Jackson Ellis

When you omit "A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol," you completely alter what Scully was describing as "marvelous." Scully was NOT just broadly marveling. He was marveling at a very specific, very important thing.

"A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.”

This was Vin Scully's call of Henry Aaron's 715th home run. Tonight Major League Baseball cut off the first sentence, starting it with the "What a marvelous moment" part because they don't want to anger the white supremacists who run our country and of whom Rob Manfred is an ardent supporter.

It's actually wild. There's literally no mention of why Jackie Robinson is important in the MLB press release. At all. Just that he "played his first Major League game on April 15, 1947."

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

YouTube video by Sacramento Punkshows SS Decontrol - "Get it Away" 12" ep

Rest in peace to Al Barile of Boston hardcore legends SSD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cN6...

Thanks, it is unfortunate. Goodreads only has input boxes for LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. I entered my Bluesky name in the Twitter box in case people wanted to look me up. It would be nice if Goodreads would add a place for Bluesky, but it's owned by Bezos so I'm not holding my breath.

Setting up our booth (#635) at #awp25 in LA! @mouthfeelpress.bsky.social #publishingbffs 📚💚

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More than a thousand people protest Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Vermont - VTDigger While most people demonstrating around the Mad River Valley expressed concern regarding the current administration’s policies and direction, others showed up to support the vice president.

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General Economic Blackout on February 28. Don’t buy anything. Spread the word!

This has Chapter 3 vibes of sci fi novels. Climate Crisis Horror.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

Ha! That figures. I don't think I'm on their under my backward name, but the algorithms, they just KNOW :)

How can anyone in their right mind ignore this letter from Caroline Kennedy about her cousin, RFK Jr.?

It's basically an Instagram clone, at least the "social" server is. But there just isn't a lot of people on it yet.

pixelfed The original Pixelfed instance, operated by the main developer @dansup

Find me on Pixelfed at @verbicide (or just search my name). Am hoping that pixelfed.social will start to draw people away from Instagram in the same way that Bluesky has been gaining converts away from Twitter.

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A Living Museum Lake Mead - A Living Museum · Episode

A Living Museum

And for my first Bluesky post... :-(

https://www.tmz.com/2023/08/10/king-of-the-hill-dale-johnny-hardwick-voice-actor-dead-dies/