’ve forgotten my own name.

I'm almost positive Buck timed his announcement AFTER all the promos and giveaways so we wouldn't be begging for a Buck Martinez Night.

YOU'RE WRONG, WE LOVE YOU DAMNIT!!

He needs to be on the Level of Excellence.

Horwath is a conservative. She was a populist conservative when she was NDP leader which is why no one liked her (with the possible exception of her handpicked successor, who's also a conservative).

There will never be another Buck Martinez as a commentator mainly because I've never heard another human on Earth talk like Buck Martinez unless they're explicitly doing a Buck Martinez impression.

Just a gloriously bizarre froggy twang, chewing on every syllable, a regional accent of one

Buck Martinez said "Oh, fuck. Really?" when he learned he got traded to Toronto in 1981.

I don't think anyone, especially Buck, would guess he'd spend the next 45 years affiliated with Toronto in some way as a player/manager/announcer and one of the most important people to the franchise ever

Oh get a grip and go touch grass.

Being called a jackass who can't read the room isn't fascism, fuck right outta here