Matt Vee

Artisanal strike zone

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

The NBA Media Is Not Built To Cover A Gambling Scandal | Defector Hours after the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, and published a pair of indictments detailing the former’s alleged involvement in a cooked prop-bet unders scheme and the latter’s…

The NBA media told fans that the probable sudden end of a coach's career and the unearthing of a gambling ring were mere growing pains for an industry just getting its feet under it. Actually, they said, some good might come of this. defector.com/the-nba-medi...

The folks who invented baseball knew what they were doing.

In retrospect, we should have known something was up when both Prince and David Bowie returned to their home planets in early 2016.

Please don’t go nuts with Drake-Kendrick stuff during the World Series. Toronto as a municipality has moved beyond Drake. If he posts anything please report him immediately.

Kathie from Kids in the Hall wearing a 90s Toronto Blue Jays sweater

Excited to learn which of Taylor’s new songs is about me

Cereal is a nighttime food and pie is for breakfast. I won’t be taking questions.

I wonder when the fighter jets will start ripping over Toronto.

Right about … now

LFG!

My dumb Q: why are electoral maps in the US not drawn by civil servants?

A Trick of the Light: On the Ethics of Holograms When are our faces not our own?

once again relevant: @meakoopa.bsky.social on the ethics of holograms (or AI generated versions of you after your death

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Age verification? Our high school had a smoking section for students at lunch.

Rich teams already pay a shit ton in revenue sharing to teams like the Pirates, Marlins, etc., whose owners pocket the money instead of spending it on players because capitalism.

Then they gaslight their fans into being mad at owners willing to spend or players for being “greedy.”

Come on, guys.

The Iron Sheik o @the_ironsheik HULK HOGAN MAY HAVE BEEN A DUMB SON OF A BITCH IN THE RING BUT OUTSIDE THE RING HE WAS ALSO A DUMB SON OF A BITCH

Fun fact about John Olerud, one of my favorite hitters ever

He holds the single-season record for batting average and OBP for two franchises.

1993 Blue Jays
.363 AVG, .473 OBP

1998 Mets
.354 AVG, .447 OBP

I have had an awful couple of days but none of it compares to having to watch Chad Green in a big spot

what’s the point of working in a universe with 80 years of back story if you’re not going to play the long game?

If you wonder if I have a lot of friends I was fired by my therapist this week

One day your body just decides that 6am is the time to get up and you’re old now

I think I don’t come here as much as I’d like because my feed is so earnest. Just smart people working super hard at their job. That’s not what I need right now.

There’s no ‘weird Bluesky’ is there

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Quicksand, quicksand everywhere.

If public health officials used "Get vaxxed to decrease your chances of turning bisexual" the right would no longer be anti-vaccine.

"But the one issue that gets frequently mentioned by Carleton residents was Poilievre’s support of members of the convoy protest that occupied downtown Ottawa in early 2022."

I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.