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Everyone should read Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social for more about this worldview. There are people actively hoping for the “end of the world”.

Being a fan of a team in a salary-capped league means constantly thinking about how much of your team’s cap a non-performing player is taking up, wondering what matching salaries you can find in a trade, and trading for “expiring contracts” instead of talent. You think about payroll non-stop.

Imagine thinking a salary cap is the solution to having to think too much about salaries and payroll

lol if you don’t want to think about salaries and team payrolls my god is a salary cap not the solution for you.

Also no such thing as a team spending too much.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

My reply wasn’t a guess, to be clear. People are literally traveling there because you can vacation on the Adriatic for dirt cheap.

I occasionally do a riff in POLI 100 on the politics of time, and how time is political.

Can't let physicists and philosophers have all the fun.

People who want the same vibes as Italy at a minuscule fraction of the cost.

Cartoon by Tommy Siegel

Is that even English??

Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie is also a deeply Toronto experience if you haven’t gotten your fix yet.

Cool. Have they said how?

A map of Azerbaijan with a bunch of commercial flights overlaid.

Between the closure of Iranian airspace and Russia’s ongoing denial of access to its airspace for non-aligned countries, 95% of flights between Europe and Asia currently have to fly over Azerbaijan, sandwiched between the two.

If you’re a planespotter in Baku, this is your moment.

Incredible thread, each card reveal made me feel like another one of the final pieces of duct tape holding my sanity together had been severed

This is so fucking weird, and it only gets weirder the further down the thread you go.

idk what to tell people anymore. the goal isn't competitive balance. It's franchise values. And they want a salary cap because capping spending makes their franchises worth more because it artificially restricts their costs. That's the entire thing. If they could do that without parity, they would

This one I somehow understand spiritually

Give me fuel
Give me fire
Give me curling at the Brier

He drives a pickup truck; that’s how he knows he’s working class.

The version the Sixers got.

Play Neck in LSU colors

BlueSky today

@parkermolloy.com got a new one for your thread

lol at the tourists in dubai being like ‘what do you mean i took my vacation at The Neiman-Marcus That Kills You’

It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans don’t see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. That’s why they hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they don’t believe in doing the work.

So the F-15 is the most successful combat aircraft in modern history. 104 air combat engagements with enemy aircraft. 104 victories. Zero losses. A perfect record.

Only 6 F-15s have been lost to ground based fire in all history. 3 of those 6 were friendly fire under this Operation Epstein Fury.🤡

The most painful thing I’ve ever watched on my television

1900: [title too racist to print] by ives 'cracker' whitey 1910: gods blade cuts down the sinners by the smiles family singers 1920: married to frankenstein blues by blind soupy fogg 1930: the st lois choo choo train by willard gibson and his orchestra 1940: i will kiss him in heaven (unless you buy war bonds) by elspeth whitey 1950: makin babies by big 'richard' willie 1960: why oh why (did god take my baby away) by the marvelous wonderettes 1970: why'd you leave me bitch by the baby brats 1980: why did you leave, robot girl? by country club 1990: shit by phlegm

the history of music in the 20th century:

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