Mary M.

YouTube video by 3Axel1996 Elvis Stojko (CAN) - 1995 World Figure Skating Championships, Exhibition Performances

The 90s!

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Uh, the first thing that popped into my head was "Fell on Black Days," and that is probably because Elvis Stojko skating to "Black Hole Sun" is one of those things that lives rent free in my head. But I do think the step sequences would be fun to that beat.

Why yes, I did also love the Finnish skater who did Swan Lake.

I know this is ice skating, not dance, but a lot of these skaters just seem like they aren't even hearing the beats of the music well.

And there's Isabeau with her perfect port de bras.

My favorite thing about Isabeau Levito is that she looks like she has spent a lot of time in a ballet studio.

There's a chance I could still karaoke Amish Paradise without a prompter.

Kaori Sakamoto telling everyone she plans to retire, and then going out with programs set to "Time to Say Goodbye" and "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien," is such a bad bitch move.

Can report also an instance of "stolen by my cats," who are fascinated by mine.

I keep seeing people say that they're going back to handwritten, in-class work to combat the influence of AI.

However... how are we doing that for students who have accommodations like distraction-free testing, and extra time, and... perhaps physical disabilities that affect their writing?

Woman who accuses Sørensen of sexual assault says comments by French ice dancer ‘create dangerous environment' | CBC Sports The woman who accused Canadian-Danish figure skater Nikolaj Sørensen of sexual assault says public comments by French ice dance team Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron create a "dangerous...

If you can bring yourself to root for the French ice dancing pair of Cizeron and Fournier Beaudry, you are a very different person than me! www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

I'm not sure it was common knowledge for me before I started going to France in grad school - Diet Coke is noticeably, extremely different there because they can't use the same sweeteners, and regrettably I still like the American version more even though it's worse for me...

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Wrote about Bad Bunny and how after more than a century under U.S. rule, after attempts to erase our national identity, after the man-made crises and natural disasters that have befallen our people, in the face of every challenge, seguimos aquí. We’re still here.

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You give me a show with the only good thing left about Harry Potter, Tracy Jordan, Bobby Moynihan, and beloved Max from Living Single and I WILL BE THERE.

At the time, I was really pissed it was so different from the couple albums before, but (except for a few yikes 2003 moments) it has aged pretty well.

Fun fact: American Idiot came out on my 18th birthday, and I had preordered the CD on the internet to ship to my freshman dorm. A big deal!

ICYMI — an angry little fairy tale from me.

What Jen said, and also fuck this lady because you don't get to have it both ways! You don't get to be ok with all this and worry about losing other projects if someone pieces together that you do all this AI work. I want a full list of pen names and properties to avoid.

Anyway, those dates above start at 1992 for a reason: I loved Kristi Yamaguchi with my whole heart, and my first Olympic memory is my mom letting me stay up late to watch her win the gold medal. I was 5 (and a half! ish!) years old.

I am also this age of figure skating fan

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(I am a person who watched basically ALL the skating from like 1992 to 2000, and I have become an every four years person... and you used to get in big trouble for this!!!)

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa since when are people allowed to do backflips in elite skating competitions

Allowed to do* backflips

Clearly flustered

The painting on the wall of that living room is amazing???

And so happy to see this baby reunited with his family and his Pikachu.

Never mind the jobs you had, five classes you took in college:

1. International Women's Health Issues (which was mostly a 10-day spring break trip to Amsterdam)

2. Women Criminals in Francophone Literature

3) The Bible and Fiction

4) Sociology of Sex

5) Enameling and Jewelry Making

Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now.
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I spent most of my adult life in a team game. A team comprised of different nationalities, different backgrounds. Some players were privileged, many were not. Some of my best friends from those times were people whose first language is not English. Those players did not look like me. But I watched as those players built a better life for themselves and passed that better life down to their family by sending earnings to them, buying them houses in their native countries, bringing them to America so they could be together again. That was their dream and baseball was their way.

I've stayed out of speaking on politics because I really don't understand it. I knew I didn't when yards once filled with flags of sports teams or child achievements were replaced with a person's favorite politician. I knew l didn't understand it when I could no longer have civil conversations with long time friends because views were being pushed on me. I've always sat somewhere in the middle and could understand the points raised by both sides but those were personal then and politics is not kept personal or confidential anymore.

I was raised to think different, to BE different, and that used to be a good thing. "Don't be like everyone else" or "who cares what they think" were words echoed by my parents that gave me the freedom to fail and keep going. Being kind was a quality to strive for and helping others was admirable, especially when no one was watching.

The United States we live in now could not be more divided, but this is a turning point. The images and videos from Minnesota are alarming, on all fronts, to what this country was built on and our core values as a society are under attack. There is right way to do things and a wrong way and the tactics on display for the world to see, the ones designed to create fear and intimidate by recruits of this administration, are the wrong way.

I went over to Instagram and read Kole Calhoun’s full statement and I’ve gotta say: fuck yes Kole Calhoun.

(Two more in the next comment.)

Three cheers for former Guardian Kole Calhoun!

@GuntherEagleman on Twitter says, "BREAKING: The "No-Go-Zone" in Minneapolis is getting fully stocked like a pop-up leftist supply depot, free hand warmers, winter gear, coffee, food, milk, you name it. This is PROFESSIONAL-grade logistics. Someone is BANKROLLING this autonomous zone.

Did you miss out on your last opportunity to bankroll the fully stocked pop-up leftist supply depot?? Do you want to send free hand warmers, winter gear, first aid supplies, YOU NAME IT, to the Twin Cities?

This is your moment. Let's ride.

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(non 'zon in follow up!)

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Not me shouting "fuck yeah, Jody Sawyer!" in the middle of very serious medical drama The Pitt