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Team Australia vs Yokohama DeNA BayStars Exhibition Game @ Yokohama Stadium, Tokyo, Japan.

#WBC tune-up action from Yokohama Stadium, Australia playing the Yokohama DeNA BayStars from #NPB. Free to watch! plus.baseball.com.au/en-int/lives...

Players on new teams can feel "isolated and lonely."

But whether it's a handshake with Vlad Jr. or Myles Straw trying to speak a little Japanese Kazuma Okamoto's Blue Jays teammates are welcoming him. "Just to get a smile out of him is a good feeling." www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/...

I'd certainly sound just as awkward in a second language.

Agree, and I'm already thinking of going back.

YouTube video by Marc-Antoine Daneau Jean Chrétien - A Proof is a Proof

youtu.be/ZsgA77j5LyY?... reminded me of this

Also looking forward to getting all my imported 'mons from Home into #PokemonChampions in April. Some of these have been with me since HeartGold, and they deserve to romp again.

Pokemon Winds/Waves (WiWa?) might be the carrot that convinces me to upgrade to a Switch 2.

Team Australia vs Yokohama DeNA BayStars Exhibition Game @ Yokohama Stadium, Tokyo, Japan.

I know it's the Other League, but it's still cool - Australia vs Yokohama DeNA BayStars in a WBC tune-up, on Baseball+. Might be free! plus.baseball.com.au/en-int/lives...

transformers beast wars artwork

all transformers fans will tell you to watch beast wars and you'll think oh like maybe its an big inside joke for the fandom or something, cus it looks like that, and then you watch it and it's the best thing you'll ever see

Absolutely a dude. 2015 season flooding back into my memory. youtu.be/X_isJn4pXhk?...

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie I Cannot Believe I Watched Trump's Entire Speech

the sacrifices i make for this job

We are NIMBYing the high speed rail line. Deeply unserious country.

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

Agree - long overdue.

Here is an annotated version of the Citrini Memo with my own intro. It is analyslop - scare-fiction written to ingratiate AI boosters and analysts/traders with tales of ultra-automation and socialist data center policies. Shameful that the markets reacted at all.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1p1n0...

I mean yeah, if It Happens during the speech there'd be a lot of positive social media response.

Sweeper dotted down and away. No problem of Okamoto-san. He blapped it 103 mph over the CF wall. Wow!

ANALYSIS: Ontario should ban sports betting | TVO Today The harms of legalized sports gambling are being understated, and the benefits overstated. It's time to admit we made a mistake.

I'm in firm agreement with @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social that Ontario should once again make online gambling illegal. You can read his arguments below. But I would add something he didn't touch on: THERE ARE NO LAWS AGAINST MATCH FIXING IN CANADA

www.tvo.org/article/anal...

That does not give me confidence they'll release a Gen 10 game for Switch 2 that will run well. Thinking they'll be out over their skis again.

Roh Si-hwan my beautiful boy. It's thrilling to see him commit to being the face of the franchise.

Tweet from Dr. Sam Youssef: "BREAKING: Tucker Carlson: "Pornography websites are controlled by Israeli intelligence agencies."‼️"

"The Jews created pornography to undermine the family" is quite literally the fourteenth of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Not great to see left-wing accounts with 700,000 followers saying this sort of thing.

On belonging And how even heartbreak can bring people together

On belonging
rkmusings.beehiiv.com/p/on-belonging

Some thoughts on today's game.

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YouTube video by Dr. Pez - VGM Pokemon Trading Card Game - Normal Battle, Band Cover

Dr. Pez did the best cover of the battle music. Enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeid...

A fake screenshot of a battle introduction from Pokemon Trading Card Game on the Game Boy Color. A custom pixel portrait from @Izzi8Bit.bsky.social of me (!) overlaps the regular opponent portait, and the text has been replaced with "Some Schmucko: Gabe, Annoyance Deck." Fun story for the alt text: I actually played an annoyance deck in Pokemon League at Sci-Fi World in Thornhill back when there were only three expansions. Stuff like Aerodactyl to stop evolutions, Muk to stop Pokemon Powers, Gust of Wind and Energy Removal to mess with the opposition.

If you can't hear the #Pokemon TCG battle music, we can't be friends. Icon courtesy of @izzi8bit.bsky.social from her fundraiser for @xenosupial.bsky.social .

11 days till the WBC!

👋 KAZ 👋

和真、ようこそ！

I thought about it, but I settled on trying to give up the act of "sharing things people said online that piss me off if the only reason I'm sharing it is because the thing they said pissed me off"

If it means a better overall experience and more players able to participate, sure.